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Welcome to another edition of the Arancho Radio podcast and
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thank you David Dinger for providing such great
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introductory music. And we have a lot to cover on
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this edition of the Uranchi Radio Podcast.
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I assure you we are going to cover some very interesting
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subject matter. Also, we'll answer a few very
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good emails and talk about an essay that I read recently by
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Chuck Thurston, who is involved over there at I think it's
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Uranchi University or the Uranchia.
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They do a lot of videos with Derek.
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Is it Samaras? And he wrote a incredible essay
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that someone sent to me in response to a podcast I had done
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recently on the Lucifer rebellion.
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And I want to thank that person for sending the e-mail.
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But the I'm I'm probably going to try to post the Chuck
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Thurston essay because it delves into a lot of things that are
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that are just. And I and I want to actually try
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to get him on too. To go into it because it covers
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a lot of what's going on today in the world and the way the
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ideological struggle between good and evil and and
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materialism and spirituality and it's just it's just chock full
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of good information. And I don't want to, I don't
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want to. I want to give it its due.
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So hopefully we'll get Chuck on in the next couple weeks.
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We hope so and we'll talk about his essay, but I will refer to
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it a little bit in this. Particular subject of this
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podcast, we're going to be talking about the Supreme Being
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and its relationship to the individual.
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So we'll get that. Also we have some, like I said,
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a good e-mail question we can kind of dive into.
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And I also want to share with you that another e-mail that I
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got from someone and I want to share with you some some works
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that were produced a few years ago by a gentleman in Northern
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California. That I that I think you'll
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really enjoy hearing about. So we'll cover all of that talk
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about the Supreme Being and we'll pay a few bills. 1st and
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welcome to the Arancha Radio Podcast.
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Okay. Welcome back to the Arancha
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Radio Podcast. My name is Jim Watkins and I've
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been a lifelong reader. I've now read the book more.
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I picked it up when I was 19 or 20 and I've been on this earth
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for. 60 years. So I've actually been on the
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earth with the knowledge of the Arantia book more than not being
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aware of the Arantia book which was the 1st 20 years of my life.
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So for 40 years I've known about the revelation in my 60 year
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life and I'm really happy about that.
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Really I am. I got a great e-mail from
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someone who listens to the podcast and the question was why
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is it so hard to get people? Interested in the Rancho Book
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Now drawing from my own experiences, which I
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coincidentally included in the opening of my new, as of yet
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unfinished book, A New Perspective.
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How the Rancho book will facilitate a spiritual
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renaissance. It goes into my early expense
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early, early experiences when I tried to share the book with
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certain family and friends when I first started reading the
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Rancho Book, and I think I got a lot of people interested over
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the years. But many people, you know, I
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would loan the book out to people.
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And a lot of people that I thought would be receptive to it
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just gave the book back. And they were always nice about
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it. But then they always kind of
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acted differently. Many of them acted differently
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and never really wanted to talk about it.
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I had one friend who told me that they thought the book was
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absolutely fascinating, but he felt like and he actually told
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me, he says, how do I know this book is true?
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How can I invest my time in something if I don't know it's
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true? So it does take a commitment.
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Even the revelators were astonished.
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I am told in the early days when the reception of the original
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forum they they would say things like do you people realize what
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you have in your possession? And you will find that mentioned
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in the early testimony from Bill Sadler and some of the readers
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back in the 40s. You know, I I knew a woman.
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I was introduced to a woman back in the 90s, I think mid 90s.
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My mom lived in Phoenix and I went to visit her and of course
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she knew how much I enjoyed the Arantia book.
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And my mom actually was a big supporter.
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She read the Arantia book and and really thought it was the
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most important book she'd ever read anyway.
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She knew this woman. They had met.
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And she was always bragging about her son.
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So it came up about the Arantia book.
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And so I was introduced to my mom's friend who I am sorry, I
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don't have her name, but she was in her 80s or 90s and she said
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and she was part of the early forum.
