An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druidsauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... means of an atlas . ” “ They were , says Bailey , very famous among men , because they intimate the season of the year . " The Blazing Star is Anubis , the Dog - star ; whose rising forewarned the Egyptians of the approach of the ...
... means of an atlas . ” “ They were , says Bailey , very famous among men , because they intimate the season of the year . " The Blazing Star is Anubis , the Dog - star ; whose rising forewarned the Egyptians of the approach of the ...
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... means , therefore , of avoiding this evil , and of wiping away the stain at present attached to the society , is a total abandonment of the oaths . * However desirable this may be to many of the brethren , it is " At the very threshhold ...
... means , therefore , of avoiding this evil , and of wiping away the stain at present attached to the society , is a total abandonment of the oaths . * However desirable this may be to many of the brethren , it is " At the very threshhold ...
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... means more short for learning languages . Fourth , Concorde de la Geographie des differens ages ; Paris , 1764 , in 12mo . Plan of the Work . I FIND myself under the necessity of oversetting , or unravelling , fables , in order to ...
... means more short for learning languages . Fourth , Concorde de la Geographie des differens ages ; Paris , 1764 , in 12mo . Plan of the Work . I FIND myself under the necessity of oversetting , or unravelling , fables , in order to ...
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... means of knowing exactly the time when it should be necessary for them to be prepared for the inundation . The flowing of the river beyond its banks happened some days sooner or later , when the sun was under the stars of the lion ...
... means of knowing exactly the time when it should be necessary for them to be prepared for the inundation . The flowing of the river beyond its banks happened some days sooner or later , when the sun was under the stars of the lion ...
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... mean of God , of the Sun , and of a dead man , which the Egyptians perpetually con- founded together . " The cause of their thus confounding them is easily accounted for , when the sup- posed death of Osiris , the sun , and God of the ...
... mean of God , of the Sun , and of a dead man , which the Egyptians perpetually con- founded together . " The cause of their thus confounding them is easily accounted for , when the sup- posed death of Osiris , the sun , and God of 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 41 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
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 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 312 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 327 - Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Page 208 - Enter ye in at the straight gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because, straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 312 - The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
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.