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The Father's Spirit · Urantia Radio

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  Welcome to the Rancher Radio Podcast.
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  My name is Jim Watkins. I've been reading the book for
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  over 40 years, and I've got a thing or two to talk about, and
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  we always talk about the revelation.
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  It's a foregone conclusion to me that we're talking about
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  something that's spectacular beyond anybody's wildest
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  imagination. We have in our possession a book
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  that purports to be a revelation of epical proportions, as
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  momentous as the man who revealed truth to Abraham, as
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  profound as the teachings of Christ himself as they were
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  given to his apostles during the 1st century, and as timely as
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  the arrival of Adam and Eve as the material representative of
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  the spiritual Kingdom. That's how big this is.
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  It's pretty big, so in a minute, it's Father's Day and I can't
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  think of a better time to talk about the Father's spirit as we
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  give honor to our Father in heaven.
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  That's what we're going to talk about this time up on the
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  Arrancha Radio podcast. Have you ever wondered why a
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  deity of infinite potential would care to inhabit the soul
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  of a human being? What is it that the deity, the
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  Father in heaven, our first source and senator, why would
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  would such a grand and eternal being want to stoop so low in
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  the creative arc hierarchy to actually inhibit the mind of an
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  animal that's just slightly above a beast?
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  Isn't that amazing? I mean, I, I have been thinking
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  about that and I've been thinking about free will and
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  some discussions that we've had, particularly with Byron
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  Ballezos. If you go back a couple of
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  episodes, Byron and I have gotten in some real good
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  discussions about this very debate about free will, about
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  the endowment of, of God. And it's a pretty spectacular
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  concept when you think about the fact that deity has chosen to
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  inhabit the will of the human being, and not just one human
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  being, but all beings of sole potential.
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  And you ask yourself, why would he do that?
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  What would be the reason for him to do that?
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  Certainly he knows everything, right?
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  That's what Thomas Aquinas argued and Byron talks about.
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  How free will is is such an important caveat because it's
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  only with free will that we are able to make moral choices.
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  Animals that don't have free will, that are automatic
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  function on a motor function level or a motor level of
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  function aren't morally discerning.
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  They're just reacting to the impulses that more often than
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  not just guarantee them self preservation.
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  And that is actually true of the human condition as well.
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  Many people that are not spiritual at all are really just
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  living on a motor function, motor level of function.
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  And their primary goal is self preservation.
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  But it's that element of free will, the element of the spirit
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  endowment. And this is what the the framers
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  of the US Constitution were betting on.
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  Because up until that point, no, no one had really given thought
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  as to where a person's rights come from or whether a person
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  was entitled to certain liberties.
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  And it was because some very smart men at the, at the end of
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  the Enlightenment period had decided not to throw the baby
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  out with the bathwater. And what I mean by that is that
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  the Enlightenment basically was the birth of secularism in our
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  country and in Western society. It was a breaking off of the
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  shackles of the authoritative church.
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  And we learn this not only from our own history books, but the
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  Urantia book goes into great detail when it talks about
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  materialism and secularism being a reaction to the church.
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  Because the church from about, I don't know, 800 AD to 1600, they
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  had such a grip on, on human activity, but their authority
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  came from divinity. Their, they, they, their
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  authority came from God, and they were able to use that as a
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  way of controlling and dominating and outright
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  oppressing human beings for hundreds of years.
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  And so when secularism and the the Age of Enlightenment and
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  science was starting to be a thing, and people were reading
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  now because we'd had the press and we had books now that were
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  being distributed, and people started to realize that the
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  Earth was not the center of the universe.
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  In fact, what they realized is that the Earth is a very small
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  fraction of the universe and that the universe is doing its
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  own thing. We're just innocent bystanders.
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  But when they threw out the shackles and unleashed the
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  chains of ecclesiastical authority, and I'm just
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  commenting on this, they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  But there were a few people who were smart enough to realize
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  that if our rights and our inheritance comes from man, and
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  man is so easily corruptible, then civilization will never
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  evolve beyond just simple self preservation.
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  The more bestial tendencies of human life is to survive at all
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  costs. And that is not restricted to
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  people who who grow in political power.
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  They're also fighting for their own self preservation.
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  They want to continue to rule. And I'm bringing this up
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  partially because having given thought to all this, I have
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  decided to write my third book and this book for you insiders.
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  This next book, which is at this point the working title is
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  Secularism, How secularism will destroy society eventually.
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  And it's because I, I gave a lot of thought to free will and the
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  mind arena of choice and the fragment of God that that's in
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  US. And so on Father's Day, I want
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  to spend all of our time thinking about why the Father
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  cares so much about us that he's willing to put a fragment of his
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  spirit and give it to us. And it's that distinguishing
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  birthmark that ensures that we have a civilization that honors
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  the individual's right to free will.
