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"Chrism" Quotes from Famous Books

... anointed and worshipped in the Temples of India and elsewhere IS the original [gr cristos] (2) adored by the human race from the very beginning, and that at a later time, when the Priest and the King, as objects of worship, took the place of the Lingam, THEY also were anointed with the chrism of fertility. That the exhibition of these emblems should be part of the original 'Mystery'-rituals was perfectly natural—especially because, as we have explained already (3) old customs often continued on in a quite naive fashion in the rituals, when ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... Maurice and Melanchthon against some of the provisions of the document. They protested particularly against the reinstitution of Extreme Unction, the Festival of Corpus Christi, and the use of chrism at Baptism. (C. R. 7, 270.) Even the Wittenberg theologians finally admitted that in consequence of "the Interim the rupture had become so great that there was an agreement neither of one church with another, nor, in the same church, of any deacon, ...

— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... elsewhere IS the original [gr cristos] (2) adored by the human race from the very beginning, and that at a later time, when the Priest and the King, as objects of worship, took the place of the Lingam, THEY also were anointed with the chrism of fertility. That the exhibition of these emblems should be part of the original 'Mystery'-rituals was perfectly natural—especially because, as we have explained already (3) old customs often continued on in a quite naive fashion in the rituals, ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... blood: they fasted (a Jewish observance!) on the Saturday of each week: during the first week of Lent they permitted the use of milk and cheese; [6] their infirm monks were indulged in the taste of flesh; and animal grease was substituted for the want of vegetable oil: the holy chrism or unction in baptism was reserved to the episcopal order: the bishops, as the bridegrooms of their churches, were decorated with rings; their priests shaved their faces, and baptized by a single immersion. Such were the crimes which provoked the zeal of the patriarchs of Constantinople; ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... skies all burnished brightly, Here is the spent earth all reborn; Here are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun, and to share with the morn In the chrism of dew and the cool ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various