In that antiquity that was before any written history it was mystic conscious aware Masters whom educated wandering Disciples to nurture the message of its meaning as it has come almost unchanged from the original source. Just whom it was that first became aware of the uniqueness of this "Mirror's Reflection" from the original source is lost in the forgetfulness of time. It may have been revealed at various moments and in the diverse places to more than a single individual, as there does seem to be small threads of the "Mirror's Reflection" running throughout most all of the known philosophy-religions, as if they were mysteriously sprung from some similar mystic oral tradition of which the very earliest traces are lost.

It is only within written history of humankind that it is thought that through the adept insight of a Western Gate Keeper by the name of Yin Xé, who demanded of the venerable Chinese Sage, Lhaó Zé, before he could exit into the shadows of prehistory, with the compiling from the esoteric teaching, the "Mirror's Reflection" of the simple basic exoteric text that all Dhaóist hold with reverence as sacred insight, producing the teachings of what eventually became the Dhaó-Dé Jhing that so clearly express the inner spiritual way of the Dhaó. However, being changed ever the more slightly throughout the generations of humankind by those individuals who 'corrected' the text in transcription to compliment their 'desire of the individual' without a mystic conscious aware Master's proper guidance of the esoteric message of its meaning, has brought about many diverse divisions that continue to perpetuate the 'orthodoxy against the heretical' movements associated with all philosophy-religions, including Dhaóism.

Dhaóism has been recognized as one of the two indigenous philosophy-religions of Ancient China, the other being Confucianism, the earliest form of social bureaucracy set down in writing. The 'philosophy' of Dhaó can thus be traced historically, anthropologically, and archaeologically, back in time as least some 4,000 years before this common era, from apparent georgical shamanistic mystic social beginnings within the Liangzhú neolithic culture of the central loessland plains of Ancient China, along the Yhang Zé tributary. And for at least the last 3,000 years, specifically within the many misty valleys, there among the forests and waterfalls found in the central Zhongnan Mountain Range of present day China, there has dwelt individuals, hermits, sages, and shamans in the many natural caves and purposefully built hermitages made of wood and stone. It is here that Dhaóism has its roots. This philosophy of Dhaó is so ancient in origin though, that it is the very underlying principle of both Dhaóism and Confucianism, as well as the Advita Vedanta teachings of the Indian Subcontinent Hindu classics, the Upanishads. Along with Lhaó Zé, the mystical teachings of Zhúang Zé and Wei Bóyang are essential to Dhaóist esoteric understanding, and for This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order, also. The way to a Creative Living Force of The ONE is what the Dhaó expresses itself as.

The nineteen century anachronistic 'Wade and Giles' spelling of "TAO" is still the most familiar usage throughout Western references, although "DAO" is the present accepted spelling in accordance with the modern Chinese Pinyin phonetic translation of the written ideogram-character, whereas "Dhaó" is the accepted Romantic phonetic equivalent according to "Khúl-lha Khan" (which is the traditional practiced esoteric language of communication of Khó-N'gha Dhaó). "Khó-N'gha Dhaó" is the Romantic alphabetical representation of the Western phonetic equivalent of the Khúl-lha Khan words for the "Three-Robed Way." As would be, the word for 'three' and the word for 'blue' sound almost the same in Khúl-lha Khan, and therefore the "three" Robes are a distinctive "blue" in color. Another translation might then be the "Blue-Robed Way." "Khó-N'gha Dhaó" as a noun is the title of a neo-Dhaóist Religious-Philosophical Monistic Idealism; while as a personal pronoun it is the earned title of an Ordained Clergy Member of Khó-N'gha Dhaó. Khó-N'gha Dhaó is composed of an independent Religious Order, of which it is a separate organization totally responsible for its own initiate education and instruction, ordination, and ritual practices, internal governing structure, and economic survival; all this within the accepted central guide of the 'Ordination Credó of Khó-N'gha Dhaó.'

