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Page 7
... revelation and belief . These dreams are not uniformly sceptical . In one , a non - believing landowner who has seen his entire village , and his own wife , drown in the Arabian Sea at the behest of a girl - seer who claimed the waters ...
... revelation and belief . These dreams are not uniformly sceptical . In one , a non - believing landowner who has seen his entire village , and his own wife , drown in the Arabian Sea at the behest of a girl - seer who claimed the waters ...
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... revelation seemed briefly to flirt with the possibility of admitting three pagan and female deities into the pantheon , at the semi- divine , intercessory level of the archangels , and of how he then repudiated these verses as being ...
... revelation seemed briefly to flirt with the possibility of admitting three pagan and female deities into the pantheon , at the semi- divine , intercessory level of the archangels , and of how he then repudiated these verses as being ...
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... revelation is , about the extent to which the mystic's conscious personality informs and interacts with the mystical event ; the point is to try and understand the human event of revelation . The use of fiction was a way of creating the ...
... revelation is , about the extent to which the mystic's conscious personality informs and interacts with the mystical event ; the point is to try and understand the human event of revelation . The use of fiction was a way of creating the ...
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References to this book
Laying the Ladder Down: The Emergence of Cultural Holism Betty Jean Craige No preview available - 1992 |