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Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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a mystictreatise supernaturally received from the hands of Laotszehimself. He was engaged in manipulating the elixir of thedragon and tiger, when he met a spirit who said, Inthe Pesung Mountain is a stone house, where may befound writings of the three emperors and a liturgicalbook. By getting these you may ascend to Heaven, ifyou pass through the course of discipline which theyenjoin. * He dug and found them. By means of themhe was able to fly, to hear distant sounds, and to leave hisbody. After going through a thousand days of discipline,and receiving instruction from a goddess, who taught Popes, Priests, and Temples, zn him to walk about among the stars, he proceeded to fightwith the king of the demons, to divide mountains andseas, and to command the wind and thunder. All thedemons fled before him, leaving not a trace of theirretreating footsteps. On account of the prodigiousslaughter of demons by this hero, the wind and thunderwere reduced to subjection, and various divinities came
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Chang Taoling. with eager haste to acknowledge their faults. In nineyears he gained the power to ascend to Heaven. ^ The later years of the mystics earthly experiencewere spent on the Dragon-Tiger JNIountain, and it washere, at the age of one hundred and twenty-three, aftercompounding and swallowing the grand elixir, he ascendedto the heavens to enjoy the bliss of immortality. The Heavenly Teacher.—The name of Chang, the 374 ^^^ Dragon, Image, and Demon. Heavenly Teacher, is on every lip in China; he is onearth the Vicegerent of the Pearly Emperor in Heaven,and the Commander-in-chief of the hosts of Taoism.Whatever doubts there may be about Peters apostolicsuccessors, the present Pope, Chang LX., boasts of anunbroken line for threescore generations. He, the chiefof the wizards, the true man (i.e., *^ the ideal man ),as he is called, wields an immense spiritual powerthroughout the land. The family obtained possessionof the Dragon-Tiger Mountain in the Kiangse provinceabout A.D. 1000

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