The Supreme Ideal: Religion Philosophy Cosmology - text only
InWARd footnotes
InWARd: Mind in the Middle picture
The Supreme Ideal:
Religion - Philosophy - Cosmology
WATER
H2O is recognized in the original form of liquid Water. However, we know by experience that liquid water can become solid in the form of Ice. When heated up, water becomes the vapor we refer to as Steam. Liquid water becomes solid or can become vapor. This is a most common and rudimentary analogy of what and how our Paradise Father differentiates Himself in the understanding of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit.
Jesus, even as a child, understood this. So should we.
124:1.8 This winter and the next were the coldest in Nazareth for many decades. Jesus had seen snow on the mountains, and several times it had fallen in Nazareth, remaining on the ground only a short time; but not until this winter had he seen ice. The fact that water could be had as a solid, a liquid, and a vapor — he had long pondered over the escaping steam from the boiling pots — caused the lad to think a great deal about the physical world and its constitution; and yet the personality embodied in this growing youth was all this while the actual creator and organizer of all these things throughout a far-flung universe.
However, this common analogy to God and the Trinity
breaks down rather quickly.
Water is an element of our physical world juxtaposed to God is a Person. The far better simile is that of a loving, caring parent – a father. As a mortal father takes part in the creation of his offspring, this mortal father is blessed to watch his baby grow, day by day, into a developing child. This loving father invests in his child in every way possible: providing for the daily material needs, applying loving care when encouragement is needed and also giving such necessary guidance when his child seems to veer off of the ‘better-decisions’ path. This father is attentively fostering truth, beauty and goodness in his child with his teachings, training-s and powerful life-coaching.
1:7.3 The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable ONLY in relation to Personality. Only a person can love and be loved. Even beauty and truth would be divorced from survival hope [Eternal Life] if they were not attributes of a Personal God, a Loving Paradise Father.
Our Paradise Father IS all truth, beauty and goodness.
He ever guides us into higher and higher recognition of these qualities that are OF Him, and FOR us to actually become. He shows us the way. He fosters for us more truth, more beauty and more goodness if we choose to follow His will – His goodness in our daily living. And just as we are parents of our children, mothers and fathers, we are His children as well. Even the 100 year old human is still considered a child of God.
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The Meaning of Life
Adaptation and Progression
In wondering what life is all about, things can get a bit confusing. However, when we follow God and engage in life as we are created to do then everything begins to come more clear. When we are sad or frustrated, this is often because we have lost focus of the purpose of our living. Our entire journey to Paradise involves one day at a time – one step at a time – each and every small step with it’s accompanying free will decisions to be made. As we adapt each small step to the will of God within our minds we discover that we are not alone. In this ongoing friendship with God we experience deeper and deeper meanings because we are working with Him, thinking with Him and acting in our lives with spiritual progression because every little moment, each small step, has Him in it. Do this enough and every single day we will discover more than joy and spiritual fulfillment. You will eventually reach the heights of thinking and doing where one day He will take you into Ultimate Joining with Him: FUSION! Believe it, friends. This is the goal achieved by one small adaptive step at a time. This is the meaning and value of our life. This is real beauty [cosmology] as the interplay between God and man. More on cosmology later!
The Big Question
What Do You Want? Now—stop a minute and really think about that question, for in this question and your answer lies your DESTINY! It is a simple question. In the macro – in your mind – you can probably see what you want in the long, long run of life producing your very own spiritual career. Do you want marriage? Children, perhaps? Do you want friends and a good financial living? In your mind break it down now to look at your daily living, your surroundings, your friends, your time and how you spend it. I ask again, “What do you want?” You have Personality Powers [refer to InWARd footnotes] of free will choice given to you by God Himself. How are you using this power? Remember: Personality drives mind – Mind drives free will choices – Choices drive behavior – Behaviors drive emotions – Emotions drive DESTINY! So, think about it.
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What Do You Want?
Goals Require Actions!
If you found yourself blessed one day with someone that you wanted to marry, would you be satisfied to just sit around daydreaming that you will be married to this wonderful person one day (?) without ever spending time with them? Rather, would you call them often? Would you pursue special and even intimate times with them because you love them so much and desire to be close? Or, would you simply walk around in your life telling everyone you are getting married but never nurture the very relationship that you want so dearly? After no communication with with this supposed fiance, would you call them many years later expecting the same loving intimacy you once shared? No. If you truly wanted this you would not have behaved this way. And, if you did, your desired partner would have become uninterested and probably left you to yourself. No. This would be DELUSIONAL acting and thinking. Yet, this is what most people do when it comes to their relationship with God. Question: How do you think this makes God feel? After all – REMEMBER – God is a Person.
He longs for your actions of love towards Him!
All things BEGIN as ideas.
The idea from Christianity that our loving and merciful Paradise Father created a terrible place called Hell to torture His children for eternity began as an idea long ago from the Greeks. They needed a distasteful place to supposedly send those people who they believed had weak souls [86:4.8]. VOILA! Hades is created and the people were controlled by this fear. This utter lie began as a thought in someone’s head. We know this to be a falsehood because we know the true character and nature of God who enjoys a total unity of His true, beautiful and good personality. Torture and Hell are concepts of anger, vengeance, cruelty and a mean spirit which is impossible for God to possess, as He cannot be both loving and unloving at the same time. So, Hell is a fabrication! A total non reality. Hades is an idea still believed with fear and dread today by many. This needs to fall away
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The time is ripe!
Everyone must be told the truth about God! Here it is. Our original great God, our Source and Center of all things, IS Truth and Goodness. Our Father’s Way is such that He gifts us with life and our own unique personalities whereby we begin our existence on a world of time and space. We have the opportunities to build our souls and we are offered eternal life as we spiritually grow, one good and moral decision at a time. From these life choices, we journey to Paradise when one day we will see Him face to face, as it were. Recognition of Him in personal spiritual experience on this long, long journey is how we discover what Reality and True Religion actually is: Friendship with God! This is not an idea formulated out of the mind of some human. This IS spiritual Reality. Without our true Father everything would fall to pieces, but it cannot because God does, in fact, literally hold all things together.
Based upon this pursuit of True Religion [friendship with God] and by faith, man begins to recognize that Truth is his foundation for all growth discovered in life. When man discovers that God is All Truth then all of life begins to show forth His goodness, His beauty and His Truth FOR him. Each moment of life begins to have meaning IN us and FOR Him. We recognize He is everywhere. All things become deepened. Reality begins to find expansion into greater understandings of what is actually Real. It all grows and becomes ‘more’ – as is He becoming ‘more’ within us.
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What religion is Not.
What drives the true definition of ‘religion’? Is it science, societal dictates, someone’s philosophy or dogmatic dictates of moral duty? Science does not drive true religion because today’s facts of science will change and enlarge over time. Society cannot drive religion by the culture [opinions and behaviors] of current thinking because the creatures [us] can only grow so high in our lonely and uneducated mortal attempts. No. Religion is driven by our indwelling God fragments, our Thought Adjusters who work within us in His spiritual realm whereby we recognize our InWARd experience, making our free will choices at every step of the way as we seek to grow our souls by His helpful hand. When we stop and comprehend that all true morals and values, all understandings of our fellowship with each other, all feelings of the need to protect ourselves, all responsibilities we ascertain by our reasoning-s, come together in a unified and higher recognition of our friendship with Him. This is discovered only in authentic and divine Worship of our God who has created everything.
Rodan—our great Greek philosopher teaches:
160:5.9 I come, then, to worship, not merely the God of existences, but the God of the possibility of all future existences. Therefore must your devotion to a Supreme Ideal, if that ideal is real, be devotion to this God of past, present, and future universes of things and beings. And there is no other God, for there cannot possibly be any other God. All other gods are figments of the imagination, illusions of mortal mind, distortions of false logic, and the self-deceptive idols of those who create them. Yes, you can have a religion without this God, but it does not mean anything. And if you seek to substitute the word God for the reality of this ideal of the living God, you have only deluded yourself by putting an idea in the place of an ideal, a divine reality. Such beliefs are merely religions of wishful fancy.
So – let us look at a mandate and a definition.
We have been given the mandate by our Revelators to foster a religion, a philosophy and a cosmology.
​religion : noun
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The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe.
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A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine [teachings] and practice.
"the world's many religions."
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A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
Now we will consider what true religion actually is!
Jesus’ True Religion.
True Religion, Jesus’ True Religion, is simply and absolutely defined as ‘friendship with God’. This is a simple concept, yet with VAST implications for each individual human. All peoples on our world need to, and one day WILL, enter into the comprehension that God loves them personally. He is not far off. He is their actual loving parent! God indwells each person within their own mind and heart. He wants to know each of His children in depth, not merely in them finding Him within, but each child of God realizing that he/she can be KNOWN by Him in personal spiritual experience. It is in this communal worship whereby He becomes Dominant and Transcendent. THIS IS Jesus’ True Religion!
Yes.
Our original Great Source and Center of all things IS Truth. Because God IS Reality and Truth our highest spiritual goal is attaining Him in any and all ways possible for us at any point on our journey to Paradise. This is not just for today, but for all days to come resulting in Eternal Life.
Based upon this pursuit of True Religion, friendship with God, man begins to recognize that Truth is the foundation for all growth discovered in life. Without this we may end up running around in circles of self-deception. When man discovers that God is All Truth then the meaning of All Life begins to show forth His goodness, His beauty and His Truth, FOR Him.
