The Open court . Relief on a Sarcophagus, Representing the Battle with the Amazons.(After Hermann Goll.) his wrath, savage tribes feed him with such sacrifices, both animaland human, as are expected to pacify him. Death in Brahmanism is not an annihilation of the soul but amere transmigration. The soul which is conceived to be a beingor an entity that can move about without a body, is supposed toassume a new shape and to reappear in a new incarnation. The. Oknos and the Daughters of Danaos in Hades (After Hermann Goll.) religious Hindu, therefore, exhibits a strange indifference to hisworldly
The Open court . Relief on a Sarcophagus, Representing the Battle with the Amazons.(After Hermann Goll.) his wrath, savage tribes feed him with such sacrifices, both animaland human, as are expected to pacify him. Death in Brahmanism is not an annihilation of the soul but amere transmigration. The soul which is conceived to be a beingor an entity that can move about without a body, is supposed toassume a new shape and to reappear in a new incarnation. The. 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
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