The legend of Miao Shan is well known in Pootoo, but strange to say, only as it appears in an abbreviated print in which whole chapters of the original legend are missing, for instance the story of the relations to the Dragon King. True that there are in temples the figures to which this chapter refers, namely besides: the Madonna her "two Akolyths," the boy Shan Tsai, the "Well-gifted Maiden, as Lung Wang, the One" and Lung-nue, the "Dragon-
Dragon-King," and "Ao Yue, "the Dragon-Fish," but just this chapter is omitted in the only version circulating on the island, and which cannot be found there, making it evident that it is not used for the general teaching.
The third son of the Dragon King plays in the shape of a fish in the ind happens to be fisherman who him on the market which means that he will be delivered to death, this being a symbol of the entanglement of the "Child in the 'Man" into the net of life. 'The clear-sighted Madonna Miao Shan_notices from a distant point what is happening and she sends her pupil Shan Tsai, the "Depth of her Soul," to set free' the son the Dragon King.
He carries out fils instructions— the entanglement is solved by the important entrance of an important woman into the life of a man. The Dragon King to show his gratitude sends his granddaughter, the Dragon Maided (the unconscious part of his: soul), to present Miao Shan with the most' valuable he possesses, a pearl) phosphorescing in the darkness, i.e. "his immortal." 'The Dragon Maiden'
so fascinated by the Grand Lady that she decides to remain with her forever and becomes enlightened by maturing in her and this maturing to enlightenment is the aim and object of each great relation," as the example of the repeated "Entwicklungsliebe" (development of love) in life as Goethe clearly shows it to us Westerners,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.