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Page 294
... sect were killed by police gunfire when they refused to move from an African location near Queens- town in the eastern Cape , where they were peacefully , if illegally , awaiting the millennium . In northern Nyasaland in the first ...
... sect were killed by police gunfire when they refused to move from an African location near Queens- town in the eastern Cape , where they were peacefully , if illegally , awaiting the millennium . In northern Nyasaland in the first ...
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... sects had an esoteric character ; the Taoist priesthood could be entered only through an initiation that culminated in the transmission of the sect's sacred scriptures . Sacred texts served to pro- cure communication with the gods and ...
... sects had an esoteric character ; the Taoist priesthood could be entered only through an initiation that culminated in the transmission of the sect's sacred scriptures . Sacred texts served to pro- cure communication with the gods and ...
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... sect , founded c . 1140 by Hsiao Pao- chen ; the Chen - ta Tao ( Perfect and Great Tao ) sect of Liu Te - jen ( 1142 ) ; and the Ch'üan - chen ( Perfect Reali- zation ) sect , founded in 1163 by Wang Ch'ung - yang ( Wang Che ) . This last ...
... sect , founded c . 1140 by Hsiao Pao- chen ; the Chen - ta Tao ( Perfect and Great Tao ) sect of Liu Te - jen ( 1142 ) ; and the Ch'üan - chen ( Perfect Reali- zation ) sect , founded in 1163 by Wang Ch'ung - yang ( Wang Che ) . This last ...
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