Yet there are interesting remnants of the old religious ideas; for instance on the island of Pootoo the gate tower The third son of the Dragon King plays in the shape of a fish in the waves of the sea and happens to be caught in the net of a fisherman who wants to sell 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 his 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 is 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.