Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal ReligionHoughton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884 - 782 pages |
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Accadian ages Ahriman Ahura Ahuramazda Alexander ancient Arab Aryan ascribed Asia Asshur Assyrian Asura Avesta Babylon Babylonian belief Bible Bundehesh centre century Chaldean Christ Christian civilization consciousness creation creatures cuneiform Cyrus Daevas darkness death deity desert divine doctrine Dualism earth elements empire ethical evil faith fire force Fravashis Gâthâs Genesis Gesellsch Gnostic gods Greek Harlez Haug heaven Hebrew Herodotus holy human Ibid idea ideal immortality inscriptions inspiration Iran Iranian Irenæus Islam Jahveh Jesus kings Koran later legend Lenormant light Magic Mahomet Manichæan Manichæism Mazdean Mazdeism meaning mind Mithra monotheism moral Morgenl myth mythology natural origin Ormuzd passion Persian principle prophet pure race Rawlinson relations religion religious represented revelation Sassanian says Semitic sense soul Spiegel spirit strife supreme symbol things thought tion traditions tribes truth Turanian unity universal Vedic Vendidâd whole word worship Yaçna Yashts Zarathustra Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 553 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 287 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 299 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page xix - FATHER, in thy mysterious presence kneeling, Fain would our souls feel all thy kindling love; For we are weak, and need some deep revealing Of trust and strength and calmness from above...
Page 593 - O my uncle, by God, if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandoned this course, until God has made it victorious, or I perish therein, I would not abandon it.
Page 569 - Spread — void of living sight or sound. And here, while the night-winds round me sigh, And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky, As I sit apart by the desert stone, Like Elijah at Horeb's cave, alone, "A still small voice...
Page 353 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 409 - There can be no power without an army, no army without money, no money without agriculture, and no agriculture without justice.
Page 581 - Belief is great, life-giving. The history of a Nation becomes fruitful, soul-elevating, great, so soon as it believes. These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what seemed black unnoticeable sand; but lo, the sand proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Grenada!
Page 569 - still small voice'' comes through the wild Like a father consoling his fretful child, . Which banishes bitterness, wrath and fear, Saying,