Publications, Issue 61, Volume 1Royal Asiatic Society, 1843 |
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Abád abode according Ahriman Almighty ancient angels animals appears Arabic Asiatic attained Avesta Azar Bahman Bahram Balkh beheld body Calcutta called celebrated celestial chapter Christian command creatures creed Dabistán death demons Desátir divine doctrine Dustúr dynasty earth eternal Eugène Burnouf evil existence Farhad Farzanah father fire followers GATE Gushtasp heart heaven Hejirah hell Hindus holy human Hyde India Iran Isfendiar Kaiván king king's language light Lord Mahabad Mahabadian mankind manner manuscript Mazdak mentioned Mobed Mohsan Fani month Muhammed Muhammedans Muselmans never Nosk original Ormuzd paradise Parsees Parsi perfect Persian person philosophers planets prayer princes prophet pure faith recited reign relates religion religious sacred sage says sect Shah-namah signifies Silvestre de Sacy sir William Jones soul sovereign spirit stars Sufis Surúsh temple thee things thou throne tion transl translation Vendidad whilst words Yasht Zand Zardusht Zend-Avesta Zohak Zoroaster
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Page clix - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page clix - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page clix - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes!
Page 104 - Thou art but an atom, He, the great whole; but if for a few days Thou meditate with care on the whole, thou becomest one with it." They hold that reunion with the first principle, which the Sufees interpret by evanescence and permanence, means not, according to the distinguished Ishrakian or Platonists of Persia, that the beings of accident or creation are blended with him whose existence is necessary...
Page xcvii - Zend words, which has been preserved in books or by tradition; it follows that the language of the Zend was at least a dialect of the Sanscrit, approaching perhaps as nearly to it as the Pracrit, or other popular idioms, which we know to have been spoken in India two thousand years ago 2.
Page 59 - Utarid (Venus), civil officers, and persons of that description, were received ; and there were five other palaces for the remaining five planets. In each of these buildings he gave public audience, according to the planet of the day. The furniture and paintings of each, as also the dresses of the household attendants, bore some symbol emblematical of the planet. In each of these palaces he transacted business one day in the week.
Page 96 - Afshdr : of these two, the choice position is the following: The devotee sits on his hams, cross-legged, passing the outside of the right foot over the left thigh, and that of the left foot over the right thigh ; he then passes his hands behind his back, and holds in his left hand the great toe of the right foot, and in the right hand the great toe of the left foot, fixing his eyes intently on the point of the nose : this position they call Farnishin, " the splendid seat," but by the Hindi Yogis...
Page 83 - Disdtlr to a vase externally covered with choice perfumes, but filled internally with impurities. They also maintain that in no system of faith is cruelty to innoxious animals sanctioned : and all human sanction for such acts proceeds from their attending to the apparent import of words, without having recourse to profound or earnest consideration — for example, by putting a horse or cow to death is meant, the removal or banishing from one's self animal propensities, and not the slaughtering and...
Page 148 - One morning at the dawn of day he said thus to the author of the Dabistan: " Yesterday in the gloom of night, directed by the light of spirit, I departed from this external body, and arrived at the mysterious illumination ever replete with effulgence: the chamberlain of truth removed from before...
Page 94 - The first race never kept any destructive creatures, as they esteemed it criminal to afford them protection; and even their destruction never took place in the abodes of righteous and holy persons. SCIENTIFIC ASCETICISM Among the Sipasiyan sect were many exemplary and pious personages, the performers of praiseworthy discipline: with them, however, voluntary austerity implies " religious practices " or Saluk, and consists not in extreme suffering, which they hold to be an evil, and a retribution inflicted...