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101:0.2 [[Religion]] is the [[ancestor]] of the advanced [[ethics]] and [[morals]] of [[progressive]] [[social]] [[evolution]]. But [[religion]], as such, is not merely a [[moral]] [[movement]], albeit the outward and [[social]] [[manifestations]] of religion are mightily [[influenced]] by the [[ethical]] and [[moral]] [[momentum]] of [[human]] [[society]]. Always is [[religion]] the [[inspiration]] of man's evolving [[nature]], but it is not the [[secret]] of that [[evolution]].

101:0.2 [[Religion]] is the [[ancestor]] of the advanced [[ethics]] and [[morals]] of [[progressive]] [[social]] [[evolution]]. But [[religion]], as such, is not merely a [[moral]] [[movement]], albeit the outward and [[social]] [[manifestations]] of religion are mightily [[influenced]] by the [[ethical]] and [[moral]] [[momentum]] of [[human]] [[society]]. Always is [[religion]] the [[inspiration]] of man's evolving [[nature]], but it is not the [[secret]] of that [[evolution]].

101:0.3 [[Religion]], the [[conviction]]-[[faith]] of the [[personality]], can always triumph over the [[superficially]] contradictory [[logic]] of [[despair]] born in the unbelieving [[material]] [[mind]]. There really is a true and genuine [[Thought Adjuster|inner voice]], that "true light which lights every man who comes into the world."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] And this [[spirit]] [[leading]] is distinct from the [[ethical]] prompting of [[human]] [[conscience]]. The [[feeling]] of religious [[assurance]] is more than an [[emotional]] feeling. The [[assurance]] of [[religion]] [[transcends]] the [[reason]] of the [[mind]], even the [[logic]] of [[philosophy]]. [[Religion]] is [[faith]], [[trust]], and [[assurance]].

101:0.3 [[Religion]], the [[conviction]]-[[faith]] of the [[personality]], can always triumph over the [[superficially]] contradictory [[logic]] of [[despair]] born in the unbelieving [[material]] [[mind]]. There really is a true and genuine [[Thought Adjuster|inner voice]], that "true light which lights every man who comes into the world."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] And this [[spirit]] [[leading]] is distinct from the [[ethical]] prompting of [[human]] [[conscience]]. The [[feeling]] of religious [[assurance]] is more than an [[emotional]] feeling. The [[assurance]] of [[religion]] [[transcends]] the [[reason]] of the [[mind]], even the [[logic]] of [[philosophy]]. [[Religion]] is [[faith]], [[trust]], and [[assurance]].

==101:1. TRUE RELIGION==

==101:1. TRUE RELIGION==

101:1.1 True [[religion]] is not a [[system]] of [[philosophic]] [[belief]] which can be [[reasoned]] out and substantiated by [[natural]] [[proofs]], neither is it a [[fantastic]] and [[mystic]] [[experience]] of indescribable [[feelings]] of [[ecstasy]] which can be enjoyed only by the [[romantic]] devotees of [[mysticism]]. [[Religion]] is not the [[product]] of [[reason]], but viewed from within, it is altogether reasonable. [[Religion]] is not derived from the [[logic]] of [[human]] [[philosophy]], but as a [[mortal]] [[experience]] it is altogether [[logical]]. [[Religion]] is the experiencing of [[divinity]] in the [[consciousness]] of a [[moral]] [[being]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS evolutionary origin]; it [[represents]] true [[experience]] with [[eternal]] [[realities]] in [[time]], the [[realization]] of [[spiritual]] [[satisfactions]] while yet in the [[flesh]].

101:1.1 True [[religion]] is not a [[system]] of [[philosophic]] [[belief]] which can be [[reasoned]] out and substantiated by [[natural]] [[proofs]], neither is it a [[fantastic]] and [[mystic]] [[experience]] of indescribable [[feelings]] of [[ecstasy]] which can be enjoyed only by the [[romantic]] devotees of [[mysticism]]. [[Religion]] is not the [[product]] of [[reason]], but viewed from within, it is altogether reasonable. [[Religion]] is not derived from the [[logic]] of [[human]] [[philosophy]], but as a [[mortal]] [[experience]] it is altogether [[logical]]. [[Religion]] is the experiencing of [[divinity]] in the [[consciousness]] of a [[moral]] [[being]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS evolutionary origin]; it [[represents]] true [[experience]] with [[eternal]] [[realities]] in [[time]], the [[realization]] of [[spiritual]] [[satisfactions]] while yet in the [[flesh]].

101:1.2 The [[Thought Adjuster]] has no special [[mechanism]] through which to gain [[self]]-[[expression]]; there is no [[mystic]] religious [[faculty]] for the [[reception]] or [[expression]] of religious [[emotions]]. These [[experiences]] are made available through the [[naturally]] [[ordained]] [[mechanism]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:6._EVOLUTION_OF_THE_HUMAN_MIND mortal mind]. And therein lies one [[explanation]] of the [[Adjuster]]'s [[difficulty]] in [[engaging]] in direct [[communication]] with the [[material]] [[mind]] of its constant indwelling.

101:1.2 The [[Thought Adjuster]] has no special [[mechanism]] through which to gain [[self]]-[[expression]]; there is no [[mystic]] religious [[faculty]] for the [[reception]] or [[expression]] of religious [[emotions]]. These [[experiences]] are made available through the [[naturally]] [[ordained]] [[mechanism]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:6._EVOLUTION_OF_THE_HUMAN_MIND mortal mind]. And therein lies one [[explanation]] of the [[Adjuster]]'s [[difficulty]] in [[engaging]] in direct [[communication]] with the [[material]] [[mind]] of its constant indwelling.

