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THE CAODAISM HISTORICAL AND DOCTRINAL CLIMPSE
THECAODAISMHISTORICALAND DOCTRINAL CLIMPSE FundamentalnotionsNeologism shaped bythe Press and the French and authorities of Indochina, the expression "CAODAISM"indicates since 1926, in Viet Nam, a new mystic dedicated to the worshipof adoration of God under the symbol of the DivineEYE (Divine eye surrouded by irradiation.)and under the sacred title of "NGOC HOANG THUONG DE" (Emperor of lade GOD),NAM PHUONG GIAO CHU (Spiritual Master of the South),CAO DAI TIEN ONG (Cao Dai the Old Immortal),DAI BO TAT (the Eldest Boddhisattva), MA HATAT (the Venerable Saint).The new religious Discipline,upon order of the divine Instructor, calls itself "CAO DAI DAI DAO, TAMKY PHO DO" (The Great Way opened by CAO DAI,in view of the 3rd General Amnisty of God).The divine Teachingis dispensed by the way of spiritistic messages obtained through "NGOCCO", a special kind of (psychographic receptor) unknown to Western Occultism,but used in the Orient since immemorial ttme to communicate with the spiritualworld.According to the degreeof his spiritual evolution, the adept observes pattial or integral vegetarism,devotes himself to simple prayer or gives himself up to daily meditation,outside his working hours.Monkhood was not setup yet.Every adept shouldmake his own living and keep himself to a triple permanent obligation:- Towards the DivineMaster: acts of veneration according to established ritual: DEVOTION- Towards the world:acts of benefaction according to the means available to him: SERVICE- Towards oneself:acts of moral and spiritual puriFcation: PURIFICATIONIn an impetus of concitiatingeclectism, the Caodaism, for its doctrinal fund, adapts without removingtheir mark:- the norms of confucianregorism.- the gentleness ofBuddhism and its metaphysic speculations.- the code of ethicsof Taoism, and its esoteric conceptions.- the noble moralsof Christianity.The spiritism to whichthe adept has often recourse to has nothing in common, at least from thepoint of view of ceremonial and of result, with western spiritism and constitutesnot an end in itself but a privilege of investigation' of information andespecially of study.CradleotCaodaismContrary to currentopinion, Caodaism has taken birth toward 1920 at Duong Dong, the chieftown of Phu Quoc Island, in a modest pagoda named "QuanAm Tu" perched on the flank of the Duong Dong mountain.As a matter of fact,it is in this pagoda that God, under the simple name of "CAO DAI TIEN ONG"(Cao Dai the Old Immortal), has revealed himselfduring spiritism sessions organized by a group of fetvent occuttists whichincluded the future Initiator of Caodaism,Ngo Minh Chieu, then district chief of Phu Quoc.There is regrettablelacuna: most of the Caodai annals remained silent and failed to give precisionsof a primordial importance on that point.The site of the "QuanAm Tu" was however located and in 1961 on the old place, a group of Caodaistof the Esoteric School erected a commenmorative Temple.Thefirst Caodaist DiscipleIn a spiritism sessionheld at Ouan Am Tu on February 1921. CAO DAI TIEN ONG, CaoDai the Old Immortal, in his capacity of Instructor, gave the investitureto Ngo Minh Chieu whose vocation was affirmed by himself.Since then, the firstCaodaist disciple devoted himself to a strict ascetism, under the occultbut continous direction of the Divine Masterwith whom he should be able to enter into direct communication besidesspecial spiritist sessions thanks to supra normal faculties (as were assumedby a few rare confidences gathered by the first graduate of the first promotionof the Esoteric Schoot).After three years ofteaching, the divine Master expressed his complete satisfaction with thespiritual progress achieved by the Disciple, and at the same time, of hisdecision to entrust him wlth a deticate mission: to establish the foundationsof the new Faith.The Promotor of CaodaismToward the end of thesummer in 1924, Ngo Minh Chieu being a functionary, was assigned to Saigonwhere a short time after his arrival, he inaugurated his apostolate bythe initiation of the elect from the first promotion of the Esoteric School.To this day, a long time after he passed away,Ngo Minh Chieu continues to assume the high direction of the apostolate.From July 1925 to February1926, upon formal divine instructions, a group of spiritists from Saigon,the future founders of the first Church of Caodaismat Tay Ninh, came to take his counsels or his directives which werelavished in his quality of Elder Brother or Initiator, in view of preparingthe advent of Esoteric Caodaism.This kind.of contactsended the moment the Church of Tay Ninh felt itself cavoble to spring intolife, and subsequently with anothet group of occultists to which belongedthe future Founder of the second Church of EsotericCaodaism, at Ben Tre and the future leaders of the thirdChurch, at My Tho of the fourth, at Ca Mau.Ngo Minh Chieu, thepromotor of the newly-born doctrine, thought he should abstain from anydirect interference into the realization of the program of organizationand of preaching as well as in the solution of related problems.His delicate reserveexplains the long reticence which persisted around his true role in theadvent of caodaism to the day when before the dignitaries gathered fora great ceremony (Phat Mau) of 1954) the Superior of the Tay Ninh ChurchPham Cong Tac at the occasion of an introduction, made clear that... thisis the Son of our Virtuous One Ngo Minh Chieu, THEINITIATOR OF CAODAISM.Dualityof the Teaching of Caodaism.Here again anotherserious gap temains to be filled: the majority of Caodaist Sects apparentlyignore systematically this duality in the new Doctrine.As a matter of factand like the great old religions, at the beginning the Caodaism has a doubleteaching:- TheExoteric School (Ngoai Giao Cong Truyen)- TheEsoteric School (Noi Giao Tam Truyen)Between them thereis neither doctrinal paradox nor double use. On the contrary, they correspondto 2 cycles, starting and final, of the process of spiritual evolution.ExotericSchool (which presents nothing in rnmmon witb Hihayana Buddbism) or tbeWay ot Collective Assistance or minor Order of Initiation to circonvotutiveprogression.TheExoteric School is a perfect organism of propagation and of (evangelization).It appeals to the great public without special preparation with its imposingTemples, its priesthood based on a hierarchical system, its liturgicalpump, and administrative organization patterned partiatly on secular formula.The school attendedto social life, directs the religious formation of neophytes, orients spiritualaspirations of adepts for whom salvation can be obtained only by devotion,practice of virtue and divine graceTheEsoteric School (which has nothing in common with Mahayana Buddhism) orSelective Way or Major Order of Initiation to direct Accession.This school is exclusivelyreserved to the elect, those who are personally selected by the DivineMaster in the calm and silence of the sanctuary and its teaching has notemple, no priesthood, no liturgy, no matedal organization.The disciple, boundby an irrevocable vow, severely and for a long time prepared to becomean adept, renounces to honours, wealth, to all enjoyments of worldty lifein order to adapt himself to the peculiar living conditions imposed byreligious discipline whatever situation of fortune they may have or whateverposition in social hierarchy they may hold.Witthout showing anypeculiar appearance, the disciple trains himself with a steady regularityto a lucid concentration, devoid of any psychological shock or of any stateof known exaltation (trance, ecstasy, hypnosis etc...) in view of acquiringa progressive extinction of . his (interior self) and consequently, hisidentification with the Absolute, his integration with DAO, with the Infinite. geovisit();
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