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101:5.1 [[Revelation]] is a [[technique]] whereby ages upon ages of [[time]] are saved in the [[necessary]] [[work]] of sorting and sifting the [[errors]] of [[evolution]] from the [[truths]] of [[spirit]] acquirement.
101:5.2 [[Science]] deals with [[facts]]; [[religion]] is concerned only with [[values]]. Through [[enlightened]] [[philosophy]] the [[mind]] endeavors to unite the [[meanings]] of both [[facts]] and [[values]], thereby arriving at a [[concept]] of complete [[reality]]. [[Remember]] that [[science]] is the [[domain]] of [[knowledge]], [[philosophy]] the realm of [[wisdom]], and [[religion]] the sphere of the [[faith]] [[experience]]. But [[religion]], nonetheless, presents two [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]:
*1. 101:5.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion]. The [[experience]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_85#PAPER_85:_THE_ORIGINS_OF_WORSHIP primitive worship], the [[religion]] which is a [[mind]] [[derivative]].
*2. 101:5.4 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion]. The [[universe]] [[attitude]] which is a [[spirit]] [[derivative]]; the [[assurance]] of, and [[belief]] in, the [[conservation]] of [[eternal]] realities, the [[survival]] of [[personality]], and the eventual [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] [[Deity]], whose [[purpose]] has made all this possible. It is a part of the [[plan]] of the [[universe]] that, sooner or later, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] is [[destined]] to [[receive]] the [[spiritual]] expansion of [[revelation]].
101:5.5 Both [[science]] and [[religion]] start out with the [[assumption]] of certain generally [[accepted]] bases for [[logical]] [[deductions]]. So, also, must [[philosophy]] start its [[career]] upon the [[assumption]] of the reality of three things:
*1. The [[material]] [[body]].
*2. The supermaterial [[phase]] of the [[human being]], the [[soul]] or even the [[indwelling spirit]].
*3. The human [[mind]], the [[mechanism]] for intercommunication and interassociation between [[spirit]] and [[matter]], between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]].
101:5.6 [[Scientists]] assemble [[facts]], [[philosophers]] [[co-ordinate]] [[ideas]], while [[prophets]] exalt [[ideals]]. [[Feeling]] and [[emotion]] are invariable concomitants of [[religion]], but they are not religion. Religion may be the [[feeling]] of [[experience]], but it is hardly the experience of feeling. Neither [[logic]] (rationalization) nor [[emotion]] ([[feeling]]) is [[essentially]] a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], although both may variously be [[associated]] with the [[exercise]] of [[faith]] in the furtherance of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] into [[reality]], all according to the [[status]] and [[temperament]]al [[tendency]] of the [[individual]] [[mind]].
101:5.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is the outworking of the [[endowment]] of the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|local universe mind adjutant]] charged with the [[creation]] and fostering of the [[worship]] trait in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolving man]. Such [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#PAPER_86:_EARLY_EVOLUTION_OF_RELIGION primitive religions] are directly concerned with [[ethics]] and [[morals]], the sense of human [[duty]]. Such [[religions]] are predicated on the [[assurance]] of [[conscience]] and result in the [[stabilization]] of [[relatively]] [[ethical]] [[civilizations]].
101:5.8 Personally [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS revealed religions] are sponsored by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES bestowal spirits] [[representing]] the three persons of the [[Paradise Trinity]] and are especially concerned with the expansion of [[truth]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] drives [[home]] to the [[individual]] the [[idea]] of [[personal]] [[duty]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] lays increasing emphasis on loving, the [[golden rule]].
101:5.9 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolved religion] rests wholly on [[faith]]. [[Revelation]] has the additional [[assurance]] of its expanded presentation of the [[truths]] of [[divinity]] and [[reality]] and the still more valuable [[testimony]] of the actual [[experience]] which accumulates in [[consequence]] of the [[practical]] working [[union]] of the [[faith]] of [[evolution]] and the [[truth]] of [[revelation]]. Such a working [[union]] of [[human]] [[faith]] and [[divine]] [[truth]] constitutes the [[possession]] of a [[character]] well on the road to the actual acquirement of a [[morontial]] [[personality]].
101:5.10 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] provides only the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] and the [[confirmation]] of [[conscience]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] provides the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] plus the [[truth]] of a living [[experience]] in the realities of [[revelation]]. The third step in [[religion]], or the third [[phase]] of the [[experience]] of [[religion]], has to do with the [[morontia]] [[state]], the firmer grasp of [[mota]]. Increasingly in the [[morontia]] [[progression]] the [[truths]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] are expanded; more and more you will know the [[truth]] of [[supreme]] [[values]], [[divine]] [[goodness]]es, [[universal]] [[relationships]], [[eternal]] [[realities]], and [[ultimate]] [[destinies]].
101:5.11 Increasingly throughout the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#PAPER_47:_THE_SEVEN_MANSION_WORLDS morontia progression] the [[assurance]] of [[truth]] replaces the assurance of [[faith]]. When you are finally mustered into the [[actual]] [[spirit]] world, then will the [[assurances]] of [[pure]] spirit [[insight]] operate in the place of [[faith]] and [[truth]] or, rather, in conjunction with, and [[superimposed]] upon, these former [[techniques]] of [[personality]] [[assurance]].
