The Baopuzi 抱樸子 (circa 300 – 343 AD) by the celebrated alchemist and polymath Ge Hong 葛洪 is a Taoist grimoire that I might posit to be essentially the most if not one of the vital influential and impactful texts on Taoist mysticism.
Scans of the textual content you see on this video are from here [四部備要], this copy of it archived between 1924 and 1931 as a part of a nationwide effort to protect important historic Chinese language texts. You can even entry a digitized model of it through the Chinese language Textual content Undertaking, ctext.org here.
This write-up is the companion weblog submit to the video to offer some further notes on the Liu Jia Secret Mantra.
Supply Textual content
The Liu Jia Secret Mantra 六甲秘祝 seems within the Interior Chapters, within the part titled “Climbing Mountains, Crossing Rivers” [登涉], paragraph 5. Within the web page unfold scan above, I’ve highlighted the nine-character mantra in yellow in your comfort of reference.
Right here’s the entire passage that the Mantra is present in:
抱朴子曰：「入名山，以甲子開除日，以五色繒各五寸，懸大石上，所求必得。又曰，入山宜知六甲秘祝。祝曰，臨兵闘者，皆陣列前行。凡九字，常當密祝之，無所不辟。要道不煩，此之謂也。」
Translation:
If you find yourself upon one of many sacred mountains, at timing equivalent to Jia Zi 甲子, grasp 5 silk ribbons of the 5 colours (of the Wu Xing) which can be about 5 fen 寸 in size (12.25 cm, or 4.82 in) on a boulder (or crag; close to a fantastic cliff) and as you place the ribbon on the stone, whisper quietly to your self the nine-character Liu Jia Secret Mantra, then state your want. In doing so, your want shall now come true.
The five-colored silk ribbons is an providing to the residing spirits dwelling at that sacred mountain, and also you wish to place it upon essentially the most notable boulder or cliff space you possibly can entry, for that spirit to obtain. Utterance of the Secret Mantra prompts the connection and notifies the residing spirits of your presence, and your petition.
Timing equivalent to Jia Zi 甲子 can imply the ascendant hour of 11:00 pm to 12:59 am, or it may possibly imply the eleventh lunar month, which corresponds roughly to the Gregorian calendar December to January, or any time through the yr of the Metallic Rat. Likened a bit to the idea of Olympic spirits, the astrological timing right here ensures sure planetary and constellation alignments so the spirits you search to petition shall be current.
The All-Highly effective Secret Mantra
Baopuzi calling this the Liu Jia 六甲 mantra is conveying that it’s thought of to be an “omnipotent,” all-purpose, for all seasons (because it have been) magical spell and incantation. As famous within the video lecture, Liu Jia 六甲 means “year-round for all events and all functions” as a result of it references the 60-year lunar-solar calendar cycle and the entire roster of the ten heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches:
And right here’s the model of the Liu Jia Secret Mantra 六甲秘祝 discovered within the Baopuzi:
臨兵闘者，皆陣列前行
Lín bīng dòu zhě, jiē zhèn liè qián xíng.
The most well-liked (my legislation college authorized coaching thoughts desires to name it the Majority View…) set of hand mudras related to the recitation of those 9 phrases is that this:
Advisable Apply for Area Clearing
When you really feel malefic energies have infiltrated your own home and wish to clear all of it out, after which fortify the perimeter to maintain all of it out, begin by standing on the heart of your own home, or as near the middle of your lot as doable. If your own home has a number of flooring, then you definately’ll need to repeat this for every ground.
Face north and clap thrice. This alerts the beginning. Flip to face east and that is the place you start. Type a “sword” together with your dominant hand, as demonstrated on the finish of the video at timestamp 36:08 (Secret Mantra Grid Demo in Taiwanese). Recite every phrase as you draw one line to type a woven grid, as follows:
Now return to going through north and repeat the above, the recitation and casting the nine-line woven grid. From the north place, flip to face west and repeat, after which face south and repeat.
Start “pushing” outward by taking a number of paces out from that heart and repeat the Mantra recitation whereas casting the woven grid together with your “sword” hand mudra in a spiral path, shifting counter-clockwise till you’ve carried out a full circle in eight instructions across the outer-most perimeter of your own home. By way of how intently to stroll a spiral path given the bodily constraints of your home construction, let instinct and practicality information you.
Once you’ve reached the outer-most perimeter, you’ll wish to carry out this recitation eight instances within the eight compass instructions, and then you definately’re carried out. You have to be going through north upon completion. Clap thrice to sign the shut.
Area cleared and fortified. The invading malignant forces are gone and can keep gone. Oftentimes, after that is carried out, practitioners will re-walk the spiral path from the middle outward once more however holding incense sticks to let the smoke of sacred incense consecrate the house. As you do that, you’d recite a mantra invocation of a patron divinity. Different, recite an affirmation commanding that what you could have Willed to be so Shall be so. I strongly advocate writing your individual command moderately than utilizing one other’s, as a result of it’s extra {powerful} and extra built-in when it comes from you.
Area Clearing a Resort Room
A enjoyable, in style folks Taoist follow is to face in entrance of the open doorway to a lodge room, and both carry out the grid casting famous above or recite the 9 phrases with the 9 hand mudras illustrated. You do it simply as soon as, and the idea goes that you just’ve solid an enormous, {powerful} guang or orb of safety round your self. As you stroll in, this bubble of guang astral gentle safety incinerates all detrimental juju. You mainly flip your self right into a human metaphysical juju zapper. As you progress across the room, you might be incinerating all that dangerous power till all the house is cleared.
Casting a Safety Circle for Ritual Work or Divination
Previous to commencing ceremonial ritual work or an vital divination, clear the work house by performing this Mantra within the eight instructions circling round your work house. This helps to make sure no undesirable forces are influencing your ritual or divination outcomes.
Private Empowerment
光乎日月，迅乎電馳
In tantric Buddhist follow, this Mantra is recited in repetition whereas in a meditative state as a type of private empowerment. A recurring meditation follow with the Liu Jia Secret Mantra will enhance your skills to harness guang 光 astral gentle and amplify the power, agility, and momentum of your guang gentle in order that it’s as “thunderous as racing horse-drawn chariots.” This type of private empowerment has the long-term good thing about defending and safeguarding you from risks, catastrophe, and averting each temporal and religious threats.
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