The Ancient One Classification: Skilled Human Aliases the Master, the H...
The Ancient One Name : Yao
Classification: Skilled Human
Aliases
Tsan Saa, the Master, the High Lama, the Mystic, the Spirit Leopard
Origin : Earth 616
Occupation: Sorcerer supreme, Guardian, Farmer, Teacher
Base: Kamar Taj Tibet
Height 5 feet 11 inches
weight 160 pounds
eyes Brown
hair bold with white beard.
Affiliation
Strange Academy staff; Teacher of Doctor Strange, Baron
Mordo; one time ally of the Black Rider; an unnamed order of sorcerers whose
elder members are known as the Ancient Ones.
Yao was born in the 1430's, in the mystic city of Kamar-Taj,
a village in the Himalayas area now known as Tibet. Originally, the youth was a
peaceful farmer, like his fellow villagers. But he encountered an older
villager named Kaluu. Kaluu shared with the youth
his knowledge of magic, and they began exploring the secrets of sorcery
together, even learning the secrets of immortality. Together they cast a spell
that removed disease, poverty, and suffering from their village and granted its
people immortality.
Kaluu aspired to build and empire and rule. Yao opposed him
and the wo fought. Though initially defeated Yao would banish Kaluu to the dimension
of Cyttorok.
Yao decided to seek out an order of ancient magic users
known as the Ancient Ones in order to devote his entire life to their goal of
combating evil sorcerers. The youth eventually became even more skilled than
his colleagues, and grew in power so great that he was the first mortal of
Earth to meet with Eternity, the sentient embodiment of the universe, who
presented him with the Amulet of Agamotto and charged him to become the Earth
dimension's "first" Sorcerer Supreme. The Ancient One remained in
this capacity for countless years, outliving almost all other members of his
order.
Though magic greatly extended his life the ancient one knew
that his death wasn't inevitable and sought to train a successor. He accepted Baron
Mordo as a pupil although he was aware of Modro's potential for evil. Then the
American surgeons see Steven Strange arrived hoping that the ain't one would
cure his injured hands. Instead, strange found a new Vocation and asked to
become the ancient ones people. Under the Ancient Ones tutelage Doctor Strange
ultimately became the new source of Supreme of the earth dimension. Later to
prevent the demon shuma gorath add from entering the earth dimension through
his mind the ancient one persuaded strange to shut down the elderly sorcerers
brain. Thus the ancient one died in a mortal form but his astral form became
one with the universe. He has reappeared in after form several times working in
the service of eternity.
Superhuman powers. Yaol possesses vast natural talent allied
with years of training made him the greatest source were on earth dimension
capable of astral projection mesmerism an illusion casting able to hurl bolts
of energy and possess of extraordinary longevity.
Longevity – initially Yao receive immortality via a magical
spell/ But this enchantment was revoked by Kaluu. He sought and found the cup
of eternity which greatly reduced the rate he aged.
. . . The deathly
thirst so fleshly born
Shall parch his
soul, oh, ne'er again!
The cup he'll drink,
but not the bane,
To quench his thirst
and bliss attain.* . . .
aramahansa
Yogananda’s poem, “The Cup of Eternity” speaker is dramatizing the spiritual
longing, metaphorically describes as “thirst,” which can by quenched only by
God-realization through gaining awareness of the soul within the physical and
mental encasements.