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==94:1. THE SALEM TEACHINGS IN VEDIC INDIA==

==94:1. THE SALEM TEACHINGS IN VEDIC INDIA==

94:1.1 In the days of [[Melchizedek]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_India India] was a [[cosmopolitan]] country which had recently come under the [[political]] and [[religious]] [[dominance]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranian_peoples Aryan]-[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[invaders]] from the north and west. At this time only the northern and western portions of the [[peninsula]] had been extensively permeated by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans]. These [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit Vedic] newcomers had brought along with them their many [[tribal]] [[deities]]. Their religious [[forms]] of [[worship]] followed closely the [[ceremonial]] [[practices]] of their earlier [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] forebears in that the [[father]] still functioned as a [[priest]] and the [[mother]] as a priestess, and the [[family]] [[hearth]] was still utilized as an [[altar]].

94:1.1 In the days of [[Melchizedek]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_India India] was a [[cosmopolitan]] country which had recently come under the [[political]] and [[religious]] [[dominance]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranian_peoples Aryan]-[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[invaders]] from the north and west. At this time only the northern and western portions of the [[peninsula]] had been extensively permeated by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans]. These [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit Vedic] newcomers had brought along with them their many [[tribal]] [[deities]]. Their religious [[forms]] of [[worship]] followed closely the [[ceremonial]] [[practices]] of their earlier [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] forebears in that the [[father]] still functioned as a [[priest]] and the [[mother]] as a priestess, and the [[family]] [[hearth]] was still utilized as an [[altar]].

94:1.2 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit Vedic cult] was then in [[process]] of [[growth]] and [[metamorphosis]] under the direction of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] of [[teacher]]-[[priests]], who were [[gradually]] assuming [[control]] over the expanding [[ritual]] of [[worship]]. The [[amalgamation]] of the onetime thirty-three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_deities Aryan deities] was well under way when the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India north of India].

94:1.2 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit Vedic cult] was then in [[process]] of [[growth]] and [[metamorphosis]] under the direction of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] of [[teacher]]-[[priests]], who were [[gradually]] assuming [[control]] over the expanding [[ritual]] of [[worship]]. The [[amalgamation]] of the onetime thirty-three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_deities Aryan deities] was well under way when the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India north of India].

94:1.3 The [[polytheism]] of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] [[represented]] a [[degeneration]] of their earlier [[monotheism]] occasioned by their separation into [[tribal]] [[units]], each tribe having its venerated god. This [[devolution]] of the original monotheism and [[trinitarianism]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] was in [[process]] of resynthesis in the early centuries of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ]. The many gods were [[organized]] into a [[pantheon]] under the [[triune]] [[leadership]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyaus_Pita Dyaus pitar], the lord of heaven; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra Indra], the tempestuous lord of the [[atmosphere]]; and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni Agni], the three-headed [[fire]] god, lord of the [[earth]] and the vestigial [[symbol]] of an earlier [[Trinity]] [[concept]].

94:1.3 The [[polytheism]] of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] [[represented]] a [[degeneration]] of their earlier [[monotheism]] occasioned by their separation into [[tribal]] [[units]], each tribe having its venerated god. This [[devolution]] of the original monotheism and [[trinitarianism]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] was in [[process]] of resynthesis in the early centuries of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ]. The many gods were [[organized]] into a [[pantheon]] under the [[triune]] [[leadership]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyaus_Pita Dyaus pitar], the lord of heaven; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra Indra], the tempestuous lord of the [[atmosphere]]; and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni Agni], the three-headed [[fire]] god, lord of the [[earth]] and the vestigial [[symbol]] of an earlier [[Trinity]] [[concept]].

