Download or read book The Belief in Immortality Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Simeon Spidle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Belief in Immortality, Vol. 5 The present writer makes no claim to having any special light to shed upon the age-long question of immortality. He is rather an inquirer than an illuminator. Having been for a number of years interested in this subject, there has grown up in his mind a desire to make somewhat of a first-hand study of it. Others have worked in this same field and have given us, from time to time, the results of their investigations. All this is necessary in order to know how the current of thought concerning the belief in an after life is tending. No one cross-section of the belief can tell us this. We need several such cross-sections in order to indicate the direction of its flow. If the study made in this paper shall in any small degree contribute to this end, the writer's purpose will be abundantly fulfilled. The subject will be treated under four general heads. First of all we shall attempt an analysis of the concept of immortality with a view to determining the different senses in which that concept is used. Next we shall outline the different theories which have been advanced to account for the origin of the belief. Then we shall make a brief survey of the grounds upon which the belief rests. And, finally, we shall give the results of our own empirical study regarding the present status of the belief. The numbers included in brackets refer to the corresponding numbers in the bibliography at the end. Where the letter p is prefixed to the number, the reference is to the page of the hook quoted. I. Types of Immortality Concepts. 1. Plasmic Immortality: No part of the furnishings of the human mind is endowed with greater plasticity than the concept of immortality. It is capable of being moulded into a great variety of forms. Not infrequently do we hear the word used with reference to the rejuvenating power of protoplasm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality Vol 1 written by James George Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Belief in Immortality, Vol. 1: And the Worship of the Dead The Fear and Worship of the Dead which I delivered in the Lent and Easter terms of 1911 at Trinity College, Cambridge, and repeated, with large additions, in my course at St. Andrews. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Personal Immortality Classic Reprint written by E. S. P. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Belief in Personal Immortality Yet I should never have been so absorbed in the subject but for the pain that it originally cost me to lose, first of all, the belief in personal immortality, and finally even the hope of it. I cannot help feeling that there is a very strong presumption against any kind of survival that implies individual continuity or reunion with those whose presence here diffused incomparable happiness while they still lived. But if such a conviction forces itself upon any of us, surely we had better face it and adjust our philosophy of life - and, indeed, our most practical activities in life - to the conviction. If death has, indeed, any dazzling surprise in store for us, we shall have lost nothing by trying to put human affairs a little more in order without relying on any future settlement of bad balances, after the example of Mr. Micawber; if, on the other hand, death ends our conscious individuality once and for all, a great deal of it will still survive for others, if not for ourselves, so long as we have acted on what we really thought to be true. Character is immeasurably fortified in the ordinary course of life by the elimination of irrational hopes and fears from our motives, and surely the question of belief in the supernatural is no exception to this rule. I have freely used the personal pronoun, as there may be many members of the Rationalist Press Association who disagree with my own views on this question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Can We Believe in Immortality Classic Reprint written by James H. Snowden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Can We Believe in Immortality? The literature on the subject of immortality is enor mous. The question of a future life is one of the oldest and most fundamental in the history of human thought and goes back to the beginning. One of the most ancient books in existence is the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and one of the oldest books in the Bible, Job, deals with this problem. All the bibles and litera tures of the world are full of it. The library shelves loaded with these books run back through the centuries and are lost in the mists of antiquity. William R. Alger's work entitled The Critical History of the Doc trine of a Future Life has appended to it Ezra Abbot's well-known bibilography of the literature of this sub j ect and it contains nearly five thousand titles in eleven languages; and if it were brought up to date there would doubtless be added to it a thousand titles more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1857 Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1833 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1857, Vol. 5 Correlation of the Triassic Rocks in the Vale of Worcester, and at the Malvern Tunnel. By the Rev. W. S symonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Personal Immortality written by Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter ii egypt, greece, and rome Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia csecis In tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus Interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam Quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntuque futura. Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura," lib. ii., 11. 55-58. The Egyptian conception of immortality is probably as old as 4000 B.C., and at least 3000 B.C. The doctrine was combined with most rudimentary ideas of God, and was not wholly consistent with itself. The main idea of the Egyptian was to go on as long as possible; he would have liked to attain the age of no, and he disliked the idea of stopping. His ideas of the hereafter were extremely complicated, but they have been very clearly summarised by Dr. Wiedemann in his book, The Doctrine of Immortality in A ncient Egypt. There are six immortal elements, which are only reunited in the case of the righteous. These are: (1) The Ka, the divine counterpart of the man which corresponds to the memory-image; this could live without the body; but the body could not live without the Ka, and it required feeding. The Ka sometimes visited the mummy, when it was supposed to grow; but it had an independent existence, and did not meet the man again till the last judgment. (2) The Ab, or heart, which was immortal. The heart was removed from the body by thei embalmers, and consequently the mummy had to be given an artificial heart, which was usually a scarab made in hard, greenish stone, fashioned in the image of the beetle, which was the symbol of resurrection. The heart also journeyed from the regions of the other world till it met the dead man in the Hall of Judgment. (3) The Ba was the soul, and is represented as a human-headed bird. It flew to the gods after death, but was supposed to come back to see the mummy...
Download or read book Modern Belief in Immortality Classic Reprint written by Newman Smyth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Belief in Immortality This little book had its origin in a lecture which was given on the Drew foundation at Hackney Col lege of the University of London. It has since been recast and enlarged in order that in this form it may reach the general public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Immortality written by Canon Knox-Little and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Immortality: A Clerical Symposium on What Are the Foundations of the Belief in the Immortality of Man Discussed in the hereafter form a companion volume to this. In America the volumes on Atonement Inspiration have been received with great favour, and an edition of this Symposium has already been ordered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Immortality written by William Newton Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Immortality: A Study of Belief and Earlier Addresses It is thirty years ago this spring since Dr. Clarke preached his first sermon in the old historic church at Hamilton, New York, where I was then a student. The words with which he began his ministry were, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all," and for three years, Sunday after Sunday, he laid upon us the peace and benediction of his spirit. We were not aware that one of the foremost religious thinkers of our time was offering us the ripest fruits of his experience and meditation. The books that were to affect so powerfully the thought of our day were not yet written; but we knew, those of us, at least, who had ears to hear, that we were in the presence of a teacher who spoke to our minds and hearts as no teacher had ever done. "A word spoken in due season, how good it is!" was one of his texts, and a characteristic one. All his words were in season, for they were all charged with reality and sincerity, and they all "found" us. It seems, as one looks back upon it, as if a better type of preaching for college men could hardly be imagined, and I rejoice to remember that it seemed so then. While the sermon was going forward, one had no time to think of the method, so absorbing was the development of the theme, so moving the quiet application of it; but when it was over, one had leisure to reflect upon the marvelous simplicity of manner, the faultless adequacy of phrase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Evidence of Immortality written by Jerome A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immortality Classic Reprint written by William Henry Lyon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Immortality The mount of vision whence heaven is to be seen has, so to speak, four sides. There are four essentials to a right belief in the hereafter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality A Dissertation Reprinted from the Journal of Religious Psychology Vol 5 written by Simeon SPIDLE and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian Doctrine of Immortality Classic Reprint written by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Doctrine of Immortality In preparing this new edition, therefore, I have had the advantage of comparing the conclusions to which I had been led with those advocated by others who have written more recently on these important questions. I have also had the benefit of further criticisms by scholars familiar with the subject, among which mention should be made Of the articles contributed by Professor C. Bruston to the Revue de Theologie et des Questions religiouses in May and September of last year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality written by A. Elley Finch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Belief in Immortality: Its Physiological Origin; Its Theological Development; Its Scientific Decline; Its Practical Effect on the Well-Being of Human Lifey The Theology of death (formulated prior to the attainment of such knowledge) has been superseded by the Physiology of death (formulated on the basis of such knowledge). Death in