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... records of religious opinion , if for its antiquity alone . But it has other claims upon our attention . There is in it the germ of many of the specu- lations that are the most prominent in the shifting philo- sophies of the present day ...
... records of religious opinion , if for its antiquity alone . But it has other claims upon our attention . There is in it the germ of many of the specu- lations that are the most prominent in the shifting philo- sophies of the present day ...
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... records of his life , there must be the exercise of a severe penance ; and their search for the inner illumination must be continued , with firm resolve and singleness of purpose , throughout many weary years . They who set themselves ...
... records of his life , there must be the exercise of a severe penance ; and their search for the inner illumination must be continued , with firm resolve and singleness of purpose , throughout many weary years . They who set themselves ...
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... records , I have spoken elsewhere . It may suffice , therefore , to state here , that the sage is regarded by his followers as having unlimited knowledge and power , though a man , and subject to all the passions and infirmities of ...
... records , I have spoken elsewhere . It may suffice , therefore , to state here , that the sage is regarded by his followers as having unlimited knowledge and power , though a man , and subject to all the passions and infirmities of ...
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... record of unmixed truth , as there is scarcely one of their pages that does not contradict this pretension . But placing them on a par with the works of other men , there may be , as we have seen , a vein of truth running through their ...
... record of unmixed truth , as there is scarcely one of their pages that does not contradict this pretension . But placing them on a par with the works of other men , there may be , as we have seen , a vein of truth running through their ...
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... record of any event that quadrates with the wonderful powers attributed to the rahats , which would undoubtedly not have been wanting , if these events had really taken place . The text of the Pitakas is con- siderably more ancient than ...
... record of any event that quadrates with the wonderful powers attributed to the rahats , which would undoubtedly not have been wanting , if these events had really taken place . The text of the Pitakas is con- siderably more ancient than ...
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Page 175 - Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trumpet shall sound ; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is...
Page 39 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 175 - ... in hell for many years, for many hundreds of years, for many thousands of years, for many hundreds of thousands of years; and...
Page 67 - The profoundly wise priests had heretofore orally perpetuated the Pali Pitakattaya and its ArthakathS (commentaries). At this period these priests, foreseeing the perdition of the people (from the perversions of the true doctrines) assembled ; and in order that the religion might endure for ages, recorded the same in...
Page 11 - Brahmin eats but his own food ; wears but his own apparel ; and bestows but his own in alms : through the benevolence of the Brahmin, indeed, other mortals enjoy life.
Page 185 - You have to proclaim glad tidings fresh as when they came from angels' lips, To you is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.