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"There was a Being already perfect before the existence of Heaven and Earth. It is calm! It is formless! It stands alone and changes not! Reaching everywhere and inexhaustible, It may be regarded as Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. For a title we call it the Tao. If forced to give it a name we call it the Great. Great, we call it the Flowing, Flowing we call it distant, Distant, we call it Coming again. Therefore the Tao is Great, Heaven is Great, The Earth is Great, the Ruler is also Great. In the Universe four are Great, And the Ruler is one of them. Man finds his law in the Earth. The Earth finds its law in Heaven, Heaven finds its law in the Tao, The Tao finds its law in the affirmation of Self."