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Libra Esoterica

The ancient world and Christianity

by Edmond de Pressensé

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xxxi, 479 pages ; 22 cm Translation of L'ancien monde et le christianisme The starting point of the religious evolution -- Chaldeo-Assyrian religion -- The religion of Egypt -- The religion of Phoenicia -- The primitive Aryans -- The religion of Zoroaster -- The religion of the Vedas -- Transformation of the religion of the Vedas after the settlement of the Vedic Aryans on the banks of the Ganges -- Buddha -- The First Period -- The religion of Greece in its full development -- Greek philosophy -- Change that passed over ancient paganism, from the time of Alexander and under the Romans -- The pagan world at the coming of Christ committed to retain 20170930

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Gods”. Retained metadata contains “Paganism” in the description and “Gods” in the subject metadata.

    • Gods· via Internet Archive
    • Paganism· in description
    • Gods· in subject

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1898-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : A.C. ArmstrongEnglishPublic digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
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internet-archive:ancientworldchr00presgoog
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