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Spirit-Writing Revelations
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921 Earthquake — Tianran Ancient Buddha SpeaksZhang Tianran's spirit-writing prophecy and anguished plea after the 1999 Taiwan earthquake.Beihai Laoren — Talks on TruthThe complete Talks on Truth by Beihai Laoren (Wang Jueyi, 15th Patriarch of the Yiguandao lineage) — sixteen dialogues on heart, nature, and the Dao; an essay on the Final Transmission; two verse exhortations; and fifty-five poems. Vernacular edition.Golden Patriarch's Elucidation of the DaoEleven spirit-writing sessions from the Golden Patriarch and companion celestial figures, channeled through the planchette in April 1936 — the patriarch's expansive pastoral teaching on the Dao, the Three Periods, and the Gathering.Guiding the Lost Back to TruthSixteen spirit-writing sessions from 1944 to 1949 as the celestial hierarchy speaks with mounting urgency.Heavenly Mission to ThailandSpirit-writing received during a Yiguandao mission to Thai Buddhist sites, where local deities and Ji Gong deliver messages about salvation, karmic cultivation, and the urgency of the End Times.Hede Buddha Hall — The Living Buddha SpeaksJi Gong's spirit-writing teaching at a local temple — torn robes, bacteria, peanuts, and salvation.Ten Thousand Ancestors Return to TruthA collection of spirit-writing sessions where ancestors of five world religions — Confucius, Shakyamuni, Laozi, Jesus, Muhammad, and others — descend through the planchette to confirm the unity of the Dao. First English translation.Ten Thousand Spirits Return to Ancestral OriginA collection of famine songs by the Twelfth Patriarch Yuan Tui'an, composed when sweet potatoes sustained his community for three months. First English translation.The Bond-Forming Instruction of Li RuyiA spirit-writing session in which a deceased point-transmitter confesses her failure to fulfill her heavenly mission, with instruction from the Ancient Buddha of the Southern Sea.The Luminous Lord's Holy TrainingThe Eternal Mother speaks — a spirit-writing revelation calling her lost children home.Three Thousand ResonancesA kitchen worker's testimony of three encounters with Ji Gong, the Living Buddha.True Words of CultivationCultivation aphorisms by the Southern Song Daoist patriarch Bai Yuchan, transmitted through the Yiguandao tradition. First English translation.True Words of the Old AncestorSix wartime spirit-writing sessions (1941–1947) in which Maitreya, the Golden Patriarch, Ji Gong, Zhang Tianran, Sun Huiming, and the Eternal Mother descend to altars across China during the Japanese occupation and Chinese Civil War.