英国菲利普亲王贺信

编者按：第三届国际道教论坛11月25日上午在江西鹰潭开幕，来自27个国家和地区的高道大德、中外嘉宾和道教信众两千余人云集道教圣地龙虎山，参加由中国道教协会和中华宗教交流文化协会主办、江西组委会承办的道教盛会。英国菲利普亲王发来贺信，他非常赞赏中国道教在保护世界濒危物种所做的工作，并祝贺此次论坛圆满成功。

1995年我在温莎城堡欢迎来自中国的道士，成立了世界宗教与环境保护基金会，因此中国道教协会也成为了世界宗教与环境保护基金会的创始合伙人之一。在过去的近二十年里，我饶有兴趣地看着你们开展了大量的工作。

今天你们因为国际道教论坛追求行动和谐在祖天师古老的道教圣地相聚，我送上我的问候以及预祝论坛圆满成功。

我尤其赞赏你们为保护世界濒危物种所做的工作。我相信道教在发挥人类维持天地平衡的作用方面至关重要，而我们似乎失去了这种平衡。

我期待听到论坛成功的消息，更重要的是新的去保护世界自然的努力会源于这样的会议。

In 1995 I welcomed the Daoists of China to Windsor Castle to launch

ARC. The China Daoists Association thus became one of the founding

partnerss of ARC and I have watched with interest the scale of work

you have undertaken over the last almost twenty years.

Today as you gather for the Act in Concord with the Tao meeting at the

ancient site of the Celestial Masters, I send you my greetings and

best wishes for a successful event.

I especially commend you for the work you have undertaken to protect

the endangered species of this world of ours. I believe that the

Daoist vision of humanity’s role being to maintain the balance of

Heaven and Earth is a crucial one in a world where we seem to have

lost that balance.

I look forward to hearing of the success of your meeting and more

importantly of the new efforts that will arise from your meeting to

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