HISTORY OF THE FAR EASTERN LINE.

The East Asian Line is focused on the area around mainland China, although this area could easily include activities from Japan and Thailand as there are many spiritual systems in these areas, none of which are primarily concerned with the direct line of knowledge addressed in this book. Although some of the knowledge would have been transferred to adjacent country's the East Asia Line tends to be self-contained within China. As a note to the reader this Line itself is probably the hardest line to be able to make a complete history of where the knowledge has been passed to and whom. This is because of several reasons, the biggest being that many of the texts and writings have never been translated and so lost or simply not viewable by the public. Also, the Chinese seem to not be very forthcoming, opening their history to outsiders, and it is extremely difficult to find hidden texts or great works as many have been hidden away not to be seen again by the people. Finally, the method of writing by the culture is very open to interpretation due to its philosophical nature, most of the stories and tales are hidden in myths poems and interpreted in ways that are harder to associate with ideas already formed in the other two lines. So, to say this entry will be significantly less detailed than the previous two and will have gaps in-between specific characters of importance. This does not make the Line any less valid as the Line can still clearly be seen to pass from person to person through their accomplishments and events inspired by the knowledge. Even having a direct involvement within the Little Nine Heaven School I still find it extremely difficult to locate a complete line of historical evidence although it has given me key times and events where my work has been able to establish the most likely course of action at the time.

Let us begin with the movement from the original Line and the Cradle of civilization. As previously described China was already inhabited by nomadic tribes all practicing the knowledge in their own way through their tribal Shamans. These nomads were relatively peaceful as the land was so vast and supplies plentiful that there was almost no need for conflict at the time. When the settlers from Mesopotamia traveled across to China in order cultivate the idea of forming the first civilization in that area. The settlers that traveled having already seen the cultivation and creation of the first two off shoot civilization will have known that the best way to build a society is not to cause conflict with the natives but to simply encourage them to form together and create their own unique society. Within its teachings will be passed the knowledge from its parent city and so begins our third line of universal knowledge.

In 2698B.C Huang Di also known as the Yellow Emperor was accredited with the bringing together of all the tribes into the first civilization of China and with his forces conquered the surrounding area. Huang Di was the first Emperor of China and has been labelled with the creation of many scientific inventions such as the bow and arrow and the compass. He was also known as the first person to write about medicine, internal martial arts, and the cultivation of internal energy in the quest for enlightenment. With the first great works of the time written called the Nine Cauldron Alchemy. To do many of these things such as creating the bow and arrow, Huang Di must have had a knowledge of physics and magnetic forces, which would indicate a sense of magnetic forces both in the world and within the body which would promote his findings in internal energies and martial arts. The writings from his books prove that he also practices alchemy which at the time was both an insight into chemistry and the development of turning basic life into enlightened life. With all these great feats and clear references to science that would never be able to simply be discovered in one lifetime but passed on through basic principles and then use in practical application, we can see that Huang Di had acquired the knowledge of the universe from the surrounding tribal Shamans and the up-to-date knowledge passed on from the parent civilization and progressed it in a very fast manner.  There are many references between him and many of his great advisors talking about matters of enlightenment.

There is a very big difference between China and any of the other two civilizations. The country was never really unified and was split into many large sections each with their own leadership. But even with these divides the teachings and learning of each were freely passed between borders. So even though it was like having several different countries in one, the civilization shared the same culture and beliefs. Within these warring states of China each would develop their own knowledge on the principles started by Huang Di, many great minds would appear and concentrate on certain subjects such as medicine, alchemy, astrology, internal energy, and general science. These minds would progress their fields and eventually add the knowledge to the societies bank of information but within this there will certainly have been one individual at a time that had the direct line and all its up-to-date knowledge and history passed on to them and then it was their duty to add the relevant modern-day discoveries to its growing progression and to then safeguard it by passing it on to the next generation. As with all lines conflict in concern will always be from a shift in power from events concerning the passing of the knowledge. The first major conflict we can record after this period is the beginning of the Xia Dynasty in 2100B.C, which symbolizes the Xia family becoming the overall dominant ruler. However, the country was still split into separate provinces or sates that constantly tried to rebel and gain dominance. It is certain that with the control of one overall leader the culture in China would have been brought back into life and making several advances to the knowledge as it continued. This happened again in 1600B.C and became the Shang Dynasty. This is the first time where any new findings, although still occurring and being practiced in the gap between then and Huang Di that were documented. In the same time the Shang Dynasty was formed the first oracle bone was found. The oracle bone was a tortoise bone that was used in divination and Geomancy and even the use of pyromancy to predict future events and guide the leaders and philosophers in their discoveries. Many of these bones were found with writings on and inscriptions most famously, the nine points we now know as the Little Nine Heaven and at the time described as the big dipper star constellation. The oracle bone diagrams of the nine points are the same principles used in the nine points of the Kabbalah and the Kundalini without any direct contact with the other two lines since the separation of the colonies. These nine points give the basic building blocks to the creation of the universe which are discussed in the rest of this book. This also shows a direct link to the origins of the Chinese scientific discoveries that are based off the same principles given to the other two civilizations by the cradle of civilization. This principle was the very beginning of the yin yang theory as yin and yang represent the numbers one and two being surrounded by zero and contain three and four. Much like our previous mentioning of the weapons of the gods in Greece and Adam and Eve, also relating to the three energies given by the early Indian line. Yin and Yang was most likely brought by Hunag Di. Now using Astrology and Numerology was given to bring to life new interpretation of philosophy, such as the first trigrams of Taoism and the hexagrams. This also led to the Wu Xing and the theory of the Five Elements which were used to describe states of personality using elemental attributes and based on the effects of types of forces and energy in the body and in the universe. These were then linked to the alchemical processes in European Alchemy and the Egyptian seven process of chemical transformations. It also included association with planets and astrology as done by the Greeks and Romans in the Future, but more importantly the five elements were the description of the five states of change which we now use in physics and chemistry in modern day science. The identification of the Three states which being solids, gasses and liquids were also formed as a result. These principles of using oracle bones and the scientific theories of the five elements would be continued in the culture and progressed up until the year 1099B.C.

in 1099B.C King Wen who was later given the title of the greatest King ever, was the first to bring these two lines of science together at their new and improved stages and documented the definitive method of yin and yang and its combinations of trigrams and hexagrams as seen in later parts of this book. These then were combined in sixty-four possible combinations that composed of aspects of the universe. This would be the creation of the now well-known Ba Kua yin yang diagram. This shows that King Wen was the next in the line as to have a complete understanding of all the up-to-date knowledge but also all the information passed down to be able to make a complete and correct fusion. A second good indicator is that his son Wu then went on to rule the whole of China and in the name of his farther started the Shang Dynasty in 1050B.C. Which again shows a transition of power as the knowledge was used to gain advantage in the civilization.

