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  Well, it's that time again. Time for another edition of the
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  Urantia Radio Podcast. This time up, we're going to be
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  talking about Marancha Moda. I've been giving some good read
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  to a section from Paper 48 on Marancha Moda.
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  What is Moda and why does it matter?
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  But anyway, I also want to point out that the Discover Jesus app
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  is out, and it's great. Go to discover Jesus dot App.
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  the home page. And then from that point on,
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  It's out there for the world to see and absorb, and we want to
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  wish those folks continued great success on their projects.
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  Also, next week we'll be hopefully joined by a gentleman
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  who is putting a focus on filming, putting together films,
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  having to do with Urantia book subject matter.
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  So stay tuned for that and other things coming up too.
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  A couple of Fellowship association conferences.
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  If you go to your my website, urantiaradio.net and click on
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  Community, you'll see a list of things that are upcoming in the
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  new year for the Urantia community globally.
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  So check that out in a moment. Marancha Moda, Why does it
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  matter? It's an interesting trip on a
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  different kind of philosophy, and it's something that they say
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  that they're going to be teaching us in the next life
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  ahead when this journey here on Earth is over.
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  So we'll get to that in just a moment.
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  You're listening to the Arrancha Radio Podcast.
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  Welcome back to the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Jim Watkins, longtime reader and student of
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  The Urantia Book, and always exciting to see and hear so many
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  things. Great articles that are being
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  posted. Get connected if you can.
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  enjoy reading and learning about the Arantia book, the 5th
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  Epochal Revelation, it's good to go with like the Arantia
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  Association, the Fellowship. These are all groups that that
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  represent the the creme de la creme of people who've been
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  studying the book and writing about it, new articles coming
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  out every week. And it really gives you a good
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  grasp of what we have in our hands and why it's so important.
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  And one of the things that we learned from Paper 48 is that
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  they teach this thing called mota.
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  And what is mota MOTA? Mota Mota is a way for them to
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  take knowledge and present it in a stereoscopic presentation
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  where. So for example, I'm going to
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  read a couple of mota. They have 28 mota lessons that
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  they include in paper 48. I think it is.
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  And basically they're lessons to help you understand sort of a
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  spiritual philosophy that that makes your mind sort of
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  contemplate higher meanings and values and that's part of the
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  growth process. I I equate it maybe sometimes
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  like thinking about calculus. You know you kind of have to
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  learn you know the basics before you can get to algebra and then
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  on to calculus, right? And it's the same with Moda and
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  philosophy and and you know as the personality is growing
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  toward its spiritual potential the way to get there is through
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  our thinking and our thoughts and learning philosophy and and
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  extrapolating meetings from just common day events.
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  Everything in your life has meaning or it can have meeting
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  you know the old phrase you know to he who has God in his heart.
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  All things are spiritual. So if you're walking around and
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  I heard a great, great quote the other day that sort of ties into
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  this is, this is what I would consider to be human mota.
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  But it was something that somebody posted and it's I know
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  I'm going to completely slaughter it.
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  But it said something like as a Christian, I'm not a Christian
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  because I'm trying to get into heaven and become a citizen of
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  heaven. I'm a Christian.
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  As a Christian, I become a citizen of heaven, just trying
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  to get my way through work through earth.
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  So that's kind of it. See, I told you I butchered it.
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  But anyway, it's a great statement.
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  I'm not a I'm not a I'm not believing in God because I want
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  to go to heaven. Once I start believing in God, I
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  am a part of heaven, but I still have to go through the rigmarole
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  of living as a mortal ascended being for the time being, right?
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  We all do so anyway, so that I just kind of like that twist,
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  you know, you're looking at the same thing but from two
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  different perspectives, and Moda seems to me, and I'll read a
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  little bit about it, it seems to be an expansion of philosophy
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  again, a stereoscopic presentation of the meanings and
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  values in our day-to-day life. And it's in concentrating on
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  those that would become more spiritually aware of what's
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  going on, The meanings in our lives, things that might seem
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  otherwise random are connected, so they write in Paper 48.
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  Moda is more than a superior philosophy, it is to philosophy
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  as two eyes are to one. It has a stereoscopic effect on
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  meanings and values. Material Man sees the universe
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  as it were, with but one eye flat.
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  Mansion World students achieve cosmic perspective depth by
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  superimposing the perceptions of the Marantia life upon the
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  perceptions of the physical life.
