Paper 195 Part 1 - Materialism

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And welcome to another edition
of the Urantia Radio Podcast.

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I'm your humble host, Jim
Watkins, and it is always good

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to have you stop by and I enjoy
that you do, and I always want

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to impart something that will
make your day better.

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And so on this edition of the
Urantia Radio Podcast, we're

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going to talk about a subject.
It's in paper 195, and it's

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sections 5-6 and seven where the
revelators tell us a little bit

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about materialism and the
dangers of materialism in the

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modern day.
We're going to cover a lot of

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material.
It's a little longer than I

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usually have as far as episodes.
It takes about 40 minutes to

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read through these three
sections, and I'll give you a

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clue if it's too long.
Then you can take a break.

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So if you need to pause, it'll
be a lot of very, very useful

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information, and it will help
you understand not only the

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dangers of materialism, but what
we can do to solve the problem

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of abject materialism.
And the revelators went to great

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lengths to give us the tools
that we need in order to

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understand exactly what we're
faced against.

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Welcome to the Arancha Radio
podcast, where we take a look at

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papers throughout the book and
give it a little bit of analysis

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and help you perhaps understand
more of what the book is saying.

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And today we're going to be
talking about Paper 195, Section

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5, and it's called The Modern
Problem.

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Now Paper 195 is the last of the
books or the papers of the

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Arancha book, and it talks a lot
about it's actually sort of a

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summary history.
Of what happened after Jesus

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moved on, and what happened with
Christianity and what influence

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it continues to have all the way
down to the modern age.

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So paper 195 begins with after
Pentecost, then it goes into the

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continuing Roman influence, and
then through the Dark Ages.

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And now we're at Section 5.
So let's read through this

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section and we'll give some
analysis to what they're trying

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to tell us.
And you can read along too, on

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the screen if you like.
So from Paper 195, Section 5,

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the the modern Problem, the 20th
century has brought new problems

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for Christianity and all other
religions to solve.

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The higher a civilization
climbs, the more necessitous

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becomes the duty to quote seek
first the realities of heaven in

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all of man's efforts to
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the solution of its material
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Truth often becomes confusing
and even misleading when it is

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dismembered, segregated,
isolated, and too much analyzed.

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Living truth teaches the truth
seeker a right only when it is

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embraced in wholeness and as a
living spiritual reality, not as

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a fact of material science or an
inspiration of intervening art.

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Religion is the revelation of
man of his.

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Divine and eternal Destiny.
Religion is a purely personal

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and spiritual experience and
must forever be distinguished

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from man's others.
Higher forms of thought, such as

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man's logical attitude toward
the things of material reality,

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man's aesthetic appreciation of
beauty contrasted with ugliness,

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man's ethical recognition of
social obligations, and

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political duty.
And even man's sense of human

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morality is not in and of itself
religious.

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So they're emphasizing here that
religion is is a purely personal

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experience and it's it's if it's
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religion is about the whole
personality and not just a

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segmented part of of their their
living, like going to church one

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day a week and not really giving
thought in any in any given

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moment.
To look at things through a

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spiritual lens, how does it
benefit me?

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How does it benefit other
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And is it based in truth?
So if you use those 3

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qualifiers, then you're applying
religious living to just about

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every circumstance in your life.
Religion is designed to find

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those values in the universe
which call for faith, trust and

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assurance.
Religion culminates in worship.

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Religion discovers for the soul
those supreme values which are

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in contrast with the relative
values discovered by the mind.

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Such superhuman insight can be
had only through genuine

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religious experience.
A lasting social system without

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a morality predicated on
spiritual realities can no more

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be maintained than could the
solar system without gravity.

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That's a pretty important
statement.

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Do we have a Do we have a
society that you think is based

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on spiritual realities or
material realities to the man on

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the street?
Does this person live only in

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the material world, or does he
give thought to the spiritual

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realities of his soul or the
future endeavors of perhaps

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eternal life?
I would say that most people

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don't think in terms.
Of eternal reality.

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Not today anyway.
But what if we did?

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How would we treat each other
differently if we took in the

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context of a cosmological
universe filled with life?

