The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons - The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by Henry Steel Olcott
Excerpt:
The thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race, has one fact continually forced upon his notice, viz., that there is an invariable tendency to deify whomsoever shows himself superior to the weakness of our common humanity. Look where we will, we find the saint-like man exalted into a divine personage and worshipped for a god. Though perhaps misunderstood, reviled and even persecuted while living, the apotheosis is almost sure to come after death: and the victim of yesterday's mob, raised to the state of an Intercessor in Heaven, is besought with prayer and tears, and placatory penances, to mediate with God for the pardon of human sin. This is a mean and vile trait of human nature, the proof of ignorance, selfishness, brutal cowardice, and a superstitious materialism. It shows the base instinct to put down and destroy whatever or whoever makes men feel their own imperfections; with the alternative of ignoring and denying these very imperfections by turning into gods men who have merely spiritualised[2] their natures, so that it may be supposed that they were heavenly incarnations and not mortal like other men.
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A Treatise on Good Works A Treatise on Good Works
by Martin Luther
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The Occasion of the Work. -- Luther did not impose himself as reformer upon the Church
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Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success
by Frank C. Haddock
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This books explains the art of success magnetism
Relativity: The Special and Ganeral Theory Relativity: The Special and Ganeral Theory
by Albert Einstein
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Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity
Part II: The General Theory of Relativity
Part III: Considerations on the Universe as a Whole
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How to become like Christ How to become like Christ
by Marcus Dods
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"But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
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Sermons to the Natural Man Sermons to the Natural Man - Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. Shedd
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It is with a solemn feeling of responsibility that I send forth this volume of Sermons
The Cell of Self-Knowledge The Cell of Self-Knowledge
by Henry Pepwell
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FROM the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century may be called the golden age of mystical literature in the
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The Symbolism of Freemasonry The Symbolism of Freemasonry - The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G.Mackey
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Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols