The Pantheist Index

Pantheistic Taoism: Pantheistic ideas from primarily Taoist sources.

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• Taoist Art (3) Painting is felt to be the best creative form with which to express the essence of Tao, superior to both speech and the written word.

• Chang Tsai: Son of Heaven and Earth He believed that underlying all phenomena was material force, which he identified with the Tao and with the Supreme Ultimate of the Book of Changes.

• Chuang Tzu: the Butterfly Philosopher Chuang Tzu developed a true precursor of physicalist Pantheism, accepting the notion of constant flux and the full reality of physical death.

• Lao Tzu: the Tao of Reality He described the Tao as a mysterious, numinous unity underlying and sustaining all things, espousing a materialist form of Pantheism.