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Q. Welmek, my name is Stan. I [[thought]] this week about my favorite paper. I think probably over the last 10 years, the paper I've probably read the most would be [[Paper 47]] on the [[mansion worlds]]. I think that in my [[mind]], the highest [[truth]] or most real truth to me is [[personality survival]], that in spite of [[everything]] that happens on [[this planet]], it's just beginning.

Q. Welmek, my name is Stan. I [[thought]] this week about my favorite paper. I think probably over the last 10 years, the paper I've probably read the most would be [[Paper 47]] on the [[mansion worlds]]. I think that in my [[mind]], the highest [[truth]] or most real truth to me is [[personality survival]], that in spite of [[everything]] that happens on [[this planet]], it's just beginning.

A. There is no [[question]] to this [[fact]]; for it is [[literally]] true that you all have your beginning here. Through [[faith]], you will be [[saved]]; and by [[fusion]] with [[Thought Adjuster|your spirit]], you will be [[literally]] [[eternal]] in actual [[experience]]. It is indeed a [[wonderful]] gift that [[our Father]] has [[bestowed]] upon all of us, the [[possibility]] of [[surviving]] the flesh. As you [[realize]] this concept more fully in your daily life, [[death]] no longer seems to be such a terrible or [[horrible]] [[experience]]. You grasp that it is [[simply]] a [[transition]] from one [[phase]] of [[existence]] to another. [[Encourage]] your [[brothers and sisters]] with this [[thought]], that life indeed can be everlasting. It is also interesting to [[compare]] your style of [[witnessing]] [[death]] compared to such a [[planet]] as mine, where on my world in our [[temples]], we gather together in [[celebration]] as one of our family transits to the [[morontial worlds]] as they [[fuse]] with [[their spirit]] on the world itself. In time your world will [[experience]] this also. For now, the [[grief]] that is [[experienced]] at [[death]], while it is true there is a certain sadness at the loss of one's [[association]], you should [[rejoice]] in the [[fact]] that this [[person]] now moves toward a greater and even more [[adventurous]] [[goal]].

A. There is no [[question]] to this [[fact]]; for it is [[literally]] true that you all have your beginning here. Through [[faith]], you will be [[saved]]; and by [[fusion]] with [[Thought Adjuster|your spirit]], you will be [[literally]] [[eternal]] in actual [[experience]]. It is indeed a [[wonderful]] gift that [[our Father]] has [[bestowed]] upon all of us, the [[possibility]] of [[surviving]] the flesh. As you [[realize]] this concept more fully in your daily life, [[death]] no longer seems to be such a terrible or [[horrible]] [[experience]]. You grasp that it is [[simply]] a [[transition]] from one [[phase]] of [[existence]] to another. [[Encourage]] your [[brothers and sisters]] with this [[thought]], that life indeed can be everlasting. It is also interesting to [[compare]] your style of [[witnessing]] [[death]] compared to such a [[planet]] as mine, where on my world in our [[temples]], we gather together in [[celebration]] as one of our family transits to the [[morontial worlds]] as they [[fuse]] with their spirit on the world itself. In time your world will [[experience]] this also. For now, the [[grief]] that is [[experienced]] at [[death]], while it is true there is a certain sadness at the loss of one's [[association]], you should [[rejoice]] in the [[fact]] that this [[person]] now moves toward a greater and even more [[adventurous]] [[goal]].

 

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Q. It's also hard to find a favorite paper. But I turned to the last paper, "[[Paper 196 - The Faith of Jesus|The Faith of Jesus]]", because it contains one of my favorite one-liner quotes and that is "Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it."([[196:1 Jesus-The Man|196:1.3]]) I guess over time more and more of that becomes more deeply [[impressed]] upon my [[mind]]. It's a powerful [[statement]] to say "of all human [[knowledge]]". Also, just in [[reading]] that paper, to look at what he went through on this world and to see the undaunting [[faith]] and [[trust]] that he had in [[the Father]], to get through all that he did, to me is very [[inspiring]].

Q. It's also hard to find a favorite paper. But I turned to the last paper, "[[Paper 196 - The Faith of Jesus|The Faith of Jesus]]", because it contains one of my favorite one-liner quotes and that is "Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it."([[196:1 Jesus-The Man|196:1.3]]) I guess over time more and more of that becomes more deeply [[impressed]] upon my [[mind]]. It's a powerful [[statement]] to say "of all human [[knowledge]]". Also, just in [[reading]] that paper, to look at what he went through on this world and to see the undaunting [[faith]] and [[trust]] that he had in [[the Father]], to get through all that he did, to me is very [[inspiring]].