The Lord says: For seventeen generations I have been incarnated as a high mandarin, and I have never oppressed my people nor maltreated my subordinates. I have helped them in misfortune; I have rescued them from poverty; I have taken compassion on their orphans; I have forgiven their transgressions; I have extensively practised secret virtue […]

Originally from http://oaks.nvg.org/ys1ra7.html – I couldn’t help archive a copy. Introduction Cosmogony The Yellow Emperor Dreams Confucius The Questions of T’ang Effort and Destiny Causality More Introduction THE LIEH-TZÜ is a Taoist work. It contains material from the third century BC, but the book comes down to us in its present shape from AD 3-400. […]