“Freely you have received, freely you shall give.” ~ Jesus
16:6.8 Worship — the spiritual domain of the reality of religious experience, the personal realization of divine fellowship, the recognition of spirit values, the assurance of eternal survival, the ascent from the status of servants of God to the joy and liberty of the sons of God. This is the highest insight of the cosmic mind, the reverential and worshipful form of the cosmic discrimination.
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Jesus explains what true religion must possess.
132:7.5 "You see, Gonod [Jesus’ friend], Buddha knew God in spirit but failed clearly to discover him in mind; the Jews discovered God in mind but largely failed to know him in spirit. Today, the Buddhists flounder about in a philosophy without God, while my people are piteously enslaved to the fear of a God without a saving philosophy of life and liberty. You have a philosophy without a God; the Jews have a God but are largely without a philosophy of living as related thereto. Buddha, failing to envision God as a spirit and as a Father, failed to provide in his teaching the moral energy and the spiritual driving power which a religion must possess if it is to change a race and exalt a nation." ~ Jesus
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We can learn and grow on our own as lowly humans, but why do this when we can learn and grow with the God of our universe living within us helping us in all ways? Wisdom dictates: Lean forward to God.
The benefits of embracing Jesus’ True Religion as friendship with God produces within the child of God the spiritually powerful growth that impacts the expanding of their understandings and meanings, personally, for them in ALL areas of their life. This then grows outward from within each in terms of how they think, what they do and how those actions produce even more and expanding growth in terms of what is Eternally True, Universally Beautiful and GOOD, as only our indwelling Father can reveal. By faith only God can do this for them, at the behest of their own free will that chooses to do, not their own self-interested desires, but His will, and that means what is Good! Ultimately, this child of God grows into an adult of God – one who can and will become ‘more’. A human can transcend the lower pull of the animal mind, trusting God to elevate them into ‘superhuman thinking’. And this is due to the spiritual fact that He will transcendentally do this for His own child from that of a mere animal [selfish] thinker into one that begins to literally ‘think with God’. This is His transcend-ency, when the child has chosen for God to become dominant in their heart and mind.
He will make us ‘more’.
2:6.1 In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience. In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God. This goodness of God is a part of the Person-ality of God, and its full revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God.
Theology is not religion.
The study ABOUT God does not produce active true religion in anyone. This is merely concept or theory which does not come close to actual religion. One is a ‘study’ the latter is experiential spiritual Reality. We MUST comprehend this!
theology : noun
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The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions.
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A system or school of opinions concerning God and religious questions.
"Protestant theology; Jewish theology."
103:1.4 Rationalism is wrong when it assumes that religion is at first a primitive belief in something which is then followed by the pursuit of values. Religion is primarily a pursuit of values, and then there formulates a system of interpretative beliefs. It is much easier for men to agree on religious values — goals — than on beliefs — interpretations. And this explains how religion can agree on values and goals while exhibiting the confusing phenomenon of maintaining a belief in hundreds of conflicting beliefs — creeds. This also explains why a given person can maintain his religious experience in the face of giving up or changing many of his religious beliefs. Religion persists in spite of revolutionary changes in religious beliefs. Theology does not produce religion; it is religion that produces theologic philosophy.
Example: Someone born into a family steeped in a longstanding religious sect, perhaps one that uses a fetish like rosary beads for prayer, can grow to recognize their need for a personal relationship with God. Their use of rosary beads in prayer is fine with God, but may be problematic for their friend who does not agree. Yet, this friend may also be desirous of a deeper relationship with God. The use of the rosary beads is inconsequential in the sight of God. This friend may disagree on the use of the fetish, but they can find total agreement in their shared quest for a deeper friendship with God.
How to foster a philosophy of True Religion.
Morality of any act is determined by one’s motives. Jesus will forever be our ultimate role model. Jesus fostered His True Religion by explaining to His fellows that His philosophy is one of the personal relation of the individual, the very child-Father relationship, and not that of a nation or race. He worked with Matthew by explaining that the morality of any act is determined by one’s motives. Jesus took all rules and ceremonies to a higher and majestic level where spiritual thought and righteous living reflected this actual Relationship with their indwelling Creator. THIS is Religion! Think of Jesus as our head coach of a large spiritual working team. Consider yourselves as His assistant coaches who are fostering or coaching people for better life performances. Only work with those who are interested, and allow those who are not, more time to themselves until they ARE ready.
Our Celestial Teacher’s and Revelator’s Mandate states that we are to...
―through the fostering of a religion, a philosophy, and a cosmology which are commensurate with man's intellectual and cultural development.
140:10.5 The one characteristic of Jesus' teaching was that the morality of his philosophy originated in the personal relation of the individual to God — this very child-father relationship. Jesus placed emphasis on the individual, not on the race or nation. While eating supper, Jesus had the talk with Matthew in which he explained that the morality of any act is determined by the individual's motive. Jesus' morality was always positive. The golden rule as restated by Jesus demands active social contact; the older negative rule could be obeyed in isolation. Jesus stripped morality of all rules and ceremonies and elevated it to majestic levels of spiritual thinking and truly righteous living.
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1:6.2 God is to the scientist a primal force, to the philosopher a hypothesis of unity, to the religionist a living spiritual experience. Man's inadequate concept of the personality of the Universal Father can be improved only by man's spiritual progress in the universe and will become truly adequate only when the pilgrims of time and space finally attain the divine embrace of the living God on Paradise.
Our Paradise Father is truly a Person who can be known and loved, and love in return as a bone fide ongoing religious and spiritual experience. Due to the consequences of the Lucifer rebellion, where Lucifer put forth that God does not exist, we have been deprived of an adequate concept of this Personality of our Universal Father. This lack can only be improved by the child’s desire for spiritual progress in attainment of the ongoing divine embrace of God who lives in our minds.
What philosophy is Not.
Gone will be the days of any vicious idea of man’s need to appease an angry God. Because God is not angry or offended, there is no need for attempts to win the favor of Him through sacrifices, penance or even the murderous shedding of blood. These are savage and archaic man-made ideas of magical thinking, wholly inaccurate and demeaning to His true character and nature of love and mercy. Using other inaccurate religious books that teach these vile doctrines is unwise and must be avoided. Why use the lesser books when we have the superior resource in our Urantia Book readily available? Our people are already so spiritually untaught and confused. Do not further this problem by blending the archaic and primitive things with the higher spiritual truths. You cannot put new wine into old wine skins for the new wine skins will burst and the precious drink spilled out and wasted. Let the old things fall away while the new and truer things come forward as you teach and proclaim.
Jesus was positive, not negative.
Our Master’s religion does not provide for spiritual self-examination or introspection. Jesus only taught character growth – just as a small mustard seed somehow, by the power of God, grows into a tree. This attitude prevents us from becoming conceited and full of our own personal pride due to the mortal’s efforts rather than their loving personal ministry from God Himself. Self-conscious piety had no place in Jesus’ philosophy of righteous living.
140:8.27 The three apostles were shocked this afternoon when they realized that their Master's religion made no provision for spiritual self-examination. All religions before and after the times of Jesus, even Christianity, carefully provide for conscientious self-examination [guilt and shame]. But not so with the religion of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus' philosophy of life is without religious introspection. The carpenter's son never taught character building; he taught character growth, declaring that the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that grows into a tree. But Jesus said nothing which would proscribe self-analysis as a prevention of conceited egotism.
The Golden Rule
180:5.7 In the kingdom of the believing brotherhood of God-knowing truth lovers, this golden rule takes on living qualities of spiritual realization on those higher levels of interpretation which cause the mortal sons of God to view this injunction of the Master as requiring them so to relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer’s contact with them. This is the essence of true religion: that you love your neighbor as yourself.
140:8.30 Jesus did not teach his apostles that religion is man's only earthly pursuit; that was the Jewish idea of serving God. But he did insist that religion was the exclusive business of the twelve [and now us]. Jesus taught nothing to deter his believers from the pursuit of genuine culture; he only detracted from the tradition-bound religious schools of Jerusalem. He was liberal, big-hearted, learned, and tolerant.
Self-conscious piety had no place in his philosophy of righteous living.
Readiness for Growth
We must positively resist spiritual blindness—choosing the danger of believing in the purely physical manifestations of the handiwork of God or mathematical pride and statistical egotism. Scientists may measure energy, force, gravity, light and electricity but they can never scientifically tell us what these phenomena ARE. True philosophy grows out of the wisdom which does its best to correlate these quantitative and qualitative observations through the lens of His spiritual guidance.
133:5.4 Science deals with physical-energy activities; religion deals with eternal values. True philosophy grows out of the wisdom which does its best to correlate these quantitative and qualitative observations. There always exists the danger that the purely physical scientist may become afflicted with mathematical pride and statistical egotism, not to mention spiritual blindness.
The True Philosophy
In searching for a true philosophy, in essence,
you are searching for God.
The higher goal!
The benefits of our new and true philosophy keeps the child of God in the realistic recognition that God is our higher goal in that He will always be our true compass for how to live, what to think and who He can cause us to become, IN HIM. Our proper religious philosophy leads one to respectfully acknowledge that His cosmic mind is forever above any lower universe effects. The Source of the streams of universe life and of the cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestations – the created and His creatures. The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. Man as a moral being is inexplicable unless the reality of the Universal Father is acknowledged. The universal and loving Father IS, in philosophy, the one being who exists by Himself, not dependent on any other being for existence but beneficently conferring reality of existence on all things and upon all other beings in His creations. But it requires revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of true philosophy ARE the God of True Religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth.
Benefits of philosophy.
