2. When you first put this technique into practice, there is seemingly
nonbeing within being. Eventually, when the work is accomplished, and
there is a body beyond your body, there is seemingly being within
nonbeing.
3. Only after a hundred days of concentrated work is the light real; only
then is it the fire of spirit. After a hundred days, the light is spontaneous: a
point of true positive energy suddenly produces a pearl, just as an embryo
forms from the intercourse of a man and a woman. Then you should attend
it calmly and quietly. The turning around of the light is the "firing process."
4. In the original creation there is positive light, which is the ruling director
In the material world it is the sun; in human beings it is the eyes. Nothing is
worse than to have a running leakage of spirit and consciousness; this is
conformity, so the way of the golden flower is accomplished completely
through the method of reversal.
5. Turning the light around is not turning around the light of one body, but
turning around the very energy of Creation. It is not stopping random
imagination only temporarily; it is truly emptying routine compulsion for all
time.
6. Therefore each breath corresponds to one year of human time; and each
breath corresponds to a century in the various pathways of the long night of
ignorance.