Today Dhaóism consists largely of major and minor schools and sectarian divisions (called, of course, 'Sects'), with numberless denominations and religious orders thereof, both within and without China proper. Although there is a central underlying Teaching of the Dhaó-Dé Jhing, and some prevalent commonly held beliefs concerning their view point of Dhaó that all these Sects may share with each other, none of these Sects are truly identical in either their religious-philosophical education and instruction of initiates, ordination and ritual practices, or their internal governing guides as rules and regulations. Each Sect has evolved its own relationship to the subject of 'worship' through different emphasis upon: mental contemplation (meditation), belief-faith-ideals education and instruction, 'prayer', herbal alchemy, physiotherapy, physical exercise (as 'martial art' forms), exoteric and esoteric language and communication, as well as differing relationships toward such acceptance of or rejection to other 'foreign' philosophical-religious beliefs, teachings, symbolism and terminology.

It is in particular that a major Sect of Dhaóism, known in China as 'Chan-na Dhaó-mó,' which is the easiest recognized and probably the most famous of all Dhaóist Sects today, and although it has evolved from the Dhaóist influence made upon Buddhism in China, and is really more Dhaóist than Buddhist, yet it is still popularly regarded by its Japanese name of "Zen" Buddhism. Of course the Hindu Advita Vedanta has also had historic Dhaóist influence made upon it, but the resulting Dhaóist Order, mostly confined primarily inside China at Thólung Gómpah in the high Tibetan Plateau West of Lhasa, and outside China at Thólung Gómpha in the Himalayan valley area of the Northwestern Indian Protectorate of Sikkim, which has held to the primogeniture, as well as the simplistic form of this particular Dhaóist Order holds as a common 'Forbidden Stricture' the total abstinence towards the possession or actual use of any specifically designed form of weapons of violence for contending towards or against another individual. The Dhaóist Order has also been called "the Way of the Silent Ones," as the religious order does not actively engage in the seeking out or intrusion upon individuals for the purpose of proselytizing to convert to Dhaóism, or this particular Religious Order. The consensus of This Dhaóist Order seems to be in keeping more to the synchronicity of a passage from the Terma Khó-N'gha Dhaó - The Book of ONEness: "With patience an individual may find knowledge; can ask of themself and learn the truth of individuation; may seek wisdom and find the TRUTH of Creative Living Force of The ONE." This Dhaóist Order is officially known as "Khó-N'gha Dhaó," and the greatest Western exponent of its religious-philosophy, at least so far, has been the late philosopher-writer-lecturer, Alan Watts, specifically in "TAO: The Watercourse Way" and "The Book" among his prolific twentieth century career.

By Khó-N'gha Dhaó tradition it is said that the Dhaóist priest possess seven revered objects: "The first object is the meditation cushion which tames the monsters of the mind. The second is the robe which subdues mischievous pride. The third is the bowl which holds only purified (mostly meatless, but nutritional) food. The fourth is a straw hat for protection against sun, wind, rain, frost, and snow. The fifth is a horse-hair whisk or fan for sweeping away the dust of the mundane world. The sixth is a bag for carrying the sacred scriptures and personal world. The seventh is a staff for clearing the obstacles that block compassion's way."

We are a simple Esoteric Religious Chivalric Order. As such we are an Institution of Simple Education. We will not tell you what The TRUTH is, but will attempt to teach you how to learn what that TRUTH is for yourself. We are a a simple Esoteric Religious Chivalric Order, not a Church; please don't confuse us with one. And just what is the difference between a Church and a Religious Order?

To become a member of a Church - and this applies to most any Church - all that is needed to do is walk into the Church service, proclaim your adherence to the basic beliefs and tenets of the Church authority (whether just by your continued daily or weekly attendance at the Church services, or your active participation in the Church activities and monetary support), and your social acclimation to others that you belong to such Church.

Yet to become a member of This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order - and this seems to apply to any Religious Order of whatever denomination - what is required is to enroll through a specified training and educational program concerning the beliefs, tenets, rituals and specific observations of this particular Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order, and then be examined upon that knowledge, and with a satisfactory recognized understanding, to profess 'sacred vows' and be Ceremonially Ordained into membership in This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order.

Becoming an Ordained Voting Member of This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order is tantamount to a 'marriage' between the individual and This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order, while joining a Church is more like an occasion enjoyed for the social status of membership than for the practice of true faith and belief (though there are those occasional exceptions to even this posture).

