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130:4.1 The night before they left [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria] Ganid and [[Jesus]] had a long [[visit]] with one of the [[government]] professors at the [[university]] who [[lecture]]d on the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. [[Jesus]] [[interpreted]] for the learned [[Greek]] teacher but injected no teaching of his own in [[refutation]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Philosophy Greek philosophy]. Gonod was away on [[business]] that evening; so, after the professor had departed, the teacher and his [[pupil]] had a long and heart-to-heart talk about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]'s [[doctrines]]. While Jesus gave qualified approval of some of the Greek teachings which had to do with the [[theory]] that the [[material]] [[things]] of the world are [[shadow]]y [[reflections]] of [[invisible]] but more substantial [[spiritual]] [[realities]], he sought to lay a more trustworthy [[foundation]] for the lad's [[thinking]]; so he began a long [[dissertation]] concerning the [[nature]] of [[reality]] in the [[universe]]. In substance and in [[modern]] phraseology Jesus said to Ganid:
130:4.2 The [[source]] of [[universe]] [[reality]] is the [[Infinite]]. The material [[things]] of finite [[creation]] are the [[time-space]] [[repercussions]] of the [[Paradise]] [[Pattern]] and the [[Infinite Spirit|Universal Mind]] of the eternal [[God]]. [[Causation]] in the [[physical]] world, [[self-consciousness]] in the [[intellectual]] world, and progressing [[selfhood]] in the [[spirit]] world—these realities, [[projected]] on a [[universal]] [[scale]], combined in eternal relatedness, and experienced with [[perfection]] of [[quality]] and [[divinity]] of [[value]]—constitute the reality of [[the Supreme]]. But in an ever-changing [[universe]] the [[Universal Father|Original Personality]] of [[causation]], [[intelligence]], and [[spirit]] [[experience]] is changeless, [[absolute]]. All things, even in an [[eternal]] [[universe]] of limitless [[values]] and [[divine]] qualities, may, and oftentimes do, change except [[the Absolutes]] and that which has [[attained]] the [[physical]] [[status]], [[intellectual]] [[embrace]], or [[spiritual]] [[identity]] which is [[absolute]].
130:4.3 The highest level to which a [[finite]] [[creature]] can [[progress]] is the [[recognition]] of the [[Universal Father]] and the knowing of [[the Supreme]]. And even then such [[beings]] of finality [[destiny]] go on experiencing [[change]] in the [[motions]] of the [[physical]] world and in its [[material]] [[phenomena]]. Likewise do they remain aware of [[selfhood]] [[progression]] in their continuing [[ascension]] of the [[spiritual]] [[universe]] and of growing [[consciousness]] in their deepening [[appreciation]] of, and [[response]] to, the [[intellectual]] [[cosmos]]. Only in the [[perfection]], [[harmony]], and unanimity of [[Free will|will]] can the [[creature]] become as [[one]] with the [[Creator]]; and such a state of [[divinity]] is [[attained]] and maintained only by the [[creature]]'s continuing to live in [[time]] and [[eternity]] by consistently conforming his finite [[personal]] [[Free will|will]] to the [[divine]] will of the [[Creator]]. Always must the [[desire]] to do [[the Father]]'s will be [[supreme]] in the [[soul]] and dominant over the [[mind]] of an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending son of God].
130:4.4 A one-eyed [[person]] can never hope to [[visualize]] [[depth]] of [[perspective]]. Neither can single-eyed [[material]] [[scientists]] nor single-eyed spiritual [[mystics]] and allegorists correctly visualize and adequately [[comprehend]] the true depths of [[universe]] [[reality]]. All true [[values]] of [[creature]] experience are concealed in [[depth]] of [[recognition]].
130:4.5 Mindless [[causation]] cannot evolve the refined and [[complex]] from the crude and the [[simple]], neither can spiritless [[experience]] evolve the [[divine]] [[character]]s of [[eternal]] [[survival]] from the [[material]] [[minds]] of the [[mortals]] of [[time]]. The one [[attribute]] of the [[universe]] which so exclusively characterizes the [[infinite]] [[Deity]] is this unending [[creative]] [[bestowal]] of [[personality]] which can [[survive]] in [[progressive]] [[Deity]] [[attainment]].
