...heart, and sanctity of life, were not insisted upon as requisites in religious worship. The doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, were very partially received, in a form very vague and unsatisfactory ; and the opinions...

...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 the opinions...

...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....

...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 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 wicked ; those...

...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...

...tortures of Tartarus, and the joys of Elysium, which were exhibited in the most striking manner. The chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among...of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. The initiated were under the peculiar protection of the gods, and they alone were certain...

...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. Hence, at the...

...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 which the...