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{A serpent wound around a god’s body could indicate [the heterodox Zaratustrian god] Zrvan Dargho-cvadhata.}

Thereupon you concentrate and see yourself as this Divine General of the Five Thunders. His head touches the heaven {god Tuphon’s "head touched the stars, his vast wings darkened the sun, fire flashed from his eyes" (GM 36.a)}, and he stands on the earth. Close around his are fiery clouds that wrap him up with the divine and fierce might of blazing fire. This is "Blazing Fire", the Heavenly Lord Teng (Yen-huo

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Teng t>ien-chu:n ...) who is the ruling and commanding divinity in the rituals of the fire chariots (Huo-chu: fa ...)."

(3a)

"You concentrate on your tongue

as the Thunder Axe (lei-fu ...).

The gall

is the rumbling [of Thnnder] (p>i-li ...).

The heart

is Marshal Teng (Teng shuai ...).

(3b)

The gall {again!}

is Marshall Hsin (Hsin shuai ...).

The kidneys

are Marshall Chang (Chang shuai ...).

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The Rumbling Great Divinity (p>i-li ta-shen ...) ... mounts the breaths of the gall."

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(4a) "let the breaths inside the ears produce the sounds that are the thunders (wei lei ...)."

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(87:4a) "You concentrate ... on the Three Marshalls (san-shuai ...) ... . They force their way upwards to the window on top of your head where they leave."

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just the two breaths. They ... assemble to become (chieh-ch>eng ...) the Grand Marshal (ta-shuai ...)."

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(81:3a) "You circulate the black breaths of the k>an-palace ... to let them pass upwards to the Jade Tower (yu:-lou ...). You ... concentrate in meditation on the Marshal, who now mounts the ten thousand folds of black clouds."

... legions of Night Demons of Grand Might on the left side and on the right side receive ... the heavenly order (t>ien-ling ...) to assist and support the Venerable of the Five Thunders.

I have reverently received the decrees of the Jade Emperor (yu:-ti ...) and so I can save the people in the world. ...

When [such people] ask me to ascend to the heavenly realms,

I go to attend [the heavenly] audiences ... .

When [such people] ask me to enter the Department of Earth (ti-fu ...),

I straightforward reach the Palace of the Dark Spheres (Yu-ching kung ..).

When [such people] ask me to enter the Water Department (shui-fu ...)

the waves of the four seas the open up [a throughway for me].

Marshall Hsin "wears an ox-ear cap,

has red hair,

an iron face and

silver teeth like daggers ... .

He is clad in green cloud-fur-garments (yu:n-ch>iu ...) and

black boots.

His left hand holds the Thunder files (lei-pu ...).

His right hand holds the Thunder brush (lei-pi ...).

An abundance of radiance is seen above his apparition."

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(14a) "holding the writing brush [in your hand] ..., you shut up the breath and hold onto it without any breathing at all ... . You use speedily the writing brush to write down the amulet {talisman}. Having done [the writing] you let the splendour of ... all the generals and emissaries (chiang-li ...) that you summoned enter the centre of the amulet. Your mouth releases ... the breath right above the amulet, and golden radiance will cover [the amulet]. In your meditative vision you see the generals and emissaries who were summoned and are [now] inside the amulet that you wrote."

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(14b) "The hun- ... and p>o- ... souls are guarded at the purple window (tzu-hu ...). The purple window is the gate of fate (ming-men ...) and the location {placenta?} that connects [the embryo] with the womb. The three [cinnabar fields] must not desert each other." {cf. oaths for mutual-nondesertion in the Romance of Three Kingdoms etc.}

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(15a) "You blow on the tip of your writing brush, and so a golden radiance flashes brightly with all its splendour. You write the amulet on paper, which is like the force of a dragon that crawls on."

and your own body (wu-shen ...) also rises to be as tall as ten thousand chang.

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"Visualize your own body to be [the Heavenly Worthy] of Prime Origin (yu:an-shih ...). [fn. 99 : for another such visualization, vide :- TT 1221:40.19b] There are 10,000

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divinities in attendance all around. Your body has a radiant shining. You breathe in the breaths in the five colours of the five directions, and your hands twist firmly the mudra^ Jade Purity (yu:-ch>ing chu:eh ...)."

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(18a) "There is a red breath that moves straight downwards to the space between the two kidneys. ... . ... the red breath in my heart descends downwards, whereas the [perfect] water streams bubbling upwards, firmly encloses the red breath and makes its way from the liver to exit (ch>u ...) at the root of the tongue. I only visualise the cloudy breath (yu:n-ch>i ...) in my mouth that suddenly exits and in front of my face revolves, passes the sun-window (sun-hu ...) and gradually becomes as big as the wheel of a carriage that rolls on and ascends to heaven. Those clouds fill overflowing the cosmos (liu-ho ...). On the side of the ears, there is the sound of wind and thunder that rumbling becomes clearly discernible."

