《太上三元赐福赦罪解厄消灾延生保命妙经》

The Wondrous Scripture of the Most High Three Primes for Bestowing Blessings, Pardoning Sins, Relieving Adversity, Dispelling Disasters, Prolonging Life, and Protecting Destiny

Precious Proclamations of the Various Spells of the Three Officials

All who recite this scripture should observe purification and fasting, dress with robes and cap in proper order, and calm the mind with sincere devotion. They should first click the teeth, and only then give voice to the recitation. Thereafter they must read with reverence, neither treating the rite lightly nor conversing while reciting. They should remain dignified and solemn, keeping every thought fixed on the words being recited, and offer prayers according to their own wishes. In this way a response will naturally come.

First Recite the Divine Spell for Purifying the Heart

The divine spirit of the Supreme Terrace Star responds and transforms at all times, changing without cease. It drives out evil influences and binds ghosts and demons, preserves life, and protects the body. It makes wisdom clear and bright and sets heart and spirit at peace; it lets the three hun souls long endure, and the po souls suffer no loss. Quickly, quickly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!

Divine Spell for Purifying the Mouth

Spirit of the mouth, Danzhu, spit forth filth and sweep away turbid qi (vital energy). The spirit of the tongue makes speech accord with the proper Dao (the Way), links the qi of life, and nourishes the spirit. Spirit of the teeth, Luoqian, drives back deviant qi and guards true nature. The spirit of the throat is like a huben (a brave warrior); the spirit of qi (the deity who governs the breath) conducts the saliva. Spirit of the heart, Danyuan, enable me to penetrate the true Dao. The spirit of thought refines and nurtures the fluids, so that the qi of the Dao long endures. Quickly, quickly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!

Divine Spell for Purifying the Body

Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure, please pacify my body. May this disciple’s hun and po souls, together with the five viscera, all receive the protection of the spirits of Xuanming. The Azure Dragon and the White Tiger stand in ranked guard; the Vermilion Bird and the Dark Warrior protect the body. Quickly, quickly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!

Divine Spell for Settling the Gods of the Soil

The Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Beginning settles and secures all in peace, and universally informs the myriad spirits. May this disciple’s hun and po souls, together with the five viscera, all receive the protection of the spirits of Xuanming. The Azure Dragon and the White Tiger stand in ranked guard; the Vermilion Bird and the Dark Warrior protect the body. Quickly, quickly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!

Divine Spell for Settling the Gods of the Soil

The Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Beginning settles and secures all in peace, and universally proclaims to the spirits of every quarter. The true officials of the mountains and rivers, the spirits of the soil, the altar spirit of the soil on the left and the altar spirit of grain on the right, must not move rashly or cause alarm. Let all turn back toward the proper Dao, so that within and without are pure and clear; let each keep to its own station and together guard the household. The Most High has issued a command to search out and seize deviant demons and spectral beings. Spirit-kings who protect the teaching, please protect the one who recites the scripture. Taking refuge in the Great Dao, may all affairs proceed favorably, flourish, and remain upright and firm. Quickly, quickly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!

Spell for Purifying Heaven and Earth and Dispelling Defilement

At this point the scripture only lists the name of the spell and does not provide the text of the incantation.

In the secluded, profound, and mysterious Grotto-Heavens, the Qi (vital energy) of Primordial Beginning shines clear and bright. The mighty numinous spirits of the eight directions enable me to accord with nature. The talismanic mandate of Lingbao, the decree of Fulu (talismans and registers) transmitted by the Heavenly Worthy of Numinous Treasure, is proclaimed throughout the Nine Heavens. Qianluo Taina, Donggang Taixuan (words in the incantation denoting the power of the celestial realm). Demons are cut down, baleful spirits are bound, and countless ghosts and wraiths are destroyed. The Divine Incantation of Zhongshan (a divine spell traditionally said to originate in Zhongshan) is the jade text of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning. When I recite it once, I can drive off ghosts and prolong life; as I make the circuit of the Five Marchmounts (five famous mountains), all the Eight Seas can hear. The demon kings bow their heads in submission and guard my carriage. All that is vicious and defiled disperses, and the Qi of the Dao (the Way)—the primordial energy of the Dao—endures. Ji ji ru lü ling! (the closing formula of a spell, indicating that the command must be carried out at once).

