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390 n.; Kiang Yuan trod on a toe- 401; mystical power of names of print of G., and conceived, 3, 397; G., 23, 21; conversation with G. on pleased with the smell of sacrifices, the Holy Word, 23, 128, 133; 3, 399; the people's misery ascribed proofs of the existence of a Creator, to G.'s having reversed His usual 24, 139-51, 164 sq.; knowledge of course of procedure, 3, 408, 408 n.; G. the beginning of all knowledge, how vast is G., the ruler of men 24, 140; necessity of understandbelow, how arrayed in terrors, 3, ing the sacred being, 24, 166-8; in410; not G. has caused the evil consistency of those who ascribe time, but it arises from not follow- both good and evil to G., 24, 173ing the old ways, 3, 412; King 202; four requisites of divinity, 24, Hsüan expostulates with G. and all 174; inconsistencies in the asserthe spirits whose help in a terrible tions of various sects regarding G., drought might be expected, 3, 419- 24, 202-51; surrounded by angels, 23; the work of G. in nature, 16, 24, 224; casts worshippers into 48, 50-3, 425-7, 426 n.; an un- hell, 24, 224 sq.; comes to Abrafathomable spiritual power working ham who offers Him wine, 24, 225 in all operations, 16, 357, 358 n.; sq.; criticism of the Godship of prayer to G. for a good year in Christ, and of the Trinity, 24, 231spring, and ploughing the field of 5; nothing happens without the G., 27, 254 sq., 255 n.; summer will of G., 24, 235 sq.; the kindness sacrifice for rain to G., 27, 273 sq., and generosity of the sacred being, 274 n.; worship of G. who dwells 24, 256 sq.; existence, unity, purity, in the great heaven, 27, 278, 309; and matchlessness of the sacred accepts victims which are complete being, 24, 270; cannot be responand entire, 27,288; produce gathered sible for permanent evil, 31, 26. from the acres of G.,' 27, 293; (d) G. (ISVARA, THE LORD) IN origin of the worship of G., 27, 370, SACRED BOOKS OF INDIA. 370 n.; the Tâo before G., 39, 50, One God-who is he?- swallowed 60, 68 sq., 84, 243; Taoism denies the four great ones, he, the guardian of the existence of a personal G., 39, the world, 1, 58; fire (heat) is merged 134; 'the divinity in man,' is the in G., at the death of the body, 1, name for the spirit trained accord- 101, 108; G. is the True, 1, 121; ing to the Tâo, 39, 146 sq., 367; causes men to do good and evil the Taoist sage ascends among the actions, 1, 299; 38, 59; 48, 558; immortals and arrives at the place pervades everything, the whole of G., 39, 313 n., 314; a power to world a manifestation of Him, 1, which the Tâo requires submission, 311, 314 ; 8, 127; 15, 243; 34, coming near our idea of G., 40, xxviii, cxix, III, 442; 48, 86 sq., 38 n. See also Heaven (a), Tâo, 101 sq., 396,700 ; is the origin and Thien, and Ti.
the dissolution of the whole Uni(c) G. (YAZDÂN) IN ZOROASTRIAN verse, Higher than Him there is SACRED BOOKS,
none else, all this is strung on Him The will of G, is the law of as pearls on a thread, 8, 74; 34, righteousness, 4, 100, 210; 23, 23; xxvi sq.; 48, 359; is the Creator, religion of G., 5, 64, 194; perver- the cause and origin of all, 8, 86 sq., sion of Ga's work, is of the Evil 190, 192; 15, 260-7; 19, 195; 34, spirit, 5, 112; in undertaking any- xxviii, 16 sq., 46, 48 sq., 61, 135thing one should say, 'in the name 42, 243, 254, 263-6, 270 sq., 328; of G.,' 5, 112; prayer to G., 5, 136; 38, 24 sq., 183, 416; 43, xiv; 48, praise of G., 5, 185; invoked in a 206 sq., 209, 558; creates the benediction, 5, 235, 239, 369, 379, universe by means of changes, 8, 399, 404; worship of G., 5, 308, 157; His difference from the uni316 sq., 392 ; horses of G., 5, 404, verse, 8, 164, 164 n.; He is the 404 n.; G. or yazdano, plur., 18, 4, Lord of all, the master of all, the 4 n.; created inale and female, 18, ruler of all, &c., 15, 179, 232; 19,
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