16:6.10 In the local universe mind bestowals, these insights of the cosmic mind constitute the a priori assumptions which make it possible for man to function as a rational and self-conscious personality in the realms of science, philosophy, and religion. Stated otherwise, the recognition of the reality of these three manifestations of the Infinite is by a cosmic technique of self-revelation. Matter-energy is recognized by the mathematical logic of the senses; mind-reason intuitively knows its moral duty; spirit-faith (worship) is the religion of the reality of spiritual experience. These three basic factors in reflective thinking may be unified and co-ordinated in personality development, or they may become disproportionate and virtually unrelated in their respective functions. But when they become unified, they produce a strong character [benefit] consisting in the correlation of a factual science, a moral philosophy, and a genuine religious experience. And it is these three cosmic intuitions that give objective validity, reality, to man's experience in and with things, meanings, and values.
3:6.3 All religious philosophy, sooner or later, arrives at the concept of unified universe rule, of one God. Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. Man as a moral being is inexplicable unless the reality of the Universal Father is acknowledged.
4:4.7 But it requires revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of philosophy are the God of religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth.
Currently on our world philosophy is defined as:
philosophy : noun
1. : ethics
2. : pursuit of wisdom
3. : a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology
4. : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than
observational means
5. : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs
6. : the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group
Jesus’ New Philosophy of Living.
In The Urantia Book we can only logically ascertain that it must be centered on what our Master actually said and did. Because books like the Bible and other world religious tomes do not hold much of what Jesus really taught, we are privileged now to use His purest and highest spiritual truths, as found in our book, to create our New Philosophy of Living. We have been instructed to do this and to up-step our thinking by our greater comprehension of what He said and how He lived.
In Jesus coming to our world to live His human AND divine life, we now have the highest example of how we should live our lives with God also. He set for us this new standard of living and explained why this is the best way to move through time and space in our local universe as created citizens of His creation. Wisdom dictates that we base our philosophy of life upon His example of the highest spiritual existence: The Father, dominant and transcendent in the hearts of men, women and children.
We have the choice to live solely looking to other mortal humans for our answers to life OR to change our posture in thinking to pursue looking to God for our answers for better and better living. Rodan’s Philosophy of Living as found in Paper 160 is a masterful and in-depth description of how this highest of spiritual thinking works out in mortal living.
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The essentials of temporal life, as Rodan saw them, are:
160:4.3 1. Good physical health.
160:4.4 2. Clear and clean thinking.
160:4.5 3. Ability and skill.
160:4.6 4. Wealth — the goods of life.
160:4.7 5. Ability to withstand defeat.
160:4.8 6. Culture — education and wisdom.
When pursuing God in all things we discover all things move towards ‘better’ - even best!
104:3.2 Mortal man is passing through a great age of expanding horizons and enlarging concepts on Urantia [Earth], and his cosmic philosophy must accelerate in evolution to keep pace with the expansion of the intellectual arena of human thought.
1:7.5 Ultimate universe reality cannot be grasped by mathematics, logic, or philosophy, only by personal experience in progressive conformity to the divine will of a personal God. Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith sons of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God.
We have some catching up to do!
160:1.3 The more complex civilization becomes, the more difficult will become the art of living.~ Rodan
OR—the easier this becomes, in that one tires of the complications and longs for the simplicity of truth, beauty and goodness which produces a clear path through the mucky mire of what convoluted man-in-power has polluted for our population. Affliction yields spiritual progress! Yes. Ugliness may yield Beauty by tribulation. Falseness encourages the search for what is True. Evil highlights the need for what is Good. Man’s Personality Power [personality credits, see InWARd diagram and footnotes] can conquer mechanistic and material chaos. And in all of this always remember…
NOTHING can touch your soul!
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The micro eventually effects the macro.
Humanism and secularism eventually breaks down. When everyone is operating in the mindset of the purely self-centered motivations of ‘me’ [humanism] they are believing that man without God is what is most important [secularism]. In the aggregate, all will one day experience the harshness of deprivation of some kind, experiencing the fact that too many people do not care about the pain of others.
Example: A power-hungry central banker manipulates their currencies for personal gain and causes the value of these currencies to shrink and all people are effected [macro effect]. One day a father may go to the store to buy food for his family but now realizes he cannot afford it [micro effect].
Rodan discusses urges and lures in Paper 160.
Definition of ‘urges’ - a continuing impulse toward an activity or goal
Define for yourself what your urges are. Look at them sincerely and honestly. Do they serve you well? If not, choose of your own free will to change these and work with this ‘higher thinking with God’ in order to yield greater good for your personal life.
Example: The habit of consuming poisonous and unhealthy foods will produce an unhealthy body which yields a human body to be overly challenged and stressed by reduced energy, poor sleep, disease and distraction from more fulfilling life experiences. Should one move forward by changing habits like these? Yes. Be not afraid of this change, but embrace this with courage and wisdom. In doing so you are adding to your spiritual progress by way of choosing His better way for you.
You are not alone in this! Ask – and He will help you.
The definition of ‘desires’ is something longed or hoped for.
Ascertain these from the core of your being. Ask for help to change those that will cause you harm. Ask for greater enlargement of those urges and desires that you know are righteous.
The definition of ‘lures’ is an inducement to pleasure or gain : enticement
--- the lure of adventure
--- the lure of her beauty
Recognize within yourself those lures that you are susceptible to. Work within yourself to manage those that are not good and feed those that are.
Creating a Beautiful Life
[defined by ‘cosmology’ and actualized by God’s ‘true religion’]
There are 2 types of people: Those who know God and those who do not.
Those who do not know God are living in the animal/material way, bringing hardship.
Those who know God and desire Him are living in the spiritual way, bringing beauty to life no matter the accompanying tribulations.
The diagram of our InWARd battle reveals: The lowly animal mind is ever-pulling us down and into what is self-seeking. In our mid mind arena, our free will choices are made contrasted by the highest mind level where we are God indwelt as He is working to pull us up into His higher spiritual domain. The Person of Jesus, as our indwelling Spirit of Truth, ever seeks our greatest growth for goodness within us. Mother Spirit’s ministry of Mind is where our free will is able to operate. These choices by mind can cause human action resulting in powerful positive changes for us.
The appeal of spiritual progress
What do you believe is possible for you? What you believe ultimately becomes your reality and destiny. How far do you think you can go in your spiritual quest? Do you embrace the recognition that you and God can become ONE? We are taught that this oneness with God can happen in your lifetime. How motivated are you to exert more effort towards this personal friendship with God? What would this striving do for you? Jesus showed us as He stood before Pilate, bloodied and tortured, that we can also become ‘devoid of fear’ in even the worst of scenarios. How would this change your daily living if you no longer experienced deep fear but enjoyed a rich and thorough confidence that nothing can ever really harm you for you are safe and secure in the citadel of your soul which No One Can Touch! Does this challenge invigorate you? It certainly should.
Jesus’ enduring peace is something He promised us.
For us in God Discovered, we enjoy this peace on a daily basis. We have total assurance that all is truly well with our souls. We know our souls Are Growing with every single good and moral free will choice we make. When we go to private worship with Him He never fails to reveal to us His love and never-ending support towards His highest goals in our lives. We absolutely Know that We Are On Our Way to Paradise. And – in the meantime, we enjoy His spiritual realm because we have asked for this and we work towards this every single day and night. We encourage you to embrace this challenge also.
God will not fail you! TRUST HIM.
The stability of Good Living [kingdom living].
The benefits of staying your path towards spiritual progress results in an ongoing upward achievement in the spiritual realm providing you a never-ending supply of those spirit-led experiences, bringing true joy, happiness and delight no matter what is transpiring. You can ‘feel’ this within you. Jesus’ Spirit of Truth constantly enlarges your capacities for spiritual insight in your life. He fuels us with a constant flow of His wisdom and desires for living, producing a deep sense of peace, love and forgiveness. You will become less intimidated and more courageous in shining His light in the dark corners of your world. Until you attempt this, you can never fathom it. WHEN you do achieve this you will never be the same. This is beyond concept and theory. This is a non-material and spiritually substantial FACT! You are the captain of your little human-spiritual ship.
Allow God – your pilot – to lead you.
The Supreme Ideal!
Life has many facets, many options from the dull to the brilliant and various direct paths and winding maze-like choices in between. What is ideal? Each season of life offers yet another layer of personal, spiritual, psychic [mind], physical, emotional and intellectual growth. And all of these choices – good or bad – effect the growth of your soul.
Jesus’ philosophy of living.
The moment-by-moment search for truth – for God.
1. The living of the heavenly life while on earth is by means of daily submitting to the will of God [that which is good]. This requires supplanting the mind of self with the will of God, which is worship. This will provide a new strength for living. Devote yourself to living moment by moment with Him as your pilot and gentle leader. He will not fail you.
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The ship – the captain – the pilot.
The body that you live in is God’s gift to you. It is your complex human ship. You drive your little ship into whatever harbors you so choose. You are it’s captain. In looking back over your life do you see times when you took yourself into places that you wished you had not gone? Yes. This is how we learn. This is not for indictment of ourselves, but for insight. However, there comes a day when we wonder what could have happened instead? This is quite possibly His leading in your mind to think through what you learned and what better options you can make in your future.
God is our pilot. As a pilot of a ship yields to the instructions of the captain, so does God respond in like kind to us as the captain of our ship. This is His gift of free will. He does not grab away from us the ability to make our own free will choices. He fosters within us these ideas and choices of a better way. When once we realize that if we allow Him to be the pilot AND the captain, we are then filled with hope. When this hope is ACTED upon by way of choosing His transcendent will over our limited view of things and we follow it up with faith in His better way – new thoughts emerge. These new thoughts are a result of His ‘reorganizing’ our thinking. This is called ‘faithom’ [by faith we fathom God’s will].
