Dongzhen Taishang Shenhu Yinwen — from the Cavern of Perfection

This is a Shangqing revelation scripture of the Daoist Canon (正統道藏), catalogued there in the Zhengyi section. Its Chinese Wikisource transcription carries a cataloguer's headnote stating that the author is unknown and that the text dates approximately to the Eastern Jin or Southern Dynasties period (4th–6th century CE) — the same milieu, and by its own internal evidence perhaps even the same circle, as the Shangqing revelations later collected in the Zhen'gao (真誥): the scripture's closing line names the Consort An of Ninefold Florescence as the one who transmitted its second hymn, a figure who appears among the celestial visitants of that better-known revelation cycle. Its Daozang catalogue number could not be confirmed during preparation.

The scripture is a hymn-chapter (頌章) meant to be used together with two ritual talismans, the Golden Tiger and the Divine Tiger, named within its own text and in its two companion scriptures. In its frame-narrative, the Most High Lord of the Great Dao makes music and sets his attendant jade maidens singing a hymn against demons; he then summons the Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety and instructs him to pass the two talismans on to a human adept, Li Shanyuan; the Emperor's own attendants sing a second hymn, in the "Walking in the Void" (步虛) mode of celestial-journey song that recurs across the Shangqing corpus. The text closes with a warning to guard the talismans in secret and a note recording when, and by whom, the second hymn was transmitted.

A note on the title. 神虎, "Divine Tiger," and its paired talisman 金虎, "Golden Tiger," give their names to a small family of related scriptures; 隱文, here "hidden text," marks this one as esoteric transmission literature — meant to be worn or kept close, not read casually. The two hymns lean on the dense private geography and imagery typical of Shangqing court-hymns; they are rendered here as literally as English allows, and a handful of lines that remain genuinely uncertain are noted honestly in the colophon.

Translated for the Good Works Library directly from the classical Chinese of the Daoist Canon, which is printed in full below the translation. To our knowledge, this is the scripture's first complete published English translation.

Translation

The Most High Lord of the Great Dao then played, with his own hand, the cloud-chimes of the Radiant Dragon. A thousand empyrean tones streamed forth unchecked; ten thousand echoes entwined and surged. Flowing splendor rose in rich profusion; purple mist swirled through the shadowed yin; mysterious winds broke out from all eight quarters. Then the jade phoenixes craned their necks, and the golden simurghs composed their breath; dragons sang over the jasper waves, and tigers leapt across the gem-bright shoals; nine kinds of cries joined in chorus, and the Mysterious Wheel of Heaven rang through the grotto-heavens. The crouching beasts rolled back their sleeves; the fierce horses opened their throats; the savage hounds of the peaks lay sprawled across them; swords clenched in their jaws, they held evil in check. The manifold sounds mingled in tumult, and the hundred great apes turned monstrous.

Then he commanded the attendant maidens of the Upper Palace of Jade Clarity — An Faying, Tian Sifei, Zhao Dingzhu, and Li Yunmen — to sing together a poem for marshalling the spirits, a melody for destroying goblins and scattering specters. Its words say:

