The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch (1840)
Comstock, Joseph · Hartford: : [s.n.] · leaf 425
therChristian, Mahomedan, or Pagan, who sacrifice so totally, allthe joys, comforts, and necessaries of the present life, for the sakeof the future, as the Gymnosophists, a religious sect among theHindoos. Gymnosophist, signifies naked philosopher. The forsaking ofall acts that are desirable, is… … As wearing clothes, is one of those desirable things, nakednessis endured, almost totally, by the most fanatical of these devotees,and naked feet by all of them. They abandon the society of men, and pass their lives amidthe deserts and jungles, totally absorbed in contemplating thingsspiritual,…
Metaphysics · Religion and Science · Magic · Witchcraft
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