Spirituality-Religions
Ancient Religions
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The subject of these lectures is a branch of natural theology. By natural theology I understand that reasoned knowledge of a God or gods which man may be supposed, whether rightly or wrongly, capable of attaining to by the exercise of his natural faculties alone. Thus defined, the subject may be treated in at least three different ways, namely, dogmatically, philosophically, and historically. We may simply state the dogmas of natural theology which appear to us to be true: that is the dogmatic method.
Was Bel the original sacrificial savior or the prototype that Rome fashioned the church after?
A rare, short study of the Biblical apocryphal story of Daniel and the god Bel, and Daniel slaying a dragon.
The power of oil, the anointing oil, the magic of oil.... Oil was revered in early Semitic cultures.
Discover how much of your faith, your Christian or Jewish religion originated from the religion of Babylon.
How much influence did the Persian and Babylonian religions have on Judaism and its writers?
Originally in 3 Volumes- Now Published in One Book- The Persians (Parsee) were once the cradle of known civilization. Their religions influenced all of today's religions. Sometimes these ancient scriptures would find their way into religious writings and scriptures of other religions.
The word Atrahasis means "extra wise" and refers to the earliest known version of Noah, who built an ark and saved mankind from destruction. This is that story, from ancient Sumeria, which many scholars believe was the original from which all known flood stories came from. This was the most popular story in the ancient world and has survived for over five thousand years.
If America is to be saved, it is her women who will save her, for they can hold their own with any of their foreign sisters-they are quite wonderful !
THE little work, whose original title-page I reproduce exactly as printed in the middle of the seventeenth century, fairly deserves a place in hermeneutic, and therefore hermetic, literature.
After a long period of discredit and neglect, astrology is beginning to force itself once more on the attention of the learned world.
The dogmatic element of religion, which was anciently designated as Astrology, is now known as Theology. All the evidences bearing upon the subject indicate that the founders of the primary form of religion were a sect of philosophers, known as Magi, or wise men
THOUGH for the most part entirely unconscious of it, man passes the whole of his life in the midst of a vast and populous unseen world. During sleep or in trance, when the insistent physical senses are for the time in abeyance, this other world is to some extent open to him, and he will sometimes bring back from those conditions more or less vague memories of what he has seen and heard there.