The Spirit of the Tao

seems to me to be analogous to the words ofMasamune Shirow (a pseudonym) in the book Ghostin the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (issue 11 of 11) (Dark HorseComics 2003):

"... two thousand years ago it was the jewel millenium,during which religion was extremely powerful ...[onethousand years ago]... the sword millenium ... wassymbolized by powerful science and technology ...[now isthe]... 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, whichincludes the cultivation practices from the Unconventional School,and of IFA, and which also representsthe Bezels of Wisdom of Ibn Arabi] ...

the [ Kusanagi ] sword ...

 [ which represents math/science/technology ranging fromIron to Gravityand 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 jewelare mirrored as a representation of the Gravity and Standard Modelof the Kusanagi sword by VoDouPhysics of the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 Physics Model which is based onthe 8 binary choices of the Cl(8) CliffordAlgebra and which unites all three: jewel, sword, andmirror; so that they, like the threelegs/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 onthispage (third image from the top and itsdescription). The etymology of the word Kagamiis taken from http://www.nihonbunka.com/shinto/blog/archives/000098.html.