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The text says: Water returns to assist the Great One, and thus they form Heaven. Heaven returns to assist the Great One, and thus they form Earth. 水反輔大一 , 是以成天 , 天反輔大一 , 是以成地. Water does not directly generate Heaven but instead returns to its origin and assists the Great One in forming Heaven. Pang Pu 庞朴 especially stresses the importance of this concept of “returns to assist” fanfu 反輔 noting: The expression of “returns to assist” is the greatest idiosyncrasy of this cosmology . . Presently we are lucky enough to encounter this essay The Great One Birthed Water that dares to propose that the origin of the cosmos had one if its creations returning to assist in the process of generating the world.
The sun and moon differ in completing their movement. 49 The ten thousand things that have emerged were created by the Great One and transformed by yin and yang. After the sprouts were first activated, they congealed into forms. The embodied forms have [their] places, and they all have their sounds. 50 This model has no place for qi, and definitely does not identify the foundational nature of the Great One as qi. In this sense, The Great One Birthed Water shares points of similarity with this conception.
These are the basic materials of existence, but they alone do not make a fully differentiated world. They lack both a fixed way to order things and the movement and principle of change. ” Put another way, they must represent the natural law of Heaven and Earth. The “Names and Patterns” 《名理》 chapter of the Huangdi sijing 《黃帝四經》 explains shenming as follows: The Way is the origin of spirit [shen] and luminosity [ming]. Spirit and luminosity reside within the standard [du 度] and manifests outside the standard.