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100:5.2 The [[progression]] of [[religious]] [[growth]] leads from [[stagnation]] through [[conflict]] to [[co-ordination]], from insecurity to undoubting [[faith]], from [[confusion]] of [[cosmic consciousness]] to [[unification]] of [[personality]], from the [[temporal]] objective to the [[eternal]], from the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to the [[liberty]] of [[divine]] sonship.

100:5.2 The [[progression]] of [[religious]] [[growth]] leads from [[stagnation]] through [[conflict]] to [[co-ordination]], from insecurity to undoubting [[faith]], from [[confusion]] of [[cosmic consciousness]] to [[unification]] of [[personality]], from the [[temporal]] objective to the [[eternal]], from the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to the [[liberty]] of [[divine]] sonship.

100:5.3 It should be made clear that [[professions]] of [[loyalty]] to the [[supreme]] [[ideals]]—the [[psychic]], [[emotional]], and [[spiritual]] [[awareness]] of [[God-consciousness]]—may be a [[natural]] and [[gradual]] [[growth]] or may sometimes be [[experienced]] at certain junctures, as in a [[crisis]]. The [[Apostle Paul]] [[experienced]] just such a sudden and spectacular [[conversion]] that [[eventful]] day on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_road Damascus road]. [[Gautama Siddhartha]] had a similar [[experience]] the night he sat alone and sought to [[penetrate]] the [[mystery]] of final [[truth]]. Many others have had like [[experiences]], and many true believers have [[progressed]] in the [[spirit]] without sudden [[conversion]].

100:5.3 It should be made clear that [[professions]] of [[loyalty]] to the [[supreme]] [[ideals]]—the [[psychic]], [[emotional]], and [[spiritual]] [[awareness]] of [[God-consciousness]]—may be a [[natural]] and [[gradual]] [[growth]] or may sometimes be [[experienced]] at certain junctures, as in a [[crisis]]. The [[Apostle Paul]] [[experienced]] just such a sudden and spectacular [[conversion]] that [[eventful]] day on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_road Damascus road]. [[Gautama Siddhartha]] had a similar [[experience]] the night he sat alone and sought to [[penetrate]] the [[mystery]] of final [[truth]]. Many others have had like [[experiences]], and many true believers have [[progressed]] in the [[spirit]] without sudden [[conversion]].

100:5.4 Most of the [[spectacular]] [[phenomena]] [[associated]] with so-called [[religious]] [[conversions]] are entirely [[psychologic]] in [[nature]], but now and then there do occur [[experiences]] which are also [[spiritual]] in [[origin]]. When the [[mental]] mobilization is [[absolutely]] [[total]] on any level of the [[psychic]] upreach toward [[spirit]] [[attainment]], when there exists [[perfection]] of the [[human]] [[motivation]] of [[loyalties]] to the [[divine]] [[idea]], then there very often occurs a sudden down-grasp of the [[indwelling spirit]] to [[synchronize]] with the [[concentrated]] and [[consecrated]] [[purpose]] of the [[superconscious]] [[mind]] of the believing [[mortal]]. And it is such [[experiences]] of [[unified]] [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] [[phenomena]] that [[constitute]] the [[conversion]] which consists in [[factors]] over and above purely [[psychologic]] involvement.

100:5.4 Most of the [[spectacular]] [[phenomena]] [[associated]] with so-called [[religious]] [[conversions]] are entirely [[psychologic]] in [[nature]], but now and then there do occur [[experiences]] which are also [[spiritual]] in [[origin]]. When the [[mental]] mobilization is [[absolutely]] [[total]] on any level of the [[psychic]] upreach toward [[spirit]] [[attainment]], when there exists [[perfection]] of the [[human]] [[motivation]] of [[loyalties]] to the [[divine]] [[idea]], then there very often occurs a sudden down-grasp of the [[indwelling spirit]] to [[synchronize]] with the [[concentrated]] and [[consecrated]] [[purpose]] of the [[superconscious]] [[mind]] of the believing [[mortal]]. And it is such [[experiences]] of [[unified]] [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] [[phenomena]] that [[constitute]] the [[conversion]] which consists in [[factors]] over and above purely [[psychologic]] involvement.

100:5.11 However [[favor]]able may have been the conditions for [[mystic]] [[phenomena]], it should be clearly [[understood]] that [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] never resorted to such [[methods]] for [[communion]] with the [[Paradise Father]]. [[Jesus]] had no [[subconscious]] delusions or [[superconscious]] [[illusions]].

100:5.11 However [[favor]]able may have been the conditions for [[mystic]] [[phenomena]], it should be clearly [[understood]] that [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] never resorted to such [[methods]] for [[communion]] with the [[Paradise Father]]. [[Jesus]] had no [[subconscious]] delusions or [[superconscious]] [[illusions]].

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