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Huai nan tzu - In the beginning
Identifier
020593
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Hua’inanzi
[Ch 7]
Of antiquity before heaven and earth even existed, there were only images without forms, profound opaque, vast immobile, impalpable and still. There was a haziness, infinite, unfathomable, abysmal, to which no one knew the door
[ch3]
When heaven and earth were not yet formed it was amorphous, vague, a blank, a blur. Before the primal beginning the way began in the tenuous and transparent. The tenuous and the transparent generated space and time. Space and time generated the qi.