Deliverance the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World
The book Deliverance the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World was written by author Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941 Here you can read free online of Deliverance the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Deliverance the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World a good or bad book?
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So the gods and goddesses, and their cults, seemed to gain in power and vogue within the Eastern lands, where they drew adherents from among the Greek strains of population, as at Antioch or Alexandria/^ Then they advanced beyond those borders to invade the Greek and Latin West. From Phrygia came the Great Mother, Cybele of many forms and names ; Attis with her, and his orgiastic rites of mutilation, death, and resurrection; then 1 88 DELIVERANCE from Egypt, Isis, Osiris, Serapis; then many god...s from Syria, tending to transmute them^el^s to solar manifestations of universal godheadfy^ lastly and most potently out of Persia, Mithr^^He mili- tant, to be recognized by Diocletian as protector of the Empire ^ ; and behind or through them all, astrology and magic, veritable faiths that alluringly taught a divine astral fatalism with ways of pro- pitiating its decrees. The acceptance of these cults by Greeks aad ilomans was not a matter of haphazard chance, although the motley religious aspect of the later pagan Empire might lead one to think so.
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