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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Page viii
... prayers before she assisted him to commit adultery , and herself permitted fornication ! We sympathize with Paul and the early Christian fathers in their denunciations of the Romans and Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of ...
... prayers before she assisted him to commit adultery , and herself permitted fornication ! We sympathize with Paul and the early Christian fathers in their denunciations of the Romans and Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of ...
Page xv
... prayers . Priests and their duties . A parallel . Romanists and Mexicans . Confession . Expiation . Human sacrifice to obtain pardon of sin . A comparison suggested . Mexican education . Purity of life in the Mexican priestesses ...
... prayers . Priests and their duties . A parallel . Romanists and Mexicans . Confession . Expiation . Human sacrifice to obtain pardon of sin . A comparison suggested . Mexican education . Purity of life in the Mexican priestesses ...
Page xvi
... Prayer not a Buddhist institution - nor originally a Christian one . Nature of prayer . The developments of Buddhism , particu- lars - comparison between the Eastern ancient and Western modern practice . Abbé Huc . No sexual element in ...
... Prayer not a Buddhist institution - nor originally a Christian one . Nature of prayer . The developments of Buddhism , particu- lars - comparison between the Eastern ancient and Western modern practice . Abbé Huc . No sexual element in ...
Page xvii
... prayer . Sunday proverbs . New birth . Divines preach brotherly love in the pulpit , and provoke hate when out of it . Buddhist precept is " do as I do , " not " do as I say . " The narrow way of the Gospel finds an origin in Buddhism ...
... prayer . Sunday proverbs . New birth . Divines preach brotherly love in the pulpit , and provoke hate when out of it . Buddhist precept is " do as I do , " not " do as I say . " The narrow way of the Gospel finds an origin in Buddhism ...
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... Prayer - cylinder in Thibet . Contradictions . Figures and metaphors are theologian cities of refuge . Prophet who says that he converses with an angel - is he to be credited ? A spirit without flesh and bones cannot move his tongue to ...
... Prayer - cylinder in Thibet . Contradictions . Figures and metaphors are theologian cities of refuge . Prophet who says that he converses with an angel - is he to be credited ? A spirit without flesh and bones cannot move his tongue to ...
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