The British Quarterly Review, Volume 18Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1853 - Christianity |
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... Plenty - the Alexandrian philosophy was the offspring of Reverence and Ambition . It combined an adoring homage to the departed NEO - PLATONISM - ITS THEOSOPHY AND ITS THEURGY . 142 HYPATIA - OR , NEW FOES WITH AN OLD FACE .
... Plenty - the Alexandrian philosophy was the offspring of Reverence and Ambition . It combined an adoring homage to the departed NEO - PLATONISM - ITS THEOSOPHY AND ITS THEURGY . 142 HYPATIA - OR , NEW FOES WITH AN OLD FACE .
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Henry Allon. NEO - PLATONISM - ITS THEOSOPHY AND ITS THEURGY . 143 genius of the age of Pericles , with a passionate credulous craving after a supernatural elevation . Its literary tastes and religious wants were alike imperative and ...
Henry Allon. NEO - PLATONISM - ITS THEOSOPHY AND ITS THEURGY . 143 genius of the age of Pericles , with a passionate credulous craving after a supernatural elevation . Its literary tastes and religious wants were alike imperative and ...
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... theurgy which so much scandalized Iam- blichus . The treatise of the latter , De Mysteriis , is an elaborate reply , under the name of Abammon , to that epistle . Thus much concerning the doctrine of the theosophic or spiritualist ...
... theurgy which so much scandalized Iam- blichus . The treatise of the latter , De Mysteriis , is an elaborate reply , under the name of Abammon , to that epistle . Thus much concerning the doctrine of the theosophic or spiritualist ...
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... theurgy , in Neo - Platonism , Gnosticism , and Romanism alike . At first , ecstasy is an inde- scribable state - any form or voice would mar and materialize it -the vague boundlessness of this exaltation , of that expanse of bliss and ...
... theurgy , in Neo - Platonism , Gnosticism , and Romanism alike . At first , ecstasy is an inde- scribable state - any form or voice would mar and materialize it -the vague boundlessness of this exaltation , of that expanse of bliss and ...
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... theurgy found its wand broken , and its spells baffled , by the more potent incantations of Christian faith or Christian super- stition . A barbaric art , compounded of every ancient jugglery of priestcraft , contended as vainly against ...
... theurgy found its wand broken , and its spells baffled , by the more potent incantations of Christian faith or Christian super- stition . A barbaric art , compounded of every ancient jugglery of priestcraft , contended as vainly against ...
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