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 91
... disciple , which a lively fancy might call a Hindoo Gethsemane . In this garden Buddha made many disciples , and in it the first council of his followers was held after his death . Another favourite retreat was a plantation of mango ...
... disciple , which a lively fancy might call a Hindoo Gethsemane . In this garden Buddha made many disciples , and in it the first council of his followers was held after his death . Another favourite retreat was a plantation of mango ...
Page 93
... disciples and intimate friends , and venerated by all who had listened to his discourses . There are a great many legends existent , and of very re- spectable antiquity too , which tell of miracles performed by this very remarkable ...
... disciples and intimate friends , and venerated by all who had listened to his discourses . There are a great many legends existent , and of very re- spectable antiquity too , which tell of miracles performed by this very remarkable ...
Page 100
... disciples have induced themselves to believe , against their original ideas , that we are not only surrounded by the spirits of the departed , but that these can be brought into connec- tion with us by means of certain individuals ...
... disciples have induced themselves to believe , against their original ideas , that we are not only surrounded by the spirits of the departed , but that these can be brought into connec- tion with us by means of certain individuals ...
Page 101
... disciples of Sakya Muni believed in a resurrection of the dead , without having had the advantage of a real or imaginary reappearance of their master after his supposed decease . The Etruscans , Greeks , and Romans , had all an Elysium ...
... disciples of Sakya Muni believed in a resurrection of the dead , without having had the advantage of a real or imaginary reappearance of their master after his supposed decease . The Etruscans , Greeks , and Romans , had all an Elysium ...
Page 102
... " To which the reply is that the prophet has come . We are constrained , therefore , to believe that Jesus was not the first who rose from the dead ; nay , even he himself commissioned his disciples to " cleanse the lepers , 102.
... " To which the reply is that the prophet has come . We are constrained , therefore , to believe that Jesus was not the first who rose from the dead ; nay , even he himself commissioned his disciples to " cleanse the lepers , 102.
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