Reality According To The Son of Man

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Well, it's time for another
edition of the Rancho Radio

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Podcast.
I'm your host, long time reader

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and student of the 5th epical,
Revelation.

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I'm on the West Coast, so if it
sounds a little different, it's

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because I'm using a different
setup.

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But I'm here and very excited.
In recent days, I've been

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reading through the life and
teachings of Jesus and I want to

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share with you Paper 130,
Section 4 on the Discourse on

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Reality for a couple of good
reasons, which I'll explain in

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just a few.
But I do want to thank all those

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who've been emailing me.
The program continues to grow.

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I'm so excited.
I mean, it's it's you can tell

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by the trend lines that either
new readers are finding it or

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there's more going on and maybe
people are searching for it.

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It could also be that because of
the troubled times that we live

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in, more and more people are
searching for a real meaning in

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their life and that drives
people to search for truth and

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certainly they're going to find
it on the Rancho Radio podcast

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because that's what we talk
about.

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The 5th epical Revelation is
something that has been near and

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dear to me since I was about 18
years old.

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Way back in the early 80s.
I discovered it just by

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accident.
I was having a simple

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conversation with a Co worker
and the subject of Adam and Eve

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popped up and I had my own
perspectives about what I

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thought.
I studied a little bit of it in

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the Bible and I knew from
conversations I had with people.

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I spent a lot, a lot of time
thinking about that.

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I'm not sure why, but probably
just because it's such a

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fascinating story.
I mean here we have the first

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two people appearing on the
scene of of old history and

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their influence.
Interestingly, if you if you

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look up the different cultures
in the world and the different

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religions in the world, you'll
find that almost every one of

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them contain a story of original
creation.

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And so that tends to lend itself
to the idea that something

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happened that was of
significance.

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So much so that these two, what
I would describe as

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supermortals, certainly the
first of something and their

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influence on society is probably
lost in time.

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And.
But when you pick up the Urantia

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book, one of the more
fascinating aspects of it is the

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papers or are the papers on the
Adam and Eve story in In fact,

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I've run across a lot of Urantia
book readers who have said to me

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that it was the introduction of
the Adam and Eve story that

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picked their interest on the
Urantia book.

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And then of course, the life and
teachings of Jesus are just a

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fascinating 700 page trip into
the life of this creator, Son of

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man, Son of God figure who
continues to influence the world

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today.
I do want to mention a couple of

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things because they are
important to me.

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Number one, I believe the
Urantia school is starting up

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again.
I just saw it this morning and

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yeah, there it is.
We've got the new session starts

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September 16th, which is right
around the corner.

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But you can sign up and you can
join a class.

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You can pick between several
different topics depending on

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your level of interest.
And it's free.

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And it's, it's a bit of reading
and a bit of writing, but it's

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also sharing in that journey
with other people who are

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reading the Urantia book and
gives you an opportunity to to

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get other people's perspectives
and to share your own.

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And everybody benefits.
And it's a great way to learn

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about the many different aspects
of reality in the Urantia book.

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So if you want to find out more
information, I know you can go

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to the Urantia Foundation
website, whichisurantia.org.

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And I want to say it's
urantia.org front slash Ubis,

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but I could be wrong and Joanne
Strobel would would be very

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upset with me if I mislead
people.

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So just start with the
urantia.org and you'll be able

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to find it.
Or you could just try Urantia

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book Internet school and you'll
find it on any search engine.

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I also want to talk about the
fact that some music is coming

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my way via one of the listeners
to the podcast.

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So I'm hoping once I settle back
home after my trip, I'll be able

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to pull some new music in.
I want to introduce the folks to

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that.
Also, I want to remind you that

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the folks at the Unity Center
for Unity project that are

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putting together the Jesus
Discover app.

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Those people are doing terrific
work.

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And I don't, I don't give credit
enough to Gabriel and, and Rick

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Lyon and his wife and, and all
the people that are behind the

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scenes working so diligently to
try to bring the Urantia Book

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truth to light and introduce
them in new media.

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And I know the Urantia Book
School is doing great things

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with Derek and, and those folks.
And so there's a lot of good

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energy right now.
It's almost as if the earth is

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trembling.
And I think great things are

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happening, but it's
unfortunately during some dark

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times.
And so you have to look a little

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farther and a little deeper to
find those glimmering spectacles

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of light.
And this is part and parcel why

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I do these podcasts because I, I
wanted to, you know, harness

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this particular medium, which is
the podcast podcast world.

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And the growth in podcast
listening is is pretty

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phenomenal.
Back in 20/17/2018, when I first

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started doing these podcasts, it
took a little while for things

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to kind of get momentum.
But I think people became more

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interested in podcasting when
they realize that it's nothing

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more than on on demand
listening.

