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In a moment we're going to read from a great paper that I love
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that sort of tells our early history of what drove Humanity
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forward. What were the key principles
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that ended up getting us to a more Progressive state, where we
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find ourselves today and also there's a great piece of music.
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I don't know if you are on social media but I thought I'd
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play this. This is just a, I don't know,
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any of the history on it, but it's, it seems to be everywhere
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and I see it popping up and I just want to play this for you
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and then we'll get to our podcast episode paper 68 and the
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dawn of civilization, but check this out.
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Out. That's something just beautiful.
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Those are seven words and they each mean a different definition
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of God. And like I said, it's been
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floating around on the internet and I don't know anything about
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the history, but I just I find it spiritually.
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Uplifting, don't you? All right.
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We're on to our subject of the our inside, the Revelation
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podcast. In a minute we're going to
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discuss paper 68, the dawn of civilization and we'll go back
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in time and read what the ranch a book has to say about the
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times. Before people started writing
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things down, when we were little more than just Savages in the
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jungle going back almost to the beginnings of time.
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You know a few weeks ago I got a great email from a listener and
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they inform you about something that I had no idea about but
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apparently is very credible and it has to do with some
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personalities people in Jesus's life.
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You know what happened to them after the resurrection in the
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Rancher book, we're told a little bit about what happens to
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the apostles after Pentecost and how the teachings of
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Christianity spread in the different parts of the world.
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And but what we don't know too much about at least for me is
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the history of some of the people who were important.
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So this woman was kind enough to write Story.
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And I want to share it with you because it has to do with Mary
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and Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea.
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And she writes, and I did not know this.
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I thought it'd be fascinating to share.
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She writes that Joseph had a few ships and traded not only around
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the Mediterranean, but also came to England for copper.
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From Cornwall and and led from Somerset about an inch.
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He's from this area. So she knows about the old
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history is about a year after the crucifixion because of the
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terrible persecution from the Romans and in fear for their
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lives. Joseph mother, Mary Mary
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Magdalene Lazarus and his wife and two sisters, Simon zelotes
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and two disciples sailed for Britain.
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They stopped in the south of France and Mary Magdalene
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disembarked. She wanted to spread Jesus's
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teachings. There, there are many churches,
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dedicated to her from this from his trading.
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And with people of Somerset, Joseph new nude, king Agra varis
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who had always warmly welcomed him.
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When the group arrived, the king accommodated them and eventually
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gave each of them large pieces of land exempting them from
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paying for paying a tax. This gift is recorded in the
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archives of Glastonbury. Joseph built a small waddle
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church and also traveled around Britain spreading the word.
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He was also a shaman and could materialize crystals and heal.
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The sick that was his Legend Made It much later in the 12th
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century. A large Abby was built in the
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center of Glastonbury but was later destroyed by Henry the
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eighth in the 14th century. When he destroyed hundreds of
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Abby's and monasteries because the monks or Abbott's would not
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convert to protestantism and thus allow him to divorce his
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first wife Anyway, it's an interesting story.
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About that. And I was not not that.
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I would have a reason to follow the life of Joseph of Arimathea
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or Mary Magdalene, but it is interesting to record, is it
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not? So, it's always for me at least
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fascinating to learn tidbits of information, which is probably
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why I like the Rancher book so much.
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So let's delve into paper 68, because as I always find what
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I'm reading the Rancho book, I always get these little
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glimpses. Truth.
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It's like cereal sprinkled with sugar.
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So a little bit, goes a long way and you learn a little bit about
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who we are and what our characteristics are.
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And what also I think is important is that we learn what
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these the revelator's, these Advanced Spirit personalities
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how they observe us. and how we may one day, observe other
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primitive personalities, when we're in a much more advanced
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stage perhaps And they write from paper 68.
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This is the beginning of The Narrative of the long long
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forward. Struggle of the human species
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from a status. That was little better than an
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animal existence through the intervening ages and down to the
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later times. When a real though imperfect
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civilization, had evolved among the higher races of mankind.
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Civilization is a racial acquirement.
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It is not biologically. Inherent, hence must all
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children. Be reared in an environment of
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Archer, while each succeeding generation of Youth must receive
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a new, it's education. The superior qualities of
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civilization, scientific philosophical and religious are
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not transmitted from one generation to another by direct
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inheritance. These cultural achievements, are
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preserved only by the enlightened conservation of
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social inheritance. So, civilization must be
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constantly be renewed by constantly being taught to our
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young. They don't they don't learn this
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stuff. Genetically, That's an
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interesting perspective, isn't it?
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Social evolution of the Co-operative order was initiated
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by the Dalmatia teachers hits going back about a half, a
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million years with the planetary Prince and the, of course, the
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100 teachers. And for 300,000 years mankind,
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was nurtured in the idea of group activities, the Blue, Man.
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Most of all profited by these early social teachings, the Red
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Man to some extent and the black man least of all in more recent
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times the yellow race and the white race have presented the
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most advanced Social Development on Urantia.
