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102:4.1 Because of the [[presence]] in your [[minds]] of the [[Thought Adjuster]], it is no more of a [[mystery]] for you to know the [[mind]] of [[God]] than for you to be sure of the [[consciousness]] of [[knowing]] any other [[mind]], [[human]] or [[superhuman]]. [[Religion]] and [[social]] [[consciousness]] have this in common: They are predicated on the [[consciousness]] of [[other]]-mindness. The [[technique]] whereby you can [[accept]] another's [[idea]] as yours is the same whereby you may "let the mind which was in Christ be also in you."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians.2C_II]

102:4.1 Because of the [[presence]] in your [[minds]] of the [[Thought Adjuster]], it is no more of a [[mystery]] for you to know the [[mind]] of [[God]] than for you to be sure of the [[consciousness]] of [[knowing]] any other [[mind]], [[human]] or [[superhuman]]. [[Religion]] and [[social]] [[consciousness]] have this in common: They are predicated on the [[consciousness]] of [[other]]-mindness. The [[technique]] whereby you can [[accept]] another's [[idea]] as yours is the same whereby you may "let the mind which was in Christ be also in you."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians.2C_II]

102:4.2 What is [[human]] [[experience]]? It is [[simply]] any interplay between an [[active]] and [[Inquiry|questioning]] [[self]] and any other [[active]] and [[external]] [[reality]]. The mass of [[experience]] is determined by depth of [[concept]] plus [[totality]] of [[recognition]] of the [[reality]] of the external. The [[motion]] of [[experience]] [[equals]] the [[force]] of [[expectant]] [[imagination]] plus the keenness of the [[sensory]] [[discovery]] of the external [[qualities]] of [[contacted]] [[reality]]. The [[fact]] of [[experience]] is found in [[self-consciousness]] plus [[other]]-[[existences]]—other-thingness, other-mindness, and other-spiritness.

102:4.2 What is [[human]] [[experience]]? It is [[simply]] any interplay between an [[active]] and [[Inquiry|questioning]] [[self]] and any other [[active]] and [[external]] [[reality]]. The mass of [[experience]] is determined by depth of [[concept]] plus [[totality]] of [[recognition]] of the [[reality]] of the external. The [[motion]] of [[experience]] [[equals]] the [[force]] of [[expectant]] [[imagination]] plus the keenness of the [[sensory]] [[discovery]] of the external [[qualities]] of [[contacted]] [[reality]]. The [[fact]] of [[experience]] is found in [[self-consciousness]] plus [[other]]-[[existences]]—other-thingness, other-mindness, and other-spiritness.

102:4.3 Man very early becomes [[conscious]] that he is not alone in the world or the [[universe]]. There [[develops]] a natural [[spontaneous]] [[self-consciousness]] of [[other]]-mindness in the [[environment]] of [[selfhood]]. [[Faith]] [[translates]] this [[natural]] [[experience]] into [[religion]], the [[recognition]] of [[God]] as the [[reality]]—[[source]], [[nature]], and [[destiny]]—of other-mindness. But such a [[knowledge]] of [[God]] is ever and always a [[reality]] of [[personal]] [[experience]]. If [[God]] were not a [[personality]], he could not become a living part of the real [[religious]] [[experience]] of a [[human]] [[personality]].

102:4.3 Man very early becomes [[conscious]] that he is not alone in the world or the [[universe]]. There [[develops]] a natural [[spontaneous]] [[self-consciousness]] of [[other]]-mindness in the [[environment]] of [[selfhood]]. [[Faith]] [[translates]] this [[natural]] [[experience]] into [[religion]], the [[recognition]] of [[God]] as the [[reality]]—[[source]], [[nature]], and [[destiny]]—of other-mindness. But such a [[knowledge]] of [[God]] is ever and always a [[reality]] of [[personal]] [[experience]]. If [[God]] were not a [[personality]], he could not become a living part of the real [[religious]] [[experience]] of a [[human]] [[personality]].

102:4.4 The element of [[error]] present in human [[religious]] [[experience]] is directly [[proportional]] to the [[content]] of [[materialism]] which contaminates the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of the [[Universal Father]]. Man's prespirit [[progression]] in the [[universe]] consists in the [[experience]] of divesting himself of these erroneous [[ideas]] of the [[nature]] of [[God]] and of the [[reality]] of [[pure]] and true [[spirit]]. [[Deity]] is more than spirit, but the [[spiritual]] approach is the only one possible to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending man].

102:4.4 The element of [[error]] present in human [[religious]] [[experience]] is directly [[proportional]] to the [[content]] of [[materialism]] which contaminates the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of the [[Universal Father]]. Man's prespirit [[progression]] in the [[universe]] consists in the [[experience]] of divesting himself of these erroneous [[ideas]] of the [[nature]] of [[God]] and of the [[reality]] of [[pure]] and true [[spirit]]. [[Deity]] is more than spirit, but the [[spiritual]] approach is the only one possible to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending man].

102:4.5 [[Prayer]] is indeed a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], but it has been wrongly emphasized by [[modern]] [[religions]], much to the neglect of the more [[essential]] [[communion]] of [[worship]]. The [[reflective]] powers of the [[mind]] are deepened and broadened by [[worship]]. [[Prayer]] may enrich the life, but [[worship]] [[illuminates]] [[destiny]].

102:4.5 [[Prayer]] is indeed a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], but it has been wrongly emphasized by [[modern]] [[religions]], much to the neglect of the more [[essential]] [[communion]] of [[worship]]. The [[reflective]] powers of the [[mind]] are deepened and broadened by [[worship]]. [[Prayer]] may enrich the life, but [[worship]] [[illuminates]] [[destiny]].

102:4.6 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion] is the [[unifying]] element of [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Revelation]] unifies [[history]], [[co-ordinates]] [[geology]], [[astronomy]], [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[biology]], [[sociology]], and [[psychology]]. [[Spiritual]] [[experience]] is the real [[soul]] of man's [[cosmos]].

102:4.6 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion] is the [[unifying]] element of [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Revelation]] unifies [[history]], [[co-ordinates]] [[geology]], [[astronomy]], [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[biology]], [[sociology]], and [[psychology]]. [[Spiritual]] [[experience]] is the real [[soul]] of man's [[cosmos]].

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