Mysteries Of The Six Holy Sage Kings - Benebell Wen (Fixed sound Re-Upload)

Everything you need to learn about the Tao can be learned from the Six Holy Kings – or so goes a classical, oft-cited axiom. Chinese historian and philosopher Li Zehou 李泽厚 noted that the Six Holy Kings were shamanic rulers, wū 巫, and that their divine right to sovereignty came from their alignment with Heaven, which is received on the basis of their abilities to commune with Heaven.

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As Mysteries, there is an esoteric facet to the Six Holy Kings. They personify the six powers, which are accumulated through the progression of six hexagram lines in the I Ching. Embedded in the mythology is the arcane knowledge that reveals the Way, or Tao, of Heaven, which is the path of the holy ones.

The transmission of wisdom from one king to the next is symbolic of orthodox Taoist lineaged tradition and Dào tǒng 道統, meaning the Tao is passed on from one generation to the next, the way the wisdom of the Holy Kings was passed from King Yao 堯 to Shun 舜 to Yu the Great 禹, then Tang 湯, to King Wen 文 and his son King Wu 武.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
00:18 Meaning of “Mysteries”
01:09 Six Powers per the Book of Three Sovereigns
01:36 The Six-Line I Ching Hexagram
01:59 The Six Jade Maidens; symbolism of Six Black (Mystery 玄) Stones
02:33 Six-Line I Ching Hexagram, continued
03:32 Structural Value of Six in Nature
04:24 Six Akasha, Six Powers and the One Tao
05:37 Use of the term “Holy Kings,” Sheng Wang 聖王

06:07 Xia Dynasty
06:30 Shang Dynasty
06:42 Zhou Dynasty

AkudouFlame: My thoughts - Here you'll discover just how much our ancestors truly knew and were in tune with and is proof yet again of how they were raised without all the poisonous food, air and water and going through many rights of passage as both men an women!