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... existence- material forms are the forms of Brahm . The The Vedanta , or Vedic Commentaries mark the second era of Hinduism , when the spirit of reflection begins to dis- tinguish between God and nature . They give prominence to the ...
... existence- material forms are the forms of Brahm . The The Vedanta , or Vedic Commentaries mark the second era of Hinduism , when the spirit of reflection begins to dis- tinguish between God and nature . They give prominence to the ...
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... existence is due to emanation ; it is the Eternal Being coming out of Himself . When He thinks , He 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 ...
... existence is due to emanation ; it is the Eternal Being coming out of Himself . When He thinks , He 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 ...
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... existence , this god who is all beings , who is the end of ultimate objects , who is beyond final spirit , who is one with supreme Soul , who is con- templated as the cause of final liberation by sages anxious to be free . To Him whose ...
... existence , this god who is all beings , who is the end of ultimate objects , who is beyond final spirit , who is one with supreme Soul , who is con- templated as the cause of final liberation by sages anxious to be free . To Him whose ...
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... existence , which is ascribed to Brahma and Vishnu , is also ascribed to Siva . " The gods , " says the Rudra Upanishad , " proceeded to the celestial abode of Rudra , and enquired Who art Thou ? ' He replied , ' I am , the fount and ...
... existence , which is ascribed to Brahma and Vishnu , is also ascribed to Siva . " The gods , " says the Rudra Upanishad , " proceeded to the celestial abode of Rudra , and enquired Who art Thou ? ' He replied , ' I am , the fount and ...
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... existence is only apparent . To know God is to know ourselves ; to be ignorant of Him is to live the illusive life . What then is our duty and destiny ? To be united to Brahm , in other words , to realise that we are one with him . To ...
... existence is only apparent . To know God is to know ourselves ; to be ignorant of Him is to live the illusive life . What then is our duty and destiny ? To be united to Brahm , in other words , to realise that we are one with him . To ...
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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.