Pagan & Christian Creeds: Their Origin and MeaningHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 319 pages This collection of essays was Carpenter's attempt to make an objective comparison between the origins and practices of pagan religions and Christianity. |
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ancient animals anthropomorphic Attis Augeas Aztecs become belief birth blood body born Bull called celebrated centuries ceremonies chapter Christ Christian Church connection consciousness constellation course creatures creeds cults Cybele dance death Dionysus divine doctrine doubt early earth Egyptian Eucharist evolution fact fear festival Gilbert Murray Gnostic gods Golden Bough Gospel Greek heaven holy human human evolution idea imagine initiation inner instinct Isis J. G. Frazer Jesus kind Lamb later legends lingam magic mankind means mind Mithra Mithraism modern morality mysteries myth nature origin Osiris pagan perceive perhaps period priests primitive race religion religious resurrection rites ritual sacred sacrifice salvation savage Saviour self-consciousness sense similar soul Spirit stage Sungod supposed symbol taboos Temple Themis things thought tion to-day totem tree tribal tribe unity Upanishads Vernal Equinox victim Virgin whole word worship Zodiac
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Page 166 - Shaped by himself with newly -learned art ; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song : Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife : But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside. And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 237 - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance : that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 187 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last? is he not too base?
Page 172 - Go, and lie in wait in the vineyards; 21 And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Page 119 - None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost ; I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to this Child that thing which by nature he cannot have ; that he may be baptized with Water and the holy Ghost...
Page 278 - In the last analysis magic, religion, and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena - of registering the shadows on the screen — of which we in this generation can form no idea.
Page 119 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 121 - O MERCIFUL God, grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.
Page 133 - If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Page 219 - His law ; and depart from wrath, and hate lying, that the Lord may dwell among you, and Beliar may flee from you.