ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/ufig_l_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>ET us now turn to Bunyan’s allegory and see how carefully he has preserved the framework which we have detected as being the basis of the ritual of this Chinese secret Society concerning which he could, of course, have known nothing. Strangely enough he must have been writing his famous book at about the same date as the Chinese tradition gives for the foundation of the Hung Society, for Khang Hsi reigned from 1662–1723.