94:1.4 Definite [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism henotheistic] [[developments]] were paving the way for an evolved [[monotheism]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni Agni], the most [[ancient]] [[deity]], was often exalted as the father-head of the entire [[pantheon]]. The [[deity]]-father principle, sometimes called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajapati Prajapati], sometimes termed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma Brahma], was submerged in the [[theologic]] battle which the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priests] later fought with the [[Salem]] teachers. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] was conceived as the [[energy]]-[[divinity]] principle activating the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedic] [[pantheon]].

94:1.4 Definite [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism henotheistic] [[developments]] were paving the way for an evolved [[monotheism]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni Agni], the most [[ancient]] [[deity]], was often exalted as the father-head of the entire [[pantheon]]. The [[deity]]-father principle, sometimes called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajapati Prajapati], sometimes termed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma Brahma], was submerged in the [[theologic]] battle which the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priests] later fought with the [[Salem]] teachers. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] was conceived as the [[energy]]-[[divinity]] principle activating the entire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedic] [[pantheon]].

==94:2. BRAHMANISM==

==94:2. BRAHMANISM==

94:2.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated southward into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people Dravidian Deccan], they encountered an increasing [[caste]] system, the [[scheme]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] to prevent loss of racial [[identity]] in the face of a rising tide of the secondary [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priest] caste was the very [[essence]] of this [[system]], this social order greatly [[retarded]] the [[progress]] of the [[Salem]] [[teachers]]. This [[caste]] system failed to save the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryan race], but it did succeed in perpetuating the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans], who, in turn, have [[maintained]] their religious [[hegemony]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to the present time.

94:2.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated southward into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people Dravidian Deccan], they encountered an increasing [[caste]] system, the [[scheme]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] to prevent loss of racial [[identity]] in the face of a rising tide of the secondary [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priest] caste was the very [[essence]] of this [[system]], this social order greatly [[retarded]] the [[progress]] of the [[Salem]] [[teachers]]. This [[caste]] system failed to save the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryan race], but it did succeed in perpetuating the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans], who, in turn, have [[maintained]] their religious [[hegemony]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to the present time.

94:2.2 And now, with the weakening of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedism] through the rejection of higher [[truth]], the [[cult]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryans] became subject to increasing inroads from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan]. In a desperate effort to stem the tide of racial [[extinction]] and religious [[obliteration]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] sought to exalt themselves above all else. They taught that the [[sacrifice]] to [[deity]] in itself was all-efficacious, that it was all-compelling in its [[potency]]. They [[proclaimed]] that, of the two [[essential]] divine principles of the [[universe]], one was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the deity, and the other was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priesthood]. Among no other [[Urantia]] peoples did the [[priests]] presume to exalt themselves above even their [[gods]], to relegate to themselves the [[honors]] due their gods. But they went so absurdly far with these presumptuous claims that the whole precarious [[system]] collapsed before the debasing [[cults]] which poured in from the [[surrounding]] and less advanced [[civilizations]]. The vast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic priesthood] itself floundered and sank beneath the black flood of [[inertia]] and pessimism which their own selfish and unwise presumption had brought upon all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

94:2.2 And now, with the weakening of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedism] through the rejection of higher [[truth]], the [[cult]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryans] became subject to increasing inroads from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan]. In a desperate effort to stem the tide of racial [[extinction]] and religious [[obliteration]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] sought to exalt themselves above all else. They taught that the [[sacrifice]] to [[deity]] in itself was all-efficacious, that it was all-compelling in its [[potency]]. They [[proclaimed]] that, of the two [[essential]] divine principles of the [[universe]], one was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the deity, and the other was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priesthood]. Among no other [[Urantia]] peoples did the [[priests]] presume to exalt themselves above even their [[gods]], to relegate to themselves the [[honors]] due their gods. But they went so absurdly far with these presumptuous claims that the whole precarious [[system]] collapsed before the debasing [[cults]] which poured in from the [[surrounding]] and less advanced [[civilizations]]. The vast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic priesthood] itself floundered and sank beneath the black flood of [[inertia]] and pessimism which their own selfish and unwise presumption had brought upon all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

