- Those who possessed perfectly the powers did not manifest them, and so they preserved them. Those who possessed them imperfectly feared to lose them, and so lost them.
- The former did nothing, nor had need to do. The latter did, and had need to do.
- Those who possessed benevolence exercised it, and had need it; so also was it with them who possessed justice.
- Those who possessed the conventions displayed them; and when men would not agree, they made ready to fight them.
- Thus, when the Tao was lost, the Magick Powers appeared; then, by successive degradations, came Benevolence, Justice, Convention.
- Now convention is the shadow of loyalty and good will, and so the herald of disorder. Yea, even Understanding is but a Blossom of the Tao, and foreshadoweth Stupidity.
- So then the Tao-Man holdeth to Mass, and avoideth Motion; he is attached to the Root, not to the flower. He leaveth the one, and cleaveth to the other.
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