Someone reminded me that the 3 Kings which I mentioned in Another Point of Reference – The Sun, are called the Magi and they are Persian Astrologer who has the ability to read stars, and manipulate the fate that the stars foretold. What I find strange is why should the Persian Astrologer come with enthusiasm to worship the baby Messiah whose main task is to slaughter the Persians, who they called, the pagan and all others except the Jews? Didn’t the stars foretell everything or anything?
Another interesting account is the art of ZiWei DouShu (ZWDS) or the Purple Star Astrology. The contemporary ZWDS we know today is no longer in its original form. Purportedly made popular by Chen XiYi, a Wudang master who chance upon Lu ChunYang another HuaShan master, later to be known as Lu DongBin the immortal. In that view, ZWDS is formulated by grandmaster Lu which I believed, ZWDS is only a fringe technique grandmaster Lu has to be made available to Chen XiYi for his use. The question is who taught grandmaster Lu?
When a Nestorian Monument of the Tang Dynasty was unearthed, it recorded the involvement of cross fertilization of ideas of the early Christian missionaries in China years before the Jesuits calibrating the Chinese Time and Space of QianLong era. The Nestorians are early Christians of Persian origins with the lineages of the Three Magi who had made the pilgrimage to Bethlehem. Call it meaningful coincidence? One Nestorian by the name Alopen was an able translator who dutifully worked at the request of the Tang Emperor to translate the Gospel from Syriac into Chinese with the assistance from the young literary genius Lu ChunYang, whose labors are enshrined in the same Nestorian Monument as its author. Reasonably speaking, much of Lu ChunYang early exposure to astrology has been deeply influenced by the Nestorian or the Persian astrological framework, coupled by the Buddhist and Daoist background he has inherited from his father whose role is the court’s head of custom and rites, enable him to formulate what is now known as ZWDS.
It is not surprising that Eurocentric researcher would call upon the immortal Lu DongBin as the Chinese manifestation of Christ due to much similarity of its paranormal feats. As anything goes with the Tang court, it is a total mess of confusions versus megalomaniac feats of searching for new land, new elixir of life and new religion of the state. So, the immortal Lu’s portfolio is not limited as being the leader of the 8 immortal of the Dao, also the Dharma protector of the Buddhist faith as well as a Christian patron saint in China. The real Trinity as we dearly indebted ZWDS as the priceless inheritance from the Magi!
Who said Chinese Metaphysic has no root from the West? Similarly so is the notion of the 28 asterisms and the marvelous work of grandmaster YiXing who fuses the Western and Hindu Astrology into Eastern Metaphysics. Even the legendary grandmaster Lai BuYi has some of the ZWDS stars reflected in its corpus of expediting officer and his synthesis of the 24 heaven stars.
OK! Now how do we proceed from here?
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