{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt24.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt24.htm","text":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\nThe comprehensiveness of supreme energy is its conformity to the Tao. 1\nThe Tao considered as an entity is impalpable, indefinite. Indefinite, impalpable, within are conceptions. Impalpable, indefinite, within are shapes. 2 Profound, obscure, within is the essence. This essence being supremely real, within is sincerity.\nFrom the beginning until now it has not changed, 3 and thus it has watched all the essentials. How do I know it has been thus with all principles? By what has just been said.\n39:1 See ch. 38.\n39:2 \"The cosmos is all-formed\u2014not having forms external to itself, but changing them itself within itself. Since, then, cosmos is made to be all-formed, what may its maker bet For that, on the one hand, He should not be void of all form; and, on the other hand, if He's all-formed, He will be like the cosmos. Whereas, again, has He a single form, He will thereby be less than cosmos. What, then, say we He is?\u2014that we may not bring our sermon into doubt; for naught that mind conceives of God is doubtful. He, then, hath one idea, which is His own alone, which doth not fall beneath the sight, being bodiless, and (yet) by means of bodies manifesteth all (ideas). And marvel not that there's a bodiless idea.\" The mind to Hermes, by G. R. S. Mead, in The Theosophical Review, vol. xxxiii., p. 52.\n39:3 Lit.\u2014\"Its Name has not departed.\" Noumenally the Tao is eternal and unchanging; phenomenally It has a beginning and consequently an end.","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XXI","type":"page"}