An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1896 - 443 sider |
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Side 7
... consciousness : he has as direct perception of the light of the soul as he has of the light of To him , therefore , since God has never at any time the eye . left Himself without a witness , it is perfectly natural INTRODUCTORY 7.
... consciousness : he has as direct perception of the light of the soul as he has of the light of To him , therefore , since God has never at any time the eye . left Himself without a witness , it is perfectly natural INTRODUCTORY 7.
Side 8
Frank Byron Jevons. left Himself without a witness , it is perfectly natural that the same revelation , carrying conviction with it , should have been made to all men in all times . It is this revelation , this element in the common ...
Frank Byron Jevons. left Himself without a witness , it is perfectly natural that the same revelation , carrying conviction with it , should have been made to all men in all times . It is this revelation , this element in the common ...
Side 11
... natural power ( ch . iii . " The Supernatural " ) . Some writers have imagined that there was a time in the " prehistory " of man , when he could not tell the natural from the supernatural , and that consequently magic existed first and ...
... natural power ( ch . iii . " The Supernatural " ) . Some writers have imagined that there was a time in the " prehistory " of man , when he could not tell the natural from the supernatural , and that consequently magic existed first and ...
Side 12
... natural objects a personality like his own ; he also noticed that , as men were organised in kins ( clans and families ) , so natural objects grouped them- selves in natural kinds ( genera and species ) . And as alliances between human ...
... natural objects a personality like his own ; he also noticed that , as men were organised in kins ( clans and families ) , so natural objects grouped them- selves in natural kinds ( genera and species ) . And as alliances between human ...
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... natural conditions is so great for the savage even now , when he has fire and tools at his command , that we may imagine he could not , in the beginning , have long survived without them , if at all . But as there must have been one ...
... natural conditions is so great for the savage even now , when he has fire and tools at his command , that we may imagine he could not , in the beginning , have long survived without them , if at all . But as there must have been one ...
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Abipones altar amongst ancestor ancestor-worship ancient animal totem Athenian Bastian become belief blood cause century B.C. ceremony chapter Chicomecoatl civilised clan clansmen communion consciousness corpse cult custom dead death deceased deity Demeter Dionysus divine Egypt Eleusinian Eleusinian mysteries Eleusis Ellis evolution existence explanation fact feast fetish flesh Frazer goddess gods Gold Coast Greece Greek Hades human Iacchus Ibid idea idol Indians individual individual totem inference instance institution killing king Loango magic maize man's meal Mensch monotheism moral mysteries myth natural offered original Orphic Persephone person plant Polynesia polytheism priest primitive Pythagorean race reason regarded religion religious rites ritual Robertson Smith sacramental sacred sacrifice Samoa savage Semites soul species spirit stage stone supernatural supernatural powers supposed Supra survival sympathetic magic taboo theory thiasus things taboo tion totem animal totemistic tree tribe Tshi-speaking unclean victim worship Zagreus Zeus καὶ
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Side 193 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Side 186 - Many are given to witchcraft, and are deluded by the devil to believe that their life dependeth upon the life of such and such a beast (which they take unto them as their familiar spirit) and think that when that beast dieth they must die, when he is chased their hearts pant, when he is faint they are faint, nay it happeneth that by the devil's delusion they appear in the shape of that beast...
Side 144 - The camel chosen as the victim is bound upon a rude altar of stones piled together, and when the leader of the band has thrice led the worshippers round the altar in a solemn procession accompanied with chants, he inflicts the first wound...
Side 57 - For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Side 300 - Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.
Side 100 - Indians invariably destroy this babracot, saying that should a tapir, passing that way, find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion, when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracote him in revenge
Side 300 - ... world, each guarded by its porter, who admits the dead, stripping him of his apparel, but never allowing him to pass through them again to the upper world. Good and bad, heroes and plebeians, are alike condemned to this dreary lot ; a state of future rewards and punishments is as yet undreamed of ; moral responsibility ends with death. Hades is a land of forgetfulness and of darkness, where the good and evil deeds of this life are remembered no more...
Side 221 - I rub my warts with raw meat and then bury the meat, the warts will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed upon a sacred bush, or thrust into a sacred well — my name written upon the walls of a temple — a stone or pellet from my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn — a remnant of my food cast into a sacred waterfall or bound upon a sacred tree, or a nail from my hand driven into the trunk...
Side 272 - ... he might not touch wheaten flour or leavened bread ; he might not touch or even name a goat, a dog, raw meat, beans, and ivy ; he might not walk under a vine ; the feet of his bed had to be daubed with mud...
Side 415 - But of all the great religions of the world it is the Christian Church alone which is so far heir of all the ages as to fulfil the dumb, dim expectation of mankind; in it alone the sacramental meal commemorates, by ordinance of its Founder, the divine sacrifice which is a propitiation for the sins of all mankind.