In less than 50 years in 1000B.C Fu Xi builds on the work of King wen and writes the book of changes also known as the I-Ching which contains all sixty-four combinations to his yin yang theory and gives them a specific interpretation so they can be communicated to the public, this was said to be done while in captivity by the ruling body at the time. From this we can see that the knowledge was passed from the King to Fu Xi. developing into further meaning to be incorporated into the modern culture. This book would be referred to even today by many people trying to understand the universe and how to become enlightened. The I-Ching would then become the official book of philosophy and thinking in China and studied openly by everyone. The difference between Fu Xi's interpretation of the sixty-four diagrams and King Wen's is that even though We had a great understanding of the elements of the diagrams and understood exactly why each line was placed in its certain position and could trace back its building blocks to the root of the yin yang. He never publicly published any works that interpreted them to the general population at the time. This was done by Fu Xi. Fu Xi wrote the I-Ching not to prove that he had understanding but as a tool to be used to communicate the knowledge of the universe to a widespread audience to ensure its survival in the future, as the more people who accepted its teaching, this meant the higher the chance of acceptance of free thinking and scientific behavior in China. So that in generations to come the keepers of the knowledge could progress it and use it without having to worry about repercussions. This helps prove that Fu Xi was the next in the line.

After Fu Xi had written the I-Ching in 100B.C more and more prominent characters become mentioned in works and texts in China. It is almost as though this was the breakthrough that inspired the country to begin to record its history and the individuals that stood out in their time. Before this very little was written down and this would help your discovery into the past. The issue with this massive flood of recorded history is, however, every individual at the time had access to the I-Ching and there became a school or a master in every village. This is good as is shows widespread advancement but can also be troublesome as everyone has their own interpretation and will eventually cause conflict as they would all claim their method of interpretation was the best and become ignorant of the true line and its importance. The good thing is the true knowledge will always prevail as is the truth behind the universe and so can always be proven as it is more fact rather than an individual’s interpretation of the facts. Because of this in the next 560 years there are simply to many characters of note to be mentioned in this small section of this book, instead I will mention a few individuals that at the time really stood out in the records and were said to attain great levels of knowledge above all others, some of these people wrote books and others were shrouded in mystery as they kept to themselves. All of which had reference to Fu Xi and his teachings. These following individuals are from information I have gathered so far and are the most likely to be the next in line to the knowledge we seek. A man called Officer Xi or Master Wenshi was given the title of “beginning of culture” and wrote a nine-section book called the “keeper Of the Pass”. This is interesting as you will see in the next few chapters, nine is very important as the universal knowledge is comprised of nine building blocks or principles. Is likely that this book interprets these nine principles and relates them to the current thing of the time given in the I-Ching. This would secure his place as next in line and as the true successor to Fu Xi. Officer Gui was stated to be the next most well-known thinker of his time. After this many more characters are mentioned but with very unreliable dates. Although they were all around at the same time, many reports mention them and their teachings. Between 1090B. Also, 559B.C Du Zhong was given the title of “real human of absolution.” Xin Qiah the “real human of penetrating the mysteries.” Lo Tong also called the madman of Chu, or the Carriage Grabber would travel the country dressed like a beggar and run up to the side of moving carriages and ask important philosophical questions and then leave if the answer was not to his satisfaction. Gengsang Chu opened the first temple of Open Spirit which would become a great place for cultivation free thinking and spiritual enlightenment and given the title of “real human of open spirituality”. Finally, the Master of Daemon Valley. All these people could be considered to have held the true line of knowledge among the vast free-thinking society.

In 559B.C Confucius became the farther of the official school of thought in China's civilization. This school of thought could be considered a new belief system and would be very close to a new religion where the focus of worship was not on higher beings but on knowledge itself. Confucius led most of his life involved in politics in the highest level. Leading his school of thought in the progression of knowledge which eventually got shunned by the current ruling party, but during the take over at the time then found favor and then Confucianism was installed as the current belief system. If Confucius was the next line holder, he would have had access to not only the fully progressed line of knowledge but as one of the highest political influences, he then would have been able to bring his teaching into the new political world which was slowly taking over the country. Also, he would have seen that for the line to survive the knowledge must be combined with this political nature to ensure its survival. Confucius did just this. He created a new set of moral and ethical guidelines based on the I-Ching that ensured equality and fair treatment to all in the country. This was his legacy and would live on today. Confucius was said to have then written many great works that reinforce his teaching of morality with lessons of spirituality and scientific advancement to be passed on to the new society. Is also worth noting at this point that part of his moral code lay a set of five constants and four virtues. These nine principles are extremely like the concepts of the nine characteristics of consciousness set down by the Kabbalah in our European Line and the nine essences taught by the Kundalini in our Central Asian Line. With the combination of this and the I-Ching from Fu Xi, the Ten Wings was written in 500B.C which is an expansion of the interpretation of the I-Ching.

In 400B.C Laozi became the founder of Taoism in China. Taoism itself means the path or the middle path and is the study of everything and nothing. This way of thinking is the interpretation of all the different aspects of the knowledge that have been continuously studied throughout China including the Five Elements, the yin and yang, Acupuncture and Medicine, spirituality, moral and ethical practice and of course Alchemy and Astrology. All of these were used in Taoism by various schools to try and find the path of enlightenment and immorality. It was common practice for monks to head up into the sacred mountains and find secret masters to train them in the various ways of each of the aspects of the knowledge. Many “immortals” have been said to live in the mountains after the completion of their works. The study of Tao and its direct association to the middle path and is certainly proof that this was the study of the universal knowledge which has also been referred to as the middle path and the emptiness in both of our previous lines in the world. Is therefore likely that Laozi was the next “keeper of the knowledge” and saw that it was time to unite all the individual off shoots in the country and unite them again into one school of thought that could be commonly practices throughout the civilization. This would be the start of a new era in the line of progression, as it would be the first point since the start of the civilization by Huang Di that one school of thought would contain all the up-to-date knowledge across the country. Ensuring that every school there after used their practices to search for the path to enlightenment.

