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{{Short description|Highest Divinities in the Taoist pantheon}}
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The '''Three Pure Ones''', also translated as the '''Three Pure Pellucid Ones''', the '''Three Pristine Ones''', the '''Three Divine Teachers''', the '''Three Clarities''', or the '''Three Purities''', are the three highest gods in the [[Taoist]] pantheon. They are regarded as pure manifestations of the [[Tao]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Dell |first=Christopher |title=Mythology: The Complete Guide to our Imagined Worlds |publisher=[[Thames & Hudson]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-500-51615-7 |location=New York |pages=341}}</ref> and the origin of all sentient beings, along with the "lords of the Three Life Principles", or [[qi]].<ref name=":10027">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46661540 |title=World Religions: Eastern Traditions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |others=Edited by Willard Gurdon Oxtoby |year=2002 |isbn=0-19-541521-3 |edition=2nd |location=Don Mills, Ontario |pages=393 |oclc=46661540}}</ref> They were also gods who were "associated with the sky, the earth and the underworld."<ref name=":0" />

They were thought to be able to control and have power over [[time]] in various ways.<ref name=":10027" /> They were sometimes seen as literally the "Past, Present, and Future".<ref name=":0" />