辯正論 8.39

8.39

按玄都觀道士等所上一切經目云。取宋人陸修靜所撰之者。依而寫送。檢修靜舊目。注上清經有一百八十六卷。其一百一十七卷。已行於世。從始清以下有四十部。合六十九卷。未行於世。檢今經目。並云見在。修靜經目。又云。洞玄經有三十六卷。其二十一卷。已行於世。其大小劫已下有十一部。合一十五卷。猶隱天宮未出。檢今經目並注云見在。陸修靜者。宋明帝時人也。以太始七年。因勅上此經目。修靜注云。隱在天宮未出於世。從此以來二百許年。不聞天人下降。又不見道士昇天。不知此經何因而來。昔文成以書飯牛詐言王母命至。而黃庭元陽以道換佛。張陵創造靈寶。以吳赤烏之年。始出其上清起於葛玄。宋齊之間乃行。鮑靜造三皇經。當時事露而寢。文成致戮於漢朝。鮑氏滅族於往昔。今之學者仍踵其術。良可悲矣。漢劉焉傳稱。張魯祖父陵桓帝時客於蜀學道鶴鳴山中。造作符書以惑百姓。受其道者出米五斗。故謂之米賊。陵傳其子衡。衡為繼師。衡傳子魯。魯為嗣師。號曰三師。其來學者。初名鬼卒。後號祭酒。聚合醜徒頻為非據。三人之妻。號為三夫人。陵為蟒蛇所螫。弟子亦相次餧蛇。皆云。白日昇天。欺詐妖妄傳記所明也。案姚書云。上代已來。至於符姚。皆喚眾僧名曰道士。魏太武時。有妖人寇謙之。欺詐誑惑自號天師。始偷道士之名。私易祭酒之稱。案禮良弓之子必善為箕。良冶之家能為裘者。以其事類然也。若陵道實朴素。其子孫何所承稟。妖誑若此。又案三元品經稱。積善之人。則有積善子孫來生其家。積惡之人。則有不善子孫來生其家。張陵既白日昇天。有何不善而招此妖妄子孫也。穿鑿之端。皆此類知矣。

According to the general catalogue of all scriptures submitted by the Daoist masters of Xuandu Abbey, they based their copying and submission on what was compiled by Lu Xiujing of the Song dynasty. Examining Xiujing's old catalogue, it notes that the Shangqing scriptures comprise one hundred and eighty-six fascicles, of which one hundred and seventeen fascicles were already circulating in the world, while forty works from the Shiqing downward, totaling sixty-nine fascicles, were not yet circulating in the world. Examining the present scripture catalogue, they all claim that these are currently extant. Xiujing's scripture catalogue also says that the Dongxuan scriptures comprise thirty-six fascicles, of which twenty-one fascicles were already circulating in the world, while eleven works from the Greater and Lesser Kalpas downward, totaling fifteen fascicles, were still concealed in the celestial palace and not yet released. Examining the present scripture catalogue, all of them are annotated as currently extant. Lu Xiujing was a person of the time of Emperor Ming of the Song dynasty. In the seventh year of the Taishi era, he submitted this scripture catalogue pursuant to an imperial decree. Xiujing annotated that they were concealed in the celestial palace and not yet released into the world. In the some two hundred years since then, we have not heard of heavenly beings descending, nor have we seen Daoist masters ascending to heaven; we do not know whence these scriptures came. Formerly, Wencheng fed a cow with a written message and falsely claimed that Queen Mother [of the West]'s mandate had arrived; and the Huangting and Yuanyang scriptures replaced the Buddha with the Dao. Zhang Ling fabricated the Lingbao scriptures, which only first appeared in the Chiwu era of Wu, and the Shangqing originated from Ge Xuan, circulating only between the Song and the Qi dynasties. Bao Jing fabricated the Sanhuang jing; when the matter was exposed at the time, it was suppressed. Wencheng was executed in the Han dynasty; the Bao clan was exterminated in times past. Today's scholars still follow in their footsteps—how truly lamentable! The biography of Liu Yan in the Han History states that Zhang Lu's grandfather, Ling, was a guest in Shu during the time of Emperor Huan, studying the Dao in the Heming Mountains, and fabricated talismans and writings to delude the common people. Those who received his Dao contributed five pecks of rice, so they were called 'rice thieves.' Ling transmitted it to his son Heng, Heng became the Successor Master, and Heng transmitted it to his son Lu, who became the Inheriting Master; they were called the Three Masters. Those who came to study under them were initially called 'ghost troops,' and later called 'libationers' (jijiu). Gathering vile followers, they repeatedly engaged in illegitimate actions. The wives of the three men were called the Three Mistresses. Ling was bitten by a python, and his disciples were also sequentially devoured by snakes, yet all claimed to have 'ascended to heaven in broad daylight.' Such fraudulent and monstrous fabrications are made clear in the historical records. Examining the Book of Yao, it says: 'From ancient times down to Fu and Yao, all assemblies of monks were called