94:2.4 This philosophically debilitating teaching was soon followed by the [[invention]] of the [[doctrine]] of the [[eternal]] [[escape]] from [[self]] by submergence in the [[universal]] rest and [[peace]] of absolute [[union]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], the oversoul of all [[creation]]. [[Mortal]] [[desire]] and [[human]] [[ambition]] were effectually ravished and virtually destroyed. For more than two thousand years the better [[minds]] of India have sought to [[escape]] from all [[desire]], and thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later [[cults]] and teachings which have [[virtually]] shackled the [[souls]] of many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus Hindu] peoples in the chains of [[spiritual]] hopelessness. Of all [[civilizations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic-Aryan] paid the most terrible price for its rejection of the [[Salem]] [[gospel]].

94:2.4 This philosophically debilitating teaching was soon followed by the [[invention]] of the [[doctrine]] of the [[eternal]] [[escape]] from [[self]] by submergence in the [[universal]] rest and [[peace]] of absolute [[union]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], the oversoul of all [[creation]]. [[Mortal]] [[desire]] and [[human]] [[ambition]] were effectually ravished and virtually destroyed. For more than two thousand years the better [[minds]] of India have sought to [[escape]] from all [[desire]], and thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later [[cults]] and teachings which have [[virtually]] shackled the [[souls]] of many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus Hindu] peoples in the chains of [[spiritual]] hopelessness. Of all [[civilizations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic-Aryan] paid the most terrible price for its rejection of the [[Salem]] [[gospel]].

94:2.5 [[Caste]] alone could not perpetuate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryan religio-cultural system], and as the inferior religions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan] permeated the north, there developed an age of [[despair]] and hopelessness. It was during these [[dark]] days that the [[cult]] of taking no life arose, and it has ever since persisted. Many of the new cults were frankly [[atheistic]], claiming that such [[salvation]] as was [[attainable]] could come only by man's own unaided [[efforts]]. But throughout a great deal of all this unfortunate [[philosophy]], distorted remnants of the [[Melchizedek]] and even the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic teachings] can be traced.

94:2.5 [[Caste]] alone could not perpetuate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryan religio-cultural system], and as the inferior religions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan] permeated the north, there developed an age of [[despair]] and hopelessness. It was during these [[dark]] days that the [[cult]] of taking no life arose, and it has ever since persisted. Many of the new cults were frankly [[atheistic]], claiming that such [[salvation]] as was [[attainable]] could come only by man's own unaided [[efforts]]. But throughout a great deal of all this unfortunate [[philosophy]], distorted remnants of the [[Melchizedek]] and even the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic teachings] can be traced.

94:2.6 These were the times of the compilation of the later [[scriptures]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] faith, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahamanas Brahmanas] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads]. Having rejected the teachings of [[personal]] [[religion]] through the personal [[faith]] [[experience]] with the one God, and having become contaminated with the flood of debasing and debilitating [[cults]] and creeds from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan], with their [[anthropomorphisms]] and [[reincarnations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmanic priesthood] experienced a [[violent]] [[reaction]] against these vitiating beliefs; there was a definite [[effort]] to seek and to find true [[reality]]. The Brahmans set out to deanthropomorphize the Indian concept of [[deity]], but in so doing they stumbled into the grievous [[error]] of depersonalizing the [[concept]] of [[God]], and they emerged, not with a lofty and [[spiritual]] [[ideal]] of the [[Paradise Father]], but with a distant and [[metaphysical]] idea of an all-[[encompassing]] [[Absolute]].

