#

__ Gon ("__ Palace")

deity

character

1^st

Yu-xu ("Jade Vacuity") = Yu-qin ("Jade Clarity")

Yuan-s^i Tian-zun ("Primordial Beginning Heavenly Worthy")

tian-dao z^i fa-yuan-di (Heaven-Way origin-place)

2^nd

Tai-qin ("Supreme Clarity")

Li Lao-jun

elixir cauldron; 1-horned blue ox

3^rd

S^an-qin ("Superior Clarity")

Ton-tian Jiao-z^u ("Penetrating Heaven Teachings-Master")

dao-fa ("Way-Techniques")

4^th

Don-hua ("Eastern Florescence")

Mu Gon ("Lord Wood")

5^th

Nan-hua ("Southern Florescence")

C^i-jin ("Red Essence")

6^th

Western Florescence = Yao-c^i ("Jasper Pool")

Jin Mu ("Metal Mother")

7^th

Bei-hua ("Northern Florescence")

S^ui-jin ("Water Essence")

8^th

Central Florescence

Huan Lao ("Venerable Lord")

9^th

Z^i-s^en ("Supreme Sage")

Confucius in Wen-hua Dian ("Literary Florescence Hall")

peach-trees & plum-trees

10^th

Xiao-yao ("Leisurely Bliss")

the retired 17^th Jade Thearch [namely Xuan-qion Gao S^an-di (p. 191)]

__-tian ("__ Heaven")

deity

Z^on ("Central")

the [18^th] Jade Thearch [named Guan S^en Di-jun, p. 188] in Pretious Hall of the Numinous Empyrean

Don ("Eastern")

[San-guan Da-di ["the 3 Official Great Thearchs" (p. 192)]

Nan ("Southern")

the Wen-hen S^en-di ("... Sagely Thearch") [p. 188: named Guan Pin Tai-zi, son of Guan S^en Di-jun in the Yu-que ("Jade Palace")]

Xi ("Western")

[p. 197: Yuan-zun ("Court-Honored")]

Bei "Northern")

[p. 195: Bei-ji S^an-di ("North Pole High Thearch")]

p.

#

__ Bu ("__ Ministry")

function

188

1^st

San-cai ("3 Talents")

statistics of Heaven, Earth, and mankind

2^nd

Qi-z^en ("7 Caelestial Bodies")

movements of sun, moon & 5 planets

189

3^rd

Lei-dian ("Thunder [&] Lightning")

Fen-yu ("Wind [&] Rain"

S^uan-xue ("Frost [&] Snow")

S^ui-huo ("Water [&] Fire")

4^th

Jian-s^uai ("Military Generals")

360 armies of 100,000 soldiers each

5^th

Jian-c^a ("Investigations")

recording misdemeanours

__ Fu ("__ Bureau")

6^th

Xin-z^en ("Administrative")

records for all numina

7^th

Xian-ji ("Immortal Registers")

memorializing on promotion of deities to higher ranks

189-190

8^th

S^en-z^i ("Divine Employment")

appointments of meritorious souls

190

9^th

General (/ Universal) Salvation ("Pu-du")

Ri-ye You-s^en ("Day & Night Patrolling Spirits")

--

10^th

?

191

11^th

Hua-yu ("Transformation [&] Nourishment")

"transformational nourishment"

12^th

Wen-s^u ("Documents")

communications

__ Yuan ("__ Court")

its officials

Z^en Wen ("Promoting Literature")

3000 writers & poe:ts

Luan-wu ("Phoinix Duties")

3000 planchette-mediums

structure

denizen

Nan Gon Fu-you Gon ("Southern Palace Reliable Succour Palace")

Jin-que Nei-xian ("Golden Palace Grand Councillor")

Tai-bai Jin-xin Gon ("... Golden Star Palace")

Golden Palace Supreme Councillor

Nan-tian Men ("Southern Heaven Gate")

Qi-tian Da-s^en ("Aequal [-to-] Heaven Great Sage")

__ Gon ("__ Palace")

Thearch

title of thearch: __-guan Da-di ("__-Official Great Thearch")

Zi-wen ("Purple Tenuity")

Yao

Tian ("Heavenly")

Qin-xu ("Clear Vacuity")

S^un

Di ("Earthly")

Qin-hua ("Green Florescence")

Yu

S^ui ("Water")

p.

Palace

__ Fu (" __ Bureau"}

function

193

Purple Tenuity

Zon-wu Wen-s^u ("General Affairs and Documents")

Z^en-dao Gui-z^en ("Realizing the Way and Returning to Perfection")

registration for holders of newly-bestowed reward-positions

Z^u-z^en S^en-jian ("Promotion and Demotion of the Perfected Ones")

assessing job-performances of the deities

Ci-fu Yan-nian ("Granting Blessings and Extending Lifespans")

reports by the 3 corpse-spirits

Clear Vacuity

Zon-wu Wen-s^u ("General Affairs and Documents")

Bao-z^on Jian-xiao ("Praising Loyalty and Rewarding Filiality")

reports by terrestrial control-spirits

194

S^e-zui Jie-ye ("Forgiving Sins and Resolving Karman")

counting merits and demerits

Xiao-zai Jie-e ("Cancelling Disasters and Resolving Calamities")

tally of humans' withstandings of mo-kao ("daimonic trials")

