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And welcome to another edition of the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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I'm your humble host, Jim Watkins, and it is always good
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to have you stop by and I enjoy that you do, and I always want
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to impart something that will make your day better.
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And so on this edition of the Urantia Radio Podcast, we're
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going to talk about a subject. It's in paper 195, and it's
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sections 5-6 and seven where the revelators tell us a little bit
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about materialism and the dangers of materialism in the
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modern day. We're going to cover a lot of
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material. It's a little longer than I
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usually have as far as episodes. It takes about 40 minutes to
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read through these three sections, and I'll give you a
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clue if it's too long. Then you can take a break.
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So if you need to pause, it'll be a lot of very, very useful
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information, and it will help you understand not only the
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dangers of materialism, but what we can do to solve the problem
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of abject materialism. And the revelators went to great
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lengths to give us the tools that we need in order to
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understand exactly what we're faced against.
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Welcome to the Arancha Radio podcast, where we take a look at
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papers throughout the book and give it a little bit of analysis
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and help you perhaps understand more of what the book is saying.
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And today we're going to be talking about Paper 195, Section
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5, and it's called The Modern Problem.
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Now Paper 195 is the last of the books or the papers of the
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Arancha book, and it talks a lot about it's actually sort of a
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summary history. Of what happened after Jesus
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moved on, and what happened with Christianity and what influence
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it continues to have all the way down to the modern age.
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So paper 195 begins with after Pentecost, then it goes into the
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continuing Roman influence, and then through the Dark Ages.
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And now we're at Section 5. So let's read through this
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section and we'll give some analysis to what they're trying
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to tell us. And you can read along too, on
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the screen if you like. So from Paper 195, Section 5,
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the the modern Problem, the 20th century has brought new problems
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for Christianity and all other religions to solve.
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The higher a civilization climbs, the more necessitous
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becomes the duty to quote seek first the realities of heaven in
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all of man's efforts to stabilize society and facilitate
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the solution of its material problems.
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Truth often becomes confusing and even misleading when it is
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dismembered, segregated, isolated, and too much analyzed.
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Living truth teaches the truth seeker a right only when it is
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embraced in wholeness and as a living spiritual reality, not as
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a fact of material science or an inspiration of intervening art.
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Religion is the revelation of man of his.
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Divine and eternal Destiny. Religion is a purely personal
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and spiritual experience and must forever be distinguished
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from man's others. Higher forms of thought, such as
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man's logical attitude toward the things of material reality,
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man's aesthetic appreciation of beauty contrasted with ugliness,
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man's ethical recognition of social obligations, and
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political duty. And even man's sense of human
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morality is not in and of itself religious.
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So they're emphasizing here that religion is is a purely personal
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experience and it's it's if it's viewed in this way, then
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religion is about the whole personality and not just a
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segmented part of of their their living, like going to church one
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day a week and not really giving thought in any in any given
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moment. To look at things through a
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spiritual lens, how does it benefit me?
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How does it benefit other people?
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And is it based in truth? So if you use those 3
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qualifiers, then you're applying religious living to just about
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every circumstance in your life. Religion is designed to find
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those values in the universe which call for faith, trust and
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assurance. Religion culminates in worship.
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Religion discovers for the soul those supreme values which are
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in contrast with the relative values discovered by the mind.
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Such superhuman insight can be had only through genuine
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religious experience. A lasting social system without
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a morality predicated on spiritual realities can no more
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be maintained than could the solar system without gravity.
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That's a pretty important statement.
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Do we have a Do we have a society that you think is based
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on spiritual realities or material realities to the man on
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the street? Does this person live only in
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the material world, or does he give thought to the spiritual
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realities of his soul or the future endeavors of perhaps
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eternal life? I would say that most people
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don't think in terms. Of eternal reality.
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Not today anyway. But what if we did?
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How would we treat each other differently if we took in the
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context of a cosmological universe filled with life?
