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          id: 1397
      author: Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)
       title: The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
        date: None
       words: 98261
      flesch: 60
     summary: The Ethiopians conceive themselves, says he, lib. iii., to be of greater antiquity than any other nation: and it is probable that, born under the sun's path, its warmth may have ripened them earlier than other men. But to support the pride of your distinctions of origin and castes, prove to us in the first place that you are different from other men; establish, in the next place, as historical facts, the allegories which you relate; show us, indeed, that you are the authors of all this doctrine; for we will demonstrate, if necessary, that you have only stolen and disfigured it; that you are only the imitators of the ancient paganism of the West; to which, by an ill assorted mixture, you have allied the pure and spiritual doctrine of our gods--a doctrine totally detached from the senses, and entirely unknown on earth till Beddou taught it to the nations.
    keywords: action; beings; body; causes; chapter; country; day; doctrine; earth; evil; existence; form; general; genius; god; gods; good; hand; happiness; heart; heaven; history; ideas; ignorance; justice; knowledge; law; laws; life; love; man; means; men; mind; multitude; nations; nature; new; opinions; order; origin; passions; people; physical; place; power; present; priests; principle; public; race; reason; religion; right; science; society; soul; spirit; stars; state; sun; system; things; time; truth; universe; virtue; words; work; world; worship; years; yes
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 20137
      author: Scholten, Johannes Henricus
       title: A Comparative View of Religions
        date: None
       words: 10640
      flesch: 61
     summary: In distinction from other religions, in which either God and man are strangers to each other, and opposed to each other, or man's personality is, as it were, sunk in God, Christianity is the religion by which man, in the full enjoyment of individual development, and with the sense of his own strength, lives in the consciousness of the most entire dependence upon God. In the highest stage of religious development, the most entire feeling of dependence is united in religion with the strongest consciousness of personal independence.
    keywords: brahma; development; divine; doctrine; footnote; form; god; human; israel; life; man; nature; people; power; religion; spirit; world; worship
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 22213
      author: Cumont, Franz Valery Marie
       title: The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
        date: None
       words: 94619
      flesch: 65
     summary: Cf. _infra_, n. 59. Cf. _infra_, n. 59.
    keywords: alexandrian; asia; astrology; attis; barbarian; beginning; beliefs; century; ceremonies; chaldean; character; christianity; church; cil; cit; city; clergy; col; conception; country; cult; cybele; day; death; der; des; die; divinities; divinity; doctrines; earth; egyptian; empire; end; existence; fact; faith; form; für; goddess; gods; greece; greek; heaven; history; human; ideas; iii; immortality; influence; infra; inscr; inscription; instance; isis; italy; jupiter; kai; knowledge; latin; law; life; loc; magic; matter; means; men; minor; mithra; mon; mother; mysteries; nature; number; occident; order; oriental; origin; osiris; paganism; people; period; persian; place; power; priests; principles; religion; rev; rites; ritual; roman; rome; science; semitic; serapis; soul; spirit; spread; stars; state; subject; sun; supra; syria; system; temple; theology; thought; time; traditions; und; viii; way; wissowa; world; worship
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 29893
      author: Menzies, Allan
       title: History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems
        date: None
       words: 148169
      flesch: 65
     summary: On the question of the specific character of Semitic as distinguished from other religions, it is one of our principal authorities. Breach with Judaism and Christianity.--As Mahomet thus freed himself, in spreading the faith of the most merciful God, from all considerations of mercy and of honour, he also shook off, as his position grew strong, relations which might have proved embarrassing with other religions.
    keywords: animals; aryan; beings; belief; books; case; chapter; character; china; christianity; civilisation; country; death; deities; deity; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; egypt; egyptian; faith; family; footnote; form; god; gods; good; greece; greek; growth; hand; heaven; history; human; hymns; ideas; india; individual; israel; jehovah; life; living; man; men; mind; national; nature; new; objects; order; origin; people; period; place; position; power; present; race; religion; religious; roman; sacred; sacrifice; savage; semitic; set; spirit; stage; state religion; sun; system; things; thought; time; tribes; view; way; work; world; worship; worshipped
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 31608
      author: Saltus, Edgar
       title: The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal
        date: None
       words: 27975
      flesch: 76
     summary: In _Matthew_, Jesus is depicted as a glutton and a wine-bibber. I am come to set a man against his father, it is written in _Matthew_.
    keywords: bel; brahm; day; dead; death; divine; earth; egypt; evil; footnote; gods; gotama; heaven; holy; human; ideal; israel; jahveh; jesus; land; law; life; light; lord; man; men; ormuzd; people; philosophy; poetry; religion; rome; sky; son; soul; sun; things; time; world; zeus
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 38100
      author: Inman, Thomas
       title: Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist.
        date: None
       words: 166712
      flesch: 62
     summary: In a parable, which was evidently intended to represent what was common enough in his day, he says, Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican; the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself--God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, &c (Luke xviii. Like the Pharisee, Christians boast that they are not as other men are; but by their proceedings they show that they are like the Jews, of whose paternity Jesus had not an exalted opinion.
    keywords: account; ancient; angels; belief; believe; bible; body; book; buddha; buddhist; christian; christianity; church; common; day; days; death; devil; disciples; divine; doctrine; doubt; earth; evidence; example; existence; fact; faith; father; followers; following; form; future; god; gods; good; greeks; hand; heaven; hebrew; hell; history; human; idea; india; individuals; jehovah; jesus; jewish; jews; john; king; knowledge; law; laws; life; like; lord; love; man; manner; mary; matter; means; men; mind; modern; moses; mother; nature; new; people; period; place; point; power; prayer; present; priests; question; reason; religion; right; sakya; second; siddartha; sin; son; spirit; state; subject; sun; taught; teaching; things; think; thought; time; truth; value; way; woman; words; world; written; years
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