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According adored Aleim Anacalypsis ancient antiquity appears became believed Buddha Celestial Virgin ceremonies Chaldea child Christ Christian Church conception Confucius connected creation creative force Creator Crishna cross Cushite Cybele cycle Deity divine doctrines doubtless Druids dual earlier age early earth Egypt Egyptian Elohim Elohistic emblem energy evil existence fact faith female and male female element female principle festival figure fire Forlong globe god-idea goddess Godfrey Higgins gods Greeks Hesiod Higgins Hindoos holy human idea India Ireland Isis Jews Laotse later ages Lord lotus mankind Mithras monuments mother mythology nations Neith observed original Osiris Pagan Persians phallic priests Queen of Heaven race regarded Regenerator religion religious represented reproductive rites Romish sacred Savior says serpent Seth significance Solar Deity spirit Stonehenge symbols temples throughout Nature tion tree Trinity Typhon universal various Virgin Vishnu Wisdom women words worship writers Zoroaster
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Page 228 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 163 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 165 - But wewill certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem : for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Page 163 - ... but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Page 68 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 162 - And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deh' ver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Page 314 - The air was filled with intoxicating perfumes and the sweet melody of birds. In short, these were the halcyon days, which find a place in the mythic systems of so many nations in the Old World. It was the golden age of Anahuac.
Page 220 - Let burning coals fall upon them : let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Page 165 - Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there : for none shall return but such as shall escape. 15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt...
Page 184 - Deluge, the history of which is thus described: The Deity, Cronos, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the fifteenth day of the month Daesius, there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed.