Studies in Comparative ReligionCharles H. Kelly, 1898 - 312 pàgines |
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Pàgina 241 - Who is he that can plead with Him but by His own permission ? He knoweth that which is past, and that which is to come unto them, and they shall not comprehend anything of His knowledge but so far as he pleaseth. His throne is extended over heaven and earth, and the upholding...
Pàgina 64 - I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger.
Pàgina 103 - He taught' them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge.
Pàgina 241 - God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star...
Pàgina 89 - Moon-god that he might be porter of the night, and ordained for him the ending of the night that the day may be known, (saying :) " Month by month, without break, keep watch in thy disk. At the beginning of the month light up the night, announcing thy horns that the heaven may know.
Pàgina 64 - CHAPTER CV. Chapter whereby one propitiateth the Ka. Hail to thee, my Ka, my coeval. May I come to thee and be glorified and made manifest and ensouled, let me have Strength and soundness. Let me bring to thee grains of incense wherewith I may purify myself and may also purify thine own overflow. The wrong assertions that I have uttered, and the wrong resistance which I have offered : let them not be imputed to me. For I am the green gem, fresh at the throat of Ra, given by those who are at the Horizon:...
Pàgina 98 - Fair winds to be with thy life will I appoint. My mouth, speaking that which is good, shall cause thy prayer to be heard in the Assembly of the great Gods.
Pàgina 91 - I sent forth a raven and it left. The raven went, and the decrease of the water it saw, and it did eat; it swam, and wandered away, and did not return. I sent the animals forth to the four winds ; I poured out a libation ; I built an altar on the peak of the mountain.
Pàgina 6 - ... qui autem omnia quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, <hi>* sunt dicti religiosi ex relegendo, ut elegantes ex eligendo ex diligendo diligentes ex intellegendo intellegentes ; his enim in verbis omnibus inest vis legendi eadem quae in religioso.
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