101:1.3 The [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] makes [[contact]] with [[mortal]] man, not by [[feelings]] or [[emotions]], but in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized [[thinking]]. It is your [[thoughts]], not your [[feelings]], that lead you Godward. The [[divine]] [[nature]] may be [[perceived]] only with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind's_eye eyes of the mind]. But the [[mind]] that really [[discerns]] [[God]], hears the indwelling [[Adjuster]], is the [[pure]] mind. "Without [[holiness]] no man may see the Lord."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_XII] All such inner and [[spiritual]] [[communion]] is termed [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. Such [[religious]] [[experiences]] result from the impress made upon the [[mind]] of man by the combined operations of the [[Adjuster]] and the [[Spirit of Truth]] as they [[function]] amid and upon the [[ideas]], [[ideals]], [[insights]], and spirit strivings of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolving sons of God].

101:1.3 The [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] makes [[contact]] with [[mortal]] man, not by [[feelings]] or [[emotions]], but in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized [[thinking]]. It is your [[thoughts]], not your [[feelings]], that lead you Godward. The [[divine]] [[nature]] may be [[perceived]] only with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind's_eye eyes of the mind]. But the [[mind]] that really [[discerns]] [[God]], hears the indwelling [[Adjuster]], is the [[pure]] mind. "Without [[holiness]] no man may see the Lord."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_XII] All such inner and [[spiritual]] [[communion]] is termed [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. Such [[religious]] [[experiences]] result from the impress made upon the [[mind]] of man by the combined operations of the [[Adjuster]] and the [[Spirit of Truth]] as they [[function]] amid and upon the [[ideas]], [[ideals]], [[insights]], and spirit strivings of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolving sons of God].

101:1.4 [[Religion]] lives and prospers, then, not by [[sight]] and [[feeling]], but rather by [[faith]] and [[insight]]. It consists not in the [[discovery]] of new [[facts]] or in the finding of a [[unique]] [[experience]], but rather in the [[discovery]] of new and [[spiritual]] [[meanings]] in [[facts]] already well known to [[mankind]]. The highest [[religious]] [[experience]] is not dependent on prior [[acts]] of [[belief]], [[tradition]], and [[authority]]; neither is [[religion]] the [[offspring]] of [[sublime]] [[feelings]] and purely [[mystical]] [[emotions]]. It is, rather, a [[profoundly]] deep and [[actual]] [[experience]] of [[spiritual]] [[communion]] with the spirit [[influences]] resident within the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mind-2001-03-08 human mind], and as far as such an [[experience]] is definable in terms of [[psychology]], it is simply the [[experience]] of experiencing the [[reality]] of believing in [[God]] as the [[reality]] of such a [[purely]] [[personal]] [[experience]].

101:1.4 [[Religion]] lives and prospers, then, not by [[sight]] and [[feeling]], but rather by [[faith]] and [[insight]]. It consists not in the [[discovery]] of new [[facts]] or in the finding of a [[unique]] [[experience]], but rather in the [[discovery]] of new and [[spiritual]] [[meanings]] in [[facts]] already well known to [[mankind]]. The highest [[religious]] [[experience]] is not dependent on prior [[acts]] of [[belief]], [[tradition]], and [[authority]]; neither is [[religion]] the [[offspring]] of [[sublime]] [[feelings]] and purely [[mystical]] [[emotions]]. It is, rather, a [[profoundly]] deep and [[actual]] [[experience]] of [[spiritual]] [[communion]] with the spirit [[influences]] resident within the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mind-2001-03-08 human mind], and as far as such an [[experience]] is definable in terms of [[psychology]], it is simply the [[experience]] of experiencing the [[reality]] of believing in [[God]] as the [[reality]] of such a [[purely]] [[personal]] [[experience]].

101:1.5 While [[religion]] is not the [[product]] of the [[rationalistic]] [[speculations]] of a [[material cosmology]], it is, nonetheless, the [[creation]] of a wholly [[rational]] [[insight]] which originates in man's [[mind]]-[[experience]]. [[Religion]] is born neither of [[mystic]] [[meditations]] nor of [[isolated]] [[contemplation]]s, albeit it is ever more or less [[mysterious]] and always indefinable and inexplicable in terms of [[purely]] [[intellectual]] [[reason]] and [[philosophic]] [[logic]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_cell germs] of true [[religion]] [[originate]] in the [[domain]] of man's [[moral]] [[consciousness]], and they are [[revealed]] in the [[growth]] of man's [[spiritual]] [[insight]], that [[faculty]] of [[human]] [[personality]] which accrues as a [[consequence]] of the [[presence]] of the [[God]]-revealing [[Thought Adjuster]] in the [[God]]-[[hungry]] [[mortal mind]].