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  We are free will creatures, just like God is a free will creator.
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  We are endowed by his Spirit, and that's what gives us grace,
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  and it's what gives us justification to be able to say
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  I am. I am.
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  I am entitled to freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of
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  thought, freedom of the exchange of ideas, freedom of movement,
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  freedom to own private property. You know, it's also interesting
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  in the Urania book where it talks about the development of
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  the modern civilization, it talks about the fact on the
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  affirmative. In other words, it's agreeing
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  with the assessment that human beings are entitled to private
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  property. They're entitled to keep what
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  they earn. They're not obligated to serve
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  an oppressor or totalitarian regime.
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  In fact, they even say that communism in and of itself is
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  not something that is acceptable in the higher realms.
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  So we're getting close. But if we didn't have that, that
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  birthmark, that spiritual birthmark of being endowed by
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  our creator, and if we hadn't had men and women of the 16th
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  and 17th century, and thank God, we should also celebrate the
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  Magna Carta because that's also, it's been about 800 years to
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  this day that the Magna Carta was signed.
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  And that was really the beginnings of, of a journey that
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  would end with the understanding that man had inalienable rights
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  to be free, to be free from being accosted, being arrested,
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  so forth. So I, I'm excited about it
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  spiritually. I, I, I've got all this energy
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  and I want to, before I, I get to the main fulcrum of what I
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  want to talk about, because I'm going to read from a section of
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  the paper and it talks about this very free will.
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  And that's going to be the thought of of the day I want to
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  play this clip from Bill Sadler Junior.
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  I've played it before on on the podcast.
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  Bill Sadler, for those who don't know, is the son of William and
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  Lena Sadler. And William and Lena Sadler were
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  the two individuals that came into contact with the sleeping
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  subject that's talked about in the Urantia book that acted as
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  the conduit to the eventual writings of the 5th epochal
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  revelation, the sleeping subject.
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  It's questionable whether he wrote it or if it was written by
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  the hands of midwayers, but either way, he was the
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  communique, if you will. And many spiritual personalities
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  were able to communicate to William and Bill or William and
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  Lena. And they from there founded the
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  the original group of people who reviewed the Uranja book as the
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  papers began appearing. And so Bill Sadler obviously was
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  part of that original Commission and the contact Commission.
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  And he went on a tour for, for decades in the 50s and the 60s
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  and meeting with study groups all across the country.
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  And this is a, a clip, I think 1959 or so.
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  And he's talking about the fragment of the Father, the
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  fragment, the spirit fragment with the Urantia book oftentimes
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  refers to as the thought adjuster, the spirit fragment of
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  the Father. And I.
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  And I think you'll enjoy this. Take a listen because it'll help
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  you understand what I'm about to tell you from the Urantia book
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  when it talks about free will and the mind arena of choice.
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  But listen to these these very comforting statements from Bill.
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  I think of the the best way I can think of a thought of
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  gesture is like this. Let this card symbolize God.
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  There's a thought of gesture. It's a piece of God.
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  It's not all of God, but from a qualitative standpoint, it's
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  God's nature as that little fragment of that card is of the
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  nature of the card. Very frankly, I don't take up
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  very many problems with God. I'm a little bit abashed.
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  I mean, I'm not in the least afraid of God.
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  He's too big. If he were only about 10% of his
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  size, I could be afraid of him. But he's entirely too big to be
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  afraid of. And I understand intellectually
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  that he's infinite and that he has just as much time for me as
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  if I were the only creature in all existence.
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  This I understand, but I'm a little abashed at taking up his
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  time nevertheless. But I've got this thought of
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  gesture and I'm not. I'm not abashed about taking up
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  his time because I am his business.
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  You follow me, he's my partner. It's not a a a unique
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  perspective from the late Bill Sadler Junior talking about that
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  fragment of God that's in each one of us.
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  And at the beginning I asked, why would God want to put a
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  fragment in US? And then when you think about
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  the fact that it's that fragment of God that entitles us to free
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  will so that we can choose to be morally good.
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  And that's the the premise of a civilization.
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  And so before I read this mind arena of choice from Paper 111,
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  which encapsulate what Bill Bill Junior is saying it, it's the
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  book that I'm writing is called Godless, how secularism will
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  destroy civilization. And if you're a Urantia book
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  reader, you're, you're no doubt going to read this book.
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  It, it doesn't allude to the Urantia book, but so much of
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  what I've gained in the knowledge of, of the thought
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  adjuster and free will and, and its relationship to morality and
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  ethics and values and meanings comes from the Orangi book.
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  So among us chickens, as they say, when I finally published my
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  book, Godless, how secularism will destroy civilization.
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  First of all, I want you to order it when I publish it.
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  And second of all, I want you to enjoy the fact that a lot of its
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  source material was actually based on the Orangi book.
