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| − | 101:6.1 The [[morontia]] phase of [[revealed]] [[religion]] has to do with the [[experience]] of [[survival]], and its great urge is the [[attainment]] of [[spirit]] [[perfection]]. There also is present the higher urge of [[worship]], associated with an impelling call to increased [[ethical]] [[service]]. [[Morontia]] [[insight]] entails an ever-expanding [[consciousness]] of [ | + | 101:6.1 The [[morontia]] phase of [[revealed]] [[religion]] has to do with the [[experience]] of [[survival]], and its great urge is the [[attainment]] of [[spirit]] [[perfection]]. There also is present the higher urge of [[worship]], associated with an impelling call to increased [[ethical]] [[service]]. [[Morontia]] [[insight]] entails an ever-expanding [[consciousness]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Appendix_XII:_Expansion_of_God_the_Sevenfold the Sevenfold], [[the Supreme]], and even [[the Ultimate]]. |
| − | 101:6.2 Throughout all [[religious]] [[experience]], from its earliest inception on the [[material]] [[level]] up to the time of the [ | + | 101:6.2 Throughout all [[religious]] [[experience]], from its earliest inception on the [[material]] [[level]] up to the time of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS attainment of full spirit status], the [[Adjuster]] is the [[secret]] of the [[personal]] [[realization]] of the [[reality]] of the [[existence]] of the [[Supreme]]; and this same [[Adjuster]] also holds the [[secrets]] of your [[faith]] in the [[transcendental]] [[attainment]] of [[the Ultimate]]. The [[experiential]] [[personality]] of evolving man, united to the [[Adjuster]] [[essence]] of the [[existential]] [[God]], constitutes the [[potential]] completion of [[supreme]] [[existence]] and is [[inherently]] the basis for the [[Absonite|superfinite]] [[eventuation]] of [[transcendental]] [[personality]]. |
101:6.3 [[Moral]] [[Free will|will]] [[embraces]] decisions based on reasoned [[knowledge]], augmented by [[wisdom]], and [[sanctioned]] by religious [[faith]]. Such [[choices]] are [[acts]] of [[moral]] [[nature]] and [[evidence]] the [[existence]] of [[moral]] [[personality]], the forerunner of [[morontia]] personality and [[eventually]] of true [[spirit]] [[status]]. | 101:6.3 [[Moral]] [[Free will|will]] [[embraces]] decisions based on reasoned [[knowledge]], augmented by [[wisdom]], and [[sanctioned]] by religious [[faith]]. Such [[choices]] are [[acts]] of [[moral]] [[nature]] and [[evidence]] the [[existence]] of [[moral]] [[personality]], the forerunner of [[morontia]] personality and [[eventually]] of true [[spirit]] [[status]]. | ||
| − | 101:6.4 The [[evolutionary]] type of [[knowledge]] is but the accumulation of [[protoplasmic]] [[memory]] [[material]]; this is the most [[primitive]] form of [[creature]] [[consciousness]]. [[Wisdom]] [[embraces]] the [[ideas]] formulated from [[protoplasmic]] [[memory]] in [[process]] of [[association]] and recombination, and such [[phenomena]] differentiate [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|human mind]] from mere [[animal]] mind. [[Animals]] have [[knowledge]], but only man [[possesses]] [[wisdom]] [[capacity]]. [[Truth]] is made accessible to the [[wisdom]]-[[endowed]] [[individual]] by the [[bestowal]] on such a [[mind]] of the spirits of [[the Father]] and [ | + | 101:6.4 The [[evolutionary]] type of [[knowledge]] is but the accumulation of [[protoplasmic]] [[memory]] [[material]]; this is the most [[primitive]] form of [[creature]] [[consciousness]]. [[Wisdom]] [[embraces]] the [[ideas]] formulated from [[protoplasmic]] [[memory]] in [[process]] of [[association]] and recombination, and such [[phenomena]] differentiate [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|human mind]] from mere [[animal]] mind. [[Animals]] have [[knowledge]], but only man [[possesses]] [[wisdom]] [[capacity]]. [[Truth]] is made accessible to the [[wisdom]]-[[endowed]] [[individual]] by the [[bestowal]] on such a [[mind]] of the spirits of [[the Father]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD the Sons], the [[Thought Adjuster]] and the [[Spirit of Truth]]. |