To profess 'sacred vows' and thereby be Ceremonially Ordained into Membership in This Religious Order: The WAY of ONE - Khó-N'gha Dhaó, is recognized (by This Religious Order particularly and those such Ordained) as comparable to the idea of 'loss of virginity'; Once done, there is no return to the former state of innocence of the 'truth' of the individual enjoyed prior to ordination.

There are two (2) basic Teachings by which Khó-N'gha Dhaó is founded, and they are known as:

The TRUTH of The ONE,

and

the 'truth' of the individual.

This TRUTH of The ONE is stated simply as:

"There IS only ONE; and there are no exceptions to The ONE."

From this TRUTH of The Creative Living Force of The ONE comes the basic foundation of meaning upon which all that this is, was, or shall ever BE does manifest as Existence conceived through Time perceived.

The 'truth' of the individual is stated just as simply as:

"Individuation IS to be lost in the ignorance of separation from The ONE."

From this 'truth' of the individual comes the eternal 'play' of everyone and thing in their own personal 'living' life-style, oblivious to the FACT that they are but The Creative Living Force of The ONE at 'play' in existence through the 'truth' of the individual. This who deliberately follow the 'truth' of the individual are forever lost in the ignorance of their being so separated from the Creative Living Force of The ONE, while those whom are deliberately following The TRUTH of The ONE are thus forever Avowed unto Responsibility by their Knowledge and Understanding of that Teachings TRUTH. Even if you should try to walk away from this responsibility The TRUTH will haunt your thoughts until you die, unfortunately. Therefore consider with diligent patience your choice to walk in Khó-N'gha Dhaó.

It is through the guiding Articles of Organization of This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order, being the organizational guides and standards, as strong suggestions of information, opinion, perspective, that This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order does present itself publicly as an alternative 'living' life-style to any individual seeking mystic conscious aware self-understanding, and the religious-philosophical responsibility which is the inalienable right of that individual to seek to express. This mystic alternative way of life is not static or unchangeable, but rather with some constancy, like The Creative Living Force of The ONE itself, is a growing, learning, BEcoming experience of its Avowed unto Responsibility Ordained Members.

At Nihm Fohng ré-Nahm, the 'High Rite Celebration of the Day Outside the Year of Seasons,' the 8th of October 1987 c.e., Master Fred 'Fritz' Hill, then The Exchequer, as Treasurer, presented the opinion that This Religious Order's "Omnipresent Noetic Entity" (ONE) seemed remarkably similar to the movie producer George Lucas' "Force" from his cinema features STAR WARS trilogy, and made the suggestion that This Religious Order consider studying any and all reference works about the "Jedi Order" and "the Force" and, because This Religious Order's need for true knowledge and understanding, to also have knowledge of the 'Dark Side', so as to see if there might be a connection, of any sort, with the Teachings of Khó-N'gha Dhaó. Then at Nihm Fohng ré-Nahm, 2008 c.e., after reviewing what twenty years of seasons has compiled information to date, and we have learned much concerning the Force and the obvious necessity for This Religious Order to evolve, L'Dhar Carolyn Ray Shaver, the then Exchequer, as Treasurer, made the motion that we gather what This Religious Order had researched on the Force and it's Jedi Knight's knowing and using of it, and should publish such information in a book form to be entitled: Hints of The Force From Jedi Histories. And as an addendum to this motion, it was unanimously decided that This Religious Order will seriously consider any and all applicable Teachings on The Force be brought into the curriculum to the technical ability of This Religious Order's future, eventually accompanying This Religious Order into the vast reaches of galactic space, where it only seems the proper logical next step for Humankind, and of This Religious Order.