Long ago I loosed the reins of Great Rose-Dawn;
eightfold, adrift, they raised their camps of cloud.
The Spirit-Ancestor composes his numinous breast;
dragon-plumes flourish over the Jade Capital.
The Gold Gate is wreathed in lush abundance;
the Nine Chambers gleam with purple gems.
The high carriage fords the Northern Origin;
soughing, soughing, it enters the Unborn.
The Vermilion Tiger guides the numinous masters;
the green-shafted carriage ascends to Supreme Clarity.
The Four Mysteries light the forbidden court at dawn;
embracing splendor, they return to Phoenix City.
The Seven Perils still hold to Brahma-green;
they mean to mark the Ninefold Origin's highway.
They proclaim their radiance, treasuring the Great Effulgence;
whirlwind-borne and boundless, its light leaps forth and spreads.
They rein in and open the Pure Homeland;
the River Spirit has already ridden ahead as vanguard.
Shadowed clouds bear the night-sun in their train;
the candle-moon and it suddenly cross at dawn's first edge.
Bound in brightness, the Vermilion-Born Spirit —
hand in hand, they return together to the Void.
The ten thousand springs pour into the Northern Valley;
riding upon the void, they return as shooting stars.
Their forms dissolved, they rise and drift at ease;
towering peaks ride, of themselves, the waves of the sky.
Lingering long, they lodge in noble joy;
the wondrous and subtle stand forth, facing the Void.
In the free abode rests the cinnabar-dark pearl;
through the Great Void the Way, too, flows unhindered.
The hidden and the manifest hold fast the numinous talisman;
advancing unseen in darkness, how could they go astray?
Descending into mystery, they show themselves to the gathered host;
life's very beginning is like one long dream.
Virtue lies hidden, its traces vacant within;
in utmost stillness, one does not feel it come.
Spirit and essence answer to Great Simplicity;
its misted light attends it, wherever it goes.
The mysterious sound plays beyond all image;
its hidden thread — how could one doubt it?
In concert with the dawn, drums beat and long fans wave;
radiant cloud-glow is born right here.
The farthest grottoes flow on, vast and dim;
soaring wings circle the Sixfold Terrace.
The Spirit King enters Jade Vacuity;
utmost non-being presses upon the Vermilion Host.
The Ninefold Net meets the dark and the far;
the wondrous assembly, too, is now at peace.
The Way holds fast the Chapter of the Gold Culmen;
plucking its tune, the cypress blazes and flourishes.
A thousand dragons spew forth green waters;
the Nine Rivers reverse their course, pouring out, spent.
The great mist gathers round the farthest dwelling;
numinous waves cover the courtyard on every side.
Together they bow before the jagged, towering heights;
none can search out their form or name.
They lead and draw forth harmony and grace;
giving the mysterious free rein, they grasp transformation's law.
Holding their essence within, they blaze in the Cloud Chamber;
scattered companions, through a clear and waning age.
The numinous path hastens to the Orchid Tower;
mystery upon mystery — how could it be otherwise arrayed?
The ten thousand peaks lie open, a wondrous sight;
above the clouds there dwells the Gem-Bright One.
Through the kalpa's end they join with Jade Splendor;
unaware, just as if the day were beginning.
The primordial spirit transforms as one through the grottoes;
sunk and hidden, it forgets its fixed course.
The River Marquis raises the Belvedere above;
bright pearls adorn the courtyard of fine gems.
It orders the origin, sign of the Three Numina;
coalesced and clear — how could it wax or wane?
The Great Sun crosses with layered shade;
turning back, it brushes by, abiding in the falling dusk.
Wholly beyond the six perceptions,
the numinous chant unites into a single voice.
Turning the great loom along the Starry River's Way,
brilliantly, brilliantly, it stirs the flowering gems.
Ten thousand spirits mount and race the Vermilion Steeds;
a thousand demons find no chance to rise.
Goblins are destroyed by the Officials of Water and Fire;
the Perfected body preserves Great Constancy.

Four commands went out to the Northern Slopes, ordering the spirits and steadying the reins; they summoned and called the earth spirits, till the earth-essences hid their breath and the mountains and peaks concealed their clouds; the Nine Sources were cut off and destroyed. A thousand goblins were hunted down and examined, seized and beheaded amid crashing thunder. The Northern Emperor opened the way; the Four Bright Ones escorted the chariot-shaft; ten thousand evils were crushed and shattered; Mount Feng was reined in and cut apart. The nine ghosts together confessed; a thousand demons were bound into one. The Five Emperors grasped their battle-axes; the Spirit Lord breathed forth smoke; purple brightness rose in towering splendor; vermilion vapor coiled and entwined. Spirits fled the Night Terrace; goblins hid themselves away for long ages. Poisonous beasts ten thousand feet long — what was slaughtered was shown no mercy. Whatever small demons remained, gathered by the hundred and massed by the thousand, their mingled vapors converging where they lurked at the very gate of human life — the Divine Tiger unleashed its might, cutting them down, seizing and beheading and destroying them.

