An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druidsauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... Apuleius : and the Amour of Cupid and Psyche . Also : a Sketch of the Life and Doctrines of Pythagoras , the founder of the sect that bore his name : and the Doctrines and Customs of the Druids , the priests of the ancient Britons ...
... Apuleius : and the Amour of Cupid and Psyche . Also : a Sketch of the Life and Doctrines of Pythagoras , the founder of the sect that bore his name : and the Doctrines and Customs of the Druids , the priests of the ancient Britons ...
Page 107
... Apuleius describes the state of the mysteries even in his time : " There was an influx of a crowd of those who had been initiated in the sacred rites of the goddess , consisting of men and women of every degree and of every age ...
... Apuleius describes the state of the mysteries even in his time : " There was an influx of a crowd of those who had been initiated in the sacred rites of the goddess , consisting of men and women of every degree and of every age ...
Page 126
... Apuleius , the supernal and infernal gods pas- sed in review . To each of these they sung a hymn ; which Clemens calls the theology of images , or idols . amongst the works ascribed to Orpheus . then came the Aporreta , delivered in the ...
... Apuleius , the supernal and infernal gods pas- sed in review . To each of these they sung a hymn ; which Clemens calls the theology of images , or idols . amongst the works ascribed to Orpheus . then came the Aporreta , delivered in the ...
Page 136
... Apuleius , concludes the ennumeration of her various mystic rites , in these words " The Egyptians skilled in ancient learning , worship- ping me by ceremonies perefectly appropriate , call me by my true name ,. queen Isis : " But the ...
... Apuleius , concludes the ennumeration of her various mystic rites , in these words " The Egyptians skilled in ancient learning , worship- ping me by ceremonies perefectly appropriate , call me by my true name ,. queen Isis : " But the ...
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... Apuleius . The first of which will show us of what use the mysteries were esteemed to society ; and the second , of what use to religion . An inquiry into Eneas ' adventure to the shades , will have this farther advantage , the ...
... Apuleius . The first of which will show us of what use the mysteries were esteemed to society ; and the second , of what use to religion . An inquiry into Eneas ' adventure to the shades , will have this farther advantage , the ...
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Page 341 - And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them : And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 115 - Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Page 314 - And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, " For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Page 312 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 331 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 312 - THE earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place...
Page 314 - NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Page 174 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 340 - Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, (which is King of peace,) without father, without mother, without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life ; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually.
Page 326 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.