Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Estes & Lauriat, 1874 - Animism |
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... Existence after Death ; its main divisions , Trans- migration and Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects --Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion ...
... Existence after Death ; its main divisions , Trans- migration and Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects --Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion ...
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... Existence after Death ; its main divisions , Transmigration and Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion ...
... Existence after Death ; its main divisions , Transmigration and Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion ...
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... existence forms at once an inducement to goodness , a sustaining hope through suffer- ing and across the fear of death , and an answer to the per- plexed problem of the allotment of happiness and misery in this present world , by the ...
... existence forms at once an inducement to goodness , a sustaining hope through suffer- ing and across the fear of death , and an answer to the per- plexed problem of the allotment of happiness and misery in this present world , by the ...
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... existence of the soul after death , and may be more conve- niently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as dæmoniacal possession and fetish - worship . We are here concerned with the more permanent tenancy of souls for ...
... existence of the soul after death , and may be more conve- niently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as dæmoniacal possession and fetish - worship . We are here concerned with the more permanent tenancy of souls for ...
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... existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a " sisa " or ghost , which can remain in the house with ...
... existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a " sisa " or ghost , which can remain in the house with ...
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Page 83 - And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 55 - Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 301 - If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven...
Page 386 - And Aar'on's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Page 373 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind : have mercy, almighty, have mercy...
Page 295 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 189 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Page 387 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 286 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...