For the next 400 years there would be a spike in great works being produced. There would be an endless number of schools and temples carrying on the works of Taoism in their own specialist fields. Although many of the schools were contained in the mountains and out of the way of the general society as to keep them from being disturbed, many of the great masters and abbots would be seen visiting cities and intervening in events as they saw fit to contribute to the common cause and help progress the country. Taoism being the main scientific school of thought, Confucianism still existed within the culture and was not recognized by all as simply a part of the Tao but still a separate idea. This was something Laozi was trying to avoid by teaching that they are all the same teachings. In 300B.C Dzou Yen was given the title of the greatest alchemist of his time which is interesting as alchemy itself although still practice was still up until this point very rarely mentioned, and as previously discussed any mention of alchemy is a sure sign that this person was the next in line for the knowledge line. In 232B.C the legend of the nine unknown men was written. The idea that there were nine men all given a certain part of the Universal Knowledge to keep safe and never to let be reunited, as to prevent one side becoming more advanced than the other during the time of war. These men were meant to have the secrets of great futuristic science in their hands but as the time was not ready, to keep it a secret form being used. This is again important as the original knowledge tells us of nine stages of creation and each one brings with it a different aspect of science. It is therefore extremely likely that this was the case and that these nine unknown men split the Line of Knowledge into nine separate lines whereas before it was only passed on to one person at a time, it would also stop any one man becoming all powerful as without the other eight parts of the knowledge he could never achieve greatness. This was said to have been done by the Emperor Qin who shortly after took control of the country in 221B.C. This was not to last however and in 206B.C the Han's took control and began the Han Dynasty. The Han's also then reinstated that Confucianism again be the official school of thought in the country, this would most likely have been because the line had been split into nine separate Lines and been kept secret by refocusing their schools of thought in the mountains away from the rest of the civilization. Taoism would have had a significant decline in the more populated regions allowing the schools of Confucianism to regain the more dominant position. This rise in Confucianism lead to the focus of this form of the new Taoism to become more openly developed and even a Confucianism Sage was given a place in the court of the emperor as a standard practice. This all being said was not the worst part of Taoism to survive in the common culture as a school promoting morality and ethics would always serve to promote peace wherever possible. It is said the great sage Dong Zhongshu who sat on the council was thrown in prison at one point because his writings went against the emperors’ decisions. This refocusing on Confucianism also inspired several of the five classics to be then written as an attempt to reconnect society with its origins of the line, giving the original I-Ching a more up to date interpretation according to the current way of thinking at the time as Taoism had retreated.

In this period up until around 400A.D as before there were very few publicly open works developed from the other Taoist Lines as this method of study was less encouraged by the general population due to the official sanctioning of Confucianism being the recognized path of study by the Han Dynasty. Although this being the case it did not stop individuals practicing Taoism in the mountains and in more remote areas and there are many reports of famous individuals that still sought to progress Taoism to become “immortal” or enlightened. In 206B.C a man called Zhang Liang met an old man on a bridge dressed like a hermit and was given a series of tests before being given a book and a set of instructions from the old man. This led to Zhang Ling becoming one of the greatest military minds at the time and helped the current Emperor to conquer the majority of China. After this he then dedicated his life to energy cultivation techniques and built the Temple of Divine Inspiration in Chenliu and was then given the title of “Space-Traversing Real Human”. Although not a carrier of the line as he was never actually taught fully by the old man it shows that there was still a distinct possibility the line holder was in the area and trying to use his knowledge to influence the country through teaching, or at the very least that the practices were still being passed on in the mountains in secret. After this the next individual associated with the general population and not the mountains were a man called Mei Fu, a high official and student of the ancient documents and in 33B.C he was given the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces. With this position he tried to convince the emperor of the true history of Confucianism and its origins but was rejected as his thoughts went against popular belief at the time. After this he was given the title of “Ascended Immortal “and was given a temple of the same name. This shows us that there were still those in the Confucius line that were still able to achieve enlightenment and see through the teachings of the current rule. With these two individuals we can see that the knowledge of both systems was being progressed to some extent, in the original manner it was created for.  

Carrying on in this period a man called Yan Cun was given the title of “Realized Human Being with Subtle Perceptions”. Yan was a fortune teller in a market and would only ever work just enough to provide for his family, every day when he had earned is quota, he would shut up shop and teach the ways of the I-Ching to the local people for free. Born around 145B.C three brothers attained enlightenment in their lives and were given very high spiritual titles, Wang the “Lord of the Realized People”, this was meant to symbolize an even higher state of enlightenment that he was to look over and guide all previously enlightened individuals with the title “Realized.” his brothers at the age of 102 became the “Lord of Preserving Dynasty” and the “Spiritual Lord of Determining Records”. In the year 1B.C at 145 years old after the two younger brothers had all become “immortal” they were given the charge of looking after the revealed Jade Grotto Documents. There is also reference to the older brothers’ higher spiritual teachers, the “Lord President of Realized People”, and the “Realized Man, Of the Red, Of the Sky”, Of Mount Heng. Although real names are not given it does show that there was passing of the line through these individuals and that there was learning Hierarchy in place in the mountains of the Taoist Line of Knowledge. It is then extremely likely that these three bothers the eldest were the next in the line of knowledge. As they all grew up in the main community learning its methods but also then went to study the up-to-date methods of the Taoists in the mountains.