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And I think when they say a
lasting social system, that

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means the thread that holds a
society together.

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If it's based on spiritual
principles or spiritual

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realities, then it it can
contain that society.

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It's a lasting.
Social system and, if it's based

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on anything else, spiritual
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If if those are ignored, then
you cannot expect a lasting

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social system.
So they say, do not try to

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satisfy the curiosity or gratify
all the latent adventures

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surging within the soul in one
short life in the flesh.

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Be patient, be not tempted to
indulge in a lawless plunge into

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cheap.
And sordid adventure.

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Harness your energies and bridal
your passions.

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Be calm while you await the
majestic unfolding of an endless

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career of progressive adventure
and thrilling discovery.

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So you don't have to cram
everything into one life unless

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that's all the life you want.
And then in that case, you might

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as well do everything.
What do they always tell you?

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You only live once.
But here they're saying no,

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that's not the case.
You don't live once, you live on

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and whatever you do here is
going to matter.

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And that future is state.
Isn't that what they're saying?

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Don't try to solve all the
complexities.

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Don't don't throw yourself at an
orgy of of satiation because you

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feel like you'll never have an
opportunity.

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Now look at some of the go, the
go, the right path.

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You know, stay within the rails,
I think is what they're saying.

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In time, you'll have so much of
a wonderful experience.

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It's even beyond today for you
to even imagine and confusion

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over man's origin.
Do not lose sight of his eternal

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destiny.
See, forget not that Jesus loved

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even little children and that he
forever made clear the great

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worth.
Of human personality.

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That's an interesting statement.
It's almost it's it's sort of

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where that sentence come from,
right here.

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Here's right here. 195, Section
5, paragraph 11.

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And confusion over man's
origins.

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In other words, where did man
come from?

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We're confused about that.
Is the animal evolutionary?

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Was he created?
Are we the sons of Adam or the

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sons of of apes?
Well, there's confusion about

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that, so don't lose sight.
Of the eternal destiny.

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Don't lose sight.
Doesn't matter where you're

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from, it's where you're going.
And then he pulls in this this

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quote.
Forget not that Jesus loved even

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little children.
So in their eyes we may be

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viewed as as little children.
But what what makes us worth a

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damn is the fact that we have
human personality.

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That's the key.
Doesn't matter where we came

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from now we're humans and we
have personality.

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And there's a clear path to an
eternal adventure and not just a

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material life.
It says, As you view the world,

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remember that the black patches
of evil which you see are shown

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against a white background of
ultimate good.

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In other words, no matter how
bad it is here and now, and in

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the situations that we find
ourselves in, there is a better

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path.
There is going to be a better

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estate.
It says where there's so much

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good truth to publish and
proclaim.

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Why should men dwell so much
upon the evil in the world?

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And I know I'm guilty of it just
because it appears to be a fact.

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The beauties of the spiritual
values of truth are more

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pleasurable and uplifting than
is the phenomenon of evil.

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In religion, Jesus advocated and
followed the method of

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experience.
Even as modern science pursues

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the technique of experiment, we
find God through the leadings of

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spiritual insight.
But we approach this insight of

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the soul through the love of the
beautiful, the pursuit of truth,

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loyalty to duty, and the worship
of divine goodness.

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But all of these values, Of all
of these values, love is the

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true guide to real insight.
Now we're going to jump into.

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Having established the
framework, by the way, that we

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should approach our religious
living knowing that we are

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living not only for the present
but also for the future.

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The end goal, the eternal
journey which we talked about in

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the previous podcast with
regards to the Supreme Being.

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Now remember we're talking about
society and how it's progressing

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in the post Jesus world.
And now we get to Section 6,

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materialism.
Scientists have unintentionally

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precipitate.
And this is by the way, the

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only, I think, paragraph in the
whole Your Ranch book that is

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about this particular age that
we are in.

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Specifically, I think they're
addressing the problems of

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materialism at this point
because it's a serious issue.

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And the struggle right now, the
ideological struggle.

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Is going on between materialism,
secularism and spirituality,

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spiritual thinking.
So they address head on some of

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the problems that we're having
in our society today.

