According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to Tao, this proof yields much deeper insights into the distribution of the primes than the " elementary " proofs discussed below.

According to relatively late ( 19th century ) documents preserved within the Yang and Wu family's archives, the name of Zhang Sanfeng's master was Xu Xuanping ( 許宣平 ), said to be a Tang dynasty hermit poet and Taoist Tao Yin expert.

According to I Kuan Tao, he represents many teachings, including contentment, generosity, wisdom and open kindheartedness.

According to one story, Lü's teacher Zhongli Quan became an immortal and was about to fly to heaven, while saying to Lü that if he kept practicing the Tao he would also be able to fly to heaven himself very soon.

According to the book " The Eight Immortals Achieving the Tao (《 八仙得道摶 》)," in his previous incarnation, Lü Dongbin was a Taoist master and the teacher of Zhongli Quan.

According to the Cao Đài myth of creation, before God existed, there was the Tao, the nameless, formless, unchanging, eternal source referenced in the Tao Te Ching.

According to Daozang, The Universally Honoured One of Tao and Virtues had manifested many various incarnations to teach living beings, and Laozi is one of his incarnations.

According to the complaint, Wang and Shi Tao used Yahoo!

According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao could carry out basic arithmetic by the age of two.

According to the ancient historian Xenophon, it was occupied by the Makron, Kolkh and Tao.

According to original texts such as the Cantong qi, the body is understood as the focus of cosmological processes summarized in the five agents, or wu xing, the observation and cultivation of which leads the practitioner into greater alignment with the operation of the Tao, the great cosmological principle of everything.

According to J. C. Cooper's " Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality ," Taoism had two distinct parts, the classical Tao Chia, which was mystical and stemmed primarily from Laozi and Zhuangzi, and the more popular Tao Chiao, which was the popular, magical and alchemical side of Taoism.

According to authors Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight, Hiram Abiff would have been Egyptian king Seqenenre Tao II, who met an extremely similar death.

According to Acts, Paul spent better than two years in Ephesus and was emotionally attached to the believers there.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

According to political scientist William Harpine in his study of the rhetoric of the 1896 campaign, " Bryan's speech cast a net for the true believers, but only for the true believers.

According to Ellingson, Fairchild ends his book with a denunciation of the ( always unnamed ) believers in primitivism or " The Noble Savage " -- whom he feels are threatening to unleash the dark forces of irrationality on civilization.

According to Vodou believers, when this occurs, it is a sign that a possession is about to take place.

According to the Twelver's belief, after the last of these representatives died, the Imam Mahdi went into a state of Occultation ; while still alive, he was no longer accessible to his believers.

According to believers, the Sudarium and the Shroud took different routes.

According to its supporters, Livets Ord's primary goal is to help believers put into practice what the Bible says.

According to the statement of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council regarding Conversion, converts to Judaism do not in any way have a higher status within Messianic Judaism than the Messianic believers who are considered by the UMJC to still be gentiles who are attached to their communities.

According to Kramer, Jews are regarded as members of a legitimate community of believers in God, " people of the Book ", and therefore legally entitled to sufferance.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

According to the 2002 First General National Census of Georgia, there are 3, 541 Jewish believers in the country.

According to her fellow believers, she began to show evidence of mediumistic abilities in 1892, and claimed to communicate with Victor Hugo and Cagliostro.

In the Recovery Version, the translation used by the believers in the local churches, one footnote for 1 Corinthians 14: 34 reads :" According to 1 Corinthians 11: 5, women may prophesy ( both in public and meetings ), that is, ( mainly ) speak for the Lord and speak forth the Lord with their head covered, and Acts 2: 17, 18 and 21: 9 confirm that women did prophesy.

According to Lee, " every local church should receive all kinds of genuine believers in Christ ", and having a name, such as Baptist, Methodist or Catholic, was divisive and contrary to the oneness all the saints have inherited in Christ.

According to the theory, believers experienced tension following the failure of Jesus ' reappearance in 1844, which led to a variety of new explanations.