| − | 101:6.5 [[Christ]] [[Michael]], when [ | + | 101:6.5 [[Christ]] [[Michael]], when [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowed on Urantia], lived under the reign of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] up to the time of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136 baptism]. From that [[moment]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_186 up to] and including the [[event]] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_187 crucifixion] he carried forward his work by the combined [[guidance]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS evolutionary and revealed religion]. From the morning of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_189 resurrection] until [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_193#193:5._THE_MASTER.27S_ASCENSION his ascension] he traversed the manifold [[phases]] of the [[morontia]] life of [[mortal]] [[transition]] from the world of [[matter]] to that of [[spirit]]. After his [[ascension]] [[Michael]] became master of the [[experience]] of [[Supreme|Supremacy]], the [[realization]] of [[the Supreme]]; and being the one [[person]] in [[Nebadon]] possessed of unlimited [[capacity]] to [[experience]] the [[reality]] of the [[Supreme]], he forthwith [[attained]] to the [[status]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY sovereignty of supremacy] in and to his [[local universe]]. |
101:6.6 With [[man]], the [[eventual]] [[fusion]] and resultant oneness with the indwelling [[Adjuster]]—the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of man and the [[essence]] of [[God]]—constitute him, in [[potential]], a living part of the [[Supreme]] and insure for such a onetime [[mortal]] [[being]] the eternal birthright of the endless pursuit of [[Corps of Finality|finality]] of universe [[service]] for and with [[the Supreme]]. | 101:6.6 With [[man]], the [[eventual]] [[fusion]] and resultant oneness with the indwelling [[Adjuster]]—the [[personality]] [[synthesis]] of man and the [[essence]] of [[God]]—constitute him, in [[potential]], a living part of the [[Supreme]] and insure for such a onetime [[mortal]] [[being]] the eternal birthright of the endless pursuit of [[Corps of Finality|finality]] of universe [[service]] for and with [[the Supreme]]. | ||
| − | 101:6.7 [[Revelation]] teaches [[mortal]] man that, to start such a [[magnificent]] and [[intriguing]] [[adventure]] through [[space]] by means of the [[progression]] of [[time]], he should begin by the [[organization]] of [[knowledge]] into [[idea]]-[[decisions]]; next, [[mandate]] [[wisdom]] to labor unremittingly at its [[noble]] task of [[transforming]] self-possessed [[ideas]] into increasingly [[practical]] but nonetheless [[supernal]] [[ideals]], even those [[concepts]] which are so reasonable as [[ideas]] and so [[logical]] as ideals that the [[Adjuster]] dares so to combine and spiritize them as to render them available for such [[association]] in the [[finite]] mind as will [[constitute]] them the [[actual]] [[human]] [[complement]] thus made ready for the [[action]] of the [ | + | 101:6.7 [[Revelation]] teaches [[mortal]] man that, to start such a [[magnificent]] and [[intriguing]] [[adventure]] through [[space]] by means of the [[progression]] of [[time]], he should begin by the [[organization]] of [[knowledge]] into [[idea]]-[[decisions]]; next, [[mandate]] [[wisdom]] to labor unremittingly at its [[noble]] task of [[transforming]] self-possessed [[ideas]] into increasingly [[practical]] but nonetheless [[supernal]] [[ideals]], even those [[concepts]] which are so reasonable as [[ideas]] and so [[logical]] as ideals that the [[Adjuster]] dares so to combine and spiritize them as to render them available for such [[association]] in the [[finite]] mind as will [[constitute]] them the [[actual]] [[human]] [[complement]] thus made ready for the [[action]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_194 Truth Spirit] of the Sons, the [[time-space]] [[manifestations]] of [[Paradise]] [[truth]]—[[universal]] truth. The [[co-ordination]] of [[idea]]-[[decisions]], logical [[ideals]], and divine [[truth]] constitutes the [[possession]] of a [[righteous]] [[character]], the prerequisite for [[mortal]] admission to the ever-expanding and increasingly [[spiritual]] realities of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47 morontia worlds]. |