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  And they are enabled to bring these material and marantial
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  viewpoints in true into true focus, largely through the
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  untiring ministry of their seraphic counselors who so
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  patiently teach the Mansion World students and the Marantia
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  Progressors. Many of the teaching counselors
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  of the Supreme Order of Seraphim, they begin their
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  careers as advisors of the newly liberated souls of the mortals
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  of time. So that's one.
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  Let's go to Marancha Marancha Mota and see if we can find
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  There we go, Paper 48, Section 7, Marancha Mota.
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  The lower planes of Marancha Mota join directly with the
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  higher levels of human philosophy on the mansion
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  worlds. It is the practice to teach the
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  less advanced students by the parallel technique.
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  That is, in one column are presented more simple concepts
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  of Moda meanings, and in the opposite column citation is made
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  of analogous statements of mortal mortal philosophy.
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  Now, the author of this particular paper writes not long
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  since while executing an assignment on the first mansion
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  world of Satania, I had occasion to observe this method of method
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  of teaching, and though I may not undertake to present the
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  Moda content of the lesson, so that would have been what was in
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  the first column, he says. I am permitted to record the 28
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  statements of human philosophy which this Maracha instructor
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  was utilizing as illustrative material designed to assist
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  these new mansion world sojourners in their early
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  efforts to grasp the significance and meanings of
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  Moda. These illustrations of human
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  philosophy were #1, and these are statements that are geared
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  to get you to think, and it's a shame that we don't have the
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  parallel, the whatever the Moda aspect of these statements are.
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  But these statements are still pretty neat, and they're still
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  very thought provoking. So I'll roll through them and
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  give you a couple seconds to kind of think about it.
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  But it's just good food for thought, and it's intended to
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  kind of get your mind going again, thinking about taking
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  them, extracting the meanings and values of everyday living is
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  intended to promote higher thinking.
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  So the first lesson, a display of specialized skill, does not
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  signify possession of spiritual capacity.
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  Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.
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  Now, I I, I thought about that quite a bit.
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  You know, you see a lot of people that are very, very
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  smart, very gifted. And sometimes when we see
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  somebody who's smart, gifted, you know, say for example of
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  Bill Gates or somebody like that, and you assume that
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  because they're so smart and gifted, maybe they're they're
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  quite spiritual or advanced. But oftentimes I find that's not
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  the case. In fact, most of the time I find
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  that people that are overly specialized and extremely gifted
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  seem to lack spiritual flavor. They seem to be so full of
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  themselves and their greatness that you know that that they
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  think of religion or faith as something that that they, you
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  know, outlived or overcome. Have you noticed that, number
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  two, few persons live up to the faith, which they really have?
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  And so that's an interesting statement because that sort of
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  says when I'm saying most of the time people who are most
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  spiritual are also the most humble.
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  But this the second lesson, few persons live up to the faith
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  with what they really have. It also concludes with this
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  unreasoned fear. Unreasoned fear is a master
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  intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.
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  Now it took me a little while to kind of grasp that, but
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  basically what it's saying is that unreasoned fear.
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  So what would you be fearing? Fearing what what faith might do
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  with you? Unreasoned fear, meaning you
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  might be wrong. Something that talks you out of
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  your faith, something that makes you question your faith, is that
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  would that be considered unreasoned fear?
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  And then of course the master and textual intellectual fraud
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  aspect is is that our our own minds can sometimes trip us up
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  because of unreasoned fear. And maybe maybe that's why
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  people of faith don't live up to it, because they're they're
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  afraid they might be wrong, or they're they're afraid that
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  they're too frail or they're not going to get it, or something
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  like that #3 inherent capacities cannot be exceeded.
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  A pint can never hold a quart. Or is.
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  I think it was. Clint Eastwood said a man's got
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  to know his limitations. It goes on to say this The
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  spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the
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  material memory mold. Sometimes you have to accept
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  that people are just the way they are.
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  Growth is slow. Mortals.
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  Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of
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  personality credits established by the Combined Ministries of
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  Nature and Grace. The majority of impoverished
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  souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it. #5
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  difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the
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  fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the most
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  highs. Number six, to enjoy privilege
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  without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess
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  power, and steadfastly refuse to use it for self aggrandizement.
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  These are the marks of high Civilization #7.
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  Blind and unformed. Unforeseen accidents do not
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  occur in the cosmos. Neither do the celestial beings
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  assist the lower beings who refuse or who refuses to act
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  upon his light of truth. That's interesting.
