Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale, Volume 2C. & W. Galabin, 1800 - India |
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... Divine rites were first celebrated , and the fublime pre- cepts of philofophy first taught , in the facred folitude of GROVES and CAVERNS -the caverns of Salfette and Elephanta , undoubtedly stupendous fubterraneous tem- ples of the ...
... Divine rites were first celebrated , and the fublime pre- cepts of philofophy first taught , in the facred folitude of GROVES and CAVERNS -the caverns of Salfette and Elephanta , undoubtedly stupendous fubterraneous tem- ples of the ...
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... divine abforption .. The doctrine of degenerate fpirits migrating through various BOOBUNS , or fphères , and through animal bodies , to be traced to fome corrupted tradition of the fallen angels - The ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES of Greece , as ...
... divine abforption .. The doctrine of degenerate fpirits migrating through various BOOBUNS , or fphères , and through animal bodies , to be traced to fome corrupted tradition of the fallen angels - The ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES of Greece , as ...
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... DIVINE EMANATIONS adduced in proof of this affertion that doctrine , the probable fource of all idolatry , fince it was God himself that was first adored in the SUN , the FIRE , and other ele- ments - remains of this purer primitive ...
... DIVINE EMANATIONS adduced in proof of this affertion that doctrine , the probable fource of all idolatry , fince it was God himself that was first adored in the SUN , the FIRE , and other ele- ments - remains of this purer primitive ...
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... DIVINE ATTRIBUTES of the MIMRA , or LOGOS , and the RUACH HAKKODESH , or HOLY SPIRIT , as plainly to evince a TRINITY of divine HYPOSTASES fubfifting in the Godhead . The preceding quota- tions illuftrated , in regard to the OLD ...
... DIVINE ATTRIBUTES of the MIMRA , or LOGOS , and the RUACH HAKKODESH , or HOLY SPIRIT , as plainly to evince a TRINITY of divine HYPOSTASES fubfifting in the Godhead . The preceding quota- tions illuftrated , in regard to the OLD ...
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... DIVINE ESSENCE Compared , by thofe Rabbies , to the three collateral branches of the Hebrew letter SCHIN . The letter therefore confpi- cuously engraved on the ancient PHYLACTERY , which the Jews , according to the divine command , wore ...
... DIVINE ESSENCE Compared , by thofe Rabbies , to the three collateral branches of the Hebrew letter SCHIN . The letter therefore confpi- cuously engraved on the ancient PHYLACTERY , which the Jews , according to the divine command , wore ...
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adored adorned affertion Afia Afiatic Reſearches aftoniſhing aftronomical alfo alſo ancient antiquity Ayeen Akbery becauſe Brahma Brahmins caverns celebrated circumſtance confecrated dæmon defcended defcribed deity deſcription divine doctrine Egypt Egyptian Elephanta emblem engraving eſtabliſhed facred facrifice faid fame fays fculptured fecond feems feet ferpent feven fhall fhould figures fimilar fince fire firſt folar fome foul ftatue ftill ftone ftupendous fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbols Geeta Greece Heetopades Herodotus hieroglyphics hiftory himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos Holwell India Indian caverns inveſtigation itſelf lefs legiſlator Mithra moft moſt muſt myftic myſteries obfcure obferved Ofiris paffage pagoda Perfian philofophers poffibly Porphyry practifed prefent prieſts purpoſe reader receffes refidence refpect religion repreſented rites Sabian Salfette Sanfcreet ſcience Scythians Seeva ſhall Sir William Jones ſphere ſtate ſtatues ſtill ſtone Strabo ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe tion univerfally uſed vafes Vedas veneration whofe whoſe worſhip Zoroafter