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.Inman, Thomas
Religion
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.
Inman, Thomas
Religions
Angels carry various
matters. Angels of marriage. Angels for heirs of salvation.
Etruscan angel of marriage. Jewish match-maker. Raphael.
Description of an Etruscan painting in tomb of Tarquin. The
angel of death. The Greek theology. The Greeks taught the
Jews. The Jews never taught other nations. Greeks had a
supreme god and a host of inferior deities. War in heaven.
Titans--giants. Children of the sons of God and daughters of
men. Greek origin of Christian and Miltonian angelic
mythology. The begotten Son of God (Hercules born to Jupiter
by Alcmena). Restores the kingdom to his father. Greek ideas
of demons. Hebrew and Christian ideas of good and bad
spirits. The recording angel. Demigods and archangels. Greek
deities not winged except Mercury. Some minor gods have
pinions.--Pegasus has wings. Hymen, the angel of the
covenant of marriage. Genius loci and cherubim. Alcmena and
Mary. Jupiter and "the power of the Highest" Roman
mythology. Romans adopted the Etruscan form of angels.
Christians adopted it from Romans. The Christian crozier is
the Etruscan and Roman _lituus_, or "divining staff." Rome
and London both avid of religious novelty. Instability in
religion a proof of infidelity in the old. Hence a desire
for infallibility, to crush doubt. Angelic mythology of the
Bible. Christians use words in parrot fashion. Words ought
not to stand for ideas. Prayer-cylinder in Thibet.
Contradictions. Figures and metaphors are theologian cities
of refuge. Prophet who says that he converses with an angel-
-is he to be credited? A spirit without flesh and bones,
cannot move his tongue to utter words. Drunkards see "blue
devils"--they are unreal If the appearance of a man in a
dream is an illusion, his words are so too. Absurd ideas
about phantoms. Notice of the deeds of a few Hebrew angels.
A resume of their history. Inspiration did not reveal
angels. Human fancy did. Conspiracy in Heaven! The Genesis
of Hell. What sort of a place it is supposed to be. God made
the Devil, so man must multiply his imps! Lucifer taught
Elohim! Old Testament less knowing than the New. The Devil
not a fallen angel. The book of Enoch. Deductions drawn.
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