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The "Five Pecks of Wheat" was more likely five Pecks of Rice. It was the entry fee for an early Daoist community. It was enough to satisfy the Celestial Masters, the professionals who ran the departments of heaven like well ordered drill sergeants. Not everyone was guaranteed a reward, only about 18000 people would have the correct balance of life force to survive the apocalypse. Being good was a competitive sport. Back then, like today, there was of course no shortage of advice on how to polish the QI. In excess of two thousand years after the first Five Pecks Grand Master, a philosopher and esoteric known in English as PD Ouspensky's exploration of the fourth dimension and an extended visit to Nepal produced a sought after 1912 book called Tertiary Organum. It was a made in a lifetime Lamarkian evolutionary journey. The gist of his account was some people achieve enlightenment through an extraordinary physics and are heaven bound, others don't and aren't. Grand Master Zhang Daoling ran a small empire. Ouspensky developed a bit of cult, he died in Surrey, England, in 1947.
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