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?