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Text for Pearl Park Scripture O:


‘So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one the other - that height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another’

 

Source: Tao Te Ching, by Lao-tzu J. Legge, Translator (Sacred Books of the East, Vol 39) [1891]

Text arrangement without spaces:

Left

 

‘Soitisth

atexisten

ceandnon-

existence

givebirth

theoneto(

theideaof

)theother

;thatdiff

icultyand

easeprodu

cetheonet

heother-t

hatheight

Right

 

andlownes

sarisefro

mthecontr

astoftheo

newiththe

other;tha

tmusicaln

otesandto

nesbecome

harmoniou

sthrought

herelatio

nofonewit

hanother’

 

 

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Glyph representation of the text in Pearl Park Scripture O