This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...24th: "Other Brahmans in"cessantly perform those sacrifices only; seeing with "the eye of divine learning, that the scriptural know"ledge is the root of every ceremonial observance." And also the same author declares in the chap. 2d, text 84: "All rites ordained in the Veda, oblations to "fire and solemn ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...24th: "Other Brahmans in"cessantly perform those sacrifices only; seeing with "the eye of divine learning, that the scriptural know"ledge is the root of every ceremonial observance." And also the same author declares in the chap. 2d, text 84: "All rites ordained in the Veda, oblations to "fire and solemn sacrifices, pass away; but that which "passes not away is declared to be the syllable Om, "thence called Acshora; since it is a symbol of God, "the Lord of created beings." 5thly. The learned gentleman states, that "the "difficulty of attaining a knowledge of the Invisible "and Almighty Spirit is evident from the preceding "verses." I agree with him in that point; that the attainment of perfect knowledge of the nature of the Godhead is certainly difficult, or rather impossible; but to read the existence of the Almighty Being in his works of nature, is not, I will dare to say, so difficult to the mind of a man possessed of common sense, and unfettered by prejudice, as to conceive artificial images to be possessed, at once, of the opposite natures of human and divine beings, which idolaters constantly ascribe to their idols;--strangely believing that things so constructed can be converted by ceremonies into constructors of the universe. 6thly. The learned gentleman objects to our introducing songs, although expressing only the peculiar tenets of monotheism, and says: "But the holding of meetings, playing music, singing "songs, and dancing, which are ranked among car"nal pleasures, are not ordained by scripture as "mental purification." The practice of dancing in divine worship, I agree, is not ordained by the scripture, and accordingly never was...
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