130:4.6 [[Personality]] is that [[cosmic]] [[endowment]], that [[phase]] of [[universal]] [[reality]], which can coexist with unlimited [[change]] and at the [[same time]] retain its [[identity]] in the very [[presence]] of all such changes, and forever afterward.
130:4.7 Life is an [[adaptation]] of the [[original]] [[cosmic]] [[causation]] to the demands and [[possibilities]] of [[universe]] situations, and it comes into [[being]] by the [[action]] of the [[Universal Mind]] and the activation of the [[spirit]] [[spark]] of the [[God]] who is spirit. The [[meaning]] of life is its [[adaptability]]; the [[value]] of life is its progressability—even to the heights of [[God-consciousness]].
130:4.8 Misadaptation of [[self-conscious]] life to the [[universe]] results in cosmic disharmony. Final [[divergence]] of [[personality]] will from the [[trend]] of the universes terminates in [[intellectual]] [[isolation]], [[personality]] [[segregation]]. Loss of the [[indwelling spirit]] pilot [[supervenes]] in spiritual [[Death|cessation]] of [[existence]]. [[Intelligent]] and progressing life becomes then, in and of itself, an incontrovertible [[proof]] of the [[existence]] of a purposeful [[universe]] expressing the will of a [[divine]] [[Creator]]. And this life, in the [[aggregate]], struggles toward higher [[values]], having for its final goal the [[Universal Father]].
130:4.9 Only in [[degree]] does man [[possess]] [[mind]] above the [[animal]] level aside from the higher and quasi-spiritual ministrations of [[intellect]]. Therefore animals (not having [[worship]] and [[wisdom]]) cannot [[experience]] [[superconsciousness]], consciousness of consciousness. The animal mind is only [[conscious]] of the [[objective]] [[universe]].
130:4.10 [[Knowledge]] is the [[sphere]] of the [[material]] or [[fact]]-[[discerning]] mind. [[Truth]] is the [[domain]] of the spiritually [[endowed]] [[intellect]] that is [[conscious]] of knowing [[God]]. [[Knowledge]] is demonstrable; [[truth]] is [[experience]]d. [[Knowledge]] is a possession of the [[mind]]; [[truth]] an [[experience]] of the [[soul]], the progressing [[self]]. [[Knowledge]] is a [[function]] of the nonspiritual level; [[truth]] is a [[phase]] of the [[mind]]-[[spirit]] level of [[the universes]]. The eye of the [[material]] [[mind]] perceives a world of factual [[knowledge]]; the eye of the spiritualized [[intellect]] [[discerns]] a world of true [[values]]. These two views, [[synchronized]] and harmonized, [[reveal]] the world of [[reality]], wherein [[wisdom]] [[interprets]] the [[phenomena]] of the [[universe]] in terms of [[progressive]] [[personal]] [[experience]].
130:4.11 [[Error]] ([[evil]]) is the [[penalty]] of imperfection. The qualities of imperfection or [[facts]] of misadaptation are disclosed on the [[material]] level by [[critical]] [[observation]] and by [[scientific]] [[analysis]]; on the [[moral]] level, by human [[experience]]. The [[presence]] of [[evil]] constitutes [[proof]] of the inaccuracies of [[mind]] and the immaturity of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF evolving self]. [[Evil]] is, therefore, also a [[measure]] of imperfection in [[universe]] [[interpretation]]. The possibility of making mistakes is [[inherent]] in the acquisition of [[wisdom]], the [[scheme]] of progressing from the partial and [[temporal]] to the complete and [[eternal]], from the [[relative]] and imperfect to the final and perfected. [[Error]] is the [[shadow]] of [[relative]] incompleteness which must of [[necessity]] fall across man's [[ascending]] universe path to [[Paradise]] [[perfection]]. Error ([[evil]]) is not an [[actual]] universe [[quality]]; it is simply the [[observation]] of a [[relativity]] in the relatedness of the imperfection of the incomplete [[finite]] to the ascending levels of the [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]].
