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 vii
... things were by him taken for granted ; and it was held to be culpable to inquire into the reality of those assumptions . In fine , it was evident , that there was a Bluebeard's closet in the house of God , into which , in the preacher's ...
... things were by him taken for granted ; and it was held to be culpable to inquire into the reality of those assumptions . In fine , it was evident , that there was a Bluebeard's closet in the house of God , into which , in the preacher's ...
Page xi
... things ; the so - called orthodox believe in the God Satan . I do not know anything in all my studies which excited my attention more painfully than the result of the analysis of Jehovah's character , as given in our Bible . Kind to ...
... things ; the so - called orthodox believe in the God Satan . I do not know anything in all my studies which excited my attention more painfully than the result of the analysis of Jehovah's character , as given in our Bible . Kind to ...
Page xii
... thing that had life ; that He ordered the extermination , not only of Midi- anites and Amalekites , but slaughtered , in one way or another , all the people whom he led out of Egypt - except two - merely because they had a natural fear ...
... thing that had life ; that He ordered the extermination , not only of Midi- anites and Amalekites , but slaughtered , in one way or another , all the people whom he led out of Egypt - except two - merely because they had a natural fear ...
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... things symbolized have been altered , and the original ideas suppressed . The male triad is a holy trinity ; the monad is no longer the emblem of womankind , but of the so - called Mother of God , or , as the Romanists say , of the ...
... things symbolized have been altered , and the original ideas suppressed . The male triad is a holy trinity ; the monad is no longer the emblem of womankind , but of the so - called Mother of God , or , as the Romanists say , of the ...
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... , omnipresent and omniscient - the giver of all good things , " without whom man is as nothing . " He was said to be " invis- ible , incorporeal , a being of absolute perfection and perfect purity , " " under whose wings men may find 31.
... , omnipresent and omniscient - the giver of all good things , " without whom man is as nothing . " He was said to be " invis- ible , incorporeal , a being of absolute perfection and perfect purity , " " under whose wings men may find 31.
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