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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... individual development re- capitulates mentally the main stages through which the human race as a whole has passed in its mental evolution . Whether or to what degree such a proposition could be substantiated is obviously a matter for ...
... individual development re- capitulates mentally the main stages through which the human race as a whole has passed in its mental evolution . Whether or to what degree such a proposition could be substantiated is obviously a matter for ...
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... individual . One of these propounded a twofold eschatology , according to which , after death , two ways lay open and to the one or the other the individual was predestinated by the nature of his earthly life and conduct . The devayāna ...
... individual . One of these propounded a twofold eschatology , according to which , after death , two ways lay open and to the one or the other the individual was predestinated by the nature of his earthly life and conduct . The devayāna ...
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... individual's realisation of the fundamental illusion of individual consciousness , which was tantamount to the cessation of individual existence.2 The fact that the Indian systems taught the possi- bility of such release entitles them ...
... individual's realisation of the fundamental illusion of individual consciousness , which was tantamount to the cessation of individual existence.2 The fact that the Indian systems taught the possi- bility of such release entitles them ...
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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