Journey To The West 7 Chapter 7 The Great Sage Escapes from the Eight Trigrams Furnace The MindíApe Is Fixed Beneath Five Elements Mountain Wealth and honour, glory and fame, Are predetermined by fate: No one should act against conscience to covet any of them. Farígoing and deep Are the good results of true enlightenment and loyalty. Heaven punishes all wild and wicked deeds If not at once then later on. Ask the Lord of the East the reason why Disasters now strike him. It is because his ambition was high, his plans faríreaching, He did not respect authority, and he smashed convention. The story goes on to tell how the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was escorted by the hosts ofheavenly soldiers to the Demoníbeheading Tower and tied to the Demonísubduing Pillar. They hacked at him with sabres, sliced at him with axes, lunged at him with spears and cut at him with swords, but they were unable to inflict a single wound on him. The Southern Dipperangrily ordered all the gods of the Department of Fire to set him