The old things pass away.
New understandings spring up into new living.
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2. Constantly elevate your moral character by His guidance within you.
The definition of what is Moral:
moral : adjective
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Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character.
"moral scrutiny; a moral quandary."
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Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior.
"a moral lesson."
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Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous.
"a moral life."
As we apply insightful reactions to social and economic environments, our moral character can be improved. Focus every moment of every day upon what is not only ‘okay’ but what is the better choice – what is BEST? Do those things with a thankful attitude knowing that God watches and finds you adorable as He sees you seek the higher and higher ways of living.
3. FAITH OVER INTELLECTUAL ASSENT
Utilizing experiential spirit-led faith, and less intellectual assent [mere thinking], provides growth in a daily step-by-step greater comprehension of goodness [His will] in our creation of a beautiful life.
Stability of your more unified personality emerges from this new religion of our Master, which He taught is the attainment of God within you. ‘Thinking about’ God does not attain Him personally. Only by ‘entering’ the kingdom of God do you then begin to experience Him as His Person in your friendship with Him. One is merely a thought. The latter is Reality in the substance of His spiritual realm and not static tradition. You cannot Know until you wholeheartedly TRY!
140:4.9 Without a worthy goal, life becomes aimless and unprofitable, and much unhappiness results... Jesus exhorted his followers to exercise experiential faith. He admonished them not to depend on mere intellectual assent, credulity, and established authority.
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140:4.10 Education should be a technique of learning (discovering) the better methods of gratifying our natural and inherited urges, and happiness is the resulting total of these enhanced techniques of emotional satisfactions. Happiness is little dependent on environment, though pleasing surroundings may greatly contribute thereto.
140:4.11 Every mortal really craves to be a complete person, to be perfect even as the Father in heaven is perfect, and such attainment is possible because in the last analysis the “universe is truly fatherly.”
4. The path to the good life.
Remember: Without a worthy goal life becomes aimless and unhappy.
140:1.3 “The power of this kingdom shall consist, not in the strength of armies nor in the might of riches, but rather in the glory of the divine spirit that shall come to teach the minds and rule the hearts of the reborn citizens of this heavenly kingdom, the sons and daughters of God.” ~ Jesus
Spiritual goals produce eventual enduring peace and good will over selfish actions which result in strife, disappointments and damaged relationships.
This attainment of direct and personal spiritual experience with God within you provides all good guidance for living, all truth to follow for continued enlightenment of the mind and all beauty as the enmeshing of God Himself is expressed in your daily living. As others watch you [true beauty which is cosmology – the interplay between God and man] they may also find and know God. He transcends all from an animal-selfish-thinker into one who can ‘think with God’.
5. Loving service.
The kingdom of God within is the hope of all the earth and of all good people everywhere.
Do you long to be viewed by God as a child who is Great? We do! There is nothing wrong about this desire. But if you do want to be seen by God as a ‘great person’ then become the loving server to your fellows who are His other children and your earth-siblings. Work to foster them into this kingdom.
178:1.6 “You may not worship your temporal rulers, and you should not employ temporal power [psychic force] in the furtherance of the spiritual kingdom; but you should manifest the righteous ministry of loving service to believers and unbelievers alike. In the gospel of the kingdom there resides the mighty Spirit of Truth, and presently I will pour out this same spirit upon all flesh [Day of Pentecost]. The fruits of the spirit, your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum.” ~ Jesus
Think about a boat.
The oar of a boat [lever] is what one uses to make headway towards their intended goal as they row and work in a particular direction. What holds the oar in place serves as the strength-multiplying [fulcrum], allowing the power of the oar to work with greater effectiveness. It is the stabilizing structure giving more dominance to the work of the oar. Without the fulcrum the lever is much less potent or productive and the traveler must exert greater personal effort without the better balance of the fulcrum’s support. However, WITH the fulcrum in place establishing a Strong Support for the oar to move in the water, the effort and work become far more consequential with possibly less energy expended. This is how the Spirit of Truth within you operates. He provides the solid spiritual power-multiplying fulcrum [stability] for our loving service as we try to bring an uplift [loving service] to our darkened world.
6. Represent God to men.
If we ask for and choose this then we are also His apostles commissioned to deal with the affairs of the kingdom of God as messengers of His forgotten yet ‘renewing revelation’.
140:2.2 “My Father, I now bring to you these men, my messengers. From among our children on earth I have chosen these twelve to go forth to represent me as I came forth to represent you. Love them and be with them as you have loved and been with me. And now, my Father, give these men wisdom as I place all the affairs of the coming kingdom in their hands. And I would, if it is your will, tarry on earth a time to help them in their labors for the kingdom. And again, my Father, I thank you for these men, and I commit them to your keeping while I go on to finish the work you have given me to do.” ~ Jesus
Sometimes we represent God to our fellows in acts of service, yes. However, more often we use our words to express what we believe to be true. As you manage the affairs of the fraternity of the divine spirit [157:4.5] be sure to apply patience with those who think differently from you and express yourselves with tact in representing God to men while not watering down the full measure of what is actual hope – the attainment of God within you as children of His love.
tact : noun
Acute sensitivity to what is proper and appropriate in dealing with others, including the ability to speak or act without offending.
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tolerance : noun
The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
Always consider your audience as Jesus did. He spoke differently to His family, friends, students, disciples, apostles, the crowd and then His enemies. Each audience required a different kind of response and communication. You must now understand your audiences using tact and tolerance without diluting your message. Was Jesus tactful as He addressed the Pharisees? Yes, and quite strong! Did Jesus speak with compassion to the woman caught in adultery? Yes, and He demonstrated loving compassion with complete forgiveness. Can you appreciate how He dealt differently with people given the varied circumstances and motivations of His fellows? Indeed, He did.
136:6.11 Jesus thus revealed to the creatures of his universe the technique of the new and better way, the higher moral values of living and the deeper spiritual satisfactions of evolutionary human existence on the worlds of space.
7. Live as ambassadors of God.
Culture is manifested through opinions and behaviors by the aggregate. Human culture’s progression relies upon communicating these higher values of God to His manifold children on earth.
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Choosing to be an ambassador of the kingdom sets you apart from all others who have not chosen this path. We are to live and speak more like our Celestial Helpers and Teachers, more as enlightened citizens of another and better country. We are ambassadors of the Sovereign of that new and better world. More is expected of the teacher than the pupil. More is required of the citizen of the heavenly kingdom than those of the earthly realm. Our obligations, followed in obedience to His ideals of mortal living, will be harder yet rewarding. And these are His instructions and this is HIS philosophy of living for and to US. Why delay your true spiritual heritage by walking in the flesh when you can progress and proceed forward now in the spiritual? Logic dictates we take on the hardships as His messengers coming out of the Lucifer rebellion knowing full well that we are reckoned by our authorities as authentic finaliters-in-the-making Today!
SHOW Them who you want to be. PROVE to Them that you are made of agondonter mettle with the goal of membership in the Corps of the Finality already a point-in-fact. You Can!
We are living in the aftermath of a 200K+ year old spiritual rebellion. It will be no small feat to move into your world with His original and ‘renewing gospel’ message which will overtake and overcome such terrific damage done to the way our people think about God. Let us understand WHY! [refer to Paper 53 for understanding our history of the Lucifer rebellion.]
The Lucifer rebellion is OVER! The rebels are GONE! All that we are left with are the lower mortal evil generals who have not yet realized that this phase of iniquity is passe. They have not recognized that God is indeed on His throne in Paradise and WE are His messengers of His Truth to our darkened world set to come alive in a global burst of Light and Life – one individual child at a time. Stand and be counted as the shining lights that you already are. He is with you. Pursue total success in faith that His enduring peace and grace will sustain you.
The Power of the Father...
is FAR FAR FAR more effective in defeating the sorry and pale efforts of any spiritual rebellion on any planet. Apply action with patience in waiting for His will [goodness] to reign supreme in our world. When WE recognize that our security in our Father’s spiritual realm provides for us not only peace but Victory for All of our fellows, we will see with our spiritual eyes that not only have we Won in this Lucifer rebellion, but we have overwhelmingly conquered and vanquished the lame and selfish pursuits and sophistries of those impotent, flaccid and ir-reproducible ignoramuses who thought that they might usurp the powers of our matchless and unconquerable spiritual authorities of our universe and our Sovereign, Michael of Nebadon [Jesus]! No alien off-world presence can stand up against our Sovereign Master Michael, empowered by our Absolute Great Source and Center of All Things and Beings. It will be US, the people of our world numbered 606 and titled Urantia, who will stand up to the sophistries of rebellion, evil and falsehoods. Once we secure our standing before our God Almighty then we will be fully sanctioned to continue on, as we were always supposed to do, for our civilization and peoples of our world given to us by our Father. Know that any alien presence will soon kneel to our Father in Paradise and before our Ancients of Days or else face their own consequences of rebellion- thought, rebellion sophistries, and rebellion acts. They Will Be No More! Believe it!
Lucifer rebellion hindrances.
Lucifer Rebellion residual drips and drabs are all impotent, and yet some embrace them still. If the higher beings of so long ago fell to these sophistries what do you think our propensity for this might be? ONLY fealty to Him gets you the highest and best of eternal spiritual living. By adhering to what God and Jesus ARE in the universe [reality] one finds the best of everything. “When man has found God he has found everything.” Our children and grandchildren will ask, “How did all of this happen?” We can now tell and teach them what unconquerable victors they too will be.