94:2.6 These were the times of the compilation of the later [[scriptures]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] faith, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahamanas Brahmanas] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads]. Having rejected the teachings of [[personal]] [[religion]] through the personal [[faith]] [[experience]] with the one God, and having become contaminated with the flood of debasing and debilitating [[cults]] and creeds from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan], with their [[anthropomorphisms]] and [[reincarnations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmanic priesthood] experienced a [[violent]] [[reaction]] against these vitiating beliefs; there was a definite [[effort]] to seek and to find true [[reality]]. The Brahmans set out to deanthropomorphize the Indian concept of [[deity]], but in so doing they stumbled into the grievous [[error]] of depersonalizing the [[concept]] of [[God]], and they emerged, not with a lofty and [[spiritual]] [[ideal]] of the [[Paradise Father]], but with a distant and [[metaphysical]] idea of an all-[[encompassing]] [[Absolute]].

94:3.2 In the [[concept]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the [[minds]] of those days truly grasped at the [[idea]] of some all-pervading [[Absolute]], for this [[postulate]] was at one and the same [[time]] identified as [[creative]] [[energy]] and [[cosmic]] [[reaction]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] was conceived to be beyond all definition, capable of being [[comprehended]] only by the [[successive]] negation of all [[finite]] [[qualities]]. It was definitely a [[belief]] in an absolute, even an [[infinite]], [[being]], but this [[concept]] was largely devoid of [[personality]] [[attributes]] and was therefore not experiencible by [[individual]] religionists.

94:3.2 In the [[concept]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the [[minds]] of those days truly grasped at the [[idea]] of some all-pervading [[Absolute]], for this [[postulate]] was at one and the same [[time]] identified as [[creative]] [[energy]] and [[cosmic]] [[reaction]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] was conceived to be beyond all definition, capable of being [[comprehended]] only by the [[successive]] negation of all [[finite]] [[qualities]]. It was definitely a [[belief]] in an absolute, even an [[infinite]], [[being]], but this [[concept]] was largely devoid of [[personality]] [[attributes]] and was therefore not experiencible by [[individual]] religionists.

94:3.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana Narayana] was conceived as the [[Absolute]], the [[infinite]] IT IS, the primordial [[creative]] [[potency]] of the potential [[cosmos]], the [[Universal]] [[Self]] existing static and potential throughout all [[eternity]]. Had the [[philosophers]] of those days been able to make the next advance in [[deity]] conception, had they been able to conceive of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] as [[associative]] and [[creative]], as a [[personality]] approachable by created and [[evolving]] [[beings]], then might such a teaching have become the most advanced portraiture of [[Deity]] on [[Urantia]] since it would have [[encompassed]] the first five levels of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#DEITY_AND_DIVINITY total deity function] and might possibly have envisioned the remaining two.

94:3.3 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana Narayana] was conceived as the [[Absolute]], the [[infinite]] IT IS, the primordial [[creative]] [[potency]] of the potential [[cosmos]], the [[Universal]] [[Self]] existing static and potential throughout all [[eternity]]. Had the [[philosophers]] of those days been able to make the next advance in [[deity]] conception, had they been able to conceive of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] as [[associative]] and [[creative]], as a [[personality]] approachable by created and [[evolving]] [[beings]], then might such a teaching have become the most advanced portraiture of [[Deity]] on [[Urantia]] since it would have [[encompassed]] the first five levels of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#DEITY_AND_DIVINITY total deity function] and might possibly have envisioned the remaining two.

94:3.4 In certain [[phases]] the [[concept]] of the One Universal Oversoul as the [[totality]] of the summation of all [[creature]] [[existence]] led the Indian [[philosophers]] very close to the truth of the [[Supreme Being]], but this [[truth]] availed them naught because they failed to evolve any reasonable or [[rational]] [[personal]] approach to the [[attainment]] of their theoretic [[monotheistic]] goal of Brahman-Narayana.

94:3.4 In certain [[phases]] the [[concept]] of the One Universal Oversoul as the [[totality]] of the summation of all [[creature]] [[existence]] led the Indian [[philosophers]] very close to the truth of the [[Supreme Being]], but this [[truth]] availed them naught because they failed to evolve any reasonable or [[rational]] [[personal]] approach to the [[attainment]] of their theoretic [[monotheistic]] goal of Brahman-Narayana.

