Reikai Monogatari, Tales of the Spirit World, is Omoto's second scripture, an eighty one volume work Onisaburo Deguchi dictated across two periods, 1921 to 1926 and 1933 to 1934, either side of the years he spent imprisoned following the movement's first state suppression. It sets out the creation of the universe, the nature and activity of the gods, the origin of Omoto and the coming reconstruction of the world into a divine kingdom, alongside allegorical narrative drawn from Onisaburo's own ascetic experience on Mount Takakuma in 1898. It stands alongside Deguchi Nao's Ofudesaki as one of Omoto's two scriptures, the founding revelation and its later systematic elaboration.
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StructureEighty one volumes, dictated across two periods, 1921 to 1926 and 1933 to 1934, on either side of Omoto's first state suppression. 1 Status
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Reikai Monogatari was authored by Onisaburo Deguchi, Omoto's co-founder, dictated over many volumes from the 1920s.
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Omoto's second scripture, elaborating Deguchi Nao's founding revelation.
Source Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial JapanNancy K. Stalker
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1. Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
Nancy K. Stalker, University of Hawai'i Press, 2007
2. Reikai Monogatari (Wikipedia)
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The first 72 volumes were written between 1921 and 1926, and the remaining 9 volumes between 1933 and 1934.
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