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Dào Yán Zhèng Yuè Zhǎng Zhāi Sòng Yŏng Shì Jīng Shén Biàn Fā Shēng
Qì Huà Fū Róng Nèi Jǐng
Daoist doctrine states that the whole of the first month of the lunar new year
fasting and reciting the scripture of Divine-Supernatural Methamorphosis (Shen Bian).
Then starts the Transformative Action of the Qi (Qi Hua).
There must be sufficiency provided for it to flourish in an indoor setting,
Huàn Cǎi Yù Yún Jiē Chéng
shining with the color of jade clouds bearing a large walled city.
Shàng Shì Wáng Hún Duàn Dì Dài Yì Dù Shàng Nán Gōng
For in rising up from the world, the disembodied [Hun] sou
breaks away from Earth (Di) to carry out service
[as a petty official] for a time, going up to the Southern Palace.
Qī Yuè Zhǎng Zhāi Sòng Yŏng Shì Jīng Shén Biàn Dào Tǐ Nèi Jǐng
For the whole of the seventh month of the lunar year is to be spent
fasting and reciting the scriptures of Divine-Supernatural Metamorphosis (Shen Bian)
of the Way (Dao) for the Body is to be carried out in an indoor setting.
Míng Jié Shén Yīng Zhèng Wèi Shēn Dé Shén Xiān Zhū Tiān Shū Míng Huáng
Lù Bái Jiǎn Xiāo Sǐ Shàng Shēng
Brilliant and pure is kept the Divine Infant (Shen Ying)
during the first month of the lunar year in its location in the body,
gaining the status of achieving Celestial-Being Fairyhood.
There is the Heavenly book titled the Yellow Map (Huang Lu),
with its white characters cut in the bamboo slips with a knife.
[Discussing] how Death is risen above by Life.
Shí Yuè Zhǎng Zhāi Sòng Yŏng Shì Jīng Shén Biàn
[Devoting] the whole of the tenth month of the lunar year
to fasting and reciting this scripture of Divine-Supernatural Metamorphosis (Shen Bian)
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