Chapter 14

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

The instruction to 'blend them together and obtain The One' suggests a unification with the divine principle.

The Buddhist doctrine that all phenomena lack independent self-nature; emptiness as the positive recognition that things arise only in dependence on conditions — distinct from kenoma's mere deficiency.

The Tao is described as returning to nothing and being the Form of the Formless, aligning with emptiness doctrines.

Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.

[auto] The passage defines the Tao primarily through negation, stating it cannot be seen, heard, grasped, or named.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

[auto] The text emphasizes the radical concealment of the Tao as invisible, inaudible, and beyond ordinary perception.

The infinite, unknowable aspect of the divine prior to and beyond all emanation; the hidden root from which the Sephirot unfold.

[auto] The description of the Tao as infinite, unknowable, and prior to description parallels the Kabbalistic concept of Ein Sof.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

[auto] The text emphasizes the ability to 'know' the Tao of old as the key to directing present things.

The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.

[auto] The concept of 'The One' obtained by blending qualities aligns with the definition of an undivided first principle.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

[auto] The Tao is described as having no bright or obscure parts and no front or back, dissolving binary spatial distinctions.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

[auto] Phrases like 'Form of the Formless' use apparent contradiction to point toward a reality beyond ordinary logic.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

[auto] The Tao 'returns and becomes nothing,' and knowing it involves connecting to the beginning or origin.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

[auto] The blending of three qualities into 'The One' suggests a fundamental non-dual unity underlying all existence.