Opinion

Pure & Virtuous Principles of Peace and Prosperity

September 19, 2025

By: M. Gregg Fager

25 August 2025

Pure and Virtuous Principle

Each of us comes to earth with enough of God’s Light to discern that which can potentially further enlighten us (Cf. D&C 93: 2; Moroni 7: 10-19). That leaves each of us free to find our way with at least one pure and virtuous principle as our own fixed, immovable, and indestructible anchor, to start with.

Thereafter, each of us has the potential to learn, do, be, and teach the ideal pure and virtuous principles—as our own stable and lasting anchors of truth, light, law, rule, standard, or value—the faithful practice and personification of which may produce, preserve, and restore the positive fruits of true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace, and joy within each of us, within our families, and within society (Cf., D&C 88: 1-50; See also, parable at 51-61).

A World In Need of Pure and Virtuous Principles

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” —George Washington, President of the United States (1732—1799).

“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!” —Lydia Maria Child, American author and human rights activist (1802—1880).

Nightly newscasts reveal that in some cases, America’s domestic enemies are persistently conspiring and striving to weaken and challenge America from within. Confirmed reports likewise reveal that there are foreign enemies conspiring and striving to undermine America from without. Meanwhile, historical records suggest that a majority of American citizens must either choose to willfully practice the pure and virtuous principles of God’s law, or America may struggle to prosper and survive in a manner comparable to the Roman Empire.

Mighty as it was, the Roman Empire could never successfully balance both God’s pure and virtuous principles of enlightenment, virtue, and integrity (on the right hand)—and Satan’s filthy and vicious principles of darkness, vice, and corruption (on the left). By attempting to include (even legalize) destructive diversity, Ancient Rome’s equalizing became vicious equalitarianism (Compare definitions of equal and equalitarian in The eDictionary of Human Character, by M. Gregg Fager). As these destructive principles prevailed, the Empire’s happiness, peace, and prosperity gradually declined (Cf. Alma 41:10; 1 Nephi 20:22; Omni 1:6). In the end, the Roman Empire became so fractured and divided against itself that it eventually could no longer stand (Cf. Matthew 12:25; Luke 11:17).

Believing certain pure and virtuous principles to be of God, the great majority of our American ancestors envisioned, established, and fought to preserve a stable nation of virtuous liberty and virtuous justice under virtuous law. They wanted their future generations to remain empowered by God to bring forth mankind’s greatest achievements and blessings by our true and faithful obedience to God’s Law and to only those man-made laws and rules of law which align with the pure and virtuous principles of God’s Law.

In America, as in Ancient Rome, grapes cannot be gathered from thorns; and figs cannot be gathered from thistles (Cf. Matthew 7:16). Fruit trees that do not bring forth good fruit may be hewn down and cast into the fire (Cf. Matthew 7:19); and houses built upon sand are more vulnerable to collapse in catastrophic downpours than houses built upon rock (Cf. 2 Nephi 28:28).

The pure and virtuous principles identified in The eDictionary of Human Character (Supra) are the highest and ideal legislative, executive, and judicial standards that have the potential to produce, preserve, or restore global peace and prosperity. All leaders who wield power to govern are especially invited to consider becoming and remaining anchored in practicing and sharing the pure and virtuous principles defined in The eDictionary of Human Character (Supra) and to begin now to govern in alignment with these principles.

Share Pure and Virtuous Principles of Peace and Prosperity with the World

“The strong economic condition of the masses is dependent on their right moral condition. . . . The despisers of godliness are the enemies of the true interest of our nation. . . . [To] preach Christ is the only effective way of preaching morality in all its branches.” —Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Religious Reformer, (1780—1847).

The eDictionary of Human Character, by M. Gregg Fager, provides a unique problem-defining and problem-solving language that addresses the universal need for a breakthrough classification system that may allow for personal validation and verification of the true meaning and value of human characteristics (A through Z).

Honest use of this eDictionary could help you personally validate and verify the true meaning and value of any cultural, historical, legal, normative, political, popular, scientific, secular, traditional, or other form of thought, belief, doctrine, dogma, ideology, religion, philosophy, theology, or value capable of producing, preserving, or restoring their respective and consequent fruits within you, your family, and society.

What matters most is how truly virtuous or how truly vicious their fruits are likely to prove to be within you, your family, and society. By their fruits, every one of us can personally ascertain the true meaning and value (and the appropriate assigned numerical value) of each one of them (Cf. Matthew 7).

The intended fruit of this eDictionary is aimed at promoting maximum global peace, prosperity, and the perpetuation of all that is truly virtuous in the world and its youth, until Earth is governed by the Lord Jesus Christ and by His pure and virtuous principles of Celestial law.

The desired impact of this work is to share the author’s personal witness of those pure and virtuous principles of peace and prosperity which mankind must understand, do, be, and teach well enough to potentially rise in unison above the world’s gathering predatory forces of darkness, vice, corruption, bondage, despair, turmoil, and misery.