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*“The '''religion''' of the '''spirit''' means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The '''religion''' of the '''mind''' -- the theology of '''authority''' -- requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. '''Tradition''' is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the '''spirit''' struggles and '''mental''' uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored '''truth''' in search for the farther shores of '''spiritual''' realities as they may be discovered by the progressive human '''mind''' and experienced by the evolving human '''soul'''.”

*“The '''religion''' of the '''spirit''' means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The '''religion''' of the '''mind''' -- the theology of '''authority''' -- requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. '''Tradition''' is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the '''spirit''' struggles and '''mental''' uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored '''truth''' in search for the farther shores of '''spiritual''' realities as they may be discovered by the progressive human '''mind''' and experienced by the evolving human '''soul'''.”

*"At Jerusalem the religious leaders have formulated the various doctrines of their traditional teachers and the prophets of other days into an established system of intellectual beliefs, a '''religion''' of '''authority'''. The appeal of all such religions is largely to the '''mind'''. And now are we about to enter upon a deadly conflict with such a '''religion''' since we will so shortly begin the bold proclamation of a new '''religion''' -- a '''religion''' which is not a '''religion''' in the present-day meaning of that word, a '''religion''' that makes its chief appeal to the divine '''spirit''' of my Father that resides in the mind of man. '''A religion that shall derive its authority from the fruits of its acceptance''' that will so certainly appear in the personal experience of all who really and truly become believers in the truths of this higher '''spiritual''' communion."

*"At Jerusalem the religious leaders have formulated the various doctrines of their traditional teachers and the prophets of other days into an established system of intellectual beliefs, a '''religion''' of '''authority'''. The appeal of all such religions is largely to the '''mind'''. And now are we about to enter upon a deadly conflict with such a '''religion''' since we will so shortly begin the bold proclamation of a new '''religion''' -- a '''religion''' which is not a '''religion''' in the present-day meaning of that word, a '''religion''' that makes its chief appeal to the divine '''spirit''' of my Father that resides in the mind of man. A '''religion''' that shall derive its '''authority''' from the '''fruits''' of its acceptance that will so certainly appear in the personal experience of all who really and truly become believers in the '''truths''' of this higher '''spiritual''' communion."