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... perfect agreement . Sometimes creation is the act of Brahm ; at other times of the gods . Sometimes Brahm is represented as willing the creation ; at other times it flows unconsciously from Him . In setting forth one view as the most ...
... perfect agreement . Sometimes creation is the act of Brahm ; at other times of the gods . Sometimes Brahm is represented as willing the creation ; at other times it flows unconsciously from Him . In setting forth one view as the most ...
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... perfect purity as the supreme Soul ; for when God willed to manifest Himself , then His nature was , in a certain degree , changed from its real and original state by the production of three essential qualities , which combining ...
... perfect purity as the supreme Soul ; for when God willed to manifest Himself , then His nature was , in a certain degree , changed from its real and original state by the production of three essential qualities , which combining ...
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... perfect freedom from sin . The present destiny of every individual - his happiness or misery , sorrow or joy , birth , death , or condition in life - is but the ripe fruit of all his actions which he has committed in his many previous ...
... perfect freedom from sin . The present destiny of every individual - his happiness or misery , sorrow or joy , birth , death , or condition in life - is but the ripe fruit of all his actions which he has committed in his many previous ...
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... perfect , almighty , infinitely pure and holy . Of all things in heaven , He is supreme ; of all things , He is " The Persians invoked the whole circle of the sky , ' as Zeus Patroüs ( probably Ormuzd ) . It has been assumed that the ...
... perfect , almighty , infinitely pure and holy . Of all things in heaven , He is supreme ; of all things , He is " The Persians invoked the whole circle of the sky , ' as Zeus Patroüs ( probably Ormuzd ) . It has been assumed that the ...
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... perfect animal beauty yet still more the dominion of human intelligence over the animal . " No truer contrast could have been made between the gods of Egypt and those of Greece . The former are rarely human , the latter rarely anything ...
... perfect animal beauty yet still more the dominion of human intelligence over the animal . " No truer contrast could have been made between the gods of Egypt and those of Greece . The former are rarely human , the latter rarely anything ...
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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.