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 42
... represented it as the double of his ante- mortem self surely indicates that he felt that the nexus was so close as to make the ka into a kind of alter ego . How far the ka should be described as a spiritual entity is obscure : generally ...
... represented it as the double of his ante- mortem self surely indicates that he felt that the nexus was so close as to make the ka into a kind of alter ego . How far the ka should be described as a spiritual entity is obscure : generally ...
Page 166
... represented as three female persons , having the names of Clotho , Lachesis and Atropos , who are described as allotting to men at their birth ( Pootoiσi yewoμévoir ) both good and evil , and of pursuing ( épéлovσw ) the transgressions ...
... represented as three female persons , having the names of Clotho , Lachesis and Atropos , who are described as allotting to men at their birth ( Pootoiσi yewoμévoir ) both good and evil , and of pursuing ( épéлovσw ) the transgressions ...
Page 293
... represented . And this identification appears to be closely linked to the fact that in several Mithraic sanctuaries dedica- tions have been found which read Deo Arimanio.2 That offerings should have been made to Ahriman in the cult of ...
... represented . And this identification appears to be closely linked to the fact that in several Mithraic sanctuaries dedica- tions have been found which read Deo Arimanio.2 That offerings should have been made to Ahriman in the cult of ...
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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