130:4.12 Although [[Jesus]] told all this to the lad in [[language]] best suited to his [[comprehension]], at the end of the [[discussion]] Ganid was heavy of eye and was soon lost in [[slumber]]. They rose early the next morning to go aboard the boat bound for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] on the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. But before they embarked, the lad had still further questions to ask about [[evil]], to which Jesus replied:
130:4.13 [[Evil]] is a [[relativity]] [[concept]]. It arises out of the [[observation]] of the imperfections which appear in the [[shadow]] cast by a [[finite]] [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]] as such a [[cosmos]] obscures the living [[light]] of the [[universal]] [[expression]] of the eternal [[realities]] of the Infinite One.
130:4.14 [[Potential]] [[evil]] is [[inherent]] in the [[necessary]] incompleteness of the [[revelation]] of [[God]] as a [[time-space]]-limited [[expression]] of [[infinity]] and [[eternity]]. The [[fact]] of the partial in the [[presence]] of the complete constitutes [[relativity]] of [[reality]], creates [[necessity]] for [[intellectual]] [[choosing]], and establishes [[value]] levels of [[spirit]] recognition and [[response]]. The incomplete and finite [[concept]] of the Infinite which is held by the [[temporal]] and limited [[creature]] mind is, in and of itself, [[potential]] [[evil]]. But the augmenting [[error]] of unjustified deficiency in reasonable spiritual rectification of these originally [[inherent]] [[intellectual]] disharmonies and spiritual insufficiencies, is equivalent to the [[realization]] of [[actual]] [[evil]].
130:4.15 All [[static]], dead, [[concepts]] are potentially evil. The finite [[shadow]] of [[relative]] and living [[truth]] is continually moving. [[Static]] concepts invariably retard [[science]], [[politics]], [[society]], and [[religion]]. Static concepts may [[represent]] a certain [[knowledge]], but they are deficient in [[wisdom]] and devoid of [[truth]]. But do not [[permit]] the concept of [[relativity]] so to mislead you that you fail to [[recognize]] the [[co-ordination]] of the [[universe]] under the [[guidance]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:4._THE_ABSOLUTE_MIND cosmic mind], and its stabilized [[control]] by the [[energy]] and [[spirit]] of [[the Supreme]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_130 Go to Paper 130]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 130 - On the Way to Rome]]
130:4.1 The night before they left [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria] Ganid and [[Jesus]] had a long [[visit]] with one of the [[government]] professors at the [[university]] who [[lecture]]d on the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. [[Jesus]] [[interpreted]] for the learned [[Greek]] teacher but injected no teaching of his own in [[refutation]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Philosophy Greek philosophy]. Gonod was away on [[business]] that evening; so, after the professor had departed, the teacher and his [[pupil]] had a long and heart-to-heart talk about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]'s [[doctrines]]. While Jesus gave qualified approval of some of the Greek teachings which had to do with the [[theory]] that the [[material]] [[things]] of the world are [[shadow]]y [[reflections]] of [[invisible]] but more substantial [[spiritual]] [[realities]], he sought to lay a more trustworthy [[foundation]] for the lad's [[thinking]]; so he began a long [[dissertation]] concerning the [[nature]] of [[reality]] in the [[universe]]. In substance and in [[modern]] phraseology Jesus said to Ganid:
130:4.2 The [[source]] of [[universe]] [[reality]] is the [[Infinite]]. The material [[things]] of finite [[creation]] are the [[time-space]] [[repercussions]] of the [[Paradise]] [[Pattern]] and the [[Infinite Spirit|Universal Mind]] of the eternal [[God]]. [[Causation]] in the [[physical]] world, [[self-consciousness]] in the [[intellectual]] world, and progressing [[selfhood]] in the [[spirit]] world—these realities, [[projected]] on a [[universal]] [[scale]], combined in eternal relatedness, and experienced with [[perfection]] of [[quality]] and [[divinity]] of [[value]]—constitute the reality of [[the Supreme]]. But in an ever-changing [[universe]] the [[Universal Father|Original Personality]] of [[causation]], [[intelligence]], and [[spirit]] [[experience]] is changeless, [[absolute]]. All things, even in an [[eternal]] [[universe]] of limitless [[values]] and [[divine]] qualities, may, and oftentimes do, change except [[the Absolutes]] and that which has [[attained]] the [[physical]] [[status]], [[intellectual]] [[embrace]], or [[spiritual]] [[identity]] which is [[absolute]].
