The Three Principle Texts of Daoism translated by ... - Bad Request

which ran as, follows:“There is a Creative Principle which is itself uncreated;there is a Principle of Change which is itself unchanging.The Uncreated is able to create life; the Unchanging isable to effect change. That which is produced cannot butcontinue producing; that which is evolved cannot butcontinue evolving. Hence there is constant productionand constant evolution. The law of constant productionand of constant evolution at no time ceases to operate.So is it with the Yin and the Yang, so is it with the FourSeasons. [1]The Uncreated we may surmise to be Alone in itself.The Supreme, the Non-Engendered—how can its realitybe proved? We can only suppose that it is mysteriouslyOne, without beginning and without end.The Unchanging goes to and fro, and its range isillimitable. We may surmise that it stands Alone, and thatits Ways are inexhaustible.In the Book of the Yellow Emperor it is written: “TheSpirit of the Valley dies not; it may be called theMysterious Feminine. The issuing-point of theMysterious Feminine must be regarded as the Root ofthe Universe. Subsisting to all eternity, it uses its forcewithout effort." [2]“That, then, which engenders all things is itselfunengendered; that by which all things are evolved is