. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. uropeanmonarch as the acknowledged sovereign and the Premieras the actual ruler is not an exact illustration, as thePearly Emperor has all the power of Heaven and earthin his hands. He is the correlative of Heaven, or ratherHeaven itself; his birthday and Heavens birthday arethe same ; he is the Jupiter of the Middle we preach of one supreme Euler of the universe,there is an immediate reference to th
. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. uropeanmonarch as the acknowledged sovereign and the Premieras the actual ruler is not an exact illustration, as thePearly Emperor has all the power of Heaven and earthin his hands. He is the correlative of Heaven, or ratherHeaven itself; his birthday and Heavens birthday arethe same ; he is the Jupiter of the Middle we preach of one supreme Euler of the universe,there is an immediate reference to the Pearly Emperor,so to dethrone him is to demolish image worship. His legends are copies of the Buddhistic king and queen of the kingdom of Miao Luh wereworthy sovereigns. The Spiritual Precious, the secondamong the Pure Ones, took his jade sceptre and blew hisbreath upon it, which made it change into a living Taoist Gods. 3S3 being, and in a dream of the night it entered the bodyof the Queen, who after a full year bore the Crown is a song the Chinese sing :— ** The Spiritual Precious brought in his handsThe Pearly Emperor from heavenly Pearly Emperor. The kingdom prospered during his minority ; he tookall the gold in the Imperial treasury to give alms. Onhis accession to the throne, reflecting that life is a dream,he gave the sceptre to another, and became a hermit fora hundred years ; the next two hundred years were spentin philanthropic acts, and after that he was a pupil of theSpiritual Precious for thre« hundred years in the Taoist 384 The Dragon, Image, and Demon. scriptures; during the next two centuries Heaven andearth received his blessings ; he then became an humbleimmortal, till on his one thousandth birthday he wasmade god of Heaven, earth, and men. This is the poetic account. As a matter of history, theEmperor Hwei Tsung in the twelfth century conferredupon a magician, by the name of Chang Ye, the title ofShangte, The Pearly m
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