The Higher AgnosticismGreening & Company, Limited, 1907 - 187 pages |
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absurd actually agnostic Apostles appears astral believe bishop born called centuries Christ Christian Church Clement of Alexandria condemned course creed cubic centimetre Decalogue deny Divine doctrine Elias Elijah Elizabeth Fry existence experience fact Father filial piety force Greek alphabet Hebrews Higher Agnosticism hitherto Holy honour human idea instance Israelites Jahveh Jerusalem Jesus Jews John the Baptist Karma keep Kingdom Lord materialistic matter meaning ment mental metropolis moral Moses Mount Moriah murder Mystery nature never occult pagan persons phenomena physical Pistis Sophia plane Pontius Pilate Pope possible present question radium reality recognised regarded Reincarnation religion religious reply Roman Rome Sabbath scientific sense seventh day simply soul space speak spirit standard of orthodoxy substance Sunday suppose teaching telepathy tells Ten Commandments theory Theosophical Theosophist things Thou shalt thought tion to-day true truth universe unto wonder words worship
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Page 68 - ... Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes ! 2 The King himself comes near, And feasts his saints to-day ; Here we may sit, and see him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day, amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 101 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Page 103 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ...
Page 102 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
Page 8 - Wherefore it will become you to run together according to the will of your bishop, as also ye do. For your famous presbytery (worthy of God) is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the. strings are to the harp.
Page 37 - They would come from the east and the west, the north and the south...
Page 95 - But without a parable spake he not unto them : and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Page 103 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called : 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Page 102 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 128 - And when I perceived that ye did not understand those things which I spake to you concerning the Soul of Elias, as bound in John the Baptist, I then answered openly and face to face: " If ye will receive it, John the Baptist is that Elias, who," I said,