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Golden Lock Jade Pass Scripture

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Golden Lock Jade Pass (Part I) In the beginning of chaos, the five directions were established; Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon, the three guiding principles were laid out. The celestial spheres arranged the stars; clear heavens and turbid earth governed Yin and Yang. Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning are all void energies; mountains and broad waters hold the good methods. Heaven Qian and Earth Kun distinguish high and low; arranged to follow reason and reverse the guiding principles. The sexagenary cycle spans heaven and earth; men and women pair up in twos. The four seasons and eight solar terms divide day and night; the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams connect to the Heavenly Dipper. The Five Elements are reversed and pushed through a thousand turns; Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth are at the center. One hundred and twenty deities and sha spirits; ninety-four positions of auspicious and inauspicious generals. Several years and months are favorable; several days are auspicious and times are good. Qian mountain and Gen water lead to prosperity of people; Xun with full steps brings great auspiciousness. Li coming from above the dragon vein near the grave site; descendants generation after generation produce scholars. Farms and population grow year by year; wearing purple and wearing gold assist the court. Winding and curved before the gate; generations of glory and distant prosperity. The northwest road is full of spirit; this place is named Jizhuang (Auspicious Village). Every family prospers and is wealthy; flat and even in all directions is like paradise. High front and low back cannot last long; high back and low front expand farms. Low east and high west is called reverse land; water flowing to the Zhen palace is not appropriate. Although flowing away causes no obstruction, it also leads people to distant places. High east and low west is the Ze land; it definitely produces virtuous people in later generations. Strong and immovable brings wealth and honor; descendants become pillars of the state. A pond behind the house indicates poverty; also indicates no heirs and abdominal ailments. Direct water impact in front injures five arrows; definitely causes consumption and disasters. If the two positions are broken, descendants ** lack direction. Although flowing away causes no obstruction, the pond behind the house gradually causes harm. Taking water from Xun is not long-lasting; even if wealthy, it is not auspicious. Filthy ground behind the hall is the dead end; two arrows from the northeast are hardest to defend. Although wealthy for a few years, harm will definitely occur after fifteen years. High back and low front is the highest auspiciousness; Ren and Zi prosperous, advancing cattle and sheep. Wealth and warehouses are all abundant; wealth and honor, great auspiciousness. Hills behind and filth in front; winding and curving through the Yangtze. Advancing wealth and adding people, cattle and sheep prosper; sons and grandsons have long fortune and longevity. Low on all sides and high in the center; water flowing in four directions is a killer's knife. Even if dragons and tigers surround in four directions, loss occurs within twenty-four years. Stones in front of the gate turn to dust; thieves and robbers at the door bring sorrow. Official disputes and arguments occur every year; divine arrows are hard to defend against, shooting secretly. High on all sides and low in the center; this place is named Hell Pool. Family decline is hard to thicken; Yin is strong and Yang is weak, affairs gradually decline. Narrow front and wide back is worthy of praise; family prosperity definitely brings wealth. Descendants flourish under official illumination; fields and gardens are rich enough for mulberry and hemp. Wide front and narrow back need not be mentioned; definitely causes family poverty and selling all land. Descendants flee to other places; only because the mouth is large and violates fierce fists. Wind and Thunder high and wide, Heaven and Ze low; having grain and sufficient business. Vehicles and horses follow as needed when going out; sons and grandsons become officials generation after generation. Left extended and right shrunk is the best; Gen coming from the dragon brings prosperity of people and wealth. Eagle-like posture and harmonious family; descendants wear purple robes. Pigs, sheep, cattle, and horses walk in groups; gradually rising after forty years. Zi and Wu full and broad-minded; advancing salaries and widely attracting wealth every year. Seeing officials brings joy and transforms to auspiciousness; a lifetime of salary with smiling face. Even if wealthy with fields and property, descendants do not escape coming. Xuanwu high and Zhuque low; several dragon paths in front of the gate. East Azure Dragon and West White Tiger; fortune and longevity complete, suffering loneliness and rebellion. Flowing water on both sides rushes the middle; high front and narrow back definitely招 disaster. People leave and wealth scatters, attracting official matters; bravery leads to theft, women play wildly. Water irrigates isolated villages coming and going; the subtleties within are hard to guess. Golden Lock Jade Pass (Part II) People of the world do not know its subtleties; mountains prosperous for people, water prosperous for wealth. Three mountains Xuanwu spirit is high; water flows east and returns to the hall. Road rushing Kun path connects back and forth; if not becoming a duke, becoming a pillar. Water going and mountain coming, fortune and longevity complete; waist wrapped in gold belt produces beautiful virtuous ones. If the dragon vein comes to the proper穴 (spot); descendants generation after generation produce top scholars. Chen and Mao green come, Shen and Wei steps; Qian waves and Kan