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One of the first things I want to make note of is how it is your society, or your communities in your civilization, set itself apart from the regular population of the nation where this story takes place.  And this has been a point of consternation for some and debate. When you approach Urantia, now, as enlightened sons and daughters of the living God, with the revelation under your belt, as you approach the world in which you life with an eye toward fostering light and life, how do you set about to do that? How do you approach the work at hand? Do you pick a field and go into it with determination and enthusiasm such as you might if you were engaging with the seraphic planetary government like some of you nurses obviously are working for the  angels of health, some of you in your fields are working with angels of industry, angels of the races, the sundry divisions of labor that are there for you to support?  And they are working in this day and age!

One of the first things I want to make note of is how it is your society, or your communities in your civilization, set itself apart from the regular population of the nation where this story takes place.  And this has been a point of consternation for some and debate. When you approach Urantia, now, as enlightened sons and daughters of the living God, with the revelation under your belt, as you approach the world in which you life with an eye toward fostering light and life, how do you set about to do that? How do you approach the work at hand? Do you pick a field and go into it with determination and enthusiasm such as you might if you were engaging with the seraphic planetary government like some of you nurses obviously are working for the  angels of health, some of you in your fields are working with angels of industry, angels of the races, the sundry divisions of labor that are there for you to support?  And they are working in this day and age!

And yet there are times when you need to separate your work from the work of the realm because the work of the realm is … what is the word?  “Unsustainable.”  It cannot last. It is not good for your world. It is not leading to light and life. And so there are times when you need to draws the line and say, “it does not behoove me to go there or work there; rather, I need to focus my energy attention here in this area where I am qualified and where I can do some good.” Here is where you need to think in terms of the scripture that reads to the effect “you need to be in the world but not of it, because you are here. You are mortal.  

And yet there are times when you need to separate your work from the work of the realm because the work of the realm is … what is the word?  “Unsustainable.”  It cannot last. It is not good for your world. It is not leading to light and life. And so there are times when you need to draw the line and say, “it does not behoove me to go there or work there; rather, I need to focus my energy attention here in this area where I am qualified and where I can do some good.” Here is where you need to think in terms of the scripture that reads to the effect “you need to be in the world but not of it, because you are here. You are mortal.  

   

   

This is the classroom. This is the arena where you work and there is nothing more important than the work of your realm so here you are. How do you make the best of it? How do you help the process? To be in the world and not of it, you are going to work here, not to burrow in and become comfortable and forget your spiritual aspirations, no, but because of your spiritual source, you are here to be of service and so you are inherently detached, you are at least detached enough to be able to look at situations and circumstances objectively.

This is the classroom. This is the arena where you work and there is nothing more important than the work of your realm so here you are. How do you make the best of it? How do you help the process? To be in the world and not of it, you are going to work here, not to burrow in and become comfortable and forget your spiritual aspirations, no, but because of your spiritual source, you are here to be of service and so you are inherently detached, you are at least detached enough to be able to look at situations and circumstances objectively.

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There are some who feel that [those who are] establishing a civilization outside of the existing culture are shirking the responsibility of society at large, but everything in this society is not salvageable. Everything that exists is not worth carrying into a new paradigm. Again, a scripture comes to this mind, that I will take, that being, “Why put new wine into an old wineskin?” You need new wineskins for your new harvest and so we are busy building a new paradigm of reality. We are building a new dispensation, at the very least a new epochal reality and so for the fifth epoch, what would you have us do to forward and advance civilization on your world?

There are some who feel that [those who are] establishing a civilization outside of the existing culture are shirking the responsibility of society at large, but everything in this society is not salvageable. Everything that exists is not worth carrying into a new paradigm. Again, a scripture comes to this mind, that I will take, that being, “Why put new wine into an old wineskin?” You need new wineskins for your new harvest and so we are busy building a new paradigm of reality. We are building a new dispensation, at the very least a new epochal reality and so for the fifth epoch, what would you have us do to forward and advance civilization on your world?