Vulgar words in The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (Page 1)
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He put it on the back of an ass and followed on foot.
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Asa Loki was the Momus Satan or Devil Buffoon of the Scandinavian mythology, the half amusing, half horrible embodiment of wit, treachery, and evil; now residing with the gods in heaven, now accompanying Thor on his frequent adventures, now visiting and plotting with his own kith and kin in frosty Jotunheim, beyond the earth environing sea, or in livid Helheim deep beneath the domain of breathing humanity.3 With a Jotun woman, Angerbode, or Messenger of Evil, Loki begets three fell children.
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Apuleius, describing his initiation, says, "I approached to the confines 36 Golden Ass, Eng.
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Thus the imagination broods over and explores the shows and secrets, presageful warnings and alluring 38 Golden Ass, Taylor's trans., p. 283.
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of Golden Ass, p. 283.
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Joseph Trapp, an English clergyman, in a long poem thus sets forth the scene of damnation: "Doom'd to live death and never to expire, In floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire The damn'd shall groan, fire of all kinds and forms, In rain and hail, in hurricanes and storms, Liquid and solid, livid, red, and pale, A flaming mountain here, and there a flaming vale; The liquid fire makes seas, the solid, shores; Arch'd o'er with flames, the horrid concave roars.
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No; but when he is drunk, asleep, enraged, Or in the incestuous pleasures of his bed, At gaming, swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't: Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes."
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An eminent theologian says, "If mortal men kill the body temporally in their anger, it is like the immortal God to damn the soul eternally in his."
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Such a monstrous assassination of the souls of the human race with the jaw bone of an ass may be legitimately avoided in either of two ways.
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Can any defective technicality damn such a man?