This is the wondrous Way of the Great Origin, chosen out by the highest numinous power. You now receive it: wear it always upon your body. Ten thousand trials will not prevail against you; a thousand demons will not dare transgress against you. Jade Splendor will come to your chamber, and the celestial Perfected will wander and circle round you. Chant aloud these bright and numinous sounds, and pay court above to the Three Primes.

When the song was ended, the Most High Lord of the Great Dao commanded the Jade Lad of the Left Mystery, Yu Lixuan, to take up the gold-feathered tally and summon the Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety.

The Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety, his transformed essence congealed into vapor, held fast to the true and flourished in emptiness; he roared commands to ten thousand spirits, embracing the net of the Origin. His hand grasped the Gold Perfected; he gazed tranquilly upon the Great Nothing. When he suddenly heard the summons, he mounted at once his commanded carriage. Feathered spirits and the Vermilion Sovereign opened the way before his armored palanquin; ten thousand Celestial Guards and tigers drove forth the golden dragons; commanding his troops with jade tallies, casting light and flying splendor, he entered the shadowed realm on streaming torches, his blazing ranks advancing to open the way. The Essence of the Sun struck the flanks of the jasper drums in surging waves, and rang the carnelian bells with a booming peal.

Then the Mysterious Wheel joined in harmony, and the Vast Music followed after: nine phoenixes craned their necks, whistling and calling; a hundred dragons held the pitch-pipes in their mouths, roaring together; the Essence of Gold leapt up in resounding tones; eight simurghs soared and danced. Purple banners were raised into the sky; brocade pennants encircled the wilds; green canopies cast their ranks of shade; the standards of the Bent Dawn were suddenly hoisted; flowing bells were tossed to and fro; the bright moon's tone rang clear through all. Carnelian poles displayed the Perfected; whirling pools revealed the Five Semblances; fragrant blossoms scattered their mist; blooming flowers held the Three Lights; the light sky drank in radiance; thin clouds carried the gleam. Sounding reins rang along the seven roads; eight carriages floated in the void; nine thousand empty palanquins were guarded by poison dragons. Racing clouds sped toward the Mystery; gathered vapors reined in the wind; the bright heavens broke open in luxuriant profusion; eightfold light enveloped all beneath its canopy. Perfected maidens rode at his right hand; numinous lads were charged at his left. In a flash — in the space of a thousand myriads — he had already arrived at the Upper Palace.

His carriage halted at Jade Clarity; his person rose before the Imperial Ramparts; turning his steps toward the Purple Watchtower, he bowed his head and waited to be announced. When he had waited a good while, the Most High Lord of the Great Dao commanded the Four Officials Who Attend the Dawn to lead him forward slowly; he ascended the gate of Pistil-Pearl and entered the inner chamber of the Sevenfold Radiance. The Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety announced his own name, saying: "Your humble servant has now arrived. I beg you to disclose your great command."

The Most High Lord of the Great Dao said: "Li Shanyuan's virtue matches the Seven Sages; he is to become lord of the Gold Tower. He shall soon pay audience to the Ten Heavens and govern the mandate of the myriad multitudes; he shall fix the Middle Prime within the mysterious workings, and regulate yin and yang so that they align as one; he shall draw forth the Perfected and raise up their leaders, seal the rivers and summon the seas, decide life and death, and grasp and wield Heaven's power to destroy. He shall behead and annihilate the Six Heavens, oversee the punishments of the Three Officials, and punish and command alongside the Northern Emperor. Illustrious lord, attending at the chariot-rail — his Way, too, stands at a lofty height; his virtue is vast and far-reaching; his charge, too, is weighty; his authority, too, is equal to it!

"Having already instructed him in wisdom, I now further record for him the dispelling of demons: wisdom can drive forth spirits, and the dispelling of demons can annihilate evil. I further bestow upon him the True Talisman of the Divine Tiger, that he may with its might behead the Six Heavens; let him chant over it the Lofty Chapter for Wielding the Spirits, which will likewise help him scatter filth and remove affliction.

