Anacalypsis, an Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis; Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions, Volume 1 |
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... creator , and became the first object of adoration . This seems to be only a natural effect of such a cause . After some time it would be discovered that this powerful and beneficent agent , the solar fire , was the most potent ...
... creator , and became the first object of adoration . This seems to be only a natural effect of such a cause . After some time it would be discovered that this powerful and beneficent agent , the solar fire , was the most potent ...
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... creator and preserver of the sun himself . It has been said in reply to this , Then this fundamental doctrine on which , in fact , all the future religion and philosophy of the world was built , you attribute to accident ! The word ...
... creator and preserver of the sun himself . It has been said in reply to this , Then this fundamental doctrine on which , in fact , all the future religion and philosophy of the world was built , you attribute to accident ! The word ...
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... Creator , I do not know , and I should not have thought of noticing them if I had not seen an attempt lately made in a work not yet published , to depreciate the sublime doctrines of the ancients by deducing from these passages that ...
... Creator , I do not know , and I should not have thought of noticing them if I had not seen an attempt lately made in a work not yet published , to depreciate the sublime doctrines of the ancients by deducing from these passages that ...
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... creator of all , will require much more refinement of mind than the doctrine of attribut- ing the creation to the sun . The first is an actual refinement run into corruption , similar to Bishop Berkley's doctrine - refinement , indeed ...
... creator of all , will require much more refinement of mind than the doctrine of attribut- ing the creation to the sun . The first is an actual refinement run into corruption , similar to Bishop Berkley's doctrine - refinement , indeed ...
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... Creator , or faculties con- ferred by him on his creature , there is no one so striking or so interesting to a reflecting person as that of the generative power . This is the most incomprehensible and mysterious of the powers of nature ...
... Creator , or faculties con- ferred by him on his creature , there is no one so striking or so interesting to a reflecting person as that of the generative power . This is the most incomprehensible and mysterious of the powers of nature ...
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Page 392 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 385 - Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Page 58 - Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there : and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Page 102 - continue to the end of the world; that then there shall be a " general resurrection, and a day of judgment, wherein just retribu...
Page 291 - ... but he set apart the third division for God, because heaven is inaccessible to men. And when he ordered twelve loaves to be set on the table, he denoted the year, as distinguished into so many months. By branching out the candlestick into seventy parts, he secretly intimated the Decani, or seventy divisions of the planets, and as to the seven lamps upon the candle.
Page 302 - And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Page 386 - Unto every one of you have we given a law and an open path ; (53) and if GOD had pleased, he had surely made you one people ; but he hath thought fit to give you different laws, that he might try you in that which he hath given you respectively. Therefore strive to excel each other in good works : unto GOD shall ye all return, and then will he declare unto you that concerning See v.
Page 42 - And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Page 99 - Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
Page 409 - Jesus. And because the cross was that by which we were to find grace, therefore he adds three hundred, the note of which is T [the figure of his cross]. Wherefore, by two letters, he signified Jesus; and by the third, his cross.