the contemplation of theology a penalty, and only a partial termination of human existence. Theological development of the doctrine of Immortality, with illustrations from The Imitation of Christ, ' Law's Serious Call, ' - and the Burial Service in 'the Book of Common Prayer.' The belief in a life after death has arisen from the constant occurrence of premature death, and the mental faculties being, on the approach of such death, in vigour and activity, hence still desiring continued life, and expecting a future existence. Illustrations from Plato's account of the thoughts of Socrates under sentence of death; Shakspere's soliloquy of Hamlet contemplating suicide; Addison's description of the reflections of Cato about to commit self-destruction; Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress composed in apprehension of premature death in Bedford jail. Premature deaths in general a direct consequence of N ature's law of over-production of life, discovered by the Geologists, and, as regards human life, by Malthus and Darwin, showing that more human beings are recklessly brought into existence than can possibly live to attain to death through organic decay; thevast majority of actual deaths being life cut short by various diseases ('nature's terrible correctives of redundancy occasioned by poverty and privation, overcrowding, intemperance, vice, and breeding from the unfit. Human intelligence a true Sanitary Science) ought so to regulate the multiplication of man as to stamp out premature deaths, with all their attendant diseases, superstition, and misery. Probability that on the decline of premature deaths the belief in immortality, or the expectation of any future life, would also decline. Illustrations from the Life of George Combe, - the Autobiographies of Charles Bray and Harriet Martineau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles Classic Reprint written by Joseph B. Gross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles According to orthodox creeds and a commonly entertained prejudice, the vastly greater part Of mankind, have never been blessed with what is technically termed a Revelation, and it is, hence, generally believed that the heathensfiz the peoples who are unprovided with a supernatural revela tion, can know nothing that is reliable Of a future life, and that, accordingly, they must either pine in dreary hopelessness, or. Fret In blank despair! Such - I am bold to say, is far from being the case. For the heathens possess a source Of knowledge inherent in human nature, Which - In a manner Similar to the revelation claimed for the Bible, isdesigned at once to guide our present, and to foreshadow: if not actually demonstrate, our future life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Immortality Key written by Brian C. Muraresku and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations. The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since the Stone Age? There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and its miraculous contents have never been found. In the absence of any hard data, whatever happened at the Last Supper remains an article of faith for today’s 2.5 billion Christians. In an unprecedented search for answers, The Immortality Key examines the archaic roots of the ritual that is performed every Sunday for nearly one third of the planet. Religion and science converge to paint a radical picture of Christianity’s founding event. And after centuries of debate, to solve history’s greatest puzzle. Before the birth of Jesus, the Ancient Greeks found salvation in their own sacraments. Sacred beverages were routinely consumed as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries – elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death. The best and brightest from Athens and Rome flocked to the spiritual capital of Eleusis, where a holy beer unleashed heavenly visions for two thousand years. Others drank the holy wine of Dionysus to become one with the god. In the 1970s, renegade scholars claimed this beer and wine – the original sacraments of Western civilization – were spiked with mind-altering drugs. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogenic drinks in antiquity. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. But the smoking gun remains elusive. If these sacraments survived for thousands of years in our remote prehistory, from the Stone Age to the Ancient Greeks, did they also survive into the age of Jesus? Was the Eucharist of the earliest Christians, in fact, a psychedelic Eucharist? With an unquenchable thirst for evidence, Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof. He tours the ruins of Greece with its government archaeologists. He gains access to the hidden collections of the Louvre to show the continuity from pagan to Christian wine. He unravels the Ancient Greek of the New Testament with the world’s most controversial priest. He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianity’s oldest monuments. He breaches the secret archives of the Vatican to unearth manuscripts never before translated into English. And with leads from the archaeological chemists at UPenn and MIT, he unveils the first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs in classical antiquity. The Immortality Key reconstructs the suppressed history of women consecrating a forbidden, drugged Eucharist that was later banned by the Church Fathers. Women who were then targeted as witches during the Inquisition, when Europe’s sacred pharmacology largely disappeared. If the scientists of today have resurrected this technology, then Christianity is in crisis. Unless it returns to its roots. Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the NYT bestselling author of America Before.