130:4.3 The highest level to which a [[finite]] [[creature]] can [[progress]] is the [[recognition]] of the [[Universal Father]] and the knowing of [[the Supreme]]. And even then such [[beings]] of finality [[destiny]] go on experiencing [[change]] in the [[motions]] of the [[physical]] world and in its [[material]] [[phenomena]]. Likewise do they remain aware of [[selfhood]] [[progression]] in their continuing [[ascension]] of the [[spiritual]] [[universe]] and of growing [[consciousness]] in their deepening [[appreciation]] of, and [[response]] to, the [[intellectual]] [[cosmos]]. Only in the [[perfection]], [[harmony]], and unanimity of [[Free will|will]] can the [[creature]] become as [[one]] with the [[Creator]]; and such a state of [[divinity]] is [[attained]] and maintained only by the [[creature]]'s continuing to live in [[time]] and [[eternity]] by consistently conforming his finite [[personal]] [[Free will|will]] to the [[divine]] will of the [[Creator]]. Always must the [[desire]] to do [[the Father]]'s will be [[supreme]] in the [[soul]] and dominant over the [[mind]] of an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending son of God].
130:4.4 A one-eyed [[person]] can never hope to [[visualize]] [[depth]] of [[perspective]]. Neither can single-eyed [[material]] [[scientists]] nor single-eyed spiritual [[mystics]] and allegorists correctly visualize and adequately [[comprehend]] the true depths of [[universe]] [[reality]]. All true [[values]] of [[creature]] experience are concealed in [[depth]] of [[recognition]].
130:4.5 Mindless [[causation]] cannot evolve the refined and [[complex]] from the crude and the [[simple]], neither can spiritless [[experience]] evolve the [[divine]] [[character]]s of [[eternal]] [[survival]] from the [[material]] [[minds]] of the [[mortals]] of [[time]]. The one [[attribute]] of the [[universe]] which so exclusively characterizes the [[infinite]] [[Deity]] is this unending [[creative]] [[bestowal]] of [[personality]] which can [[survive]] in [[progressive]] [[Deity]] [[attainment]].
130:4.6 [[Personality]] is that [[cosmic]] [[endowment]], that [[phase]] of [[universal]] [[reality]], which can coexist with unlimited [[change]] and at the [[same time]] retain its [[identity]] in the very [[presence]] of all such changes, and forever afterward.
130:4.7 Life is an [[adaptation]] of the [[original]] [[cosmic]] [[causation]] to the demands and [[possibilities]] of [[universe]] situations, and it comes into [[being]] by the [[action]] of the [[Universal Mind]] and the activation of the [[spirit]] [[spark]] of the [[God]] who is spirit. The [[meaning]] of life is its [[adaptability]]; the [[value]] of life is its progressability—even to the heights of [[God-consciousness]].
130:4.8 Misadaptation of [[self-conscious]] life to the [[universe]] results in cosmic disharmony. Final [[divergence]] of [[personality]] will from the [[trend]] of the universes terminates in [[intellectual]] [[isolation]], [[personality]] [[segregation]]. Loss of the [[indwelling spirit]] pilot [[supervenes]] in spiritual [[Death|cessation]] of [[existence]]. [[Intelligent]] and progressing life becomes then, in and of itself, an incontrovertible [[proof]] of the [[existence]] of a purposeful [[universe]] expressing the will of a [[divine]] [[Creator]]. And this life, in the [[aggregate]], struggles toward higher [[values]], having for its final goal the [[Universal Father]].
130:4.9 Only in [[degree]] does man [[possess]] [[mind]] above the [[animal]] level aside from the higher and quasi-spiritual ministrations of [[intellect]]. Therefore animals (not having [[worship]] and [[wisdom]]) cannot [[experience]] [[superconsciousness]], consciousness of consciousness. The animal mind is only [[conscious]] of the [[objective]] [[universe]].