| − | 101:6.8 The [ | + | 101:6.8 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus teachings of Jesus] constituted the first [[Urantia]]n [[religion]] which so fully [[embraced]] a harmonious [[co-ordination]] of [[knowledge]], [[wisdom]], [[faith]], [[truth]], and [[love]] as completely and [[simultaneously]] to provide [[temporal]] tranquillity, [[intellectual]] certainty, [[moral]] [[enlightenment]], philosophic [[stability]], [[ethical]] [[sensitivity]], [[God-consciousness]], and the positive [[assurance]] of [[personal]] [[survival]]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_196 faith of Jesus] pointed the way to finality of [[human]] [[salvation]], to the [[ultimate]] of mortal [[universe]] [[attainment]], since it provided for: |
*1. [[Salvation]] from [[material]] fetters in the personal [[realization]] of sonship with [[God]], who is spirit. | *1. [[Salvation]] from [[material]] fetters in the personal [[realization]] of sonship with [[God]], who is spirit. | ||
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*3. [[Salvation]] from spiritual blindness, the human [[realization]] of the fraternity of [[mortal]] [[beings]] and the [[morontian]] [[awareness]] of the brotherhood of all [[universe]] [[creatures]]; the service-[[discovery]] of spiritual [[reality]] and the ministry-[[revelation]] of the [[goodness]] of spirit [[values]]. | *3. [[Salvation]] from spiritual blindness, the human [[realization]] of the fraternity of [[mortal]] [[beings]] and the [[morontian]] [[awareness]] of the brotherhood of all [[universe]] [[creatures]]; the service-[[discovery]] of spiritual [[reality]] and the ministry-[[revelation]] of the [[goodness]] of spirit [[values]]. | ||
*4. [[Salvation]] from incompleteness of [[self]] through the [[attainment]] of the [[spirit]] [[levels]] of the [[universe]] and through the eventual [[realization]] of the [[harmony]] of [[Havona]] and the [[perfection]] of [[Paradise]]. | *4. [[Salvation]] from incompleteness of [[self]] through the [[attainment]] of the [[spirit]] [[levels]] of the [[universe]] and through the eventual [[realization]] of the [[harmony]] of [[Havona]] and the [[perfection]] of [[Paradise]]. | ||
| − | *5. [[Salvation]] from [[self]], deliverance from the [[limitations]] of [[self-consciousness]] through the [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] levels of the [ | + | *5. [[Salvation]] from [[self]], deliverance from the [[limitations]] of [[self-consciousness]] through the [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] levels of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_116#116:1._THE_SUPREME_MIND Supreme mind] and by [[co-ordination]] with the [[attainments]] of all other [[self-conscious]] [[beings]]. |
*6. [[Salvation]] from [[time]], the achievement of an [[eternal]] life of unending [[progression]] in [[God]]-[[recognition]] and God-[[service]]. | *6. [[Salvation]] from [[time]], the achievement of an [[eternal]] life of unending [[progression]] in [[God]]-[[recognition]] and God-[[service]]. | ||
*7. [[Salvation]] from the [[finite]], the perfected oneness with [[Deity]] in and through [[the Supreme]] by which the [[creature]] attempts the [[transcendental]] [[discovery]] of the [[Ultimate]] on the postfinaliter levels of the [[absonite]]. | *7. [[Salvation]] from the [[finite]], the perfected oneness with [[Deity]] in and through [[the Supreme]] by which the [[creature]] attempts the [[transcendental]] [[discovery]] of the [[Ultimate]] on the postfinaliter levels of the [[absonite]]. | ||
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101:6.9 Such a [[sevenfold]] [[salvation]] is the equivalent of the completeness and [[perfection]] of the [[realization]] of the [[ultimate]] [[experience]] of the [[Universal Father]]. And all this, in [[potential]], is contained within the [[reality]] of the [[faith]] of the human [[experience]] of [[religion]]. And it can be so contained since the [[faith]] of [[Jesus]] was nourished by, and was [[revelatory]] of, even [[realities]] beyond the [[ultimate]]; the faith of [[Jesus]] approached the [[status]] of a [[universe]] [[absolute]] in so far as such is possible of [[manifestation]] in the evolving [[cosmos]] of [[time and space]]. | 101:6.9 Such a [[sevenfold]] [[salvation]] is the equivalent of the completeness and [[perfection]] of the [[realization]] of the [[ultimate]] [[experience]] of the [[Universal Father]]. And all this, in [[potential]], is contained within the [[reality]] of the [[faith]] of the human [[experience]] of [[religion]]. And it can be so contained since the [[faith]] of [[Jesus]] was nourished by, and was [[revelatory]] of, even [[realities]] beyond the [[ultimate]]; the faith of [[Jesus]] approached the [[status]] of a [[universe]] [[absolute]] in so far as such is possible of [[manifestation]] in the evolving [[cosmos]] of [[time and space]]. | ||