94:4.9 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism] has [[survived]] because it is [[essentially]] an integral part of the basic [[social]] fabric of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. It has no great [[hierarchy]] which can be disturbed or destroyed; it is interwoven into the life [[pattern]] of the [[people]]. It has an [[adaptability]] to changing conditions that excels all other [[cults]], and it displays a [[tolerant]] [[attitude]] of [[adoption]] toward many other religions, [[Gautama Buddha]] and even [[Christ]] himself being claimed as [[incarnations]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu Vishnu].

94:4.9 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism] has [[survived]] because it is [[essentially]] an integral part of the basic [[social]] fabric of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. It has no great [[hierarchy]] which can be disturbed or destroyed; it is interwoven into the life [[pattern]] of the [[people]]. It has an [[adaptability]] to changing conditions that excels all other [[cults]], and it displays a [[tolerant]] [[attitude]] of [[adoption]] toward many other religions, [[Gautama Buddha]] and even [[Christ]] himself being claimed as [[incarnations]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu Vishnu].

94:4.10 Today, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India], the great need is for the portrayal of the [[Jesus|Jesusonian]] [[gospel]]—the Fatherhood of God and the sonship and consequent brotherhood of all men, which is [[personally]] realized in loving ministry and [[social]] [[service]]. In India the philosophical [[framework]] is existent, the [[cult]] [[structure]] is present; all that is needed is the vitalizing [[spark]] of the dynamic [[love]] portrayed in the [[original]] [[gospel]] of the Son of Man, divested of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] [[dogmas]] and [[doctrines]] which have tended to make [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's life bestowal] a [http://books.google.com/books?id=5Iw5IZCTh-kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=white+man&hl=en&ei=PhCUTPimFMH48Abh_LyRDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=white%20man&f=false white man]'s religion.

94:4.10 Today, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India], the great need is for the portrayal of the [[Jesus|Jesusonian]] [[gospel]]—the Fatherhood of God and the sonship and consequent brotherhood of all men, which is [[personally]] realized in loving ministry and [[social]] [[service]]. In India the philosophical [[framework]] is existent, the [[cult]] [[structure]] is present; all that is needed is the vitalizing [[spark]] of the dynamic [[love]] portrayed in the [[original]] [[gospel]] of the Son of Man, divested of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] [[dogmas]] and [[doctrines]] which have tended to make [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's life bestowal] a [http://books.google.com/books?id=5Iw5IZCTh-kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=white+man&hl=en&ei=PhCUTPimFMH48Abh_LyRDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=white%20man&f=false white man]'s religion.

==94:5. THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH IN CHINA==

==94:5. THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH IN CHINA==

94:5.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries passed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia], spreading the [[doctrine]] of the [[Most High]] God and [[salvation]] through [[faith]], they [[absorbed]] much of the [[philosophy]] and religious [[thought]] of the various countries traversed. But the [[teachers]] commissioned by [[Melchizedek]] and his successors did not [[default]] in their [[trust]]; they did penetrate to all peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] continent, and it was in the middle of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ] that they arrived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China]. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there [[training]] [[Chinese]] [[teachers]] who taught throughout all the [[domains]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].

94:5.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries passed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia], spreading the [[doctrine]] of the [[Most High]] God and [[salvation]] through [[faith]], they [[absorbed]] much of the [[philosophy]] and religious [[thought]] of the various countries traversed. But the [[teachers]] commissioned by [[Melchizedek]] and his successors did not [[default]] in their [[trust]]; they did penetrate to all peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia Eurasian] continent, and it was in the middle of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC second millennium before Christ] that they arrived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China]. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there [[training]] [[Chinese]] [[teachers]] who taught throughout all the [[domains]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race].

