Ancient Chinese Saw/Perceived Big Picture
I am not saying the New Testament is historical and not symbolic. I am saying the big picture was and is literal, more real than the symbols. Moses symbolized his big picture, but the big picture he symbolized was more real than the symbols. FYI, honorable Chinese seek to live virtuously, so purely that there is no thing done in secret that can testify against them. Their Confucian goal is to be a superior person, and their guide is the "Words of Tian" - the words of heaven, i.e., of God. I assume Emperor Guang Wu so lived, as testified to by this revelation:
ANCIENT CHINESE RECORD ON THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS!
Chinese Emperor Guangwu Given Signs of Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection
This gives me a new appreciation of Yin and Yang (black and white, respectively).
From wikipedia: "Also unique among emperors in Chinese history was Emperor Guangwu's combination of decisiveness and mercy. He often sought out peaceful means rather than bellicose means of putting areas under his control. He was, in particular, one rare example of a founding emperor of a dynasty who did not kill, out of jealousy or paranoia, any of the generals or officials who contributed to his victories after his rule were secure."
Edit: Having written the above, I thought to take look at Chinese philosophers of Guang Wu's time. (Guang is spelled Chuang in Wade-Giles romanization. Guang was the founder of the Second, Latter Han Dynasty.) I picked up my beloved History of Chinese Philosophy by Fung (1952, Princeton University Press). I kid you not, opening the book the first words at the top of the page (vol. 1, p. 398) were "the sun and the moon are eclipsed." The sentence is "When unicorns fight, the sun and the moon are eclipsed." This is in chapter XV (15), "The Appendices of the Book of Changes and the Cosmology of the Huai-nan-tzu." What of the changes and the cosmology? The world is imagic!! And this was from the First (Former, Early) Han Dynasty, Guang Wu's teachers.
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