Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants . Far different has been the history of the other doctrine , that of the independent exist- ence of the personal soul after the death of the body , in a Future ...
... ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants . Far different has been the history of the other doctrine , that of the independent exist- ence of the personal soul after the death of the body , in a Future ...
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... ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a " cycle of necessity " through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial ...
... ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a " cycle of necessity " through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial ...
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... ancient theory of metempsy- chosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical ...
... ancient theory of metempsy- chosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical ...
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... ancient believer . Per- haps 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 ...
... ancient believer . Per- haps 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 ...
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... ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for which also the evidence available does not seem suffi- cient . In discussing the closely allied doctrine of metem- psychosis , I have described the theory of the soul's trans- migration ...
... ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for which also the evidence available does not seem suffi- cient . In discussing the closely allied doctrine of metem- psychosis , I have described the theory of the soul's trans- migration ...
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