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OCCULT JAPAN
OR
THE WAY OF THE GODS
AN ESOTERIC STUDY OF JAPANESE PERSONALITY AND POSSESSION
BY
PERCIVAL LOWELL
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
A POSSESSION BY THE GODS UPON ONTAKE. Page 6
Copyright, 1894,
By PERCIVAL LOWELL,
All rights reserved.
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
The manifestations of which this book treats were witnessed by the writer in 1891 and 1893. Since then the miracles, he learns, have become one of the sights that visitors are taken to see, and on the fifteenth of April and of September the grounds of his friend the high priest at Kanda show many a tourist from the other side of the world amid the devout crowd about the sacred bed of coals.
The illustrations are from photographs by the writer, taken at the time.
P. L.
CONTENTS.
* page
* Ontaké................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* Shintō................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................16
* Miracles................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................36
* Incarnations................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................97
* Pilgrimages and the Pilgrim Clubs................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................193
* The Gohei................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................230
* The Shrines of Ise................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................270
* Noumena:
* Self................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................278
* Selfhood a Force................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................285
* Possession................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................290
* Will................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................298
* Self as Ideas................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................304
* Ideas a Mode of Motion................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................307
* Ideas a Force................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................317
* Individuality................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................320
* The Japanese Character................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................323
* Dreams................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................332
* Hypnotic Trances................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................343
* Possession Trances................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................355
* The Shintō Gods................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................368
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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* A Possession by the Gods upon OntakéFrontispiece
* A Buddhist Divine Possession................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................162
* The Leader of a Pilgrim Band blessing the Holy Water................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................216
* A Pilgrim Club ascending Ontaké................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................224
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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