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Her boyfriend was in the forum. So she would go to these
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meetings at Diversey there in Chicago.
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And initially she would just go to be with her boyfriend.
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And she remarked to me, she goes he was really into this book,
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but. Really, I was more interested in
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him, and I didn't get into the book until much later.
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So you've got that story. And then on the other hand, you
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know, I passed the the book, the Rancho book on to several
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friends who absolutely love the book, and it changed their life
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almost right away. So I think my experience is that
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it depends on two important things.
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One is how hungry a person might be for the truth and where they
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might be in their life. At the time that you hand them
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the book. Now, if you run into a person
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who is at a point of their life where they're sincerely looking
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for real answers, that's when I think the Urancho book has the
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most appeal. So if you give it to someone and
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they're not necessarily looking for it, you might just be
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wasting your time. So that's my my answer to that
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e-mail, but I will tell you that that e-mail led to me going
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through some of my boxes. And I found a book that I bought
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a few years ago. I don't remember where I saw it,
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but it was by David Bradley, and it's White Egret Publications,
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and he lives in Northern California.
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And the book is called An Introduction to the Urancho
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Revelation. And I bought a copy.
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It was like 15 bucks. I think you could still get them
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online. Although I did call David and I
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said, are you still publishing the book?
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And he said, well, I took it off of Amazon.
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Because they kept charging me too much.
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So I'm going to give you a phone number and if you are a big time
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your Rancho book reader or a long time your Rancho book
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reader and you maybe want to have a reference book, something
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that you could give to somebody that sort of gives a simplistic
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overview of what the Rancho book is all about.
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It's got some interesting cool fold out maps that sort of give
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you a perspective of. Of the universe, you know based
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on the Urancho book narrative. So again the book is called An
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Introduction to the Urancho Revelation and the the author is
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David Bradley wrote it on his own and he self publishes and he
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told me he's got a couple of boxes that are just sitting
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there waiting to be purchased. Got about 150 copies.
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So let me give you his number. It's seven O 78222577.
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To get that, it's seven O 78222577.
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Now I know this is going to blow a lot of people away, but you
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may just have to write a check and send it to him and he'll
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send you the book. I know, right?
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We all want to download it, have it on her smartphone.
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But it's a really nice book and it's worth whatever he charges.
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1520 bucks 7 O 78222577. And his name again is David
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Bradley. And the name of the book is
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called An Introduction to the Urantia Revelation.
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And I'm just doing this. I have no dog in this race.
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I don't get anything out of it. But I could just tell that David
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put a lot of heart and soul. We anybody who's tried to write
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a book about the Urantia book knows that it's not an easy
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proposition. So reach out to David, 7 O
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78222577, and tell him Jim told you.
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All right. So this week 1 notable we have
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surpassed over 100,000 downloads since we started this podcast
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back in August of 20. I think it was 2019.
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So I just want to say thank you to all the folks who've honored
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me with your time. You know what we're about here
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on the Ranch Radio podcast is sharing the good news.
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So our topic this week, how do we understand the concept of the
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Supreme being? So what does the Supreme Being
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mean to us as individuals? What does it mean?
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You know, my dad, he was not a believer in a personal God, but
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he was a believer in the Supreme being, kind of the concept of
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the universal mind. And some people find it easier
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to believe in a supreme Being really, rather than a personal,
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approachable God, someone that they.
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Can actually enter entertain prayer with and meditation with?
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For some people it's not that easy because God is such a huge
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concept, but they do understand the concept of a sort of an
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overriding force. So the supreme being to a lot of
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people is like a force, a force of good or something that just
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sort of is omnipresent. And This is why I think maybe
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it's easier for people to believe in angels, which is on
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a. Much more connective level.
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And of course Jesus. People really connect with Jesus
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because he had such a personal appeal.
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You know, he was one of us, and he brought us a great revelation
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about a personal deity, our Father in Heaven.
