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--Poem of Yamagami-no Okura,
A.D. 733.
Baal: "While I on towers and banging terraces,
In shaft and obelisk, behold my sign.
Creative, shape of first imperious law."
--Bayard Taylor's "Masque of the Gods."
"Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of
men, and didst commit whoredom with them, and tookest thy
broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine
oil and mine incense before them. My meat also which I gave
thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou
hast even set it before them for a sweet savor: and thus it was,
saith the Lord GOD."--Ezekiel.
If it be said (as has been the case), 'Shintoism has nothing in
it,' we should be inclined to answer, 'So much the better, there
is less error to counteract.' But there _is_ something in it,
and that ... of a kind of which we may well avail ourselves when
making known the second commandment, and the 'fountain of
cleansing from all sin.'"--E.W. Syle.
"If Shint[=o] has a dogma, it is purity."--Kaburagi.
"I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord: and so will I go to
thine altar.
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