Motif
Ancestor manifestation through temple reverence
ancestor_manifestation_through_temple_reverence
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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confucian
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The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) Chapter I. j / Chapter VI. / Chapter VII. / Chapter VIII. Filial Piety in Government.; lines 19906-19993 confidence: high
In the ancestral temple, utmost reverence causes the spirits of the departed to manifest; perfect filial piety and fraternal duty reach spiritual intelligences and diffuse light on all within the four seas.
The passage states that utmost reverence in the ancestral temple causes the spirits of the departed to manifest themselves.
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