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1939 · PDF PAGE 7

Khing Kang King

IF MAN RESTRAIN DESIRE, HIS MIND WILL CEASE TO ROLL, AND MIND’S RELEASE ALLOW PURE PEACE OF SILENCE TO THE SOUL. THE SENSES WILL NOT SOIL ; THE THOUGHT WILL NOT UPSTRESS ; NOR POISONS (GREED, WRATH, DULNESS) BREED THEIR TRIFORM DEADLINESS. MEN EARN NOT EASE OF TAO FOR THEIR DESIRES’ DISEASE ; BECAUSE THEIR MIND IS NOT REFINED OF THOUGHT BY KILLING THESE IF ONE SHOULD SLAY DESIRES, HIS MIND AND BODY SEEM NO LONGER HIS, BUT PHANTASIES DANCED IN A WANTON’S DREAM. SLAY MIND, SLAY BODY, SLAY THE EXTERNAL : MATTER GOES. THEN SPACE REMAINS ; RENEW THY…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 9

Khing Kang King

… THIS DOCTRINE MAY TRANSMIT THIS SACRED TAO TO MEN THAT VOW THEMSELVES TO FATHOM IT. II. LAO KUN THE MASTER SAID : THE ADEPT IN SKILL OF SOUL HATH NEVER AN AIM ; THE BUNGLER’S SHAME IS THAT HE GROPES A GOAL. WHO MOST POSSESS THE TEH CONCEAL THEIR MAGICK POWER ; WHO LEAST POSSESS EXERT THEIR STRESS SEVEN TIMES IN EVERY HOUR. THESE, WHO CLING FAST TO POWERS, WHO GUARD THEM, AND DISPLAY THEIR MAGICK ART—THEY ARE NOT PART OF TAO NOR YET OF TEH.

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