The Jade Splendor Immortal Scripture of the Clear Golden Tower: The Divine Chapters of the Eight Extremes and the Inner Secret Scripts of the Three Emperors
The author is unknown.
Judging from its content and wording, the text is believed to date back to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Consisting of three volumes, it is included in the "Methods Section of the Cave Divine Division" of the Daozang (Taoist Canon).
This book expounds talismans and sorcery arts for summoning gods, commanding ghosts, expelling evil spirits and delivering the mortal world, divided into thirty chapters.
The first volume, comprising ten chapters, is pseudonymously attributed to the Heavenly Emperor. It records the names of heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, as well as sorcery techniques for establishing ritual altars, submitting memorials to heaven, and summoning gods to subdue evil and slay demons by means of divine seals and talismans.
The second volume, also ten chapters, is purportedly dictated by the Earthly Emperor. It contains the divine seals and talismans of the Earthly Emperor, methods for Taoist priests to select sites for cultivation when entering mountains, as well as techniques for distinguishing immortals from evil spirits and taking ganoderma and other elixir herbs.
The third volume, with another ten chapters, is attributed to the Human Emperor. It elaborates on the ways to subdue evil and promote good, eliminate desires and cut off mortal attachments, accumulate essence and refine qi, and uphold purity and emptiness, so as to achieve longevity and immortality.
Additionally, there is a supplementary text by Madame Wei of Nanyue, which copies the True Scripts of the Five Numinous Talismans of the Lingbao School, talismans, and divine diagrams. It expounds the arts of swallowing talismans, reciting incantations, performing the Step of the Big Dipper ritual and expelling ghosts.
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