Text of the Incantation for Invoking Incense: When I recite it once, I can drive off ghosts and prolong life; as I make the circuit of the Five Marchmounts, all the Eight Seas can hear. The demon kings bow their heads in submission and guard my carriage. All that is vicious and defiled disperses, and the Qi of the Dao endures. Ji ji ru lü ling!

Incantation for Invoking Incense

The Dao is cultivated through the inner heart, and the heart is conveyed by means of incense. Incense is kindled in the jade censer, and in my heart I hold in contemplation my place before the Sovereign Lord. May the true spirits lower their gaze, and may the banners of the immortals descend before the hall. Now I report with a sincere heart, wishing that what I present may reach directly to the Nine Heavens.

Divine Spell of Golden Light

The foundation of Heaven and Earth is the source of the Qi of all things. Through cultivation across ten thousand kalpas, I realize my spiritual powers. Within and beyond the Three Realms (the Realm of Desire, the Realm of Form, and the Formless Realm), I alone am the most exalted. Golden light rests upon my body, covering and illuminating me entirely; look for it and it cannot be seen, listen for it and it cannot be heard. It embraces Heaven and Earth and nurtures all living beings. Recite and uphold it ten thousand times, and light appears upon the body. The divinities of the Three Realms stand guard, and the Five Emperors (the celestial emperors of the five directions) come to receive me; the myriad spirits pay homage, and thunder and lightning obey my command. Ghosts and monsters hear of it and lose heart; sprites lose their form. Within the spell lies the thunderclap, and the Thunder God conceals his name. Insight penetrates and comprehension runs through, and the Five Qi (the Qi of the Five Phases: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water) surge upward. Golden light swiftly appears, covering and protecting the perfected person (one who cultivates the Dao and attains the true). Let it be carried out at once, in accordance with the statutory command issued at the advent of the Jade Emperor.

Verse for Opening the Scripture

Utter stillness returns to the formless origin; it stands empty in the lofty realm of countless kalpas. The Dongxuan Jing (scripture/classic), one of the Three Caverns (Dongzhen/Dongxuan/Dongshen), opens forth so profound—who can fathom its hidden depth and vast reach? Once one steps onto the Great Vehicle (the path of practice that delivers all beings), who still reckons how many kalpas must be passed? It neither arises nor perishes; when life is to appear, it is born by means of the lotus. The way that transcends the Three Realms loosens the bonds of the world through a compassionate heart. The supreme origin of the perfected person stands empty in the lofty realm of countless kalpas. The Dongxuan Jing opens forth so profound—who can fathom its hidden depth and vast reach? Once one steps onto the path of the Great Vehicle, who still reckons how many kalpas must be passed? It neither arises nor perishes; when life is to appear, it is born by means of the lotus. The way that transcends the Three Realms loosens the bonds of the world through a compassionate heart. The perfected person possesses unsurpassed De (Virtue/Power), and generation after generation belongs to the household of the immortals.

I bow and entrust my life to the Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water—the Heavenly Official, the Earthly Official, and the Water Official—and reverently honor the compassionate Three Official Great Emperors.

The miraculous powers and merits of the Three Official Great Emperors are subtle and inconceivable. With reverence I devote myself wholly to taking refuge and paying homage.

Precious Declaration of the Heavenly Official of the Upper Prime

With one heart, in sincere reverence, I take refuge and pay homage. The Heavenly Official of the Upper Prime dwells in the Palace of Purple Tenuity of Primordial Yang in the Mysterious Capital. He presides over thirty-six bureaus and ninety million divine hosts, examines affairs throughout the great thousand-world, and keeps the registers of the lands of the ten directions. His blessings reach all spirits. He holds the ledgers of good and evil of living beings, widely bestows grace upon the Three Realms, and also attends to the promotion and demotion of the immortals. He can remove calamities that descend without cause and dissolve disasters left from former lives, freeing beings from the cycle of birth and death and rescuing them from suffering in the dark underworld. All beings rely on his protection, and even the smallest living things find peace because of him. He is the Greatly Compassionate, Greatly Vowed, Greatly Holy, and Greatly Merciful Heavenly Official of the Upper Prime of the Nine Qi (vital energy) Who Bestows Blessings, the Great Emperor of Radiant Spirit and Primordial Yang, the Imperial Lord of Purple Tenuity.