101:1.5 While [[religion]] is not the [[product]] of the [[rationalistic]] [[speculations]] of a [[material cosmology]], it is, nonetheless, the [[creation]] of a wholly [[rational]] [[insight]] which originates in man's [[mind]]-[[experience]]. [[Religion]] is born neither of [[mystic]] [[meditations]] nor of [[isolated]] [[contemplation]]s, albeit it is ever more or less [[mysterious]] and always indefinable and inexplicable in terms of [[purely]] [[intellectual]] [[reason]] and [[philosophic]] [[logic]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_cell germs] of true [[religion]] [[originate]] in the [[domain]] of man's [[moral]] [[consciousness]], and they are [[revealed]] in the [[growth]] of man's [[spiritual]] [[insight]], that [[faculty]] of [[human]] [[personality]] which accrues as a [[consequence]] of the [[presence]] of the [[God]]-revealing [[Thought Adjuster]] in the [[God]]-[[hungry]] [[mortal mind]].

101:1.6 [[Faith]] [[unites]] [[moral]] [[insight]] with conscientious [[discrimination]]s of [[values]], and the pre-existent evolutionary sense of [[duty]] completes the [[ancestry]] of true [[religion]]. The [[experience]] of [[religion]] [[eventually]] results in the certain [[consciousness]] of [[God]] and in the undoubted [[assurance]] of the [[survival]] of the believing [[personality]].

101:1.6 [[Faith]] [[unites]] [[moral]] [[insight]] with conscientious [[discrimination]]s of [[values]], and the pre-existent evolutionary sense of [[duty]] completes the [[ancestry]] of true [[religion]]. The [[experience]] of [[religion]] [[eventually]] results in the certain [[consciousness]] of [[God]] and in the undoubted [[assurance]] of the [[survival]] of the believing [[personality]].

101:1.7 Thus it may be seen that [[religious]] longings and [[spiritual]] urges are not of such a [[nature]] as would merely lead men to want to [[believe]] in [[God]], but rather are they of such [[nature]] and [[power]] that men are [[profoundly]] impressed with the [[conviction]] that they ''ought'' to [[believe]] in [[God]]. The sense of [[evolutionary]] [[duty]] and the [[obligations]] consequent upon the [[illumination]] of [[revelation]] make such a [[profound]] impression upon man's [[moral]] [[nature]] that he finally reaches that position of [[mind]] and that [[attitude]] of [[soul]] where he concludes that he has no right not to believe in God. The higher and superphilosophic [[wisdom]] of such [[enlightened]] and [[disciplined]] [[individuals]] ultimately instructs them that to [[doubt]] [[God]] or distrust his [[goodness]] would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=More_On_Mind-2003-10-20 human mind] and [[soul]]—the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]].

101:1.7 Thus it may be seen that [[religious]] longings and [[spiritual]] urges are not of such a [[nature]] as would merely lead men to want to [[believe]] in [[God]], but rather are they of such [[nature]] and [[power]] that men are [[profoundly]] impressed with the [[conviction]] that they ''ought'' to [[believe]] in [[God]]. The sense of [[evolutionary]] [[duty]] and the [[obligations]] consequent upon the [[illumination]] of [[revelation]] make such a [[profound]] impression upon man's [[moral]] [[nature]] that he finally reaches that position of [[mind]] and that [[attitude]] of [[soul]] where he concludes that he has no right not to believe in God. The higher and superphilosophic [[wisdom]] of such [[enlightened]] and [[disciplined]] [[individuals]] ultimately instructs them that to [[doubt]] [[God]] or distrust his [[goodness]] would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=More_On_Mind-2003-10-20 human mind] and [[soul]]—the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]].

==101:2. THE FACT OF RELIGION==

==101:2. THE FACT OF RELIGION==

101:2.7 The [[contemplation]] of [[nature]] can only reveal a [[God]] of [[nature]], a God of [[motion]]. [[Nature]] exhibits only [[matter]], [[motion]], and animation—life. [[Matter]] plus [[energy]], under certain conditions, is [[manifested]] in living [[forms]], but while [[natural]] life is thus [[relatively]] continuous as a [[phenomenon]], it is wholly transient as to [[individualities]]. [[Nature]] does not afford ground for [[logical]] [[belief]] in human-[[personality]] [[survival]]. The [[religious]] man who finds [[God]] in [[nature]] has already and first found this same [[personal]] [[God]] in his own [[soul]].

101:2.7 The [[contemplation]] of [[nature]] can only reveal a [[God]] of [[nature]], a God of [[motion]]. [[Nature]] exhibits only [[matter]], [[motion]], and animation—life. [[Matter]] plus [[energy]], under certain conditions, is [[manifested]] in living [[forms]], but while [[natural]] life is thus [[relatively]] continuous as a [[phenomenon]], it is wholly transient as to [[individualities]]. [[Nature]] does not afford ground for [[logical]] [[belief]] in human-[[personality]] [[survival]]. The [[religious]] man who finds [[God]] in [[nature]] has already and first found this same [[personal]] [[God]] in his own [[soul]].

101:2.8 [[Faith]] reveals [[God]] in the [[soul]]. [[Revelation]], the substitute for [[morontia]] [[insight]] on an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world], enables man to see the same [[God]] in [[nature]] that [[faith]] exhibits in his [[soul]]. Thus does [[revelation]] successfully bridge the gulf between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]], even between the [[creature]] and the [[Creator]], between man and God.

101:2.8 [[Faith]] reveals [[God]] in the [[soul]]. [[Revelation]], the substitute for [[morontia]] [[insight]] on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world], enables man to see the same [[God]] in [[nature]] that [[faith]] exhibits in his [[soul]]. Thus does [[revelation]] successfully bridge the gulf between the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]], even between the [[creature]] and the [[Creator]], between man and God.

