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Praeserving the One & Residing in Harmony

Tsai Yen-zen

1-12

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Daoist Thundre Magic (Wu-lei Fa)

Florian C. Reiter

27-46

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John Lagerwey

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Praeserving the One & Residing in Harmony: Z^u Xi’s Instruction

Tsai Yen-zen

1-12

"on the Zhouyi cantongqi, ... he subscribed an alias, Kongtong daoshi zouxin ... ... . ... In the Zhuangzi, Kongtong is an imaginary mountain where the Daoist immortal Guangcheng Zi ..., aged twelve-hundred years, dwells and gives lecture ... to the Yellow Emperor. [fn. 17 : "Zhuangzi, "Zaiyou"; see also Guo Qingfan, Zhuangzi jishi (Taipei : Guaya, 1991), 279-384."]

"According to the Lao Zi bianhua jing, discovered at Dunhuang, Lao Zi went through various transformations ... and assumed different names in Chinese history."

in the era of mythic emperor __

he was named __

Z^u-ron

Guan-c^en Zi

[Huan Di] ‘Yellow Emperor’

Tian-lao

"Su Shi (1037-1101) ... wrote a commentary on the conversation between Guangcheng Zi and the Yellow Emperor". (reference :- Su S^i : Guan-c^en Zi Jie, in Guan-c^en Zi Jie Wai San-z^on. Taipei : Xin-wen-fen, 1987.)

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Daoist Thundre Magic (Wu-lei Fa)

Florian C. Reiter

27-46

Wan Wen-qin "(early 12^th ct.) allegedly received his initiation from the deity Mother of Lightning Dianmu ... ." ("PSDWW")

"The compendium A Corpus of Daoist Rituals (Daofa huiyuan ...) contains the Hidden Documents of Radiance of Thunder of the Anterior Heaven Xiantian leijing yinshu ... that present an extended version of the Spell of Lord Wood Mulan zhou ... containing the phrase "red cock and purple swan, soar far without boundary". Here Bai Yuchan ... (fl. 1209-1224) explains that "the Thunder books of the Tang Heavenly Master Ye Fashan show the Amulet of the Red Cock and Purple Swan. You can .. expose the amulet in a south-eastern location in a water jar and recite the Spell of Lord Wood. ..."" (DZ 1220:87.12a)

He stands towering over the constellation well jing ..., [meaning the element] wood and [the emblematic animal] tapir." ["DTh"]

[DZ 1220:83.3a-b] "I force the breaths to return to the centre of the heavenly joints where they remain congealed ... . ... I only see golden radiance evolving in front of me. ... Rays shoot into my eyes, and then I see a golden character ... at the entrance of the dipper where it creates one halo of golden radiance like the rising red sun."

"Then ... the [spirit] emissary ... takes shape out of the extreme ultimate and has an endowment of vital energies [of the star] Lianzhen [fn. 32 : "DZ 1220:82.18a-b has the star Lianzhen to be the heart "on the inside", whereas on the outside the heart is the star Pojun (Beidou)."] in the Northern Dipper. The emissary emerges like a golden crow that soars to the entrance of the Dipper ... . Now, the ritual master ... shouts the sound of the one character hong .. . The emissary of the Gold Elixir Jindan shizhe ... passes through the heavenly orifices of the Posterior Heaven and enters the kidneys (shenhai ...) where he whips the dragons. ... . ... Gold-Elixir emissary to "ascend Mount Kunlun where he ... mingles with the external [cosmic] messengers ..."."

p. 33

"the world will know ... the night demons amidst the thunders and the black crows in the clouds. {cf. Scottish "Ravens and the Black Rain"}

There are black crow and (in India) black deer – both perhaps forms of the "black sun".}

p. 34

"the Heavenly Mother Marici in front of the sun. In front of her ... there is a halo of golden radiance that melts with the sun. A golden crow is inside [the golden halo] and seems to fly away but does not do so."

{/Marici/ is, in Samskr.ta, the feminine (cf. doe-deer mother of Quetzalcoatl?) of /marica/ ‘golden deer’; cf. sun as deer (albeit white) on p. 33 of Codex Borgianus Mexicanus.}

p. 37

"A priest who employs the spirit patronage of Marici holds a register containing the names of the divinity and her subordinate charges ... . Otherwise [according to DZ 1220:90.7a] "one would just now know who the [spirit] messenger is"."

You expel the fire of the heart to descend and enter the Ancestral palace together with the water of the kidneys so as to amalgamate and form a [spirit] infant (yinger ...) [in the Ancestral Palace]. The infant ascends and honours the sphere of the god-emperors."

p. 36

... the Thunder emissary ... is now on the paper and has the might to speed away. Finally, some secret of identity {of the Thundre-emissary?} are added ..., and two

p. 37

wings {for a hint to the emissary’s to fly away} are also indicated. The priest now thinks of the emissary as he [the emissary] soars off to do his duty."

p. 40

[quoted from DZ 1220:67.15] "all the intelligent, upright and meritorious people of past ages who ...

p. 41

fostered a mind that was bent to help man and nature ... dissolved their body and evaporated they afterwards became divinities of Thnnder and thunderclaps".

"The yin-energies wrap up the yang-energies so that they cannot escape. It is for this reason that one uses the true energies of the gang-stars to crash against the yin-energies and lead out the yang-energies. ... The true astral energies trigger the force of lightning and actually cause the changing appearance of yin and yang" (according to DZ 1220:67.16a-b).

"The ascent and descent of yin and yang lead to the clashes of potentials that produce the sound of thunderclaps" (according to DZ 1220:67.19a).

Kangmin zi Hua ... son of emperor Ku ... and grandson of emperor Zhuan ... : today I summon you to proceed quickly. Home of Thunder ... act urgently as this is law and order by the patriarch ... ."

Yuguang, the second son of Taihao, is identified with the Thnnder divinity Marshal Deng of Blazing Fire ... ."

According to Bai Yu-c^an [DZ 1220:82.26b],

__

is identical with __

Xin Han-c^en

Hua Han-c^en, the 2^nd son of Lon-yan

Z^an Yuan-bo

Z^i S^ou-min, the son of Fu-fen Hei-li

within the human body [according to DZ 1220:82.28a]

deity

hath as residence the __ (organ)

Den S^uai

heart

Xin S^uai

gall

Z^an S^uai

kidneys

within the night-sky [according to DZ 1220:82.23b]

deity

is __

at __ (constellation)

Z^u-ron

Fire Official

Southern Dipper

Xuan-yuan

"God-Emperor of the Smoky Department"

Zi-wei

p. 43

"Qingwei Daoism explicitly continued Thunder Magic and Shenxiao ... Daoism. ...

Since the very beginning, the Qingwei group displayed a grand lineage. The book Great Method and Original Revelation of Pure Subtlety Qingwei yuanjiang dafa ... starts the lineage with the Emergence and Circulation of Qingwei at Prime Origin (Yuanshi qingwei yingyun ...)."

p. 44

"The book Zhai-Methods ... of Pure Subtlety ... introduces [DZ 224 Qingwei zhaifa 1.1a] the Qingwei palace where the Heavenly King of Prime Origin (Yuanshi tianwang ...) revealed the mysteries to Yuchen daojun ... and Taishang laojun."