Green Florescence

Zon-wu Wen-s^u ("General Affairs and Documents")

where perfected souls await assignments

Jian-he Hon-s^ui ("River Floods")

deciding where and when floods ought to occur

Si-s^en Gon-guo ("Life or Death according to Merit or Demerit")

determining appropriate time of birth & death

Ren-dao You-jion ("Human Way amd Tenebrous Prisons")

granting of "ghostly immortal" ranks in the netherworld

Xiu-s^en Ge ("for Cultivators of Perfection: Pavilions")

Xiao-zi Tin ("for Filial Sons: Kiosks")

Z^on-c^en Tin ("for Loyal Ministers: Halls")

#

centre

resident

1^st

Don-c^u Gon ("Eastern Kitchen Palace")

Si-min Z^en-jun ("Overseer-of-Destiny True Lord")

2^nd

Jiu-tian Ma Tian-jun Fu ("9-Heavens Ma Caelestial-Lord Bureau")

Si-min Z^en-jun's bodyguard garrison, commanded by True Lord Marshall Ma

3^rd

S^en-non Dian ("Divine Farmer Hall")

S^en-non Da-di

4^th

Don-dou Xin-jun Fu ("Eastern Dipper Astral-Lord Bureau")

overlord of all Eastern star-constellations

5^th

Tai-yan Gon ("Supreme Yan Palace")

the sun-deity Divine-Lord Supreme Yan

#

__ Gon ("__ Palace")

resident

nature

1^st

Bei-dou ("Northern Dipper")

Bei-dou Xin-jun ("Northern Dipper Astral Lord")

crosser-out, with z^u-bi ("red brush"), of names of persons selected to die

2^nd

Don-yue ("Eastern Marchmount")

Don-yue Da-di ("Eastern Marchmount Great Thearch")

record-keeper of human conduct

3^rd

Guan-han ("Wide Cold")

Tai-yin Xin-jun ("Supreme Yin Astral Lord")

the moon-deity, in Qin-xu Fu ("Clear Vacuity Bureau")

4^th

Nan-dou ("Southern Dipper")

Nan-dou Xin-jun ("Southern Dipper Astral Lord")

determining birth-dates and birth-places

5^th

Bei-c^en ("North Pole")

Bei-c^en; Z^on-gon; Tian-s^u; Tian-ji; Ji-xin

these 5 are astral deities

___-dao Yuan ("__-the-Way Court")

function

Xiu ("Cultivating")

attend lectures on "methods of cultivating perfection"

Z^en ("Realizing")

receive reward positions in temples in human world

Tian ("Caelestial")

institution of advanced learning

a charm

scissors

scales

mirror

a ruler

sword

lamp

surface whereupon to write

instrument for doing the writing

human grasper[s] of that instrument

sand-covered surface

Y-shaped (2-pronged) wooden stick

2, left prong by medium, right prong by assistant

sand-covered surface

Y-shaped wooden stick (in Min-z^en Tan), or wooden hoop with downward-pointing stick attached (in Yi-guan Dao)

1, with both hands

sand-covered surface

small metal stylus, or small Y-shaped wooden stick

1

yellow paper

red felt pen (in Min-z^en Tan), or brush (in Z^en-zon S^u-hua S^e)

1

text-part

simile

word-for-word

gold & jade

sentence-for-sentence

pearls

spirit-writing

comparative

[instead of by luan,] by "dragon's head" (p. 240: in Simha-pur, Malaya); [instead of with pronged instrument,] with kio^-a' ("divination chair") (p. 241: in Bao-an)

[Hellenic] drakon approaching chair of Andromede

period

location

1 y., praeparatory

Ju-s^an Suo ("Gathering-the-Good Institute")

9 to 10 y.s study

Academy of Limitless Heaven for Realizing the Way

date written, Ch.E.

title

1982

Wu-ji Huan-mu Huan-xin Tian-jin ("Limitless-Heaven's August Mother Awakening Caelestial Scripture")

1984

S^un Di Quan-xiao Jin ("S^un Thearch Filial-Piety Admonishing Scripture")

1987

Wu-ji Z^en-dao Xuan-miao Jin ("Limitless-Heaven's Realizing-the-Way Mysterious and Marvellous Scripture")

1995/6

Di-Mu Pu-hua Z^en-jin ("Earth-Mother's Universal-Transformation True Scripture")

date written, Ch.E.

title

1979/80

San-cao C^en-dao Jie-jin S^i-z^uan ("Three-Realms Completing-the-Way Historical Records of Short-Cuts")

1980/1

C^u-dao Xin-s^en Lin-z^u-zi You-ji ("... Spiritual-Pearl-Master Travel-Records")

1981/2

Yao-c^i S^en-z^i ("Jasper-Pool Sacred Gazetter")

1982/3

S^ui-jin Gon You-ji ("Water-Crystal Palace Journey-Record")

1985

Wan-si-c^en You-ji ("Wrongfully-deceaseds' City Journey-Record")

1985/6

Dao-c^en Z^en-li ("Way-Journey True Principles")

Wen-hen S^en-di Gon-guo Lu: (... Sagely Thearch's Merit-&-Demerit Statutes")

Tian-lu: S^en-dian ("Caelestial Statutes Sacred Canon")

Resolving Confusions ... transmitted from Jiu-tian Xuan-nu: ("Nine-Heavens Mysterious-Woman")