The Spirit of the Tao

seems to me to be analogous to the words of Masamune Shirow (a pseudonym) in the book Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (issue 11 of 11) (Dark Horse Comics 2003):

"... two thousand years ago it was the jewel millenium, during which religion was extremely powerful ...[one thousand years ago]... the sword millenium ... was symbolized by powerful science and technology ...[now is the]... mirror millenium ...[in which]... science and religion mirror each other ...

the [ Yasakani Magatama ] jewel ...

[ which represents a Yin-Yang binary choice of the Taiji of the Great Primordial-Tao School, which includes the cultivation practices from the Unconventional School, and of IFA, and which also represents the Bezels of Wisdom of Ibn Arabi ] ...

the [ Kusanagi ] sword ...

 [ which represents math/science/technology ranging from Iron to Gravity and the Standard Model and Beyond ]

and ... the [ Kagami ] mirror ... 

 

[ the 8-fold mirror Kagami = Kami (spirit) + ga (ego) shows that the Binary Choices of the Yasakani Magatama jewel are mirrored as a representation of the Gravity and Standard Model of the Kusanagi sword by VoDou Physics of the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 Physics Model which is based on the 8 binary choices of the Cl(8) Clifford Algebra and which unites all three: jewel, sword, and mirror; so that they, like the three legs/eyes of Yatagarasu ]

are all together now ...".  


Images from
http://onmarkproductions.com/assets/images/shinto-text.jpg (top image) and from http://www.uwec.edu/philrel/shimbutsudo/ninigi.html (second fourth and fifth images from the top) and from material on this page (third image from the top and its description). The etymology of the word Kagami is taken from http://www.nihonbunka.com/shinto/blog/archives/000098.html .