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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: NOTES ON BOOK SECOND. A Tern pit stood against the cavern tide.?P. 62. The inaiiniT how the Teraphim were made is fondly conceited thus among the Rabbles. They killed a man that was a first-horn Sod, and wrung off his head, and seasoned it with salt and spices, and wrote, upon a plate of gold, the name of an unclean spirit, and put it under the head upon a wall, and lighted candles before it, and worshipped it.?Godtcyn's Moses and Aaron. By Rabbi Ekazar, it is said to be the head of a child. But Eblis, fyc.?P. 67. The Devil, whom Mahommed names Eblis, from bis despair, was once one of those angels who are nearest to God's presence, called Azazil; and fell (according to the doctrine of the Koran), for refusing to pay homage to Adam at the command of God.?Koran, ch. 2. 7. 15. God created the hody of Adam of Saltal, that is, of dry but unhaked clay; and left it forty nights, or, according to others, forty years, lying without a soul; and the Devil came to it, and kicked it, and it sounded. And God breathed into it a soul with his breath, sending it in at his eyes; and he himself saw his nose still dead clay, andhe soul running through him, till it reached his feet, when he stood upright.?lUaracci. In the Nuremberg Chronicle is a print of the creation of;Vi ;iiu; the hody is half made, growing out of a heap of clay under the Creator's hands. A still more absurd print represents Eve half way out of his side. The fullest Mahommedan Genesis is to be found in Ra- hadan the Morisco's Pnem. God, designing to make known to his whole choir of Angels, high and low, his scheme concerning the Creation, called the Arch-angel Gabritl, and delivering to him a pen and paper, commanded him to draw out an instrument of fealty and homage; in which, as God had dictated to h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217884105 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217884105 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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