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Because we've become so
materialistic, scientists have

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unintentionally precipitated
mankind into a materialistic

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panic.
They have started an unthinking

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run on the moral Bank of the
ages, but this Bank of human

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experience.
Has vast spiritual resources.

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It can stand the demands being
made upon it.

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Only unthinking men become
panicky about the spiritual

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assets of the human race.
When the materialistic secular

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panic is over, the religion of
Jesus will not be found

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bankrupt.
The spiritual Bank of the

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Kingdom of heaven will be paying
out faith, hope and moral

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security to all who draw upon it
in his name.

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No matter what the apparent
conflict between materialism and

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the teachings of Jesus may be,
you can rest assured that in the

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ages to come, the teachings of
the Master will fully triumph In

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reality, true religion cannot be
involved in any controversy with

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science.
It is in no way concerned with

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material things religion is
simply indifferent to, but

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sympathetic with science.
While it supremely concerns

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itself with the scientist, the
pursuit of mere knowledge

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without the intended
interpretation of wisdom and the

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spiritual insight of religious
experience eventually leads to

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pessimism and human despair.
A little knowledge is truly

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disconcerting.
At the time of this writing, the

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worst and this was 1935.
Or 19, late 30s.

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So World War Two is about to
start.

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It's already kind of broken out
in Europe.

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The whole world is a stir.
They're saying the worst of the

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materialistic age is over.
The day of a better

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understanding is already
beginning to dawn.

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The higher minds of the
scientific world are no longer

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wholly materialistic in their
philosophy, but the rank and

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file of the people still lean in
that direction.

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As a result of former teachings.
But this age of physical realism

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is only a passing episode in
man's life on earth.

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Modern science has left true
religion untouched.

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All science has done is to
destroy the childlike illusions

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of the misinterpretations of
life.

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Science is a quantitative
experience, religion a

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qualitative experience as
regards man's life on earth.

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Science deals with phenomena,
religion with origins, values

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and goals.
To assign causes as an

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explanation of physical
phenomena is to confess

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ignorance of ultimates, and in
the end only leads the science

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is straight back to the first
rate cause, the universal father

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of paradise.
The violence swing from an age

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of miracles to an age of
machines.

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Has proved altogether upsetting
to man.

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The cleverness and dexterity of
the false philosophies of

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mechanism belie their very
mechanistic contentions.

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The fatalistic agility of the
mind of a materialist forever

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disproves his assertion that the
universe is a blind and

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purposeless energy phenomena.
This is basically addressing the

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theory of The Big Bang.
The Big Bang just eventuated and

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came to be at this. 1.14 or so
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This particular paragraph hits
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Why is that?
Because the materialist thinks

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that life just came about
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That's a mechanistic approach.
What we're not taking into

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account is the the, the, the
purposelessness of it, the

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noncausation that that there's
no point.

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Listen to what it says.
The mechanistic naturalism of

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some supposedly educated men and
the thoughtless secularism of

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the man in the street are both
exclusively concerned with

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things.
They are barren of all real

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values, sanctions and
satisfactions of a spiritual

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nature, as well as being devoid
of faith, hope and eternal

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assurances.
One of the great troubles with

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modern life is that man thinks
he is too busy to find time for

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spiritual meditation and
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Materialism reduces man to a
soulless automaton and

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constitutes him merely an
arithmetical symbol, finding a

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helpless place in the
mathematical formula of an

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unromantic and mechanistic
universe.

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But whence comes all this vast
universe of mathematics without

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a master mathematician?
Science may expatiate on the

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conservation of matter, but
religion validates the

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conservation of men's souls.
It concerns their experience

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with spiritual realities and
eternal values.

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The materialistic sociologist of
today surveys a community.

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That makes a report there on and
leaves the people as he found

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them. 1900 years ago, unlearned
Galilean surveyed Jesus, giving

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his life as a spiritual
contribution to man's inner

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experience, and then went out
and turned the whole Roman

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Empire upside down.
But religious leaders are making

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a great mistake when they try to
call modern man to spiritual

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battle with the trumpet blast.
Of the Middle Ages, religion

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must provide itself with new and
UpToDate slogans.