Precious Declaration of the Earthly Official of the Middle Prime

With one heart, in sincere reverence, I take refuge and pay homage. The Earthly Official of the Middle Prime dwells in the Palace of the Northern Capital of Azure Spirit and Cavern Yang. He presides over forty-two bureaus and ninety million divine hosts, has charge of the Three Realms, the ten directions, and the nine earths, and governs the Five Marchmounts, the farthest reaches of the eight directions, and the four intermediate directions (the bearings lying between the four cardinal points). He harmonizes Yin-Yang, examines the good and evil of male and female beings together with the azure and black registers (the rolls that record merit and fault, good and evil), compassionately nurtures all things of heaven and earth, and inspects the name-registers of beings in order to determine fortune and misfortune. His spiritual power is vast and can free beings from the Ninefold Darkness (the depths of the underworld). Even through long ages of calamity, his light can still extinguish the offenses of beings. He is father and mother to living beings; both those who are alive and those who have already departed receive his grace. He is the Greatly Compassionate, Greatly Vowed, Greatly Holy, and Greatly Merciful Earthly Official of the Middle Prime of the Seven Qi Who Pardons Offenses, the Great Emperor of Cavern Spirit and Azure Void, the Imperial Lord of Azure Spirit.

Precious Declaration of the Water Official of the Lower Prime

What the Jing (scripture/classic) lists at this point is in fact still the wording of the Earthly Official’s precious declaration:

With one heart, in sincere reverence, I take refuge and pay homage to the Greatly Vowed, Greatly Holy, and Greatly Merciful Earthly Official of the Middle Prime of the Seven Qi Who Pardons Offenses, the Great Emperor of Cavern Spirit and Azure Void, the Imperial Lord of Azure Spirit, who abides in the Palace of Azure Splendor of Cavern Primordial at Granted Grain.

In the original, after “Precious Declaration of the Water Official of the Lower Prime,” this title is repeated once more, and the body of the Water Official’s precious declaration is not given.

I sincerely pay reverence to the Water Official, the Golden Spirit Cavern-Yin Great Emperor, Sovereign Lord of Yanggu (the Great Emperor, Water Official of the Lower Prime), who dwells in the Qinghua Palace of Cigu Dongyuan. He commands forty-two bureaus of officials and a multitude of divine hosts, governing the affairs of the deities of rivers and waters and also presiding over the great matters of floods and calamitous cycles. He is the Dharma King of Zhengyi (Orthodox Unity), keeper of the registers of the souls of the dead and of ghosts and spirits in the long night. As Teaching Lord of Wuwei (non-action), he records the causes of all beings’ merits and faults, sins and blessings. Above, he can dissolve heavenly disasters and deliver the departed whose karmic retribution has been exhausted; below, he aids the beings of the dark underworld, marking the boundary between the human world and the path of ghosts, so that both the living and the dead may be at peace. His power to save is inexhaustible. Of great compassion and great vows, of great holiness and great mercy, he is the Water Official of the Lower Prime of the Five Qi (vital energy) who dissolves adversity, the Golden Spirit Cavern-Yin Great Emperor, Sovereign Lord of Yanggu.

Precious Declarations of the Various Spells of the Three Officials

At that time, the Great Immortal Who Saves from Suffering (the perfected immortal who delivers suffering beings), in the Heavenly Palace of Purple Tenuity of the Nine Qi in the Daluo Heaven, reported to the Lord of the Dao (the Way), saying: “I have summoned the Heavenly Official, Earthly Official, and Water Official of the Upper Prime, Middle Prime, and Lower Prime, together with the sagely bureau officials of the Three Realms and Four Bureaus, the offices that investigate and verify, and all the immortal hosts, to expound together the scriptures (Jing) and methods and to rescue living beings. We send forth a vast radiance that illuminates the suffering beings among the myriad kingdoms and nine provinces under Heaven, amid the rivers, lakes, and seas, and within the world of Jambudvipa (the human realm).

