“During the 10 years of the Chia-Chen year, there will be 90 kinds of diseases. Most of the people will die of violent diseases, and the livestock will suffer from epidemics. It happens because people do not believe in the Great Tao.”
In our previous episodes, we learned of the prophecies foretelling that a Great Catastrophe is coming to humankind, which was also referred to as the End Times. While the world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be surprising to learn that this epidemic was foreseen to occur during the End Times in details in the ancient Taoist texts. Today, we will explore the time periods mentioned that regarding events leading to the Great Catastrophe.
In ancient Taoist prophecies, the Great Catastrophe is foretold to break out intensively at some time between 1984 and 2043. During the Great Catastrophe, in addition to terrible natural disasters and wars, there is predicted to be a great pandemic that will cause the most severe destruction of human life among all disasters.
The Divine Incantations Scripture gives the most extensive details of the prophesied Great Catastrophe, and mentions events that reveal when the Great Catastrophe is approaching. Tao says: “When the Great Catastrophe is about to come, the three calamities, wars, pandemics, floods and fires are approaching.”
“Media Report by BBC World Service Reporter (f): Between the end of 2002 and the summer of 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome killed more than 700 people and made thousands more ill....”
“Media Report by The Humane Society of the United States Reporter (f): Born from pigs, the H1N1 virus or swine flu is spreading fast...”
“Media Report by Voice of America Reporter (f): ...almost 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries on 5 continents.”
“Media Report by Bloomberg Quicktake: Originals Reporter (m): The first confirmed case was reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Contact with camels is believed to be the source of many human infections. ...”
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the entire world has experienced several fatal diseases, one after another. SARS broke out in 2002-2004, swine flu in 2009, MERS in 2012, and COVID-19 in 2019. There has also been a multitude of natural disasters around the world in recent years, involving extensive flooding and widespread fires with loss of life of humans and animal people. The scriptures outline specific years that have aligned with major disease outbreaks in the world.
The Scripture foretells that the plagues will first arise from 2000 to 2004. Tao says: “From the years of Geng-Chen, Xin-Si, Ren-Wu, and Gui-Wei, near the year of Chia-Shen, there will be 92 epidemic diseases in the world, which will kill the evil people.” “From the year of Ren-Wu, there will be many diseases among people. Ghost soldiers will act together, in groups of tens of thousands, to kill evil people.”
We believe the year Geng-Chen, Xin-Si, Ren-Wu, Gui-Wei and Chia-Shen referred in the prophecy are 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively, in the sexagenary cycle of 1984-2043.
As the scripture foretells, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a viral respiratory disease caused by a SARS-associated coronavirus, broke out in 2002, and cases were reported until 2004.
The Divine Incantations Scripture also foretells the outbreak of swine flu in 2009. “In the 10 years of Chia-Shen, there will be 490 thousand black ghosts to kill people. There will be many violent deaths. In the years of Zi-Chou, the due day will be approaching. There will be 800 thousand red killing soldiers coming to take lives of people in massive scale, but people won’t know it.”
The years of Zi-Chou in the ten years of Chia-Shen, which is the period of 2000-2009 in the sexagenary cycle of 1984-2043, are 2008, the Wu-Zi year, and 2009, the Ji-Chou year. As prophesied, swine flu, or the H1N1 virus broke out in 2009.
According to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control in the USA, millions of people were affected by this outbreak. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010 there were an estimated 60.8 million reported cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States, and 151,700 - 575,400 deaths worldwide. As we can see from the ranges, the actual numbers could be higher than estimated.
In the following prophecy, Supreme Lord Tao foretells that the pandemics will break out on a large scale during 2020-2029, causing many humans to die and animal-persons to suffer. The scripture states that this will occur because people do not believe in the Great Tao. Taoism expounds that humans should live in balance with the Tao (or the Supreme Force), and that the eating of animal-people’s flesh is unacceptable. Killing those who are weaker or defenseless, including animal beings, is against one’s spiritual nature and prevents the inner realization of the Tao.
