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How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to gain the power of ...
How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 births , suffering pain and misery through countless ages to gain the power of ...
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Doctrines transmigrate , if souls do not ; and metempsychosis , wandering along the course of ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame Jenyns . Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after ...
Doctrines transmigrate , if souls do not ; and metempsychosis , wandering along the course of ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame Jenyns . Thus we have traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after ...
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Perhaps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to ...
Perhaps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to ...
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2 tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 3 Bosman , “ Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Christianized negro ...
2 tales represent the belief of their age , if not. 3 Bosman , “ Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Christianized negro ...
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tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with ...
tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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