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Seriously, it's no different
from Netflix.

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You're listening to things on
your own time.

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So I want to delve into this
section, Paper 130 Discourse on

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reality, because as I often do,
when I have a few hours, I'll

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open up the Urantia book and
I'll just start reading

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something.
I try to have a linear approach

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so that I figure like right now
I'm basically going through part

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four more meaningfully than I
have.

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And, and because I've been more
interested in learning as much

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as I can about the life of Jesus
before the public ministry, I've

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read the papers on his public
ministry quite a bit.

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But his earlier years deserve
another reading.

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And I found when you think
about, for example, that Jesus

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had an opportunity to spend a
couple of years with the Indian

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travelers and he was a tutor for
the young man, the boy, and, and

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he got to know Ganad and Ghanid.
And Ghanid is the the kid or the

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the son of Ganad, who was an
international trader in his day.

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And they traveled from India and
they happened to meet Jesus

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along the way.
Jesus now in his 28th year and

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he decided he was going to go
out into the world and get to

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know humanity.
And along the way he runs into

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this couple and they need a
tutor and he is of many

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languages.
So Jesus decides to travel along

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and make a living while at the
same time exploring the

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Mediterranean region.
There've been a few books that

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have been published, quite a few
books actually, that talk about

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the fact that there's suspicion
that Jesus spent time, you know,

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traveling the Mediterranean.
There are a couple of good books

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about that.
But interestingly, I find, and

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maybe we'll save this for
another discussion and I'll ask

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you if you're a Christian, why
is it that most Christians don't

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want to learn anything other
than what's in the New

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Testament?
Or they seem to be stuck on the

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fact that if it's not in the
Bible, then it must not be true.

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But just ask yourself a
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If the Son of man, Son of God,
the the literal creator of our

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of our universe comes and
decides to bestow himself along

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as the is the only begotten son,
the creator Son, you would think

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that such a momentous historical
event would be captured through

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the hearts and minds of many
people who would chance to be

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able to meet this man.
He was a powerful individual.

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And so I'm sure there are
probably a lot of traditions out

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there that have somehow
miraculously survived time.

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And that's why it's it's there
are some books that allude to

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the fact that Jesus, I mean,
forgive me, but the whole Mormon

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religion is based on this idea
that Jesus spent time outside of

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Jerusalem and touched many
people's lives.

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So the Urantia book just sort of
brings it all together under one

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cohesive timeline.
And so we're looking at this

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particular section 130, where
Jesus is now a full grown man.

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His mother is settled, James is
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And Jesus has basically said,
you know, it's time for me to be

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a man and go out into the world
and get to know my fellow human

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beings and come to understand
them a little bit better.

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And there would be no logical
reason in my mind to reject the

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idea that Jesus did quite a bit
of traveling in his early years.

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And in fact, the revelators tell
us that one of the remarkable

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things about Jesus traveling
through the Mediterranean is he

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was able to better prepare the
minds of many of these people

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early on during his private tour
so that they would be receptive

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to the teachings of the apostles
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And so they make many references
in the Urantia book where Jesus

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has talked to people who later
hear about his teachings and are

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indeed more receptive and are
instrumental and setting up many

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of the early churches throughout
the Mediterranean and so on.

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This particular case, I wanted
to take note to the discourse on

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reality.
And before I do, I it gets

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pretty heavy.
And of course the midwayers, the

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the entities that put together
the 4th part of the book admit

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that they did.
They were allowed to take some

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of the sayings of Jesus and put
them into modern phraseology so

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that we could better comprehend
the teachings as as Jesus was

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teaching those he came into
contact with.

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And so to me, the idea of the
Son of Man, the highest

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personality of our creation, is
giving a discourse on reality.

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And think about that for a
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Here is the literal son of the
living creator of the entire

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entirety of creation.
And he's giving this young man,

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Ghanid, a lesson on the
discourse of reality.

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Reality that means everything.
That means everything we touch,

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see, hear, taste, all of it is
reality.

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And here we have the Son of Man
telling this young man what

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reality is.
Think about how profound it is

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that we would have the Son of
man, the Son of God, giving a

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discourse on what reality really
is.

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And every day today, there's all
these questions about what's

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reality?
What does it mean, right?

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Well, here it is.
So let us read from Discourse on

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Reality, Paper 130, Section 4.
The night before they left

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Alexandria, Ganeed and Jesus.
Some people pronounce it Ganeed.

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Ganeed and Jesus had a long
visit with one of the government

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professors at the university,
who lectured on the teachings of

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Plato.
Jesus interpreted for the

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learned Greek teacher, but
injected no teaching of his own

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in refutation of the Greek
philosophy.