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And I think when they say a lasting social system, that
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means the thread that holds a society together.
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If it's based on spiritual principles or spiritual
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realities, then it it can contain that society.
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It's a lasting. Social system and, if it's based
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on anything else, spiritual realities.
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If if those are ignored, then you cannot expect a lasting
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social system. So they say, do not try to
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satisfy the curiosity or gratify all the latent adventures
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surging within the soul in one short life in the flesh.
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Be patient, be not tempted to indulge in a lawless plunge into
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cheap. And sordid adventure.
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Harness your energies and bridal your passions.
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Be calm while you await the majestic unfolding of an endless
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career of progressive adventure and thrilling discovery.
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So you don't have to cram everything into one life unless
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that's all the life you want. And then in that case, you might
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as well do everything. What do they always tell you?
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You only live once. But here they're saying no,
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that's not the case. You don't live once, you live on
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and whatever you do here is going to matter.
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And that future is state. Isn't that what they're saying?
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Don't try to solve all the complexities.
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Don't don't throw yourself at an orgy of of satiation because you
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feel like you'll never have an opportunity.
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Now look at some of the go, the go, the right path.
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You know, stay within the rails, I think is what they're saying.
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In time, you'll have so much of a wonderful experience.
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It's even beyond today for you to even imagine and confusion
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over man's origin. Do not lose sight of his eternal
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destiny. See, forget not that Jesus loved
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even little children and that he forever made clear the great
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worth. Of human personality.
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That's an interesting statement. It's almost it's it's sort of
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where that sentence come from, right here.
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Here's right here. 195, Section 5, paragraph 11.
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And confusion over man's origins.
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In other words, where did man come from?
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We're confused about that. Is the animal evolutionary?
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Was he created? Are we the sons of Adam or the
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sons of of apes? Well, there's confusion about
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that, so don't lose sight. Of the eternal destiny.
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Don't lose sight. Doesn't matter where you're
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from, it's where you're going. And then he pulls in this this
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quote. Forget not that Jesus loved even
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little children. So in their eyes we may be
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viewed as as little children. But what what makes us worth a
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damn is the fact that we have human personality.
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That's the key. Doesn't matter where we came
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from now we're humans and we have personality.
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And there's a clear path to an eternal adventure and not just a
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material life. It says, As you view the world,
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remember that the black patches of evil which you see are shown
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against a white background of ultimate good.
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In other words, no matter how bad it is here and now, and in
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the situations that we find ourselves in, there is a better
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path. There is going to be a better
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estate. It says where there's so much
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good truth to publish and proclaim.
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Why should men dwell so much upon the evil in the world?
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And I know I'm guilty of it just because it appears to be a fact.
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The beauties of the spiritual values of truth are more
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pleasurable and uplifting than is the phenomenon of evil.
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In religion, Jesus advocated and followed the method of
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experience. Even as modern science pursues
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the technique of experiment, we find God through the leadings of
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spiritual insight. But we approach this insight of
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the soul through the love of the beautiful, the pursuit of truth,
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loyalty to duty, and the worship of divine goodness.
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But all of these values, Of all of these values, love is the
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true guide to real insight. Now we're going to jump into.
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Having established the framework, by the way, that we
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should approach our religious living knowing that we are
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living not only for the present but also for the future.
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The end goal, the eternal journey which we talked about in
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the previous podcast with regards to the Supreme Being.
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Now remember we're talking about society and how it's progressing
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in the post Jesus world. And now we get to Section 6,
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materialism. Scientists have unintentionally
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precipitate. And this is by the way, the
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only, I think, paragraph in the whole Your Ranch book that is
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about this particular age that we are in.
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Specifically, I think they're addressing the problems of
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materialism at this point because it's a serious issue.
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And the struggle right now, the ideological struggle.
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Is going on between materialism, secularism and spirituality,
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spiritual thinking. So they address head on some of
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the problems that we're having in our society today.