Lucifer rebellion benefits.
There are astounding benefits coming from this horrific Lucifer rebellion. May we now hear what our authorities say about this:
54:6.6 At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly had come to equal the evil incurred. The sum of evil had by that time become almost stationary, continuing to increase only on certain isolated worlds, while the beneficial repercussions continued to multiply and extend out through the universe and superuniverse, even to Havona.
The darkened environment of rebellion provided the perfect backdrop for Jesus’ bestowal mission to our world. And we are forever most fortunate to have had our Sovereign come to us as a divine and human Father, brother, and friend. He came at the perfect time to give us His revelation of the kingdom of God and how it is now ‘at hand’. This revelation was since forgotten, misunderstood and misstated. We have now been called to renew it and to preach, proclaim and teach His original gospel message, “The Father dominant and transcendent in the hearts and minds of His children.”
170:5.19 Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise proclaiming...
8. Win in your InWARd struggle.
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We all can remember when we were children and how we felt, what we thought, what we wanted and how we set about to acquire those things we desired and were so attracted. Most of us would attest to the fact that we made many mistakes in these endeavors. As we moved down our timeline of living we learned from our mistakes and gradually discovered better ways of living. The recognition of those negative things produced discomfort, upset and hardship. Avoiding the mental poisons showed us that we COULD overcome and progress in better ways, especially as we sought God. The negative can be up-stepped to the positive!
Transcending these lower animal urges, desires and lures requires boldness and courage. Nothing changes if nothing changes – by ACTION. Oftentimes we discover that the positive action of submissive thoughts towards God’s ways produces superior longings. Applying action [thoughts, words and deeds] in these new and higher desires has caused something inside of us to change. Over time we became more loving, better friends and we enjoyed greater peace within our minds. These emerging and uplifting attitudes were not found in the traditional ways of “thou shalt not” but in the fresh perception of “thou shall”. The positive action of surrender [thou shall yield to God] and then resting in His peace shows forth an attractive and alluring personality. When many also discover this fresh way of thinking and doing, what emerges is social maturity in the aggregate, the group. In this way society at large becomes healthier, families find greater happiness and this ultimately will lead us all into Light and Life.
Once again we look to our Master as our model of the highest spiritual concept which He employed. Will we choose to live in the base animal nature of selfishness and personal gain? Or, will we opt to live as He lived with a constant pursuit in practice of sincerely seeking God in all things? Yes. We can!
9. Be spiritual salt.
A commercial ad for a restaurant may be interesting, enticing or attractive, but it in no way conveys the actual experience of ordering, tasting and enjoying good food. If your friend tells you about a new restaurant with amazing food do we want to go? As they describe the crunchy, creamy, savory and sweet flavors they enjoyed do we imagine ourselves going there? Does our mouth begin to water when they describe what they ordered and how wonderful it all tasted? Yes! It all sounds SO GOOD that we now simply MUST also go and try it out for ourselves.
In turn, do not merely say this or that regarding the benefits of attainment. SHOW forth these amazing human and up-stepped qualities whereby all will desire what you have by way of what you DO and not only what you say. As you live out and describe for your friends how God within you has healed your long-standing hurts, taken away your bitterness by way of real forgiveness, and expanded your ability to love others you are ‘salting’ their desire for these spiritual fruits as well. Be bold yet gentle. Be honest yet careful. Be truth-telling with the added flavor of Love.
140:4.2 “You are the salt of the earth, salt with a saving savor. But if this salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.” ~ Jesus
140:4.3 In Jesus’ time salt was precious. It was even used for money. The modern word “salary” is derived from salt. Salt not only flavors food, but it is also a preservative. It makes other things more tasty, and thus it serves by being spent.
Unsalted food is bland and tasteless. Perfectly salted and balanced flavors are considered 5 Star quality! Loving wisdom applied in our communications of God brings balance, satisfaction and spiritual flavor.
10. Show kindness and mercy in the face of injustice.
Surprise your fellows with not only applying the golden rule, doing what you might like to have done to you, but showing the Father’s love for others which goes the second mile rather than only the first. When your fellows are distressed, or even harmed, show forth kindness and compassionate mercy. When YOU meet injustices, do not Forcibly Resist but show this new kind of love for others, this Fatherly love which understands the limitations of your fellows. BE the up-step!
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159:5.9 Jesus did not hesitate to appropriate the better half of a Scripture while he repudiated the lesser portion. His great exhortation, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” he took from the Scripture which reads: “You shall not take vengeance against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus appropriated the positive portion of this Scripture while rejecting the negative part. He even opposed negative or purely passive nonresistance. Said he: “When an enemy smites you on one cheek, do not stand there dumb and passive but in positive attitude turn the other; that is, do the best thing possible actively to lead your brother in error away from the evil paths into the better ways of righteous living.” Jesus required his followers to react positively and aggressively to every life situation. The turning of the other cheek, or whatever act that may typify, demands initiative, necessitates vigorous, active, and courageous expression of the believer’s personality.
Pay Attention! These are HIS very strong words—not to be dismissed!
Resist bitterness knowing that your erring fellow is not your child,
but His to discipline.
When grievously or mildly harmed by your more selfish fellow, resist the urge to anger, vengeance or bitterness. These things will be poison to YOUR mind – not theirs. We have discovered that the best way to do this is by recognizing the fact that your fellow is misguided, misaligned and mistaken in the ways of heaven. Allow them to do that which they will do! Take the hit! LET THEM do as they will knowing full well that they will never get away with these evil actions. And do we think this way because we want harm to come to them? NO! NEVER! We think these things because we know that their selfish and hurtful acts only hurt them. These are signs that they still need to grow. And – those spiritual authorities watching over them will not allow these things to slide by because they care for them and for their highest good. Therefore, all will be taken care of over time. It is not our business how they are lovingly disciplined. OUR job is to forgive, to continue loving them and to take care of our own heart and mind by RESISTING anger and bitterness.
This way – all is well. Yes.
11. Love as He loves.
Babies are only aware of what they feel. Babies are immature and precious. The growing child of 2 to 7 years begins to recognize what things are and can discriminate that one category of ‘thing’ can look like another and still be in the same category. The 7 to 11 years old child begins to evaluate, compare and contrast how things operate. The emerging teen is learning how thoughts and things affect them in terms of their own personal choices.
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Example: A baby will enjoy a drink of water without knowing what it is or caring to know. The child of 2 to 7 years can recognize that it is water in the cup and call it by word symbol. From 7 to 11 years old the child can determine that a cup of water is the same whether in a short or tall container. The emerging teen begins to comprehend how water effects them and what other meanings regarding water can be added in their thoughts and expressions.
Seek to patiently, and with kindness, ascertain the level of spiritual comprehension and maturity your beloved fellow is. THEN—whet their appetite for greater spiritual progression as you inspire them to pursue God within them. Communicate in ways that you think best they might understand given their spiritual maturity stage or level. This requires a bit of spiritual insight with finesse.
Example: A father looks upon His children understanding the developmental stage each child is in currently. A father does not expect a toddler to engage in critical thinking. The toddler is still trying to recognize what things are, where these things fit into life and how to relate. Sometimes this is quite frustrating for both. The loving father will engage slowly with his child and work to secure that growth is meaningful, appropriate and comprehensible to his child at his present developmental stage.
In like kind – get to know your fellows thoroughly in order to know how best to help and uplift them. In fact, your fellow may be at a very early stage in their spiritual development and like those stages of child development we must look more deeply into our fellow/s to know how to truly love, understand, serve and talk with them. Our Master is THE master in this area!
12. Choose to become like God.
When we pursue God in personal worship with the desire to become more like Him we are hoping for maturity. Our animal natures CAN be up-stepped in His spirit and by His help. He assists us in becoming less selfish for our own desires, less prejudicial, and opens our eyes to ascertain what was veiled before. Self-seeking is dissolved into the giving of one’s self for the good of another. In this personal attainment of God we recognize that we are growing into a more mature adult of God with more of His desires.
We must seek to crystallize this habit of worship on a daily basis. In doing so we win the InWARd battle to discover His reality of peace, love and joy. Choose the Father’s will [what is good] in all things. In this you are becoming more and more like Him.
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13. Foster His goodness after adjusting yourself in your own InWARd battle.
Recognize all fellows are different and unique. Only God knows His own child. Do not judge others in their standing before God. Only foster and coach His goodness for their free will to choose His will over their own. We all desire mercy; so show forth His mercy with love. Consider the ‘beam’ in your own eyes. Deal with yourself first and before you react in judgment of another. Be certain you are pursuing His will for yourselves before claiming to ‘see’ your fellow’s mistakes. Go deeper with your spiritual insight in order to discover more love in ministry to your fellow/s.
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Tiresome is the pull of the lower urges and desires. Exhausting is the constant need for attention, the dread of loneliness and the painful tinge of selfish acts producing negative relationships within and without. The crystallized daily habit of attainment produces a transcendent solution for the conflicts of living. Jesus’ new, and now ‘renewing’ gospel of the ‘kingdom’ supplies a constant source of higher living with exalted goals of destiny and transcendent stimuli, which calls forth within us the best of reactions stemming from our higher spiritual natures. In attainment we discover God as strength for our souls and refreshment from the living waters of His ever-flowing spirit. Pride is swallowed up in altruistic love, putting others first. Worry is lost in faith and trust in Him. Jealousy transforms into happiness for our friends. Envy renders to deep satisfaction with the blessings we have been given. Revenge [bitterness] is lost in the appropriate posture seeing our erring fellow as God’s child – not ours. We are free! WE are becoming like HIM who sees all as glorious potentials for what He can do in another. We are Happy for this! These are the positive proofs that we are growing. Each and every spiritual mountaintop experience of higher intellectual thought provides rest for the mind, strength for the inner being and actual transcendence UP and OUT of the depressing trifles of lower animal living.
