Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions: An Historical and Comparative Study Containing the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1954-1957 |
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... cause against his brother Set , who is vanquished after a long struggle by Horus , the son of Osiris : 1 although thus resurrected , Osiris does not apparently resume his former life , but becomes lord of the duat , i.e. the realm of ...
... cause against his brother Set , who is vanquished after a long struggle by Horus , the son of Osiris : 1 although thus resurrected , Osiris does not apparently resume his former life , but becomes lord of the duat , i.e. the realm of ...
Page 97
... cause of his ill fate , the sufferer is led to exclaim against the apparent injustice of those gods , whom he had served so well , in making their actions so inscrutable to man : Oh that I only knew that these things are well pleasing ...
... cause of his ill fate , the sufferer is led to exclaim against the apparent injustice of those gods , whom he had served so well , in making their actions so inscrutable to man : Oh that I only knew that these things are well pleasing ...
Page 339
... cause of rebirth ? ' And as I duly reflected there came the comprehension of full knowledge : it is when there is becoming ( or desire to be ) that there is rebirth , rebirth has desire to be as a cause.1 The sequence of causes is ...
... cause of rebirth ? ' And as I duly reflected there came the comprehension of full knowledge : it is when there is becoming ( or desire to be ) that there is rebirth , rebirth has desire to be as a cause.1 The sequence of causes is ...
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¹ Cf Accordingly Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Allah ancient Anthropologie religieuse appears ātman belief body Brandon Buddhist Buddhist Thought burial Chinese Christian concept concerned cult culture dead death deity divine doctrine Duchesne-Guillemin earth Egypt Egyptian Enkidu Enûma elish Epic of Gilgamesh Erman eschatology essential evidence evil existence expression fact faith fate funerary Gilgamesh gods gospel Granet Greek Hebrew Heidel human destiny human nature idea immortality Indian individual interpretation Iranian Israel Jesus Jewish living logic Lord magical man's mankind Mercer Mesopotamian Mithra moral mortuary Muḥammad namely nature and destiny Nilsson Numen Ohrmazd Oldenberg original Osiris Palaeolithic passage Paul philosophy post-mortem primitive Pyramid Texts Reallexikon regarded Religion represented resurrection Rig-Veda rites ritual S. G. F. Brandon seems significance Söderblom soteriology soul Speleers suggests Sumerian surely thou tion tomb tradition trans Upanisad Vedic Weltanschauung Widengren Yahweh Yahwist Yasna Zaehner Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastre Zurvan