An Analysis of Religious Belief
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An Analysis of Religious Belief is a work by John Russell Amberley. The text says that divination is in many parts of the world a highly-developed and lucrative art, and that the natives of South Africa, being in any perplexity, resort to the professional diviner to help them out of it. A case related by one of Canon Callaway's informants tells of a correct answer given by a diviner who employed bones as his professional instruments.
A quoted verse says to apply yourself to the law of Buddha and to annihilate the army of death, as an elephant upsets a hut of reeds. The text describes a further stage of progress when the more conspicuous objects of nature, lofty mountains, rivers, trees, fountains, and so forth, are deified, to the exclusion of more insignificant things. The text names the adoration of bodies which do not belong to this earth at all, such as the sun, the moon, the planets or the stars, as a still higher stage.
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- John Russell Amberley
- Reading time
- About 20 hours
- Pages
- 546
- Language
- English
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- Philosophy
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