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Because we've become so materialistic, scientists have
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unintentionally precipitated mankind into a materialistic
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panic. They have started an unthinking
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run on the moral Bank of the ages, but this Bank of human
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experience. Has vast spiritual resources.
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It can stand the demands being made upon it.
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Only unthinking men become panicky about the spiritual
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assets of the human race. When the materialistic secular
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panic is over, the religion of Jesus will not be found
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bankrupt. The spiritual Bank of the
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Kingdom of heaven will be paying out faith, hope and moral
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security to all who draw upon it in his name.
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No matter what the apparent conflict between materialism and
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the teachings of Jesus may be, you can rest assured that in the
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ages to come, the teachings of the Master will fully triumph In
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reality, true religion cannot be involved in any controversy with
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science. It is in no way concerned with
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material things religion is simply indifferent to, but
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sympathetic with science. While it supremely concerns
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itself with the scientist, the pursuit of mere knowledge
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without the intended interpretation of wisdom and the
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spiritual insight of religious experience eventually leads to
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pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly
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disconcerting. At the time of this writing, the
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worst and this was 1935. Or 19, late 30s.
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So World War Two is about to start.
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It's already kind of broken out in Europe.
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The whole world is a stir. They're saying the worst of the
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materialistic age is over. The day of a better
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understanding is already beginning to dawn.
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The higher minds of the scientific world are no longer
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wholly materialistic in their philosophy, but the rank and
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file of the people still lean in that direction.
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As a result of former teachings. But this age of physical realism
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is only a passing episode in man's life on earth.
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Modern science has left true religion untouched.
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All science has done is to destroy the childlike illusions
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of the misinterpretations of life.
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Science is a quantitative experience, religion a
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qualitative experience as regards man's life on earth.
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Science deals with phenomena, religion with origins, values
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and goals. To assign causes as an
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explanation of physical phenomena is to confess
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ignorance of ultimates, and in the end only leads the science
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is straight back to the first rate cause, the universal father
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of paradise. The violence swing from an age
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of miracles to an age of machines.
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Has proved altogether upsetting to man.
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The cleverness and dexterity of the false philosophies of
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mechanism belie their very mechanistic contentions.
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The fatalistic agility of the mind of a materialist forever
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disproves his assertion that the universe is a blind and
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purposeless energy phenomena. This is basically addressing the
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theory of The Big Bang. The Big Bang just eventuated and
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came to be at this. 1.14 or so billion years ago.
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This particular paragraph hits that head on.
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Why is that? Because the materialist thinks
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that life just came about spontaneously.
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That's a mechanistic approach. What we're not taking into
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account is the the, the, the purposelessness of it, the
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noncausation that that there's no point.
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Listen to what it says. The mechanistic naturalism of
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some supposedly educated men and the thoughtless secularism of
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the man in the street are both exclusively concerned with
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things. They are barren of all real
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values, sanctions and satisfactions of a spiritual
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nature, as well as being devoid of faith, hope and eternal
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assurances. One of the great troubles with
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modern life is that man thinks he is too busy to find time for
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spiritual meditation and religious devotion.
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Materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and
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constitutes him merely an arithmetical symbol, finding a
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helpless place in the mathematical formula of an
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unromantic and mechanistic universe.
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But whence comes all this vast universe of mathematics without
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a master mathematician? Science may expatiate on the
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conservation of matter, but religion validates the
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conservation of men's souls. It concerns their experience
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with spiritual realities and eternal values.
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The materialistic sociologist of today surveys a community.
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That makes a report there on and leaves the people as he found
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them. 1900 years ago, unlearned Galilean surveyed Jesus, giving
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his life as a spiritual contribution to man's inner
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experience, and then went out and turned the whole Roman
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Empire upside down. But religious leaders are making
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a great mistake when they try to call modern man to spiritual
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battle with the trumpet blast. Of the Middle Ages, religion
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must provide itself with new and UpToDate slogans.
