`The origin of the thought-pattern which survives in baptism'

Edité par [1936?], American Oriental Society

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Pages 155-165, from Journal of the AOS, vol. 56, no. 2. `With the author's compliments' `The ancient Babylonians believed that water was the spermatozoa of the gods. Its out-pouring each year over the Babylonian alluvium fertilized the earth and caused it to bring forth its fruits, thus giving life to all beings upon it. Enlil and Ninlil cohabit, as did Ningirsu and Bau at Lagash, and hoe holy river, which had been dry, flowed again. Still another tablet found at Nippur records a similar myth concerning the union of Enki and Ninhursag,--a myth the original home of which must have been Eridu. Enki cohabited with the goddess, who yielded to him unwillingly, after which the fields were flooded.' (155) -- `According to one version of the myth of the restoration of the god Osiris to life, he was revivified by being washed. In Egyptian belief, therefore, the divine waters could give life in every form in which the mind could conceive of it. .in the Corpus Hermeticum.Hermes explains to Tat that God filled a great basin with mind and let it down to earth, that he has caused to be proclaimed to men that they dip themselves in this basin. The whole figure is based on an ancient custom of immersion in water for the purpose of obtaining birth into a higher life.' (158) -- `When one appreciates the facts set forth in the preceding pages, this whole conception of Reitzenstein's is most artificial and improbable. Had he known Babylonian and Egyptian material as well as he knows Persian and indian, the materials which lie before him in the Old Testament would not have been to him a sealed book.' (164 .) Good, side-stapled, outer edge spotted, without wrapper.…

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`The origin of the thought-pattern which survives in baptism'
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Barton, George A. (George Aaron), 1859-1942.
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[1936?], American Oriental Society
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