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101:10.1 [[Intelligent]] man knows that he is a [[child]] of [[nature]], a part of the [[material]] [[universe]]; he likewise [[discerns]] no [[survival]] of [[individual]] [[personality]] in the [[motions]] and [[tensions]] of the [[mathematical]] level of the [[energy]] [[universe]]. Nor can man ever [[discern]] [[spiritual]] [[reality]] through the [[examination]] of [[physical]] [[causes]] and [[effects]].
101:10.2 A [[human being]] is also [[aware]] that he is a [[part]] of the [[ideational]] [[cosmos]], but though [[concept]] may [[endure]] beyond a [[mortal]] life span, there is nothing [[inherent]] in [[concept]] which indicates the [[personal]] [[survival]] of the conceiving [[personality]]. Nor will the [[exhaustion]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[logic]] and [[reason]] ever [[reveal]] to the logician or to the reasoner the [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 survival of personality].
101:10.3 The [[material]] level of [[law]] provides for [[causality]] [[continuity]], the unending [[response]] of [[effect]] to antecedent [[action]]; the [[mind]] level suggests the perpetuation of ideational [[continuity]], the unceasing [[flow]] of [[conceptual]] [[potentiality]] from pre-existent conceptions. But neither of these [[levels]] of the [[universe]] discloses to the [[inquiring]] [[mortal]] an avenue of [[escape]] from [[partiality]] of [[status]] and from the intolerable [[suspense]] of being a [[transient]] [[reality]] in the [[universe]], a [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] upon the [[exhaustion]] of the limited life [[energies]].
101:10.4 It is only through the [[morontial]] avenue leading to [[spiritual]] [[insight]] that man can ever break the fetters [[inherent]] in his [[mortal]] [[status]] in the [[universe]]. [[Energy]] and mind do lead back to [[Paradise]] and [[Deity]], but neither the [[energy]] [[endowment]] nor the [[mind]] endowment of man proceeds directly from such [[Paradise]] [[Deity]]. Only in the [[spiritual]] sense is man a [[child]] of [[God]]. And this is true because it is only in the [[spiritual]] sense that man is at present [[endowed]] and indwelt by the [[Paradise Father]]. [[Mankind]] can never discover [[divinity]] except through the avenue of [[religious]] [[experience]] and by the [[exercise]] of true [[faith]]. The [[faith]] [[acceptance]] of the [[truth]] of [[God]] enables man to [[escape]] from the [[circumscribed]] confines of [[material]] [[limitations]] and affords him a [[rational]] [[hope]] of achieving safe [[Journey|conduct]] from the [[material]] realm, whereon is [[death]], to the [[spiritual]] realm, wherein is life [[eternal]].
101:10.5 The [[purpose]] of [[religion]] is not to [[satisfy]] [[curiosity]] about [[God]] but rather to afford [[intellectual]] constancy and [[philosophic]] [[security]], to [[stabilize]] and enrich [[human]] living by blending the [[mortal]] with the [[divine]], the [[partial]] with the [[perfect]], man and God. It is through [[religious]] [[experience]] that man's [[concepts]] of ideality are [[endowed]] with [[reality]].
101:10.6 Never can there be either [[scientific]] or [[logical]] [[proofs]] of [[divinity]]. [[Reason]] alone can never [[validate]] the [[values]] and [[goodness]]es of religious [[experience]]. But it will always remain true: Whosoever wills to [[do the will of God]] shall [[comprehend]] the [[validity]] of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. This is the nearest approach that can be made on the [[mortal]] level to offering [[proofs]] of the [[reality]] of religious [[experience]]. Such [[faith]] affords the only [[escape]] from the [[mechanical]] clutch of the [[material]] world and from the [[error]] [[distortion]] of the incompleteness of the [[intellectual]] world; it is the only discovered solution to the [[impasse]] in [[mortal]] [[thinking]] regarding the continuing [[survival]] of the [[individual]] [[personality]]. It is the only passport to completion of [[reality]] and to [[eternity]] of life in a [[universal]] [[creation]] of [[love]], [[law]], [[unity]], and [[progressive]] [[Deity]] [[attainment]].
