Theosophy Or Psychological Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1892Longmans, Green and Company, 1895 - 594 pages |
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... meant as the coping - stone of the arch that rests on the two pillars of Physical and Anthropological Religion , and unites the two into the true gate of the temple of the religion of the future . They are to show that from a purely ...
... meant as the coping - stone of the arch that rests on the two pillars of Physical and Anthropological Religion , and unites the two into the true gate of the temple of the religion of the future . They are to show that from a purely ...
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... meant simply man , before it was applied to the Messiah . Thus only can we understand the antithesis which meets us as early as the first century , ' the Son of God , not the son of man 2. ' If we have once entered into the thoughts of ...
... meant simply man , before it was applied to the Messiah . Thus only can we understand the antithesis which meets us as early as the first century , ' the Son of God , not the son of man 2. ' If we have once entered into the thoughts of ...
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... meant therefore was that every day is a day of doom , that the history of the world , if comprehended as a whole , is the true judgment of the world , and that we must learn to understand that judgment , and to accept it as right . If ...
... meant therefore was that every day is a day of doom , that the history of the world , if comprehended as a whole , is the true judgment of the world , and that we must learn to understand that judgment , and to accept it as right . If ...
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... meant originally the bright light of the sky , and that deus was at first an adjective meaning bright , but for the ... meant the dawn , Agni fire , and Marut or Mars the stormwind , quite as cer- tainly as that Eos meant the dawn ...
... meant originally the bright light of the sky , and that deus was at first an adjective meaning bright , but for the ... meant the dawn , Agni fire , and Marut or Mars the stormwind , quite as cer- tainly as that Eos meant the dawn ...
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... meant to be read by the people at large , from so late a period . But I do not know of any facts that enable us to speak with confidence of a literature , in the true sense of the word , before that date . I have been told that the very ...
... meant to be read by the people at large , from so late a period . But I do not know of any facts that enable us to speak with confidence of a literature , in the true sense of the word , before that date . I have been told that the very ...
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