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Number one, protective socialization when brought
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together closely men often learn to like one another, But A
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Primitive man was not naturally overflowing with the spirit of
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Brotherly feelings and the desire for social contact with
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his fellows. Rather did the early races
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learned by sad experiences that quote in Union, there is
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strength and it is this lack of natural brotherly of attraction
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that now stands in the way of immediate realisation.
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Realization of the Brotherhood of Man on Urantia.
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Association early became the price of survival.
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The lone man was helpless unless he bore a tribal Mark, which
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testified that he belonged to a group which would certainly
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avenge any assault made upon him.
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Even in the days of Cain, it was fatal to go abroad alone without
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some Mark of group Association. Civilization has become man's
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insurance against violent death. While the premiums are paid by
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submission to societies numerous law demands Primitive Society
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was thus founded on the reciprocity of necessity and on
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the enhanced safety of Association.
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And Human Society has evolved in age long Cycles as a result of
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this isolation fear. And by means of reluctant,
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cooperation, Primitive human beings early learned that groups
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are vastly greater and stronger than the mere sum of their
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individual units. 100 men United and working in unison, can move
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a great Stone score of well-trained.
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Guardians of Peace can restrain an angry mob.
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And so Society was born not of mere Association of numbers, but
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rather as a result of the organization of intelligent
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Co-operators, but cooperation is not a natural trait of man.
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He learns to cooperate first through fear, and then later
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because he discovers, it is most beneficial in meeting the
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difficulties of time and guarding against the supposed
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Perils of Eternity. The peoples, who the Surly
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organized themselves, into a primitive Society became more
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successful in their attacks on nature as well as in defense
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against their fellows. They possessed greater survival
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possibilities. Hence has civilization steadily
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progressed on Urantia notwithstanding its many
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setbacks and it is only because of the enhancement of survival
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value in association that man's many blunders have thus far
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failed to stop or destroy human civilization.
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That contemporary cultural society is a rather recent
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phenomena, as well as shown by the present-day survival of such
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primitive social conditions. As characterized the Australian
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Natives and the Bushmen and pygmies of Africa.
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Just an insert here. If you've ever gone on, you can
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still find them. But there are old pictures from
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the 50s and perhaps even earlier when when we first were able to
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take movie cameras, into Faraway Villages and remote areas of the
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Amazon and Africa and we found these pockets and they're still
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there. These people that haven't
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changed in thousands of years. And it's so interesting to look
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at, I mean, they almost look, it's like taking a look back in
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time. It's an interesting observation
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and helps sort of give idea to what they're talking about here.
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It's what they're saying here is that, you know, cultural society
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is still recent the fact that we still have Bushman and pygmies
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shows you that it wasn't that long ago when much of society
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was very similar. And it goes on to read or write
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among these backward. Peoples, May observe something
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of the early group hostility, personal suspicion and other
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highly antisocial traits which were so characteristic of all
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primitive races. These miserable remnants of the
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non-social peoples of ancient times.
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Bear eloquent testimony to the fact that the natural
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individualistic tendency of man cannot successfully compete with
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the more potent and Powerful. Powerful organizations and
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associations of social progression.
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These backward and suspicious antisocial races that speak a
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different dialect, every 40 or 50, miles illustrates what a
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world. Might you live in today but for
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the combined teachings of the corporeal staff of the planetary
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Prince a half a million years ago and also the later labors of
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the adamic group of racial uplifters.
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So they're saying that We could very well, still be much like
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some of those primitive tribes that still exist.
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Were it not for the teachings of the pellet, planetary Prince,
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and then later the adamic teachings The modern phrase,
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quote Back To Nature, is a delusion of ignorance, a belief,
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in the reality of a one-time fictitious Golden Age.
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The only basis for the legend of the golden age is the historic
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fact of Dalmatia and Eden. But these improve societies were
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far from the realization of utopian dreams. so from paper to
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of this same series, paper 68, section 2, We learn a little bit
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about the factors of social progression and I as I read
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this, take into consideration that they're trying to give us
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information to help us progress. Always the underlying purpose of
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the Rancho book is to give us information to improve our
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quality of thinking and our our spiritual appreciation.
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So they write civilized society is the result of band's early
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effort to overcome his dislike of isolation but this does not
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necessarily signify Mutual affection and the present
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turbulent state of certain primitive groups.
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Well illustrates what the early tribes came up through.
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But though, the individuals of a civilization May collide with
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each other and struggle against one another, and those
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civilization itself may appear to be an inconsistent mass of
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striving and struggling, it does evidence Earnest striving not
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the deadly monotony of stagnation.
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While the levels of intelligence has contributed considerably to
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the rate of cultural progress. Society is essentially designed
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to lessen the risk element in the individuals mode of living
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and it has progressed just as fast as it has.