14. Discover truth first in every moment or situation.
Truth is not necessarily Fact. In the spiritual realm it is motive that matters over appearances.
Example: One of two grown children is cast out of the family, including being taken out of the parent’s will. This is fact. The story told to everyone is that this one sibling is a ‘bad’ person, not worthy to be included. The truth is that the eldest child was motivated to have all the family wealth and treasures for herself, so she manipulated the situation with falsehoods and gossip in order to control and influence the parents such that they agreed to exclude this one younger child. From the celestial perspective the eldest child is immature, selfish and greedy, whereas the excluded child is misrepresented, maligned and demeaned and not ‘bad’ at all. In truth she is good and righteous.
Discover the truth in every moment and situation FIRST, as best you can. Employ courage in every life event and recognize your higher calling as His ambassadors. Be ever aware of your own InWARd battle so that you do not become the animal leading other animals, but the trained adult of God, always coaching and fostering your fellows UP to the higher ways of spirit living in truth. Apply just assessment and keen wisdom coming from God within you – leading you. Avoid serving the animal nature not only in yourself, but in others also. Recognize WHEN to walk away from those who would attack your truths and attempt to rend you. Sometimes it is best to step away in order for peace to be achieved allowing time for your less mature fellows to grow.
15. Communing with God is the greatest method of problem solving.
When problems in life arise we oftentimes want to affect the remedy immediately. However, realizing that a bit of time may be very good so that we can go to our indwelling God fragment for His transcendent wisdom. This is what Jesus did and Rodan recognized it.
His worshipful practice has become ours [To Attain Him], and we have discovered God to fully lead and direct our minds into better solutions for solving our problems. What we thought and saw in our minds yesterday gives way to His new and better thoughts and desires today. After ‘sleeps’, as we call them, we do find a new strength and wisdom not there before. We have more energy for addressing our problem/s and the steps we see today are more clear and lovingly insightful. And—God CAN compensate for our current personality defects when we choose His will and move our hunger for selfishness into a thirst for His living waters of righteousness.
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16. Not all will choose God.
Wisdom is something to be deeply desired by all. In facing our problems in life with honesty and sincerity we find these qualities are necessary to locate the difficulty of our problem. How grave is it? In these situations will we choose denial of the issue or pursue truth – personal truth of who WE are? Pride and conceit can produce dangerous outcomes when these poisons shade the need for admissions of envy, prejudice or malice. All too often the average person prefers to hold on to their cherished delusions of themselves thinking that the safety of their ‘old ways’ will make them feel more secure. It is the brave person who can honestly admit and courageously face what their logical mind discovers.
Represent Jesus before all people just as He showed us. Motivated by obediently executing this charge you will discover an abundant entrance into His kingdom of God. Alongside this, recognize our Master's teachings regarding our end of life review. Many will claim to be kingdom believers but He may reject whomever He knows is not sincere in this. ‘I never knew you; depart from me you who are false teachers.’ – Jesus 140:3.20.
Remember Jesus’ words regarding the severe test before us all.
Faith is the REQUIREMENT!
17. Be spiritual salt and light to attract others to Him through you.
As stated before—salt brings out and heightens the flavor of food. You are serving and offering the better spiritual food of life for the INNER MAN in the InWARd battle. Jesus also used the analogy of ‘light’ for us to better comprehend His desire for us as His messengers of His renewing gospel revelation that the kingdom of God dwells within us to show forth to the world.
LIGHT: In a storm when electricity goes out there is no light in the darkness. We stumble around searching for a flashlight, some matches or a candle. No one wants to just sit in the darkness when a storm is raging. YOU are the spiritual lights in this stormy world. Others who have no light and are walking in spiritual darkness will see your light and be drawn to it for help in their confusing struggles for how to live well, to see more clearly, and to discover God’s illumination within themselves to ‘see’ with their spiritual eyes the path to true safety and security.
BLINDING LIGHT: We are to let our light SO shine that our fellows will be guided/fostered/coached into new and godly paths of enhanced spiritual living truths. Too much light focused too intensely can become blinding, sometimes even as a laser which when used inappropriately, too intensely, can cause confusion, damage or even blindness.
HIS LIGHT: We shine HIS light to the world void of attention to ourselves for personal aggrandizement. Remember: God sees our motivations! Be not found selfish as Lucifer was. Be the reflection of that light from heaven in any and all things that you set your hands to do.
18. Action IS REQUIRED.
Character requirements: Buildings originally have blueprints for design. Can a building be built without taking action, accepting the requirements, utilizing the materials and human effort to build it? If one simply stares at the blueprint without DOING anything then the building never gets built. It remains just an action-less idea.
Strong characters DO right.
“Strong characters are not derived from not doing wrong but rather from actually doing right. The highest levels of self-realization are attained by worship and service. The happy and effective person is motivated, not by fear of wrongdoing, but by love of right doing.” ~ Jesus 140:4.6
160:1.8 The wise and effective solution of any problem demands that the mind shall be free from bias, passion, and all other purely personal prejudices which might interfere with the disinterested survey of the actual factors that go to make up the problem presenting itself for solution... And this emancipation of the mind and soul can never be effected without the driving power of an intelligent enthusiasm which borders on religious Zeal. It requires the lure of a GREAT IDEAL to drive man on in the pursuit of a goal which is beset with difficult material problems and manifold intellectual hazards. ~ Rodan
Personality, the Father’s gift to you, is changeless. What CAN change and grow is your moral character. World religions teach what NOT to do “Thou shalt not”. Negativism, repression, demanding injunctions from those insisting on submission to man’s animal ideas, fear and shame are all unworthy motivations for True Religious living. Activate your Personality Powers when personally attaining God and then taking ACTION in revealing Him to others. This is valid then when attempting to enhance the brotherhood of this Divine Spirit.
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19. Familial relationships are core to our New Philosophy of Living.
FAMILY: Jesus centered His philosophy of life on the family.
For our purposes in this document we have been assigned to renew Jesus’ forgotten gospel message – His highest original spiritual concept for man. We are all to attempt to describe the indescribable for our fellows, to put into our own words the superb spiritual work that our God fragments do within us. 2000+ years ago Jesus came to our world as our Father, brother and friend to begin this next level of our training. He revealed to us that our Father CAN be Dominant and Transcendent in our hearts and minds as believers. Based upon Jesus’ teachings we use this most fundamental relationship of the good parent, our Father, to His individual child.
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If this is what our Revelators instruct is 'the next thing' then it becomes logical in terms of what we should go ahead and proclaim NOW.
Let us make some word usage definitions and distinctions:
dominant : adjective
- commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
Example: As a parent, when your child becomes seriously hurt or ill does your mind dwell upon them and how they are doing constantly? Yes, and this is because you love them so. Your child is ‘dominant’ in your thoughts because they are such an important part of your life. In like kind, when our Thought Adjuster becomes so important to your daily life that you are in constant ‘thinking mode’ with and OF Him He has become Dominant within you. This is a Great Thing!
transcendent : adjective
- exceeding usual limits: surpassing
- extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience, universe or material existence
- being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
- being beyond comprehension
Example: Consider a woman with a traumatic and violent past entailing an attack of the most profound order. She most likely will suffer from this harm for many years to come, if not for the rest of her natural life. As time has passed this woman has come to discover God within her, and she is determined to attain Him in real personal spiritual experience. Once this does indeed happen for her she takes this painful memory to her indwelling God fragment and asks for Him to heal her. And THEN – in mere seconds, she is ‘shown’ in her inner being the truth of this encounter and He communicates this with His higher meanings and values for HER. She is healed – completely and entirely – from those moments forward. This is an example of how He transcendentally morphs one’s mind UP and OUT into better comprehension, deeper meanings and healing for the soul. From there on forgiveness is easy. [I know whereof I speak, for this was my personal experience – Dominant and Transcendent within me.]
110:1.6 Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners — mortal man and divine Adjuster.
[This is true beauty – Cosmology!]
Refer to Paper 110 for the perfect description of these magnificent impersonal Thought Adjuster beings.
Our book teaches us what and how our Thought Adjusters work within us. We have now been assigned to explain to you what He is like in experience for US. But this is difficult and variable, for this is a personal experience for each one of you, and us. We refer you to our To Attain Him section for our explanation of our personal spiritual experiences.
110:6.7 It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression, for the reason that these levels are personal; they are variable for each individual and are apparently determined by the growth capacity of each human being.
Faith is the key!
Always remember that it is your faith in Him that releases His spiritual power within you. Without faith He will wait. However WITH your faith and complete agreement God will move you ever forward in your circle attainments of your spiritual career.
110:3.2 The success of your Adjuster in the enterprise of piloting you through the mortal life and bringing about your survival depends not so much on the theories [ideas or concepts] of your beliefs as upon your decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith.
