CHINESE, TAOIST AND MAOSHAN MAGICK

 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 ...

 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.