The Origin of PriesthoodEkenaes printing Company, limited, 1905 - 217 sider |
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... is to me a foreign tongue . Mrs. Donner has added to her kindness in helping me to correct the proofs . G. L. HELSINGFORS , FINLAND . November , 1905 . CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH OTHER SOCIAL CLASSES . Definition.
... is to me a foreign tongue . Mrs. Donner has added to her kindness in helping me to correct the proofs . G. L. HELSINGFORS , FINLAND . November , 1905 . CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH OTHER SOCIAL CLASSES . Definition.
Side vii
Gunnar Landtman. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH OTHER SOCIAL CLASSES . Definition of lay classes , p . 1 ; peoples without classes , pp . 2–5 ; the nobility , the commonalty and the slave - class constituting the typical ...
Gunnar Landtman. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH OTHER SOCIAL CLASSES . Definition of lay classes , p . 1 ; peoples without classes , pp . 2–5 ; the nobility , the commonalty and the slave - class constituting the typical ...
Side ix
... ; the priests attach themselves to the kings and noble classes , p . 139 ; their number is often recruited from the most noble families , pp . 140 sq .; the influence of the priests dependent X upon their power of wonder - working , pp.
... ; the priests attach themselves to the kings and noble classes , p . 139 ; their number is often recruited from the most noble families , pp . 140 sq .; the influence of the priests dependent X upon their power of wonder - working , pp.
Side x
... classes with that between higher and lower aspects of spiritual evolution , pp . 168-170 , others with the ... class of the priesthood , pp . 177-179 ; this distinction often arbitrary , pp . 179 sq .; the attribute of good not confined ...
... classes with that between higher and lower aspects of spiritual evolution , pp . 168-170 , others with the ... class of the priesthood , pp . 177-179 ; this distinction often arbitrary , pp . 179 sq .; the attribute of good not confined ...
Side xi
... powers in a higher degree than men , pp . 197-199 ; certain classes of priestly fuctions confined to one or other of the sexes , p . 200 . AUTHORITIES QUOTED • pp . 201-217 THE ORIGIN OF PRIESTHOOD . INTRODUCTION . PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH.
... powers in a higher degree than men , pp . 197-199 ; certain classes of priestly fuctions confined to one or other of the sexes , p . 200 . AUTHORITIES QUOTED • pp . 201-217 THE ORIGIN OF PRIESTHOOD . INTRODUCTION . PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH.
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Side 120 - Those who aspire to the office of juggler are said to sit upon an aged willow, overhanging some lake, and to abstain from food for several days, till they begin to see into futurity.
Side 154 - There can be little doubt but that the priest, on such occasions, often summons into action the deepest feelings of devotion of which he is susceptible, and by a voluntary act disposes his mind, as much as possible, to be powerfully affected; till at length, what began by volition proceeds by involuntary effort, and the whole mind and body become subjected to the overruling emotion.
Side 8 - I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Side 133 - No less frequently priests and sorcerers who fail in performing miracles save their reputation by accusing other persons of having, by secret necromancies, frustrated their endeavours. Among the aborigines of New South Wales, " although the operations of the rain-maker so often result in failure, he is not in the least discouraged, and, like the doctors, invariably attributes his want of success to the counteracting influence of an enemy.
Side 121 - His imagination is worked upon by solitude, the contemplation of the gloomy aspect of surrounding nature, long vigils, fasts, the use of narcotics and stimulants, until he becomes persuaded that he too has seen the apparitions which he has heard of from his boyhood.
Side 104 - The term fahe-gehe means split off, separate, or distinct from, and is applied to signify a priest, or man, who has a peculiar or distinct sort of mind or -soul, differing from that of the generality of mankind, which disposes some god occasionally to inspire him.
Side 110 - An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser part mingles among ordinary mortals ; consequently, he is considered an especial favourite of heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect his fame for sanctity : for they are considered as the results of...
Side 105 - Kafir-land that none of the children of a prophet can succeed their parent in that profession. It is believed that the requisite discernment and power are denied to them, but may frequently appear in their descendants of the second generation.
Side 177 - It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which are personal agents of the kind assumed by religion ; but whenever it does so in its proper form, it treats them exactly in the same fashion as it treats inanimate agents, that is, it constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do.
Side 151 - As has happened in Europe and elsewhere, in the presence of torture and the instant advance of death, the sorcerer and sorceress will not only confess, but even boast of and believe in, their own criminality. ' Verily I slew such a one ! — I brought about the disease of such another ! ' — these are their demented vaunts, the offspring of mental imbecility, stimulated by traditional hallucination.