101:2.9 The [[contemplation]] of [[nature]] does [[logically]] point in the direction of [[intelligent]] [[guidance]], even living supervision, but it does not in any [[satisfactory]] [[manner]] reveal a [[personal]] [[God]]. On the other hand, [[nature]] discloses nothing which would preclude the [[universe]] from being looked upon as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_19 handiwork] of the [[God]] of [[religion]]. God cannot be found through [[nature]] alone, but man having otherwise found him, the [[study]] of nature becomes wholly [[consistent]] with a higher and more [[spiritual]] [[interpretation]] of the [[universe]].

101:2.9 The [[contemplation]] of [[nature]] does [[logically]] point in the direction of [[intelligent]] [[guidance]], even living supervision, but it does not in any [[satisfactory]] [[manner]] reveal a [[personal]] [[God]]. On the other hand, [[nature]] discloses nothing which would preclude the [[universe]] from being looked upon as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_19 handiwork] of the [[God]] of [[religion]]. God cannot be found through [[nature]] alone, but man having otherwise found him, the [[study]] of nature becomes wholly [[consistent]] with a higher and more [[spiritual]] [[interpretation]] of the [[universe]].

101:2.10 [[Revelation]] as an [[epochal]] [[phenomenon]] is [[periodic]]; as a [[personal]] human [[experience]] it is [[continuous]]. [[Divinity]] [[functions]] in [[mortal]] [[personality]] as the [[Adjuster]] gift of [[the Father]], as the [[Spirit of Truth]] of [[Bestowal Son|the Son]], and as the [[Holy Spirit]] of the [[Mother Spirit|Universe Spirit]], while these three [[supermortal]] [[endowments]] are unified in [[human]] [[experiential]] [[evolution]] as the [[ministry]] of [[the Supreme]].

101:2.10 [[Revelation]] as an [[epochal]] [[phenomenon]] is [[periodic]]; as a [[personal]] human [[experience]] it is [[continuous]]. [[Divinity]] [[functions]] in [[mortal]] [[personality]] as the [[Adjuster]] gift of [[the Father]], as the [[Spirit of Truth]] of [[Bestowal Son|the Son]], and as the [[Holy Spirit]] of the [[Mother Spirit|Universe Spirit]], while these three [[supermortal]] [[endowments]] are unified in [[human]] [[experiential]] [[evolution]] as the [[ministry]] of [[the Supreme]].

101:2.11 True [[religion]] is an [[insight]] into [[reality]], the [[faith]]-[[child]] of the [[moral]] [[consciousness]], and not a mere [[intellectual]] assent to any body of [[dogmatic]] [[doctrines]]. True [[religion]] consists in the [[experience]] that "the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] [[Religion]] consists not in [[theologic]] propositions but in [[spiritual]] [[insight]] and the [[sublimity]] of the [[soul]]'s [[trust]].

101:2.11 True [[religion]] is an [[insight]] into [[reality]], the [[faith]]-[[child]] of the [[moral]] [[consciousness]], and not a mere [[intellectual]] assent to any body of [[dogmatic]] [[doctrines]]. True [[religion]] consists in the [[experience]] that "the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] [[Religion]] consists not in [[theologic]] propositions but in [[spiritual]] [[insight]] and the [[sublimity]] of the [[soul]]'s [[trust]].

101:2.12 Your deepest [[nature]]—the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]]—[[creates]] within you a [[hunger]] and thirst for [[righteousness]], a certain craving for divine [[perfection]]. [[Religion]] is the [[faith]] [[act]] of the [[recognition]] of this inner urge to [[divine]] [[attainment]]; and thus is brought about that [[soul]] [[trust]] and [[assurance]] of which you become [[conscious]] as the way of [[salvation]], the [[technique]] of the [[survival]] of [[personality]] and all those [[values]] which you have come to look upon as being [[true]] and [[good]].

101:2.12 Your deepest [[nature]]—the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]]—[[creates]] within you a [[hunger]] and thirst for [[righteousness]], a certain craving for divine [[perfection]]. [[Religion]] is the [[faith]] [[act]] of the [[recognition]] of this inner urge to [[divine]] [[attainment]]; and thus is brought about that [[soul]] [[trust]] and [[assurance]] of which you become [[conscious]] as the way of [[salvation]], the [[technique]] of the [[survival]] of [[personality]] and all those [[values]] which you have come to look upon as being [[true]] and [[good]].

*10. Contributes to the continued [[survival]] of [[altruism]] in spite of human [[selfishness]], [[social]] [[antagonisms]], [[industrial]] [[greed]]s, and [[political]] maladjustments.

*10. Contributes to the continued [[survival]] of [[altruism]] in spite of human [[selfishness]], [[social]] [[antagonisms]], [[industrial]] [[greed]]s, and [[political]] maladjustments.

*11. [[Steadfastly]] [[adhere]]s to a [[sublime]] [[belief]] in [[universe]] [[unity]] and [[divine]] [[guidance]] regardless of the [[perplexing]] [[presence]] of [[evil]] and [[sin]].

*11. [[Steadfastly]] [[adhere]]s to a [[sublime]] [[belief]] in [[universe]] [[unity]] and [[divine]] [[guidance]] regardless of the [[perplexing]] [[presence]] of [[evil]] and [[sin]].

