{"id":1038,"date":"2021-03-26T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascension.institute\/wordpress\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2021-03-26T19:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:58:02","slug":"chapter-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/chapter-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 25."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><br>There was something formless and perfect<br>before the universe was born.<br>It is serene. Empty.<br>Solitary. Unchanging.<br>Infinite. Eternally present.<br>It is the mother of the universe.<br>For lack of a better name,<br>I call it the Tao.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It flows through all things,<br>inside and outside, and returns<br>to the origin of all things.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Tao is great.<br>The universe is great.<br>Earth is great.<br>Man is great.<br>These are the four great powers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Man follows the earth.<br>Earth follows the universe.<br>The universe follows the Tao.<br>The Tao follows only itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu, Translated by Stephen MItchell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was something formless and perfectbefore the universe was born.It is serene. Empty.Solitary. Unchanging.Infinite. Eternally present.It is the mother of the universe.For lack of a better name,I call it the Tao. It flows through all things,inside and outside, and returnsto the origin of all things. The Tao is great.The universe is great.Earth is great.Man is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymiranda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}