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Shí Fāng Chì Fú Dān Guāng Shén Wáng Zhì Zhēn Dù Shì Fēi Tiān Dà Shén
Bìng
There is the 'Ten Directions' (East South West North East-North
East-South West-South West-North Upwards and Downwards)
and the Red Charm along with the Cinnabar's Bright Ray [map].
The God who is the King of Extreme Truth (Zhi Zhen)
[measures out] the length of one's lifetime.
The Flying Apsara (Female divinities of the Heavens)
combine with the gods
Chéng Sān Huá Jiàng Xiāo Liú Yún Fèng Yú Qíong Niǎng Tiān Gài Dì Lún
Cān Jià
to ride with the Three Flowers (San HUa) through the deep red sky
flowing along with the drifting clouds in the Male Phoenix carriage,
the jade imperial man-drawn carriage with its canopy.
Below, the Earth is like a turning disk (Lun).
Drawn by a three horse team is this carriage.
Zhū Guāng Yù Jiǎo Shén Shòu Cāng Lín Huŏ Liè Jiāo Lóng Dài Zhāo Zhēn
Zhī Jié Gào
In the bright vermilion rays appears a beautiful jade-horned magical
divinity [with the appearance of] a beast with greyish,
dark green [rows of] scales like a fish with a fiery mane.
This is the River Flood-Dragon (Jiao Long).
It reaches, beckoning outward to those truly genuine persons who
are in the sections notified.
Líng Dà Fān Qián Liè Yù Xū Bǎo Zhàng Hòu Cóng Sān Yuán Huà Bīng
Dòng Shén
The Marvellous Power (Ling) advances forward, like a procession having
a giant funeral banner at its forefront.
Handsome as jade are these people coming out of the Void (Xu),
Precious are the weapons held by them as they follow behind.
But the Three Origins (San Yuan - Heaven Origin, Earth Origin, and Man Origin)
transform those soldiers who die [in its defense].
According to the The Cavern of Pervasive Spirit (Dong Shen- which corresponds
to the Three Sovereigns Tradition (San Huang)),
Jiŭ Xiān Fēi Kōng Bŭ Xū Sì Shuài Qǐ Tú Sān Shī Gào Mĕng Yì Chéng
the Nine Fairies (Jiu Xian) who fly through the Empty Space (Kong)
pace off the length of Void-Emptiness (Xu).
Their are four Commanders in Chief (Huai) who begin the
explanations, [that had been] blotted out.
Three Masters (Shi) give notification to the league
of the hundred million who take advantage of [these things].
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