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 LXVI - PUTTING ONE’S SELF LAST..
2. Thus, though he be above them, they feel no burden; nor, though he precede them, do they feel insulted.
CHAPTER LXVI - PUTTING ONE’S SELF LAST.
1. The oceans and the rivers attract the streams by their skill in being lower than they; thus are they masters thereof. So the Wise Man, to be above men, speaketh lowly; and to precede them acteth with humility.
2. Thus, though he be above them, they feel no burden; nor, though he precede them, do they feel insulted.
3. So then do all men delight to honour him, and grow not weary of him. He contendeth not against any man; therefore no man is able to contend against him.