In the Early years of the first century in the slow decline of the Han Dynasty China was plunged into chaos and the Taoists used this time to begin planting the seeds of their knowledge back into the common community as an attempt to secure its future. Due to this many more sightings and references were recorded of practicing individuals becoming less secluded and at their leisure encountering the general population of the area. The first of these was a man called Zhang Ling around 25A.D. also known as Doaling in Taoist texts.  Zhang started as a college academic and became a great student of the Confusions five classics, later in his life he studied Alchemy from the Yellow Emperor's nine cauldron alchemy scriptures. This shows that Zhang with an up-to-date knowledge of Confucianism at the time then sought out the second part of their line in Taoism and studied alchemy, this adds evidence that he was the next to carry on the line at this time as he would have up to date knowledge of both ways of thinking and combined them both to create his “Elixir” on Mount Fan Yang. The “Elixir” being the path of “Immortality” or “Enlightenment”, again adding to the fact that he used both methods of thinking to find the definitive and original route. It was also said he found an ancient hidden book concealed in a cave on Mount Song, the chances of him finding this by accident are slim it is much more likely that he was told of its existence from whoever taught Zhang and passed on the secrets of the Universal Knowledge. It is also said that he had contact with demons and had twenty-four victories over them. This is interesting as with King Solomon in Israel he also had twenty-four numbered seals each were meant to be used to defeat a different type of demon. This is also the first main recorded instance since the ancient times that Demonology has being referenced and so points us to the application of the great knowledge and its alternative practices, we can now prove that demonology was the fundamental practice in the building of psychology and so suggests the development in this area of the line being progressed much like Jung and Dante in the European line. Zhang was given the title of a “Celestial Teacher” and only had two complete students. Wang Chang and Zhao Sheng.

The next major recording of a significant individual was Wei Boyang, Wei was said to be a Taoist and refused to work in the government, he had one disciple. One day Wei made an elixir, both he and his student died and become reborn as an immortal after taking this Elixir. Which suggests enlightenment to have taken place. He then wrote two books after this, the Analogies of the five elements, and most importantly the Triplex Unity, which was the first book in many years to be a subject of alchemy using the methods of the I-Ching. This would have been the first interpretation given to the open people of alchemy since the I-Ching. After this a man called Liu Kuan was said to have had a visit form a man called the “Master of Green Valley”. This man taught Liu the method of nine breaths, which as we know nine being the number of the universe and its steps to becoming enlightened, it also symbolizes the development of one on the middle path as described later in this book and is linked to the Little Nine Heaven Circulation Meditation. He also told him the practice of Furnace Fire Alchemy, directed him to the Grottos of Huashan. Furnace fire can be described as the point of the number 5 and is level with your intestines. This suggests that the alchemy method used was to enhance one’s own energy center and use it to achieve enlightenment much like Chi Kung and lower abdominal breathing in modern day culture. After this period a man called Fan Ying taught by a Mr, Jing was accredited with being the most advanced in astrology, the seven parallels of the river, and Luo diagrams of his age. These are all again different aspects of Taoism that would have been taken away by the nine unknown men and the split up, aspects of numerology, also geomancy, that until now had been progressed in secret and separate. It is slowly becoming clear that the lines of knowledge split by the nine men were now being brought back together in their developed states.

In the period around 221A.D known as the Era of the Three Kingdoms. A man called Bao Jing and his sister were documented to have other worldly and physic powers. This is the first recorded incident where such matters are openly publicized in Chinese history since the ancient times of legend. Bao was said to have seen is past lives and were proven to be correct by people who knew the events of which he spoke. He was also meant to be able to communicate and acknowledge ghosts. In his life he met the “Realized Man Lord of Darkness” who tough him the secrets of the path to enlightenment and studied under Zuo Yuanfang who also told him of the middle path teachings. He was also able to astral project and leave his physical body at will. The concept of physic powers gives us another clue that the Lord of Darkness was another key knowledge holder of the nine and has then in this era seen the natural potential of a child and then passed on the line to someone who will, in the future bring the method of practice into a more publicly accepted position for future development.

Zhang Xuanpin learning from a master Su of the west river began his spiritual cultivation the method of the “white element in the open room” this is a meditation practice where the lord of the white element is visualized in the head. This is a technique shared by many in both universal lines already covered in this chapter. Is again a very important factor in proving that all three lines come from the same root place and have had the same basic practices passed on all the way through time. Zhang was then to learn from the “Realized man” Fan Ziming on Few Houses Mountain who taught him the way of evasive transformation and concealment of appearance. This Fan Zimming would also be one of the keepers of the nine sections of Taoism and will have taught Zhang to bring the knowledge to a more accepted position in society for the future. Zhang was also very well known for his more in-depth Taoist philosophy and the study of the nothingness and the void, it is most likely that this would also be one of the aspects given by his teacher from the mountain.

Ge Hong was taught by his uncle the Immortal Master Ge the complete science of alchemy and retreated to the mountains where he constantly wrote all his findings down and sent out scroll after scroll of Alchemical findings, his body was found at the age of eighty-one years old and was said to be light as air, almost as though his whole body had ascended into another plane leaving nothing behind, emptied of all weight. He wrote that he was happy in his life not to become great or seek achievement but to simply live as he wanted. It can be argued that although he attained this great knowledge and progressed it himself to a point where he could progress to the next plane of existence, he did so know that it was not his duty to pass on the line and that he was given this simply to help himself as there were others at the time that were there to help society. But his works and notes were to be kept safe for the future when they were needed most.  So, as we can see in the years of the late B.C after the split of the nine there are few reports of men with great knowledge that seldom interfere in the affairs of the country but never fully teach any of the people they meet. This tells us that the nine systems are being kept hidden in the mountains, progressed in their own way the same way the original reason for the nine systems being split in the first place. At the start of the A.D years the mysterious men from the mountains that are at the head of their systems seem to appear and begin teaching the selected few people that are seen as worthy in the general population and sometimes more than one of these masters are giving their teaching to one student as an attempt to slowly unify the systems back together. The last few hundred years of this period involved these individuals teaching and passing on their knowledge to bring the multi-Taoist systems back into popular belief and common practice so that the line holders can pass the knowledge to the next generation without having to hide the fact, allowing the lines to merge and back with its sister system of Confucianism. So, by the year 400A.D Taoism and Confucianism exist side by side and all the Systems are widely practiced in Chinese culture with, in principle with the aim of eventually have one person or one group of people with the complete knowledge as a posed to nine different fragments of knowledge all being passed on at the same time. This would leave us with a new unified point in our Universal Knowledge Line, now. Almost as though the culture has come together and become unified and solidified in one true system of thought, ready for a new change that is about to take place, and sure enough the following years would mark the start of the biggest change the Chinese culture will have seen in its history so far.

