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... Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol --- Sun , Moon , Stars- Heaven - Historical course of belief as to such localization - Nature of Future Life - Continuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the ...
... Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol --- Sun , Moon , Stars- Heaven - Historical course of belief as to such localization - Nature of Future Life - Continuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the ...
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... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that ... Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature 108 CHAPTER XV .
... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that ... Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature 108 CHAPTER XV .
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Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man -- Childbirth - god - Agriculture - godWar - god- God of the Dead - First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical ...
Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man -- Childbirth - god - Agriculture - godWar - god- God of the Dead - First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical ...
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... to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL .
... to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL .
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In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper ...
In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have opened themselves for the admission of the devil and acquired the nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper ...
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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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