Confucius (Kung Fu-tze) was a younger contemporary of Lao in sixth-century China. His chief work consisted in the compilation of the wise sayings of ancient philosophers. He was a rejected teacher during his lifetime, but his writings and teachings have ever since exerted a great influence in China and Japan. [1] He was deified by followers in those spiritually dark ages of China which intervened between the decline and perversion of the Taoist faith. [2] He had a God concept that was almost completely subordinated to the emphasis placed upon the Way of Heaven, the pattern of the cosmos. [3] He made a new fetish out of order and established a respect for ancestral conduct that is still venerated by the Chinese at the time of this writing. [4] Strictly speaking he was not a religious teacher. [5] Confucius set a new pace for the shamans in that he put morality in the place of magic. [6] The writings of Confucius have ever since constituted the basis of the moral fabric of the culture of almost a third of Urantians. [7]
See also: UB 94:6.9-11.