Around the year 400A.D a Buddhist monk called Bodhidharma travels from India to spread Buddhism to the Chinese civilisation. Bodhidharma is mentioned in our previous work in this chapter in the second line of central Asia. His soul purpose was to bring his line of knowledge and begin to join it with the third line as an attempt to unify the two adjacent cultures, this was not to start conflict or destroy the existing belief system in the area as true Buddhism did not believe in conflict and Bodhidharma being a holder of the line of knowledge would have known that the native belief systems were in fact the same as his own. When he arrived in China, he sought out the emperor in the hopes to find the line holder of the Chinese Line. After a meeting he realized that the emperor at the time was not in fact linked to the Line of Knowledge, he decided to retreat to a remote mountain and passed on some of his teaching to the general population along the way to plant the seeds that Buddhism, had arrived in the area. Bodhidharma already had two disciples in India, the first he deemed to not be fit to pass on his line to and the second was a recluse and had taken a vow of silence and refused to pass on his knowledge, because of this he needed a new disciple who he could pass his line on to. Not just willing to give it to anyone he decided only a person that really understood and respected the knowledge would be taken on as his disciple. Due to this a man called Dazu Huike tried to become his disciple by standing in the snow for a week, once told that, this is not a good enough demonstration of his sincerity for the knowledge, Huike then cuts of his left arm and gives it to Bodhidharma as a gift. After this Huike is accepted and passed on the Knowledge. Bodhidharma taught that not only does the mind have to be strong to become enlightened that the body must also be physically strong to give the development of the spiritual and energetic self the best chance of achieving its full potential. This is something we will look at very closely later in this book.

He saw that most of the general studies in the native population of china, were indeed studying the great knowledge and progressing it well, but this fact of developing the physical had not been passed on as clearly as the rest of the knowledge in the line. Although still practiced by a few in the mountains in the form of martial arts passed on from the Yellow Emperor, it needed to be brought back into the main society. Because of this he built the first Shaolin temple on the same mountain he retreated to; this is where the monks would be taught this aspect of the universal knowledge. This was the first-time martial arts and movement had been taught to people openly as a way of developing the universal knowledge and aiding in the path of enlightenment. Shaolin Kung Fu was born and taught to the practitioners to develop physical strength and skill before building energy and final a spiritual self. All the time solidifying Buddhism's root in China. The first temple was finished in 496A.D. this school of training was developed in the temple for around a hundred years with just enough contact with the population of China to start spreading its beliefs to the people as an act of transition, so that in later years when the two methods of practice joined, they would be accepted peacefully and not cause conflict. To spread Buddhism more efficiently through the large country a second Temple was set up in the southern part of the country in 580A.D and began to spread the system at that location. This would then turn the Indian method of practice and Shaolin martial arts into a Chinese treasure, which is understandable as most would forget its origins over the years, and its cultivation and mass altering of the Chinese culture would be regarded as a development of China and not India.

The second temple would of course over the years began to develop their slightly unique way of doing things although based on the same ideas. Due to this, there is a lot of debate in modern day martial art politics about southern Shaolin being better than northern Shaolin, what most fail to investigate is that neither is better or worse it is simply a different perspective of the same thing. At the time they worked together and not in competition so why should there be competition between the two system now when the very people who created them believed there was so conflict and we should now respect their original ideas and view them both in the same manner that the creators did, as equals.

In 581A.D the Sui Dynasty was created as a new Emperor took overpower. In this instance the emperor used the monks in his army due to their powerful fighting skill to help him conquer his enemies to create peace in the country. Due to the monk’s participation in the new change in rule the emperor in 600A.D officially supports Buddhism in the country and gives the Shaolin Temple massive amounts of land to expand their influence and so many more temples were built. This also aided in the transition later of the two cultures as the population became more accepting of the new system. This support however did not last long as in 618A.D the Emperor was overthrown, and the Tang Dynasty took over the country. The new Emperor must have either been a traditionalist or simply saw the monks as a threat as they may rebelled against his new reign in support for their previous Emperor, who was supportive of their beliefs. Due to this, he attacked the Shaolin Temple and forcibly removed all the monks from it.

Legend says that only five child monks escaped the slaughter and carried with them the different aspects of the training.

This occurred shortly after the new Dynasty was created in 622A.D. It is also said that when the monks grew up, they took back the temple from the emperor and began to teach again. We do know though that although the monks themselves were shunned the system of Buddhism remained to be taught to the general population.

In 638A.D Hui Neng becomes the first monk to blend Buddhism and Taoism together and begin teaching it to both sides of people to unify the two sets of lines together and create an up-to-date version of the knowledge to ensure it survival within the community. This is very similar to many of the other personalities in our first line such as Muhammad and Moses, where they take both progressions and link them back together using the original building blocks to support them and create one up to date method of practice in the area that fits in with the current way of thinking and level of scientific advancement. It is important to note that Neng's body was mummified when he died, an unusual practice at the time, this could be that Neng was the next line holder of the knowledge and knowing where the line came from that in the ancient culture of the cradle civilization, or as an attempt to reconnect the association between his line and the first sister line that passed on to Egypt. Neng decided to keep the old tradition of his previous ancient line holders and be mummified.

After the creation of Shaolin and Bodhidharma’s accepted point that the knowledge of the universe should be applied not only to outwards external contributions but put into movement through martial arts. It became common practice within the other schools of thought at the time to also do the same as they would have been able to constructively take his criticism and reapplied it to their own lines such as Taoism and Confucianism, yin yang and the five elements. Creating a new set of martial arts called internal martial arts that not only taught how to fight using the science of the universe but promoted health and longevity to aid in the goal of immortality or enlightenment. Also because of this uprising in martial arts training many variations appeared in the form of external martial arts with less focus on the goal of enlightenment but on fighting and philosophy, these could be said to be the physical representation of Confucianism without its deeper meanings. This again would result in constant minor conflict of who's way is best even to this date. However again all the martial arts are studies of their own way of trying to understand the universe. External martial arts as a way of more simplistic philosophies and ethical progressions and the internal martial arts as a progression of the search for becoming one with the universal through Taoism.

Through this concept, as martial arts are talked about in this section it should be seen as a physical representation of a way of understanding the science in the universe and not as a fighting art. This will stop any confusion as to trying to understand why someone must have been passed on the line simply because they learnt a particular style of martial arts.