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Succeeded in lessening pain and increasing the pleasure element
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in life. Thus does the whole social body
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push on slowly toward the goal of Destiny, Extinction or
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survival. Society is concerned with
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self-perpetuation self-maintenance and
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self-gratification but human, self-realization is worthy of
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becoming the immediate goal of many cultural groups.
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The herd Instinct and natural man is hardly sufficient to
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account for the development of a social organization as now
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exists on Urantia. Do this innate gregarious.
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Propensity lies at the bottom of human society.
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Much of man, sociability is an acquirement to Great influences
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which contributed to the early Association of human beings were
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food hunger and sex. Love These instinctive urges
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man, shares with the animal world to other emotions which
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drove human beings together and held them together.
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We're vanity and fear more particularly goes fear.
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History is but the record of man's age long food, struggle
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primitive, man. Only thought when he was hungry
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food, savings was his first self-denial self-discipline.
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With the growth of society food, hunger cease to be the only
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incentive for Mutual Association.
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Numerous other sorts of hunger, the realization of various
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needs, all led to the closer Association of mankind.
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But today, Society is top-heavy with the overgrowth of supposed
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or supposed human needs. Occidental civilization of the
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20th century groans wearily under the tremendous overload of
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luxury and the inordinate multiplication of human desires
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and longings. Modern society is in during the
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strain of one of its most dangerous phases of far-flung
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interests. Association and highly
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complicated interdependence. No, pause to consider that.
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This book was written in the 30s.
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And look at where 100 years right now.
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And nothing could be more truthful than that, right?
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Occidental civilization groans wearily, what a great phrase,
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groans wearily under the tremendous overload of luxury in
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the inordinate, multiplication of human desires and longings.
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Isn't that the truth? Isn't that the truth?
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Think about everywhere you go. Now we're all looking into our
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phones and we got our headphones on and we've got our cars.
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And we've got our base music and It just it's a lot of luxury,
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indeed. Alright, continuing on Hunger,
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vanity and goes fear were continuous and their social
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pressure. But sexual gratification was
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transient and spasmodic the sex urge alone.
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Did not impel primitive man. Men or women to assume the heavy
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burdens of Home Maintenance. The early home was founded upon
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the sex restlessness of the mail when deprived or frequent
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gratification and upon that devoted Mother Love of the human
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female which in Sure. She shares with the females of
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all of the higher animals, the presence of a helpless.
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Babe determined the early differential differentiation of
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male and female activities. The woman had to maintain a
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settled residence where she could cultivate the soil.
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And from the earliest times where woman was has always been
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regarded as the home. Woman, The Surly became
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indispensable to the evolving social scheme, not so much
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because of the fleeting sex passions.
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As, in consequence of food requirement, she was an
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essential partner and self-maintenance.
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She was a food provider a beast of burden and a companion.
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Who would stand great abuse without violent resentment.
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And in addition to all of these desirable traits, she was a
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Present means of sex gratification.
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Almost everything of lasting value in Civilization.
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Has its roots in the family? The family was the first
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successful piece group, the man and woman learning how to adjust
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their antagonisms. While at the same time, teaching
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the Pursuits of peace to their children.
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The function of marriage and evolution is the insurance of
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race survival. Not merely the realization of
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personal happiness, self-maintenance, and
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self-perpetuation are the real objects of the home.
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Self gratification is incidental and non or not essential except
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as an incentive, ensuring sex Association, nature, demands
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survival, but the Arts of civilization continued to
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increase the pleasures of marriage and the satisfactions
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of family life. If vanity be enlarged to cover
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Pride, ambition and honor then we may discern not only how
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these propensities contribute to the formation of human
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associations, but also how they hold men together since such
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emotions are futile without an audience to parade before.
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Soon, vanity associated with itself other emotions and
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impulses which required a social Arena where in they might
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exhibit and gratify themselves. This group of emotions gave
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origin to the early beginnings of all art ceremonial Andy forms
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of sport of games and contests Vanity contributed mightily to
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the birth of society. But at the time of these Rebel
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has eight of these Revelations. The devious strivings of a
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vainglorious generation threatened to swamp and submerge
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the whole complicated structure of a highly specialized
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civilization. Pleasure want has long since
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superseded hunger want the legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of self-gratification.
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Self-maintenance. Build Society, unbridled
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self-gratification unfailingly destroys civilization.
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And thus concludes the first two segments of paper 68, I
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encourage you to continue on with that paper much more to
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learn. But those are the basics going
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back in time to the early beginnings of civilization and
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what were the forces that drove civilization forward, and it's a
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great narrative. And it's what's inside the
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Revelation. If you've got a section of the
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book that you'd like for us to share or talk about, feel free
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to email me at your Ranch, a book radio at Elle.com your
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answer book radio at gmail.com and we will continue in an
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upcoming episode check back soon and don't forget to share these
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podcasts with fellow truth-seekers, happy 100 years,
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the ranch a book has been with us.
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We're so thrilled. As we start another hundred
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years of helping to spread the revelation of Truth to mankind.
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Until next time, thanks for stopping by.