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94:5.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries passed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia], spreading the [[doctrine]] of the [[Most High]] God and [[salvation]] through [[faith]], they [[absorbed]] much of the [[philosophy]] and religious [[thought]] of the various countries traversed. But the [[teachers]] commissioned by [[Melchizedek]] and his successors did not [[default]] in their [[trust]]; they did penetrate to all peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] continent, and it was in the middle of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ] that they arrived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China]. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there [[training]] [[Chinese]] [[teachers]] who taught throughout all the [[domains]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].

94:5.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries passed through [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia], spreading the [[doctrine]] of the [[Most High]] God and [[salvation]] through [[faith]], they [[absorbed]] much of the [[philosophy]] and religious [[thought]] of the various countries traversed. But the [[teachers]] commissioned by [[Melchizedek]] and his successors did not [[default]] in their [[trust]]; they did penetrate to all peoples of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] continent, and it was in the middle of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ] that they arrived in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China]. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there [[training]] [[Chinese]] [[teachers]] who taught throughout all the [[domains]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].

94:5.2 It was in direct [[consequence]] of this teaching that the earliest [[form]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] arose in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], a vastly [[different]] [[religion]] than the one which bears that name today. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taoism Early or proto-Taoism] was a compound of the following [[factors]]:

94:5.2 It was in direct [[consequence]] of this teaching that the earliest [[form]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] arose in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], a vastly [[different]] [[religion]] than the one which bears that name today. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taoism Early or proto-Taoism] was a compound of the following [[factors]]:

*1. 94:5.3 The lingering teachings of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton], which [[persisted]] in the [[concept]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus#The_Jade_Palace Shang-ti], the [[God]] of [[Heaven]]. In the times of Singlangton the [[Chinese]] people became virtually [[monotheistic]]; they [[concentrated]] their [[worship]] on the One Truth, later known as the ''Spirit of Heaven'', the universe ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early [[concept]] of [[Deity]], although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits insidiously crept into their [[religion]].

*1. 94:5.3 The lingering teachings of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton], which [[persisted]] in the [[concept]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus#The_Jade_Palace Shang-ti], the [[God]] of [[Heaven]]. In the times of Singlangton the [[Chinese]] people became virtually [[monotheistic]]; they [[concentrated]] their [[worship]] on the One Truth, later known as the ''Spirit of Heaven'', the universe ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early [[concept]] of [[Deity]], although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits insidiously crept into their [[religion]].

*2. 94:5.4 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] of a [[Most High]] [[Creator]] [[Deity]] who would [[bestow]] his [[favor]] upon mankind in response to man's [[faith]]. But it is all too true that, by the time the [[Melchizedek]] missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their [[original]] [[message]] had become considerably changed from the simple [[doctrines]] of [[Salem]] in the days of [[Machiventa]].

*2. 94:5.4 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] of a [[Most High]] [[Creator]] [[Deity]] who would [[bestow]] his [[favor]] upon mankind in response to man's [[faith]]. But it is all too true that, by the time the [[Melchizedek]] missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their [[original]] [[message]] had become considerably changed from the simple [[doctrines]] of [[Salem]] in the days of [[Machiventa]].

*3. 94:5.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman-Absolute] [[concept]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy#Hindu_philosophy Indian philosophers], coupled with the [[desire]] to [[escape]] all [[evil]]. Perhaps the greatest extraneous [[influence]] in the eastward spread of the [[Salem]] [[religion]] was exerted by the Indian teachers of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith], who injected their conception of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]—the Absolute—into the salvationistic [[thought]] of the Salemites.

*3. 94:5.5 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman-Absolute] [[concept]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy#Hindu_philosophy Indian philosophers], coupled with the [[desire]] to [[escape]] all [[evil]]. Perhaps the greatest extraneous [[influence]] in the eastward spread of the [[Salem]] [[religion]] was exerted by the Indian teachers of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith], who injected their conception of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]—the Absolute—into the salvationistic [[thought]] of the Salemites.

94:5.6 This [[composite]] [[belief]] spread through the lands of the yellow and brown races as an underlying [[influence]] in religio-philosophic [[thought]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Japan Japan] this proto-Taoism was known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto], and in this country, far distant from [[Salem]] of Palestine, the peoples learned of the [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], who dwelt upon [[earth]] that the name of [[God]] might not be forgotten by [[mankind]].

94:5.6 This [[composite]] [[belief]] spread through the lands of the yellow and brown races as an underlying [[influence]] in religio-philosophic [[thought]]. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Japan Japan] this proto-Taoism was known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto], and in this country, far distant from [[Salem]] of Palestine, the peoples learned of the [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], who dwelt upon [[earth]] that the name of [[God]] might not be forgotten by [[mankind]].

94:5.7 In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] all of these [[beliefs]] were later [[confused]] and compounded with the ever-growing [[cult]] of [[ancestor]] [[worship]]. But never since the time of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton] have the [[Chinese]] fallen into helpless [[slavery]] to [[priestcraft]]. The yellow race was the first to emerge from [[barbaric]] [[bondage]] into orderly [[civilization]] because it was the first to achieve some measure of [[freedom]] from the abject [[fear]] of the gods, not even fearing the [[ghosts]] of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because she failed to [[progress]] beyond her early [[emancipation]] from [[priests]]; she fell into an almost equally calamitous [[error]], the [[worship]] of [[ancestors]].

94:5.7 In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] all of these [[beliefs]] were later [[confused]] and compounded with the ever-growing [[cult]] of [[ancestor]] [[worship]]. But never since the time of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton] have the [[Chinese]] fallen into helpless [[slavery]] to [[priestcraft]]. The yellow race was the first to emerge from [[barbaric]] [[bondage]] into orderly [[civilization]] because it was the first to achieve some measure of [[freedom]] from the abject [[fear]] of the gods, not even fearing the [[ghosts]] of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because she failed to [[progress]] beyond her early [[emancipation]] from [[priests]]; she fell into an almost equally calamitous [[error]], the [[worship]] of [[ancestors]].

94:5.8 But the Salemites did not labor in vain. It was upon the [[foundations]] of their [[gospel]] that the great [[philosophers]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_philosophy sixth-century China] built their teachings. The [[moral]] atmosphere and the [[spiritual]] sentiments of the times of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotse Lao-tse] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] grew up out of the teachings of the [[Salem]] missionaries of an earlier age.

94:5.8 But the Salemites did not labor in vain. It was upon the [[foundations]] of their [[gospel]] that the great [[philosophers]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_philosophy sixth-century China] built their teachings. The [[moral]] atmosphere and the [[spiritual]] sentiments of the times of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotse Lao-tse] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] grew up out of the teachings of the [[Salem]] missionaries of an earlier age.

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