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List of Illustrations

I Zhang Yuanxian, sixty-fourth Celestial Master, reads an ordination text 18
2 A candidate to ordination climbs a ladder of thirty-six swords 18
3 "Primordial graphs" in a revealed text 25
4 Taoist Master Chen Rongsheng writes a talisman (fu) 36
5 Talismans (fu) 37
6 "Great Register of the Most High Orthodox Unity for Removing Evil" 40
7 Ordination certificate 41
8 The cosmogonic sequence of the Five Greats (wutai) 54
9 The Taoist altar as a microcosm 57
ID Human figure surrounded by emblems associated with Yin and Yang
and the Five Agents 57
II An immortal 76
12 The head and the inner body 77
13 The body as a mountain 78
14 Inner deities of the Authentic Scripture of the Great Cavern 82- 83
15 Taoist novices at the Baiyun guan (Abbey of the White Clouds) ID3
16 Pavilion of the Three Clarities and the Four Sovereigns, Baiyun guan
(Abbey of the White Clouds) ID7
I? Medium during pilgrimage tour 157
18 Talismans for curing illness used by Japanese Shugend6 practitioners 194
19 Chart of the Way of the Elixir in Nine Cycles for the Cultivation of Perfection 195
20 The eight trigrams 202
21 Entrance arch to the Baiyun guan (Abbey of the White Clouds) 208
22 The Eight Immortals 221
23 The orthern Dipper 225
24 Treading the twenty-eight lunar mansions 238
25 Chenghuang (City God) 267
26 Egress of the Spirit 283
27 Visualization of the Lords of the thirty-nine "gates" of the human body 296
28 Daoyin postures in a Mawangdui manuscript 335
29 An alchemical tripod 361
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