Mythological Inquiry Into the Recondite Theology of the HeathensW. Pickering, 1837 - 134 pages |
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18th dynasty according Ægyptus Amenoph Amun Amun Muthah Amun Ra animals appears Armais attributes Bocchoris Brahma brother Bull Cadmus called Chaos character coincidences colony commencement connexion cycle Damascius Danaus deity Diodorus divine doctrine Egyptian emblem Eratosthenes erected Eusebius evidently Exodus father Fire Frag fragments gods Greece Greek Heathen Hebrew Hephæstus Hermes Herodotus hieroglyphics Horapollo Horus idolatry Indian Intellect Israelites Joseph Khem king of Egypt Kneph Koncharis later Platonists Light Lion Lower Egypt Manetho Memphite Menes ments metaphysical Metis monuments Moris Moses Nitocris numbers Old Chronicle original Orphic Osiris Osirtesen Panth passage Persian Phanes Pharaoh Phoenich Phoenix Phthah placed Plato Plut Plutarch Pluto preserved primeval principles Protogonus Ptolemy Ramesses Ramesses II regarded reign sacred Sanchoniatho Saophis Serapis Sesostris Sethos Shepherd kings Shishak Siva soul Suidas Syncellus tablet of Abydos Theban theology things Thoth Thothmos tion triad triple Vahan Vishnu Wilkinson worship
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Page 109 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 90 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 13 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.
Page 120 - Plato, when examined in conjunction with their context, afford us, as Dr. Morgan justly observes, no more foundation for supposing that Plato held the doctrine of the Trinity than the following very curious passage, which he produces from Seneca, gives us ground to suppose that it was held by the Stoics : " Id actum est, mihi crede ab illo, quisquis formator universi fuit, sive ille Deus est potens omnium, sive incorporalis Ratio ingentium operum artifex, sive divinus Spiritus per omnia maxima minima,...
Page 76 - Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Page 14 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the Spirit of God ; and, since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he is thence named Narayana, or, moving on the waters.
Page 14 - In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the Creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself; and from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath ; in the midst he placed the subtile ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters.
Page 33 - God who is the father of himself, self-begotten, the only father, who is truly good. For he is something greater, and the first, the fountain of all things, and the root of all primary Intelligible Existing forms. But out of this one, the self-ruling God made himself shine forth ; wherefore he is the father of himself, and self-ruling : for he is the first Principle, and God of Gods.
Page 87 - How comes it that a doctrine so singular, and so utterly at variance with all the conceptions of uninstructed reason, as that of a Trinity in Unity, should have been from the beginning a fundamental religious tenet of every nation upon earth...