Tao Te Ching Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle points to a random line from the Tao Te Ching translated by Aleister Crowley. The entire chapter is provided for context.
Your line is from CHAPTER LXXVII - THE WAY OF HEAVEN..
3. Who can employ his own excess to the weal of all under Heaven? Only he that possesseth the Tao.
CHAPTER LXXVII - THE WAY OF HEAVEN.
1. The Tao of Heaven is likened to the bending of a bow, whereby the high part is brought down, and the low part raised up. The extreme is diminished, and the middle increased.
2. This is the Way of Heaven, to remove excess, and to supplement insufficiency. Not so is the way of man, who taketh away from him that hath not to give to him that hath already excess.
3. Who can employ his own excess to the weal of all under Heaven? Only he that possesseth the Tao.
4. So the Wise Man acteth without lust of result; achieveth and boasteth not; he willeth not to proclaim his greatness.
