BÍ PHÁP. THE ESOTERIC DOCTRINE OF CAODAISM * TRANSLATORS CHRISTOPHER HARTNEY & TỪ CHƠN.

Acknowledgements

I respect and thank Dr. Christopher Hartney for giving me lots of help to complete this translation work. As an English teacher in Vietnam for over 40 years, I still think my English is not enough for this project. Had it not been for his precious advice, I would never have been confident enough to finish it. I am extremely thankful to him for providing such a nice support, although he had busy schedule in the university.

The Dragon Flower Assembly (The Final Judgment) * by His Holiness Phạm Ho Phap November 8-1948.

Here is a crucial matter to consider; why is it that our times are chaotic times? It is because we are living through Hạ Ngươn Tam Chuyển [The Third Period of the Third Transition]. The divine plan has already made preparations for the Dragon Flower Assembly (the Final Judgment). According to our Divine Teaching, the Supreme Being said: 'You children must come together to establish a Dragon Flower Assembly in order to create positions for those elevated souls of the Third Universal Transition,