Another tale – Another book – More words – More baggage. Throw away all the books, erase all written words and symbols, wipe the mind clean, erase all history, all knowledge, what we have left is the TAO. As soon as someone invents a language, through art, images, symbols, or sounds, the essence of the TAO TE CHING will soon come through. Images, symbols, metaphors, and similes, ideas will soon bring forth The Power of the NOTHING. The world is now full of interpretations of the TAO TE CHING, descriptions of religion based on circles, and center, and holes, and on and on from nothing to all that exists. It is the first religion, is in all religions, and will always be the last. THE SAME AS IT EVER WAS, Making no effort to prove itself. It will always last. For TAO Magick, just connect with the TAO, make it your center, and live it. The world around you will transform with you, as promised in the TE-CHINGS. Read study, scrutinize revise, scream "BULL", let go. Ideas and thoughts that are generated through the contemplation of TAO are all meaningful and implied. Also (ALL SO) their opposites, and meaningful connections. Blank spaces, pages, margins, are all included for your interest. You are encouraged to re-write (RE-RITE) the whole, hole, O, thing. Your imagination will be inspired to draw pictures, change wording, etc. FEEL FREE. It is important for you to get the best image of the TAO. The Chinese word for "image" also means "elephant", since most early Chinese people have never seen an elephant, but only its' image. I hope to present the best image, taken, copied from books that I have studied, and from my own observations of that which cannot be seen. Qualities, powers, promises, descriptions, analogies, similes, metaphors, stories, methods are all included. The map is not the territory, the image is not the elephant, but the image is the TAO and the TAO is the image. Homage to the image. Holy Holy Holy. Nothing is meant to be taken seriously here and throughout. It's important for you to know that you are a messenger of God, that God dwells in you as you, and that if anyone is going to save the world – IT IS YOU. That's why you are reading this – What good is a saved world if you are not satisfied? When you begin to understand, and decide to RETURN to and ABIDE BY the TAO TE-CHING, then you'll experience the world transform with and around you. When you're content and find peace in your center (ZEN-TER), you'll understand. Then pass on the TAO TE CHING to others. Contemplate their return. In the meantime, pick up a drum, start a fire, drink some Soma, sing and dance.

Note on nothing: There in only ONE NOTHING. Hence from nothing comes one. Nothing is neither good nor bad, but some think of it as good, and some fear it and think of it as bad. Positive and negative, from one nothing therefore comes two. Some believe in nothing and some do not believe in nothing. Nothing is, and nothing is not. Opposites generate the other.

The TAOist knows what/who/where he is not. Because he is, he is part of the all, and hence he is part of everything, i.e. He is everything and everywhere; nothing and nowhere; here and now. He is nowhere and has no self to know. He doesn’t know; he just is.