¹“When material advancements from heaven and earth cascade forth, you should shut your door, sit down, and devote yourself solely to meditation.

²“If you dedicate yourself to the work in your region, there will come a time when the spirits escort and guide you as you travel to other counties, provinces, and nations for the work.³The waters in which the fish roam know no walls or boundaries, yet the fish still do not swim beyond their native regions.⁴So it is, as well, in the way of spirits and in human affairs. But if you do travel to another region, regional spirits escort you until they reach the edge of their domain. From there, they transfer their guardianship to the regional spirits of the adjacent region and then return to their own area.”

⁵“The mountain spirit of a region oversees that region and is hence the regional spirit. ⁶The spirit that oversees the land within a region is the local sovereign spirit.”