lower soul, which is a means of interrupting consciousness.
14. The ancients' method of transcending the world, refining away the dregs
of darkness to restore pure light, is just a matter of dissolving the lower soul
and making the higher soul whole.
15. Turning the light around is the secret of dissolving darkness and
controlling the lower soul. There is no exercise to restore the creative, only
the secret of turning the light around. The light itself is the creative; to turn
it around is to restore it.
16. Just persist in this method, and naturally the water of vitality will be
full, the fire of spirit will ignite, the earth of attention will stabilize, and thus
the embryo of sagehood can be solidified.
17. A dung beetle rolls a pill of dung, from which life emerges, by the pure
effort of concentration of spirit. If life can come even from a dung ball, how
could it not be possible to produce a body by concentrating the spirit on
where the celestial mind rests when the embryo leaves the shell?
18. Once the true nature of unified awareness has fallen into the chamber of
the creative, it divides into higher and lower souls. The higher soul is in the
celestial mind; this is yang, energy that is light and clear. This is obtained
from cosmic space and has the same form as the original beginning. The
lower soul is yin, energy that is dense and opaque. This sticks to the
ordinary mind that has form.
