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... soul , and Jivathman , the individual soul ) inhabit the same tree ( abide in the same body ) , & c . " " As from a blazing fire substantial sparks proceed in a thousand ways , so from the imperishable various souls are produced , and ...
... soul , and Jivathman , the individual soul ) inhabit the same tree ( abide in the same body ) , & c . " " As from a blazing fire substantial sparks proceed in a thousand ways , so from the imperishable various souls are produced , and ...
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... soul may attain union with the universal soul , these means being asceticism of the most drastic description . In the Mimansa we have no properly philosophical doctrine taught , and indeed its claim to rank among the philosophical ...
... soul may attain union with the universal soul , these means being asceticism of the most drastic description . In the Mimansa we have no properly philosophical doctrine taught , and indeed its claim to rank among the philosophical ...
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Ernest Belfort Bax. universal soul , the one Paramathman . As will be appa- rent , wellnigh the whole theosophy and philosophy of India turns upon a more or less poetically expressed Monism . Its ... soul, the one Paramathman. As will be ...
Ernest Belfort Bax. universal soul , the one Paramathman . As will be appa- rent , wellnigh the whole theosophy and philosophy of India turns upon a more or less poetically expressed Monism . Its ... soul, the one Paramathman. As will be ...
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... souls of men and demons , were conceived , no less than the other objects of the world , as entities constituted of this same primitive matter . The attitude of mind represented by the early Ionian specu- lators was that of a simple ...
... souls of men and demons , were conceived , no less than the other objects of the world , as entities constituted of this same primitive matter . The attitude of mind represented by the early Ionian specu- lators was that of a simple ...
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... soul , the intelligent element in man , was of course nothing but breath or air . Hence the question may have arisen , Why should not the air- matter manifested as intelligent in us , be so in its essential nature ? Diogenes , in his ...
... soul , the intelligent element in man , was of course nothing but breath or air . Hence the question may have arisen , Why should not the air- matter manifested as intelligent in us , be so in its essential nature ? Diogenes , in his ...
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Page 199 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.