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.