8. The water of vitality is the energy of the primal real unity. The fire of
spirit is illumination. The earth of attention is the chamber of the center, the
celestial mind.
9. The fire of spirit is the function, the earth of attention is the substance,
the water of vitality is the foundation.
10. People create the body by attention. The body is not just the physical
body, because there is a lower soul therein. The lower soul functions in
association with consciousness, and consciousness develops based on the
lower soul. The lower soul is dim; it is the substance of consciousness. If
consciousness is not interrupted, transformation and transmutation of the
lower soul go on endlessly from lifetime to lifetime, generation to
generation.
11. Then there is the higher soul, which is where the spirit is concealed. The
higher soul resides in the eyes during the day and lodges in the liver at
night. When it resides in the eyes, it sees; when it lodges in the liver, it
dreams.
12. Dreams are the roaming of the spirit. It traverses the nine heavens and
nine earths in an instant. If you are dull and depressed on awakening, that is
a sign of clinging to the body, which means clinging to the lower soul.
13. So turning the light around is a means of refining the higher soul, which
is a means of preserving the spirit, which is a means of controlling the