94:5.2 It was in direct [[consequence]] of this teaching that the earliest [[form]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] arose in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], a vastly [[different]] [[religion]] than the one which bears that name today. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taoism Early or proto-Taoism] was a compound of the following [[factors]]:

94:5.2 It was in direct [[consequence]] of this teaching that the earliest [[form]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] arose in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], a vastly [[different]] [[religion]] than the one which bears that name today. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taoism Early or proto-Taoism] was a compound of the following [[factors]]:

*1. 94:5.3 The lingering teachings of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton], which [[persisted]] in the [[concept]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus#The_Jade_Palace Shang-ti], the [[God]] of [[Heaven]]. In the times of Singlangton the [[Chinese]] people became virtually [[monotheistic]]; they [[concentrated]] their [[worship]] on the One Truth, later known as the ''Spirit of Heaven'', the universe ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early [[concept]] of [[Deity]], although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits insidiously crept into their [[religion]].

*1. 94:5.3 The lingering teachings of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton], which [[persisted]] in the [[concept]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus#The_Jade_Palace Shang-ti], the [[God]] of [[Heaven]]. In the times of Singlangton the [[Chinese]] people became virtually [[monotheistic]]; they [[concentrated]] their [[worship]] on the One Truth, later known as the ''Spirit of Heaven'', the universe ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early [[concept]] of [[Deity]], although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits insidiously crept into their [[religion]].

*2. 94:5.4 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] of a [[Most High]] [[Creator]] [[Deity]] who would [[bestow]] his [[favor]] upon mankind in response to man's [[faith]]. But it is all too true that, by the time the [[Melchizedek]] missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their [[original]] [[message]] had become considerably changed from the simple [[doctrines]] of [[Salem]] in the days of [[Machiventa]].

*2. 94:5.4 The [[Salem]] [[religion]] of a [[Most High]] [[Creator]] [[Deity]] who would [[bestow]] his [[favor]] upon mankind in response to man's [[faith]]. But it is all too true that, by the time the [[Melchizedek]] missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their [[original]] [[message]] had become considerably changed from the simple [[doctrines]] of [[Salem]] in the days of [[Machiventa]].

*3. 94:5.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman-Absolute] [[concept]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy#Hindu_philosophy Indian philosophers], coupled with the [[desire]] to [[escape]] all [[evil]]. Perhaps the greatest extraneous [[influence]] in the eastward spread of the [[Salem]] [[religion]] was exerted by the Indian teachers of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith], who injected their conception of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]—the Absolute—into the salvationistic [[thought]] of the Salemites.

*3. 94:5.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman-Absolute] [[concept]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy#Hindu_philosophy Indian philosophers], coupled with the [[desire]] to [[escape]] all [[evil]]. Perhaps the greatest extraneous [[influence]] in the eastward spread of the [[Salem]] [[religion]] was exerted by the Indian teachers of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith], who injected their conception of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman]—the Absolute—into the salvationistic [[thought]] of the Salemites.

94:5.6 This [[composite]] [[belief]] spread through the lands of the yellow and brown races as an underlying [[influence]] in religio-philosophic [[thought]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Japan Japan] this proto-Taoism was known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto], and in this country, far distant from [[Salem]] of Palestine, the peoples learned of the [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], who dwelt upon [[earth]] that the name of [[God]] might not be forgotten by [[mankind]].

94:5.6 This [[composite]] [[belief]] spread through the lands of the yellow and brown races as an underlying [[influence]] in religio-philosophic [[thought]]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Japan Japan] this proto-Taoism was known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto], and in this country, far distant from [[Salem]] of Palestine, the peoples learned of the [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]], who dwelt upon [[earth]] that the name of [[God]] might not be forgotten by [[mankind]].

94:5.7 In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] all of these [[beliefs]] were later [[confused]] and compounded with the ever-growing [[cult]] of [[ancestor]] [[worship]]. But never since the time of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton] have the [[Chinese]] fallen into helpless [[slavery]] to [[priestcraft]]. The yellow race was the first to emerge from [[barbaric]] [[bondage]] into orderly [[civilization]] because it was the first to achieve some measure of [[freedom]] from the abject [[fear]] of the gods, not even fearing the [[ghosts]] of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because she failed to [[progress]] beyond her early [[emancipation]] from [[priests]]; she fell into an almost equally calamitous [[error]], the [[worship]] of [[ancestors]].