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[[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]]
101:5.1 [[Revelation]] is a [[technique]] whereby ages upon ages of [[time]] are saved in the [[necessary]] [[work]] of sorting and sifting the [[errors]] of [[evolution]] from the [[truths]] of [[spirit]] acquirement.
101:5.2 [[Science]] deals with [[facts]]; [[religion]] is concerned only with [[values]]. Through [[enlightened]] [[philosophy]] the [[mind]] endeavors to unite the [[meanings]] of both [[facts]] and [[values]], thereby arriving at a [[concept]] of complete [[reality]]. [[Remember]] that [[science]] is the [[domain]] of [[knowledge]], [[philosophy]] the realm of [[wisdom]], and [[religion]] the sphere of the [[faith]] [[experience]]. But [[religion]], nonetheless, presents two [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]:
*1. 101:5.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion]. The [[experience]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_85#PAPER_85:_THE_ORIGINS_OF_WORSHIP primitive worship], the [[religion]] which is a [[mind]] [[derivative]].
*2. 101:5.4 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion]. The [[universe]] [[attitude]] which is a [[spirit]] [[derivative]]; the [[assurance]] of, and [[belief]] in, the [[conservation]] of [[eternal]] realities, the [[survival]] of [[personality]], and the eventual [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] [[Deity]], whose [[purpose]] has made all this possible. It is a part of the [[plan]] of the [[universe]] that, sooner or later, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] is [[destined]] to [[receive]] the [[spiritual]] expansion of [[revelation]].
101:5.5 Both [[science]] and [[religion]] start out with the [[assumption]] of certain generally [[accepted]] bases for [[logical]] [[deductions]]. So, also, must [[philosophy]] start its [[career]] upon the [[assumption]] of the reality of three things:
*1. The [[material]] [[body]].
*2. The supermaterial [[phase]] of the [[human being]], the [[soul]] or even the [[indwelling spirit]].
*3. The human [[mind]], the [[mechanism]] for intercommunication and interassociation between [[spirit]] and [[matter]], between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]].
101:5.6 [[Scientists]] assemble [[facts]], [[philosophers]] [[co-ordinate]] [[ideas]], while [[prophets]] exalt [[ideals]]. [[Feeling]] and [[emotion]] are invariable concomitants of [[religion]], but they are not religion. Religion may be the [[feeling]] of [[experience]], but it is hardly the experience of feeling. Neither [[logic]] (rationalization) nor [[emotion]] ([[feeling]]) is [[essentially]] a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], although both may variously be [[associated]] with the [[exercise]] of [[faith]] in the furtherance of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] into [[reality]], all according to the [[status]] and [[temperament]]al [[tendency]] of the [[individual]] [[mind]].
101:5.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is the outworking of the [[endowment]] of the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|local universe mind adjutant]] charged with the [[creation]] and fostering of the [[worship]] trait in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolving man]. Such [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#PAPER_86:_EARLY_EVOLUTION_OF_RELIGION primitive religions] are directly concerned with [[ethics]] and [[morals]], the sense of human [[duty]]. Such [[religions]] are predicated on the [[assurance]] of [[conscience]] and result in the [[stabilization]] of [[relatively]] [[ethical]] [[civilizations]].
101:5.8 Personally [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS revealed religions] are sponsored by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES bestowal spirits] [[representing]] the three persons of the [[Paradise Trinity]] and are especially concerned with the expansion of [[truth]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] drives [[home]] to the [[individual]] the [[idea]] of [[personal]] [[duty]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] lays increasing emphasis on loving, the [[golden rule]].
101:5.9 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolved religion] rests wholly on [[faith]]. [[Revelation]] has the additional [[assurance]] of its expanded presentation of the [[truths]] of [[divinity]] and [[reality]] and the still more valuable [[testimony]] of the actual [[experience]] which accumulates in [[consequence]] of the [[practical]] working [[union]] of the [[faith]] of [[evolution]] and the [[truth]] of [[revelation]]. Such a working [[union]] of [[human]] [[faith]] and [[divine]] [[truth]] constitutes the [[possession]] of a [[character]] well on the road to the actual acquirement of a [[morontial]] [[personality]].
101:5.10 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] provides only the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] and the [[confirmation]] of [[conscience]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] provides the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] plus the [[truth]] of a living [[experience]] in the realities of [[revelation]]. The third step in [[religion]], or the third [[phase]] of the [[experience]] of [[religion]], has to do with the [[morontia]] [[state]], the firmer grasp of [[mota]]. Increasingly in the [[morontia]] [[progression]] the [[truths]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] are expanded; more and more you will know the [[truth]] of [[supreme]] [[values]], [[divine]] [[goodness]]es, [[universal]] [[relationships]], [[eternal]] [[realities]], and [[ultimate]] [[destinies]].
101:5.11 Increasingly throughout the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#PAPER_47:_THE_SEVEN_MANSION_WORLDS morontia progression] the [[assurance]] of [[truth]] replaces the assurance of [[faith]]. When you are finally mustered into the [[actual]] [[spirit]] world, then will the [[assurances]] of [[pure]] spirit [[insight]] operate in the place of [[faith]] and [[truth]] or, rather, in conjunction with, and [[superimposed]] upon, these former [[techniques]] of [[personality]] [[assurance]].
<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]]