It is also very important to note, although this rise in martial arts being used as a tool of study was brought back to China by Bodhidharma in 400A.D it will have still been present in the original teaching from Huang Di in the 2600B.C period as the physical interpretation was known at this time. It is very likely that although being lost in general practice there was in fact a martial art or physical movement-based way of learning still being taught hidden away, maybe in the mountains and not yet disclosed by one of the nine unknown men that took all the Taoist teaching to the mountains to be studied in secret, until the time was right. It is very likely that they foresaw this rise in martial arts happening in the future and kept it hidden as to avoid conflict with the introduction of the new belief system. As if the natives already had their own way of fighting, they would be less likely to accept a new way and so reject Buddhism and all its teaching. By bringing it into existence in the future at the right time would ensure its survival without conflict. This martial art would still have many of the old Taoist and ancient culture associations in its teaching like alchemy, astrology, and divination attached to it as they would have all being studied together. Unlike the Shaolin or other internal arts that do not include any of these teaching methods directly but only as an additional practice of meditation and mental discipline to help aid understanding. The physical was just the development of the physical at the highest level to then aid in the future development of energy and spirit through other practices in the temples. This however was not the case for the Splashing Hands Shaolin system that was a complete practice of development just like the hidden Taoist martial arts as we will see in the rest of the book. In many ways Splashing Hands Kung Fu could be seen as the jewel within the temple and reserved for only those with the highest ability to learn and potentially be the next line holders of the knowledge. Splashing Hands was created as a system of fighting to protect the Shaolin temple from invaders and the elite group that were chosen to study this system were considered the “gate Keepers” of the temple and the system. They would train as a separate group and develop their skills away from the rest of the monks. Taking this into consideration, if the temple needed protecting during its creation the martial arts itself must have existed from the beginning of the school creation. After all, at a time where war and conflict were ripe, the building of a new school would not be welcomed by all. To ensure its survival you would appoint gate keepers to protect it from the beginning. With this information we can be sure that the style of Splashing Hands was taught first to this special group of people even before the teaching of other Shaolin methods. This style must have needed to be practical in its fighting application first and all other developments second. Which is reflected in its principles of the syllabus. This means however that the system must not have tie to be developed in China as it would have taken time to create, therefore the system must have already been known to Bodhidharma when he came to China from India suggesting that it was in fact an Indian internal martial art and the carrier of the line of knowledge in physical form. Further evidence can be used to support this as the system solute is just as the other Shaolin solutes, a representation of Bodhidharma's disciple with one arm, but in its most basic form which would suggest that this system was also passed on to him to pass on the knowledge. The monks that practice this style were also spiritual as well as great fighters and would be devoted to the line of knowledge and its studies. This is apparent as later in this book you will see that Splashing Hands contains just as much of the knowledge through symbolism as any of the other lines we have studied previously. This study would then be focused upon once the aspect of fighting had been mastered. The passing on of this system is extremely important as it is the direct line of knowledge from the Indian line and was likely even practiced by the First Buddha himself and his previous line holders, just like Little Nine Heaven was practiced by the Yellow Emperor.

In the period of the Tang Dynasty in 618A.D which resulted in the destruction of the Shaolin way of life and the brief spark of spiritual development in the early period where Buddhism and Taoism were studied together, there was a significant lack of spiritual, scientific, and personal development in the entire Dynasty. There is no reference to anyone becoming enlightened or finding immortality, and there are no new or progressions of any works brought into light. This period of history could easily be the Chinese dark age where advancement of any kind seems to be absent. It does not mean that there was not a passing of the line it simply means that the line holders and the true students of the knowledge in both the Buddhist line from the Shaolin and the Toast line were hiding in the mountains and keeping out of the way of the general society, as to avoid a similar fate to the monks given by the new emperor. This dark age continues all the way through the Five Dynasty's period in 907A.D and ends with the beginning of the Song Dynasty in 960A.D.

We know this as in the very same year a man called Dong Haichuan learns the internal martial art called Hsing-I from a man hidden in the mountains and brings it back to the population to be taught to the armies. This would be the first internal martial art brought into Chinese society since ancient times and proves that although not taught to open culture the martial arts have been kept and developed in the mountains by the line holders and then passed on to the people at the most opportune time. This will have been because the change in leadership of the country would possibly be more open to the redevelopment of spiritual teaching and would bring the foundations to the people in the way of internal martial arts being used to study the path to becoming enlightened. In the future when other methods would be given to them, they would be more likely to accept this way of thinking and learning. Consider it a test or an introduction course to what might come. Hsing-I itself is an internal martial art that teaches the way of the spear but also encourages the application of spirit and intent that is a similar training method to a technique in our Indian Line called “super concentration”, only in a movement-based exercise rather than a stationary meditation. This method allows the practitioner to be focused on a single aspect or point “the tip of the spear” to maintain concentration to progress a specific aspect of his training such as meditation or internal visualization. This could be said to be one of the first things you should learn to give your future training a better foundation to be built on, as without true concentration there can be no real analysis of oneself. Hsing-I also teaches the practitioner to be strong in body before building energy and the higher self. Which is the same teaching as Bodhidharma and his martial arts. We can quite certainly say that this first unveiled martial art is the blend of the two current ways of thinking. It is also important to note that Hsing-I uses the principles of the five-element theory of the very ancient Chinese philosophy as previously discussed. Thus, bringing back the old methods of scientific explanation and putting it into physical form which has been the topic of progression since 400A.D. This style was then trained within the army and created a very effective fighting style for soldiers in a ranking position. Acting as similar formation to the soldiers of ancient Greece that used the Phalanx technique. This would then be perfected for over two hundred years and would play a great part in the protection of china when Genghis Khan spreads his influence and takes over most of the continent in 1196A.D. Genghis Khan only managed to invade the very northern part of China. It is safe to say that without the aid of this new training the Mongols would have taken over a lot more than just the north. This period of constant fighting between the Mongol population and the Chinese continued with both peoples fighting on both sides against each of the fighting established governments. This would last until the decline of the Mongol influence in the continent.

