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102:2.6 [[Unity]] is best found in [[human]] [[experience]] through [[philosophy]]. And while the body of philosophic [[thought]] must ever be founded on [[material]] [[facts]], the [[soul]] and [[energy]] of true philosophic [[dynamics]] is [[mortal]] [[spiritual]] [[insight]].

102:2.6 [[Unity]] is best found in [[human]] [[experience]] through [[philosophy]]. And while the body of philosophic [[thought]] must ever be founded on [[material]] [[facts]], the [[soul]] and [[energy]] of true philosophic [[dynamics]] is [[mortal]] [[spiritual]] [[insight]].

102:2.7 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR Evolutionary man] does not naturally relish hard [[work]]. To keep [[pace]] in his life [[experience]] with the impelling demands and the compelling urges of a [[growing]] [[religious]] [[experience]] means incessant [[activity]] in [[spiritual]] [[growth]], [[intellectual]] expansion, [[factual]] enlargement, and [[social]] [[service]]. There is no real [[religion]] apart from a highly [[active]] [[personality]]. Therefore do the more [[indolent]] of men often seek to [[escape]] the rigors of truly [[religious]] [[activities]] by a species of ingenious [[self]]-[[deception]] through resorting to a [[retreat]] to the [[false]] [[shelter]] of [[stereotyped]] [[religious]] [[doctrines]] and [[dogmas]]. But true [[religion]] is alive. [[Intellectual]] crystallization of [[religious]] [[concepts]] is the equivalent of [[spiritual]] [[death]]. You cannot [[conceive]] of [[religion]] without [[ideas]], but when [[religion]] once becomes reduced only to an [[idea]], it is no longer [[religion]]; it has become merely a species of human [[philosophy]].

102:2.7 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR Evolutionary man] does not naturally relish hard [[work]]. To keep [[pace]] in his life [[experience]] with the impelling demands and the compelling urges of a [[growing]] [[religious]] [[experience]] means incessant [[activity]] in [[spiritual]] [[growth]], [[intellectual]] expansion, [[factual]] enlargement, and [[social]] [[service]]. There is no real [[religion]] apart from a highly [[active]] [[personality]]. Therefore do the more [[indolent]] of men often seek to [[escape]] the rigors of truly [[religious]] [[activities]] by a species of ingenious [[self]]-[[deception]] through resorting to a [[retreat]] to the [[false]] [[shelter]] of [[stereotyped]] [[religious]] [[doctrines]] and [[dogmas]]. But true [[religion]] is alive. [[Intellectual]] crystallization of [[religious]] [[concepts]] is the equivalent of [[spiritual]] [[death]]. You cannot [[conceive]] of [[religion]] without [[ideas]], but when [[religion]] once becomes reduced only to an [[idea]], it is no longer [[religion]]; it has become merely a species of human [[philosophy]].

102:2.8 Again, there are other [[types]] of unstable and poorly [[disciplined]] [[souls]] who would use the [[sentimental]] [[ideas]] of [[religion]] as an avenue of [[escape]] from the irritating demands of living. When certain vacillating and timid [[mortals]] attempt to [[escape]] from the incessant [[pressure]] of [[evolutionary]] life, [[religion]], as they conceive it, seems to present the nearest [[refuge]], the best avenue of [[escape]]. But it is the mission of [[religion]] to [[prepare]] man for [[bravely]], even [[heroically]], facing the [[vicissitudes]] of life. [[Religion]] is evolutionary [[man]]'s [[supreme]] [[endowment]], the one thing which enables him to carry on and "[[endure]] as seeing Him who is [[invisible]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_XI] [[Mysticism]], however, is often something of a [[retreat]] from life which is [[embraced]] by those humans who do not relish the more [[robust]] [[activities]] of living a religious life in the open arenas of [[human]] [[society]] and [[commerce]]. True [[religion]] must [[act]]. [[Conduct]] will be the result of [[religion]] when man actually has it, or rather when [[religion]] is permitted truly to [[possess]] the man. Never will [[religion]] be content with mere [[thinking]] or unacting [[feeling]].

102:2.8 Again, there are other [[types]] of unstable and poorly [[disciplined]] [[souls]] who would use the [[sentimental]] [[ideas]] of [[religion]] as an avenue of [[escape]] from the irritating demands of living. When certain vacillating and timid [[mortals]] attempt to [[escape]] from the incessant [[pressure]] of [[evolutionary]] life, [[religion]], as they conceive it, seems to present the nearest [[refuge]], the best avenue of [[escape]]. But it is the mission of [[religion]] to [[prepare]] man for [[bravely]], even [[heroically]], facing the [[vicissitudes]] of life. [[Religion]] is evolutionary [[man]]'s [[supreme]] [[endowment]], the one thing which enables him to carry on and "[[endure]] as seeing Him who is [[invisible]]."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_XI] [[Mysticism]], however, is often something of a [[retreat]] from life which is [[embraced]] by those humans who do not relish the more [[robust]] [[activities]] of living a religious life in the open arenas of [[human]] [[society]] and [[commerce]]. True [[religion]] must [[act]]. [[Conduct]] will be the result of [[religion]] when man actually has it, or rather when [[religion]] is permitted truly to [[possess]] the man. Never will [[religion]] be content with mere [[thinking]] or unacting [[feeling]].

102:2.9 We are not blind to the fact that [[religion]] often acts unwisely, even irreligiously, but it [[acts]]. Aberrations of [[religious]] [[conviction]] have led to bloody [[persecutions]], but always and ever [[religion]] does something; it is [[dynamic]]!

102:2.9 We are not blind to the fact that [[religion]] often acts unwisely, even irreligiously, but it [[acts]]. Aberrations of [[religious]] [[conviction]] have led to bloody [[persecutions]], but always and ever [[religion]] does something; it is [[dynamic]]!

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[[Category:Paper 102 - The Foundations of Religious Faith]]

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