Introduction on The Eight Generals Incantation (道教八將神咒)

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Recent years, the engagement on the Eight Spiritual Generals (Folks known as Ba Jia Jiang 八家將) have been growing and now almost All Religious Celebration, such Performance Troupes can be seen performing the Cleansing of the Environment for the Temples or individual Religious Group.

So when does this type of Generals started?

If we will to look into the Knowledge that being passed down by our Taoist Ancestors, such Invitation of Eight Spiritual Generals shall start in very Early or Late Song Dynasty, by the time it reached Ming Dynasty, such Belief had grow quite a lot and in almost All Rituals/Ceremonies that involved in Warding-off of Diseases, Illnesses or Disasters, Invitation of the Eight Spiritual Generals will be invited.

Due to certain issues that happened in Qing Dynasty, a lot of our Taoist Practices will being destroy (due to the Believing of Tibetian Buddhism during the Mid-period of Qing) and so, the actual set of Inviting of the Eight Spiritual Generals is gone.

Now the Performance that one self can see is originated from Taiwan in Late Qing Dynasty (which is about 100+ years old) and the Oldest set (more than 200 years) that left in this Taoist Society is in one of the Taoist Association in Singapore.

So who are the Eight Spiritual Generals?

According to the Incantation that being used to invite this group of Generals, we can see that, these Eight Spiritual Generals shall be from the Earthly & Mortal Realm which are put in-charge of:

1 Spirits & Souls of Mortals

2 Spirits & Souls of Animals, Insects, Mammals, Plants, Diseases, etc

3 Stubborn Entities, etc

So why is there a Need in Inviting the Eight Spiritual Generals?

To get the Enhancing Negative Energies that being emitted by them to assist in getting rid or Warding-off of any Stubborn Entities & Negative Energies that stuck to one area.

So by reciting the Mantra, the Eight Spiritual Generals will possessed on one self?

This is one Big Mistake that many Folks tend to made.

The Main Objective of reciting the Incantation is to Invite the Negative Energies from the Eight Spiritual Generals and/or to Inform the Generals to release the Necessary Amount of Energies in enhancing the Cleansing Task.

Nowadays, what we see are still the same, just that some Folks tend to make it look very "Spiritual" by telling the others that the People performing the Cleansing are in Trance, whichis totally Ridiculous and Ignorant.

In the following, I will introduce the Incantation for the Invitation. Just to take note that, Not All are fated to have a Positive Result after reciting this Incantation, beore reciting of this Incantation, one self must go thru the necessary training and getting protection before one self can succeed. Even a lot of Groups that practice the Engaging of the Eight Spiritual Generals are not able to achieve the Full Positive effect from this Incantation.

Here it goes:

天地日月星。吾召酆都神。
Tian Di Ri Yue Xing. Wu Zhao Feng Du Shen

隨氣一攝至。追精立現形。
Sui Qi Yi She/Nie Zhi. Zhui Jing Li Xian Xing

不問神與鬼。選甚妖與精。
Bu Wen Shen Yu Gui. Xuan Shen Yao Yu Jing

八將聞吾召。火急見真形。
Ba Jiang Wen Wu Zhao. Huo Ji Jian Zhen Xing