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87:0.1 The [[ghost]] [[cult]] evolved as an offset to the hazards of bad [[luck]]; its [[primitive]] religious [[observances]] were the outgrowth of [[anxiety]] about bad luck and of the inordinate [[fear]] of the [[dead]]. None of these early [[religions]] had much to do with the [[recognition]] of [[Deity]] or with [[reverence]] for the [[superhuman]]; their [[rites]] were mostly [[negative]], designed to avoid, expel, or [[coerce]] [[ghosts]]. The ghost cult was nothing more nor less than insurance against disaster; it had nothing to do with investment for higher and [[future]] returns.
87:0.2 Man has had a long and bitter [[struggle]] with the [[ghost]] [[cult]]. Nothing in [[human]] [[history]] is designed to excite more [[pity]] than this picture of man's abject [[slavery]] to [[ghost]]-spirit [[fear]]. With the [[birth]] of this very fear [[mankind]] started on the upgrade of [[religious]] [[evolution]]. Human [[imagination]] cast off from the shores of [[self]] and will not again find anchor until it arrives at the [[concept]] of a true [[Deity]], a real [[God]].
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[[Category: Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults]]
87:0.1 The [[ghost]] [[cult]] evolved as an offset to the hazards of bad [[luck]]; its [[primitive]] religious [[observances]] were the outgrowth of [[anxiety]] about bad luck and of the inordinate [[fear]] of the [[dead]]. None of these early [[religions]] had much to do with the [[recognition]] of [[Deity]] or with [[reverence]] for the [[superhuman]]; their [[rites]] were mostly [[negative]], designed to avoid, expel, or [[coerce]] [[ghosts]]. The ghost cult was nothing more nor less than insurance against disaster; it had nothing to do with investment for higher and [[future]] returns.
87:0.2 Man has had a long and bitter [[struggle]] with the [[ghost]] [[cult]]. Nothing in [[human]] [[history]] is designed to excite more [[pity]] than this picture of man's abject [[slavery]] to [[ghost]]-spirit [[fear]]. With the [[birth]] of this very fear [[mankind]] started on the upgrade of [[religious]] [[evolution]]. Human [[imagination]] cast off from the shores of [[self]] and will not again find anchor until it arrives at the [[concept]] of a true [[Deity]], a real [[God]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_87 Go to Paper 87]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category: Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults]]