hills, fortune and longevity together. Bing and Ding curved water faces and arches; green robes and elephant belts bow at the red steps. You high ridge and Mao low; Wu side broad and back filthy pool. Men and women internal chaos without high or low; widows in rooms suffer loneliness and desolation. Broad place and flat on four sides; freely establish houses and set up graves. Regardless of mountain coming and water going; family prosperity and hundred affairs full. Ditches and rivers behind the grave must not be suitable; sons and grandsons wander east and west. Yin people's eyes come to harm; eating little and wearing little, suffering loneliness and desolation. Grass and eyes bright and color good; establishing houses in the middle praised by ten thousand people. This place is named Dragon穴 (spot) land; setting up graves and houses definitely brings glory. Green mountains behind the house several zhang high; ponds in front rise with waves. Southeast flowing water rolling continuously; nine heavens straight up becoming officials. Hundred affairs as desired, family prosperous; buying neighboring fields on left and right. If you don't believe, dig three or four feet; light and fat front narrow and back萱 (daylily) glory. Path through front of grave is hardest to bear; sons and grandsons wander to distant places. Even if staying, all are poor and empty; after twenty years, the family breaks down. Land like a steamer low on four sides; water flowing on four sides through long streams. High ridges and hills hard to establish; building houses and setting up graves must not be suitable. Eight winds scatter people and lineages extinct; wrongly recognizing bad times and low fortune. Water penetrating green mountains is rare in the world; dragon coiling and tiger surrounding both suitable. Xuanwu like peaks high six positions; one piece in the middle as grave base. Many producing smart and clever sons; farms, cattle, horses, and warehouses fully sufficient. This place's two sides generate auspicious qi; within twenty years leaping the dragon pool. Rooster and Mao struggling is the best; digging three feet deep to see dragon pond. If you don't believe dragon bones are on left and right; front narrow and back wide, armor scales hidden. Establishing houses and setting up graves is wealth and honor; definitely producing noble sons hanging on the golden list. Time masters do not know the Xuan subtleties; purple qi high spreading to four directions. Smooth and dead ridges burying a grave; Tengshe Wen land generates poverty. Selling all land and going to other places; this Geng foolish legs and dim eyes. Two trenches in front of the grave; winding earth mound behind the camp. If there are pedestrian roads on east and west; sons and grandsons strong and violent, not gentle. This place is named Cowherd land; fierce and violent every year bringing disaster sorrow. If you don't believe dig and look carefully; a pair of stone pieces inside. Three mounds on flat ground like peaks; additionally Zhen and Mao with the dragon vein. North has ridges and west has paths; one piece in the middle as grave support. This layout is Golden Chicken Holding Egg land; definitely producing wealth and honor, bringing out heroes. If you don't believe auspicious qi is born inside; digging three feet deep brings out copper looking. Houses behind the house like peaks; just like a chair generally same. Establishing houses and camps brings much wealth and honor; sage sons and virtuous grandsons protect court titles. Stopping wind and gathering qi is truly wonderful; purple qi rising floating to four directions. Dense trees surrounding ridges; one curved water flowing through the Yangtze. East and west dragons and tigers connecting; slope land setting up graves great auspiciousness. Lotus pond and lotus root land people hard to recognize; descendants orchids and cassia main sound and elegance. If you don't dig deep and look carefully; vine roots nine feet and more long. Land like drum shape is most strange; definitely this as grave land. Why use mountain coming and water going; bringing fortune and prosperity, hundred affairs suitable. Xuanwu high and Zhuque low; if there are blessed people burying in this land. Fields, six livestock, and people prosperous; descendants and grandsons wear purple clothes. If there are divine halls and temples on east and west; sons and grandsons definitely expand farms. Golden Lock Jade Pass (Part III) Only fearing reverse water injuring arrows; descendants and grandsons main decline and death. Establishing houses and graves must not avoid Yang; avoiding Yang Yin energy not appropriate. Although wealth and honor hard to keep later; often lonely women guarding empty rooms. Building houses and graves must not face East; facing East water flows away without trace. Although currently no disasters; within thirty years definitely main凶 (inauspicious). Establishing houses and graves must not face West; Kun and Shen reverse water hardest to cure. Although wealth and honor not many years; definitely main fleeing and scattering. Residences and graves must not face North; facing North main family ghosts and gods crying. Young clothes all belong to spine; finance and people die main breaking houses. Establishing houses and graves facing Southeast; all things facing sun spirit high. Behind must plant pines and front willows; four sides surrounding internal peace and health. Daily peace and people happy; ancestral sand and water descendants flourish. Do not come mountain and water official prosperous; fortune coming infinite gradually rising. Azure Dragon Yi pulse rising peak heroic; Bing and Ding tidal water again attracting. Geng and Xin positions snake shape exposed; Ren and癸 peaks layer upon layer high. Wu and Ji positions setting one grave; sons and grandsons generals and ministers producing heroes. This place is named Four Ministers land; setting up camps and houses highest. Southeast broad making peak steps; Gen and Qian facing port most