Kalpa and the work of spirit-writing
interpretation
On: the catastrophe of kalpa is about to occur
Source quotation · Jihyun Kim, Religions (2020), section 5.1
In this sense, Daoist Enlightenment is interchangeable with its soteriological term, kaijie duren 開劫度人 or “opening of a [new] kalpa and saving the people.” Both imply the beginning of a new cycle of time and the transformation of humans from mortal error and death into immortal life. The salvific enlightenment was the prominent function of the Thearch of Literature since the twelfth century.
Book of Transformation quotation in Jihyun Kim’s study of spirit-writing · Jihyun Kim, “Enlightenment on the Spirit-Altar: Eschatology and Restoration of Morality at the King Kwan Shrine in Fin de siècle Seoul,” Religions 11(6), 273 (29 May 2020), section 5.1. Publisher collected-volume PDF, printed page 122 (PDF page 131), English quotation attributed to Book of Transformation, JY255, folio 91b. Complete English block quotation; line wraps normalized, brackets preserved. Publisher PDF text layer inspected 20 September 2026. The attached scholarly note selects the first three complete sentences of the paragraph beginning In this sense. Chinese compatibility character 度 is normalized to 度; transliteration word spacing is normalized.
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In this sense, Daoist Enlightenment is interchangeable with its soteriological term, kaijie duren 開劫度人 or “opening of a [new] kalpa and saving the people.” Both imply the beginning of a new cycle of time and the transformation of humans from mortal error and death into immortal life. The salvific enlightenment was the prominent function of the Thearch of Literature since the twelfth century.