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Neither democracy nor any other
political panacea will take the

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place of spiritual progress.
That's a very important should

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underline that.
Can I can I say that again?

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Religion must provide itself
with new and UpToDate slogans,

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neither democracy nor any other
political panacea.

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Will take the place of spiritual
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Now they have all these parades
and all these advocacy groups

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and activists.
You know, we want our rights.

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We want this.
We want that equity, whatever

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they're crying for.
But that's not spiritual

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progress.
It might be social evolution,

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but it's not really based on
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False religions may represent an
evasion of reality, but Jesus

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and his gospel introduce mortal
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To the very entrance upon an
eternal reality of spiritual

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progression.
To say that mind emerged from

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matter explains nothing.
If the universe were merely A

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mechanism and mind were unapart
from matter, we would never have

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two differing interpretations of
any observed phenomena.

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The concepts of truth, beauty,
and goodness are not inherent in

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either physics.
Or chemistry.

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A machine cannot know, much less
no truth.

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Hunger for righteousness and
cherish goodness.

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Science may be physical, but the
mind of the truth Discerning

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scientist is at 1 super
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Matter knows not truth, Neither
can it love, mercy, nor delight

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in spiritual values and
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Moral convictions based on
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And rooted in human experience,
are just as real and certain as

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mathematical deductions based on
physical observations.

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But on another and higher level,
if men were only machines, they

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would react more or less
uniformly to a material

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universe.
Individuality, much less

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personality, would be
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So again, there.
They're addressing the secular

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approach that science has
towards all reality, and it's

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interesting, it's such a great
quote.

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Science is concerned with
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Religion is concerned with the
scientist, the facts of the

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absolute mechanism of paradise
at the center of the universe,

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of universes in the presence of
the unqualified volition of the

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second source and center, which
is the eternal sun.

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It makes forever certain that
determiners are not the

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exclusive laws of the cosmos.
Materialism is there, but it is

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not exclusive.
Mechanism is there, but it is

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not unqualified.
Determinism is there, but it is

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not alone.
The finite universe of matter

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would eventually become uniform
and deterministic, but for the

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combined presence of mind and
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The influence of the cosmic mind
constantly injects spontaneity

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into even the material worlds.
Freedom or initiative in any

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realm of existence is directly
proportional to the degree of

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spiritual influence and cosmic
mind control that is inhuman

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experience, the degree of the
actuality of doing the Father's

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will.
And so when you start out to

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find God, that is conclusive
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That God has already found you.
The sincere pursuit of goodness,

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beauty, and truth leads to God,
and every scientific discovery

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demonstrates the existence of
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the universe.
The discoverer was free to make

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the discovery.
The thing discovered is real and

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apparently uniform, or else it
could not have been known as a

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thing.
So moving along, we'll just do 7

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here because it sort of wraps it
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This is a dressing head on.
The atomized man.

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The the secularistic attitude of
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The vulnerability of materialism
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How foolish it is for
materialminded men to allow such

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vulnerable theories as those of
the mechanistic universe to

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deprive him of the vast
spiritual resources.

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Of the personal experience of
true religion.

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Facts never quarrel with real
spiritual faith.

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Theories may better that science
should be devoted to the

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destruction of superstition
rather than attempting the

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overthrow of religious faith,
human belief in spiritual

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realities and divine values.
That is what constitutes

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religious faith.
Science should do more for man

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materially what religion does
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Extend the horizon of life and
enlarge his personality.

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True science can have no lasting
quarrel with true religion.

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The scientific method is merely
an intellectual yardstick

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wherewith to measure material
adventures and physical

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achievements.
But being material and wholly

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intellectual, it is utterly
useless in the evaluation of

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spiritual realities and
religious experiences.

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The inconsistency of the modern
mechanist is this.

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If this were merely a material
universe, and man only a

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machine, such a man would be
wholly unable to recognize

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himself as such a machine.
And likewise would would such a

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machine man be wholly
unconscious of the fact of the

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existence of such a material
universe, the materialistic

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dismay and despair of a
mechanistic science.

