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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Page 117
... physical or emotional experiences ; one of the most notable of these concepts arose out of the association of the nephesh with blood , which was the life - substance - hence nephesh could be thought of as a kind of ( physical ) ...
... physical or emotional experiences ; one of the most notable of these concepts arose out of the association of the nephesh with blood , which was the life - substance - hence nephesh could be thought of as a kind of ( physical ) ...
Page 218
... physical mortality ; however , it becomes clearly evident in the sequel that he is using the term in a more esoteric sense , namely , to signify some kind of spiritual death , which is of infinite concern compared with the death of the ...
... physical mortality ; however , it becomes clearly evident in the sequel that he is using the term in a more esoteric sense , namely , to signify some kind of spiritual death , which is of infinite concern compared with the death of the ...
Page 275
... physical death , and he was , more- over , never conscious of any need to show the sanction for such a belief . The nearest to which he comes to doing this is in some enigmatic lines in Yasna , xxx , 7 , which follow the celebrated ...
... physical death , and he was , more- over , never conscious of any need to show the sanction for such a belief . The nearest to which he comes to doing this is in some enigmatic lines in Yasna , xxx , 7 , which follow the celebrated ...
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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