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Furthermore God spake to Moses, saying, "When I appeared unto thee the first time, thou wast meek, and didst hide thy face, not to see the vision
Read record →Pharaoh's palace was surrounded by a vast army
Read record →They spake, saying, "If ye are truly the ambassadors of God, then may He judge between us and Pharaoh
Read record →Moses announced the first plague to Pharaoh one morning when the king was walking by the river's brink
Read record →The prayer offered by Moses in behalf of Pharaoh was granted, all the frogs perished, and their destruction was too swift for them to retire to the water
Read record →When Moses announced the slaying of the first-born, the designated victims all repaired to their fathers, and said: "Whatever Moses hath foretold has been fulfilled
Read record →m from the celestial cloud followed them into the darkest of chambers, and if one of the people had to go outside of the camp, even thither he was accompanied by a fold of the cloud, covering and protecting him.[242] Only, that a difference might be made betwe
Read record →Of course, each religion, as it formed itself out of the original ancestor-worship, had its own sacred places, functionaries, observances, ceremonial
Read record →y of second moon), the Festival of the Tombs (about the third day of the third moon), when graves are put in order and special offerings made to the dead, the Middle Spirit Festival (fifteenth day of seventh moon), and the Later Spirit Festival (fifteenth day
Read record →An almost infinite variety of superstitious practices, due to the belief in the good or evil influences of departed spirits, exists in all parts of China
Read record →odically shown for rival doctrines, such as Buddhism and Taoism, which threw their weight on the side of the supernatural, and which at times were exalted to such great heights as to be officially recognized as State religions
Read record →But the mere increase of constructive imagination is not sufficient to produce myth
Read record →In order that there may be myth, three further conditions must be fulfilled
Read record →It is by such great events, not by the romance-writer in his peaceful study, that mythology, like literature, is "incisively determined." Imagination, we saw, goes pari passu with intellectual progress, and intellectual progress, in early times, is furthered n
Read record →A third condition is that the type of imagination must be persistent through fairly long periods of time, otherwise not only will there be an absence of sufficient feeling or momentum to cause the myths to be repeated and kept alive and transmitted to posterit
Read record →"The Chinese people," says one well-known sinologist, "are not prone to mythological invention." "He who expects to find in Tibet," says another writer, "the poetical charm of Greek or Germanic mythology will be disappointed
Read record →What we should expect, then, to find from our philosophical study of the Chinese mind as affected by its surroundings would be barrenness of constructive imagination, except when birth was given to myth through the operation of some external agency
Read record →In his right hand he holds a hammer and in his left a chisel (sometimes these are reversed), the only implements he used in carrying out his great task
Read record →As their imagination grew, it was natural that the Chinese should begin to ask themselves what, if the yang and the yin by their permutations produced, or gave shape to, all things, was it that produced the yang and the yin
Read record →This tao, indefinable and in its essence unknowable, is "the fountain-head of all beings, and the norm of all actions
Read record →of their cosmological speculations, need not, as I said, detain us long; and the reason why they need not do so is that, in the matter of cosmogony, the P'an Ku legend and the yin-yang system with its monistic elaboration occupy virtually the whole field of th
Read record →The careful and studiously accurate historians (whose work aimed at being ex veritate, 'made of truth'), the sober literature, the vast influence of agnostic, matter-of-fact Confucianism, supported by the heavy Mencian artillery, are indisputable indications o
Read record →When these died, their other selves continued to exist and to hold the same rank in the spirit world as they did in this one
Read record →Neither Shang Ti nor T'ien mean the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost of the New Testament
Read record →Ma P'o, her neighbour, introduced him one day into the Crystal Palace for an interview with his future wife
Read record →The third phase, San Kuan, resulted from the first two being found too complicated for popular favour
Read record →Having reached these ethereal heights, the two genii saw a bright light, and Hsüan-hsüan Shang-jên appeared before them
Read record →The Emperor, having studied his part well, assembled his ministers in the tenth moon of the year 1012, and made to them the following declaration: "In a dream I had a visit from an Immortal, who brought me a letter from Yü Huang, the purport of which was as fo
Read record →Fearing to be admonished for the fraud by another of his ministers, the scholar Wang Tan, the Emperor resolved to put a golden gag in his mouth
Read record →Though getting on in years, the latter had no son
Read record →From his master, Tu O, the celebrated Taoist magician of the K'un-lun Mountains, Hêng acquired a marvellous power
Read record →In another of the many conflicts between the two rival states Lao Tzu entered the battle, whereupon Ch'iung Hsiao, a goddess who fought for the house of Shang (Chou), hurled into the air her gold scaly-dragon scissors
Read record →Shên I then led his soldiers to Kao-liang, where the river had risen and formed an immense torrent
Read record →About this time T'ai-wu Fu-jên, the third daughter of Hsi Wang Mu, had entered a nunnery on Nan-min Shan, to the north of Lo-fou Shan, where her mother's palace was situated
Read record →A certain Yeh Ch'ien-chao of Hsin Chou, when a youth, used to climb the mountain Chien-ch'ang Shan for the purpose of cutting firewood and collecting medicinal herbs
Read record →There are various ideas regarding the nature of this deity
Read record →In order to obey this command he entered the womb of Ma Chin-mu in the form of five globes of fire
Read record →The dragons are spirits of the waters
Read record →The dragon is also represented as the father of the great emperors of ancient times
Read record →The Sea-dragon Kings live in gorgeous palaces in the depths of the sea, where they feed on pearls and opals
Read record →The five Sea-dragon Kings are all immortal
Read record →Forthwith the dragon went on shore, and, spying a monkey on the top of a tree, said: "Hail, shining one, are you not afraid you will fall?" "No, I have no such fear." "Why eat of one tree?
Read record →In the spirit-world there is a Ministry which controls all things connected with the waters on earth, salt or fresh
Read record →Han Hsiang Tzu, not liking this undeserved abuse, changed his flute into a fishing-line, and as soon as the Dragon-prince was within reach caught him on the hook, with intent to retain him as a hostage
Read record →Chang Tao-ling asked them whence came the shaft of white light
Read record →Before he had finished speaking, a red dragon, a thousand feet long, with red scales, mane of fire, bloody tongue, and eyes blazing like lightning, passed through the air with rapid flight and disappeared
Read record →nd escaped to Ch'ang-sha, where he reassumed a human form and lived with Ms wife in the home of his father-in-law, Hsü Sun, returning to the town, hastened to the yamên, and called to Shên Lang to come out and show himself, addressing him in a severe tone of v
Read record →him at the summit; finding no place to hide himself, he attempted in desperation both to wreak vengeance upon his enemies and to end his own life by beating his head violently against the cane of the Heavenly Bamboo which grew there
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