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16:8.15: The bestowal of the [[divine]] gift of [[personality]] upon such a mind-endowed [[mortal]] [[mechanism]] confers the [[dignity]] of ''[[cosmic]] [[citizenship]]'' and enables such a mortal creature forthwith to become [[Reaction|reactive]] to the constitutive recognition of the three basic mind realities of the cosmos:
16:8.15: The bestowal of the divine gift of personality upon such a mind-endowed mortal mechanism confers the dignity of cosmic citizenship and enables such a mortal creature forthwith to become reactive to the constitutive recognition of the three basic mind realities of the cosmos:
*1. The [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] recognition of the [[uniformity]] of [[physical]] [[causation]].
*1. The [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] recognition of the [[uniformity]] of [[physical]] [[causation]].
*2. The [[reason]]ed recognition of the obligation of [[moral]] [[Behavior|conduct]].
*2. The [[reason]]ed recognition of the obligation of [[moral]] [[Behavior|conduct]].
*3. The [[faith]]-grasp of the fellowship [[worship]] of [[Deity]], [[associated]] with the loving [[service]] of [[humanity]].
*3. The [[faith]]-grasp of the fellowship [[worship]] of [[Deity]], [[associated]] with the loving [[service]] of [[humanity]].
99:7.5 Economic interdependence and social fraternity will ultimately conduce to brotherhood. Man is naturally a dreamer, but science is sobering him so that religion can presently activate him with far less danger of precipitating fanatical reactions. Economic necessities tie man up with reality, and personal religious experience brings this same man face to face with the eternal realities of an ever-expanding and progressing cosmic citizenship.
99:7.5 [[Economic]] [[interdependence]] and social fraternity will ultimately conduce to [[brotherhood]]. Man is naturally a [[dreamer]], but [[science]] is sobering him so that [[religion]] can presently [[activate]] him with far less [[danger]] of precipitating [[fanatical]] [[reactions]]. [[Economic]] [[necessities]] tie man up with [[reality]], and [[personal]] religious [[experience]] brings this same man face to face with the [[eternal]] realities of an ever-expanding and [[progressing]] ''[[cosmic]] [[citizenship]]''.
110:3.10 ''[[Joyful]] [[acceptance]] of [[cosmic]] [[citizenship]]''—[[honest]] [[recognition]] of your [[progressive]] [[obligations]] to the [[Supreme Being]], [[awareness]] of the [[interdependence]] of evolutionary man and evolving [[Deity]]. This is the [[birth]] of [[cosmic]] [[morality]] and the dawning [[realization]] of [[universal]] [[duty]].
[[Category: Cosmology]]
[[Category: Cosmology]]