"Moreover, among the treasures kept by the Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety is the True Talisman of the Golden Tiger, by which he governs the spirits and numina of heaven and earth. Shout at it to act, and one may straightway crush and cut down a thousand goblins; wear it and go forth, and ten thousand ghosts will lose their form; should the host of demons recklessly invade, they will die at once; should the multitude of goblins spy upon it, they will of themselves be plunged into darkness. Let this, too, be bestowed together upon Shanyuan, that his charge may be complete."

At this the Celestial Emperor Lord of Grand Subtlety bowed his head again and again in assent. He then loosened his cloud-satchel and opened its carnelian case. Sevenfold light shone upon the plain silk within; flowing sun-rays disclosed the truth; ninefold brilliance held its shining still; drifting fragrance entwined the air. Before the talisman was yet handed over, he turned and commanded his attendant maidens of Grand Subtlety — Ji Linhua, Yan Caiyun, Zhu Tiaoyan, and Han Fangyao — to sing together the Poem of the Gold Perfected, the tune of Walking in the Void. Its words say:

Great Obscurity surpasses the Four Mysteries;
the cavern-vistas harbor spirit-powers.
The Jade Terrace spreads across the vermilion sky;
green clouds enclose a rampart of gold.
Above, I draw from the ridge of Cloud-Pearls;
looking up, I am given the Bladeless Peak.
The numinous mirror shines upon the Purple Hall;
rich vermilion radiance fills the midmost void.
Hidden transformation twines about the mystic root;
grasping my tally, I lead the purple-robed lads.
The circling road never congeals into the waste;
the richly patterned mist rises layer on layer.
To the south I push open the door of the Vermilion Hill;
to the west I pass the window of Bright Breach.
My body soars above the waves of the ten thousand fords;
my spirit, quickened, gathers in the ten directions.
Mysteriously I return to the carriage of stillness;
facing upward, I ride the celestial dragon.
In darkness I set forth the flying carriage of light;
shaking the bells, I roam the seven roads.
Light waves cross the ford of cloud and dust;
of a sudden I have already reached the Jade Continent.
To my left I draw in the Lady of Jade Gleam;
to my right I summon the Lord of Gold Perfection.
Above I welcome the worthies who fly through the sky;
below I draw up the wondrous numinous fields.
Further still I circle the heavens of Vast Cold;
draped in brocade, I enter the Spirit Mound.
Phoenix marrow makes firm my kalpa-long years;
flower-nectar reverses the wilting of bloom.
The Most High truly ripens long life to its full;
he governs the fate of the farthest, ten-thousandfold steps.
The Three Awarenesses receive the mysterious count;
giving joy free rein, bright ivory wheels turn.
The whirlwind brightens the splendor of pooling waves;
the purple cassia — how restlessly it dwells!
Gem-fruits resound through the ninefold heavens;
the jade tally summons the Lord of Grand Subtlety.
The Yellow Tally checks the blade raised against virtue;
how could it ever offend the Perfected One's radiance?
Casting off the plain and entering the substanceless,
only then are the hundred forms all left behind.
Broad yang opens the bud of cinnabar vapor;
crimson clouds fly, brilliant and bright.
United in accord with Jade-Gleam's stillness,
dazzling, it hangs suspended over Supreme Clarity's domain.
Spirits and numina answer to the hidden reckoning;
in compliant response, they summon the ages of omen.
At the great ford the waves surge in rich confusion;
merging lights join the long, flowing train.
Towering, lofty — the Scion of the Gold Tower —
in solemn stillness enters the numinous horizon.
In every turn, through countless myriad changes,
I go along in compliance, at one in essence and accord.
Mysteriously I dwell upon the Terrace of Utmost Stillness,
purely chanting of wisdom and understanding.
Dispelling demons, it annihilates their ten thousand blades;
I wield this poem to drive out all defilement.
The Golden Tiger receives the might of Heaven;
it crushes ill spirits, till they hide away their breath.
It sweeps away goblins, toppling them by the myriad thousand;
for ten thousand miles, not one speck of evil remains.

Thereupon the Great Spirit drew the blood of a hundred goblins; with the Golden Tiger he struck the sight from their eyes; his bristling fury spent forth its might. He loosed poison and cast down ghosts, cutting them apart without gap or pause; he disemboweled the Six Heavens, whose spirits and numina bowed their heads together in submission. Birds and beasts crouched down at once, hid their cries in forest and grass, and lay prostrate before the Great Origin.