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Neither democracy nor any other political panacea will take the
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place of spiritual progress. That's a very important should
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underline that. Can I can I say that again?
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Religion must provide itself with new and UpToDate slogans,
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neither democracy nor any other political panacea.
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Will take the place of spiritual progress.
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Now they have all these parades and all these advocacy groups
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and activists. You know, we want our rights.
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We want this. We want that equity, whatever
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they're crying for. But that's not spiritual
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progress. It might be social evolution,
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but it's not really based on spiritual principles.
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False religions may represent an evasion of reality, but Jesus
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and his gospel introduce mortal man.
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To the very entrance upon an eternal reality of spiritual
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progression. To say that mind emerged from
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matter explains nothing. If the universe were merely A
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mechanism and mind were unapart from matter, we would never have
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two differing interpretations of any observed phenomena.
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The concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness are not inherent in
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either physics. Or chemistry.
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A machine cannot know, much less no truth.
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Hunger for righteousness and cherish goodness.
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Science may be physical, but the mind of the truth Discerning
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scientist is at 1 super material.
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Matter knows not truth, Neither can it love, mercy, nor delight
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in spiritual values and realities.
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Moral convictions based on spiritual enlightenment.
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And rooted in human experience, are just as real and certain as
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mathematical deductions based on physical observations.
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But on another and higher level, if men were only machines, they
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would react more or less uniformly to a material
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universe. Individuality, much less
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personality, would be nonexistent.
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So again, there. They're addressing the secular
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approach that science has towards all reality, and it's
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interesting, it's such a great quote.
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Science is concerned with reality.
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Religion is concerned with the scientist, the facts of the
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absolute mechanism of paradise at the center of the universe,
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of universes in the presence of the unqualified volition of the
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second source and center, which is the eternal sun.
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It makes forever certain that determiners are not the
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exclusive laws of the cosmos. Materialism is there, but it is
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not exclusive. Mechanism is there, but it is
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not unqualified. Determinism is there, but it is
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not alone. The finite universe of matter
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would eventually become uniform and deterministic, but for the
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combined presence of mind and spirit.
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The influence of the cosmic mind constantly injects spontaneity
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into even the material worlds. Freedom or initiative in any
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realm of existence is directly proportional to the degree of
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spiritual influence and cosmic mind control that is inhuman
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experience, the degree of the actuality of doing the Father's
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will. And so when you start out to
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find God, that is conclusive proof.
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That God has already found you. The sincere pursuit of goodness,
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beauty, and truth leads to God, and every scientific discovery
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demonstrates the existence of both freedom and uniformity in
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the universe. The discoverer was free to make
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the discovery. The thing discovered is real and
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apparently uniform, or else it could not have been known as a
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thing. So moving along, we'll just do 7
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here because it sort of wraps it up.
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This is a dressing head on. The atomized man.
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The the secularistic attitude of today's science.
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The vulnerability of materialism #7.
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How foolish it is for materialminded men to allow such
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vulnerable theories as those of the mechanistic universe to
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deprive him of the vast spiritual resources.
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Of the personal experience of true religion.
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Facts never quarrel with real spiritual faith.
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Theories may better that science should be devoted to the
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destruction of superstition rather than attempting the
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overthrow of religious faith, human belief in spiritual
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realities and divine values. That is what constitutes
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religious faith. Science should do more for man
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materially what religion does for him spiritually.
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Extend the horizon of life and enlarge his personality.
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True science can have no lasting quarrel with true religion.
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The scientific method is merely an intellectual yardstick
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wherewith to measure material adventures and physical
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achievements. But being material and wholly
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intellectual, it is utterly useless in the evaluation of
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spiritual realities and religious experiences.
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The inconsistency of the modern mechanist is this.
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If this were merely a material universe, and man only a
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machine, such a man would be wholly unable to recognize
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himself as such a machine. And likewise would would such a
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machine man be wholly unconscious of the fact of the
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existence of such a material universe, the materialistic
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dismay and despair of a mechanistic science.
