Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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... Heaven , Hell , and Limbo . Mexican baptism and prayers . Priests and their duties . A parallel . Romanists and Mexicans . Confession . Expiation . Human sacrifice to obtain pardon of sin . A comparison suggested . Mexican education ...
... Heaven , Hell , and Limbo . Mexican baptism and prayers . Priests and their duties . A parallel . Romanists and Mexicans . Confession . Expiation . Human sacrifice to obtain pardon of sin . A comparison suggested . Mexican education ...
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... Heaven and Hell - Christian ideas . Apocalypse . The heaven of John and Mahomet com- pared with that of Buddha . Prayer not a Buddhist institution - nor originally a Christian one . Nature of prayer . The developments of Buddhism ...
... Heaven and Hell - Christian ideas . Apocalypse . The heaven of John and Mahomet com- pared with that of Buddha . Prayer not a Buddhist institution - nor originally a Christian one . Nature of prayer . The developments of Buddhism ...
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... Heaven admired centralization . Babylonian tutelary angels . Christian ones . Christian saintly imagery . The bleeding heart of Mary . A funny Chaldean goddess to match . Popish saints have an aureole , but no wings . Francis of Assisi ...
... Heaven admired centralization . Babylonian tutelary angels . Christian ones . Christian saintly imagery . The bleeding heart of Mary . A funny Chaldean goddess to match . Popish saints have an aureole , but no wings . Francis of Assisi ...
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... Heaven ! The Genesis of Hell . What sort of a place it is supposed to be . God made the Devil , so man must multiply his imps ! Lucifer taught Elohim ! Old Testament less knowing than the New . The Devil not a fallen angel . The book of ...
... Heaven ! The Genesis of Hell . What sort of a place it is supposed to be . God made the Devil , so man must multiply his imps ! Lucifer taught Elohim ! Old Testament less knowing than the New . The Devil not a fallen angel . The book of ...
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... Heaven and Earth . We proved , what indeed Colenso and a host of German critics have demonstrated in another fashion , that its historical portions are not to be depended upon ; that its stories are of no more real value than so many ...
... Heaven and Earth . We proved , what indeed Colenso and a host of German critics have demonstrated in another fashion , that its historical portions are not to be depended upon ; that its stories are of no more real value than so many ...
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