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Of mechanistic science has
failed to recognize the fact of

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the spirit and dwelt mind of the
scientist whose very super

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material insight formulates
these mistaken and self

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contradictory concepts of a
materialistic universe.

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Paradise values of eternity and
Infinity of truth, beauty and

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goodness are concealed within
the facts of the phenomena of

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the universes of time and space.
But it requires the eyes of

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faith in a spirit born mortal to
detect and discern the spiritual

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values, the realistic and
values, the realities and values

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of spiritual progress are not a
psychological projection, a mere

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glorified Daydream of the
material mind.

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Such things are the spiritual
forecasts of the indwelling and

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gesture, the Spirit of God.
Living in the mind of man.

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And let not your dabblings with
faintly glimpsed findings of

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relativity disturb your concepts
of the eternity and and Infinity

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of God.
And then all your solicitations

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concerning the necessity of
selfexpression do not make the

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mistake of failing to provide
for a juster expression, the

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expression of God, through you,
the manifestation of your real.

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And better self.
If this were only a material

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universe, material man would
never be able to arrive at the

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concept of a mechanistic
character of such an exclusively

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material existence.
This very mechanistic concept of

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the universe is in itself a
nonmaterial phenomena of mind,

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and all mind is of nonmaterial
origin, no matter how thoroughly

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it may appear to be material
conditioned and mechanistically

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controlled.
The partially evolved mental

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mechanism of mechanism of mortal
mind is not over endowed with

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consistency and wisdom.
Man's conceit often outruns his

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reason and eludes his logic.
The very pessimism of the most

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pessimistic materialist is in
and of itself sufficient proof

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that the universe of the
pessimist is not wholly

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material.
Both optimism and pessimism are

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concept reactions in a mind
consciousness of values, or

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conscious of values as well as
facts.

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If the universe were truly what
the materialistic regard it to

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be, man as a human machine would
then be devoid of all conscious

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recognition of that very fact
without the consciousness of the

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concept of values within the
spirit borne mind.

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The fact of universal
materialism and the mechanistic

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phenomena of universe operation
would be wholly unrecognized by

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man.
One machine cannot be conscious

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of the nature or value of
another machine.

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A mechanistic philosophy of life
and the universe cannot be

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scientific.
Because science recognizes and

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deals only with materials and
facts, philosophy is inevitably

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super scientific.
Man is a material fact of

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nature, but his life is a
phenomenon and transcends the

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material levels of nature in
that it exhibits the control

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attributes of mind and the
creative qualities of spirit.

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The sincere effort of man to
become a mechanist represents

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the tragic phenomena of that
man's futile effort to commit

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intellectual and moral suicide.
But he cannot do it.

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If the universe were only
material and man only a machine,

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there would be no science to
embolden the sciences to to

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postulate this mechanization of
the universe.

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Machines cannot measure,
classify, or evaluate

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themselves.
Such a scientific piece of work

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could be only executed by some
entity of super machine status.

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There's so much more to reality,
it isn't just what science can

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measure.
There's two other attributes to

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to the the Trinity view of of of
reality.

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There's matter, of course, but
it works in conjunction with

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mind, and mind is motivated by
spirit, and it's that triune

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approach to reality that gives
life totality and value.

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If universe reality is only one
vast machine, then man must be

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outside of the universe and
apart from it in order to

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recognize such a fact and become
conscious of the inside of such

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an evaluation.
If man is only a machine, by

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what technique does this man
come to believe or claim to know

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that he is only a machine?
The experience of

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selfconsciousness and the
evaluation of oneself is never

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an attribute of a mere machine.
A selfconscious and avowed

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mechanist is the best possible
answer to mechanism.

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If materialism were a fact,
there could be no selfconscious

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mechanist.
It is also true that one must

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first be a moral person before 1
can perform immoral acts.

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The very claim of materialism
implies a super material

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consciousness of the mind which
presumes to assert such dogma.

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A mechanism might deteriorate,
but it could never progress.

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Machines do not think, create,
dream, aspire, idealize, hunger

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for truth, or thirst for
righteousness.

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Even a I.
They do not motivate their lives

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with a passion to serve other
machines and to choose as their

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goal of eternal progression the
sublime, the sublime task of

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finding God.
And striving to be like him.