130:4.10 [[Knowledge]] is the [[sphere]] of the [[material]] or [[fact]]-[[discerning]] mind. [[Truth]] is the [[domain]] of the spiritually [[endowed]] [[intellect]] that is [[conscious]] of knowing [[God]]. [[Knowledge]] is demonstrable; [[truth]] is [[experience]]d. [[Knowledge]] is a possession of the [[mind]]; [[truth]] an [[experience]] of the [[soul]], the progressing [[self]]. [[Knowledge]] is a [[function]] of the nonspiritual level; [[truth]] is a [[phase]] of the [[mind]]-[[spirit]] level of [[the universes]]. The eye of the [[material]] [[mind]] perceives a world of factual [[knowledge]]; the eye of the spiritualized [[intellect]] [[discerns]] a world of true [[values]]. These two views, [[synchronized]] and harmonized, [[reveal]] the world of [[reality]], wherein [[wisdom]] [[interprets]] the [[phenomena]] of the [[universe]] in terms of [[progressive]] [[personal]] [[experience]].
130:4.11 [[Error]] ([[evil]]) is the [[penalty]] of imperfection. The qualities of imperfection or [[facts]] of misadaptation are disclosed on the [[material]] level by [[critical]] [[observation]] and by [[scientific]] [[analysis]]; on the [[moral]] level, by human [[experience]]. The [[presence]] of [[evil]] constitutes [[proof]] of the inaccuracies of [[mind]] and the immaturity of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF evolving self]. [[Evil]] is, therefore, also a [[measure]] of imperfection in [[universe]] [[interpretation]]. The possibility of making mistakes is [[inherent]] in the acquisition of [[wisdom]], the [[scheme]] of progressing from the partial and [[temporal]] to the complete and [[eternal]], from the [[relative]] and imperfect to the final and perfected. [[Error]] is the [[shadow]] of [[relative]] incompleteness which must of [[necessity]] fall across man's [[ascending]] universe path to [[Paradise]] [[perfection]]. Error ([[evil]]) is not an [[actual]] universe [[quality]]; it is simply the [[observation]] of a [[relativity]] in the relatedness of the imperfection of the incomplete [[finite]] to the ascending levels of the [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]].
130:4.12 Although [[Jesus]] told all this to the lad in [[language]] best suited to his [[comprehension]], at the end of the [[discussion]] Ganid was heavy of eye and was soon lost in [[slumber]]. They rose early the next morning to go aboard the boat bound for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] on the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. But before they embarked, the lad had still further questions to ask about [[evil]], to which Jesus replied:
130:4.13 [[Evil]] is a [[relativity]] [[concept]]. It arises out of the [[observation]] of the imperfections which appear in the [[shadow]] cast by a [[finite]] [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]] as such a [[cosmos]] obscures the living [[light]] of the [[universal]] [[expression]] of the eternal [[realities]] of the Infinite One.
130:4.14 [[Potential]] [[evil]] is [[inherent]] in the [[necessary]] incompleteness of the [[revelation]] of [[God]] as a [[time-space]]-limited [[expression]] of [[infinity]] and [[eternity]]. The [[fact]] of the partial in the [[presence]] of the complete constitutes [[relativity]] of [[reality]], creates [[necessity]] for [[intellectual]] [[choosing]], and establishes [[value]] levels of [[spirit]] recognition and [[response]]. The incomplete and finite [[concept]] of the Infinite which is held by the [[temporal]] and limited [[creature]] mind is, in and of itself, [[potential]] [[evil]]. But the augmenting [[error]] of unjustified deficiency in reasonable spiritual rectification of these originally [[inherent]] [[intellectual]] disharmonies and spiritual insufficiencies, is equivalent to the [[realization]] of [[actual]] [[evil]].
130:4.15 All [[static]], dead, [[concepts]] are potentially evil. The finite [[shadow]] of [[relative]] and living [[truth]] is continually moving. [[Static]] concepts invariably retard [[science]], [[politics]], [[society]], and [[religion]]. Static concepts may [[represent]] a certain [[knowledge]], but they are deficient in [[wisdom]] and devoid of [[truth]]. But do not [[permit]] the concept of [[relativity]] so to mislead you that you fail to [[recognize]] the [[co-ordination]] of the [[universe]] under the [[guidance]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:4._THE_ABSOLUTE_MIND cosmic mind], and its stabilized [[control]] by the [[energy]] and [[spirit]] of [[the Supreme]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_130 Go to Paper 130]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 130 - On the Way to Rome]]