*12. Goes right on [[worshiping]] [[God]] in spite of anything and [[everything]]. Dares to [[declare]]," Even though he slay me, yet will I serve him."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.13]

*12. Goes right on [[worshiping]] [[God]] in spite of anything and [[everything]]. Dares to [[declare]]," Even though he slay me, yet will I serve him."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.13]

101:3.5 We know, then, by three [[phenomena]], that man has a [[divine]] [[spirit]] or spirits dwelling within him: first, by [[personal]] [[experience]]—[[religious]] [[faith]]; second, by [[revelation]]—[[personal]] and [[racial]]; and third, by the amazing exhibition of such extraordinary and unnatural [[reactions]] to his [[material]] [[environment]] as are illustrated by the foregoing recital of twelve spiritlike [[performances]] in the [[presence]] of the [[actual]] and trying situations of real [[human]] [[existence]]. And there are still others.

101:3.5 We know, then, by three [[phenomena]], that man has a [[divine]] [[spirit]] or spirits dwelling within him: first, by [[personal]] [[experience]]—[[religious]] [[faith]]; second, by [[revelation]]—[[personal]] and [[racial]]; and third, by the amazing exhibition of such extraordinary and unnatural [[reactions]] to his [[material]] [[environment]] as are illustrated by the foregoing recital of twelve spiritlike [[performances]] in the [[presence]] of the [[actual]] and trying situations of real [[human]] [[existence]]. And there are still others.

101:5.2 [[Science]] deals with [[facts]]; [[religion]] is concerned only with [[values]]. Through [[enlightened]] [[philosophy]] the [[mind]] endeavors to unite the [[meanings]] of both [[facts]] and [[values]], thereby arriving at a [[concept]] of complete [[reality]]. [[Remember]] that [[science]] is the [[domain]] of [[knowledge]], [[philosophy]] the realm of [[wisdom]], and [[religion]] the sphere of the [[faith]] [[experience]]. But [[religion]], nonetheless, presents two [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]:

101:5.2 [[Science]] deals with [[facts]]; [[religion]] is concerned only with [[values]]. Through [[enlightened]] [[philosophy]] the [[mind]] endeavors to unite the [[meanings]] of both [[facts]] and [[values]], thereby arriving at a [[concept]] of complete [[reality]]. [[Remember]] that [[science]] is the [[domain]] of [[knowledge]], [[philosophy]] the realm of [[wisdom]], and [[religion]] the sphere of the [[faith]] [[experience]]. But [[religion]], nonetheless, presents two [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]:

*1. 101:5.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion]. The [[experience]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_85#PAPER_85:_THE_ORIGINS_OF_WORSHIP primitive worship], the [[religion]] which is a [[mind]] [[derivative]].

*1. 101:5.3 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion]. The [[experience]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_85#PAPER_85:_THE_ORIGINS_OF_WORSHIP primitive worship], the [[religion]] which is a [[mind]] [[derivative]].

*2. 101:5.4 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion]. The [[universe]] [[attitude]] which is a [[spirit]] [[derivative]]; the [[assurance]] of, and [[belief]] in, the [[conservation]] of [[eternal]] realities, the [[survival]] of [[personality]], and the eventual [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] [[Deity]], whose [[purpose]] has made all this possible. It is a part of the [[plan]] of the [[universe]] that, sooner or later, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] is [[destined]] to [[receive]] the [[spiritual]] expansion of [[revelation]].

*2. 101:5.4 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION Revealed religion]. The [[universe]] [[attitude]] which is a [[spirit]] [[derivative]]; the [[assurance]] of, and [[belief]] in, the [[conservation]] of [[eternal]] realities, the [[survival]] of [[personality]], and the eventual [[attainment]] of the [[cosmic]] [[Deity]], whose [[purpose]] has made all this possible. It is a part of the [[plan]] of the [[universe]] that, sooner or later, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religion] is [[destined]] to [[receive]] the [[spiritual]] expansion of [[revelation]].

101:5.5 Both [[science]] and [[religion]] start out with the [[assumption]] of certain generally [[accepted]] bases for [[logical]] [[deductions]]. So, also, must [[philosophy]] start its [[career]] upon the [[assumption]] of the reality of three things:

101:5.5 Both [[science]] and [[religion]] start out with the [[assumption]] of certain generally [[accepted]] bases for [[logical]] [[deductions]]. So, also, must [[philosophy]] start its [[career]] upon the [[assumption]] of the reality of three things:

101:5.6 [[Scientists]] assemble [[facts]], [[philosophers]] [[co-ordinate]] [[ideas]], while [[prophets]] exalt [[ideals]]. [[Feeling]] and [[emotion]] are invariable concomitants of [[religion]], but they are not religion. Religion may be the [[feeling]] of [[experience]], but it is hardly the experience of feeling. Neither [[logic]] (rationalization) nor [[emotion]] ([[feeling]]) is [[essentially]] a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], although both may variously be [[associated]] with the [[exercise]] of [[faith]] in the furtherance of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] into [[reality]], all according to the [[status]] and [[temperament]]al [[tendency]] of the [[individual]] [[mind]].

101:5.6 [[Scientists]] assemble [[facts]], [[philosophers]] [[co-ordinate]] [[ideas]], while [[prophets]] exalt [[ideals]]. [[Feeling]] and [[emotion]] are invariable concomitants of [[religion]], but they are not religion. Religion may be the [[feeling]] of [[experience]], but it is hardly the experience of feeling. Neither [[logic]] (rationalization) nor [[emotion]] ([[feeling]]) is [[essentially]] a part of [[religious]] [[experience]], although both may variously be [[associated]] with the [[exercise]] of [[faith]] in the furtherance of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] into [[reality]], all according to the [[status]] and [[temperament]]al [[tendency]] of the [[individual]] [[mind]].