20. True morality is found in friendship with God as the GOLDEN RULE—ENHANCED.
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THE GOLDEN RULE, as we all know, teaches that we should do to others as we would like done to us. And Jesus did teach this. However, He went further to instruct that we should not only treat each other with this ‘golden rule’ deference, but we should treat each other with a higher love, one as Jesus and as our Paradise Father loves us. This is a ‘going beyond’ attitude whereby we make the greater effort to truly understand our fellows beyond their shortcomings and to then love them as God loves us, even when we are superficially offended.
21. THE essence of our master philosophy is ‘God is attainable’ personally.
“The consciousness of the impulse to be like God is not true religion. The feelings of the emotion to worship God are not true religion. The knowledge of the conviction to forsake self and serve God is not true religion. The wisdom of the reasoning that this religion is the best of all is not religion as a personal and spiritual experience. True religion has reference to destiny and reality of attainment as well as to the reality and idealism of that which is wholeheartedly faith-accepted. And all of this must be made personal to us by the revelation of the Spirit of Truth.” ~ Rodan 160:5.13
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Jesus’ true religion is the highest ever to be known of and experienced!
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The religion of Jesus transcends all our former concepts of the idea of worship in that he not only portrays his Father as the ideal of infinite reality but positively declares that this divine source of values and the eternal center of the universe is truly and personally attainable by every mortal creature who chooses to enter the kingdom of heaven on earth, thereby acknowledging the acceptance of sonship with God and brotherhood with man. That, I submit, is the highest concept of religion the world has ever known, and I pronounce that there can never be a higher since this gospel embraces the infinity of realities, the divinity of values, and the eternity of universal attainments. Such a concept constitutes the achievement of the experience of the idealism of the supreme and the ultimate. 160:5.7
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THE ESSENCE of our, and Jesus’ Master Philosophy, is to each of you and to all of us: God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is open to any and all.
How can we try to do something great for our fellows? This is how we do it! In becoming more like Him we are astonishingly different from our animal-natured fellows. This is why Jesus was so loved!
COSMOLOGY
Our Celestial Teacher’s and Revelator’s Mandate for us...
―fostering a religion, a philosophy, and a cosmology commensurate with man's intellectual and cultural development.
True philosophy relates to cosmology in man’s reach
for his human experience unified.
196:3.30 Art results from man's attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level. Science is man's effort to solve the apparent riddles of the material universe. Philosophy is man's attempt at the unification of human experience. Religion is man's supreme gesture, his magnificent reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him [true cosmology—beauty].
Example: A child reaches out in love for another child. This child has been well-taught by their parent/s. When this parent sees their own child begin to move in love towards another, realizing that what they have taught their child in terms of goodness is witnessed in loving gestures and kindness attempting to affect goodness for another child, this parent witnesses what is true, beautiful and good. This is Actual Beauty as God has created it to be. Can you appreciate this interplay of goodness taught and passed on from the parent to the child? This is Cosmology!
Man’s lower concept of cosmology
Cosmology: Usually defined in terms of the cosmos or the study of it = planets, space, time etc…
However, this is incomplete without the recognition of He who created the cosmos – His cosmos—with His motivation at the core of our comprehension. Without Him we only see the material, His physical handiwork. Limited perception yields a narrow, circumscribed, unfulfilling, dis-unified and disjointed understanding that stops before real spiritual progression may continue for the individual mortal child of God.
Our current definition of cosmology needs an up-step.
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The study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space.
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The astrophysical study of the history, structure, and constituent dynamics of the universe.
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A specific theory or model of this structure and these dynamics.
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Even so, cosmology is actually the study of “beauty” regarding how God causes Himself to ‘interplay’ and be revealed to His created things and beings. Then man pursues his relationship with God to discover the beauty He can cause within us in relationship with Him [interplay]. The resulting blended contrast between these two is called “beauty” = cosmology.
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Example: As a spouse you may watch, over time, the developing love as shared with your beloved towards those better moral decisions and choices. You can see over time this beautiful influence you have had in their life. This is real beauty. It is the blending of the God-knowing child who is responding in love to your unique expressions, as a close and personal soul mate, to see and discover that your human relationship is becoming more and more like He relates to His beloveds. Yes. This is real ‘cosmology’ = beauty.
56:10.3 Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty — cosmology — you all too often limit to the study of man's crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts [the Creator in interplay with His creations]. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God finding man — the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator — that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art.
We become expressions of His cosmic art in our own lives!
The True Cosmology
DISCOVER BEAUTY EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK -
FOR GOD IS EVERYWHERE!
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Previously stated; cosmology is usually defined in terms of the cosmos or the study of it = planets, space, time etc…
Just the same, cosmology is actually the study of “beauty” regarding how God causes Himself to be revealed to man and then man pursues relationship with God to discover the beauty He can cause around and within us in relationship with Him, and THEN others. This interplay between these two is called “beauty” = cosmology.
Example: In friendship there can be hiccups in relating to one another. There are times when humble forgiveness needs to be requested, and given, in love. At a later time the roles may become reversed and you intuitively recognize that your friend is now asking for your forgiveness as a result of your previous actions revealing how this can be done easily. The friendship becomes even stronger as you both traverse conflict, forgiveness resulting in a deeper intimacy in your friendship when loving forgiveness is achieved. Yes. This is real ‘cosmology’ = beauty.
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131:4.5 “We have learned to win faith by the yearning of our hearts. We have attained wisdom by the restraint of our senses, and by wisdom we have experienced peace in the Supreme. He who is full of faith worships truly when his inner self is intent upon God. Our God wears the heavens as a mantle; he also inhabits the other six wide-spreading universes. He is supreme over all and in all.
In order to fully comprehend this one must be in authentic pursuit of God who indwells him – not merely assuming we KNOW Him because we ‘think’ about Him. [This is not beauty. This is simple concept/theory = an idea.] Without this comprehension there is little beauty. WITH Him, man sees mostly beauty with small specs of disappointing non-reality. Jesus not only knew this but He lived His life with this kind of trust and deep belief that all is well and good! So can we.
As God begins to unify our person, our personalities, He balances us out for greater mental stability [Mother Spirit as Mind of whom we operate in] and spiritual health on a personal level, so happens on a larger scale with the unification of the Supreme, personalizing as the Father of Love in Action for our Superuniverse. Can you appreciate this interaction of our Paradise Father’s great creation across the Master Universe? We do see this in His heavenly creations in the cosmos, but moreover we see His beautiful interplay in our lives with us and as we relate to our fellows.
Is technology ‘beautiful’?
We now have a great problem!
Man’s technology has surpassed his moral and ethical growth. We must move forward pushing for the moral and ethical remedy for this conundrum.
Man’s propensity to think he ‘knows better than God’ is the root of true evil and when acted upon brings eventual death and darkness.
Changing our motivations by understanding our Father’s way leads to conquering selfishness, greed and avarice, leading to truth, beauty and goodness in everyone’s lives. And this leads ultimately to Light and Life for all.
Example: A child chooses to go outside to experience nature and play with another child rather than play less healthy video games in isolation. This free will choice of the child, this better personal selection, is beautiful when it is done as a result of their recognition of the ‘better’ thing.
In ALL things and in each moment we encounter within our minds we have free will choices – our Personality Power. What is good and what is error, evil or sin? What do we allow our senses to see, hear or touch? What do we then do with these influences? Will what we take in produce goodness that then pours out of our lives? Does our choice bring in those better and higher influences?
Example: Technology interplays in our lives constantly, for most of us. There are some good things in this, but we can see a vast influence that is quite challenging. Porn is rampant! It is easy to see and then indulge in. A person may choose this path and discover that it is so powerful, so self indulgent that it becomes the ‘easy catalyst’ requiring no love for the people who are on display. Yet, does this self-person recognize that those in the depictions also have souls? By engaging in what is supposed to be a personal and private sharing of a great gift from God with other unknown souls—has a line been crossed? What is good in this very personal arena? Does this create the feeding of needs by way of usury of another soul for our personal gratification? Will this build up our souls or tear our souls down? Is this ‘good’? If Jesus were in the room what do you think He thinks?
Jesus IS in the room for He dwells within you!
If Jesus has called us as the messengers of His renewing revelation, His original and true gospel message, then it is incumbent upon us to honestly and sincerely LIVE this in our personal lives, and to be the uplift for everyone we encounter. As we influence others for His highest good with each person we meet we are actually uplifting the aggregate, the societal group at large.
This happens one person at a time!
Example: A politician changes his mind from previous bad and evil policies to ones that are based upon goodness for the aggregate when laws effect all of the individual’s goodness for them.
160:2.10 I repeat, such inspiring and ennobling association finds its ideal possibilities in the human marriage relation. True, much is attained out of marriage, and many, many marriages utterly fail to produce these moral and spiritual fruits. Too many times marriage is entered by those who seek other values which are lower than these superior accompaniments of human maturity.
Choosing a life partner is one of the most important decisions one can make. In pursuing a relationship with God in personal attainment one begins to recognize that He is changing our desires. Physical attraction is not to be denied or denigrated. This is natural for us. However, when we consider that children may become a result of a union the ante goes up. Will this potential partner produce with you children of high moral integrity, spiritual awareness and help in developing them as mature adults of God? These inner qualities of your potential parental partner will be passed on to your children. Think about what you really desire for your entire life. Physical beauty is fleeting. Who will bring true beauty to your life? A loving, moral and God-knowing spouse will be the greatest gift that you can give to yourself. Ponder this.
What attainment gives to you.
Spiritual attainment of your indwelling Thought Adjuster—direct contact with God—brings forth those surprising uplifts in joy, beauty and of better organized thought and a clarity of purpose.
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Everything is about our real motives which God can see in us.