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Ganad was away on business that
evening, so after the professor

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had departed, the teacher and
his pupil had a long and heart

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to heart talk about Plato's
doctrines.

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Now I'll just interject here
that recently I started reading

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about The Cave.
It's one of the early courses in

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philosophy that I took, and they
talk a lot about The Cave of

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Socrates that he taught Plato.
And The Cave idea is that that

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the material world is the shadow
of the reality of the more

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enduring spiritual world.
And the story goes that these

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people are chained in their cave
and all they can see are the

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shadows of the outside world,
but they can't really discern

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what those shadows represent.
So their idea of reality is

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based on what they think those
shadows represent.

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And so it's a lesson as to how
perception has a lot to do with

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reality.
And there's some other

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antecedents to the story, but
that's the primary, central

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theme is that reality is based
on perspective, what you're

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allowed to see.
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conversation that Jesus was
having with his learned Greek

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teacher.
So, continuing on, while Jesus

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gave qualified approval of some
of the Greek teachings which had

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to do with the theory that the
material things of the world are

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shadowy reflections of invisible
but more substantial spiritual

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realities, he sought to lay a
more trustworthy foundation for

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the lad's thinking.
So he began a long and

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dissertation, a long
dissertation concerning the

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nature of reality in the
universe in substance and in

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modern phraseology.
Jesus said to Ghanid the source

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of universe reality is the
infinite.

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Think about that line for a
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The source of universe reality
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So the infinite continues to
supply the literally the energy

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components that make up the
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So the source of reality is
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The material things of finite
creation are the time space

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repercussions of the paradise
pattern and the universal mind

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of the eternal God, causation in
the physical world, self

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consciousness in the
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progressing selfhood in the
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These realities projected on a
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eternal relatedness and
experienced with perfection of

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quality and divinity of value,
constitute the reality of the

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Supreme.
So there's three elements that

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are interrelated that constitute
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physical world, the self
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ability to be self-conscious of
the fact that you're in the

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physical world from an
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So we observe the world behind
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So there's the physical world,
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of our intellectual recognition
of that physical world with us

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in it, and the progressing
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which means the ever progressing
personality growth.

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Those are the three components
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Supreme continuing on.
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universe, the original
personality of causation,

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intelligence and spirit
experience is changeless,

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absolute.
All things Jesus said, even in

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an internal, in an eternal
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divine qualities may and
oftentimes do change.

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Except the absolutes and that
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status, intellectual embrace, or
spiritual identity which is

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absolute.
It's the Son of Man describing

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the totality of reality, those 3
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place in it, and the growth of
our personality.

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The highest level to which a
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the recognition of the Universal
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Supreme.
That is the highest level that

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we can perceive and conceive of
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Anything higher than that, it's
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The Universal Father represents
that highest level of reality

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consciousness, and even then
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finality, destiny, go on
experiencing change in the

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motions of the physical world
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Likewise do they remain aware of
selfhood progression in their

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continuing ascension of the
spiritual universe and of

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growing consciousness in their
deepening appreciation of and

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response to the intellectual
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material reality.
They both actually coexist.

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Now, that's not to say that
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exist without intellectual
recognition, but intellectual

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recognition is part of reality.
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and unanimity of will can the
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Creator, and as such the state
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maintained only by the the
creatures continuing to live in

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time and eternity.
By consistently conforming His

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finite personal will to the
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Always must the desire to do the
Father's will be supreme in the

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soul and dominant over the mind
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Jesus goes on to say that A1
eyed person can never hope to

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visualize depth of perspective.
Neither can single eyed material

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scientists nor single eyed
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allegorists correctly visualize
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true depths of universe reality.
All true values of creature

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experience are concealed in
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That's a pretty interesting
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true that the pragmatist, the
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secularist, they tend to observe
life through the lens of one

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level of perspective.
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But when you have true values of
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experienceable in personal
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a a second perspective of of
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and value are as real as the
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That's at least my
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Jesus goes on to say mindless
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That means causation without any
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it cannot evolve the refined and
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simple.
This is where we get into an

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argument.
What is the first uncaused

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cause?
Neither.

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Can spiritless experience evolve
the divine characters of eternal

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survival from the material minds
of the mortals of time?

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The one.
Attribute to the universe which

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is so exclusively and does so
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infinite Deity is this unending
creative bestowal of personality

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which can survive in progressive
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Present personality is that
cosmic endowment, that phase of

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universe reality, which can
coexist with unlimited change

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and at the same time retain its
identity in the very presence of

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all such changes and forever
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Life is an adaptation of the
original cosmic causation to the

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demands and possibilities of
universe situations, and it

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comes into being by the action
of the universal Mind and the

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activation of the Spirit spark
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The.
Meaning of life is its

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adaptability.
The value of life is its

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progressability even to the
heights of God consciousness.