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snow and rain.

"The stones become shining (jun ...) and emit water. ...

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A second time you let ascend (sheng ...) the breath of red-yang (hung-yang ..) ...

(19b) There is a saying : The Dipper of the South (nan-tou ...) moulds the hun[-souls] ... . ... The womb of [the element] water (shui-t>ai ...) is set up at the position of ... the sun. ... There is a black radiance within the sun, and this [black radiance] ... belongs to the theories for the prayers ... . In the case of prayers ... you must "boil the mountains and cook the sea" (p>eng-shan chu-hai ...) ... . [fn. 115 : "TT 1220:85.6b "first call upon the fire of the heart. Boil the water of the kidneys, and ... a painful heat within the belly ... is the cooking sea that spills over. Following this, you draw the water of the kidneys so as to enter the top [of the head], the boiling mountain."] You just let the breath of red-yang

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When a brilliant and steaming blaze of fire occurs in the middle of the sun, ...

"You focus [your meditation] on your heart that ... the red breath that is inside and sinks straight down to the two kidneys. You see one clear pool of perfect water (chen-shui ...). The red breath of the heart sinks down, and this [perfect] water bubbles up enclosing the red breath. [Starting out] from the liver [the red breath]

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passes the heart and exits from the base of the tongue. You feel the cloudy breath (yu:n-ch>i ...) in your mouth (wu-k>ou ... [fn. 120 : "my mouth"]) that suddenly exits and in front of your face revolves, passes the sun-window (sun-hu ...) and gradually becomes as big as the wheel of a carriage to roll on. These clouds fill overflowing the cosmos (liu-ho ...)."

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(21a) "You concentrate in meditation on the one spark of golden radiance within the spleen that separates to become two sparks. One spark moves on revolving to enter the space between the two kidneys where it changes to become an agglomeration of black breath (hei-ch>i ..). This agglomeration rapidly rushes straight upwards to exit from both eyes. ... After that, you concentrate in meditation on the [second] spark of golden radiance that revolving enters

However, the black breath encloses the red breath and forms countless agglomerations beyond any limits (pai-ch>ien-wan t>uan ...). At this point in time, a great heat is inside the human body and sweat perspires."

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After this and for a second time the nostrils inhale the pure breath that forces its way to enter the mysterious female (hsu:an-p>in ...). ...

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You only see the black clouds and the shining of fire that collides with heaven and fills overflowing the cosmos. ... At his time, a great heat is within your body and sweat perspires. You must ... keep on until the heat becomes scorching."

(23a) "You first concentrate your meditation on the red breath in your heart. The red breath forces its way downwards to the mysterious female (hsu:an-p>in ...). ... The one spark of golden radiance that is just below the spiritual force of the spleen makes its way directly to the two kidneys. You ... lift up the black breath of the

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You grasp the killing breath of the heavenly kang[-star] (t>ien-kang sha-ch>i ...) that burning blazingly shoots forth from the black breaths. Moreover, your nostrils inhale pure breaths that rush to the Heavenly Kang[-star] of the Fire of the Heart (hsin-huo t>ien-kang ...). they rush directly to the T>ai-i Cave (T>ai-i hsu:eh ...)."

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(18a) "the four Correct Ones (ssu-cheng ...) constitute the bowl of the dipper (kang ...) [fn. 139 : "t>ien-kang ... "four stars that form the bowl of the ... constellation"] ... . ... Heaven uses the tou ... [fn. 140 : "tou ... "peck" ... a dry measure"] to manage the ten thousand transformations. ... It is for this reason that the heart has seven orifices to correspond (ying ...) to the Northern Dipper. ...

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(18b) "My heart is then inside {interior chambre of heart} [... the star] lien-chen ..., and on the outside {external aperture} my heart is [the star] p>o-chu:n ... ."

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(23a) "Man, however, can snatch the creative impetus of heaven and earth. ... All causes are together with heaven and earth mutually inside and outside."

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(25b) "Any single spark of thought and calculation emerges at the centre of ... the ancestral breath (tsu-ch>i ...) [fn. 154 : "ancestral vital energy"] of heaven and earth. As soon as any single thought is born, it floats (ku ...) into ... the lodge of the spiritual agents. ... If I am to know ... the ancestral breath, I must resolutely hold on to this one spark of perfect breath (chen-ch>i ...)."