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WORKS SIR WM JONES 2V (Myth & Romanticism) (Vols 1-2)
WORKS SIR WM JONES 2V - Myth & Romanticism - Vols 1-2 Author:Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THK LAWS OF MENU, SON OF BRAHMA. CHAPTER THE FIRST, On the Creation with a Summary of the Contetds. l.'MENU fat reclined, with his attention fixe... more »d' on one object, thefupreme God; yvhen the divine Sages approached him,- and, after mutual falutations in due form, delivered the following addrefs: 2. ' Deign, fovereign ruler, to apprize us ot the facred laws in their order, as they muft be ' followed by all the four clafles, and by each of them, in their feveral degrees, together with the duties of every mixed clafs ; ' 3.' For thou, Lord, and thou only among mortals, knoweft the true fenfe, the firft prin- ciple, and the prefcribed ceremonies, of this univerfal, fupernatural Veda, unlimited in ex- tent and unequalled in authority.' 4. 'HE, whofe powers were meafurelefs, being thus req icfted by tbe great Sages; whofe thoughts were profound, faluted them all with reverence, and gave them a comprehenfive anfwer, faying : ' Be it heard! . 5. ,' This univerfe exifted only'm thefirft di- vine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in dark- ' nefs imperceptible, undefinable, undifcoverable by reafon, and undifcovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immerfed in fleep: 6. ' Then.the-yofcielf-exifting power,- him- felf undifcerned, but making this world dif- cernible, with five elements and other princi- pies, of nature, appeared with undiijlinifhed glory," expanding bis idea, or difpelling the gloom.' 7. He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whofe effence eludes the external organs, who has no vifible parts, who exifts from eternity, even He, the foul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, fhone forth in perfon. 8. ' He, having willed to produce various beings from his ...« less