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Again, mind you, this is the
highest personality source in

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our reality aside from God,
who's explaining the reality of

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life.
So let me say that again, the

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meaning of life is its
adaptability.

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The value of life is its
progress ability.

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So not only are we adapting, but
we're learning and we're seeking

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the truth even to the heights of
God consciousness.

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Now this.
Is where things start to take a

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turn.
Jesus says misadaptation of

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self-conscious life to the
universe results in cosmic

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disharmony.
Final.

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Divergent of personality will
from the trend of the universe

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terminates in intellectual
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Personality segregation.
Loss.

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Of the indwelling spirit, pilot
supervenes and spiritual

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cessation of existence.
That's such an important

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statement, loss of the
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It means that spirit fragment
supervenes in spiritual

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cessation of existence.
Once that spirit pilot light

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ceases to exist, the human
personality cannot proceed

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forward.
That's the interpretation.

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Intelligent and progressing life
becomes then and of itself an

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inconvertible proof of the
existence of a purposeful

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universe expressing the will of
a divine Creator.

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Your life and your progression
is the incontrovertible proof of

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the existence of a purposeful
universe, a universe with

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purpose, and it expresses the
will of a divine Creator.

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Jesus.
Says and this life in the

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aggregate struggles toward
higher values, having for its

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final goal universal Father
Jesus also said only in degree

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does man possess mind above the
animal level, aside from the

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higher and quasi spiritual
ministrations of intellect.

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Therefore.
Animals not having worship and

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wisdom cannot experience super
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That would be consciousness of
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The animal mind is only
conscious of the objective

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universe.
Jesus says knowledge is the

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sphere of the material or fact
discerning mind.

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Truth is the domain of the
spiritually endowed intellect

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that is conscious of knowing
God.

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Knowledge.
Is demonstrable Truth is

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experienced.
Knowledge is a possession of the

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mind, Truth and experience of
the soul, the progressing self.

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Knowledge is a function of the
non spiritual level.

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Truth is a phase of the mind,
spirit level of the universe.

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The eye of the material mind
perceives a world of factual

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knowledge.
The eye of the spiritual, The

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eye of the spiritualized
intellect discerns a world of

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true values.
These two views, synchronized

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and harmonized, reveal the world
of reality, wherein wisdom

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interprets the phenomena of the
universe in terms of progressive

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personal experience.
Jesus goes on to say that error

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is the penalty of imperfection.
The qualities of imperfection or

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facts of misadaptations are
disclosed on the material level

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by critical observation and by
scientific analysis.

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On the.
Moral level by human experience.

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The presence of evil constitutes
proof of the inaccuracies of

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mind and the immaturity of the
evolving self.

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Jesus says evil is therefore
also a measure of imperfection.

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In universe interpretation, the
possibility of making mistakes

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is inherent in the acquisition
of wisdom, the scheme of

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progressing from the partial and
temporal to the complete and

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eternal, from the relative and
imperfect to the final and

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perfected.
Error is the shadow of relative

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incompleteness which must of
necessity fall across man's

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ascending universe path to
paradise.

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Perfection error is not an
actual universe quality.

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It is simply the observation of
a relativity in the relatedness

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of the imperfection of the
incomplete finite to the

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ascending levels of the supreme
and ultimate.

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Although.
Jesus told all of this to the

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lad in language best suited to
his comprehension.

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At the end of the discussion,
Ganied was heavy of eye and was

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soon lost in slumber.
They rose early the next morning

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to go aboard the boat bound for
Lacea on the island of Crete.

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And so there again is the
discourse on reality from Paper

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130, Section 4, conveying the
truths of the Son of Man, those

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who were there in his presence,
taking notes so that we could,

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in the year 2024, actually learn
from the Master himself.

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This, by the way, was conveyed
to Ghanied in AD 23.

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So I thought it was worth
sharing.

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And I'm sure that you would
agree that any times as Son of

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Man wants to teach us about the
concepts of reality.

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Well, that's a good place to
start 130 And so we'll leave it

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there.
And we always like to keep these

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podcasts under 30 minutes bite
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And I.
Look forward to our next get

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together.
Don't forget you can always

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reach out Your Rancho book
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radio@gmail.com and I hope
you'll pick up my new book.

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It's available on Amazon.
It's called Godless how

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Secularism is Just destroying
society.

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It's a good read and it's an app
that it's an adaptation of paper

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195 for those on the inside.
There's no reference to the

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Urantia book, but the Urantia
book inspired my latest my my

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latest essay, so look for it on
Amazon.com.

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Again, it's godless how
secularism is destroying

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society.
Until next time, thanks again

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for joining me on the Rancho
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to our next get together.