Rescuing those in danger, relieving those who suffer, and bringing salvation to sentient beings."

It does not love and cherish the noble, and does not cut off the lowly."

Thereby make it run into the cavern of Kunlun."

ailment

its cure

"legs and knees are ailing,

Mica ointment should be applied".

"to cure tetanus, ...

finely ground flower stamen rock".

Ten thousand gods will carry you out of the world of suffering (suopo)."

"The four provisional elements (that make up the body)

are unable to visit the Phoenix Palace (the realm of the immortals).

How can the Three Corpses

go to Yingzhou (one of the legendary islands of the immortals)?"

p. 171

Nine liquor vessels and divine lanterns capture the stars. ... For nine mornings were waited and listened (for the gods’ response?), circumambulating by pacing the void (buxu). [p. 239, n. 9:3 : "circumambulate the altar while chanting"] ...

p. 172

Immortal Youths descended on Nanchang [p. 239, n. 9:4 : "a river by this name that runs through Hebei Province] mounted on cranes."

Demons will be startled, and gods will be scared, afraid of getting captured and pursued."

This evening we shall ... one by one rides on phoenixes."

Declaring that the Sages of the Tao have been made aware."

As the fire and water come out from [Mt.] Kunlun."

"To scare off my mind’s demons with a shout {cf. the C^>an/Zen shout "kwatz"} is better than swinging my fists. Holding the ivory brush I write the talismans and message slabs."

[But] by not going along to the worship, I eliminate my skeleton shape."

p. 179

[quoted from Ma Yu : Don-xuan Jin-yu Ji 3/20a] "To help their pure jiao I ... give posthumous recommendation for lost souls to ascend the Jade Terrace."

p. 180

In the grotto of eternal spring they receive the golden liquor barrel."

Commander gods secretly observe you."

The man of the Tao ... braves the ice and frost and goes to the jiao feast."

To the vacuous emptiness and to Heaven and Earth, we give thanks for ... their secret mercy and compassion."

p. 183

"quickly perform the Yellow Register and pray".

[quoted from Wan C^u-yi : Yun-guan Ji 2/28a] "Having complete y Real [Nature], I spread out the incense altar at every place I go.

p. 184

I rescue the living and the dead".

[quoted from Liu C^u-xuan : Huan-di Yin-fu Jin Z^u 9b-10a] "Worldly people only know of earth deities and yin gods ... . They take gods carved from wood and molded from mud ... . ... [Only] when they have illnesses do they seek comfort [from the gods], and [only] when they have misfortune do they seek for blessings [for the gods]. ...

Worldly people do not understand that ... that which is the most numinous and most penetrating is their own primal Spirit, which has the capacity to penetrate Heaven and abound through Earth with brilliant radiance."

There will be divine officials secretly watching you day and night."

Near [the time of] the jiao in visiting the Realized [Beings] do not yell."

Speak [with wisdom] like an immortality scripture."

The Rectifying Rites of the Celestial Heart do not love the money of people."

"During the Eastern Han, Gan Ji received the Taiping jing in 157 volumes ... . ...

p. 242, n. 9:58 "the Taiping Dao, or Way of Great Peace ... orchestrated the famous Yellow Turban Revolt of 184."

Also, on the seventh day of the first month of the first year of the Yongshou reign era ..., the Most High [Lord Lao] descended upon Linqiong in Shu (Sichuan) and transmitted the Southern Bushel and Northern Bushel scriptures along with over 1,000 volumes of the 24 levels of Ritual Registers to the Heavenly Master, Zhang Daoling.

p. 242, n. 9:59 "Zhang Daoling was ... founder of the Tianshi Dao or Heavenly Masters School ... . ... . ... the Heavenly Masters School – led by Zhang Daoling’s grandson, Zhang Lu – ruled over ... western China (parts of present-day Sichuan and Shaanxi) ... until 215. ... Also known as the Zhengyi or Orthodox Unity".

During the Jin period ..., Wang Zuan met the Most High Lord of the Tao, who was riding his ... chariot in midair. [The Most High Lord of the Tao] gave him several dozen ... scriptures.

p. 242, n. 9:60 "Wang Zuan was a Taoist of Mt. Maji in Jintan, in prsesent-day Jiangsu Province ... During the final years of the Western Jin period (265-316)."

During the original (Northern) Wei period, the Heavenly Master, Kou Qianzhi, while residing on Mt. Song (Henan), received over sixty volumes of scriptures from the place of the Most High".

p. 242, n. 9:61 "These ... revelations took place in 415 and 423. Kou Qianzhi (d. 448)... set out to institute the Xin Tianshi Dao, or New Heavenly Masters School".

p. 192

"The prior emperor of Song (Huizong) of times past was originally a celestial man. There was a divine immortal named Lin Lingsu who took him on a spiritual journey up to Heaven and entered [with him]

p. 193

into the palace where he had lived [during his days as a caelestial man]. [Huizong] wrote on a placard ..., "In the Divine Empyrean one neither hungers nor thirsts, nor does any suffer from cold or heat. One roams carefree without affairs, freely, in blissful joy. I wish to life here forever and never return to the company of humans.""