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P.1452 - §5 Even the least God-recognizing
of the world's great religions acknowledged the monotheism of the Melchizedek
missionaries and their persistent successors. Ganid's summary of Confucianism
was:
P.1452 - §6 "What Heaven appoints is without error. Truth is
real and divine. Everything originates in Heaven, and the Great Heaven
makes no mistakes. Heaven has appointed many subordinates to assist in
the instruction and uplifting of the
P.1453 - §0 inferior creatures. Great, very great, is the One God
who rules man from on high. God is majestic in power and awful in judgment.
But this Great God has conferred a moral sense even on many inferior people.
Heaven's bounty never stops. Benevolence is Heaven's choicest gift to
men. Heaven has bestowed its nobility upon the soul of man; the virtues
of man are the fruit of this endowment of Heaven's nobility. The Great
Heaven is all-discerning and goes with man in all his doings. And we do
well when we call the Great Heaven our Father and our Mother. If we are
thus servants of our divine ancestors, then may we in confidence pray
to Heaven. At all times and in everything let us stand in awe of the majesty
of Heaven. We acknowledge, O God, the Most High and sovereign Potentate,
that judgment rests with you, and that all mercy proceeds from the divine
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