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That was a new concept that Jesus brought forth, the idea,
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this idea that you could have a personal relationship with the
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creator of the universe, that was unfathomable.
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But the Supreme, the Supreme Being is something a little
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different and it takes the concept of God to a whole
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different level. And it and I think it deserves
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some examination because well, for one thing it illustrates the
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challenges we face as human beings right now in this
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struggle when it comes to good and evil and choices we make in
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our life and the big struggle today that.
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Is challenging us to make important spiritual positions.
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So I want to read a little bit, just a couple of paragraphs that
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talks about the Supreme Being. But before we get to the meat of
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that, that subject. This is an excerpt from Paper
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12, Section 7, and you may have read it.
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It's called the Part and the Whole.
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So it reads There is operative throughout all time and space
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and with regard to all reality of whatever nature.
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Is an exorable and a personal law which is equivalent to the
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function of a cosmic Providence. Mercy characterizes God's
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attitude of love for the individual.
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Impartiality motivates God's attitude toward the total.
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The will of God does not necessarily prevail in the part
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the heart of any one personality, but His will does
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actually rule the whole. The universe of universes.
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God the Supreme, the actualizing or evolving God of time and
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space. Personal deity associatively
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realizing the time, space, experiential achievement of
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creature creator identity. The Supreme Being is personally
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experiencing the achievement of deity unity.
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As the evolving and experiential God of the evolutionary
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creatures of time and space, that sounds like a very deep
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concept, but it basically means that God is experiencing life
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through His created beings. He's evolving by using our
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experiences to add to His existential supremacy.
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From paper 7 or Section 7, in the foreword it reads the
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Father, Son, and Spirit are existential without beginning,
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without ending existential. In actuality, though, all
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potentials are supposedly experiential.
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See, there's a difference between existential, which
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essentially means you're always perfect and always will be
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perfect and always has been perfect.
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But believe it or not, there's some limitations in that.
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Because what do you lack? You lack actual experience.
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So if you lack actual experience and you're existentially
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perfect, well, are you? Are you perfect in all manner?
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Are you exhaustively perfect without the experience?
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The Supreme and the Ultimate are wholly experiential, so that
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means God of the future. There's still potential for
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growth. The essence of deity is eternal,
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but only the three original persons of Deity, which is God
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the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are unqualifiedly
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eternal. The next paragraph reads.
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Having achieved existential deity expression of himself in
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the Son and the Spirit, the Father is now achieving
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experiential expression. On hitherto impersonal and
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unrevealed deity levels as God the Supreme.
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But these experiential deities are not now fully existent, They
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are in the process of actualization.
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So that means that God the Supreme is an evolving deity.
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So think of an embryo inside of a body.
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Well that body is the present universe.
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But it's producing another level of deity on the experiential
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level. And how does it get there?
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How does it achieve this? Through the creation of
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individuals like ourselves, who all play a role.
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So here's where it reads the supreme being now actualizing in
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the evolutionary universes is the deity, correlator and
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synthesizer of time, space divinity.
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When finally actualized, the evolutionary deity will
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constitute the eternal fusion of the finite and the infinite, the
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everlasting insoluble union of experiential power and spirit
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personality. So that is what this embryonic
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supreme being represents. Experience and existential
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perfection now. You're asking yourself at this
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point, okay, well, what do I have to do with this?
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What is my relationship with the Supreme?
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So here's where I say God gives us a fragment of His spirit.
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Remember how in those, those those old audio tapes of Bill
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Sadler when he when he talks about the patches of God and how
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each fragment is identical and potential divinity.
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And this fragment is the thought adjuster who has nothing but
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time to get to know you. And share your life with you,
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the Father fragment that lives with you throughout your entire
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life, if you're a moral being. And that's what we have in
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ourselves, all human beings. We have thought adjusters, We
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have spirit fragments, the spirit, the lamp of of God, and
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it spiritizes our living experience.
