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Welcome to another edition of the ranch, Radio podcast.
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I'm Jim Watkins and it's good to have you here in a moment.
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We're going to talk about paper 111 in the human Paradox.
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Also what of the modern prophets will talk about all that coming
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discussion about modern prophets just a second here.
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get all the information on the International Conference that's
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coming up. So that's all exciting.
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And I want to talk about modern prophets, just because it came
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in my into my mind, a few weeks ago, I was doing some reading
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and I started thinking about modern prophets who are the
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modern-day prophets. So, let me Define what I mean.
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When I use the word Prophet, some I think I refer to a holy
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man, like Jesus or Abraham or even Muhammad, but that is not
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the kind of profit. I'm talking about.
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You see, history tells us, those profits were a direct Revelation
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from God. A furtherance is spiritual Truth
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for our edification that we might broaden our understanding
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of God and, and I believe that's true.
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So this would be the primary Revelations, the epochal
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Revelations. But there are other kinds of
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prophets prophets like Samuel Ezekiel, John the Baptist and
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even Moses these two are profits and that is the kind of profit.
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I want to talk about these prophets, didn't so much ravit
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receive divine revelation, but they did do something as
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important. They kept the truth alive from
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one generation to another From the Urantia book, paper, 97
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Samuel, Samuel sprang from a long line of these Salem
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teachers, who had persisted in maintaining the truce of
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Melchizedek as part of their worship forms.
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This teacher was a viral and Resolute, man, only his great
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devotion coupled. With his extraordinary,
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determination enables him to withstand the almost Universal
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opposition, which he encountered.
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When he started out to turn all of Israel, back to the word,
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Ship of the Supreme Yahweh or mosaic times and even then he
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was only partially successful. He won back to the service of
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the higher concepts of Yahweh. Only the more intelligent half
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of the Hebrews the other half continued in the worship of the
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tribal gods and the country and in the baser conceptions of
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Yahweh, Samuel was a Rough and Ready type of man a practical
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reformer who could go out one day with his associates and
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over. Lowest score of ball sites.
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And then it refers to as those profits down through her history
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from paper 97 10 from Moses to John the Baptist here, extended
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an unbroken line of faithful teachers who pass the
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monotheistic torch of light from one generation to another while
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they unceasingly rebuked, unscrupulous rulers denounced,
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commercializing priests and ever extorted, the people to adhere
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to the worship of the Supreme. May the Lord God of Israel.
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And why is that important? So see, in this case, they're
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defining these kinds of profits that we read about in the Old
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Testament, who for their time in generation, that they lived
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going back to the days of Abraham.
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And of course Melchizedek which is around 2000 years b.c., all
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the way up to the times of John. The Baptist you had a string of
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people who would continue to carry the truth all but albeit
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Hushed. But still enough of the truce to
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keep that idea of a monotheistic God that we serve and over time
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although there have been Ebbs and flows of that.
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Some of the profits were more successful than the others but
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they all had that one key commonality which is that they
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carry the truth forward. And so the definition of a
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profit in the current context is to include faithful teachers,
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who pass the monotheistic torch of light from one generation to
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another while they unceasingly rebuked, unscrupulous rulers
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denounced, commercializing priests and ever extorted.
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The people to adhering to the worship of the Supreme.
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So in our day you know, it could be seen that Martin Luther King
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was a prophet. Even Gandhi was a prophet in his
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own way with his own people. And he carried the torch,
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although he was much more political, but still as Samuel
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was political Ezekiel, all these people were constantly battling
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with the city Folk the Canaanites, the ball lights
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trying to say, no, no no, you come over to our side, our
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society will be better. If you uphold God as the most
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high, that was their calling card.
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If you go with those guys, those are the progressives.
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Those are the ones. Well, back in the day, they
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would have been considered the city, Folk the city dwellers,
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who had ball worship sites all over the place.
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And for some reason, people in large cities, find it a lot
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easier to believe in anything, but a singular, most high God.
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And so the profits Those days carried that truth forward, they
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never let it die. And then of course, when Christ
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came along, he furthered that expansion of the Revelation by
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saying that not only to God belong to everybody, but God was
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a personal loving father. So I think that no doubt the
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impact of the ranch of a covert. I'm in, my opinion, will be the
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production of these prophets of the Contemporary age as well.
