The Story of Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria (Treated As a General Introduction of the Study of Ancient History)
The Story of Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria (Treated As a General Introduction of the Study of Ancient History)
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. . . This pretension had its root in the notion which antiquity had formed of the nat- ural phenomena. It did not see in them the conse- quence of unchangeable and necessary laws, always active and always to be calculated upon, but fancied them to depend on the arbitrary and varying will of the spirits and deities it had put in the place of physical agents." It follows that in a religion which peoples the universe with spirits of which the greater part are evil, magic — i.e., conjuring with wo...rds and rites, incantations, spells — must take the place of worship, and the ministers of such a relig- ion are not priests, but conjurers and enchanters.
This is exactly the state of things revealed by the great collection of texts discovered by Sir H. Raw- linson and G. Smith. They contain forms for con- juring all the different kinds of demons, even to evil dreams and nightmares, the object of most such invocations being to drive them away from the habitations of men and back where they properly belong to — the depth of the desert, the inaccessible mountain tops, and all remote, waste and uninhab- ited places generally, where they can range at will, and find nobody to harm.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. . . This pretension had its root in the notion which antiquity had formed of the nat- ural phenomena. It did not see in them the conse- quence of unchangeable and necessary laws, always active and always to be calculated upon, but fancied them to depend on the arbitrary and varying will of the spirits and deities it had put in the place of physical agents." It follows that in a religion which peoples the universe with spirits of which the greater part are evil, magic — i.e., conjuring with wo...rds and rites, incantations, spells — must take the place of worship, and the ministers of such a relig- ion are not priests, but conjurers and enchanters.
This is exactly the state of things revealed by the great collection of texts discovered by Sir H. Raw- linson and G. Smith. They contain forms for con- juring all the different kinds of demons, even to evil dreams and nightmares, the object of most such invocations being to drive them away from the habitations of men and back where they properly belong to — the depth of the desert, the inaccessible mountain tops, and all remote, waste and uninhab- ited places generally, where they can range at will, and find nobody to harm.
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