廣弘明集 9.17

9.17

Your servant laughs, saying: The Santian zhengfa jing says: 'When the light of heaven was not yet brilliant and the dense accumulation not yet clarified, through seven-thousand-odd kalpas the dark luminescence first divided. The nine qi were present there, each qi separated from the next by 99,990 li. The azure qi ascended and clarified, while the turbid and blended qi descended. And the Heavenly King of the Nine Heavens' Authenticity and the Heavenly King of the Primordial Beginning were born within the nine qi. The qi condensed and took form, and then there were the sovereigns of the nine authenticities, all of which were the stations of the nine universes congealed from the clear qi of the nine heavens. The Ladies of the Three Primes were born from the qi in the Dongfang Palace, with three thousand jade boys and three thousand jade maidens attending on each. Taking Heaven as father and qi as mother, they gave birth to the Lords of the Three Primes.'