Cui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa after the ninth month

Further, according to the deposition of Cui Shijun: he first entered the Li-trigram teaching. In the eighth month of last year Gao Yuzao, a man of his village who had long known Xu Anguo of Chenjiazhuang in Changyuan county, Zhili, brought Xu Anguo to his house and said that Xu Anguo practised the Zhen-trigram teaching, which was better than the Li trigram, and urged him to leave Li and turn to Zhen; so he took Xu Anguo as his teacher. Xu Anguo likewise taught the eight characters “True Void, Native Home, Unborn Father and Mother”, no different from the Li-trigram teaching, except that every day, morning, noon and evening, one paid homage to the sun three times, clasping the chest with both hands, closing the eyes, sitting cross-legged and reciting the eight characters of the True Void eighty-one times; this was called “embracing the merit”, and when the merit was complete one could escape calamity. In the second month of this year Xu Anguo came to his house again and said that after the ninth month of this year the White Yang kalpa would arrive. When the kalpa came, the old teaching head would send those who practised the teaching a small white cloth banner each, to be put up at the door, and they would escape the slaughter. He also said that the old teaching head was surnamed Liu. So he deposed.