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35 太玄漫言 ch. 13.
36 Ibid.
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37 宗師,道長,法師,鍊師,謰道,高級弟子,初級弟子。
38 However, in actual practice, almost anybody with a good character can come forward to the altar to venerate the Deity.
39 It has been explained to me that the talisman is not at all essential, but is occasionally used to help the patient into thinking that a certain action is being performed on him.
40 An attempt has been made by a healer in Hong Kong to heal a patient half way round the world in U.S. It is not clear to me whether the attempt was successful or not.
41 These are the most commonly used objects in the worship of gods of the popular religion.
42 The Supreme Deity is known to have revealed himself in the guise of a Taoist gentleman to Patriarch Lo and numerous disciples.
43 See, for example, his "Historical Notes on the Origins and Development of the Taoist Religion up to the Han Period” in Taoism and Chinese Religion, tr. Frank A. Kierman, Jr., Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981, pp. 413-430.