Showing posts with label chapter 32. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chapter 32. Show all posts

18 December 2023

Of holiness the virtue

 



Reason, in its eternal aspect, is unnameable.
Simplicity though insignificant, 
the world not dares to subject [it].
Princes [and] kings if they can keep it,
The ten thousand things are going of themselves to pay homage.
Heaven [and] earth mutually combined,
thereby drop sweet dew.
The people will have none as their commanders,
but of themselves they will be righteous.

[When] at first creating order [it becomes] the nameable.
[When] the nameable also already exists
then in turn one is going to know where to stop.
is the reason why there is no danger.

To illustrate:
Reason's being in the universe 
resembles rivers [and] streams [in their relation] to great rivers [and the oceans,
indeed.