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Of mechanistic science has failed to recognize the fact of
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the spirit and dwelt mind of the scientist whose very super
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material insight formulates these mistaken and self
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contradictory concepts of a materialistic universe.
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Paradise values of eternity and Infinity of truth, beauty and
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goodness are concealed within the facts of the phenomena of
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the universes of time and space. But it requires the eyes of
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faith in a spirit born mortal to detect and discern the spiritual
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values, the realistic and values, the realities and values
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of spiritual progress are not a psychological projection, a mere
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glorified Daydream of the material mind.
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Such things are the spiritual forecasts of the indwelling and
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gesture, the Spirit of God. Living in the mind of man.
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And let not your dabblings with faintly glimpsed findings of
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relativity disturb your concepts of the eternity and and Infinity
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of God. And then all your solicitations
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concerning the necessity of selfexpression do not make the
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mistake of failing to provide for a juster expression, the
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expression of God, through you, the manifestation of your real.
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And better self. If this were only a material
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universe, material man would never be able to arrive at the
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concept of a mechanistic character of such an exclusively
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material existence. This very mechanistic concept of
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the universe is in itself a nonmaterial phenomena of mind,
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and all mind is of nonmaterial origin, no matter how thoroughly
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it may appear to be material conditioned and mechanistically
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controlled. The partially evolved mental
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mechanism of mechanism of mortal mind is not over endowed with
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consistency and wisdom. Man's conceit often outruns his
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reason and eludes his logic. The very pessimism of the most
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pessimistic materialist is in and of itself sufficient proof
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that the universe of the pessimist is not wholly
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material. Both optimism and pessimism are
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concept reactions in a mind consciousness of values, or
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conscious of values as well as facts.
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If the universe were truly what the materialistic regard it to
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be, man as a human machine would then be devoid of all conscious
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recognition of that very fact without the consciousness of the
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concept of values within the spirit borne mind.
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The fact of universal materialism and the mechanistic
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phenomena of universe operation would be wholly unrecognized by
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man. One machine cannot be conscious
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of the nature or value of another machine.
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A mechanistic philosophy of life and the universe cannot be
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scientific. Because science recognizes and
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deals only with materials and facts, philosophy is inevitably
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super scientific. Man is a material fact of
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nature, but his life is a phenomenon and transcends the
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material levels of nature in that it exhibits the control
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attributes of mind and the creative qualities of spirit.
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The sincere effort of man to become a mechanist represents
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the tragic phenomena of that man's futile effort to commit
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intellectual and moral suicide. But he cannot do it.
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If the universe were only material and man only a machine,
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there would be no science to embolden the sciences to to
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postulate this mechanization of the universe.
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Machines cannot measure, classify, or evaluate
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themselves. Such a scientific piece of work
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could be only executed by some entity of super machine status.
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There's so much more to reality, it isn't just what science can
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measure. There's two other attributes to
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to the the Trinity view of of of reality.
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There's matter, of course, but it works in conjunction with
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mind, and mind is motivated by spirit, and it's that triune
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approach to reality that gives life totality and value.
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If universe reality is only one vast machine, then man must be
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outside of the universe and apart from it in order to
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recognize such a fact and become conscious of the inside of such
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an evaluation. If man is only a machine, by
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what technique does this man come to believe or claim to know
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that he is only a machine? The experience of
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selfconsciousness and the evaluation of oneself is never
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an attribute of a mere machine. A selfconscious and avowed
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mechanist is the best possible answer to mechanism.
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If materialism were a fact, there could be no selfconscious
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mechanist. It is also true that one must
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first be a moral person before 1 can perform immoral acts.
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The very claim of materialism implies a super material
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consciousness of the mind which presumes to assert such dogma.
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A mechanism might deteriorate, but it could never progress.
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Machines do not think, create, dream, aspire, idealize, hunger
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for truth, or thirst for righteousness.
