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... becomes many by the multitude of his incarnations or manifestations . " The very vastness of the Hindu Mytho- logy obliges it to be inconsistent . It is an effort to represent a Being who can only be grasped by an infinite thought ...
... becomes many by the multitude of his incarnations or manifestations . " The very vastness of the Hindu Mytho- logy obliges it to be inconsistent . It is an effort to represent a Being who can only be grasped by an infinite thought ...
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... become sacred ; and the images of the elephant , the ox , the goat , the hawk , the eagle , and the raven are found ... becomes the single object of worship . The Vedas had declared God " in- comprehensible to reason , and inconceivable ...
... become sacred ; and the images of the elephant , the ox , the goat , the hawk , the eagle , and the raven are found ... becomes the single object of worship . The Vedas had declared God " in- comprehensible to reason , and inconceivable ...
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... becomes an object as well as a subject that which is thought of , as well as that which thinks -- as a man beholding himself in a mirror becomes the subject seeing , and the object seen , so is Brahm and creation : He projects His ...
... becomes an object as well as a subject that which is thought of , as well as that which thinks -- as a man beholding himself in a mirror becomes the subject seeing , and the object seen , so is Brahm and creation : He projects His ...
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... becomes , as it were , His garment . In this Maya , wherewith Brahm has encircled Himself , is desire- desire of creating ; but in desire is love , and so far beauty . In relation to itself the Maya has true being ; but , in relation to ...
... becomes , as it were , His garment . In this Maya , wherewith Brahm has encircled Himself , is desire- desire of creating ; but in desire is love , and so far beauty . In relation to itself the Maya has true being ; but , in relation to ...
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... becomes Bramha ; the universal soul becomes a person ; the pervading spirit , a creator . This means that the universe emanates from Brahm , and becomes the first of the gods ; hence the many passages in the Vedic Commentaries , which ...
... becomes Bramha ; the universal soul becomes a person ; the pervading spirit , a creator . This means that the universe emanates from Brahm , and becomes the first of the gods ; hence the many passages in the Vedic Commentaries , which ...
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absolute Ahriman Alexandrian angels animal Aristotle ascribed attributes Averroes becomes Beghards beginning body Böhme Brahm Brahmanism Budha Budhists Bythos called Cartes cause Christ Christianity Church conceive created creation creature darkness Deity Demiurgus denied Dionysius disciples doctrine earth Egyptian Eleatics emanation Erigena eternal evil existence express Father finite fire Gnostics God's Godhead gods Greek heaven Hindu human hypostasis idea ideal identity incarnation individual infinite intellect intelligence Irenæus Jesus kingdom knowledge Leibnitz light living Logos Malebranche manifestation material matter mind Mithras mode Monad mystical nature Neo-Platonism non-being object original Ormuzd Osiris Pantheism Parmenides perfect Persian phenomenal Philo philosophy Plato Pleroma Plotinus Polytheism Porphyry principle Proclus produced pure reality reason religion revealed says sense soul speak speculative Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theology things Thou art thought tion Trinity true truth understand unity universe Vedas Vishnu visible wisdom word worship Zoroaster
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Page 306 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 306 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on th...
Page 356 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 153 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Page 340 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 88 - Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burntofferings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure : then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
Page 306 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these, Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.