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- The Region of Darkness is the nether region proper to Earth. As Heaven
- is for gods and Earth for ghosts, so life and death proceed in cyclic succession. Fowls are born and animals die; male and female, they multiply. Births
- and transformations, the male begotten of the procreative female-such is
- the order of Nature, and it cannot be changed. But now appears Sun Wukong, a Heaven-born baneful monkey from the Water-Curtain Cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain, who practices evil and violence, and resists our
- proper summons. Exercising magic powers, he utterly defeated the ghostly
- messengers of Ninefold Darkness; exploiting brute force, he terrorized the
- Ten Merciful Kings.
- He caused great confusion in the Palace of Darkness; he
- abrogated by force the Register of Names, so that the category of monkeys is
- now beyond control, and inordinately long life is given to the simian family. The wheel of transmigration is stopped, for birth and death are eliminated in each kind of monkey. Your poor monk therefore risks offending
- your Heavenly authority in presenting this memorial. We humbly beg you
- to send forth your divine army and subdue this monster, to the end that life
- and death may once more be regulated and the Underworld rendered perpetually secure.
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