Against this background, a new school of philosophical and religious thought appeared during the sixth century B.C. According to tradition, Taoism originated with Lao Tzu. The Taoist Bible is the Tao Te Ching, "The Way and Its Power." It is a short poetic writing, the only left by a man who never preached and did not even organized a church.

Tao is the very Absolute:

Tao is the ultimate and indefinable reality of the universe. Tao is beyond human conscious understanding, but its existence is beyond doubt. Tao, the mystery of all life, may only be known through mystical insight.

But Tao is also Eternons, the vital energy within all things and all beings:

Tao is the order of nature, the way of the universe, the force behind all things. Where is Tao? Everywhere; in the ant, in the herb, in the brick.

Wu Wei is an essential notion of the Taoist doctrine. It says we can easily achieve results if we draw on the wisdom and experience from our Leading Eternon:

We must let flow in us the same invisible power that is guiding the hand of the artist. We must silence our superficial ego and follow our inner self.

Tao, like the Eternon, has no gender. To reach Tao, we must find the balance between male and female consciousness:

Tao is the perfect harmony of the masculine and feminine principles.

Tao, like Eternism, recognizes that all is alive and dynamic in the universe. Even what looks inanimate:

Stillness is not real stillness...a spiritual rhythm pervades all in Heaven and on Earth.

Taoist principles often sounds like an ode to Eternons: