Potential Master Daoism Analysis

Expectations of Physical Transformation in Declarations of the Perfected In something as fickle as religion it is often one person or one text that can affect a great change. In Daoism in the years 363-370, the change came from Southern China in the form of Yang Xi a Daoist medium in a time where the prominent Celestial Master Daoism had been criticized as having lost its way and used his writing skills to breath new life into it by telling of visits from deities of an upper heaven not yet revealed in Daoism and answering spiritual questions. His beliefs have definite ties to the Xiang’er commentary, the fundamental document on Celestial Master Daoism, but his story telling was so profound and his interpretation on what was necessary for transcendence so innovative he was able to convince Xu Mi a Chinese diplomat who employed him to leave “his world of court and society” to pursue the Dao and impact the entire religion. …show more content…
First, is Yang Xi who was employed by Xu Mi as a medium and began to have these visions about the deities who had him write these beautiful pieces on their behalf. In this case, the piece is a record of a conversation between deities about what Xu must do to ensure a position in upper heaven. Xu was an official in the court of the Emperor at the time, around sixty who’s wife had passed. This most likely made Xu more susceptible to adopting the new ideas especially for the position in heaven the deities promise but he still holds conventional Celestial Master