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from the standpoint of the Absolute, since there is nosuch principle as life in itself, it follows that there can beno such thing as death.“This knowledge is better than all your methods ofprolonging life, a more potent source of happiness thanany other."The Original Beginning is not LifelessIN THE Book of the Yellow Emperor it is written:“When form becomes active it produces not form butshadow; when sound becomes active it produces notsound but echo." [1]When Not-Being becomes active, it does not produceNot-Being but Being. Form is something that must cometo an end. Heaven and Earth, then, have an end, even aswe all have an end. But whether the end is complete wedo not know.When there is conglomeration, form comes into being;when there is dispersion, it comes to an end. That is whatwe mortals mean by beginning and end. But although forus, in a state of conglomeration, this condensation intoform constitutes a beginning, and its dispersion an end,from the standpoint of dispersion, it is void and calmthat constitute the beginning, and condensation into