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 LIII - THE WITNESS OF GREED..
1. Were I discovered by men, and charged with government, my first would be lest I should become proud.
CHAPTER LIII - THE WITNESS OF GREED.
1. Were I discovered by men, and charged with government, my first would be lest I should become proud.
2. The true Path is level and smooth; but men love by-paths.
3. They adorn their courts, but they neglect their fields, and leave their storehouses empty. They wear elaborate and embroidered robes; they gird themselves with sharp swords; they eat and drink with luxury; they heap up goods; they are thievish and vainglorious. All this is opposite to the Way of Tao.