Nov. 24, 2023
Morontia Mota - An advanced living philosophy
In this exciting episode, we get a taste of the kind of learning we will ensue in our future estate, including Mota, a philosophy that harmonizes human thought with spiritual truth.
Here we get 28 examples of Mota, each designed to aid your mind with higher spiritual truths.
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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
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That's kind of an unusual
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the home page.
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it's it's like kind of like
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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
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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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If you want to learn about the
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enjoy reading and learning about
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Epochal Revelation, it's good to
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Association, the Fellowship.
These are all groups that that
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represent the the creme de la
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studying the book and writing
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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
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Until next time, thank you for
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Be of good cheer.
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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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That's kind of an unusual
extension, but it'll get you to
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the home page.
And then from that point on,
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it's it's like kind of like
Wikipedia on steroids, but
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having to do with the the 4th
part of the Urantia book, the
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life and teachings of Jesus.
So it's a real good journey and
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it's absolutely free.
And the folks at Center for
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Unity over in Israel and
elsewhere, all the participants
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are very excited.
It launched on November 15th.
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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
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So stay tuned for that and other
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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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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
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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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If you want to learn about the
book and the people that also
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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.
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