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This was probably the most important part of that wiki page
For Mozi, Heaven is the divine ruler, just as the Son of Heaven is the earthly ruler. Mozi believed that spirits and minor demons exist or at least rituals should be performed as if they did for social reasons, but their function is to carry out the will of Heaven, watching for evil-doers and punishing them. Mozi taught that Heaven loves all people equally and that each person should similarly love all human beings without distinguishing between his own relatives and those of others (Dubs, 1959-1960:163-172). Mozi criticized the Confucians of his own time for not following the teachings of Confucius. In Mozi's Will of Heaven (天志), he writes:
Mohism is not Taoism.
It sure is. Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, and Kung Fu Tzu were all roughly contemporary, and all discussing the same thing, The Way. Just because our sterile, western approach has robbed these works of their true legacy doesn’t mean you need to continue the charade in ignorance.