Chēng Tài Píng Bā Jié Zhī Rì Sòng Yŏng Shì Jīng Dé Wéi Jiŭ Gōng Zhēn Rén Chēng
Great Peace (Tai Ping- this being the Daozang's second of the Four Supplements,
relating to the work 'Tai Ping Jing').
Eight Sections of it [were used] in the daily recitation of these scriptures.
The result is that of the nine palaces of the Perfected One (Zhen Ren),
Sān Yuán Sān Gōng Èr Shí Qī Zhēn Xíong Yī Wú Yīng Cí Yī Bái Yuán Wŭ
Gōng Gē Ŏu Jiāo Biàn Yòu Xuán Shēng Huà Tāi Gēn
the Three Origins (San Yuan - Heaven Origin, Earth Origin, and Man Origin)
each have Three Palaces (San Gong).
Twenty-seven there are truly.
The Masculine One (Xiong Yi - Ruler of the Lower Cinnabar Field) and Wu (Nothingness),
while like a beautiful flower is the Feminine One (Ci Yi - Ruler of the Middle Cinnabar Field)
of White Fundamentality (Bai Yuan),
in the Five Palaces (Wu Gong) of the Elder Brother (Ge)
mate together and provide variance
again and again with the Dark Mystery (Xuan) and
Initial Life-Transformation Fetal-Root (Shen Hua Tai Gen)
Sǎo Zhū Xié Yuán Yùn Jīng Liú Guāng Yù Yīng Shēng Lián Dì Yī Zuò Tán
all together will punish perversity.
The source of the pregnancy,
the Essence (Jing) circulates brightly around the Jade Infant (Yu Ying) [giving] life.
The Lotus Emperor (Lian Di),
alone he sits on the Platform,
Wàn Líng Mò Xiān Bĕn Mìng Zhī
[before] with all of the myriad Marvellous Spirits.
Nothing is to begin before the Ben Ming (the Book of Natal Destiny
which denotes the time and governing deities thereof) is to be used
Rì Sòng Yŏng Shì Jīng Shí Èr Dà Jiē Sān Bǎi Lìu Shí Gú Jié Bā Guān
in the daily recitation of the Scriptures,
the twelve major Knots (Da Jie),
the three-hundred and sixty Bone-Joints (Gu Jie),
the Eight Barriers (Ba Guan)
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