| − | 101:6.10 Through the appropriation of the [ | + | 101:6.10 Through the appropriation of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_196 faith of Jesus], [[mortal]] man can foretaste in time the [[realities]] of [[eternity]]. [[Jesus]] made the [[discovery]], in [[human]] [[experience]], of the [[Universal Father|Final Father]], and his brothers in the flesh of mortal life can follow him along this same [[experience]] of Father [[discovery]]. They can even [[attain]], as they are, the same [[satisfaction]] in this [[experience]] with [[the Father]] as did [[Jesus]] as he was. New [[potentials]] were [[actualized]] in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] consequent upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL terminal bestowal of Michael], and one of these was the new [[illumination]] of the path of [[eternity]] that leads to [[the Father]] of all, and which can be traversed even by the mortals of [[material]] [[flesh]] and blood in the initial life on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 planets of space]. [[Jesus]] was and is the new and living way whereby man can come into the [[divine]] inheritance which [[the Father]] has [[decreed]] shall be his for but the asking. In [[Jesus]] there is abundantly [[demonstrated]] both the beginnings and endings of the [[faith]] [[experience]] of [[humanity]], even of [https://books.google.com/books?id=0kRZ52N8TJsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=divine+humanity&source=bl&ots=fvSq-8YW0e&sig=eMnNa_aRqXh5u60akAjKj_pmuRw&hl=en&ei=4Y-qTKOjA4XGlQfM9LW6CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false divine humanity]. |
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Latest revision as of 23:01, 12 December 2020
101:6.1 The morontia phase of revealed religion has to do with the experience of survival, and its great urge is the attainment of spirit perfection. There also is present the higher urge of worship, associated with an impelling call to increased ethical service. Morontia insight entails an ever-expanding consciousness of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and even the Ultimate.
101:6.2 Throughout all religious experience, from its earliest inception on the material level up to the time of the attainment of full spirit status, the Adjuster is the secret of the personal realization of the reality of the existence of the Supreme; and this same Adjuster also holds the secrets of your faith in the transcendental attainment of the Ultimate. The experiential personality of evolving man, united to the Adjuster essence of the existential God, constitutes the potential completion of supreme existence and is inherently the basis for the superfinite eventuation of transcendental personality.
101:6.3 Moral will embraces decisions based on reasoned knowledge, augmented by wisdom, and sanctioned by religious faith. Such choices are acts of moral nature and evidence the existence of moral personality, the forerunner of morontia personality and eventually of true spirit status.
101:6.4 The evolutionary type of knowledge is but the accumulation of protoplasmic memory material; this is the most primitive form of creature consciousness. Wisdom embraces the ideas formulated from protoplasmic memory in process of association and recombination, and such phenomena differentiate human mind from mere animal mind. Animals have knowledge, but only man possesses wisdom capacity. Truth is made accessible to the wisdom-endowed individual by the bestowal on such a mind of the spirits of the Father and the Sons, the Thought Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth.
