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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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lates, averagingeight impressions each, and 131 specially prepared illustrations in the text. Two Volumes, Royal Octavo, Library Binding, Price $20.00 Net. The author discusses the worship of spirits, demons, gods and other supernaturalbeings in Egypt from the Predynastic Period to the time of the introduction ofChristianity into the country. Full use has been made of the results of recent in-vestigations and discoveries, whereby it has been found possible to elucidate a largenumber of fundamental facts connected with the various stages of religious thoughtin ancient Egypt, and to assign to them their true position chronologically. Theancient Libyan cult of the man-god Osiris, with its doctrines of resurrection andimmortality^ is described at length, and the solar cults, i. e., those of RS, Amen,Xten, etc., are fully treated; an interesting feature of the book will be the Chapterson the Egyptian Underworld and its inhabitants. The Open Court Publishing Co. 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago
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PRIMITIVE MAN BY GABRIEL MAX A picture of pithecanthropus (homo alaliis or speechless man) presented by the artist to Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the famous naturalist. (By courtesy of Prof. Ernst Haeckel and the Munich Photographic Company.) Frontispiece to The Open Court. The Open Court A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. VOL. XVIII. (NO. 3.) MARCH, 1904. NO. 574 Copyright by The Open Court Publishing Company, 1903. PARSIFAL. THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL. BY WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, L. H. D. THE production of Richard Wagners music-drama of Parsifal in America, for the first time outside of the Wagnerian play-house at Bayreuth, is a musical and dramatic incident of high importance. It has also been the subject of much controversy as to the propriety of performing a play which deals so directly and intimately with some of the solemn imagery of the Christian religion. In addition, it performs the not opencourt_mar1904caru

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