. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ty, al-though here it fades from sight. In the New Testamentthe Buddhist term the wheel of life is used once more,but it is a mere echo of a remote past; its original sig-nificance is no longer understood. Speaking of the greatdamage caused in the world by the tongue, St. James says: ovroos rj yXdxsGa HaSiararai eV roi5 ^iXeaiv ?//.icay i) oni-Xovaa oXov TO aai-ia- xai q)Xoyi8,ovaa rov rpoxov ryZ yeviaeooi,Kai (pXoyi^o/.tiyt^ vno rt/S yseiV)jS. [Thus the tongue that defileth the whole body standeth am
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ty, al-though here it fades from sight. In the New Testamentthe Buddhist term the wheel of life is used once more,but it is a mere echo of a remote past; its original sig-nificance is no longer understood. Speaking of the greatdamage caused in the world by the tongue, St. James says: ovroos rj yXdxsGa HaSiararai eV roi5 ^iXeaiv ?//.icay i) oni-Xovaa oXov TO aai-ia- xai q)Xoyi8,ovaa rov rpoxov ryZ yeviaeooi,Kai (pXoyi^o/.tiyt^ vno rt/S yseiV)jS. [Thus the tongue that defileth the whole body standeth amongour limbs ; and it setteth on fire the wheel of becoming and is seton fire by hell.] The version of King James translates the term Tpoxo=ysviaeoo? which in the Vulgate reads rosa nativitatis^ by course of nature. Nortlieni Buddhism of Tibet is not yet sufficiently ex-plored on account of the inaccessibility of the country, 128 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. but it is safe to say that its demonology is highly devel-oped and shows traces of strong Hindu influences. Prom- ?i/^^. Meifo, the Dark Tribunal.(Reproduced from a colored Japanese illustration in fTarma ) inent among the evil spirits is mKhasGroma, the Tib-etan form of the Hindu Goddess Kali (see page 99), whois represented as a frightful monster with a leonine head, BUDDHISM. 129 surrounded by a halo of flames and ready to devoiir every-thing she sees. In China Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism existpeacefully side by side, and there is scarcely a home inthe country where the customary homage would not bepaid to Lao-Tsze and Confucius as well as to , there are numerous illustrations in which thesethree great masters are together represented as dominat-ing the moral life of China. In Japan the conditions are similar, except that inthe place of the popular Taoism we find Shintoism, whichis the aboriginal nature-worship of the country, consist-ing at present in the observation of national festivals,
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