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In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of
soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or
dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the ...
In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of
soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or
dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the ...
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... or whether they refine away ' into metaphysical subtleties the notion of
continued personality , they do consistently and systematically hold that a man ' s
life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this
moment ...
... or whether they refine away ' into metaphysical subtleties the notion of
continued personality , they do consistently and systematically hold that a man ' s
life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this
moment ...
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... difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in its doctrine make it
of little use as a check upon the classic accounts , yet it shows at least that
notions of metamorphosis of the soul did hold a large place in the Egyptian
religion .
... difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in its doctrine make it
of little use as a check upon the classic accounts , yet it shows at least that
notions of metamorphosis of the soul did hold a large place in the Egyptian
religion .
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In the later Jewish philosophy , the Kabbalists took up the doctrine of migration ,
the gilgul or “ rolling on " of souls , and maintained it by that characteristic method
of Biblical interpretation which it is good to hold up from time to time for a ...
In the later Jewish philosophy , the Kabbalists took up the doctrine of migration ,
the gilgul or “ rolling on " of souls , and maintained it by that characteristic method
of Biblical interpretation which it is good to hold up from time to time for a ...
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... possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies
like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to
prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal
resurrection .
... possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies
like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to
prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal
resurrection .
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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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