Theosophy Or Psychological Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1892Longmans, Green and Company, 1893 - 594 pages |
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admit Agni Ahura Ahuramazda ancient Aryan Asuras Avesta Avidyâ become belief body borrowed Brahman bridge called Christ Christian Clement conceived concept death Deity Devas Dionysius Dionysius the Areopagite divine doctrines doubt earth Eckhart essence eternal evil existence expressed faith Father Fravashis Godhead gods Gospel Greece Greek philosophy heaven Heraclitus highest historical Holy human soul hymns idea immortal India individual soul Infinite Jewish knowledge language Lectures light living Logos Mazda means meant metempsychosis mind moon mystic mythological nature Neo-Platonists nescience never object origin passages perfect Persian phenomenal Philo philosophers Plato Plotinus Pragâpati Râmânuga recognised religion religious Rig-veda Sacred Books Sankara Sanskrit seems sense speak spirit Stoics Sufi supposed Supreme Sûtras teaching Thee Theosophy things thou thought throne tion translation true truth Upanishads Varuna Veda Vedanta Vedântist Vedic words Xenophanes Yasna Zend Zoroaster Zoroastrian καὶ
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Page 537 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 6 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 35 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 52 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 523 - OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Page 34 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 125 - ... to the year, from the year to the sun, from the sun to the moon, from the moon to the lightning.
Page 255 - When a man, being asleep, reposing, and at perfect rest, sees no dreams, that is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.