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Christianity will continue to do that and those who rebuke the
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liars and the people who want to run the world like it is today
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like a factory again. Going back to the difference
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between the city Folk you know the people that want to plan
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everything right. And these would be today in the
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modern day. These would Be the globalist,
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the the outcome based people who think they can, you know,
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arrange Society in a certain way, take away freedom of
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Liberty and replace it with, you know, the Call of Duty to the
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greater good. This is my own a interpretation
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But ultimately it's defined as this.
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And this is what I've come to the conclusion.
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In today's world, the ideological struggle.
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Is who is the ultimate power? Is that a most high spiritual
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Creator from which we are endowed with a free spirit, Free
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Will of choice. Or is it the state?
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The ultimate state which serves the people and I put quotations
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around the word serve and these are the globalist the extreme
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progresses who Define things by how we're classified by Race by
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gender and they and they're trying to equalize make
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everybody the kind of the same And interestingly in politics
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you do not see anybody today. Who was a prophet.
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There are no spiritual profits in politics that I can see.
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Probably the closest one. You might say that.
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The way the people felt about Obama was similar to the way
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they would have felt about a profit, but you could also apply
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that same measurement towards Trump.
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There are people who believe in that.
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Don't want to mix politics. I'm just making an observation
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that today because politics political leaders are completely
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devoid of any spiritual principles or ideals that
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they're proud enough to talk about.
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This is why people still want a prophet.
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I mean, people are looking for profits, they're looking for
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people to give them truth to Carry On from generation to
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generation. So you know, the goal of any
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person who believes in God is to carry the light of truth from
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one generation to the other to keep alone.
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The truth of one God and that is free will creatures.
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He is the he is the higher power, not the state, not the
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UN, not the federal government. And when we sacrifice God for
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the state and we put all the thority into their hands, then
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it is literally true that we're giving the power of or over our
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lives to them. And that's where the conflict
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comes. So who is the ultimate power and
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depending on how you answer that question will reveal who you
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serve. So there's an observation.
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So now I want to get into the human Paradox for a few minutes
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here. This is a great paper written
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paper 111 section 6. X and I want to read through it
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and it pertains to our hard choices that we have to make in
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the world today. It truly does.
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And I and that's why I want to I want to explore it a little bit.
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See how much time? Yeah, we got about 5 or 6
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minutes here. So the way I look at it today,
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the Big Challenge here and it's getting more intense with.
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Now, we've got the stock market to deal with in the inflation to
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deal with and all of these isms that are out there and you know,
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who do we believe in all that stuff and it's getting hard to
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make a decision. And I think this paper is
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particular paper. Really sort of helps us
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understand that dilemma and I think that's why the
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revelator's. This one is coming from a
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solitary messenger messenger. ER, of the spirit.
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The human Paradox. Many of the temporal Troubles of
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mortal man grow out of his two-fold.
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Relation to the cosmos, man, is a part of nature.
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He exists in nature and yet he is able to transcend nature.
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Man is finite, but he is indwelled by a spark of
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infinity. Such a dual situation, not only
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provides the potential for evil but also in genders many social
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and moral situations fraught with much uncertainty.
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And not a little anxiety. The courage required to effect
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the conquest of Nature and to transcend one's self as a
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courage that might succumb to the Temptation Of self-pride,
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The Mortal who can transcend self might yield to the
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temptation to deify his own self-consciousness.
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The moral dilemma consists in the double fact that man is in
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bondage to Nature. While the same time, he
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possesses a unique Liberty, freedom of spiritual choice and
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action On material levels, man finds himself subservient to
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Nature. While on spiritual levels, he is
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triumphant over nature and overall things temporal and
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finite such a paradox is inseparable from Temptation,
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potential evil decisional errors.
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And when self becomes proud and arrogant sin May evolve.
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The problem of sin is not self existent in the finite world.
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The fact of finiteness is not evil or sin.
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Sinful. The finite world was made by an
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infinite Creator. It is the handiwork of his
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Divine sons and therefore it must be good.
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It is the misuse Distortion and perversion of the finite it
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gives origin to evil and sin. The spirit can dominate mind so
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mind can control energy but mine can control energy.
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Only through his intelligent manipulation.
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Of the metamorphic potentials inherent in the mathematical
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level of causes and effects of the physical domains.
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Creature. Mind Sons.
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Do not inherently control energy.
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That is a deity prerogative but creature mind can and choose and
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does manipulate energy just in so far, as it has become a
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master of the energy secrets of the physical universe.
