The Distinctive Messages of the Old ReligionsW. Blackwood and sons, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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George Matheson. regulated by the grandeur of the object . On the contrary , with the full perception of the visible universe , he begins by selecting for worship pre- cisely those things which are not fitted to attract the eye , which ...
George Matheson. regulated by the grandeur of the object . On the contrary , with the full perception of the visible universe , he begins by selecting for worship pre- cisely those things which are not fitted to attract the eye , which ...
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... objects which appear to be more privileged than himself ... object of the universe an equally probable source of his own origin . There is a fact to be accounted for in the history of religions — the fact that the earliest objects of worship ...
... objects which appear to be more privileged than himself ... object of the universe an equally probable source of his own origin . There is a fact to be accounted for in the history of religions — the fact that the earliest objects of worship ...
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... worship of the lowest things . It is not denied that the primitive man seeks his first object of adoration not in the stars of heaven but in the fragments of wood and stone which he picks up from the earth . But in the view which I here ...
... worship of the lowest things . It is not denied that the primitive man seeks his first object of adoration not in the stars of heaven but in the fragments of wood and stone which he picks up from the earth . But in the view which I here ...
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... object of worship from things too far beneath him to be reverenced . Paradoxical as it may seem , I hold the error to lie in the opposite extreme . The object of worship selected by the primitive man is , to my mind , too far above him ...
... object of worship from things too far beneath him to be reverenced . Paradoxical as it may seem , I hold the error to lie in the opposite extreme . The object of worship selected by the primitive man is , to my mind , too far above him ...
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... worship is broken not by the depression of the Fetich but by the eleva- tion of the spirit , and the spirit is ... object may be per- manent which has yet a life free from monotony , the effect must inevitably be to withdraw his ad ...
... worship is broken not by the depression of the Fetich but by the eleva- tion of the spirit , and the spirit is ... object may be per- manent which has yet a life free from monotony , the effect must inevitably be to withdraw his ad ...
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adoration Agnosticism Ahriman ancient aspiration Balder beginning belief Brahmanism Buddhism Cheap Edition China Chinese Christ Christianity Church Church of Scotland cloth Confucius creed Crown 8vo death deified divine doctrine dream earliest earth Egypt Egyptian element empire evil exhibit existence fact faith Fcap French morocco GEORGE ELIOT glory gods Greece Greek heaven hope human idea ideal Illustrations immortality India Indian individual J. G. Lockhart John Galt Judaism Judea kingdom Lâo-tze light Loki look mind modern moral mystery mythology nation nature object of worship OLIPHANT origin Pantheon Parsism past Philosophy Poems poetry Portrait Post 8vo present primitive principle Professor reached realise recognised religion religious revealed reverence Roman Rome sacrifice Scotland Second Edition seek sense shadows soul sphere spirit stage Teuton things Third Edition thought tion unity universe University of Edinburgh vols Zoroaster
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