These people do evil and practice no good. They widely sow enmity and grudges, are ever greedy and never content, and their dealings in wealth and goods are neither clear nor honest. They do not revere Heaven and Earth or the sun, moon, and stars; they curse the wind and rain, deceive the gods and destroy their images, cheat and conceal things from Heaven and Earth, and profane sages and worthies. They do not respect their parents, uncles, or kin; they commit adultery, theft, deviance, and licentiousness; they are disloyal and unfilial and violate ritual and righteousness. They sever the kindness of mutual relations, do not honor the five grains, waste grain, and treat food as worthless. They do not follow the proper Way; in measuring, they call a large dou a small dou and a large scale a small scale; they conceal in the open and deceive in secret; their speech is inverted and distorted; they curse at will and resent Heaven and hate Earth. They do not cherish their own persons, nor do they do even a little good. Such people are neither tolerated by Heaven nor borne by Earth, and so they bring upon themselves malignant disasters, frequent plagues, and much litigation and strife. Whether their offenses are light or heavy, they can hardly escape. Because they themselves deliberately created evil causes, they receive this bitter retribution; when calamity comes upon them, there is no way to be absolved.”

At this time, the Great Immortal Who Relieves Suffering (Jiuku Daxian) respectfully held the audience tablet and reported to the Three Officials of the Three Primordials (Sanyuan Tianguan): “Well said, well said! These living beings are now undergoing punishment and suffering. If devout men and women take refuge in the Three Primordials—the Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water—observe the fast and keep the precepts, cultivate for a full three years, and, in accordance with Daoist ritual, recite this scripture (Jing) fifty times or one thousand five hundred times, sincerely repent and correct their faults, then the Official of Heaven (Tianguan) will bestow blessings, the Official of Earth (Diguan) will pardon sins, and the Official of Water (Shuiguan) will relieve calamities.”

Thereupon the Celestial Worthies of the Three Primordials (Sanyuan Tianzun), riding five-colored auspicious clouds and borne upon a clear wind, arrived at Mount Yuntai of the Metropolitan Prefecture (Duhui Fu). They sent forth a bright and vast radiance, displayed boundless numinous power, rescued the people and relieved their suffering, so that blessings were fulfilled among the myriad spirits. The deities of the various heavens came and went, ascending and descending; they eliminated unprovoked disasters, dissolved enmities and transgressions, bestowed every kind of auspicious blessing, and helped living beings escape the nine calamities and leave the three evil paths (the hells, hungry ghosts, and animals). The ignorant and the afflicted likewise attained peace and well-being; the roots of former sins and grievances were removed, and faults dispersed forever. Whether parents were living or deceased, all received grace and were freed from suffering. Beings of the four modes of birth and the six paths, hungry ghosts, suffering souls of the dead, lonely and wandering ghosts, and the nine mystic generations and seven ancestors (remote forebears and ancestors of successive generations), if they had not yet left the hells, were all included among those to be saved. All beings, whether living or dead, who were bound by instruments of punishment and confined in prison could likewise obtain release.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Official of Earth, for prisoners and for beings suffering in the hells, cleared the ledgers of sin, destroyed the roots of evil, struck their names from the register of the dead, and entered them in the register of the living. Cases already under escort or not yet under escort, already delivered or not yet delivered, already concluded or not yet concluded, already discovered or not yet discovered—so long as they fell among those that ought to be pardoned—were all remitted. The Official of Earth said: “Those who have committed grave crimes such as the Five Punishments and the Ten Evils shall never be pardoned.”

The Celestial Worthy said: Some people speak with cutting words and set themselves against others at every turn, wounding them as a snake’s fangs or a tiger’s jaws would. Their hearts are as cruel as awls and knives; their minds are dark and full of cunning schemes, and with smooth, flattering talk they deceive the foolish and the ignorant. They plunder what belongs to others, giving no thought to others’ poverty and thinking only of their own wealth, and by harming others they make their own households prosperous and secure their own gain. They exhaust every stratagem, only to bring harm upon themselves. Once evil thoughts take root, the sins become hard to erase. Those who covet wealth and profit and care only for themselves will suffer punishment by heavenly thunder. The Qi (vital energy) of pestilence will also spread, clinging to the body and doing harm. Grievances and transgressions implicate one another and will further bring calamity upon their descendants.

