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子曰：「鬼神之为德，其盛矣乎！
The Master said, "How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them!
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视之而弗见，听之而弗闻，体物而不可遗。
We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
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使天下之人齐明盛服，以承祭祀。洋洋乎！如在其上，如在其左右。
They cause all the people in the kingdom to fast and purify themselves, and array themselves in their richest dresses, in order to attend at their sacrifices. Then, like overflowing water, they seem to be over the heads, and on the right and left of their worshippers.
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诗曰：『神之格思，不可度思！矧可射思！』
It is said in the Book of Poetry, 'The approaches of the spirits, you cannot surmise; and can you treat them with indifference?'
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夫微之显，诚之不可揜如此夫。」
Such is the manifestness of what is minute! Such is the impossibility of repressing the outgoings of sincerity!"