Verse 50

⁵⁰With five he works his own purposes, and with five he knows five; and then, with the sixteenth, the one tastes the three, himself being the seventeenth. ⁵¹This mark of sixteen parts, made of three powers, great, carries the round of birth along in a man and gives him joy and grief and fear and pain. ⁵²The embodied one who does not know, who has not beaten the six, is made to do works he does not want, and covering himself with his own action like a silkworm he loses his way. ⁵³No one at all ever stands even a moment doing nothing. He has no choice: the strands that are his own nature force the work out of him. ⁵⁴Getting an unseen cause, he becomes seen and unseen, according to the womb and according to the seed, by a nature stronger than himself.

⁵⁵This overturning of the Person comes of his clinging to nature; and that same overturning melts away before long from clinging to the Lord.