The Faiths of the World, Volumen24C. Scribner's sons, 1882 - 364 páginas |
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Página 96
... fire , and mingled it with smoke . Here , as elsewhere , we find that in explaining the world the Iranian learned a parable from the storm . One of the storm contests which float vaguely in time and space , or are renewed again and ...
... fire , and mingled it with smoke . Here , as elsewhere , we find that in explaining the world the Iranian learned a parable from the storm . One of the storm contests which float vaguely in time and space , or are renewed again and ...
Página 98
... fire , the water , the trees , the flocks , and maintaining the universe for Ahura Mazda . One problem solved to the Iranian mind by Ahri- man's invasion was the existence of mountains and seas . The cloud - mountains , with which ...
... fire , the water , the trees , the flocks , and maintaining the universe for Ahura Mazda . One problem solved to the Iranian mind by Ahri- man's invasion was the existence of mountains and seas . The cloud - mountains , with which ...
Página 102
... fire- god Agni . His eye is piercing . At his birth the waters and the plants rejoice . He is first of priests , first of war- riors , first of husbandmen . A man of light or fire born of the cloud , in fact , differing from Gayomard in ...
... fire- god Agni . His eye is piercing . At his birth the waters and the plants rejoice . He is first of priests , first of war- riors , first of husbandmen . A man of light or fire born of the cloud , in fact , differing from Gayomard in ...
Página 103
... fire , with the com- plaisance of Thor's hammer - which , in fact , is the same thing the lightning , came and went as he pleased , kindled immediately the wood under the kettle , and , when the cookery was finished , withdrew ...
... fire , with the com- plaisance of Thor's hammer - which , in fact , is the same thing the lightning , came and went as he pleased , kindled immediately the wood under the kettle , and , when the cookery was finished , withdrew ...
Página 105
To him the flame of sacrifice , is lord of fire ; Vohumano , Good Thought , becomes lord of animals : Armaiti , Piety or Prayer , wedding earth to heaven , is the genius of earth . To Haurvatāt , Health , and Ameretat , whose name is ...
To him the flame of sacrifice , is lord of fire ; Vohumano , Good Thought , becomes lord of animals : Armaiti , Piety or Prayer , wedding earth to heaven , is the genius of earth . To Haurvatāt , Health , and Ameretat , whose name is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsir Ahriman Ahura Ahura Mazda ancient ancient Egypt Aryan Avesta Aztec beautiful became belief body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism Bushyasta called century character China Chinese Christ Christianity civilisation conception Confucius creed dead death deities distinct divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian element eternal evil existence faith finite fire Fravashis gods Greece Greek hand heart heathen heaven highest holy human idea immortality Indian influence Israel Jehovah Judaism king kingdom light ligion living Lord Mahommed Mahommedan man's Mazda Mazdean ment mind monotheism moral myth mythology nature ness Nirvana Odin origin Osiris pagan pantheistic Persian philosophical polytheism prayer present priest principle prophet Qurân race regarded religion religious represented revelation rites Roman sacred sacrifice sense soul spirit stone supreme temples things Thor thou thought tion traced truth unity whole words worship younger Edda Zoroaster
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Página 55 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Página 285 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 4 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Página 223 - Past, Present, Future; watering its roots from the Sacred Well. Its 'boughs,' with their buddings and disleafings, — Events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are Histories of Nations. The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old.
Página 175 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Página 10 - And doubtless, sometimes, when the hair was shed Upon the flowing stream, a thought arose Of Life continuous, Being unimpaired; That hath been, is, and where it was and is There shall...
Página 319 - God is the light of the heavens and the earth : His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass ; the glass is as though it were a glittering star...
Página 243 - By your beauty, which confesses Some chief Beauty conquering you, — By our grand heroic guesses, Through your falsehood, at the True, — We will weep not . . \ earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth ; And those debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up, poets, to the sun ! Pan, Pan is dead.
Página 318 - When the sun shall be folded up ; and when the stars shall fall ; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away ; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected ; and when the wild beasts shall be gathered together...
Página 49 - In order to answer this question it will be necessary to examine somewhat more closely than has hitherto been done the system established by the earlier legislation, as well as the change effected by those Acts. The Manitoba School Act of...