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I prostrate to and take refuge in the assembly of protector deities and the six-armed Wisdom Lord with his retinue. Repeat three times. Fifth, repeat this daily confession. I take refuge in the Three Jewels. Etc., three times. Sixth, to make a special supplication, contemplate offering with mentally created offerings, and repeat this. To the Swift-Acting Wisdom Lord, inseparable from the Lama, I offer outer flowers and incense, inner five meats and five elixirs, secret bliss-emptiness wisdom, and the most secret suchness offerings. Having accepted them, please fully bestow upon me the four empowerments. Repeat three times. Through these, the application of empowerment is accomplished. Second, the actual empowerment is divided into four parts: descending wisdom, blessing of body, speech, and mind, blessing of the body itself, and granting the subsequent permission of mantra. First, the meaning of entering the mandala and indicating the deity is twofold: visualizing the mandala and actually descending wisdom. The first is: visualizing the protector with his retinue, inseparable from the teacher and the front generation. In the sky in front of you, within the wheel of protection, in the center of the great unbearable charnel ground, on a lotus and sun, visualize the Lord of the Auspicious Assembly, white in color, with an elephant's head and three eyes. The right hand places the essence of the earth, with its leaves, into his mouth. The left hand holds a skull cup filled with nectar. Adorned with silk and jewels, he is in a reclining posture. Above him is the Swift-Acting Wisdom Lord, the six-armed one, fulfilling the hopes of beings in accordance with the Dharma. His body is intensely black like the clouds at the end of time, with one face and six arms. His three red and round eyes gaze with anger. His mouth is open, and his teeth are bared. His tongue is curled. His beard, eyebrows, and hair are reddish-yellow and stand on end. His forehead is smeared with a tilaka of sindhura. His crown is sealed with Akshobhya. The first right hand holds a vajra chopper, and the first left hand holds a skull cup filled with blood, moving it up and down at his heart. The middle right hand holds a rosary of dry skulls. The last hand fiercely plays the damaru. The second left hand holds a trident, and the last hand holds a vajra.