101:5.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is the outworking of the [[endowment]] of the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|local universe mind adjutant]] charged with the [[creation]] and fostering of the [[worship]] trait in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolving man]. Such [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#PAPER_86:_EARLY_EVOLUTION_OF_RELIGION primitive religions] are directly concerned with [[ethics]] and [[morals]], the sense of human [[duty]]. Such [[religions]] are predicated on the [[assurance]] of [[conscience]] and result in the [[stabilization]] of [[relatively]] [[ethical]] [[civilizations]].

101:5.7 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] is the outworking of the [[endowment]] of the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|local universe mind adjutant]] charged with the [[creation]] and fostering of the [[worship]] trait in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR evolving man]. Such [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#PAPER_86:_EARLY_EVOLUTION_OF_RELIGION primitive religions] are directly concerned with [[ethics]] and [[morals]], the sense of human [[duty]]. Such [[religions]] are predicated on the [[assurance]] of [[conscience]] and result in the [[stabilization]] of [[relatively]] [[ethical]] [[civilizations]].

101:5.8 Personally [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS revealed religions] are sponsored by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES bestowal spirits] [[representing]] the three persons of the [[Paradise Trinity]] and are especially concerned with the expansion of [[truth]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] drives [[home]] to the [[individual]] the [[idea]] of [[personal]] [[duty]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] lays increasing emphasis on loving, the [[golden rule]].

101:5.8 Personally [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:6._THE_COMPOSITE_RELIGIONS revealed religions] are sponsored by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES bestowal spirits] [[representing]] the three persons of the [[Paradise Trinity]] and are especially concerned with the expansion of [[truth]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] drives [[home]] to the [[individual]] the [[idea]] of [[personal]] [[duty]]; [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] lays increasing emphasis on loving, the [[golden rule]].

101:5.9 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolved religion] rests wholly on [[faith]]. [[Revelation]] has the additional [[assurance]] of its expanded presentation of the [[truths]] of [[divinity]] and [[reality]] and the still more valuable [[testimony]] of the actual [[experience]] which accumulates in [[consequence]] of the [[practical]] working [[union]] of the [[faith]] of [[evolution]] and the [[truth]] of [[revelation]]. Such a working [[union]] of [[human]] [[faith]] and [[divine]] [[truth]] constitutes the [[possession]] of a [[character]] well on the road to the actual acquirement of a [[morontial]] [[personality]].

101:5.9 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolved religion] rests wholly on [[faith]]. [[Revelation]] has the additional [[assurance]] of its expanded presentation of the [[truths]] of [[divinity]] and [[reality]] and the still more valuable [[testimony]] of the actual [[experience]] which accumulates in [[consequence]] of the [[practical]] working [[union]] of the [[faith]] of [[evolution]] and the [[truth]] of [[revelation]]. Such a working [[union]] of [[human]] [[faith]] and [[divine]] [[truth]] constitutes the [[possession]] of a [[character]] well on the road to the actual acquirement of a [[morontial]] [[personality]].

101:5.10 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] provides only the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] and the [[confirmation]] of [[conscience]]; [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] provides the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] plus the [[truth]] of a living [[experience]] in the realities of [[revelation]]. The third step in [[religion]], or the third [[phase]] of the [[experience]] of [[religion]], has to do with the [[morontia]] [[state]], the firmer grasp of [[mota]]. Increasingly in the [[morontia]] [[progression]] the [[truths]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] are expanded; more and more you will know the [[truth]] of [[supreme]] [[values]], [[divine]] [[goodness]]es, [[universal]] [[relationships]], [[eternal]] [[realities]], and [[ultimate]] [[destinies]].

101:5.10 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION Evolutionary religion] provides only the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] and the [[confirmation]] of [[conscience]]; [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] provides the [[assurance]] of [[faith]] plus the [[truth]] of a living [[experience]] in the realities of [[revelation]]. The third step in [[religion]], or the third [[phase]] of the [[experience]] of [[religion]], has to do with the [[morontia]] [[state]], the firmer grasp of [[mota]]. Increasingly in the [[morontia]] [[progression]] the [[truths]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] are expanded; more and more you will know the [[truth]] of [[supreme]] [[values]], [[divine]] [[goodness]]es, [[universal]] [[relationships]], [[eternal]] [[realities]], and [[ultimate]] [[destinies]].

101:5.11 Increasingly throughout the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#PAPER_47:_THE_SEVEN_MANSION_WORLDS morontia progression] the [[assurance]] of [[truth]] replaces the assurance of [[faith]]. When you are finally mustered into the [[actual]] [[spirit]] world, then will the [[assurances]] of [[pure]] spirit [[insight]] operate in the place of [[faith]] and [[truth]] or, rather, in conjunction with, and [[superimposed]] upon, these former [[techniques]] of [[personality]] [[assurance]].

101:5.11 Increasingly throughout the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#PAPER_47:_THE_SEVEN_MANSION_WORLDS morontia progression] the [[assurance]] of [[truth]] replaces the assurance of [[faith]]. When you are finally mustered into the [[actual]] [[spirit]] world, then will the [[assurances]] of [[pure]] spirit [[insight]] operate in the place of [[faith]] and [[truth]] or, rather, in conjunction with, and [[superimposed]] upon, these former [[techniques]] of [[personality]] [[assurance]].