suitable. Ze west curved Li side winding; allowing you to establish houses making graves. This place is named Phoenix land; facing sun spring colors four seasons strange. Blessed phoenix bodies burying; sons and grandsons generation after generation wearing purple clothes. Bing side ditches and Ding side flowing; Xin and You Azure Dragon moving boats. Four sides trenches as four feet; named Turtle land good raising buildings. Regardless of living and burying; sons and grandsons strong sufficient fields. Pigs, sheep, cattle, and horses walking in groups; glory and wealth producing feudal lords. Xuanwu high and hills embracing; having water and warehouses having surplus wealth. Mountain and water intersecting is highest auspiciousness; one curved water going and coming. This place is named Lion land; sons and grandsons holding tablets bowing at golden steps. Front and back again no mountain and water; why so glory and fortune and longevity together. If you don't dig deep three or four feet; a团 (clump) of Yang qi shining light rising. Flat land having ridges; ridge setting up graves great auspiciousness. Residences and graves facing Southeast; water going and mountain flowing carefully looking. Courtyard water from long selling; wells and springs must be hidden toward Mao side. Opening doors must not fail Tian Gang formula; three, five, six, seven disasters like mountains. Also like wealth gates four, five, six, seven; family harmonious and sons filial fathers hearts at peace. Main house front leaning one wall; do not call wind arrows penetrating door hall. Astronomy and geography must not violate; Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams determine Yin and Yang. Setting up graves and houses do not fear directions; regardless of flat land and ridges. Regardless of Guo Pu Tian Gang formula; hundred ways setting up graves family prosperity. How to avoid connecting flat provoking disaster; family door broken and people damaged. Gen direction wonderful formula do not know; only then know Guo grave has Yin and Yang. This place princes many auspicious; do not people know leaking heavenly secrets. Setting up graves and houses do not need masters; regardless of ridges and high and low. Also needing year facing month favorable; discussing what Yin Yang wonderful formula masters. Family wealth broken and people damaged; saying his times bad and fortune low. Originally paying heavenly secrets true wonderful decisions; fearing he with later wrongly pushing seeking. Generals and ministers Golden Lock repeatedly discussing; sweeping all masters people no careful heart. Recognizing astronomy and geography; only then knowing wonderful reason worth a thousand gold. Golden Lock Jade Pass not easy; familiar and memorize do not be light. Immortal family secret teaching true formula; careful heart studying must be careful. Poverty and hardship not exceeding thirteen years; looking at his family broken and people damaged. Penetrating green mountains rare in world; dragon coiling and tiger dwelling both suitable. Front heavenly pool like moon shape; southwest hills chaotic arrow piles. Facing city back turning Tan Lang shape; Xuanwu high civil and military returning. Masters if knowing Xuan subtleties; one piece in the middle as grave land. Many producing smart and virtuous masters; sons and grandsons definitely reaching Phoenix pool. Purple qi high spreading to four directions; setting up graves main houses most good. Left and right no rushing back no arrows; fields and gardens abundant descendants flourish. Flat land no ridges; stepping and looking grave base taking wonderful methods. Only looking grave base high then use; Hua Li only needing water flowing long. Knowing far mountains flowing near water; dragon roaring and tiger growling both appropriate. Eight directions surrounding seeking Wu and Ji; facing near Zi and Wu determining ridges. Lei side waves total not suitable; wind blowing madness and paralysis suffering loneliness and desolation. Family door decline hard to thicken; sons and grandsons escaping walking east and west. Not asking famous masters separately burying; definitely poor and empty not suitable. Three-way river mouth burying a grave; water flowing left and right must correspond. Time masters do not know Xuan subtleties; within thirty years producing noble people. Grave fields middle again burying grave; not knowing grave is what family. If burying into other family ancestors; definitely living and dead both not spiritual. Mourning family if not losing people; burying after not long dying masters. Grave front and grave back two families when; people walking left and right truly can be damaged. Poverty not exceeding thirteen years; looking at his family broken and people dying. Tomb front grave burying most not high; definitely main sons and grandsons four directions fleeing. Hateful masters no eye power; occupying his Feng Shui two adjusting. House back ditches and rivers living water flowing; left coiling and right winding having hardness and softness. Front if there are waves flowing; wealth and glory never ending. Qian and Gen broad connecting big roads; definitely producing noble sons out of kings and feudal lords. People's houses back have ponds; although wealthy also not auspicious. Definitely producing wind and flow dissolute sons; within thirty years main decline and death. People's residences want facing south; Xuanwu must protect peak fields. Front willows and back遗 (relics) many auspicious; naturally wealth sufficient farms. Front no cover Zhuque lonely; back garden no protection Xuanwu empty. Front and back mutually cover many stable; naturally family way sufficient abundance. Camp back ponds most not suitable; definitely main sons and grandsons four directions leaving. Auspicious disasters broken damaging people; early asking time masters selecting land moving.

Written by Master Sanfu on October 30, 2014. Please credit the source if you share.

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