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When man wishes to modify physical reality, be it himself
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or his environment, he succeeds to the extent that he has
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discovered the ways and means of controlling matter.
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And directing energy, unaided mind is impotent.
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To influence anything material, save its own physical mechanism
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with which it is inescapably linked.
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But through the intelligent use of the body mechanism, mind can
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create other mechanisms, even energy, relationships and living
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Relationships by the utilization of which this mind can
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increasingly control. And even dominate.
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Its physical level in the universe.
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Science is the source of facts in mind cannot operate without
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facts. They are the building blocks in
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the construction of wisdom which are cemented together by life
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experience. Man can find the love of God
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without facts and man can discover the laws of God without
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love, but man could never begin to appreciate the infinite
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symmetry the supernal Harmony, and the Exquisite replete - of
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the all-inclusive nature of the First Source and Center until he
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is found Divine Law, and divine love and has experientially
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unified these in his own evolving, Cosmic philosophy.
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The expansion of material knowledge, permits a greater
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intellectual, appreciation of the meanings of ideas and the
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values of ideals, a human being can find truth in his inner
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experience. But he needs a clear knowledge
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of facts to apply his personal discovery of Truth to the
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ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
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It is only natural that mortal man should be harassed by
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feelings of insecurity, as he views himself inextricably Bound
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To Nature while he possesses spiritual Powers.
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Holy Transcendent to All Things temporal and finite.
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Only religious confidence, Living Faith, can sustain, man.
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Amid. Such difficult and perplexing
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problems. Of all the dangers was which
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beset man's mortal nature and jeopardizes.
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His spiritual Integrity pride pride is the greatest courage is
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valorous but egotism is bang glorious and suicidal
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reasonable. Self-confidence is not to be
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deplored. Man's ability to transcend
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himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the
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Animal Kingdom Then I'm going to close with this because it's at
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the tail end of this same section not long.
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And again this is a solitary messenger.
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Giving this narration not long, I was present on salvington and
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heard a guardian of Destiny present a formal statement and
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extenuation of the difficulties of ministering to her mortal
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subject. Okay.
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So grab that concept for a moment.
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So here's a solitary messenger who was recently on salvington
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which is where nebadon finds his Capital to where Michael Christ,
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Michael lives actually, it's the center of our local creation.
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And while he was there, he's listening in on a a statement
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that was made by a seraphic Guardian who had recently been
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ministering to the Mortal subject.
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This is how this seraphim described her experience from
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paper 111, section 7, paragraph, 5, Much of my difficulty was due
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to the unending conflict between the two Nature's of my subject,
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the urge of ambition opposed by animal indolence, the ideals of
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a superior people crossed by the instincts of an inferior race.
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The high purposes of a great mind and antagonize by The Urge
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of a primitive inheritance. The long-distance view of a
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far-seeing monitor counteracted by the nearsightedness of a
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creature of time. And in this way, this solitary
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messenger is explaining how this Mortal worked with her spirit,
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the thought adjuster monitor. That's the spirit.
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And how these two interacted in the life of this ascending
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mortal? The aims of the best between
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overshadowed by the drifts of the worse, the conflict,
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including the flight of Genius neutralized by the gravity of
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mediocrity, the progress of the good retarded by the inertia of
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the bad. The art of the Beautiful
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besmirched by the presence of the evil.
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The buoyancy of Health neutralized by the debility of
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disease, the Fountain of Faith polluted by the poisons of fear.
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Here the spring of Joy embittered By the Waters of
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Sorrow, the gladness of anticipation, disillusioned by
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the bitterness of realization. The joys of living ever
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threatened by the Sorrows of death, such a life on such a
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planet and yet because of the ever-present help in urge of the
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thought, adjuster spirit, this Soul did achieve a fair degree
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of happiness and success. And has even now ascended to the
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judgement Halls of man's Sonia. And again, presented by a
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solitary messenger that group of universe Trinity Offspring
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personality beings who originated from the infinite
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Spirit, the third person of deity and you serve as
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Messengers and teachers throughout creation.
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So there's your there's your lesson for today.
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It's not easy to be in ascendant mortal is it?
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No, no, it is not. So, we're going to leave it
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there and I thank you for joining me on this edition of
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the Rancher Radio podcast as Ways.
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day, what a day, thousands of years in a day.
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