Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

I.

Icelanders converted to Christianity, 394. 
Incarnation, the fundamental doctrine of Christianity, 28. 
India, always a land of mystery, 81.
  " overrun by conquerors, 81. 
Infinite and finite elements in Brahmanism and Christianity, 137. 
Injustice done to ethnic religions, 4. 
Inspiration, its origin in the intuitive faculty, 439. 
Isis and Osiris, their legend, from Plutarch, 244.
  " " " explanations of their myth, 246.
  " " " identified with the first and second order, 248.

J.

Janus, one of the oldest of Roman gods, 322.
  " presided over beginnings and endings, 322.
  " invoked before other gods, 322.
  " his temple open in war, closed in peace, 322.
  " believed by Creuzer to have an Indian origin, 323.
  " has his chief feast in January, 323.
  " a Sabine god on Mount Janiculum, 323. 
Jews, a Semitic race, 399. 
Job, its grandeur of thought and expression, 438. 
Jones, Sir William, his life and works, 78.
  " progress since his time, 80. 
Judaism, a preparation for Christianity, 444.
  " monotheistic after the captivity, 444.
  " influenced by Greek philosophy, 444.
  " its process of development, 445.
  " at first childlike and narrow, 446.
  " the seed of Christianity, 446. 
Juno, queen of heaven, and female Jupiter, 324.
  " goddess of womanhood, 324.
  " her chief feast the Matronalia in March, 324.
  " her month of June favorable for wedlock, 325. 
Jupiter, derived his name from the Sanskrit, 324.
  " had many temples in Rome, 324.
  " god of the weather, of storm, of lightning, 324.

K.

“Kings,” Chinese, names and number, 47.
  " teach a personal God, 57.
  " republished by Confucius, 47.

L.

Language of Ancient Egypt, 236. 
Lao-tse, founder of Tao-ism, 50, 52.
  " called a dragon by Confucius, 51.
  " three forms of his doctrine, 54. 
Lares, gods of home, 328. 
Loki, the god of cunning, 381. 
Lower Egypt, gods worshipped in, 248. 
Lucretius, his view of religion, 343. 
Luna, the moon, a Sabine deity, 327. 
Lustrations, or great acts of atonement, 338.

M.

Magna Mater, a foreign worship at Rome, 330. 
Maine, his work on ancient law quoted, 351. 
Mann, laws of, when written, 100.
  " account of Creation, 101.
  " dignity of the Brahmans, 103.
  " importance of the Gayatari, 104.
  " account of the twice-born man, 105.
  " description of ascetic duties, 106.
  " the anchorite described, 107.

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