94:5.7 In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] all of these [[beliefs]] were later [[confused]] and compounded with the ever-growing [[cult]] of [[ancestor]] [[worship]]. But never since the time of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:4._THE_FOUR_AND_TWENTY_COUNSELORS Singlangton] have the [[Chinese]] fallen into helpless [[slavery]] to [[priestcraft]]. The yellow race was the first to emerge from [[barbaric]] [[bondage]] into orderly [[civilization]] because it was the first to achieve some measure of [[freedom]] from the abject [[fear]] of the gods, not even fearing the [[ghosts]] of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because she failed to [[progress]] beyond her early [[emancipation]] from [[priests]]; she fell into an almost equally calamitous [[error]], the [[worship]] of [[ancestors]].

94:5.8 But the Salemites did not labor in vain. It was upon the [[foundations]] of their [[gospel]] that the great [[philosophers]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_philosophy sixth-century China] built their teachings. The [[moral]] atmosphere and the [[spiritual]] sentiments of the times of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotse Lao-tse] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] grew up out of the teachings of the [[Salem]] missionaries of an earlier age.

94:5.8 But the Salemites did not labor in vain. It was upon the [[foundations]] of their [[gospel]] that the great [[philosophers]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_philosophy sixth-century China] built their teachings. The [[moral]] atmosphere and the [[spiritual]] sentiments of the times of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotse Lao-tse] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] grew up out of the teachings of the [[Salem]] missionaries of an earlier age.

94:6.11 The teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao] have been lost to all but a few in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient Orient], but the [[writings]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] have ever since constituted the basis of the [[moral]] [[fabric]] of the [[culture]] of almost a third of [[Urantia]]ns. These [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism#Themes_in_Confucian_thought Confucian precepts], while perpetuating the best of the [[past]], were somewhat inimical to the very [[Chinese]] spirit of [[investigation]] that had produced those [[achievements]] which were so [[venerated]]. The [[influence]] of these [[doctrines]] was unsuccessfully combated both by the imperial efforts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27in_Shih_Huang_Ti Ch'in Shih Huang Ti] and by the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Ti Mo Ti], who proclaimed a [[brotherhood]] founded not on [[ethical]] [[duty]] but on the [[love]] of [[God]]. He sought to rekindle the [[ancient]] quest for new [[truth]], but his teachings failed before the vigorous [[opposition]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius#Disciples_and_legacy disciples of Confucius].

94:6.11 The teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao] have been lost to all but a few in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient Orient], but the [[writings]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] have ever since constituted the basis of the [[moral]] [[fabric]] of the [[culture]] of almost a third of [[Urantia]]ns. These [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism#Themes_in_Confucian_thought Confucian precepts], while perpetuating the best of the [[past]], were somewhat inimical to the very [[Chinese]] spirit of [[investigation]] that had produced those [[achievements]] which were so [[venerated]]. The [[influence]] of these [[doctrines]] was unsuccessfully combated both by the imperial efforts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27in_Shih_Huang_Ti Ch'in Shih Huang Ti] and by the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Ti Mo Ti], who proclaimed a [[brotherhood]] founded not on [[ethical]] [[duty]] but on the [[love]] of [[God]]. He sought to rekindle the [[ancient]] quest for new [[truth]], but his teachings failed before the vigorous [[opposition]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius#Disciples_and_legacy disciples of Confucius].

