The Open court . Oknos and the Daughters of Danaos in Hades (After Hermann Goll.) religious Hindu, therefore, exhibits a strange indifference to hisworldly fate and submits unflinchingly even to death. In Buddhism, Mara, the Evil One, is the demon of death (theword mdio meaning slayer). Buddha enjoins his followers tosurrender to death what belongs to death, and to live in the realmof moral aspirations ; for the body is subject to decay, but deeds 68o THE OPEN COURT. do not die. Mara, the Evil One, presides over that which is tran-sient, the realm of birth and death. He is both sensuality and
The Open court . Oknos and the Daughters of Danaos in Hades (After Hermann Goll.) religious Hindu, therefore, exhibits a strange indifference to hisworldly fate and submits unflinchingly even to death. In Buddhism, Mara, the Evil One, is the demon of death (theword mdio meaning slayer). Buddha enjoins his followers tosurrender to death what belongs to death, and to live in the realmof moral aspirations ; for the body is subject to decay, but deeds 68o THE OPEN COURT. do not die. Mara, the Evil One, presides over that which is tran-sient, the realm of birth and death. He is both sensuality and theperdition which all flesh is heir to, and this world is a world ofdeath. It appears that to the ancient Hebrews death was the end oflife, for there is no mention of any kind of immortality in the ca-nonical books of the Old Testament. This is the more strange asboth the Assyrians and the Egyptians who have powerfully in-fluenced the religious development of Israel, clearly taught that. Relief on a Sarcophagus, Representing the Death of Hippolytus.(After Hermann Goll.) mans soul does not die but survives death and enters other re-gions, either for being rewarded or punished in the life to come,according to his deeds. They believed that evil-doers have reasonto fear death, while the righteous may face it courageously, as theinnocent man need not tremble before a judge who is absolutelyjust. The Greeks are strongly influenced by their artistic ^ speaks of Death as the twin-brother of Sleep, and Pausa- \ Iliad, XVI. 682. DEATH IN RELIGIOUS ART. 68l
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