==101:6. PROGRESSIVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE==   

==101:6. PROGRESSIVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE==   

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]].

101:6.1 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 [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]].

101:6.2 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 [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]].

101:6.4 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 [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]].

101:6.5 [[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 [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].

101:6.7 [[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 [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:

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.

*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 [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]].

*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]].

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 [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].

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 [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].

==101:7. A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION==

==101:7. A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION==

101:7.4 The great [[difference]] between a [[religious]] and a nonreligious [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/TBG.htm philosophy of living] consists in the [[nature]] and level of recognized [[values]] and in the object of loyalties. There are four phases in the [[evolution]] of religious [[philosophy]]: Such an [[experience]] may become merely [[conformative]], resigned to submission to [[tradition]] and [[authority]]. Or it may be satisfied with slight [[attainments]], just enough to [[stabilize]] the daily living, and therefore becomes early arrested on such an adventitious level. Such [[mortals]] believe in letting well enough alone. A third group [[progress]] to the level of [[logical]] [[intellectuality]] but there stagnate in [[consequence]] of [[cultural]] [[slavery]]. It is indeed pitiful to behold giant [[intellects]] held so securely within the cruel grasp of [[cultural]] [[bondage]]. It is equally pathetic to [[observe]] those who trade their cultural [[bondage]] for the [[materialistic]] fetters of a [[science]], falsely so called. The fourth level of [[philosophy]] attains [[freedom]] from all conventional and [[traditional]] [[handicaps]] and dares to [[think]], [[act]], and live [[honestly]], loyally, fearlessly, and [[truthfully]].

101:7.4 The great [[difference]] between a [[religious]] and a nonreligious [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/TBG.htm philosophy of living] consists in the [[nature]] and level of recognized [[values]] and in the object of loyalties. There are four phases in the [[evolution]] of religious [[philosophy]]: Such an [[experience]] may become merely [[conformative]], resigned to submission to [[tradition]] and [[authority]]. Or it may be satisfied with slight [[attainments]], just enough to [[stabilize]] the daily living, and therefore becomes early arrested on such an adventitious level. Such [[mortals]] believe in letting well enough alone. A third group [[progress]] to the level of [[logical]] [[intellectuality]] but there stagnate in [[consequence]] of [[cultural]] [[slavery]]. It is indeed pitiful to behold giant [[intellects]] held so securely within the cruel grasp of [[cultural]] [[bondage]]. It is equally pathetic to [[observe]] those who trade their cultural [[bondage]] for the [[materialistic]] fetters of a [[science]], falsely so called. The fourth level of [[philosophy]] attains [[freedom]] from all conventional and [[traditional]] [[handicaps]] and dares to [[think]], [[act]], and live [[honestly]], loyally, fearlessly, and [[truthfully]].

101:7.5 The acid test for any [[religious]] [[philosophy]] consists in whether or not it distinguishes between the [[realities]] of the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]] worlds while at the same moment recognizing their [[unification]] in [[intellectual]] striving and in social serving. A sound religious [[philosophy]] does not confound the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_22 things of God with the things of Caesar]. Neither does it [[recognize]] the [[aesthetic]] [[cult]] of [[pure]] [[wonder]] as a substitute for [[religion]].

101:7.5 The acid test for any [[religious]] [[philosophy]] consists in whether or not it distinguishes between the [[realities]] of the [[material]] and the [[spiritual]] worlds while at the same moment recognizing their [[unification]] in [[intellectual]] striving and in social serving. A sound religious [[philosophy]] does not confound the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_22 things of God with the things of Caesar]. Neither does it [[recognize]] the [[aesthetic]] [[cult]] of [[pure]] [[wonder]] as a substitute for [[religion]].

101:7.6 [[Philosophy]] [[transforms]] that [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion] which was largely a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale fairy tale] of [[conscience]] into a living [[experience]] in the [[ascending]] [[values]] of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].

101:7.6 [[Philosophy]] [[transforms]] that [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion] which was largely a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale fairy tale] of [[conscience]] into a living [[experience]] in the [[ascending]] [[values]] of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].

==101:8. FAITH AND BELIEF==

==101:8. FAITH AND BELIEF==

==101:9. RELIGION AND MORALITY==

==101:9. RELIGION AND MORALITY==

101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]].

101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]].

101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]].

101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]].

101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]].

101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]].

101:10.1 [[Intelligent]] man knows that he is a [[child]] of [[nature]], a part of the [[material]] [[universe]]; he likewise [[discerns]] no [[survival]] of [[individual]] [[personality]] in the [[motions]] and [[tensions]] of the [[mathematical]] level of the [[energy]] [[universe]]. Nor can man ever [[discern]] [[spiritual]] [[reality]] through the [[examination]] of [[physical]] [[causes]] and [[effects]].

101:10.1 [[Intelligent]] man knows that he is a [[child]] of [[nature]], a part of the [[material]] [[universe]]; he likewise [[discerns]] no [[survival]] of [[individual]] [[personality]] in the [[motions]] and [[tensions]] of the [[mathematical]] level of the [[energy]] [[universe]]. Nor can man ever [[discern]] [[spiritual]] [[reality]] through the [[examination]] of [[physical]] [[causes]] and [[effects]].

