SGDY Inaugural Messages Complete Charter
Singapore Dao Yuan Founding Charter
Key Details
Complete Inaugural Planchette Record of the Singapore Branch of The World Red Swastika Society
Document
星洲道院開幕紀念刊 – Commemorative Publication, Opening of Singapore Dao Yuan
Primary Text
老祖訓 – 至聖先天老祖臨壇訓示 (The Most Holy One’s Inaugural Planchette Instruction)
Date & Time
丙子年九月廿二日申刻統科 – 22nd Day, 9th Lunar Month, Year Bingzi (1936), 申刻 (between 3–5 pm)
Spirit-Scribe
海一侍 (Hǎi Yī Shì) – the attending spirit-scribe who received and recorded the transmissions
Principal Authorities
The Most Holy One (至聖先天老祖); Buddha Ji (濟佛); Deity FuSheng (孚聖); Deity Changzuo (昌佐神); Deity Shang (尚真人); Disciples Zhizhen (智真); Zhisheng, Zhiyuan, Zhifa, Zhiqing (智生·智元·智發·智情)
Canonical Texts
The Holy Arctic Canon (太乙真經); The Principal Canon (午集正經)
Printer
天倉印務公司, Hong Kong Main Road (香港大馬路式三六)
Network
Founding document for Singapore (1936) → Malacca (1947) → KL (1949) → Perak (1951) → Penang (1958) → Butterworth (1987)
Preface - The Document and Its Layers
The 星洲道院開幕紀念刊 is a multi-layered founding record comprising four distinct but interlocking planchette messages received across several sessions at the opening of the Singapore Dao Yuan in the autumn of 1936. Together they constitute a complete charter: the inaugural address of The Most Holy One (the primary cosmological and philosophical message); the Five Institutional Instructions with their embedded technical notes; the secondary planchette transmissions to individual officers (智真鸞訓, 智生智元智發智情鸞訓); and the closing compassion gāthā and plum-blossom verse of Buddha Ji and the continuation transmission. This document is an integrated analysis that examines every layer in full, maps their interrelations, and demonstrates the single coherent vision that runs through all.
The formal heading of the primary session reads: 丙子年九月廿二日星洲道院開幕申刻統科 – ‘Bingzi Year, 9th Month, 22nd Day: Singapore Dao Yuan Opening, at the 申刻 Hour.’ The term 統科 signals that what follows is not informal transmission but an official institutional record of the highest intent. The scribe for the planchette is identified as 海一侍.