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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 [http://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 [http://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]].
101:6.4 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 [http://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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowed on Urantia], lived under the reign of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] up to the time of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136 baptism]. From that [[moment]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_186 up to] and including the [[event]] of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_187 crucifixion] he carried forward his work by the combined [[guidance]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS evolutionary and revealed religion]. From the morning of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_189 resurrection] until [http://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 [http://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]].
101:6.7 [[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 [http://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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47 morontia worlds].
101:6.8 The [http://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 [http://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.
*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 [http://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]].
*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 [http://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 [http://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 [http://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 [http://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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[[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]]
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 [http://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 [http://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]].
101:6.4 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 [http://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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowed on Urantia], lived under the reign of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] up to the time of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136 baptism]. From that [[moment]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_186 up to] and including the [[event]] of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_187 crucifixion] he carried forward his work by the combined [[guidance]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS evolutionary and revealed religion]. From the morning of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_189 resurrection] until [http://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 [http://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]].
101:6.7 [[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 [http://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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47 morontia worlds].
101:6.8 The [http://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 [http://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.
*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 [http://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]].
*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 [http://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 [http://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 [http://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 [http://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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[[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]]