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  It almost sounds like two different things that they're
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  saying. How are they harmonized?
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  I'll read it again #7. Blind and unforeseen accidents
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  do not occur in the cosmos. So under what circumstance would
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  a blind and unforeseen accident say would that be like a car
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  accident? So would a car accident happens?
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  Do we see it as something that wasn't intended to happen or
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  that? Or if we have some hardship in
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  our life, do we assume that it was blind and unforeseen and
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  there's no value in it? Or do those events challenge us
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  and actually stimulate our willingness to act and rise
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  above it? And in doing so, that's when the
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  celestial beings can assist us, because if we're not acting upon
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  the light of truth, then then they can't help us.
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  That's what this is saying #8 effort does not always produce
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  joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.
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  It seems pretty simple enough. You see people that aren't happy
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  or that they're unfulfilled in their life.
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  Well, what are they doing in their mind to change their their
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  viewpoint? Or are they just sitting around
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  feeling sorry for themselves, or feeling victimized, or a victim?
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  And maybe that's where the unhappiness comes in is because
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  you know, they may have periodic moments of joy, but true
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  happiness isn't is not achieved without intelligent effort. #9
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  Action achieves strength. Moderation eventuates in charm.
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  Righteousness strikes the harmony.
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  Chords of truth and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos,
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  even to the recognition of the infinite #11.
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  The weak indulge in resolutions but the strong act.
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  Life is but a day's work. Do it well.
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  The ACT is ours. The consequences.
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  Gods, that's such a great philosophy to never get too far
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  ahead. I tell people all the time,
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  don't project, just take one day at a time. #12 The greatest
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  affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted.
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  Mortals can only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation. 13
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  Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of
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  experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic
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  mountain tops. #14 Whet the appetites of your associates for
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  truth. Give advice only when it is
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  asked for. #15 affectation is the ridiculous effort of the
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  ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to
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  appear rich. #16 you cannot perceive spiritual truth until
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  you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt
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  except in adversity. I'm starting to see a thread
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  here that it would it would be a lot, far less stressful if we
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  would just assume that almost everything in our life that has
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  any meaning or value is going to be a struggle.
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  What is that expression? You.
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  You cannot grow without resistance.
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  You have to have something, especially like in physical
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  exercise. Resistance is what builds mass
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  or muscle. It must be true on a spiritual
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  side as well. 17 Ambition is dangerous until it is fully
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  socialized. You must have not truly acquired
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  any virtue until your axe make you worthy of it. #18 impatience
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  is a spirit poison. Anger is like a stone hurled
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  into a hornet's nest. That's one of my favorites, #19
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  Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to
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  bear are those which never come. That's such a true statement,
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  isn't it? So many people, they worry about
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  things that never happen. #20 Only a poet can discern poetry
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  in the commonplace prose of routine existence. #21 The high
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  mission of any art, by its illusions, to foreshadow a
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  higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time
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  into the thought of eternity. #22 The evolving soul is not
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  made divine by what it does, but by by what it strives to do. #23
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  Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to
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  the spiritual endowment, but it did add to the experiential
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  status, the consciousness of survival. #24 The destiny of
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  eternity is determined moment by moment, by the achievements of
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  the day, by day. Living the acts of today are the
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  destiny of tomorrow. 25 Greatness lies not so much in
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  possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such
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  strength. 26 Knowledge is possessed only by sharing.
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  It is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love. #27 Progress
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  demands development of individuality, mediocrity seeks
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  perpetuation. In standardization #8 the
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  argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely
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  proportional to the truth contained.
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  And then he concludes by saying such is the work of the
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  beginners on the first mansion worlds, while the more advanced
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  pupils on the latter worlds or later worlds are mastering the
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  higher levels of Cosmic insight. And Maranchimoda sounds like a
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  real good university that I'm looking forward to attending.
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  How about you? Well, listen, that's it.
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  We're going to wrap it up. I wanted to kind of keep it
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  simple and direct. It's the holidays.
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  We're all doing what we're doing, trying to make ends meet.
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  Make our the people who depend on us and love us happy and
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  secure and navigating through the maze of modern life.
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  So next week exciting we'll be talking about the Urancha book
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  made film. And again, if you've got a
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  question or a comment, Urancha book radio@gmail.com.
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  Until next time, thank you for stopping by.
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  Be of good cheer.