According to these believers, Jesus and the Apostles taught that the New Birth experience includes repentance ( the true Sinner's Prayer ), and baptism in both water and God's Spirit.

According to Johannes Quasten, “ In his eschatological ideas Justin shares the views of the Chiliasts concerning the millennium .” He maintains a premillennial distinctive, namely that there would be two resurrections, one of believers before Jesus ' reign and then a general resurrection afterwards.

According to Union statements, they believe " the true humanity and Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ ; the atonement made on the cross by our Lord for the sin of the world ; the person of the Holy Spirit as the one who sets apart, empowers, and imparts spiritual gifts to the church ; the inspiration of the Bible and its authority in all matters of faith and practice ; salvation and membership in the Church by faith in Christ alone ; membership of the church for the regenerate ; the immersion of believers as the scriptural form of water baptism.

According to Phil Zuckerman, " low response rates ", " non-random samples ", and " adverse political / cultural climates " are all persistent problems in establishing accurate numbers of religious believers in a given locality.

According to the 2001 census there are 14, 860 believers in the town ( 56. 2 % of the population ), out of whom 8, 916 ( 60 %) are Roman Catholics, 737 ( 5 %) Czech Brethren, 356 ( 2. 4 %) Jehovah's Witnesses and 1, 709 ( 11. 5 %) others, mainly Lutherans.

According to the 1999 Baptist World Alliance statistics, membership included 11, 100 believers in 245 congregations.

According to believers, these relics were ascertained to be genuine after they started emitting a liquid and strong scented myrrh.

According to his ministry, believers can become prosperous through tithing, giving offerings and using faith, as well as sound financial practices.

According to Karl Mannheim's historical reconstruction of the shifts in the meaning of ideology, the modern meaning of the word was born when Napoleon Bonaparte ( as a politician ) used it in an abusive way against " the ideologues " ( a group which included Cabanis, Condorcet, Constant, Daunou, Say, Madame de Staël, and Tracy ), to express the pettiness of his ( liberal republican ) political opponents.

According to Madame Campan, the Queen refused it with the statement that the money would be better spent equipping a man-of-war.

According to Madame Campan, the " Queen " sent several letters to the cardinal, including an order to buy the necklace ; they were signed Marie Antoinette de France, but the Cardinal either didn't know or didn't remember that French queens signed with their given names only.

" According to the emanationist cosmology of Madame Blavatsky all monads emerge from divine unity at the beginning of a cosmic cycle and return to this source at its close.

According to Witness Lee, the Lord's recovery can be traced back to many including Martin Luther and the reformers, Madame Guyon, Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian Brethren, John Nelson Darby, the Plymouth Brethren, Watchman Nee, and himself.

According to Magdi Wahba, a third important reason for Madame de Genlis ' popularity in Britain was a " misapprehension " regarding her character.

According to Brantôme, he was the successful rival of the king for the favours of Madame de Châteaubriant, and if, as is thought, he was the hero of the fourth story of the Heptameron, Marguerite d ' Angoulême was also courted by him.

According to the official version, which was long believed to be the true one, the paper had arrived by the usual means, through Madame Bastian ; but the appearance of the document, which was hardly torn, makes this story unlikely.

) According to a legend embroidered upon by Madame Blavatsky, Tartini was inspired to write the sonata by a dream in which the Devil appeared at the foot of his bed playing the violin.

According to a letter by Madame de Sévigné, Vatel was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery and about other mishaps that he committed suicide by running himself through with a sword.

According to US Naval Archives, at 12: 30 an Air America Bell 205 landed Air Vice Marshal Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Madame Kỳ, Dorothy Martin ( wife of Ambassador Martin ) and others on the USS Denver, however contemporary reports and photos state that Marshal Kỳ piloted his own UH-1H Huey to the USS Midway.

According to another source, the family moved to Boulogne near Paris where a priest and one of his rich parishioners, Madame de Boulainvilliers, took care of them.