Thereupon the Great Immortal Who Saves from Suffering again reported to the Heavenly Official. The Heavenly Official said: Recite this Jing (scripture/classic) over and over until the recitations reach a full one thousand. If the heart feels genuine joy, if one repents of one’s faults, cuts off evil deeds, and cultivates good deeds, then the Earthly Official—the deity who governs the pardoning of sins—will remit the offenses, and all evil karma and faults will be cleared away together. Pray earnestly within the heart and return with a single mind to the right Dao (the Way). In a state of dim, elusive stillness, the ears, the eyes, and the mind all grow settled; the Shen (spirit) and the soul are at peace, and one’s spirits return to their ordinary condition. Sins are eliminated, blessings increase, merit is measureless, and the reward of blessing is without limit.

The Lord of the Dao said: When living beings in the world bring pestilence and calamity upon themselves, poisonous Qi spreads and people become infected. All of this is because they do evil and fail to do good, and because grievances implicate one another, so that severe illness breaks out and lingers without cure. If this scripture is recited, the illness will be healed. If the person who recites the scripture does so on the Duanyang Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar) or the Zhongyuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), the Three Officials—the Heavenly Official, the Earthly Official, and the Water Official—will summon back the many deities who spread pestilence, examine matters according to the lightness or gravity of the offenses, and pardon them all together.

The Water Official says: Some husbands and wives in the world meet in their destiny with unfavorable stellar malefics such as the Lonely Star (Guchen) and the Widow Star (Guasu). Their marriages suffer punishment and clash, and they find it hard to continue the family line. This is because in a former life they did not practice almsgiving and charity, and so in this life they bear the karmic retribution.

If faithful men and women quiet their minds morning and evening, bathe and burn incense, light lamps and recite the scripture (Jing), keep the fast and give alms, and repent so as to remove sinful karma, they will be able to bear boys of regular features and fortunate appearance, and children who are intelligent and wealthy, with reputations that spread far and wide.

Some women, because of faults committed in past lives and in this life—scheming for wealth and taking lives—may find that the children born to them in this life die young, as if they had come to claim a life, press for debts, and exact repayment of money. After a woman conceives, she may meet with difficult labor around the time of birth, or the fetus may perish in the womb or die after birth; the child may also die at the age of three, six, or nine, or at thirteen or fifteen. The scripture holds that all of these are grievances and karmic debts coming in pursuit. Those who in the past cheated others or seized their property may also, for this reason, be reborn as livestock.

If faithful men and women resolve to give material alms, observe the fast and bathe, recite this scripture, and repent of their faults, their transgressions can be eliminated. Humans and ghosts each return to their proper place; childbirth proceeds safely and smoothly; mother and child are both well; the child is not afflicted by baleful influences, punishment, or clash, grows to adulthood, and brings blessings to both parents. The spiritual power of this scripture is profound and far-reaching: pray for a share of blessings, and blessings come; pray for the aversion of calamity, and calamity is dispelled; enmity melts away like ice, and creditors bound by grievance resolve of their own accord.

Orphaned souls and their company, together with the Nine Mysterious and Seven Ancestors (ancestors and forebears of the lineage) and the Four Forms of Birth and Six Paths (all kinds of living beings and the destinations of rebirth), can all leave the cycle of birth and death, depart from hell, and go to the Court of Deliverance from Suffering in the heavenly realm of the Eastern Pole, to cultivate themselves in that land of salvation. There is only heaven, and no hell. The King of Hell, on seeing them, dares not rebuke them in a loud voice; the attendant lads and yakshas all join their hands in respect, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face all take refuge. Throughout the eighteen levels of hell one is everywhere free and at ease, and in the palaces of the Thirty-Three Heavens palace after palace is at ease. The dead ascend to the heavenly realm and no longer hear the cries of agony in hell; they leave suffering forever, go straight to the human world or the heavens, are reborn in the Pure Land, obtain measureless joy, and come and go without hindrance.

