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 XXXVII - THE RIGHT USE OF GOVERNMENT..

 

CHAPTER XXXVII - THE RIGHT USE OF GOVERNMENT.

1. The Tao proceedeth by its own nature, doing nothing; therefore there is no doing which it comprehendeth not.

2. If kings and princes were to govern in this manner, all things would operate aright by their own motion.

3. If this transmutation were my object, I should call it Simplicity. Simplicity hath no name nor purpose; silently and at ease all things go well. PART II