Diagrams of Kong-zong (空中图) THE RELIGION OF THE VOID (空道教) -------A new religion--------- By Hsu Yun-Ts’iao(许云樵) Translated by Chaing Liu I. INTRODUCTION Ever since the founding of Islam for more than a millennium no other new religion has appeared and it looked as if the era of divine right had elapsed, but unexpectedly at the end of the nineteenth century there sprang into existence in China a new cult know as the“Religion of the Great Doctrine of the Void(空中大道,空道教)” also titled “Religion of the Genuine Void(真空教)”. Not a few secret societies under the pseudo-denomination of church have sprung up and been kept active among the populace from the time when Han Shan-t’ung and his off-spring in Yuan Dynasty (1280-1365) feigningly declared the fallacious teaching that Amida was reincarnated upon the blossoming of the White Lotus and so founded the White Lotus Society. Even Hung Hiu-Chuan of Tai Ping Tien Kuo spread his propaganda under the name of God. But we al
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