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五老君，五老冠， Five Supremes, the ''Five Elders'' or the ''Five Olds'' were five beings transformed or transmogrified — 仙/仚/僊 — from the 玄玄上人 Xuánxuán Shàngrén (鸿钧老祖 Hóngjūn Lǎozǔ) made up of 赤井子 ''Chi Jingzi'', 水井子 ''Shui Jingzi'', 木公 ''Mu Gong'', 井木 ''Jing Mu'', 黃老 ''Huang Lao'', at the centre and four cardinal points of the compass.

Jing Mu and Mu Gong were responsible for the creation of all lives by breathing 氣 into an incubator ''鼎''. A male and a female child were born from this breath of life. The excess 氣 escaped and became other forms of life on earth.

The Five Supremes also correspond to 五行 ㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄥˊ, or the Five Elements in Dàoism and had once reincarnated as the heads of the five religions on earth in a bid to reclaim 元靈 yuánlíng, the original beings from the realm of the living back to heaven.

道德經

《道德經》第十四章

視之不見名曰夷.

聽之不聞名曰希.

搏之不得名曰微.

此三者不可致詰.

故混而為一.

其上不皦其下不昧.

繩繩不可名.

復歸於無物.

是謂無狀之狀.

無物之象.

是謂惚恍.

迎之不見其首.

隨之不見其後.

執古之道.

以御今之有.

能知古始.

是謂道紀.

道德經 Dao De Jing Chapter Fourteen ― Ron Hogan

14.

You can't see 道,

no matter how hard you look.

You can't hear 道,

no matter how hard you listen.

You can't hold on to 道,

no matter how hard you grab.

But it's there.

It's in you, and it's all around you.

Remember that.