The Water Official (Shuiguan), the deity who governs the watery realm and bestows blessings while relieving misfortune, says: Living beings in the world sometimes encounter unfavorable movements of the stars, obstruction of their destinies, and clashes with baleful stars, and so they often fall ill. Some are afflicted by epidemics, dysentery, toxic sores, swellings, and scabies; some suffer from wind-toxin of the throat, diarrhea, wind-phlegm, and similar ailments; and others hold that illness is connected with the pestilential Qi (vital energy) of ancestral graves, the fengshui of the dwelling, or the mischief of heterodox masters. There are also fiery eye disease, consumptive wasting, vomiting of blood, gu-poison, curses and maledictions, the calamities of war, fire, and theft, fainting and mad raving, hanging or confinement in the cangue, unclean places and miasma, and the inauspiciousness of year, month, day, and hour—misfortunes of every kind. Felling trees near altars and temples, breaking ground in polluted places, laying foundations to build a house or digging a pond, acquiring new things or replacing old ones, and repairing the areas before and behind the house are likewise listed among the causes that may invite disaster. Malaria, rashes, pestilence, lawsuits, and verbal disputes can also cause malignant illness to cling to the body; once living beings fall sick, they may even lose their lives because of it.

If one recites this scripture (Jing), malignant illness will no longer cling to the body. One will receive the protection of auspicious stars, baleful stars will withdraw, calamities will be dispelled, and good fortune will gather. The merit of the scripture reaches the netherworld, and blessings descend upon the human realm.

The Celestial Worthy (Tianzun) says: Living beings in the world, when they travel by boat on rivers, lakes, and seas, or come and go in trade, often meet with fierce winds and high waves, and so they are alarmed and anxious. If one recites this scripture and takes refuge in the Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water and in the host of sages of the Water Palace, one may pray for calm winds and still waves, a safe water route, a secure vessel, and firm ropes and cables, so that what one undertakes proceeds smoothly, and one is upheld by the host of sages and blessed by the myriad spirits.

Thereupon the Celestial Worthy spoke a gatha:

The nine Qi—nine kinds of primordial vital energy—rise above the azure heavens, and the sun, moon, and stars all possess numinous perfection. The Great Emperors, the Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water, come attended by clouds, thunder, lightning, and drums. Golden Lads hold splendid banners, and Jade Maidens present fragrant flowers; amid five-colored auspicious clouds, the radiance of the white hair-tuft shines forth.

Note: Phrases in the scripture such as the garbled sequence read approximately “qihou hou gua dia zheng” are suspected of errors in copying or decipherment; the gatha also appears to be missing text after the white hair-tuft, and the rendering above has therefore been smoothed according to the context.

Above the Azure Heaven of the Nine Qi (vital energy), the sun, the moon, and the constellations all truly appear. The Great Emperors, the Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water, arrive together with clouds, thunder, lightning, and drums. Golden Lads hold splendid banners, and Jade Maidens present fragrant flowers. Amid five-colored auspicious clouds they send forth a pure, bright white radiance that illuminates the world, manifesting their bodily forms to rescue all living beings. Auspicious clouds of Qi and rosy mists protect living beings and free them from every kind of suffering. The Celestial Worthy raises the clouds and sends down heavy rain, setting thunder and lightning in motion to exercise his numinous power. That power is vast and boundless, and his deliverance of living beings is without end; with measureless light he illuminates the many departed souls and all aggrieved ghosts, so that they all leave the hells. Whether living or dead, all can be freed from every suffering.

After the Celestial Worthy had finished expounding this scripture, he said: If one recites this scripture, one should cultivate it with sincere heart according to one’s own capacity, and its efficacy will naturally appear little by little; if one prays while offering clear water and fresh flowers, blessings will follow as well. When this scripture is enshrined in the home, the dwelling receives the protection of light and is not troubled by calamity. When one carries this scripture on one’s person, the various deities guard and uphold one, and ghosts, monsters, and baleful influences are destroyed; so long as one holds it in mind without ceasing, the power of blessing naturally increases, one receives the aid of divine power, and prayers are answered according to one’s heart.

This scripture contains one thousand six hundred and seventy-five characters in all. Each character holds true principle; each sentence can protect a person and remove faults; each line can extinguish transgressions; and each scroll can bestow blessings. The Emperors on High of the various heavens, together with the holy assemblies of the Three Realms and the Ten Directions, having heard this scripture proclaimed, all rejoiced greatly, received it in faith and reverently practiced it, then paid their respects and withdrew.

The Wondrous Scripture of the Most High Three Primes for Bestowing Blessings, Pardoning Transgressions, Relieving Adversity, Dispelling Calamities, Prolonging Life, and Preserving Destiny comes to an end here.