If a man, who is only seeking for name
And able to secure it this way, can produce
Such an effect of the superior person,
How much more may we look for
A greater result from one whose rule
Is over even that of Heaven and Earth
And who holds things in his Treasury House
And who has his lodging in the four limbs
And nine openings of his bodily stature,
Whom his ears and eyes serve but
As conveying all images of things
And their deeply hidden numeric symbols,
Who comprehends all his wisdom
In the unity of opposites and whose mind
Is never worn-out or over flooded,
Even by chance? If such an idle man
Were to choose a day on which
He would ascend far on high,
All men would seek to follow him there
For the sake of their own salvation.
But how should he be willing
To occupy himself with all those people?
Ron