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  So having said that little selfless plug, let's step into
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  this mind arena of choice. And again from paper 111,
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  paragraph one, Section 1, the thought the the thought adjuster
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  is again as Bill Sadler are that spirit.
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  It's that the Christian Church calls it the Spirit of God.
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  It is that same thing. They just called it the thought
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  adjuster because they're explaining that this spirit
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  through our life is constantly trying to spiritize our mortal
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  intellect. It's constantly trying to give
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  us spiritual insight. And so by doing that, it is
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  adjusting our material mind and trying to spiritize it.
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  That's why they call it the thought of gesture.
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  So they say the work of adjusters is spiritual in
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  nature. They must perforce do all their
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  work upon and intellectual foundation.
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  Mind is the human soul from which the spirit monitor must
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  evolve the soul with the cooperation of the indwelt
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  personality. There is a cosmic unity in the
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  several mind levels of the universe of universes.
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  Intellectual cells have their origin in the cosmic mind much
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  as nebula take origin in the cosmic energies of universe
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  space. On the human, hence personal
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  level of intellectual cells, the potential of spirit evolution
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  becomes dominant with the ascent of the mortal mind because of
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  the spiritual endowments of the human personality.
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  Again, that word endowments together with the creative
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  presence of an entity point of absolute value in such human
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  cells. But such a spirit dominance of
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  the material mind is conditioned upon 2 experiences.
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  This mind must have evolved up through the ministry of the
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  seven Adjutant mind spirits. The Material self must choose to
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  cooperate with the indwelling Adjuster in creating and
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  fostering the Morontia Self, the evolutionary and potentially
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  immortal soul. We have to choose to work with
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  God. Choosing material mind is the
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  arena in which human personalities live, are
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  self-conscious, make decisions, choose God or forsake Him,
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  eternalize or destroy themselves.
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  Material evolution has provided you a life machine, your body,
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  the Father Himself has endowed you with the purest spirit
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  reality known in the universe, your thought adjuster.
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  But into your hands, subject to your own decisions, has been
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  given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die.
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  It is within this mind and with this mind that you make those
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  moral decisions which enable you to achieve a juster likeness and
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  that is God likeness. Mortal mind is a temporary
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  intellect system loan to human beings for use during a material
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  lifetime, and as they use this mind they are either accepting
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  or rejecting the potential of eternal existence.
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  Mind is about all you have of universe reality that is subject
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  to your will and the soul. The Mirantious Self will
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  faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions which
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  the mortal Self is making. Human consciousness rests gently
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  upon the electrochemical mechanisms below and delicately
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  touches the spirit mirage energy systems above.
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  Of neither of these two systems is the human being ever
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  completely conscious in his mortal life, therefore must he
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  work in mind of which he is conscious.
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  And it is not so much what mind comprehends as what mind desires
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  to comprehend that ensures survival.
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  It is not so much what a mind is like is what a mind is striving
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  to be like that constitutes spirit identification.
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  It is not so much that man is conscious of God as that man
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  yearns for God. That results in universe
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  ascension. What you are today is not so
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  important as what you are becoming day by day and in
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  eternity. Mind is the cosmic instrument on
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  which the human will can play the discords of destruction, or
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  upon which the same human will can bring forth the exquisite
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  melodies of God, identification and consequent eternal survival.
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  The adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis,
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  impervious to evil and incapable of sin.
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  But mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted and rendered
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  evil and ugly by the sinful machinations of a perverse and
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  self seeking human will. Likewise can this mind be made
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  noble, beautiful, true and good, actually great in accordance
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  with the spirit illuminated will of a God knowing human being.
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  There's more, but it's it's so much.
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  I'll I'll conclude with this. Mind is your ship, the adjuster
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  is your pilot. The human will is captive.
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  The master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust
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  the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morancha
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  harbors of eternal survival. Only by selfishness,
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  slothfulness, and sinfulness can the will of man reject the
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  guidance of such a loving pilot and eventually wreck the mortal
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  career upon the evil Shoals of rejected mercy and upon the
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  rocks of embraced sin. With your consent, this faithful
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  pilot will safely carry you across the barriers of time and
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  the handicaps of space to the very source of the divine mind
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  and on beyond, even to the Paradise Father of Adjusters.
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  Now if that's not some real poetry, I don't know what is,
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  but I hope you'll give it 5 minutes of contemplation today
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  and that would be constituting your Christmas card or your
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  Father's Day card to God. Well, this has been a moving
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  episode for me. I don't know about you, but I
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  need to go take a break. So I'll see you again soon.
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  Keep the emails coming. Love hearing from you and more
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  great episodes to come here on the Urancha Radio podcast.
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  e-mail is uranchabookradio@gmail.com.
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  Blessings. The
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  the.