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87:3.1 The advancing [[ghost]] [[cult]] made [[ancestor]] [[worship]] [[inevitable]] since it became the [[connecting]] link between common ghosts and the higher spirits, the evolving gods. The early [[gods]] were simply [[glorified]] departed [[humans]].
87:3.2 [[Ancestor]] [[worship]] was originally more of a [[fear]] than a [[worship]], but such [[beliefs]] did definitely contribute to the further spread of ghost [[fear]] and [[worship]]. Devotees of the early ancestor-ghost cults even feared to yawn lest a malignant ghost enter their bodies at such a time.
87:3.3 The [[custom]] of [[adopting]] [[children]] was to make sure that some one would provide offerings after [[death]] for the [[peace]] and [[progress]] of the [[soul]]. The [[savage]] lived in fear of the ghosts of his fellows and spent his spare time planning for the safe conduct of his own ghost after [[death]].
87:3.4 Most [[tribes]] instituted an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day all-souls' feast] at least once a year. The [[Romans]] had twelve [[ghost]] feasts and accompanying [[ceremonies]] each year. Half the days of the year were [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reducing the number of feast days to 135 a year.
87:3.5 The [[ghost]] [[cult]] was in continuous [[evolution]]. As ghosts were envisioned as passing from the incomplete to the higher [[phase]] of [[existence]], so did the [[cult]] [[eventually]] [[progress]] to the [[worship]] of spirits, and even gods. But regardless of varying [[beliefs]] in more advanced spirits, all [[tribes]] and races once believed in [[ghosts]].
<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]]
87:3.1 The advancing [[ghost]] [[cult]] made [[ancestor]] [[worship]] [[inevitable]] since it became the [[connecting]] link between common ghosts and the higher spirits, the evolving gods. The early [[gods]] were simply [[glorified]] departed [[humans]].
87:3.2 [[Ancestor]] [[worship]] was originally more of a [[fear]] than a [[worship]], but such [[beliefs]] did definitely contribute to the further spread of ghost [[fear]] and [[worship]]. Devotees of the early ancestor-ghost cults even feared to yawn lest a malignant ghost enter their bodies at such a time.
87:3.3 The [[custom]] of [[adopting]] [[children]] was to make sure that some one would provide offerings after [[death]] for the [[peace]] and [[progress]] of the [[soul]]. The [[savage]] lived in fear of the ghosts of his fellows and spent his spare time planning for the safe conduct of his own ghost after [[death]].
87:3.4 Most [[tribes]] instituted an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day all-souls' feast] at least once a year. The [[Romans]] had twelve [[ghost]] feasts and accompanying [[ceremonies]] each year. Half the days of the year were [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reducing the number of feast days to 135 a year.
87:3.5 The [[ghost]] [[cult]] was in continuous [[evolution]]. As ghosts were envisioned as passing from the incomplete to the higher [[phase]] of [[existence]], so did the [[cult]] [[eventually]] [[progress]] to the [[worship]] of spirits, and even gods. But regardless of varying [[beliefs]] in more advanced spirits, all [[tribes]] and races once believed in [[ghosts]].
<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]]
