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... express the Infinite One . .6 Every Brahman may not be able to give the reason for the multitude of objects he worships , but from our point of view this is the rationale of his worship . When we turn to the old Hindu books the same ...
... express the Infinite One . .6 Every Brahman may not be able to give the reason for the multitude of objects he worships , but from our point of view this is the rationale of his worship . When we turn to the old Hindu books the same ...
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... express Him , and therefore imperfect , for no number of finites can make up the Infinite ; no accu- mulations of being can express Him who is the source of all being , therefore it is said that Brahm is both Being and Non- Being . This ...
... express Him , and therefore imperfect , for no number of finites can make up the Infinite ; no accu- mulations of being can express Him who is the source of all being , therefore it is said that Brahm is both Being and Non- Being . This ...
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... express . The great soul animates and pervades all things . He speaks in the thunder , flashes in the lightning , roars in the cataract , glances in the sun , smiles in the moon , glitters in the stars , rolls in the ocean , sparkles in ...
... express . The great soul animates and pervades all things . He speaks in the thunder , flashes in the lightning , roars in the cataract , glances in the sun , smiles in the moon , glitters in the stars , rolls in the ocean , sparkles in ...
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... express nothing concerning the nature of substance , and must not be taken as exhaustive of the idea of creation . We have already seen that , though Brahm and creation are thus identified , the nature of Brahm is absolutely spiritual ...
... express nothing concerning the nature of substance , and must not be taken as exhaustive of the idea of creation . We have already seen that , though Brahm and creation are thus identified , the nature of Brahm is absolutely spiritual ...
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... express image of the Eternal - very light of very light - the Creator , who by the power of the word which he never ceases to pronounce , makes in 365 days , the heavens and the earth . Mithras is the Ormuzd - descended hero appointed ...
... express image of the Eternal - very light of very light - the Creator , who by the power of the word which he never ceases to pronounce , makes in 365 days , the heavens and the earth . Mithras is the Ormuzd - descended hero appointed ...
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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.