Daoism was its complement as a teaching about various disciplines for achieving perfection.Daoist sages emphasized the Way itself while Confucius and Confucian sages emphasized the principles of celestial order. Daoism generated a number of hermetic and lay liturgical traditions, the most widespread of which are traditions of exorcism and healing, Its textual corpus was turned into a canon by compilations commissioned and approved by emperors who considered their regimes to be preordained by Daoist revelations. This canon is the result of inscriptions held to be revelations from past masters of the Way,