94:6.12 Like many other [[spiritual]] and [[moral]] [[teachers]], both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse] were [[eventually]] deified by their followers in those spiritually dark ages of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_history China] which intervened between the decline and [[perversion]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taosim Taoist faith] and the coming of the [[Buddhist]] missionaries from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Timeline India]. During these spiritually [[decadent]] centuries the [[religion]] of the yellow race [[degenerated]] into a pitiful [[theology]] wherein swarmed devils, dragons, and evil spirits, all betokening the returning [[fears]] of the unenlightened [[mortal]] [[mind]]. And [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], once at the head of human [[society]] because of an advanced [[religion]], then fell behind because of temporary failure to [[progress]] in the true path of the [[development]] of that [[God-consciousness]] which is indispensable to the true [[progress]], not only of the [[individual]] [[mortal]], but also of the intricate and [[complex]] [[civilizations]] which characterize the advance of [[culture]] and [[society]] on an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planet] of [[time and space]].

94:6.12 Like many other [[spiritual]] and [[moral]] [[teachers]], both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse] were [[eventually]] deified by their followers in those spiritually dark ages of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_history China] which intervened between the decline and [[perversion]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taosim Taoist faith] and the coming of the [[Buddhist]] missionaries from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Timeline India]. During these spiritually [[decadent]] centuries the [[religion]] of the yellow race [[degenerated]] into a pitiful [[theology]] wherein swarmed devils, dragons, and evil spirits, all betokening the returning [[fears]] of the unenlightened [[mortal]] [[mind]]. And [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], once at the head of human [[society]] because of an advanced [[religion]], then fell behind because of temporary failure to [[progress]] in the true path of the [[development]] of that [[God-consciousness]] which is indispensable to the true [[progress]], not only of the [[individual]] [[mortal]], but also of the intricate and [[complex]] [[civilizations]] which characterize the advance of [[culture]] and [[society]] on an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planet] of [[time and space]].

==94:7. GAUTAMA SIDDHARTHA==

==94:7. GAUTAMA SIDDHARTHA==

94:12.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934 At the time of this writing], much of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] rests its [[hope]] in Buddhism. Will this [[noble]] [[faith]], that has so valiantly carried on through the dark ages of the past, once again receive the [[truth]] of expanded [[cosmic]] realities even as the [[disciples]] of the great teacher in India once listened to his [[proclamation]] of new [[truth]]? Will this [[ancient]] [[faith]] respond once more to the invigorating [[stimulus]] of the presentation of new [[concepts]] of [[God]] and the [[Absolute]] for which it has so long searched?

94:12.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934 At the time of this writing], much of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] rests its [[hope]] in Buddhism. Will this [[noble]] [[faith]], that has so valiantly carried on through the dark ages of the past, once again receive the [[truth]] of expanded [[cosmic]] realities even as the [[disciples]] of the great teacher in India once listened to his [[proclamation]] of new [[truth]]? Will this [[ancient]] [[faith]] respond once more to the invigorating [[stimulus]] of the presentation of new [[concepts]] of [[God]] and the [[Absolute]] for which it has so long searched?

94:12.7 All [[Urantia]] is waiting for the [[proclamation]] of the ennobling message of [[Michael]], unencumbered by the accumulated [[doctrines]] and [[dogmas]] of nineteen centuries of contact with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION religions of evolutionary origin]. The hour is striking for presenting to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism Buddhism], to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity Christianity], to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism], even to the peoples of all faiths, not the gospel ''about'' [[Jesus]], but the living, [[spiritual]] [[reality]] of the gospel ''of'' Jesus.

94:12.7 All [[Urantia]] is waiting for the [[proclamation]] of the ennobling message of [[Michael]], unencumbered by the accumulated [[doctrines]] and [[dogmas]] of nineteen centuries of contact with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION religions of evolutionary origin]. The hour is striking for presenting to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism Buddhism], to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity Christianity], to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism], even to the peoples of all faiths, not the gospel ''about'' [[Jesus]], but the living, [[spiritual]] [[reality]] of the gospel ''of'' Jesus.

94:12.8 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].

94:12.8 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].

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