Notes from: 'The Taiping Rebellion, Volume II, Documents and Comments
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- Notes from: The Taiping Rebellion, Volume II, Documents and Comments
- Hong Xiuquan's Background
- Started taking exams aged 15/16- often in the top 10
- Given 'Good words to Admonish the Age' 1836
- Taught him to have faith in God and Christ, obey 10 Command-ments, and to never worship demons
- Wrote poems as repentance for sins when ill
- Received instruction for several months at church in Canton
- Also baptised/ given commission
- 'Gospel Jointly Witnessed and Heard by the Imperial Eldest and Second Eldest Brothers'
- Illness 1837= most important incident in his life
- Claimed that during this period he went to heaven and was revealed to be a son of God
- Claimed God's plans were designed to be heard but not understood by worldly people
- Preaches that nobility and wealth will not get you to heaven, and the heart which reveres heaven will not feel greed or want
- Demons must 'find their way early to hell'
- 'Correctness is precious; worldly men are to be instructed and guided to shun the evil devils'
- Illness 1837= most important incident in his life
- Poem by Hong Xiuquan
- 'My hand has the power, both in heaven and earth, to punish and kill, to behead the depraved, retain the upright, and give relief to the people
- 'Ode on the Sword'
- 'I capture all the demons and return them t the web of the earth'
- 'Ode on Repentance'
- 'Let us turn back early to the fruits of true repentance, let our hearts be led by earthly customs'
- 'Ode to Awaken the Minds of Men'
- 'Since their primeval hearts are completely lost, how can they escape the earthly dust?'
- 'Idols carved of wood or moulded of clay have been falsely taken as true'
- 'Manifesto on the Right to the Throne'
- 'Universal sovereignty does not belong to any one particular individual; to the exclusion of the rest... the right to govern consists in possession'
- Hong Xiuquan's Background
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