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Taiyi Shengshui: Origins and Philosophy by Norman Trent Newell, Jr. is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document provides a translation and analysis of a cosmological passage from the "Bamboo Slip Laozi" titled "Taiyi shengshui". The passage describes how all things in the universe originate from and interact with the "Great One" (Taiyi). The translator analyzes differences between this cosmology and that of chapter 42 of the received Laozi, and notes similarities with cosmological schemes in other ancient texts where everything originates from the "Great One". Scholars debate whether Taiyi refers to the

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Norman Trent Newell, Jr.

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