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1 Int | with the universe and the gods. Clearly perceiving this ./.
2 Int | reading not. In the age of the gods, imitation of the conduct
3 Int | Creator, but both believed in gods and demons. By the twelfth
4 Int | forces of the universe. Even gods and devils fear his "determined
5 Int | is rarely realized. "The gods are the activity of Heaven
6 Int | law.' . . . . . But as the gods come to the world there
7 I | handed with an oath,—"The Gods of Heaven and Earth are
8 I(15)| Mean, XVI. The word for "Gods" here is ki-shin.~
9 I | to satisfy you. As to the gods, though they punish me there
10 I | with the Way of the ./. Gods: others follow Ōyōmei and
11 I | rebels. 20 Such a "Way of the Gods" is apart from Benevolence
12 I | THE VIRTUE OF THE GODS.~ When, one day, five
13 I | Japan is the Land of the Gods.' But their teaching is
14 I | not speak lightly of the Gods48 such men as we cannot
15 I | teaching by the Way of the Gods." 49 That is, their teaching
16 I | is called 'The Way of the Gods' to manifest its Divine
17 I | Benevolence. But the 'Way of the Gods' is not a religion by itself.
18 I | speaks of the "virtue of the Gods"50 and Shushi explains this
19 I(51)| rendered only by God or Gods.~
20 I | Old Man replied:~ The Gods are the activity of Heaven
21 I | refuse to call the bad also, gods. In Heaven and Earth is
22 I | trifling story teaches that the gods fear a determined mind.
23 I | are thought to be of the gods and the Buddhas and are
24 I | feeling and response" of the gods is the thoroughfare of the
25 I | not in voice or face the gods know it at once. But when
26 I | mixture of the spirit the gods can find no place to enter
27 I | and also of Heaven and the gods. So the Sage kings with
28 I | is not a thought even the gods cannot know; if not by self
29 I | there is no thought even the gods cannot know."~ But ordinary
30 I | This it is to command the gods and not be commanded by
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