"LAO-TSE"

Zélia de Toledo Piza         

      Mircea Eliade shows the great controversy as for the time in that lived Lao-Tse, having the possibility of it being around of 600 aC., that is in agreement with the esoterism. Lao-Tse, so to speak, decoded the principles of Fo-Hi. He wrote the book Tao-Te-King, which contains more of 5.000 words, where they are, exposed the principles of the Taoism, in other words, of the cult of the Tao, that means "THE Road", and where are registered 12 principles relative to the I-Ching:

01. The all alive being contain two natural principles: Yang - irradiant, diffuse and Yin - absorbent, condenser.

02. Nothing is stopped in the universe, everything is in movement, everything is subject to flow and ebb. Everything shows for compensated oscillations.

03. The whole phenomenon is produced by the interaction of Yin and of Yang in the most varied proportions.

04. The whole rupture of the balance, all the potential difference in the current conditioning of Yin and of Yang it creates, around the point where was produced, an area of susceptible influence able of impressing the elements of the environment.

05. Doesn't exist Yin or Yang pure, absolute, that would deny the movement and the evolution.

06. Yang contains Yin and Yin contains Yang.

07. Always exists a transformation of Yang in Yin and of Yin in Yang. One tends for the other.

08. Yang attracts Yin and Yin attracts Yang.

09. Yang develops for Yin and Yin for Yang.

10. When Yang arrives to the extreme, it develops for Yin; if Yin arrives to the fullness, it develops for Yang.

11. What we call Universe are the multiple and specific aggregates of those two forces on the matter.

12. The Universe is the oscillation of these two activities.