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Page 179
... King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be changed . " These words resound with sickening familiarity in our present totalitarian states , whether ' democratic ' or ' communist . ' This dictum - the first ...
... King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be changed . " These words resound with sickening familiarity in our present totalitarian states , whether ' democratic ' or ' communist . ' This dictum - the first ...
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... king might also share this hope for immortality . In the Sumerian deluge myth Ziusudra , the king ( Noah's counterpart ) , is rewarded by the gods An and Enlil , not by a symbolic rainbow , but by being given eternal " life like a god ...
... king might also share this hope for immortality . In the Sumerian deluge myth Ziusudra , the king ( Noah's counterpart ) , is rewarded by the gods An and Enlil , not by a symbolic rainbow , but by being given eternal " life like a god ...
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... king with the whole community did not lessen these occasions for anxiety ; for despite royal claims to divine favor and immortality , kings were subject to mortal accidents and misfortunes ; and if the king rose higher than common men ...
... king with the whole community did not lessen these occasions for anxiety ; for despite royal claims to divine favor and immortality , kings were subject to mortal accidents and misfortunes ; and if the king rose higher than common men ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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