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Even a I. They do not motivate their lives
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with a passion to serve other machines and to choose as their
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goal of eternal progression the sublime, the sublime task of
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finding God. And striving to be like him.
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Machines are never intellectual, emotional, aesthetic, ethical,
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moral, or spiritual. Art proves that man is not
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mechanistic, but it does not prove that he is spiritually
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immortal. Art is morontia or mortal
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morontia, the intervening field between man the material and man
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the spiritual. Poetry is an effort.
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To escape from material realities to spiritual values in
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a high civilization, Art humanizes science while in turn
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it is spiritualized by true religion.
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Insight into spiritual and eternal values.
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Art represents the human and time space evaluation of
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reality. Religion is the divine embrace
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of cosmic values and connotes eternal progression.
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In spiritual ascension and expansion, the art of time is
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dangerous only when it becomes blind to the spirit standards of
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the divine patterns which eternity reflects is the reality
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shadows of time. True art is the effective
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manipulation of the material things of life.
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Religion is the ennobling transformation of the material
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facts of life, and it never ceases.
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In its spiritual evaluation of art, how foolish to presume that
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an automaton could conceive A philosophy of automation, and
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how ridiculous that it should presume to form such a concept
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of other and fellow automatons, any scientific interpretation of
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the material universe is valueless unless it provides due
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recognition For the scientist, no appreciation of art is
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genuine. Unless it accords recognition of
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the artist, no evaluation of morals is worthwhile unless it
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includes the moralist. No recognition of philosophy is
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codifying or edifying if it ignores the philosopher.
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And religion cannot exist without the real experience of
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the religionist, who in and through this very experience, is
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seeking to find God and to know him.
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Likewise is the universe of universes without significance
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apart from the I am the infinite God who made it and unceasingly
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manages it. Mechanists, humanists sent, tend
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to drift with the material currents.
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Idealists and spiritists dare to use their oars with intelligence
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and vigor in order to modify the apparently material course of
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the energy streams. Science lives by the mathematics
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of the mind. Music expresses the tempo of the
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emotions. Religion is the spiritual rhythm
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of the soul in time, space, harmony with higher and eternal
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melody, measurements of Infinity.
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Religious experience is something in human life which is
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truly super mathematical in language and alphabet represents
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the mechanism of materialism. While the words expressive of
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the meaning of 1000 thoughts, grand ideas and noble ideals of
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love and hate, of cowardice and courage, represent the
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performance of mind within the scope defined by both material
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and spiritual law, directed by the assertion of will of
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personality, and limited by the inherent situational endowment.
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The universe is not like the laws, mechanisms, and the
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uniformities which the scientists discover and which he
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comes to regard as science, but rather like the curious
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thinking, choosing, creative, combining and discriminating
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scientists who thus observes universe phenomena and
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classifieds the mathematical facts inherent to the
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mechanistic phases of the material side of creation.
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Neither is the universe like the artist or the art of the artist,
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but rather like the striving, dreaming, aspiring, and and
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advancing artist who seeks to transcend the world of material
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things in an effort to achieve a spiritual goal.
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The scientist, not science, perceives the reality of an
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evolving and advancing universe of energy and matter.
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The art is not Art demonstrates the existence of the transient
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Morontia world, intervening between material existence and
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spiritual liberty. The religion is not.
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Religion proves the existence of the spirit, realities and divine
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values which are to be encouraged in the progress of
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eternity in these three sections of paper 195, sections 5-6, and
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seven. Attempts are clearly made to lay
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the groundwork for the introduction of the fact that
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true reality is threefold. It is matter, but it is also
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mind, and it is spirit. The discoverer was free to make
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the discovery and assess value to the thing being discovered.
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I hope you enjoy taking time to read through these various
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passages in the Rancho book. I know I do.
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The end those letters are the return never mean and to say.
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I love you. Yes, I love you.
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I love you. Yes.
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And I love you. And I love you.