“During the 10 years of the Chia-Chen year, there will be 90 kinds of diseases. Most of the people will die of violent diseases, and the livestock will suffer from epidemics. It happens because people do not believe in the Great Tao.”
The year of Chia-Chen in the prophecy is 2024, and the ten years of Chia-Chen is the period from 2020-2029. As noted and clearly known to all of the world’s citizens, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out on a large scale in 2020 and has caused more than 6.54 million confirmed deaths worldwide as of September 2022. However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimation, the total number of deaths may be as high as about 2.7 times the number of officially confirmed deaths.
Sadly, too, animal-people around the world have been infected with the COVID virus, including pets, captive animal-people in zoos and aquariums, farmed animal-people, and wild animal-people. When infected, the animal-people may experience symptoms similar to humans such as fever, coughing, difficulty breathing, lack of energy, sneezing, runny nose, eye discharge, vomiting, or diarrhea. Innocent animal people have also been killed as a direct result of the covid pandemic, including chicken people and pig people bred for food, and lab animal-people who were killed when laboratories shut down due to the pandemic. In addition, African swine fever and bird flu have been breaking out again worldwide. And tragically, millions of helpless pig-people and chicken-people, turkey-people and more were brutally culled in the name of prevention.
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The prophecy points out that the pandemic breaks out because humans do not believe in the Tao. In other words, there is an ongoing violation of the universal laws as humans mercilessly slaughter and abuse fellow humans and animal-people. And this has had and will continue to have consequences. Supreme Master Ching Hai has also given insights into the nature of Covid on many occasions and how it is associated with karmic repercussions.
“They wanted to open, to go back to normal, and take COVID-19 just like another chronic flu or something. (Yes. Right.) But it’s not like that, it’s not like that. And I told you already, even if it looks mild, it’s not. The effect is long and invisible even, untraceable. That’s the thing. Scientists don’t even know yet. Maybe they will discover, but there’s nothing to cure this long-term and hidden effect. (Wow.) That’s all I can tell you; I cannot be more detailed. The chief of COVID will be mad at me. No, he won’t be. It’s just that he said not to. (Yes, Master, understand.) And I have to respect whatever is the work in the Universe. (Yes, Master.)
We all brought it upon ourselves, so, whom can we blame? God turned away from us, because our sin is so overwhelmingly shaking Heavens and Earth, even destroying the stability of the Universe to some extent. (Gosh. Wow.) That’s why if Heaven lets us live, the Universe will be in trouble as well, because of the collective energy.”
Supreme Master Ching Hai has also revealed that COVID viruses are the souls of animal-people who were killed by humans. In their state of despair, these souls have come back to take the lives of people. Heaven has been assisting humans throughout this pandemic, although humans largely do not believe in “the Great Tao.”
“The COVID-19 virus, they have souls in them. That’s why they’re so smart, so versatile and so difficult to catch and to cure. These are the souls of the massacred and abused and tortured animals that the humans have been consuming. You understand now? (Yes, Master. Wow.) That’s including yours also. Alive or dead, or even passed down through the future generations through DNA. Your future generations, relatives and friends, even if they will be born and become vegan, they still have to partake some of it. (Yes, Master.) Because of the bloodline, the connected karma. If they’re not connected with this disease or present clan members of yours, then they cannot be born. (Yes, Master.) So, they will have to partake the burden of the karma. (Yes.)
And luckily it’s not more, because the maya is locked and the force of karma is gone. So they only take less than normal. Otherwise, it would be worse. And already Heaven helps a lot. Otherwise, the whole world would die. (Wow.) Very few people would survive this pandemic. Not just infected but die. (Yes, Master.) Not just infected but incurable. Whoever catches it just dies, like that. So, don’t keep asking me, ‘Master will bless, it will be OK?’ Not OK. No. Already blessed a lot. (Yes.) If more blessing, I will die and everybody else will die too.”
