The Twelve Parable:

Birth of the Immortal Lao Tse

        Lao Tse was sitting in a deep meditation.
        The flame of a non-material fire was lighting up  Huang Di and other Immortals gathered near this fire.
        Lao Tse said:
        “That’s all. The work of My life is finished; the manuscript of the book about Tao and Te is left in good hands. Scribes have already started copying it to guard for centuries.
        “I finished everything and am ready for the death of My body. I am fully prepared to leave this world and pass to the life with You among other Immortals in the Abode of Tao.”
        Huang Di replied:
        “Good! Come with Me into the Depths, I accept You!
        “And now dissolve yourself completely, You know how,  in the Great United ‘We’, Which is called Tao.”
        … It seemed to Lao Tse that He had left His material body forever.
        He became both the Transparent Calm of the Ocean of Tao and the Fire That comes from It.
        A former Lao Tse didn’t exist anymore. He became one of the Immortal Te, Who abide in the Oneness with the Power That creates material worlds and controls them.
        … It was a total surprise for Lao Tse — to get back into His body. Yet this body was no longer the same. He could easily remove it by dissolving it in the formlessness — or recreate it again anywhere.
        The Ocean of Tao moved now together with the body of Lao Tse, as if carrying it on the crest of the Wave; the body of Lao Tse was filled with the United “We”.
        Thus Lao Tse should now carry the Great Wisdom and show the Power of Tao and Te to the incarnate people, perceiving everything that happened with them from the Oneness with Tao.

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