 This is the Egyptian imagery in which souls are represented as human-headed birds being fed with the fruit and nourished by the water of the Tree of Life! Also green is the colour of renewal, and of Ptah the revivifier. The soul of the hieroglyphics,...  The Cashmere Shawl - Seite 15von Charles White - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1841 - 664 Seiten
...souls of martyrs, after quitting their bodies, reside, until the day of resurrection, in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits, and drink of the waters, of Paradise. Such we are to consider as the first and lowest state of felicity to which the young prince in this... | |
 | 1841 - 660 Seiten
...souls of martyrs, after quitting their bodies, reside, until the day of resurrection, in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits, and drink of the waters, of Paradise. Such we are to consider as the first and lowest state of felicity to which the young prince in this... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 418 Seiten
...are, at once, admitted to paradise; those of the martyrs are, intermediately, lodged in the bodies of green birds which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of paradise ; while the souls of the third, or remaining classes of believers, are variously represented as dwelling,... | |
 | 1853 - 414 Seiten
...are, at once, admitted to paradise ; those of the martyrs are, intermediately, lodged in the bodies of green birds which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of paradise ; while the souls of the third, or remaining classes of believers, are variously represented as dwelling,... | |
 | Edward Stanley Poole - 1859 - 594 Seiten
...souls of martyrs, after quitting their bodies, reside, until the day of resurrection, in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits, and drink of the waters, of Paradise. Such we are to consider as the first and lowest state of felicity to which the young prince in this... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1883 - 600 Seiten
...330. According to a Muhammcdan tradition, the souls of the martyrs are said to rest in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of Paradise.1 This is the Egyptian imagery in which souls are represented as human-headed birds being... | |
 | 1894 - 448 Seiten
...after death ; (2) those of the martyrs who according to the tradition of Muhammad rest in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of Paradise; (3) those of all other believers, concerning the state of whose souls there is great diversity of opinion.... | |
 | Abbé Delloue - 1917 - 296 Seiten
...of the prophets are admitted immediately into Paradise, those of the martyrs enter into the crop of green birds which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of Paradise. The souls of the other true believers are free to wander about graves, or are shut up within the trumpet... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 2007 - 569 Seiten
...place. According to a Muhammedan tradition, the souls of the martyrs are said to rest in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of Paradise.1 This is the Egyptian imagery in which souls are represented as human-headed birds being... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 2007 - 569 Seiten
...place. According to a Muhatnmedan tradition, the souls of the martyrs are said to rest in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits and drink of the waters of Paradise.1 This is the Egyptian imagery in which souls are represented as human-headed birds being... | |
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