 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 516 pages
...perfectly dispelled the gloom. Having willed to produce •various beings from his own divine essence, he first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. This seed became a golden egg blazing like a thousand suns. In this egg he was himself born in the... | |
 | George Smith - 1856 - 546 pages
...He, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person." Chap. i, 7. "He, having willed to produce various beings from his own...substance, first with a thought created the waters." Chap. i, 8. " The waters are called nara, because they are the production of NARA, or ' the Spirit... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1856 - 340 pages
...substance and the affections subtle bodies.f But they did not always confuse it, as is seen in Menu. " He having willed to produce various beings from his own...divine substance, first with a thought created the world." On the constitution of matter we see them speaking as plainly as the Greeks ; and now on the... | |
 | 1858 - 924 pages
...can comprehend, shone forth in person. (8) He having willed to produce various beings from his own substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. (9) The seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in... | |
 | 1858 - 922 pages
...can comprehend, shone forth in person. (8) He having willed to produce various beings from his own substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed. (9) The seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams ; and in... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1858 - 364 pages
...power who is the supreme soul. This universe, consisting of three worlds, was produced from water. "He first, with a thought, created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed." (MENU, chap. iv 8-) Water, which is the element whence the three worlds proceeded, is that light which... | |
 | Samuel Fales Dunlap - 1858 - 424 pages
...eternity, even he, the Soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance first irith a thought created the waters. The waters arc called nara, because they are the produetion of... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...advocates a modified form of the Sankhya philosophy. According to this author, " the soul of all beings, having willed to produce various beings from his own...productive seed ; that seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing, like the luminary, with a thousand beams; and in that egg he was born himself, Brahma, the... | |
 | 1861 - 924 pages
...advocates a modified form of the Sankhya philosophy. According to this author, "the soul of all beings, having willed to produce various beings from his own...productive seed ; that seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing, like the luminary, with a thousand beams; and in that egg he was born himself, Brahma, the... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...account of creation. In Menu translated by Sir W. Jones, we find the following passage:—" He" (Brahm) " first with a thought created the waters and placed...productive seed ; that seed became an egg bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that egg he was born himself in the form of... | |
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He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various... 
