清氣未升，濁氣未沉，遊神未靈，五色未分。
Clear Qi not yet rising,
Unclear Qi not yet sinking,
Drifting not yet ,
The Five Hues not yet divided.
中有其物，冥冥而性存，謂之混沌。
Existing within this phenomena,
Darkness, obscurity, and yet is present,
This is named .
混沌為太始。
Hun Dun manifests Great Inception.
太始者、元胎之萌也，太始之數一，一為太極，太極者、天地之父母也。
As for Great Inception,
It is sprouts and new beginnings of this preeminent womb,
Great Inception's numeric is ONE,
ONE manifests ,
As for Tai Ji,
It is due to being Heaven and Earth's mother and father.
一極易，天高明而清，地博厚而濁，謂之太易。
ONE is the Pole of Change,
Heaven is exalted and luminous and therefore clear,
Earth is widespread and substantive and therefore unclear,
This is named Great Change.
太易者、天地之變也，太易之數二，二為兩儀，兩儀者、陰陽之形也，謂之太初。
As for Great Change,
It is due to Heaven and Earth's activated changing,
Great Change's numeric is TWO,
TWO manifests duality,
As for duality,
It is due to yin and yang's manifested forms,
This is named Great Birth.
太初者、天地之交也，太初之數四，四盈易，四象變而成萬物，謂之太素。
As for Great Birth,
It is due to Heaven and Earth's reciprocal intertwining,
Great Birth's numeric is FOUR,
FOUR expands Change,
The four formless image's activated changes accomplish the 10,000 things (Wan Wu / Myriad Phenomena),
This is named .
太素者、三才之始也，太素之數三，三盈易，天地孕而生男女，謂之三才。
As for Great Innocence,
It is due to the Inception of ,
Great Innocence's numeric is THREE,
THREE expands Change,
Heaven and Earth are pregnant and then create men and women,
This is is named Three Innate Capacities.
三才者、天地之備也，遊神動而靈，故飛走潛化，動植蟲魚之類必備於天地之間，謂之太古。
As for Three Innate Capacities,
They are due to Heaven and Earth's preparations,
Drifting Shen is stimulated into movement and then becomes Ling,
Therefore above it spreads and underneath it transmutes,
Stimulating activity in plants and insects and fish and so on invariably preparing with regard to the space between Heaven and Earth,
This is named .