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... Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons —
Manes - Worship - Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal ,
vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes
of Disease ...
... Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons —
Manes - Worship - Doctrine of Embodiment of Spirits in human , animal ,
vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Obsession as causes
of Disease ...
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... its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development
through the course of vulture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine
Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism -
Idea of Supreme ...
... its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development
through the course of vulture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine
Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism -
Idea of Supreme ...
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... and life is the long grievous process of developing evil into good . The rules
are set forth in the book of Manu how souls endowed with the quality of goodness
acquire divine nature , while souls governed by passion take up the human state
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... and life is the long grievous process of developing evil into good . The rules
are set forth in the book of Manu how souls endowed with the quality of goodness
acquire divine nature , while souls governed by passion take up the human state
...
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Among some Australian tribes the “ ingna , " or evil spirits , human in shape , but
with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives ,
whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did
not ...
Among some Australian tribes the “ ingna , " or evil spirits , human in shape , but
with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives ,
whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did
not ...
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... Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God ' s firmament , pale home of
crime , Scarr ' à prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon
punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night ' s black deeds , when evil
prowls ...
... Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God ' s firmament , pale home of
crime , Scarr ' à prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon
punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night ' s black deeds , when evil
prowls ...
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