Mount Ararat that the biblical passage implies that the ark rested upon a "mountain in the district which the Hebrews knew as Ararat, or Armenia", wrote in an 1878 article for the Royal Geographical Society that the biblical writer must have had Mt. Ararat in mind because it is so "very much higher, more conspicuous, and more majestic than any other summit in Armenia." During his visit to Armenia in 2001 Pope John Paul II declared in his homily in Yerevan's St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral: "We are close to Mount Ararat, where tradition says that the Ark of Noah came to
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition Gate[way]) or Holy Church of the Confucian Tradition (儒宗圣教 "Rúzōng Shèngjiào"). The aim of the phoenix halls is to honour the gods through Confucian orthopraxy ("rú" 儒 style), spreading morality through public lectures and divinely-inspired books (善书 "shànshū"). The Confucian Way of the Gods is defined as Houtiandao (后天道 "Way of Later Heaven" or "Way of the Manifested") by the antagonistic Xiantiandao (先天道 "Way of Former Heaven" or "Way of the Primordial") traditions, which claim to be closer to the God of the universe. The phoenix halls are concerned with the salvation of the disciples, which basically means deification. This