集古今佛道論衡 2.6

2.6

二或妄稱真道者。蜀記云。張陵入鵠鳴山。自稱天師。漢嘉平末為蟒所噏。子衡奔出。假設權方用表靈化。生糜鵠足置石崖頂。到光和元。年遣使告曰正月七日天師昇玄。都米民山。獠遂因妄傳販死利生逆莫過此之甚三或合氣釋罪者。妄造黃書呪癩無端。乃云開命門拕真人三五七九天羅地網。士女溷亂不異禽獸。用銷災禍。其可然乎。

Second, regarding false claims of the true Dao: The Shu ji says: 'Zhang Ling entered Mount Heming and styled himself the Heavenly Master. At the end of the Jiaping era of the Han, he was devoured by a python. His son Heng fled, and devised an expedient method to display a numinous transformation: he crushed a swan's foot while alive and placed it on the top of a stone cliff. When the first year of the Guanghe era arrived, he sent an emissary to announce: "On the seventh day of the first month, the Heavenly Master ascended to the Mystery Capital." The rice-folk and mountain barbarians consequently spread this falsehood, trading on death to profit life; no transgression exceeds the extremity of this! Third, regarding combining qi to expiate sins: They falsely fabricate Yellow Texts and chant spells against leprosy without basis, saying they open the gate of life, escort true persons, through the three, five, seven, and nine, and the celestial nets and terrestrial snares. Men and women intermingle promiscuously, no different from beasts, using this to dispel disasters and misfortunes—how could this be acceptable?'