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134:6.1 If one man craves [[freedom]]—[[liberty]]—he must [[remember]] that all other men long for the same freedom. [[Groups]] of such [[liberty]]-loving [[mortals]] cannot live [[together]] in [[peace]] without becoming subservient to such [[laws]], rules, and [[regulations]] as will grant each [[person]] the same [[degree]] of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal [[degree]] of [[freedom]] for all of his fellow [[mortals]]. If one man is to be [[absolutely]] free, then another must become an absolute [[slave]]. And the [[relative]] [[nature]] of freedom is true [[socially]], [[economically]], and [[politically]]. Freedom is the [[gift]] of [[civilization]] made possible by the enforcement of [[Law|LAW]].
134:6.2 [[Religion]] makes it [[spiritually]] possible to [[realize]] the [[brotherhood]] of men, but it will require [[mankind]] [[government]] to regulate the [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]] [[problems]] [[associated]] with such a goal of human [[happiness]] and [[efficiency]].
134:6.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_24 There shall be wars and rumors of wars]—[[nation]] will rise against nation—just as long as the world's [[political]] [[sovereignty]] is divided up and unjustly held by a [[group]] of [[nation]]-states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales Wales] were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom].
134:6.4 Another [[World War II|world war]] will teach the so-called [[sovereign]] nations to [[form]] some sort of [[federation]], thus creating the [[machinery]] for preventing small [[wars]], wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the [[government]] of [[mankind]] is created. Global [[sovereignty]] will prevent global wars—nothing else can.
134:6.5 The forty-eight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United States|American free states] live [[together]] in [[peace]]. There are among the [[citizens]] of these forty-eight states all of the various [[nation]]alities and [[races]] that live in the ever-warring [[nations]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe]. These [[America]]ns [[represent]] almost all the [[religions]] and religious [[sects]] and [[cults]] of the whole wide world, and yet here in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] they live together in [[peace]]. And all this is made [[possible]] because these forty-eight states have [[surrendered]] their [[sovereignty]] and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of [[self-determination]].
134:6.6 It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription conscription] or voluntary [[military]] [[service]] enter into these [[problems]] of maintaining world-wide [[peace]]. If you take every form of [[modern]] [[mechanical]] armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their [[delusions]] of the [[divine]] right of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sovereignty national sovereignty].
134:6.7 [[War]] is not man's great and terrible [[disease]]; war is a [[symptom]], a result. The real disease is the [[virus]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sovereignty national sovereignty].
134:6.8 [[Urantia]] [[nations]] have not [[possessed]] real [[sovereignty]]; they never have had a sovereignty which could protect them from the ravages and devastations of [[World War II|world wars]]. In the creation of the global [[government]] of [[mankind]], the nations are not giving up [[sovereignty]] so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world [[sovereignty]] which will henceforth be fully able to protect them from all [[war]]. Local affairs will be handled by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government local governments]; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by [[global government]].
134:6.9 World [[peace]] cannot be maintained by treaties, [[diplomacy]], foreign policies, alliances, [[balances]] of [[power]], or any other type of makeshift [[juggling]] with the sovereignties of [[nationalism]]. World [[law]] must come into being and must be enforced by [[world government]]—the [[sovereignty]] of all [[mankind]].
134:6.10 The [[individual]] will [[enjoy]] far more [[liberty]] under [[world government]]. Today, the [[citizens]] of the great powers are [[taxed]], regulated, and [[controlled]] almost oppressively, and much of this present [[interference]] with [[individual]] [[liberties]] will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their [[sovereignty]] as regards international affairs into the hands of [[global government]].
134:6.11 Under [[global government]] the [[nation]]al [[groups]] will be afforded a real [[opportunity]] to [[realize]] and enjoy the [[personal]] [[liberties]] of genuine [[democracy]]. The [[fallacy]] of [[self-determination]] will be ended. With global [[regulation]] of [[money]] and trade will come the new era of world-wide [[peace]]. Soon may a global [[language]] evolve, and there will be at least some [[hope]] of sometime having a global [[religion]]—or religions with a global [[viewpoint]].
134:6.12 [[Collective]] [[security]] will never afford [[peace]] until the collectivity includes all [[mankind]].
134:6.13 The [[political]] [[sovereignty]] of [[representative]] mankind [[government]] will bring lasting [[peace]] on [[earth]], and the [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]] of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby [[peace]] on earth and good will among men can be realized.
134:6.14 After the [[death]] of [[Cymboyton]], his sons encountered great [[difficulties]] in maintaining a peaceful [[faculty]]. The [[repercussions]] of [[Jesus]]' teachings would have been much greater if the later [[Christian]] [[teachers]] who joined the Urmia [[faculty]] had exhibited more [[wisdom]] and exercised more [[tolerance]].
134:6.15 [[Cymboyton]]'s eldest son had appealed to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_144#144:6._CONFERENCE_WITH_JOHN.27S_APOSTLES Abner] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala%C5%9Fehir Philadelphia] for help, but Abner's [[choice]] of [[teachers]] was most unfortunate in that they turned out to be unyielding and uncompromising. These [[teachers]] sought to make their religion [[dominant]] over the other [[beliefs]]. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to [[lectures]] of the [[caravan]] conductor had been delivered by [[Jesus]] himself.
134:6.16 As [[confusion]] increased in the [[faculty]], the three brothers withdrew their [[financial]] [[support]], and after five years the [[school]] closed. Later it was reopened as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIthraism Mithraic] [[temple]] and [[eventually]] burned down in connection with one of their [[orgiastic]] [[celebrations]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_134 Go to Paper 134]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 134 - The Transition Years]]
134:6.1 If one man craves [[freedom]]—[[liberty]]—he must [[remember]] that all other men long for the same freedom. [[Groups]] of such [[liberty]]-loving [[mortals]] cannot live [[together]] in [[peace]] without becoming subservient to such [[laws]], rules, and [[regulations]] as will grant each [[person]] the same [[degree]] of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal [[degree]] of [[freedom]] for all of his fellow [[mortals]]. If one man is to be [[absolutely]] free, then another must become an absolute [[slave]]. And the [[relative]] [[nature]] of freedom is true [[socially]], [[economically]], and [[politically]]. Freedom is the [[gift]] of [[civilization]] made possible by the enforcement of [[Law|LAW]].
134:6.2 [[Religion]] makes it [[spiritually]] possible to [[realize]] the [[brotherhood]] of men, but it will require [[mankind]] [[government]] to regulate the [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]] [[problems]] [[associated]] with such a goal of human [[happiness]] and [[efficiency]].
134:6.3 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_24 There shall be wars and rumors of wars]—[[nation]] will rise against nation—just as long as the world's [[political]] [[sovereignty]] is divided up and unjustly held by a [[group]] of [[nation]]-states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales Wales] were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom].
134:6.4 Another [[World War II|world war]] will teach the so-called [[sovereign]] nations to [[form]] some sort of [[federation]], thus creating the [[machinery]] for preventing small [[wars]], wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the [[government]] of [[mankind]] is created. Global [[sovereignty]] will prevent global wars—nothing else can.
134:6.5 The forty-eight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United States|American free states] live [[together]] in [[peace]]. There are among the [[citizens]] of these forty-eight states all of the various [[nation]]alities and [[races]] that live in the ever-warring [[nations]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe]. These [[America]]ns [[represent]] almost all the [[religions]] and religious [[sects]] and [[cults]] of the whole wide world, and yet here in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] they live together in [[peace]]. And all this is made [[possible]] because these forty-eight states have [[surrendered]] their [[sovereignty]] and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of [[self-determination]].
134:6.6 It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription conscription] or voluntary [[military]] [[service]] enter into these [[problems]] of maintaining world-wide [[peace]]. If you take every form of [[modern]] [[mechanical]] armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their [[delusions]] of the [[divine]] right of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sovereignty national sovereignty].
134:6.7 [[War]] is not man's great and terrible [[disease]]; war is a [[symptom]], a result. The real disease is the [[virus]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sovereignty national sovereignty].
134:6.8 [[Urantia]] [[nations]] have not [[possessed]] real [[sovereignty]]; they never have had a sovereignty which could protect them from the ravages and devastations of [[World War II|world wars]]. In the creation of the global [[government]] of [[mankind]], the nations are not giving up [[sovereignty]] so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world [[sovereignty]] which will henceforth be fully able to protect them from all [[war]]. Local affairs will be handled by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government local governments]; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by [[global government]].
134:6.9 World [[peace]] cannot be maintained by treaties, [[diplomacy]], foreign policies, alliances, [[balances]] of [[power]], or any other type of makeshift [[juggling]] with the sovereignties of [[nationalism]]. World [[law]] must come into being and must be enforced by [[world government]]—the [[sovereignty]] of all [[mankind]].
134:6.10 The [[individual]] will [[enjoy]] far more [[liberty]] under [[world government]]. Today, the [[citizens]] of the great powers are [[taxed]], regulated, and [[controlled]] almost oppressively, and much of this present [[interference]] with [[individual]] [[liberties]] will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their [[sovereignty]] as regards international affairs into the hands of [[global government]].
134:6.11 Under [[global government]] the [[nation]]al [[groups]] will be afforded a real [[opportunity]] to [[realize]] and enjoy the [[personal]] [[liberties]] of genuine [[democracy]]. The [[fallacy]] of [[self-determination]] will be ended. With global [[regulation]] of [[money]] and trade will come the new era of world-wide [[peace]]. Soon may a global [[language]] evolve, and there will be at least some [[hope]] of sometime having a global [[religion]]—or religions with a global [[viewpoint]].
134:6.12 [[Collective]] [[security]] will never afford [[peace]] until the collectivity includes all [[mankind]].
134:6.13 The [[political]] [[sovereignty]] of [[representative]] mankind [[government]] will bring lasting [[peace]] on [[earth]], and the [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]] of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby [[peace]] on earth and good will among men can be realized.
134:6.14 After the [[death]] of [[Cymboyton]], his sons encountered great [[difficulties]] in maintaining a peaceful [[faculty]]. The [[repercussions]] of [[Jesus]]' teachings would have been much greater if the later [[Christian]] [[teachers]] who joined the Urmia [[faculty]] had exhibited more [[wisdom]] and exercised more [[tolerance]].
134:6.15 [[Cymboyton]]'s eldest son had appealed to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_144#144:6._CONFERENCE_WITH_JOHN.27S_APOSTLES Abner] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala%C5%9Fehir Philadelphia] for help, but Abner's [[choice]] of [[teachers]] was most unfortunate in that they turned out to be unyielding and uncompromising. These [[teachers]] sought to make their religion [[dominant]] over the other [[beliefs]]. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to [[lectures]] of the [[caravan]] conductor had been delivered by [[Jesus]] himself.
134:6.16 As [[confusion]] increased in the [[faculty]], the three brothers withdrew their [[financial]] [[support]], and after five years the [[school]] closed. Later it was reopened as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIthraism Mithraic] [[temple]] and [[eventually]] burned down in connection with one of their [[orgiastic]] [[celebrations]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_134 Go to Paper 134]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 134 - The Transition Years]]
