Poem 25 talks about something great and the person speaking doesn’t know it’s name, so he/she calls it by the name of “Tao”. When examined this Tao being can be compared to the God of Christianity. Everything in the first stanza talk about this singular being with great power. “Something mysteriously formed,” is the first line of the stanza, this Tao is something of which we don’t know it’s origin. In Christianity, we don’t know where God came from, his very origins are shrouded in mystery. “Born before heaven and Earth.”, Tao existed before there was even heaven or Earth. In Christianity, God created Earth, so he existed before it. “Standing alone and unchanging,”, Tao has always been there by himself with no one else similar to him. This is similar to there being only one god in Christianity. “Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.”, Tao has the ability to create tens of thousands of things, similar to how God created the Earth and everything on it. In the third stanza greatness, everything has greatness the 4 ruling powers in the universe, ““Tao is great;Heaven is great;Earth is great;The king is also great.” These are the four great powers of the universe, And the king is one of them.”. The quote about the king being one of the great powers of the universe is similar to the Pope being the single mortal being closest to God. The last stanza explains the roles in this universe, “Man follows Earth. Earth follows heaven. Heaven follows the Tao. Tao follows what is natural.”. That stanza states that each of the 4 great powers follow one thing, they follow what is natural.