With equal detail we are told how the Brahman is to perform the natural requirements of the body, and the purifications thereby rendered necessary.
Apprentice, meaning of preparation, tests, purificationsin Degree of, 253-u.
Sacred baths and preparatory baptisms were used, lustrations, immersions, lustral sprinklings, and purifications of every kind.
The offences have already been brought under definite categories, and in like manner the purifications and punishments fall into a number of distinct classes.
The Vendidad merely says that any one who wishes to perform purifications must have learned the law from one of the purifiers, i.
So far as we can see, the Avesta allots no special income to the priests beyond the camels, horses, or small cattle given to them by warriors and husbandmen in quittance for the purificationsthey have performed.
These must be distinguished from the Bacchic dances which imitate drunken revelry, and also from the dances by which purifications are effected and mysteries celebrated.
The sacrament of Penance in the New Law corresponds to all the purifications of the Old Law.
As already stated, the purificationsof the Old Law were ordained for the removal of impediments to the divine worship: which worship is twofold; viz.
According to Plato, it was an orphic doctrine that there were certain deliverances and purifications which availed also for the dead.
There were purifications for murder, it is true, but only for involuntary or necessary murder.
The legal purifications were not considered as having the virtue of securing to all criminals the hope of bliss, to which the righteous were entitled.
And she only desires to have a general name, which shall distinguishpurifications of the soul from purifications of the body.
Medicine and gymnastic are the internal purifications of the animate, and bathing the external; and of the inanimate, fulling and cleaning and other humble processes, some of which have ludicrous names.
The High Priest made five washings and ten purifications in this day, and all were in the Holy place above the house of Parva,(205) with the exception of the first one alone.
Purifications” teaches how purifications are to be effected.
José said, “even for two purifications it is allowed, if it were made a condition between them.
He bade them also not to trust in their being children of Abraham, nor in the purifications of the Law, nor in the observances of Sabbaths and feast-days.
For the old Law worketh by purifications and feasts and sabbaths; but the new Law belike worketh in part by these means, but in greater part by other means.
Thy purifications are the purificationsof Horus,[1] and the purifications of Horus are thy purifications.
Of the four fundamental points of religious practice required by the Korân, the first is prayer, under which, as has been said, are also comprehended those legal washings or purifications which are necessary preparations thereto.
Prayer, under which are comprehended those washings or purifications which are necessary preparations required before prayer; 2.
Some have thought, but without sufficient grounds, that these external purifications are believed to supersede an inward cleansing of the heart.
Purifications are constantly, and with great strictness, performed by the Mussulmans of every country, but especially by those of Turkey.
Their purifications for their Priests, and for having touched a dead body or other unclean thing, according to Mr. Adair, are quite Levitical.
During their more solemn purifications they abstain from wine wholly, and they give themselves up entirely to study and meditation, and to the hearing and teaching of those divine truths which treat of the divine nature.
This occupation is surely more truly religious than any external purifications or mere service of the temple can be.
In them purifications were accomplished, the images of the Goddess worshipped, and the more distinguished worshippers admitted to confess.
Plutarch says, the ibis destroys poisonous reptiles, and that priests draw the water for their purifications where the Ibis has drunk, as it will never touch unwholesome water.
The priests and Levites perform the ceremonial purifications and get themselves legally clean.
Moreover, The Law concerned the actions of the people themselves, their own minute observance of purifications and careful avoidance of defilements, their own offerings and festivals.
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