101:10.7 [[Religion]] effectually cures man's sense of [[idealistic]] [[isolation]] or spiritual loneliness; it enfranchises the believer as a son of God, a [[citizen]] of a new and meaningful [[universe]]. [[Religion]] [[assures]] man that, in following the gleam of [[righteousness]] [[discernible]] in his [[soul]], he is thereby identifying himself with the [[plan]] of the [[Infinite]] and the [[purpose]] of the [[Eternal]]. Such a liberated [[soul]] [[immediately]] begins to feel at [[home]] in this new universe, his [[universe]].
101:10.8 When you [[experience]] such a [[transformation]] of [[faith]], you are no longer a [[slavish]] part of the [[mathematical]] [[cosmos]] but rather a liberated [[volitional]] son of the [[Universal Father]]. No longer is such a [[liberated]] son fighting alone against the inexorable [[doom]] of the termination of [[temporal]] [[existence]]; no longer does he combat all [[nature]], with the odds hopelessly against him; no longer is he staggered by the paralyzing [[fear]] that, perchance, he has put his [[trust]] in a hopeless phantasm or pinned his [[faith]] to a fanciful [[error]].
101:10.9 Now, rather, are the sons of God enlisted [[together]] in fighting the battle of [[reality]]'s triumph over the partial [[shadows]] of [[existence]]. At last all [[creatures]] become [[conscious]] of the [[fact]] that [[God]] and all the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 divine hosts] of a well-nigh limitless [[universe]] are on their side in the [[supernal]] struggle to [[attain]] [[eternity]] of life and [[divinity]] of [[status]]. Such [[faith]]-[[liberated]] sons have certainly enlisted in the [[struggles]] of time on the side of the [[supreme]] forces and [[divine]] [[personalities]] of [[eternity]]; even the [[stars]] in their [[courses]] are now doing battle for them; at last they gaze upon the [[universe]] from within, from [[God]]'s [[viewpoint]], and all is [[transformed]] from the uncertainties of [[material]] [[isolation]] to the sureties of eternal [[spiritual]] [[progression]]. Even [[time]] itself becomes but the [[shadow]] of [[eternity]] cast by [[Paradise]] [[realities]] upon the moving panoply of [[space]].
101:10.10 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<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]]
101:10.1 [[Intelligent]] man knows that he is a [[child]] of [[nature]], a part of the [[material]] [[universe]]; he likewise [[discerns]] no [[survival]] of [[individual]] [[personality]] in the [[motions]] and [[tensions]] of the [[mathematical]] level of the [[energy]] [[universe]]. Nor can man ever [[discern]] [[spiritual]] [[reality]] through the [[examination]] of [[physical]] [[causes]] and [[effects]].
101:10.2 A [[human being]] is also [[aware]] that he is a [[part]] of the [[ideational]] [[cosmos]], but though [[concept]] may [[endure]] beyond a [[mortal]] life span, there is nothing [[inherent]] in [[concept]] which indicates the [[personal]] [[survival]] of the conceiving [[personality]]. Nor will the [[exhaustion]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[logic]] and [[reason]] ever [[reveal]] to the logician or to the reasoner the [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 survival of personality].
101:10.3 The [[material]] level of [[law]] provides for [[causality]] [[continuity]], the unending [[response]] of [[effect]] to antecedent [[action]]; the [[mind]] level suggests the perpetuation of ideational [[continuity]], the unceasing [[flow]] of [[conceptual]] [[potentiality]] from pre-existent conceptions. But neither of these [[levels]] of the [[universe]] discloses to the [[inquiring]] [[mortal]] an avenue of [[escape]] from [[partiality]] of [[status]] and from the intolerable [[suspense]] of being a [[transient]] [[reality]] in the [[universe]], a [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] upon the [[exhaustion]] of the limited life [[energies]].
101:10.4 It is only through the [[morontial]] avenue leading to [[spiritual]] [[insight]] that man can ever break the fetters [[inherent]] in his [[mortal]] [[status]] in the [[universe]]. [[Energy]] and mind do lead back to [[Paradise]] and [[Deity]], but neither the [[energy]] [[endowment]] nor the [[mind]] endowment of man proceeds directly from such [[Paradise]] [[Deity]]. Only in the [[spiritual]] sense is man a [[child]] of [[God]]. And this is true because it is only in the [[spiritual]] sense that man is at present [[endowed]] and indwelt by the [[Paradise Father]]. [[Mankind]] can never discover [[divinity]] except through the avenue of [[religious]] [[experience]] and by the [[exercise]] of true [[faith]]. The [[faith]] [[acceptance]] of the [[truth]] of [[God]] enables man to [[escape]] from the [[circumscribed]] confines of [[material]] [[limitations]] and affords him a [[rational]] [[hope]] of achieving safe [[Journey|conduct]] from the [[material]] realm, whereon is [[death]], to the [[spiritual]] realm, wherein is life [[eternal]].
