Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... death . Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela records in the 12th century of the Druses of Mount Hermon : " They say that the soul of a virtuous man is transferred to the body of a new - born child , whereas that of the vicious transmigrates into a ...
... death . Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela records in the 12th century of the Druses of Mount Hermon : " They say that the soul of a virtuous man is transferred to the body of a new - born child , whereas that of the vicious transmigrates into a ...
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... Death : Our Future Life according to Science . ' His attempt to revive the ancient belief , and to con- nect it with the evolution - theory of modern naturalists , is carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the ...
... Death : Our Future Life according to Science . ' His attempt to revive the ancient belief , and to con- nect it with the evolution - theory of modern naturalists , is carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the ...
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... death . This objection may even apply to one of the most formal denials of a future life ever placed on record among an uncultured race , a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : " On the day when ...
... death . This objection may even apply to one of the most formal denials of a future life ever placed on record among an uncultured race , a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : " On the day when ...
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... death of the body , instance after instance from the records of the lower culture shows this soul to be regarded as a mortal being , liable like the body itself to accident and death . The Greenlanders pitied the poor souls who must ...
... death of the body , instance after instance from the records of the lower culture shows this soul to be regarded as a mortal being , liable like the body itself to accident and death . The Greenlanders pitied the poor souls who must ...
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... death where there is nothing left , and this is to them the dolefullest thing of all . Thus the Fijians tell of the ... death of departed souls . Either the great priest before whom they must appear after death would judge them , send ...
... death where there is nothing left , and this is to them the dolefullest thing of all . Thus the Fijians tell of the ... death of departed souls . Either the great priest before whom they must appear after death would judge them , send ...
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