101:10.2 A [[human being]] is also [[aware]] that he is a [[part]] of the [[ideational]] [[cosmos]], but though [[concept]] may [[endure]] beyond a [[mortal]] life span, there is nothing [[inherent]] in [[concept]] which indicates the [[personal]] [[survival]] of the conceiving [[personality]]. Nor will the [[exhaustion]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[logic]] and [[reason]] ever [[reveal]] to the logician or to the reasoner the [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 survival of personality].

101:10.2 A [[human being]] is also [[aware]] that he is a [[part]] of the [[ideational]] [[cosmos]], but though [[concept]] may [[endure]] beyond a [[mortal]] life span, there is nothing [[inherent]] in [[concept]] which indicates the [[personal]] [[survival]] of the conceiving [[personality]]. Nor will the [[exhaustion]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[logic]] and [[reason]] ever [[reveal]] to the logician or to the reasoner the [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 survival of personality].

101:10.3 The [[material]] level of [[law]] provides for [[causality]] [[continuity]], the unending [[response]] of [[effect]] to antecedent [[action]]; the [[mind]] level suggests the perpetuation of ideational [[continuity]], the unceasing [[flow]] of [[conceptual]] [[potentiality]] from pre-existent conceptions. But neither of these [[levels]] of the [[universe]] discloses to the [[inquiring]] [[mortal]] an avenue of [[escape]] from [[partiality]] of [[status]] and from the intolerable [[suspense]] of being a [[transient]] [[reality]] in the [[universe]], a [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] upon the [[exhaustion]] of the limited life [[energies]].

101:10.3 The [[material]] level of [[law]] provides for [[causality]] [[continuity]], the unending [[response]] of [[effect]] to antecedent [[action]]; the [[mind]] level suggests the perpetuation of ideational [[continuity]], the unceasing [[flow]] of [[conceptual]] [[potentiality]] from pre-existent conceptions. But neither of these [[levels]] of the [[universe]] discloses to the [[inquiring]] [[mortal]] an avenue of [[escape]] from [[partiality]] of [[status]] and from the intolerable [[suspense]] of being a [[transient]] [[reality]] in the [[universe]], a [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] upon the [[exhaustion]] of the limited life [[energies]].

101:10.8 When you [[experience]] such a [[transformation]] of [[faith]], you are no longer a [[slavish]] part of the [[mathematical]] [[cosmos]] but rather a liberated [[volitional]] son of the [[Universal Father]]. No longer is such a [[liberated]] son fighting alone against the inexorable [[doom]] of the termination of [[temporal]] [[existence]]; no longer does he combat all [[nature]], with the odds hopelessly against him; no longer is he staggered by the paralyzing [[fear]] that, perchance, he has put his [[trust]] in a hopeless phantasm or pinned his [[faith]] to a fanciful [[error]].

101:10.8 When you [[experience]] such a [[transformation]] of [[faith]], you are no longer a [[slavish]] part of the [[mathematical]] [[cosmos]] but rather a liberated [[volitional]] son of the [[Universal Father]]. No longer is such a [[liberated]] son fighting alone against the inexorable [[doom]] of the termination of [[temporal]] [[existence]]; no longer does he combat all [[nature]], with the odds hopelessly against him; no longer is he staggered by the paralyzing [[fear]] that, perchance, he has put his [[trust]] in a hopeless phantasm or pinned his [[faith]] to a fanciful [[error]].

101:10.9 Now, rather, are the sons of God enlisted [[together]] in fighting the battle of [[reality]]'s triumph over the partial [[shadows]] of [[existence]]. At last all [[creatures]] become [[conscious]] of the [[fact]] that [[God]] and all the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 divine hosts] of a well-nigh limitless [[universe]] are on their side in the [[supernal]] struggle to [[attain]] [[eternity]] of life and [[divinity]] of [[status]]. Such [[faith]]-[[liberated]] sons have certainly enlisted in the [[struggles]] of time on the side of the [[supreme]] forces and [[divine]] [[personalities]] of [[eternity]]; even the [[stars]] in their [[courses]] are now doing battle for them; at last they gaze upon the [[universe]] from within, from [[God]]'s [[viewpoint]], and all is [[transformed]] from the uncertainties of [[material]] [[isolation]] to the sureties of eternal [[spiritual]] [[progression]]. Even [[time]] itself becomes but the [[shadow]] of [[eternity]] cast by [[Paradise]] [[realities]] upon the moving panoply of [[space]].

101:10.9 Now, rather, are the sons of God enlisted [[together]] in fighting the battle of [[reality]]'s triumph over the partial [[shadows]] of [[existence]]. At last all [[creatures]] become [[conscious]] of the [[fact]] that [[God]] and all the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 divine hosts] of a well-nigh limitless [[universe]] are on their side in the [[supernal]] struggle to [[attain]] [[eternity]] of life and [[divinity]] of [[status]]. Such [[faith]]-[[liberated]] sons have certainly enlisted in the [[struggles]] of time on the side of the [[supreme]] forces and [[divine]] [[personalities]] of [[eternity]]; even the [[stars]] in their [[courses]] are now doing battle for them; at last they gaze upon the [[universe]] from within, from [[God]]'s [[viewpoint]], and all is [[transformed]] from the uncertainties of [[material]] [[isolation]] to the sureties of eternal [[spiritual]] [[progression]]. Even [[time]] itself becomes but the [[shadow]] of [[eternity]] cast by [[Paradise]] [[realities]] upon the moving panoply of [[space]].

101:10.10 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].

101:10.10 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].

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