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A process of theosis or divinization like that of Witness Lee or the Eastern Orthodox Church is central to the religious Taoism of the Chinese.

"Unlike Chuang Tzu's way of indifference toward life and death, the Classic of Great Peace declared that between heaven and earth longevity is of the most value and it is possible for everyone to reach immortality. It argued that among slaves and servant girls the wiser can become good people, among good people those who like to study can become virtuous people, among virtuous people those who study ceaselessly can become sages, and among sages those who study ceaselessly can recognize the door of the way of heaven. If after entering the way they still study ceaselessly they become immortals; if they continue they reach the truth;if they continue further they become gods; and if they continue still further, they become the same shape as the Emperor of Heaven. [Our Religions. Edited by Arvind Sharma. Copyright 1993 by Harper Collins Publishers., Chapter 4 Taoism by Liu Xiaogan, Ph.D. visiting scholar in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, page 256]