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Machines are never intellectual,
emotional, aesthetic, ethical,

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moral, or spiritual.
Art proves that man is not

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mechanistic, but it does not
prove that he is spiritually

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immortal.
Art is morontia or mortal

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morontia, the intervening field
between man the material and man

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the spiritual.
Poetry is an effort.

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To escape from material
realities to spiritual values in

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a high civilization, Art
humanizes science while in turn

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it is spiritualized by true
religion.

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Insight into spiritual and
eternal values.

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Art represents the human and
time space evaluation of

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reality.
Religion is the divine embrace

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of cosmic values and connotes
eternal progression.

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In spiritual ascension and
expansion, the art of time is

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dangerous only when it becomes
blind to the spirit standards of

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the divine patterns which
eternity reflects is the reality

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shadows of time.
True art is the effective

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manipulation of the material
things of life.

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Religion is the ennobling
transformation of the material

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facts of life, and it never
ceases.

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In its spiritual evaluation of
art, how foolish to presume that

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an automaton could conceive A
philosophy of automation, and

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how ridiculous that it should
presume to form such a concept

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of other and fellow automatons,
any scientific interpretation of

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the material universe is
valueless unless it provides due

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recognition For the scientist,
no appreciation of art is

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genuine.
Unless it accords recognition of

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the artist, no evaluation of
morals is worthwhile unless it

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includes the moralist.
No recognition of philosophy is

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codifying or edifying if it
ignores the philosopher.

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And religion cannot exist
without the real experience of

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the religionist, who in and
through this very experience, is

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seeking to find God and to know
him.

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Likewise is the universe of
universes without significance

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apart from the I am the infinite
God who made it and unceasingly

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manages it.
Mechanists, humanists sent, tend

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to drift with the material
currents.

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Idealists and spiritists dare to
use their oars with intelligence

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and vigor in order to modify the
apparently material course of

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the energy streams.
Science lives by the mathematics

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of the mind.
Music expresses the tempo of the

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emotions.
Religion is the spiritual rhythm

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of the soul in time, space,
harmony with higher and eternal

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melody, measurements of
Infinity.

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Religious experience is
something in human life which is

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truly super mathematical in
language and alphabet represents

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the mechanism of materialism.
While the words expressive of

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the meaning of 1000 thoughts,
grand ideas and noble ideals of

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love and hate, of cowardice and
courage, represent the

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performance of mind within the
scope defined by both material

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and spiritual law, directed by
the assertion of will of

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personality, and limited by the
inherent situational endowment.

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The universe is not like the
laws, mechanisms, and the

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uniformities which the
scientists discover and which he

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comes to regard as science, but
rather like the curious

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thinking, choosing, creative,
combining and discriminating

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scientists who thus observes
universe phenomena and

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classifieds the mathematical
facts inherent to the

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mechanistic phases of the
material side of creation.

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Neither is the universe like the
artist or the art of the artist,

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but rather like the striving,
dreaming, aspiring, and and

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advancing artist who seeks to
transcend the world of material

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things in an effort to achieve a
spiritual goal.

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The scientist, not science,
perceives the reality of an

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evolving and advancing universe
of energy and matter.

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The art is not Art demonstrates
the existence of the transient

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Morontia world, intervening
between material existence and

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spiritual liberty.
The religion is not.

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Religion proves the existence of
the spirit, realities and divine

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values which are to be
encouraged in the progress of

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eternity in these three sections
of paper 195, sections 5-6, and

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seven.
Attempts are clearly made to lay

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the groundwork for the
introduction of the fact that

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true reality is threefold.
It is matter, but it is also

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mind, and it is spirit.
The discoverer was free to make

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the discovery and assess value
to the thing being discovered.

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I hope you enjoy taking time to
read through these various

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passages in the Rancho book.
I know I do.

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And if you have a suggestion on
a particular passage or topic,

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let me know at your Rancho book
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listening to the Rancho Radio
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The end those letters are the
return never mean and to say.

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I love you.
Yes, I love you.

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I love you.
Yes.

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And I love you.
And I love you.