Demonology and Devil-Lore
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ISBN13: 9780217464727
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: L 15 U A ]( V UN IV K I SI TV F ': DEMONOLATRY. CHAPTER I. DUALISM. Origin of Deism?Evolution from the far to the near?Illustrations from witchcraft ? The primitive Pantheism ? The dawn of Dualism. A COLLEGE in the State of Ohio has adopted for its motto the words ' Orient thyself.' This significant admonition to Western youth represents one condition of attaining truth in the science of mythology. Through neglect of it the glowing personifications and metaphors of the East have too generally migrated to the West only to find it a Medusa turning them to stone. Our prosaic literalism changes their ideals to idols. The time has come when we must learn rather to see ourselves in them: out of an age and civilisation where we live in habitual recognition of natural forces we may transport ourselves to a period and region where no sophisticated eye looks upon nature. The sun is a chariot drawn by shining steeds and driven by a refulgent deity; the stars ascend and move by arbitrary power or command; the tree is the bower of a spirit; the fountain leaps from the urn of a naiad. In such gay costumes did the laws of nature hold VOL. I. A 2 CELESTIAL PHENOMENA. their carnival until Science struck the hour for unmasking. .The. costumes and masks have with us become materials for-.studying: t)ri history of the human mind, but to know them Ape-rmtst translate our senses back into that phase of bur Own 'early exis'tehce, so far as is consistent with carrying our culture with us. Without conceding too much to Solar mythology, it may be pronounced tolerably clear that the earliest emotion of worship was born out of the wonder with which man looked up to the heavens above him. The splendours of the morning and evening; the azure vault, painted with frescoes of cloud o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217464727 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217464726 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $21.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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