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Yī Dĕng Wú Fù Gāo Xià Tŭ Jiē Zuò Qī Bǎo Yì Zhēn Shí Huá Miào Sè
Zhòng Zhēn Shì Zuò
when all things were equal and first rate, there was not any 'going up or down in the earth'
(i.e., no relative superiority or inferiority) of the unrefined
and unenlightened native peoples.
Then were composed the Seven Precious Different Treasures (Qi Bao Yi Zhen),
and the Ten Flowers of Wonderful Color (Shi Hua Miao Se).
Therefore, many clearly could attend upon the Constellation-Seat (Zuo) of
Yuán Shǐ Tiān Zūn Xuán Zuò Kōng Fú Tiān Líng Dòng Huà Shén Jīn
Wàn Biàn Zhī
the 'Primal Heaven Venerable-Worthy' (Yuan Shi Tian Zun).
Profound is the Constellation-Seat in the empty sky just floating.
The Marvellous Power (Ling) of the Cavity is transformed by a god into
the golden Ten Thousand Transformations (Wan Bian) of
Zuò Shuō Jīng Yī Biàn Tiān Zhēn Dà Shèng Tóng Shí Chēng Shàn Shì Shí
Yī Guŏ Nán Nŭ
the Constellation-Seat.
To state the First All-Pervading Universality and its Celestially-Endowed Diety
is at the same time praised and admired.
Nowdays the whole country, men and women alike,
Zūn Suì Dào Dé Kāi Wù Xìng Zhēn Shuō Jīng Èr Biàn Shén Huà Zhāng Míng
Shuō Jīng
venerate [not] ghosts and their influences, but instead,
morals and ethics (Dao De) and the lifting of comprehension with the Truth.
To state that the Second Universality causes Aerial Spiritual Transformation.
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