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We can choose to be a part of the growth of the Supreme by
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participating and choosing God's will in our lives today.
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Which can be seen as moving forward with with the movement
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of God towards the evolution of the Supreme.
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In a way, the Supreme Being is in an embryonic form.
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Think of a body again. The central universe, the
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heartbeat, the heartbeat of the Trinity.
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Isn't it amazing? Think about your heart.
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Think about it just beats every day.
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It continues to beat every day. It's the you can't live without
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it. Just like.
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The Father and the Trinity can't live without Havona.
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Havona is a perfect universe, 1 billion perfected spheres that
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all came into existence at the time that the Trinity was
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complete and that reflects the spiritual and physical power of
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the Trinity. Havona.
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But they weren't done. But Can you imagine how much
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power? Think about the fact that we
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have in the current age 70 trillion sons.
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That are burning out in space and that represents the physical
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power, power of the first source and center.
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The same first source and center that is a personal and loving
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deity. Now the Supreme comprises all of
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God's current creation of spirit ascenders, eventually born,
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actualizing, and coming into existence as a result of the
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exhausted achievement of all of us.
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All of us ascended beings who choose to participate or we
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don't. If we reject the plan of eternal
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survival and participation, then the only thing we'll possess
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which is our personality, which confuse with the spirit fragment
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of God. It makes it possible for us to
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survive mortal death, survive salvation from materialism.
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But we're free to choose that or or we're free to reject it.
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Now. If we don't choose that plan and
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we don't become team players, as they say, well, God still takes
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the spirit fragment which has our memories.
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The thought adjuster is eternal. The thought adjuster goes back
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to God. And if we choose to our attach
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ourselves to that spirit fragment, then we're along for
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the ride. God doesn't waste a single
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valuable spiritual experience. It is part of the building block
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and the growth of the Supreme Being.
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Imagine if we're living cells and we are part of a growing
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collection of other living cells, other ascendant beings,
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all part of this embryonic formation of what eventually
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eventuate as a Supreme, and it is at this stage, the next.
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The universe age begins. Imagine that once the age of
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Light and Life is lived out on all the world of the current
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creation and the supreme Being emerges out of all of this, just
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as the appearance of Havana occurred.
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And the seven universes, the seven super universes of which
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we are a part, occurred at the time of the completion of the
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Trinity. And by the way, it gets really
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exciting because in the next. Universe Age we, having achieved
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the embrace of the Father, having achieved the limits of
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finality, are now mustered into the core of personalities who
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become ministers and teachers in the next Universe Age.
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Just as we have teachers and administrators of this current
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age, the Melchezidics, Gabriel, the Land and and X the Material
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Sons, and all of the spirit personalities who serve in this
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age. And bringing about the
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culmination of this age, leading to the next.
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But what if you decide to reject the plan?
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What if in this life, you become a habitual denier of the offer
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of spirit salvation? It means you're actually
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becoming less real, less meaningful.
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You know Lucifer will eventually experience personality
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annihilation. Not from adjudication as we
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might see it in our earthly courts where someone sentenced
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to death, but from the total and complete rejection of the
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efforts of the Supreme to be born.
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Lucifer is working against that plan through his unbridled
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Liberty Proclamation. It's kind of like what happens
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when a cell goes rogue of a living cell in your body.
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What happens when living cells die?
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They are flushed out. They're eliminated.
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They're not part of the growth of the Supreme.
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They've got their own ideas, you know, and it's most simplistic
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terms. God needs team players on this
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one. Everything in the universe moves
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with the current of the existential Father, seeking to
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emerge as an experiential deity, which can only be achieved if we
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all are participants in this grand plan.
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And if you don't, if you are a personality that says no, I want
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to have it my way. I want to do things on my own.
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Screw the plan. I have my own plan.
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Except that you don't. You see, you don't get your own
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plan. You don't even get your own
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planet. You actually possess only one
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thing that makes it possible for you to escape from the dead end
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of materialism. And it has to do with your
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contribution to spiritual value, the evolving of the Supreme.