101:10.5 The [[purpose]] of [[religion]] is not to [[satisfy]] [[curiosity]] about [[God]] but rather to afford [[intellectual]] constancy and [[philosophic]] [[security]], to [[stabilize]] and enrich [[human]] living by blending the [[mortal]] with the [[divine]], the [[partial]] with the [[perfect]], man and God. It is through [[religious]] [[experience]] that man's [[concepts]] of ideality are [[endowed]] with [[reality]].
101:10.6 Never can there be either [[scientific]] or [[logical]] [[proofs]] of [[divinity]]. [[Reason]] alone can never [[validate]] the [[values]] and [[goodness]]es of religious [[experience]]. But it will always remain true: Whosoever wills to [[do the will of God]] shall [[comprehend]] the [[validity]] of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. This is the nearest approach that can be made on the [[mortal]] level to offering [[proofs]] of the [[reality]] of religious [[experience]]. Such [[faith]] affords the only [[escape]] from the [[mechanical]] clutch of the [[material]] world and from the [[error]] [[distortion]] of the incompleteness of the [[intellectual]] world; it is the only discovered solution to the [[impasse]] in [[mortal]] [[thinking]] regarding the continuing [[survival]] of the [[individual]] [[personality]]. It is the only passport to completion of [[reality]] and to [[eternity]] of life in a [[universal]] [[creation]] of [[love]], [[law]], [[unity]], and [[progressive]] [[Deity]] [[attainment]].
101:10.7 [[Religion]] effectually cures man's sense of [[idealistic]] [[isolation]] or spiritual loneliness; it enfranchises the believer as a son of God, a [[citizen]] of a new and meaningful [[universe]]. [[Religion]] [[assures]] man that, in following the gleam of [[righteousness]] [[discernible]] in his [[soul]], he is thereby identifying himself with the [[plan]] of the [[Infinite]] and the [[purpose]] of the [[Eternal]]. Such a liberated [[soul]] [[immediately]] begins to feel at [[home]] in this new universe, his [[universe]].
101:10.8 When you [[experience]] such a [[transformation]] of [[faith]], you are no longer a [[slavish]] part of the [[mathematical]] [[cosmos]] but rather a liberated [[volitional]] son of the [[Universal Father]]. No longer is such a [[liberated]] son fighting alone against the inexorable [[doom]] of the termination of [[temporal]] [[existence]]; no longer does he combat all [[nature]], with the odds hopelessly against him; no longer is he staggered by the paralyzing [[fear]] that, perchance, he has put his [[trust]] in a hopeless phantasm or pinned his [[faith]] to a fanciful [[error]].
101:10.9 Now, rather, are the sons of God enlisted [[together]] in fighting the battle of [[reality]]'s triumph over the partial [[shadows]] of [[existence]]. At last all [[creatures]] become [[conscious]] of the [[fact]] that [[God]] and all the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 divine hosts] of a well-nigh limitless [[universe]] are on their side in the [[supernal]] struggle to [[attain]] [[eternity]] of life and [[divinity]] of [[status]]. Such [[faith]]-[[liberated]] sons have certainly enlisted in the [[struggles]] of time on the side of the [[supreme]] forces and [[divine]] [[personalities]] of [[eternity]]; even the [[stars]] in their [[courses]] are now doing battle for them; at last they gaze upon the [[universe]] from within, from [[God]]'s [[viewpoint]], and all is [[transformed]] from the uncertainties of [[material]] [[isolation]] to the sureties of eternal [[spiritual]] [[progression]]. Even [[time]] itself becomes but the [[shadow]] of [[eternity]] cast by [[Paradise]] [[realities]] upon the moving panoply of [[space]].
101:10.10 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<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]]