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90:0.1 The [[evolution]] of [[religious]] observances [[progressed]] from placation, avoidance, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism exorcism], [[coercion]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciliation conciliation], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propitiation propitiation] to [[sacrifice]], [[atonement]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption redemption]. The [[technique]] of [[religious]] [[ritual]] passed from the forms of the [[primitive]] [[cult]] through [[fetishes]] to [[magic]] and [[miracles]]; and as [[ritual]] became more [[complex]] in response to man's increasingly complex [[concept]] of the supermaterial realms, it was inevitably [[dominated]] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_men medicine men], [[shamans]], and [[priests]].

90:0.1 The [[evolution]] of [[religious]] observances [[progressed]] from placation, avoidance, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism exorcism], [[coercion]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciliation conciliation], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propitiation propitiation] to [[sacrifice]], [[atonement]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption redemption]. The [[technique]] of [[religious]] [[ritual]] passed from the forms of the [[primitive]] [[cult]] through [[fetishes]] to [[magic]] and [[miracles]]; and as [[ritual]] became more [[complex]] in response to man's increasingly complex [[concept]] of the supermaterial realms, it was inevitably [[dominated]] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_men medicine men], [[shamans]], and [[priests]].

90:0.2 In the advancing [[concepts]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive man] the spirit world was [[eventually]] regarded as being unresponsive to the ordinary [[mortal]]. Only the exceptional among [[humans]] could catch the ear of the [[gods]]; only the extraordinary man or woman would be heard by the spirits. [[Religion]] thus enters upon a new [[phase]], a [[stage]] wherein it gradually becomes secondhanded; always does a medicine man, a [[shaman]], or a [[priest]] [[intervene]] between the religionist and the object of [[worship]]. And today most [[Urantia]] systems of organized religious belief are passing through this level of [[evolutionary]] [[development]].

90:0.2 In the advancing [[concepts]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive man] the spirit world was [[eventually]] regarded as being unresponsive to the ordinary [[mortal]]. Only the exceptional among [[humans]] could catch the ear of the [[gods]]; only the extraordinary man or woman would be heard by the spirits. [[Religion]] thus enters upon a new [[phase]], a [[stage]] wherein it gradually becomes secondhanded; always does a medicine man, a [[shaman]], or a [[priest]] [[intervene]] between the religionist and the object of [[worship]]. And today most [[Urantia]] systems of organized religious belief are passing through this level of [[evolutionary]] [[development]].

90:0.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is born of a [[simple]] and all-powerful [[fear]], the fear which surges through the [[human]] [[mind]] when confronted with the [[unknown]], the inexplicable, and the incomprehensible. [[Religion]] [[eventually]] achieves the [[profoundly]] [[simple]] [[realization]] of an all-powerful [[love]], the love which sweeps irresistibly through the human [[soul]] when awakened to the conception of the limitless [[affection]] of the [[Universal Father]] for the sons of the [[universe]]. But in between the beginning and the consummation of religious [[evolution]], there intervene the long ages of the [[shamans]], who presume to stand between man and [[God]] as intermediaries, [[interpreters]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession_of_saints intercessors].

90:0.3 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is born of a [[simple]] and all-powerful [[fear]], the fear which surges through the [[human]] [[mind]] when confronted with the [[unknown]], the inexplicable, and the incomprehensible. [[Religion]] [[eventually]] achieves the [[profoundly]] [[simple]] [[realization]] of an all-powerful [[love]], the love which sweeps irresistibly through the human [[soul]] when awakened to the conception of the limitless [[affection]] of the [[Universal Father]] for the sons of the [[universe]]. But in between the beginning and the consummation of religious [[evolution]], there intervene the long ages of the [[shamans]], who presume to stand between man and [[God]] as intermediaries, [[interpreters]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession_of_saints intercessors].

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