Another matter that was brought up at the meeting at Nihm Fohng Ré-Nahm, 1989 c.e., was how This Religious Order should engage with the present day People's Republic of China, its political system not being considered acceptable to the majority of This Religious Order's Ordained Members, especially after the Tian'anmen Square Incident, and that a constant and continuous attempt, sense This Religious Order's Incorporation, of communication with the Quan Zhen Dragon Gate Headquarters in Beijing, at the White Cloud Temple, has been consistently unsuccessful, prudence dictates that This Religious Order modernize and cut linage connection with the White Cloud Temple and China proper. Part of the history of This Religious Order is the fact that the last thirteen (13) members of This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order in China had been expelled from both the Quan Zhen Dragon Gate Sect in 1682 c.e., and China proper, at least then, and those few members had traveled South unto the Yaó encumbrance of South China, then turning West, ascending up into the Himalayan plateau of mid-Western Tibet and and there established a monastic hermitage West of Lhasa, there known as Thólung Gómpah, before moving south, nearly one hundred years later, into the then Kingdom of Sikkim, there to also establish a monastic temple also called Thólung Gómpah. When three (3) monks of Sikkim's Thólung Gómpah traveled to California in early 1871 c.e., drawn by the call of easy gold prospecting, they settled in Nevada County, and there established a small Jose House and Hermitage that was burned to the ground by European miners in clashes after the Chinese Exclusionary Act of May, 1882 c.e.. Since the reestablishment of This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order, and the Sect in America in 1982 c.e., it seems imperative that This Religious Order modernize and consider its future very seriously. Then in time it was HeadMaster Khang Fré Y' that made the motion, then, at Nihm Fohng ré-Nahm, 2008 c.e., that This Religious Order consider, seriously, what the German Anti-Nazi Writer, Martin Niemoeller, had to say in a speech in 1946 c.e.: "In Germany, they cam first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist; And then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then...they came for me...And by that time there was no one left to speak up." And more recently it has been reported that Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who was the developer of the IMAX cinemascope system, once insisted: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God." Khó-N'gha Dhaó refers to this numinous binding, metaphysical and ubiquitous power, described so succinctly in George Lucas' original Star Wars: A New Hope, released on May 25, 1977, and then in The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, before the incorporation of This Religious Order, and later, more thoroughly with Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983, The Phantom Menace, released on May 19, 1999, Attack of the Clones, released on May 16, 2002, and finally in Revenge of the Sith, released on May 19, 2005, and also through the many Jedi Pseudo-History novels and comics, that Khó-N'gha Dhaó came thus to the knowing of this concept as The ONE, the Life Creating Force of Existence.

It is with these concepts in due regard that This "WAY of ONE - Khó-N'gha Dhaó" has become the founding Religious Order of Khó-N'gha Dhaó in the United States of America. It was only after California's reorganization of its laws relating to tax-exempt not-for-profit religious organizations in 1980 c.e., that it was reincorporated in the 300th Year-of-Seasons marking "Nihm Fohng ré-Nahm," the brutal exile of the few (13) surviving members of Khó-N'gha Dhaó in China, that was formerly one of the minor Religious Orders of Qiú Chújé's Longman or 'Dragon Gate' Sect, being itself of the Quanzhen School of Dhaóism, that those valiant few (12 men and 1 woman) where exiled from China by the then Qing Kangxé Emperor Xuanyé (after the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" of 1673-81 c.e.), that This Khó-N'gha Dhaó Religious Order was Incorporated on the 8th day of October, in 1982 of the common era, and given the Corporate Number 1124545 by the then Secretary of State. It received its California Franchise Tax Exempt Status on the 23rd of November, 1983 c.e., under Section 23701d of the California State Revenue and Taxation Code. It received its Federal Tax Exempt Status the 30th of April, 1984 c.e., under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America, and donations, gifts, and bequests can be fully tax deductible (a receipt for all such donation to This Religious Order is usually given). Its Federal Employer Identification Number is 68-0016619.

Thus it is this characteristic then that We offer to those who may become interested in Us and the Teachings of Terma Khó-N'gha Dhaó - The Book of ONEness, that We shall attend them as Blue-Robed Servants to the Creative Living Force of The ONE. And as such Blue-Robed Servants to the Creative Living Force of The ONE, We recognize and proclaim that our personal religious practices, as for any individual, must be left to the personal religious practices, as for any individual, must be left to the personal conscious and conviction of that individual to undertake, or not, as they alone must judge fit; and it is the right of every individual to thus exercise their religious practices as these judgments may indicate, so long as that exercise does not violate the right of other individuals in this same regard. It is the responsibility of each individual to uphold this right of religious exercise for them self and for any and all others. As this responsibility must be total, or it is not responsible at all, it mirrors the Creative Living Force of The ONE; as this responsibility is total, and thus mirrors the Creative Living Force of The ONE, We thus seek to BE Blest of The ONE In and For this Endeavor, as The ONE IS Blessed In and Through US by this Endeavor.