CHINESE, TAOIST AND MAOSHAN MAGICK

 The weather is cold, you need magical heat. Or you are cultivating fire and heat magic. A good focus is this talisman, the talisman of the volcanic, vulcan like Lord of Fire. In Chinese circles he is called Huo De Zhen Jun, the True King of Fire or Huo De Xingjun, the Fire Star King, or in other words, the Spirit of Mars. He should be invoked from the South. Yes that's the trigram Li, the essence of Fire. The points above add to 15, his number. This is a good talisman to begin experimentation in, try and gather fire red Qi, warm your body to intense heat and see if you can cause changes in your environment. Who knows, pyrokinesis if you have talent or perserverence.

 For 100 days, you do the sincerity rite and nothing else to contact the Nine Tail  Fox Spirit. In English. A SECRET FROM THE FOX SOCIETY. From ancient shamanism  arose the far reaching and yet  secretive cult of the Fox Immortal. Very few in reality know it. Evolving in the wild forests and mountains of North East China in the Beima schools of animal totem spirits where the powerful Fox family ruled over even the tiger, snake, bird, wolf and other deities, the Fox School reached as far as Korea, Japan and Thailand. The Fox is one of the personal teachers of the members of our school. Interestingly and perhaps not coincidentally, Hu Xian was the chief totem and rumoured mother of the founder of Japanese onmyodo.  One of the noted characteristics of the disciples of the Fox is that they are fascinating. They have a certain something. I could name a few well known Hong Kong stars who are devotees. But in probability the HK fox cult is a bit of a money scam. You could compare the fox aura

 It is a bit of a cliche in Wuxia novels and 1980s Hong Kong movies, but the peach Wood sword is a real item of Daoist magic. I've personally seen it immediately disintegrate goetic style spirits here in England. It is a powerful weapon indeed. Yet not many understand its origin or its symbolism. The Peach makes a frequent appearance in Taoist iconography. Dao, the word for peach, is a homophone of Dao, the Way. The Peach has come to symbolise the ultimate fruit of the Dao, Longevity and immortality.  The peach Wood sword will be forever associated with Feicheng in Shandong Province in China where Tao Shan, Peach Mountain stands. One Taoist god, Nanji Laoren the Southern Pole Old Gentleman or more simply, Nanji Xian, is always said to carry a large peach plucked from an ancient tree in Feicheng. Nanji is pictured as a diminutive old man with whispy beard and large forehead. Holding a Daoist staff and a peach. The Peach isn't giant as most assume but appears big because of Nanji

 My first book is available by rhe esteemed Mandrake of Oxford. Its a practical book with limited fluff and a great entry into Chinese magic. https://mandrake.uk.net/thunder/

 Yinshan is one of the most dreaded of the Chinese magical sects as it is purely a necromantic sect. That is its main tool of Yinshan system are the use of ghosts and souls of the dead. It is in this respect similar to Palo Myombe. Yin Shan, or Yin Mountain refers to all that is Yin in nature, in this sense, the negative Yin or Ghost World. Yin Shan is envisioned as the Mountain kingdom of the ghosts. It has as it's head a wrathful form of Laojun and the chief, Yinshan Ancestral Master.  All its rites are performed in contact with the ground to channel yin ghost lines and chthonic forces that rise up rather than descend from rarefied heavenly heights. Yinshan spells are designed to get super quick results. Instead of using Gods or other spirits, it recruits the souls of the dead. Not any ghost will do however. The ghosts used by Yinshan sorcerers are especially cultivated by certain processes.  The Yin Ghost Warriors and the Five Ghosts are well known. The Yin and Yang Impermanence

 SOUL RETRIEVAL. Chinese shamans passed down intricate teachings about the spirit, soul and consciousness that filtered through into later sorcerous factions such as rhe Maoshan Sect. You may know of us from popular and often inaccurate depictions in Hong Kong movies and Anime. It, is possible, that you can lose chunks of your soul through abuse and trauma or even occult experiments gone wrong. Symptoms range from panic attacks, phobias, depression, 'going blank' right through to coma and death. We've all lost some say the sorcerers. Children are the most vulnerable to soul loss. In taking the role of the magician, the first step is undergoing Soul Retrieval to get back your full potential. Shown here is a straw doll used in Chinese magic for soul retrieval.

 Maoshan Talisman for peace in the home, good fortune and ridding of ghosts and demons. Looks simple but each trigram is individually consecrated and filled with various 'etheric colours' and star force, xing qi. And the bagua powers invoked with the Bagua or ghost eye mudra through which the magician blows through. In practice it is painted on Imperial Yellow talisman paper and hung in the home. It creates a sphere of force that must be replaced each New Year.

 Popular in movies and certain other blogs, the Yin Warrior magic is not as simple as it first appears. It should definetly not be confused with common practices such as the Orthodox Five Battallions you might see publically in Taiwan for example. In this old Maoshan method the magician calls forth a Ghost Army using a special layout and cultivation.  The altar is set up using a Lopan compass to mark off the correct directions of the Earthly Branches and Post Heaven Bagua. The flags in five colours are placed in and around the hexagonal block or paper hexagon. As well as special fu talismans, the Nine Ling Fu, the Five Yin Fu and the Three Hun Fu being burned. A special command flag is made of yellow cotton, called the Maoshan Apricot Wind Flag. Without it no Yin Soldiers can be called. 

 ELEMENTAL BALANCE. It appears that in every system of magic and esoteric medicine there is a concept of 4 to 5 states that energy can exist in. From the ancient Greeks arose the idea of the four elements deriving from the two principles of hot and cold. The same is true in Indian philosophy, with the Five Tattvas of earth, water, air, fire and akasa. In Chinese philosophy we have the Five Phases or Wu Xing derived from Yin and Yang and associated with the planets, the organs, colours and so on. In Chinese medicine, magic, alchemy and neigong the elements are of great importance. The magician of every Faction seeks an internal elemental balance. Internal elemental balance gives rise to health, mental, spiritual and physical. There are even talismans designed to help cure diseases or mental problems such as neurosis and depression by encouraging elemental equilibrium. Shown here is such a talisman which repairs elemental inequality or disability. One is burned and drunk each day in the

 Hi and welcome to the new blog, principally in English, dealing with all things magical and alchemical from the Far East. I'm the author, Jason and we welcome you on a mysterious and often dark journey.