This marvelous and transcendent numinous text, if worn in mysterious reverence, will allow one to advance and pay court to the Jade Emperor; honor it within your chamber, and the host of Perfected will come to your room. Should the Text of the Divine Tiger be divulged, calamity will befall your kin to the ninth generation; should the True Talisman of the Golden Tiger be let slip, disaster will reach your ancestors to the seventh generation. Let Shanyuan keep it hidden — he is the very flower of the Way and its Virtue. Should he be fearful in the night, let him simply chant these two poems, and a thousand goblins will scatter and hide, as if he lodged together with ten thousand men. When the mountains and rivers hear this chant, all will take up the attendant's whip and, turning toward the sound, bow low in homage.

The latter of these two poems was written out by the Consort An of Ninefold Florescence. On the sixth day of the eleventh month, at the fifth watch-drum, as dawn drew near, the Purple-Clear Consort An of Ninefold Florescence came and transmitted it, commanding it to be written down; the writing was finished before daybreak. It belongs within the scroll The Most High's Eightfold Arts of Wisdom for Dispelling Demons: The Hidden Text of the Divine Tiger.

Colophon

This Good Works Translation was prepared for the Shangqing Scriptures shelf of the Good Works Library. The English was translated independently from the classical Chinese text printed below. The text's two liturgical hymns — each in five-character verse, in the "Walking in the Void" (步虛) mode of celestial-journey song — are kept as verse, one English line to each five-character clause of the source. The narrative frame around them, including two passages of parallel four-character ritual language that read like chant but are set as plain paragraphs in the source rather than marked as verse, is kept as prose, following the source's own paragraphing.

Before the claim below was written, a translation-status check was performed within the bounds the library sets for such checks. Komjathy's Daoist Texts in Translation and the 2023 Purple Cloud Institute survey of Daoist texts in Western languages were both searched (by Chinese title, by pinyin, and by search for any Daozang or Concordance number) and neither lists this scripture, its two companion talisman-texts, or any translation of them. Three web searches were then run — for the Chinese title together with "English translation," for the pinyin title together with search terms for its canon number, and for the scripture's subject (the Divine Tiger and Golden Tiger talismans) alongside the names of scholars who have translated other Shangqing revelation texts — and none turned up a published translation, excerpt, or scholarly discussion of this specific text. One search result asserted a Concordance du Tao-tsang number for the title without a citation we could verify, so no Daozang or CT number is claimed here. To our knowledge, this is the first complete published English translation of the Dongzhen Taishang Shenhu Yinwen. We state this as the limit of our knowledge, not as a certainty.

A note on terms and difficulty. 神虎 and 金虎 — the Divine Tiger and the Golden Tiger — name a pair of talismans transmitted together in this textual family (the Wikisource catalogue headnote lists this scripture's two companion texts as the Taiwei Jinhu Zhenfu and the Shenhu Yujing); the translation keeps them as two distinct proper names throughout, matching the source. 步虛/歩虚, "Walking in the Void," follows the house glossary. This is a dense, rare-character-heavy witness of a genre — the Shangqing court-hymn — that leans on private constellations of place-names and images; a small number of couplets (among them 七難尚梵緑，擬標九元衢; 絶洞溟溟流，翔翅六領臺; 道藏金極章，彈調赫栢榮; 含精灼雲房，蕭伻清零紀; 南排朱阜戸，西踰豪缺窓; 三覺承玄數，縱歡煥牙囬) resisted full confidence despite best effort and are rendered as literally as the English allows. No ▢ or other unencodable characters occurred in this witness.

Prepared for the Good Work Library by the Tianmu Anglican Church with AI-assisted translation and editorial work.

