Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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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 ...
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 ...
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... 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 he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
... 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 he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
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... 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 .
... 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 ...
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 ...
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... 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 .
... 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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