...it is composed of the learned. He appears to have been a great political philosopher and legislator. Of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of retribution, — truths essential to religion, — he seems to have known little, and taught less. He is worshipped...

...it is composed of the learned. He appears to have been a great political philosopher and legislator. Of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of retribution,— truths essential to religion,—he seems to have known little, and taught less. He is worshipped as...

...heart, and sanctity of Ijfe, were,not jp sisted upon as. requisites in religious wo^hip. The doctrines of the immortality of ^the soul, and of a future state of rewards apd punishments, were very partially received, in a form very vague and unsatisfactory; and...

...is nothing hid from " Him, with whom we have to do." The next principle of religion is, the belief of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, in which the great distinction will be made between the righteous and the...

...of man and the deluge. The mysteries of Isis he conceives to have been illustrative of the doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of reward and punishment ; although when transported, without being understood, to corrupt and degenerate...

...are questions which unassisted reason cannot positively and with certainty determine. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of retribution, is unquestionably of very great importance to mankind ; and the natural and moral arguments to prove...

...in the most striking manner. The chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. The initiated wero under the peculiar protection of the gods, and they alone...

...freely allowed by their deities to those who regularly ministered to them in this way. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, was but little understood, and of course only very partially acknowledged....

...and imagined the planets to be guided by inferior intelligences ; and they adopted also the opinions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. Of the ancient language or letters of India no traces remain. The characters...

...the injured party never sleeps. These people have intuitively a very strong idea of a Supreme Being, of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of joy or misery. Their " Hebben" is considered as a place of rest from all labour — an endless range...