101:6.5 Christ Michael, when bestowed on Urantia, lived under the reign of evolutionary religion up to the time of his baptism. From that moment up to and including the event of his crucifixion he carried forward his work by the combined guidance of evolutionary and revealed religion. From the morning of his resurrection until his ascension he traversed the manifold phases of the morontia life of mortal transition from the world of matter to that of spirit. After his ascension Michael became master of the experience of Supremacy, the realization of the Supreme; and being the one person in Nebadon possessed of unlimited capacity to experience the reality of the Supreme, he forthwith attained to the status of the sovereignty of supremacy in and to his local universe.
101:6.6 With man, the eventual fusion and resultant oneness with the indwelling Adjuster—the personality synthesis of man and the essence of God—constitute him, in potential, a living part of the Supreme and insure for such a onetime mortal being the eternal birthright of the endless pursuit of finality of universe service for and with the Supreme.
101:6.7 Revelation teaches mortal man that, to start such a magnificent and intriguing adventure through space by means of the progression of time, he should begin by the organization of knowledge into idea-decisions; next, mandate wisdom to labor unremittingly at its noble task of transforming self-possessed ideas into increasingly practical but nonetheless supernal ideals, even those concepts which are so reasonable as ideas and so logical as ideals that the Adjuster dares so to combine and spiritize them as to render them available for such association in the finite mind as will constitute them the actual human complement thus made ready for the action of the Truth Spirit of the Sons, the time-space manifestations of Paradise truth—universal truth. The co-ordination of idea-decisions, logical ideals, and divine truth constitutes the possession of a righteous character, the prerequisite for mortal admission to the ever-expanding and increasingly spiritual realities of the morontia worlds.
101:6.8 The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom, faith, truth, and love as completely and simultaneously to provide temporal tranquillity, intellectual certainty, moral enlightenment, philosophic stability, ethical sensitivity, God-consciousness, and the positive assurance of personal survival. The faith of Jesus pointed the way to finality of human salvation, to the ultimate of mortal universe attainment, since it provided for:
- 1. Salvation from material fetters in the personal realization of sonship with God, who is spirit.
- 2. Salvation from intellectual bondage: man shall know the truth, and the truth shall set him free.
- 3. Salvation from spiritual blindness, the human realization of the fraternity of mortal beings and the morontian awareness of the brotherhood of all universe creatures; the service-discovery of spiritual reality and the ministry-revelation of the goodness of spirit values.
- 4. Salvation from incompleteness of self through the attainment of the spirit levels of the universe and through the eventual realization of the harmony of Havona and the perfection of Paradise.
- 5. Salvation from self, deliverance from the limitations of self-consciousness through the attainment of the cosmic levels of the Supreme mind and by co-ordination with the attainments of all other self-conscious beings.
- 6. Salvation from time, the achievement of an eternal life of unending progression in God-recognition and God-service.
- 7. Salvation from the finite, the perfected oneness with Deity in and through the Supreme by which the creature attempts the transcendental discovery of the Ultimate on the postfinaliter levels of the absonite.
101:6.9 Such a sevenfold salvation is the equivalent of the completeness and perfection of the realization of the ultimate experience of the Universal Father. And all this, in potential, is contained within the reality of the faith of the human experience of religion. And it can be so contained since the faith of Jesus was nourished by, and was revelatory of, even realities beyond the ultimate; the faith of Jesus approached the status of a universe absolute in so far as such is possible of manifestation in the evolving cosmos of time and space.
101:6.10 Through the appropriation of the faith of Jesus, mortal man can foretaste in time the realities of eternity. Jesus made the discovery, in human experience, of the Final Father, and his brothers in the flesh of mortal life can follow him along this same experience of Father discovery. They can even attain, as they are, the same satisfaction in this experience with the Father as did Jesus as he was. New potentials were actualized in the universe of Nebadon consequent upon the terminal bestowal of Michael, and one of these was the new illumination of the path of eternity that leads to the Father of all, and which can be traversed even by the mortals of material flesh and blood in the initial life on the planets of space. Jesus was and is the new and living way whereby man can come into the divine inheritance which the Father has decreed shall be his for but the asking. In Jesus there is abundantly demonstrated both the beginnings and endings of the faith experience of humanity, even of divine humanity.