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Source Text: 洞真太上神虎隱文

Classical Chinese text of the Zhengtong Daozang, in the Chinese Wikisource transcription. Presented complete for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

太上大道君，爰乃自彈景龍雲璈，霄音千逸，萬響纒激，流徽欎勃，紫藹回隂，玄風八發。於是玉鳳延頸，金鸞整炁，龍吟碧波，虎躍瓊州，九嘯和唱，玄鈞洞天，伏獸攘袂，猛馬張喉，猲岳横𣏣，衘劔攝邪，衆聲紛亂，百玃妖爾。乃命玉清上宫侍女，安法嬰、田四非、趙定珠、李雲門，合歌揮神之詩，滅精散靈之曲，其辭曰：

昔泛太霞轡，八浮造雲營。
神宗理靈襟，龍翰秀玉京。
金門纒蔚裕，九房朗紫瓊。
髙駕渉北元，蕭蕭入无生。
朱虎導靈師，緑轅登上清。
四玄明朝禁，抱華還鳳城。
七難尚梵緑，擬標九元衢。
宣曜寳太暉，飈眇躍景敷。
整控啓素郷，河靈已前驅。
隂雲帶夜日，燭月歘交初。
結朗朱生神，攜領同反无。
萬源寫北谷，乘空歸流星。
滅景擢浮游，峩峯自霄浪。
纒綿嘉樂宿，妙㣲挺虚向。
逸宅丹玄珠，太空道亦暢。
幽明秉靈符，闇推豈乖喪。
落玄表群㑹，生始似乆夣。
德隱冲内迹，至寂不覺當。
神精感太素，煙映在所之。
玄響奏象外，幽條焉能疑。
協晨皷長扇，暉霞生在兹。
絶洞溟溟流，翔翅六領臺。
神王入玉虚，至无侵朱兵。
九羅遘幽遼，妙㑹亦巳平。
道藏金極章，彈調赫栢榮。
千龍吐緑水，九河倒竭傾。
洪藹攝絶宅，靈浪四蓋庭。
齊首崚嶒宇，莫檢形與名。
領㧞納和秀，縱玄執化理。
含精灼雲房，蕭伻清零紀。
靈道趣蘭闕，玄玄那排起。
萬峰坦竒觀，雲上有瓊子。
終劫協玉華，靡覺方日始。
原神齊洞化，淪伏忘定征。
河侯結上觀，景珠瑋琳庭。
理元三靈表，凝澄豈虧盈。
太陽交重隂，囬拂存落冥。
全任六覺外，靈唱齊一聲。
運機璿漢道，煥煥動華瓊。
萬神騰朱馬，千魔无暇生。
妖滅水火官，真躬保太貞。

四命北阿，理神定轡，呼召地祇，土精匿炁，山嶽藏雲，九源絶滅，推校千精，執馘雷震，北帝啓道，四明奉轅，摧爛萬邪，勒割酆山，九鬼共首，千魔同身，五帝秉鉞，神公吐煙，紫朗竦觀，朱炁累纒，靈走夜臺，精藏長綿，毒獸萬尺，所屠無親，有何小妖，聚百累千，交炁齊瞻，當人生門，神虎縱威，斬攫梟殘，太元竒道，至靈所甄，子今受之，永以佩身，萬試不校，千妖不干，玉華詣房，天真遊旋，諷明靈音，上朝三元。

歌畢，於是太上大道君，乃命左玄玉郎鬱利玄，執金羽節，召太㣲天帝君。太㣲天帝君凝化精炁，操真榮虚，嘯咤萬神，擁羅本初，手執金真，淡盻太旡，忽聞命卒，行登勑駕，羽靈朱皇，啓道輦甲，天丁萬虎，驅除金龍，御兵玉節，投景飛華，入冥流燭，煥陣行啓，日精打碧鼓之旁浪，扣瓊鍾之砰砰。於是玄鈞合和，廣樂遏後，九鳳延頸而嘯嘯，百龍銜律而同呴，金精踊音，八鸞翔儛，紫旂建霄，錦旄繞野，緑蓋列廕，曲晨歘舉，流鈴交擲，月明徹響，瓊竿表真，回渟五象，香花散煙，芬葩三景，輕霄納暉，薄霞帶光，鳴轡七道，八輿浮空，虚輦九千，衛以毒龍，走雲赴玄，聚炁攝風，天明蓊潰，八光蒙籠，真女右騎，左命靈童，儵歘千億，巳到上宫，停駕玉清，身起帝墉，囬歩紫闕，稽首待通。旣至良乆，太上大道君勑命侍晨四臣，徐引以前，登蘂珠之闥，入七暎内房。太㣲天帝君稱名曰：賤臣今到，請開大命矣。

