Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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EPISTLES OF MÂNUSKHAR,
in revelation-which is evident, indeed, from his existence when he is a religious purifier, and also from your priestly lordship's knowledge of the rite; indeed, there is no use of that same decree unless the scripture of revelation, likewise, be so he is to do it with very strict observation, now, since, owing to the reception of terror by the purifiers, that preparation is evidently to produce, as regards their own disposition and movements, much harm and irregularity, and perplexed thoughts among the people, the discredit of the decreer is generated therefrom, and it would have been more reasonable to consider the terror and doubt of the purifiers in another way.
4. That which is so explained by you as though it would remain accomplished and would be in notice —and this is written by you like as it were from a teaching of some description-is not proper; because, thus, every rite in the performance of the desired operation, even by one single teaching, is suitable, which, like the preparation for the statements of lying litigants, is very like, but not correct. 5. For when there are some who have furthered Mêdyôk-mâh' better than the teaching of Afarg !, it is well when every single rite in the teaching is right; and as to his rite it is not very clear that deliverance is promoted by maintaining it. 6. Even on that occasion when Medyôk-mâh has mentioned threefold washing, and Afarg once washing, Mêdyôk-mâh is the after deponent and Afarg the prior
1 See Ep. I, v, 1.
* From pollution. • In Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, j (see App. IV), where the threefold washing is connected with the name of Afarg, and the once washing with that of Medyok-mah; but Ep. I, vi, 7-9 agrees with the statement here.
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