In 1368 A.D the Mongol control began to fall, and the previously conquered civilizations started to take back their lands, including China. In this period due to the increased fighting very little spiritual development was progressed as the focus of the country was to keep its culture alive by resisting invasion from other opportunistic countries. As soon as the opportunity to take control of its lands appeared, they took it and installed a new government, this was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. In the same year close relations developed in Tibet and many of the Chinese Line teachings brought together from Buddhism and Taoism were brought to Tibet, where they were studied and along with the teaching of the Indian Line of Knowledge. At which time had disappeared from India itself and were held in Sri Lanka, were brought together, and used to create a new up to date line of knowledge. This unified to then form the two Asian Lines to create the first Dalai Lama which again is discussed in greater detail in the previous section in this chapter. This would have united the knowledge that Bodhidharma brought with him from India in 400A, D and linked it back to the still existing line in Central Asia. As for China a new capital was formed, and the Great Forbidden Palace was built as a symbol of China’s newfound stability. This period would spark the cultural golden age that had not been seen since the time of the Shaolin in 618A.D.

The Forbidden Palace built in 1420A.D marked the start of a new age in civilization where unification of the country was the soul aim of the ruling government, to repair the chaos brought by the invasion of the Huns. During this time spiritual development again begun to spread through the population and it became acceptable to turn their efforts from war and back to the cultivation of society and the progression of knowledge through study. Although viewed as a time of piece it in fact was a little more complicated than this. The peace of the country was manufactured by a very constrictive and structured regime that although averted war and internal conflict for the entirety of its reign did so at the cost of freedom and rights of its people. Employed forced labor and the use of economics to control the lower classes of people. Communities were promoted to establish small, separated farming communities on the outskirts of the cities which could be used to stop unity and rebellion against the main population. It also meant that the rulers could have a standing army and navy of over a million men, this would be unchallenged by the general population as they would no longer be part of the army or have any training unlike in old times where everyone was called to fight. The rulers also decreed that training of any kind of martial arts was against the law, again as a form of control not to stop spiritual development but to prevent the possible building and training of a rebel army in the future.

In 1500A.D a man called Chen Pu who was the part of the Chen family that created a little farming village called Chen Village in the rural lands of Wen County, Huh Nan Province. First developed a style of internal martial arts from the teachings of the old Taoist and Confucianism teachings, this martial art was made to look less obvious as a fighting style as to disguise it from the government so that they would be able to practice without being arrested and killed. This art was known as Chen Style Tai Chi. Chen (as I will refer to it) although a martial art and used for fighting was mainly formed as a way of understanding the universe and its knowledge and developing it into a physical movement so that one could achieve oneness with the universe, and eventually become enlightened. This can be seen through many of its teaching principles such as reeling of the silk and the emphasis on posture and weight management, the development of the physical body before then building energy. All these teachings are also given in our other two lines of knowledge and give very substantial evidence that Chen Pu was in fact given the knowledge of the Chinese line and used it to progress this style as his way of passing on the knowledge through the generations and to ensure its survival in the current cultural movements. More in-depth analysis of Chen's practices will be discussed later in this book. It is unsure however if Chen created the art from the knowledge himself or if he was taught it from a Taoist master from the mountains and was given the responsibility of passing it and developing it, but we can be sure that he was the next line holder and that this was the very first appearance of the art of Tai Chi to the non-mountain dwelling population. Chen was then taught as a pure unaltered system to one person in the Chen family in each generation, sometimes a few of the next generation would be taught but the line would be given to just one of them and it was their duty to carry it on in its pure traditional manner. The Chen style and line continues till this day as part of the Little Nine Heaven School. As time went on many styles of Tai Chi were developed from this system and there is always conflict about who's style is better and who's is the original. The fact of the matter is all styles come from this line and so all study the same thing but have again different aspects focused upon and changed by different individuals. A classic example of this is the more well-known Yang style, Yang is in the western world a more popular and common style of Tai Chi, usually if someone talks about Tai Chi, they are referring to Yang. Most people believe that because it is more widespread, it must then be the most original method of practice. As we can see from the below diagram the 14th line holder of Chen taught the very first non-Chen family member called Yang, Lu-Chan. Lu-Chan was the founder of Yang style and so Yang style must come from the principles of Chen. This was the case as the line holder explored a new method of training built on the principles of Chen but to keep the line going passed the original form onto the next in the family and so carrying on the line of knowledge but passed his own interpretation on through the Yang family. Yang style although an internal art focuses on the development of energy in the body through the study of acupuncture and the energy meridians and trains this above all else sacrificing the structure of the physical development that comes from the Chen, this can be seen by the lifting of the ankle during stepping and the bending of the wrist. These principles are in direct contradiction to the original Chen teachings and so causing the loss of structural force. However, these alterations do perform an important function when looking at medicine. this means although it is a very important and valid method of training it cannot be given the true line of the knowledge of the universe as it loses many of the important basic principles in its development. It is however possible that it was meant to progress on its own and develop a deeper understanding of a certain aspect of the knowledge before one day joining up and adding back to the line itself. The Chen line carried on until the 17th generation where a man called Chen Fa-Ke again passed on the style to a non-family member. In this instance it is important to note that Chen Fa-Ke will have also known two slightly different methods of the style, although from the original style he was taught by two of the previous family members instead of the usual one. Over time each family member will have kept their old style and progressed and taught their own variation of it. This would give Fa-Ke two versions of the system, one that had been kept pure through the family history and a modified version that was progressed again focusing on a slightly different aspect, in this case one that was meant to directly link the universe to the human body in the old style and a second that focused on martial and fighting skill which was the new developed style. Fa-Ke passed the new fighting style on to the Chen family generation and passed the old style to a man called Pan Wing Chow. This can be seen by looking at the two styles together the old style maintains it ridged physical form as it is bound by its development of the physical principles before all else, whereas the new style losses some of these principles to develop more fighting applications, both forms however retain the general movements just used in two very different ways. The reasons for this were unknown, perhaps again to let the world develop the fighting style so it can be one day joined with its sister Yang form and then back with their farther form of the old style. But it is interesting that the Yang being broken off to explore energy development and then the new Chen to then develop the forms mental and spirit aspects through combat, almost as though the three have been

systematic dissected for more in-depth study to be re-joined again in the future. This gives us the knowledge that Pan, Wing Chow was in the key line holder of the great knowledge or at least one line passed on through the Taoist line holders.

