Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Christian influence , the Manichæans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl ...
... Christian influence , the Manichæans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl ...
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... Christians , of the faithful into new bodies of their own people , a few such changes of " shirt " ( i.e. body ) , bringing them to enter paradise or become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe ...
... Christians , of the faithful into new bodies of their own people , a few such changes of " shirt " ( i.e. body ) , bringing them to enter paradise or become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe ...
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... Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attributed to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose souls are affected by spirits or dispositions as of wolf , ape , lion , or bear , wherefore their souls bear the ...
... Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attributed to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose souls are affected by spirits or dispositions as of wolf , ape , lion , or bear , wherefore their souls bear the ...
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... Christianity , the conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians ...
... Christianity , the conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians ...
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... Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ...
... Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ...
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