__-qin ("__ Clarity")

Yu ("Jade")

S^an ("Highest")

Tai ("Great")

__-tian ("__ Heaven")

Qin-wei ("Pure Tenuity")

Yu-yu ("Yu's leftovers")

Da-c^i ("Great Scarlet")

__ tian-zun ("__ Caelestial Worthy")

Yuan-s^i ("Original Commencement")

Lin-bao ("Numinous Treasure")

Dao-de ("Way [&] Virtue")

__-qi ("__ Pneuma")

s^i-qin ("Inaugural Red")

yuan-huan ("Original Yellow")

xuan-bai ("Mysterious White")

Don- ("Cavern __")

z^en ("Reality")

xuan ("Mystery")

s^en ("Spirit")

__ Bao-jun ("__ Treasure-Lord")

Tian ("Caelestial")

Lin ("Numinous")

S^en ("Divine")

textual corpus

S^an-qin

Lin-bao

San-huan

transcendent persons

s^en-ren ("saints")

z^en-ren ("perfecteds")

xian-ren ("immortals")

p. 46 Chart of the Ranks and Functions of Perfected Numinous Beings, by Tao Hon-jin (Chr.E. 456-536),

p. 48 Supreme Secret Essentials (Chr.E. 588), 34:88-100

#

domain

ruling-deity

#

domain

9^th

Yu-jin

Jade Capital

8^th

Jiu-tian

9 Heavens

1^st

Yu-qin

Yuan-s^i tian-zun

7^th

Jade Clarity

Original-Commencement Caelestial-Worthy

6^th

Zi-wei

Purple Tenuity

2^nd

S^an-qin

Tai-s^an Yu-c^en Xuan-huan Da Dao-jun

5^th

Highest Clarity

Most-High Jade-Luminary Great Way-Lord

4^th

Tai-wei

Great Tenuity

3^rd

Tai-ji

Jin-que Di-jun

3^rd

Great Ultimate

Golden-Portal Imperial-Lord

4^th

Tai-qin

Tai-s^an Lao-jun & S^an-huan Tai-s^an Wu-s^an Da Dao-jun

2^nd

Great Clarity

Most-High Old-Lord & Highest-Sovereign Most-High Supreme Great Way-Lord

5^th

Jiu-gon

Jiu-gon S^an-s^u

1^st

9 Palaces

9-Palaces Secretary

6^th

Don-tian

Z^on Mao-jun

Cavern-Heavens

Middle Mao-Lord

7^th

Fen-du

Bei-yi Da-di

Northern-Yin Great-Emperor

Tai-su Gon ("Great Purity Palace") of

Tai-su Jun ("Great Purity Lord")

Tai-he Gon ("Great Harmony Palace") of

Tai-he Jun ("Great Harmony Lord")

Jin-hua Lou ("Golden Flower Tower") housing the

Xian-z^en Yu-lu ("Immortals' [&] Perfecteds' Jade Registers")

era (24:1a-b)

Lon-han

C^i-min

S^an-huan

Dragon Magnificence

Scarlet Light

Highest Sovereign

text, in (32:1a)

scripts

scriptures

writs

at heaven of

Jade Clarity

Highest Clarity

the 3 Sovereigns

corpus

S^an-qin

Lin-bao

San-huan

quality of scripture

class of scripture

world where belonging

when destroyed

superior

from the Caelestial Worthy of Original Commencement

above form

never

median

alchemical & fu-tu (talismanic charts) of the Great Clarity

form

end of great kalpa

Tai-pin Dao-jin ("Great Peace Way Scriptures")

inferior

yan-s^en ("nourishing life")

desire

end of small kalpa

#

__ ri (__ days)

specifically

prohibition on them

1^st

Wu-s^i Di ("5 Stones' Death")

din-c^ou in winter

do no release hua (efflorescence)

2^nd

Wu-xie S^en ("5 Evils Life")

gui-hai in winter

not buy elixir ingredients, nor teach, nor enter a mountain

3^rd

Wu-yue S^an-jue ("5 Peaks Extinction")

din-c^ou in winter

compounding elixirs & seeking their ingredients are both forbidden

4^th

Tian-kai Di-po ("Heaven-Opening [&] Earth-Cracking")

gui-wei & -c^ou in winter

making the crucible is forbidden

5^th

3^rd d. & jia-yin of 7^th month

for men

7^th d. & gen-s^en of 1^st month

for women

2^nd Taboo (20:6a) -- forget to utter name & cognomen of the S^a-zei ("Killer Bandit"): they are S^i-con Zi & Hun Ni-xi, respectively

4^th Calamity (20:6b) -- the odor of the burned skin of chicken or of hound

2^nd Adversity (20:7a) -- hearing the huan hun-po s^en ("summoning sound of the hun and the po"

cinnabar

realgar

orpiment

tortoise-shell

black-veratrum root

peach kernels

aconite tuber collected in spring

aconite tuber collected in autumn

pinellia tuberifera bulb

poison-ivy

sulphur

croton seed

rhinoceros horn

umbrellaleaf

musk

spindle-tree seed-wings

dried centipedes

millet

dried meat of ox & of sheep

boiled carp

cooked eggs

jujubes

pears

oranges

"__ Supplement"

to the "Cavern of __"

is concerned with __

who obtain their status through __

Great Clarity

Spirit

pin ("ranks") of Immortals

the Golden Elixir

Great Peace

Mystery

ye ("training") of the Perfecteds

the 10 Sections

Great Mystery

Reality

training of the Saints

the 5000 Characters

Normative Scripts of Correct Unity

"all"

[Caelestial Masters]

#

elixir

animal product

plant-food

effect

deities arriving

1^st

flower

p. 169 7 worms

p. 169 mulberry-dew

p. 170 transcend

2^nd

tally

p. 171 carp gall

p. 171 mulberry-dew

p. 177 destroy San-s^i (3 Corpses) & Jiu-c^on (9 Worms)