After the decline of the Ming Dynasty and a new ruling government installed, the Qing Dynasty began in 1644A.D this led to a slightly more friendly treatment to the practitioners of martial arts and in turn allowed the population to use begin practicing spiritual development through them once again. In 1736A.D the Shaolin Temple revealed its newly developed martial art called Poison Fingers. This system although unveiled in 1736 would have existed since the Temples origins and simply kept hidden from the outside world until this more relaxed state came into being. Poison Fingers was a product of the synthesis between the Buddhist line and the Taoist line as it was created by the Buddhist monks but focuses on the acupressure points used by Taoist Medicine and energy development practices. This undoubtedly would have been a progressed method of training based on the basic foundations of Hui Neng in 638A.D who was the first to teach the two lines together in the Shaolin Temples. Due to this we can say that Poison Fingers is the carrier of the up-to-date Buddhist line in China. Although many off shoots of this system developed in the recent years the original unchanged style can be traced back through the passing of a text written by a monk called Ko-Hsiu who was the first to provide a written document of its principles. This text survives today. From the original unveiling of the art in 1736A.D the line was passed on to Liang Wu-Ching, Mo Ysing-Tso, then Hsiung Chien-Hsun born in 1895A.D who passed it on to Chin Chen Yen who was born in 1925A.D Chen then passed the line onto the Little Nine Heaven School after his death.

Several years after the unveiling of Poison Fingers. In 1800A.D a man called Dong Haichuan learned a system of martial arts called Bag Kua from an unnamed man in the mountains. This system is based of the old theory of Yin and Yang and the teachings of the I-Ching giving its origins of theory that exist from the very ancient methods of interpreting the knowledge of the universe. Built on these ideas and ways of understanding a method of martial arts that was most likely developed after the arrival of Bodhidharma who inspired all methods of thought to be turned into physical movement, had been kept secret in the mountains and progressed by the Taoist practitioners until this date where the line of this style of Taoism was then passed on to Dong to carry on to the next age of civilization. Again, many of the basic principles of the line of knowledge can be seen in this style and gives proof that part of the line was passed on through this system to explore this aspect of understanding. A man called Ma Wei Chi was considered the best in this art at the time and who will have studied with Dong Haichuan, who by this time would have been quite old in his life. Ma Wei Chi was said to be a very fierce fighter and a tough teacher, it is said he was despised by the Bag Kua community and died at the early age of 29 which to this day is a subject of great controversy. It is speculation, but maybe this was because he was given the line from his teacher at such a young age and was generally frowned upon as he was not a senior student perhaps. Ma Wei Chi taught a man called Yan Ju Lin whose style became known as Dragon Style Bag Kua, Yan kept his teaching methods from his teacher and was considered a very hard person to learn from, only a few could cope with his training methods as they were very intense and harsh, this would have been to ensure students devotion to the arts and stopped the art being taught openly to the public. This would not become watered down through improper practicing and teaching, keeping the system pure and in its original form. The line was then passed on to Chiao Chang-Hung, Master Chiao born in 1916A.D was also a legendary figure in Chinese Martial arts modern history.  At an early age his father hired a bodyguard to teach him Shaolin Kung Fu, after becoming very skilled by the age of sixteen Chiao visited a temple called Little Nine Heaven where he was selected by the Abbot called Lushan Daoren who was said to be a great Taoist master and held many of the skills acclaimed to practitioners of a high level of Taoist Alchemy. Chiao spent many years training with the Abbot where he learnt Little Nine Wu Tao or Nine Chamber Fist. Chiao then went on to learn Bua Kua while in Peking where he progressed his academic study into engineering. He later moved to Taiwan during the war and became the head of the Taiwanese Kung Fu Association before setting up the Little Nine Heaven Association. Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao itself is a martial art based on all the previous Taoist methods of practice but particularly Huang Di's Nine Cauldron Alchemy that was written in 2600B.C This style again was created from these teaching methods using alchemy, astrology, divination, and other scientific thinking and placed into a set of movement to become one with the universe in the hopes to become spiritually enlightened. The movements themselves have sufficient evidence to support that this style was most likely the system created by Huang Di himself and kept alive in the mountains, it could be argued that the movements were made during the Martial arts inspiration in the 600's, but either way this system is the direct passing on of the line from Huang Di in both cases. This then progressed and kept hidden in the temples and mountains until Master Chiao then passed on the line as the next official holder of the Little Nine Heaven and in the later years of his life begun to teach in a slightly less secretive fashion, but only to those students he felt deserved and respected the knowledge. Many of the students of this style of martial art in the past were assigned as bodyguards or guards to the most important Taoist Temples and monks to keep them safe from outside conflicts. Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao can be said to be one of our line holders of the original Taoist Line that has been kept safe and passed on to the next generation through selective teaching.

From this we can see that the Lines of the Chinese Line of Knowledge have all been collected, and in secret either in the mountains or inside temples have been carefully and methodically linked with physical movement in the form of internal martial arts. The Five Elements in their pure form of study have been turned into Hsing-I. The original Buddhist teaching brought over by Bodhidharma have been kept alive in the system of Splashing Hands. The blend of Buddhism and Taoism teachings focusing on Medicine and Acupuncture in the system of Poison Fingers. Traditional ancient Chinese alchemy and the original line teachings in Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao which in 2016 was officially recognized by the Chinese Government as the oldest form of traditional Taoist martial arts, with Sifu James McNeil as its lineage holder and “gate keeper” currently residing in California State in the United States. The I-Ching and its expansions of Confucianism through Dragon Style Bag Kua, and the line also from the I-Ching that focuses on the original Taoism aspects kept in the Chen Tai Chi system. These arts are all treasures that contain different aspects of the same overall knowledge and are fragments of the original line of knowledge passed on from the cradle of civilization. Each system although now taught openly through the public has a single line holder that has a duty to ensure the purity of the systems and keep them as close to the original teachings as they can, then pass them on to the next line holder. However, it is also their responsibility to share just enough of the knowledge with the outside world and the general population of the planet to allow its knowledge to continue to help build a general growth in the spiritual development of humans. This will ensure the future for our people does not disappear into the darkness of non-spiritual development and become completely lost in its materialistic and close-minded ways of thinking.