Mysticism and Its Results: Being an Inquiry Into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, as Developed in the Instruction and Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, Or Confraternities, Whether Social, Religious, Or Political, from the Beginning of History to the Present Day... |
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Mysticism and Its Results: Being an Inquiry Into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 73 - Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Page 15 - But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith : 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.
Page 45 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 59 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord do all these things.
Page 54 - Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5.
Page 10 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
Page 37 - And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust...
Page 76 - Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby...
Page 47 - And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
Page 76 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.