Tokens , of transmission

The ceremony of transmission described in the Taiqing sources is similar to rites documented in early Daoist texts. The adept must swear a covenant (meng) and establish a bond (yue, a word that in other contexts denotes a legal contract) with his master, and provide tokens [xin) that prove his commitment to receiving the texts and instructions and to keeping them secret. At the end of the rite, he and his master ratify their reciprocal obligation by smearing their mouths with blood, which is sometimes replaced by cinnabar (a further example of the symbolic association between the color red and the notions of sincerity and loyalty that we have discussed in the previous chapter). ... 

The seat (zuo) is the place where the divinity comes to observe the ceremony. The Jiudan iingjue, 20.3a, gives directions for setting up a seat for the Great One (Taiyi) see above, p. 82. After Lay the Scripture of the Elixirs, the Liquid Pearl, 1.3b, adds and the tokens for the covenant (mengxin zhi wu). On the ceremony of transmission in other Taiqing texts and on the preliminary purification practices see above. Chapter 5. 

Today, coaxial cable with baseband transmission is the most frequently used technique in implementations of LANs, in Ethernet LANs as well as in token ring networks. Transmission rates are mostly between 6 and 16 Mbits/s. Interfacing to coaxial cable is rather simple, especially with Ethernet new nodes can be connected to an existing cable without interrupting the operation of the network. 

The transmission ceremony of the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs reproduces the rite celebrated at the beginning of human history by the Yellow Emperor, when he transmitted the text to the Mysterious Master (Xuanzi). After the disciple makes an oath, the master receives tokens from him, and asks the Mysterious Woman (Xuannii, the deity who gave the scripture to... 

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