3^rd

elixir

p. 177 oyster shells

p. 179 keep away weapons

p. 179 Jade Men, Jade Lads

4^th

reverted

p. 181 dried meat of ox or mutton

p. 181 honey; dates & chestnuts

p. 181 the Bai-gui ("100 daimones") flee

5^th

pellet

p. 182 blood of a chick

p. 182 aconite

p. 182 "you will rise to heaven"

p. 182 Fen-bo ("Wind-Count"), Yu-s^i ("Rain-Master")

6^th

refined

p. 288, n. 9 liver of a yellow hound

p. 184 "abstain from cereals"

7^th

soft

p. 184 wild raspberries

p. 184 be rejuvenated

8^th

fixed

p. 186 bamboo

p. 186 Z^on-jin ("myriad sprites") not dare come

9^th

cold

p. 187 gall of a yellow hound

p. 187 "disppear"

p. 187 Si-min ("Director of Destinies")

p. 197 effects of ingesting it --

Thou wilt be able to:-

dissolve thy form, becoming invisible, and

to fly soaring to Tai-xu ("the Great Void").

An envoy of Tai-ji ("the Great Ultimate") will welcome thee with

Jin-dan ("the Golden Elixir") and Yu-lun ("the Winged-Wheel").

Thou wilt multiply thy form and transform thy shadow,

making them into thousands of white cranes.

Thou wilt rise to [the heaven of] Tai-wei ("Great Tenuity") and

wilt receive the rank of Z^en-xian ("Perfected Immortal").

Thy longevity will aequal that of San-guan ("the 3 Luminaries");

thou wilt revert to youth and move away from old age.

Thy complexion will shine like jade, and

in one instant thou wilt obtain yao-lin ("a radiant spiritual force").

manoeuvre

name

meaning

organ

exiteth

Yu-c^i

Jade Pond

mouth

entereth

Jin-s^i

Golden Chambers

lungs

ascendeth, by twisting & turning 3 times, to

You-guan

Obscure Barrier

kidneys

causeth to shine

Z^on-dan

Middle Cinnabar

= Crimson Palace

is established in

Min-men

Life-Gate

name

meaning

organ

Jian-gon

Crimson palace

heart

Huan-tin

Yellow Court

spleen

Zi-fan

Purple Chamber

gallbladder

Tai-can

Great Granary

stomach

text

deity

location

Central Scripture of Lao-zi 25

Yuan-guan Tai-yi Jun ("Original-Radiance Great-One Lord") = Old Man of the Southern Ultimate

heart

Central Scripture of Lao-zi 28

Rou-zi ("Flesh-Child") = Lan-lan ("Double Indigo")

Palace of the Purple Chamber

liquor

dried pine-seeds

rice

broth of millet

resideth in the Great Granary (= stomach).

sitteth "facing due south on a couch of jade and pearls, and a flowery canopy of yellow clouds" covereth him.

weareth "clothes with pearls of five hues."

His mother resideth above on his right, embracing and nourishing him;

his father resideth above on his left, instructing and defending him.

mother is

father is

Xuan-guan Yu-nu:

Z^on-ji Huan-lao = Huan-c^an Zi

Mysterious-Radiance Jade-Woman

Central-Ultimate Yellow-Old-man = Yellow-Gown Master

month

development

1^st

receive the qi (pneuma)

2^nd

receive the numina (lin)

3^rd

they are transformed together

4^th

coagulate the essence

5^th

trunk & head are established

6^th

alter self; take form

7^th

inner deities take their stations

8^th

the 9 orifices are luminous

9^th

the pneumata of the 9 Heavens are distributed; receive voice

10^th

Si-min (Director of Destinies) inscribeth Registers; receive one's destinies

visualize __

in __

the 9 Elixirs

the 9 Heavens

Yuan-fu ("the Original Father")

one's Upper Cinnabar Field

Yuan-mu ("the Original Mother")

one Lower Cinnabar Field

their union to generate an inner immortal body

one's Middle Cinnabar Field

the ancestors rise to the Jin-men ("Golden Gate") station in sun's circuit, where

they lian-z^i (refine their matter) by bathing themselves ye-lian-z^i s^ui (smelting-refining-matter water)

from Scripture of the Yellow Court

comment in Token for the Agreement of the Three, sections 30 & 8

section #

text

text

36

perform mu-yu ("ablutions"), discard fat

using glue to repair a pot

23

if thou nei-s^i ("observe internally") and gaze intimately, thou wilt see the Perfecteds everywhere

thy thoughts will absorb thy mind

34

open up bai-mai ("the 100 channels")

thy 100 channels churn like a caldron

4

tightly close Jin-guan ("the Golden Pass") and conceal S^u-ji ("the Pivotal Mechanism")

thine actions turning against thee

3

sleepless day & night, thou wilt achieve perfection

body becometh tired & exhausted

1

Scripture of the Nine Elixirs

2

persons of high rank

3

receiving a master

4

warding off noxious daimones

5

transmutation of cinnabar into Elixir

6

efficacy of Elixirs

7

crucibles & tripods

8

aqueous solutions of minerals

9

refining gold & silver

10

refining medicines

11

quicksilver

12

lead of the 9 cycles

13

cinnabar

14

realgar

15

sulphur & malachite

16

magnetite, arsenolite, alum, mirabilite, epsomite, & s^i-pi ("stone spleen")

17

vinegar & Hua-c^i ("the Flowery Pond')

18

stalactites, amethyst, red haematite, lake-salt, Turkestan salt, minium, white lead, native lead

19

refining copper, iron, & brass

20

interdictions, taboos, calamities, & adversities