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101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]].
101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]].
101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]].
101:9.4 The search for [[beauty]] is a part of [[religion]] only in so far as it is [[ethical]] and to the extent that it enriches the [[concept]] of the [[moral]]. [[Art]] is only [[religious]] when it becomes [[diffused]] with [[purpose]] which has been derived from high [[spiritual]] [[motivation]].
101:9.5 The [[enlightened]] [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]] of civilized man is not concerned so much with some specific [[intellectual]] [[belief]] or with any one particular [[mode]] of living as with [[discovering]] the [[truth]] of living, the good and right [[technique]] of [[reacting]] to the ever-recurring situations of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. [[Moral]] [[consciousness]] is just a name applied to the human [[recognition]] and [[awareness]] of those [[ethical]] and emerging [[morontial]] values which [[duty]] demands that man shall abide by in the day-by-day [[control]] and [[guidance]] of [[conduct]].
101:9.6 Though recognizing that [[religion]] is imperfect, there are at least two [[practical]] [[manifestations]] of its [[nature]] and [[function]]:
101:9.7 1. The [[spiritual]] urge and philosophic [[pressure]] of [[religion]] tend to [[cause]] man to [[project]] his estimation of [[moral]] [[values]] directly outward into the affairs of his fellows—the [[ethical]] [[reaction]] of [[religion]].
101:9.8 2. [[Religion]] [[creates]] for the human mind a spiritualized [[consciousness]] of [[divine]] [[reality]] based on, and by [[faith]] derived from, antecedent [[concepts]] of [[moral]] [[values]] and [[co-ordinated]] with [[superimposed]] concepts of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. [[Religion]] thereby becomes a [[censor]] of [[mortal]] affairs, a form of [[glorified]] moral [[trust]] and [[confidence]] in [[reality]], the enhanced realities of [[time]] and the more [[enduring]] realities of [[eternity]].
101:9.9 [[Faith]] becomes the [[connection]] between [[moral]] [[consciousness]] and the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of enduring [[reality]]. [[Religion]] becomes the avenue of man's [[escape]] from the [[material]] [[limitations]] of the [[temporal]] and natural world to the [[supernal]] [[realities]] of the [[eternal]] and [[spiritual]] world by and through the [[technique]] of [[salvation]], the [[progressive]] [[morontia]] [[transformation]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_101 Go to Paper 101]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]]
101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]].
101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]].
101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]].
101:9.4 The search for [[beauty]] is a part of [[religion]] only in so far as it is [[ethical]] and to the extent that it enriches the [[concept]] of the [[moral]]. [[Art]] is only [[religious]] when it becomes [[diffused]] with [[purpose]] which has been derived from high [[spiritual]] [[motivation]].
101:9.5 The [[enlightened]] [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]] of civilized man is not concerned so much with some specific [[intellectual]] [[belief]] or with any one particular [[mode]] of living as with [[discovering]] the [[truth]] of living, the good and right [[technique]] of [[reacting]] to the ever-recurring situations of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. [[Moral]] [[consciousness]] is just a name applied to the human [[recognition]] and [[awareness]] of those [[ethical]] and emerging [[morontial]] values which [[duty]] demands that man shall abide by in the day-by-day [[control]] and [[guidance]] of [[conduct]].
101:9.6 Though recognizing that [[religion]] is imperfect, there are at least two [[practical]] [[manifestations]] of its [[nature]] and [[function]]:
101:9.7 1. The [[spiritual]] urge and philosophic [[pressure]] of [[religion]] tend to [[cause]] man to [[project]] his estimation of [[moral]] [[values]] directly outward into the affairs of his fellows—the [[ethical]] [[reaction]] of [[religion]].
101:9.8 2. [[Religion]] [[creates]] for the human mind a spiritualized [[consciousness]] of [[divine]] [[reality]] based on, and by [[faith]] derived from, antecedent [[concepts]] of [[moral]] [[values]] and [[co-ordinated]] with [[superimposed]] concepts of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. [[Religion]] thereby becomes a [[censor]] of [[mortal]] affairs, a form of [[glorified]] moral [[trust]] and [[confidence]] in [[reality]], the enhanced realities of [[time]] and the more [[enduring]] realities of [[eternity]].
101:9.9 [[Faith]] becomes the [[connection]] between [[moral]] [[consciousness]] and the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of enduring [[reality]]. [[Religion]] becomes the avenue of man's [[escape]] from the [[material]] [[limitations]] of the [[temporal]] and natural world to the [[supernal]] [[realities]] of the [[eternal]] and [[spiritual]] world by and through the [[technique]] of [[salvation]], the [[progressive]] [[morontia]] [[transformation]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_101 Go to Paper 101]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]]
