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Qiān Qiān Jié Shŏu Wàn Wàn Qián Yŭ Xíng Mó Wú Gān Fàn Guǐ Wú Yào Jīng
Sān Guān Jiào Lù Shén Sī Kǎo Hún
Even with thousands and thousands of Severed Heads (Jie Shou)
all absolutely placed to the front of the feathered body,
the demons are not to provoke it,
nor shall it be Possessed With a Devil (Fan Gui),
and nothing supernatural shall affect the Essence (Jing).
The Three Officials (San Guan) teach the precepts from the Record (Lu),
and their Divine Department (Shen Si) takes charge
of the inspection of the Superior Vital Spirit (Hun),
Bù Dé Róng Yǐn Jīn Mǎ Yì Chéng Pŭ Gào Wú Qíong Wàn Shén Xián Tīng Sān Jiè
Wŭ Dì Liè Shàng Qīng Dòng Yuán Tōng Lì Yù Chén Kāi Jié Liǎng Yí Záo Xiàng
Hùn Dùn Shǐ Fēn
and will not tolerate this being kept hidden.
At Golden-Horse Post Station there was submitted a petition
to make publicly known what is Endless and Inexhaustible (Wu Qiong).
the Thousand Divine Spirits (Wan Shen) all heard and obeyed this,
for in regards to the Three Borders (San Jie- Past, Present, and Future Existences),
[they and] the Five Emperors of Old (Wu Di) all lined up in rows.
To the Highest Clarity Tradition (Shang Qing),
at the Cavity is the Beginning (Yuan).
Experts in Astromony see the Jade Private Apartment of the Emperor (Yu ),
and move to plunder Heaven and Earth (Liang Yi).
To chisel a hole into the image,
for in the time of Hun Dun (Chaos),
initially [everything was] without diffentiation
Shàng Wú Sè Jiè Xià Wŭ Sè Gēn Dào Xuán Xū Jì Líng Fēng Zì Rán Tiān
Shàng Tiān Xià
so that all that was above was without color and description.
As for this boundary, all that was below was also without color or description.
The root [of all this] was the Path (Dao).
Through the mystery of the Dark Void (Xuan Xu) and its lonely stillness,
[blows] the Marvellous Power (Ling),
the Wind of Nature (Ling Zi Ran).
The Heavens above and this World below it
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