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− | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Worship''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Worship this link].</center>
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| '''Worship''' usually refers to specific acts of [[religion|religious]] devotion, typically directed to one or more [[deity|deities]]. It is the informal term in [[English]] for what [[Sociology|sociologists]] call a ''[[cult|cultus]]'', the [[body]] of [[practice]]s and [[tradition]]s that correspond to a [[religion]]. | | '''Worship''' usually refers to specific acts of [[religion|religious]] devotion, typically directed to one or more [[deity|deities]]. It is the informal term in [[English]] for what [[Sociology|sociologists]] call a ''[[cult|cultus]]'', the [[body]] of [[practice]]s and [[tradition]]s that correspond to a [[religion]]. |
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| *"True worship, in the last analysis, becomes an experience realized on many cosmic levels: | | *"True worship, in the last analysis, becomes an experience realized on many cosmic levels: |
| ...the consciousness of mind, soul, and spirit, and their unification in personality." [http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper5.html#3.%20TRUE%20WORSHIP] | | ...the consciousness of mind, soul, and spirit, and their unification in personality." [http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper5.html#3.%20TRUE%20WORSHIP] |
| + | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Worship''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Worship this link].</center> |
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| Worship—[[contemplation]] of the [[spiritual]]—must [[alternate]] with [[service]], [[contact]] with [[material]] [[reality]]. [[Work]] should alternate with [[play]]; [[religion]] should be [[balanced]] by [[humor]]. [[Profound]] [[philosophy]] should be relieved by rhythmic [[poetry]]. The strain of living—the [[time]] [[tension]] of [[personality]]—should be [[relaxed]] by the [[restfulness]] of worship. The [[feelings]] of insecurity arising from the [[fear]] of [[personality]] [[isolation]] in the [[universe]] should be antidoted by the [[faith]] [[contemplation]] of [[the Father]] and by the attempted [[realization]] of the [[Supreme]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_143#143:7._TEACHINGS_ABOUT_PRAYER_AND_WORSHIP] | | Worship—[[contemplation]] of the [[spiritual]]—must [[alternate]] with [[service]], [[contact]] with [[material]] [[reality]]. [[Work]] should alternate with [[play]]; [[religion]] should be [[balanced]] by [[humor]]. [[Profound]] [[philosophy]] should be relieved by rhythmic [[poetry]]. The strain of living—the [[time]] [[tension]] of [[personality]]—should be [[relaxed]] by the [[restfulness]] of worship. The [[feelings]] of insecurity arising from the [[fear]] of [[personality]] [[isolation]] in the [[universe]] should be antidoted by the [[faith]] [[contemplation]] of [[the Father]] and by the attempted [[realization]] of the [[Supreme]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_143#143:7._TEACHINGS_ABOUT_PRAYER_AND_WORSHIP] |