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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... than myself . This applies more particularly to my concluding Lectures , Lect . XII to XV in this volume . These Lec- tures contain the key to the whole series , and they formed from the very beginning my final aim . They viii PREFACE .
... than myself . This applies more particularly to my concluding Lectures , Lect . XII to XV in this volume . These Lec- tures contain the key to the whole series , and they formed from the very beginning my final aim . They viii PREFACE .
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... whole of the ancient world . The key to that riddle should be sought for , I believe , at Alexandria rather than at Jerusalem . But if that riddle is ever to be solved , it is the duty of the historian to examine the facts and 1 1 Bigg ...
... whole of the ancient world . The key to that riddle should be sought for , I believe , at Alexandria rather than at Jerusalem . But if that riddle is ever to be solved , it is the duty of the historian to examine the facts and 1 1 Bigg ...
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... whole Roman Empire . I ought , perhaps , to explain why , to the title of Psychological Religion , originally chosen for this my final course of Gifford Lectures , I have added that of Theosophy . It seemed to me that this venera- ble ...
... whole Roman Empire . I ought , perhaps , to explain why , to the title of Psychological Religion , originally chosen for this my final course of Gifford Lectures , I have added that of Theosophy . It seemed to me that this venera- ble ...
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... whole , is the true judgment of the world , and that we must learn to understand that judgment , and to accept it as right . If we adopt this view of Schiller's , and learn to look upon the history of the world as an unbroken ...
... whole , is the true judgment of the world , and that we must learn to understand that judgment , and to accept it as right . If we adopt this view of Schiller's , and learn to look upon the history of the world as an unbroken ...
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... whole world . " This was an arduous task , and it may have proved as tedious to my hearers as it proved laborious to myself . Still , there was no other way of silencing all gainsayers once for all . If any so - called Christian Divine ...
... whole world . " This was an arduous task , and it may have proved as tedious to my hearers as it proved laborious to myself . Still , there was no other way of silencing all gainsayers once for all . If any so - called Christian Divine ...
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