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Lucifer's not going to get his own system to play with.
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Callagastie, who roams on our world and is a follower of the
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Lucifer doctrine, doesn't get to keep this planet all to himself.
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He may be here to flesh out some of his supporters, but he
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continually rejects salvation by denying the existence of the
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reality of the Supreme. He becomes less real, just as we
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each become less real when we deny survival or reject the idea
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of spiritual ascension because we're too arrogant or we have
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too much hubris, too much pride of self.
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Long time your ranch book student Chuck Thurston wrote a
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wonderful essay I will post on your ranchoradio.net.
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Trying to get his permission. I'm trying to actually try to
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get him on the show, and he talks about the current age and
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why there's so much evil. He explains that the most highs
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are in the process of vetting those who are sympathetic to the
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Lucifer doctrine of self liberty.
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I hadn't really thought about that, but I think there's truth
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to that. There's a doctrine that works
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against the Supreme, and it's in play now.
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But strong families, intelligent petitions to the Father, seeking
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for spiritual guidance, moral wisdom, service of others,
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developing a spiritual relationship with the first
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source and center those who work toward the Supreme are joining
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forces with God, not deciding that we have a better plan to do
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something else, the social embrace of pride.
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The self assertion of liberty without license cannot last, but
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it does provide the Most High as a way to filter out those who
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may not make it to the next step.
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You know, if you think about it, death is a great filter of the
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spiritually insolvent. This is why faith is such an
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important aspect of human personality.
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Without that faith, you need that faith.
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It's it's like a passport, really.
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And it is because God wants only the committed that we must
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endure the mistakes of our brothers and sisters who reject
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this plan and try to be their own gods by finding out new ways
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to grow fetuses. Or they get involved in human
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trafficking to make a quick buck or feed a fetish, or believing
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it is not moral to experiment on society to make a quick buck.
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You know what I'm talking about. And all of this exposes those
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who sit in darkness. So I do want to pull a quote
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from Chuck Thurston's essay. He says humans who rebel against
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God are inevitably causing the death of their souls.
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But they are also discovering the intoxicating hubris of false
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liberty with its releases from all restrictions and obligations
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having to do with decency, sincerity, and accountability.
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They can be dead spiritually and still wield tremendous
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influence. Over human affairs for the
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duration of their natural lifetimes.
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Again, using the embryo metaphor and attempting to conceptualize
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the emergence of the Supreme we can choose to be a part of that,
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or we can choose not to be a part of that.
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Our decisions here and now affect whether we take the next
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step, or we reject the notion of the next step altogether and try
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to reap all the pleasures in one single.
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Finite, instantaneous lifetime, which is what the world is
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currently selling you. And that is why these are
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confusing times. On bridal Liberty is
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intoxicating, and it slowly kills the spirit.
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The Son of Man taught us the way to avoid the pitfalls of this
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dangerous intoxication. He taught us to serve one
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another. And so I'm going to close with
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the same paragraph that I started with.
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From Paper 12, Section 7, there is operative throughout
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throughout all time and space, and with regard to all reality
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of whatever nature and exorable and impersonal law, which is
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equivalent to the function of cosmic Providence.
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Mercy characterizes God's attitude of love for the
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individual. Impartiality motivates God's
27:46
attitude toward the total. The will of God does not
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necessarily prevail in the part the heart of any one
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personality, but His will does actually rule the whole the
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universe of universes. So I hope that those words bring
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you comfort and inspire you in in ways that I can only imagine.
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But this is a, I think, one of my most favorite subjects,
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something that I've been putting a lot of thought into.
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And I hope that you can appreciate some of what I've
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conveyed on this episode that's going to do it for this edition
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of the Rancho Radio Podcast. Don't forget you can always
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e-mail. Got a question about the show or
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a comment your Rancho book radio@gmail.com.