The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of JapanJennings and Graham, 1910 - 98 Seiten |
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Amaterasu ancestor worship anese Animism Asiatic Society belief Buddhism in Japan calamity called ceremony China Chinese influence civilization concept Confucianism dead defilement deities descendant divine dwell earthly offenses elements Emperor empire Ernest Satow Esoteric Shinto ethics evil Evolution fact Father fucianism Goddess gospel Gulick Hearn heavenly honor ideas imperial island-empire islands Izanagi JAPANESE BUDDHISM Japanese history Japanese language Japanese literature JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY Ko-ji-ki Lafcadio Hearn ligion Mikado missionary moral mythology myths names Nihongi noteworthy observe offerings offspring old Shinto origin Percival Lowell pollution present priestess priests pure Shinto Purification religion religious cult remarkable Revival of Pure ruler sacred Satow sect Shintau Shinto cult Shinto temples Shinto worship Shintoism Shintoist shrines Society of Japan sovran gods Sovran Grandchild spirits Sun-Goddess Supreme teaching Temples of Isè thought tion traditions Transactions and Proceedings truth Ujigami unseen various Western whatsoever things wind
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Seite 92 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Seite 86 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Seite 20 - Now when chaos had begun to condense, but force and form were not yet manifest, and there was nought named, nought done, who could know its shape? Nevertheless Heaven and Earth first parted, and the three deities performed the commencement of creation; the passive and active Essences then developed, and the Two Spirits became the ancestors of all things.
Seite 89 - Thou shalt clearly understand the principles of Heaven and the duty of man. 3. " Thou shalt revere the Mikado as thy sovereign, and obey the will of his court.
Seite 75 - I regard religion itself as quite unnecessary for a nation's life. Science is far above superstition ; and what is any religion, Buddhism or Christianity, but superstition, and therefore a possible source of weakness to a nation? I do not regret the tendency to free thought and atheism which is almost universal in Japan, because I do not regard it as a source of danger to the community.
Seite 17 - Of old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the yin and the yang not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an egg which was of obscurely defined limits and contained germs. The purer and clearer part was thinly drawn out, and formed Heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became Earth.
Seite 20 - Therefore did he enter obscurity and emerge into light, and the Sun and Moon were revealed by the washing of his eyes; he floated on and plunged into the sea-water, and Heavenly and Earthly Deities appeared through the ablutions of his person. So in the dimness of the great commencement, we, by relying on the original teaching, learn the time of the conception of the earth and of the birth of islands; in the remoteness of the original beginning, we by trusting the former sages, perceive the era of...
Seite 17 - Heaven, while the heavier and grosser element settled down and became Earth. The finer element easily became a united body, but the consolidation of the heavy and gross element was accomplished with difficulty. Heaven was therefore formed first, and Earth was established subsequently. Thereafter divine beings were produced between them. Hence it is said that when the world began to be created, the soil of which lands were composed floated about in a manner which might be compared to the floating...
Seite 94 - I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Seite 92 - Faith of our fathers ! living still In spite of dungeon, fire and sword ; O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word ; Faith of our fathers ! holy faith ! We will be true to thee till death.