But what IS our motive? Do we consider or care for what God wants for Himself i.e. His children to know Him? YES! The by-product of your aggressively yielding to Him with higher motives is your immense joy of His presence ever-growing within you! Are we truly lovers of mankind understanding what brings Him joy? Or, are we merely lovers of ourselves? One leads to supreme joy by way of experiencing His presence within us at all times. The latter leads to depletion of good spiritual energies, leaving only emptiness and more dread due to continued practices of those lower animal lures.
Do you desire better health in all areas of your life?
194:3.19 Pentecost, then and now, signifies that the Jesus of history has become the divine Son of living experience. The joy of this out-poured spirit, when it is consciously experienced in human life, is a tonic for health, a stimulus for mind, and an unfailing energy for the soul.
In giving to God, the author of our living you experience in the spiritual realm things you can never get from anywhere else. However, this is contingent upon your free will choice to have faith in Him, to pursue Him, and then experience Him [faith moves to assurance], and now you have your own personal Truth—PROOF—of His essence and Personhood within you. Intellectual assent, merely ‘thinking’ about God will not suffice.
131:4.3 “God is the sure refuge of every good man when in need; the Immortal One cares for all mankind. God’s salvation is strong and his kindness is gracious. He is a loving protector, a blessed defender. Says the Lord: ‘I dwell within their own souls as a lamp of wisdom. I am the splendor of the splendid and the goodness of the good. Where two or three gather together, there am I also.’ The creature cannot escape the presence of the Creator. The Lord even counts the ceaseless winking of every mortal’s eyes; and we worship this divine Being as our inseparable companion. He is all-prevailing, bountiful, omnipresent, and infinitely kind. The Lord is our ruler, shelter, and supreme controller, and his primeval spirit dwells within the mortal soul. The Eternal Witness to vice and virtue dwells within man’s heart. Let us long meditate on the adorable and divine Vivifier; let his spirit fully direct our thoughts. From this unreal world lead us to the real! From darkness lead us to the light! From death guide us to immortality!
Unify! Into the Supreme.
56:10.15 Even truth, beauty, and goodness — man’s intellectual approach to the universe of mind, matter, and spirit — must be combined into one unified concept of a divine and supreme ideal. As mortal personality unifies the human experience with matter, mind, and spirit, so does this divine and supreme ideal become power-unified in Supremacy and then personalized as a God of fatherly love [the Supreme].
Example: What is supremely beautiful will become real for you when you take action in communicating with your fellows the true loving and merciful nature and character of God, how He works within them and how they can apply these truths to their personal relationship with God. When you see your fellows thinking, pondering, comprehending, understanding and DOING those practices [that you played an influential part for them in and to a deeper relationship and experience with their indwelling Father], you will SEE this interplay of beauty [cosmology]. This new interaction with Him is Real BEAUTY. We then stand back and watch God work in this most awesome Personal Power and we witness His beautiful, true and ultimate good working in others. We begin to recognize this true cosmology of God in man, woman and child. His beautiful INTERPLAY. YES!
Personally, for us:
Truth in true religion of the mind and in free will thought choices is a product of the Infinite Spirit, who IS mind, providing for us this depth of self-consciousness with God.
The beauty of His cosmology, His causing our existential and experiential spiritual growth in our material and physical lives in time and space is gorgeous and life-sustaining.
As we push forward towards attainment of God within we emerge better in recognizing what we Must be doing in our lives to promote Jesus’ highest spiritual concept; the Father dominant and TRANSCENDENT within our minds! This pursuit of goodness in the truest sense of His Philosophy of Living led and guided by His Spirit. We comprehend this reorganization in our minds as nothing short of HIM, the Paradise Father as our Source for all that is GOOD.
By embracing these three things OF truth, beauty and goodness and then taking ACTION in our own lives, we bring ourselves into the realm of the SUPREME – our God of ‘doing’.
The Reality of the Supreme!
Our forever eternal life –
the ongoing pursuit of service for what God wants!
130:4.3 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 will can the creature become as one with the Creator [beauty/cosmology]; 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 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 ascending son of God.
Our future is bright!
131:1.9 "If the faith of the Most High has entered your heart, then shall you abide free from fear throughout all the days of your life. Fret not yourself because of the prosperity of the ungodly; fear not those who plot evil; let the soul turn away from sin and put your whole trust in the God of salvation. The weary soul of the wandering mortal finds eternal rest in the arms of the Most High; the wise man hungers for the divine embrace; the earth child longs for the security of the arms of the Universal Father. The noble man seeks for that high estate wherein the soul of the mortal blends [interacts] with the spirit of the Supreme. God is just: What fruit we receive not from our plantings in this world we shall receive in the next."
As our person/personalities begin to Unify and balance out for greater health on a personal level, so happens on a larger scale with the unification of the Supreme, personalizing as the Father of Love in Action for our own planet and the Superuniverse. Can you appreciate the way of our Paradise Father’s great creation across His Master Universe in such diverse ways – just as water can be in three forms? God, in His unified Oneness of love flows in and through everything everywhere as He so chooses to bestow.
Do you see the recurring pattern here?
Yes, because all Reality in any way revealed to man will Always lead us to God. ALWAYS!
God and Jesus’ Spiritual Water is the essence of our real Life Support which produces spiritual growth.
“I am the living water.” ~ Jesus
He flows through us like a river in the desert. [liquid]
He becomes solid for us as Reality dissolves illusion. [Ice]
He is found everywhere in all things. [vapor]
Advanced meanings and understandings:
Combining ‘mind matter spirit’ , ‘truth beauty goodness’ , ‘religion philosophy cosmology’, becomes the IDEAL. God is the source of all three. When unified, this becomes an ideal ‘concept’, assisting man to then actively approach His Maker and to then better and progressively understand the universe. So then this divine and supreme ideal become power-unified in Supremacy, and then personalized as a God of fatherly love for the created and God indwelt creature.
These 3 separate ‘ideas’ begin as concepts but then must be pursued and experienced in Reality. Only God is Reality! So – in pursuing God in personal attainment one begins to progressively encounter, comprehend and then experience/feel what was once just an idea. This becomes the REAL IDEAL. And, when these 3 ideas [religion cosmology philosophy] become unified in the Person-Reality of God in personal experience the Power-unification of such thought-reality e x p a n d s. Over and over again this will happen for the child of God until one day standing before Him in Paradise, face to face, as it were, in experiential recognition that God is All, and He is in us..
Consider now and decide forever that THIS definition of living will be your eternal journey – your Eternal Life of never-ending and loving service to our God of love. As we are taught by our Revelators, this ‘feeling of service to God’ that we experience today will be the very same motivation that we will ‘feel’ for our entire eternal journey. This IS the journey to Paradise. We will Always be expected and required to serve those a bit less aware than ourselves. This is how our Grand Universe works. May we embrace this today envisioning our future living for eternity! Ponder this, yes.
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As we unify our personalities by interaction with our indwelling spirit mind and God fragments [beauty – cosmology] so does the Supreme move towards unification in our Superuniverse. We are reflections of God in Paradise and our world is a reflection of Havona [heaven] and our ever evolving Supreme. Many may think these ‘thoughts’ but resist actually acting upon them—entering into the pursuit of God within them—because they think God might just give all things to them by fiat. But God doesn’t work this way. He waits for us to desire Him in His Person-hood. Thinking a thought, even a deeper thought, does not bring one into the spiritual experience of the presence of God. Expecting revelation by fiat is ignorant and lazy. One must do the work!
Example: One may experience the threat of a dark sky with thunder and lightning as comes a tornado that might destroy their home and themselves. In these moments of fear they may cry out to God for help. Yet, the neighbor who has been spiritually growing by personal worshipful communion with God all along looks at the storm and recognizes that they are devoid of fear, even in this crisis.
Human assertions about the Supreme by pursuing this idea as a mere factoid avails nothing. It all just sits there in the mind as a ‘theory’. ONLY by pursuing the God of True Religion, True Philosophy and True Cosmology can provision be made to the child of God those most precious, most profound and most life-changing spiritual progressions that compel us to pursue Him even more and more and more...until we stand in His presence In Paradise!
You are adorable to God!
47:8.7 During the sojourn on world number six the mansion world students achieve a status which is comparable with the exalted development characterizing those evolutionary worlds which have normally progressed beyond the initial stage of light and life. The organization of society on this mansonia is of a high order. The shadow of the mortal nature grows less and less as these worlds are ascended one by one. You are becoming more and more adorable as you leave behind the coarse vestiges of planetary animal origin. "Coming up through great tribulation" serves to make glorified mortals very kind and understanding, very sympathetic and tolerant.
What are you waiting for?
195:7.18 Any scientific interpretation of the material universe is valueless unless it provides due recognition for the scientist. No appreciation of art is genuine unless it accords recognition to the artist. No evaluation of morals is worth while unless it includes the moralist. No recognition of philosophy is edifying if it ignores the philosopher, and religion cannot exist without the real experience of the religionist who, in and through this very experience, is seeking to find God and to know him. Likewise is the universe of universes without significance apart from the I AM, the infinite God who made it and unceasingly manages it.
God is a Person!
Yes. He created our cosmos. Yes. He created us. We are His ‘pattern’ – reflections of His image. We try to create beauty in our lives with homes, relationships, family and friends. Have we considered that He has created His home in our universe with the stars, planets, His other amazing and manifold handiwork with His other sheep in His other folds on other worlds? Can you SEE how we reflect Him even as we attempt to produce beauty in our own lives as He continues to create in His.
You are His heart’s desire, beloved.
Know Him!
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