太上大道君曰：李山淵德合七聖，爲金闕之主，方當叅謁十天，理命億兆，定中元於玄機，制隂陽以齊首，㧞真擢領，封河召海，斷任死生，把執天烕，馘滅六天，總罰三官，罰執北帝，明公侍軒，道亦髙標，德弘逸逺，任亦重矣，掌亦侔也哉。旣已說之以智慧，又復記之以消魔，智慧可以驅神，消魔可以滅邪。復授之以神虎真符，使威馘六天，詠之以揮神髙章，亦助之散穢去患也。且太㣲帝君所寳，有金虎真符，以制天地神靈，叱之以行，便得摧斬千精，佩之而往，則萬鬼滅形，衆魔妄侵而即死，群妖窺之而自冥，乃可俱授山淵，以成其任乎。

於是太㣲帝君唯唯稽首，乃解雲笈，發瓊凾，七光映素，流日啓真，九暉停曜，飛香交纒，執符未授，顧命太㣲侍女，紀林華、嚴採雲、朱條煙、韓放要等，合歌金真之詩，歩虚之曲。其辭曰：

太冥絶四玄，洞景寄神通。
玉臺敷朱霄，緑霞有金墉。
上挹雲珠領，仰授无刄峰。
靈鏡燿紫館，藹朱暉中空。
冥化纒玄根，把節攜紫童。
圎塗无凝漠，綺藹復有重。
南排朱阜戸，西踰豪缺窓。
體矯萬津波，神生攝十方。
玄歸反寂轅，上嚮乗天龍。
冥攄飛景輿，揮鈴七道遊。
輕浪雲塵津，歘巳造玉州。
左攝玉映妻，右命金真夫。
上接飛霄賢，俯援靈妙疇。
彌纒廣寒宇，披錦入神丘。
鳯腦固劫齡，蘂醴反華頽。
太上寔夀稔，制命萬杪階。
三覺承玄數，縱歡煥牙囬。
飊粲渟浪華，紫桂何棲棲。
琳實鳴九霄，玉節徴太㣲。
黄筞遏德刄，豈干真人暉。
棄素入无質，百象始俱遺。
豁陽丹炁穎，爛粲絳雲飛。
齊契玉映靜，炫懸上清畿。
神靈應冥數，順感招兆世。
洪津浪紛蔚，併景參容裔。
巍峩金闕子，蕭條入靈際。
俯仰萬兆變，將順同精契。
玄栖絶寂臺，清詠智與慧。
消魔㓕萬鋒，揮詩以逐穢。
金虎承天威，摧神以匿炁。
掃妖千萬傾，萬里旡邪芥。

於焉大神，割血百精，喪目金虎，奮豪吐威，放毒投鬼，无間横截，刳腹六天，共首神靈，頓跼鳥獸，藏音林草，偃伏太元。

竒逸靈文，玄郁佩之，而進得以朝玉皇，禮之於寢，衆真詣其房。有泄於神虎文，禍遘於九宗，有漏於金虎真符，災逮於七祖。山淵藏之，道德之英矣。夜中恐畏，但諷此二篇詩，則千精迸匿，如與萬人同宿，山川聞此詠，皆執鞭向聲處而拜敬也。

其後一篇詩，九華安妃書出。十一月六日五鼓向曉，紫清九華安妃來授此，令書，未旦畢。在太上八術智慧滅魔神虎隱文卷中。

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The Chinese text follows the Chinese Wikisource transcription of the Zhengtong Daozang edition of this scripture (article 洞真太上神虎隱文, revision of 6 February 2017), inspected from a witness copy captured on 8 August 2026. Chinese Wikisource transcriptions are published under CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL; the text itself is ancient and in the public domain. The wiki header and license templates have been removed; the text is otherwise complete and unaltered.

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