Feb. 10, 2023
The Dawn of Civilization
What made us progress? What drives society to be better? The answer may surprise you as the Revelators share with us our early beginnings, from Paper 68 and the Dawn of Civilization, this time up on the Urantia Radio Podcast
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In a moment we're going to read
from a great paper that I love
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that sort of tells our early
history of what drove Humanity
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forward.
What were the key principles
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that ended up getting us to a
more Progressive state, where we
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find ourselves today and also
there's a great piece of music.
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I don't know if you are on
social media but I thought I'd
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play this.
This is just a, I don't know,
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any of the history on it, but
it's, it seems to be everywhere
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and I see it popping up and I
just want to play this for you
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and then we'll get to our
podcast episode paper 68 and the
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dawn of civilization, but check
this out.
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Out.
That's something just beautiful.
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Those are seven words and they
each mean a different definition
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of God.
And like I said, it's been
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floating around on the internet
and I don't know anything about
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the history, but I just I find
it spiritually.
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Uplifting, don't you?
All right.
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We're on to our subject of the
our inside, the Revelation
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podcast.
In a minute we're going to
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discuss paper 68, the dawn of
civilization and we'll go back
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in time and read what the ranch
a book has to say about the
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times.
Before people started writing
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things down, when we were little
more than just Savages in the
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jungle going back almost to the
beginnings of time.
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You know a few weeks ago I got a
great email from a listener and
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they inform you about something
that I had no idea about but
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apparently is very credible and
it has to do with some
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personalities people in Jesus's
life.
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You know what happened to them
after the resurrection in the
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Rancher book, we're told a
little bit about what happens to
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the apostles after Pentecost and
how the teachings of
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Christianity spread in the
different parts of the world.
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And but what we don't know too
much about at least for me is
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the history of some of the
people who were important.
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So this woman was kind enough to
write Story.
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And I want to share it with you
because it has to do with Mary
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and Mary Magdalene and Joseph of
Arimathea.
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And she writes, and I did not
know this.
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I thought it'd be fascinating to
share.
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She writes that Joseph had a few
ships and traded not only around
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the Mediterranean, but also came
to England for copper.
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From Cornwall and and led from
Somerset about an inch.
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He's from this area.
So she knows about the old
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history is about a year after
the crucifixion because of the
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terrible persecution from the
Romans and in fear for their
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lives.
Joseph mother, Mary Mary
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Magdalene Lazarus and his wife
and two sisters, Simon zelotes
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and two disciples sailed for
Britain.
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They stopped in the south of
France and Mary Magdalene
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disembarked.
She wanted to spread Jesus's
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teachings.
There, there are many churches,
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dedicated to her from this from
his trading.
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And with people of Somerset,
Joseph new nude, king Agra varis
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who had always warmly welcomed
him.
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When the group arrived, the king
accommodated them and eventually
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gave each of them large pieces
of land exempting them from
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paying for paying a tax.
This gift is recorded in the
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archives of Glastonbury.
Joseph built a small waddle
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church and also traveled around
Britain spreading the word.
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He was also a shaman and could
materialize crystals and heal.
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The sick that was his Legend
Made It much later in the 12th
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century.
A large Abby was built in the
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center of Glastonbury but was
later destroyed by Henry the
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eighth in the 14th century.
When he destroyed hundreds of
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Abby's and monasteries because
the monks or Abbott's would not
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convert to protestantism and
thus allow him to divorce his
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first wife Anyway, it's an
interesting story.
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About that.
And I was not not that.
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I would have a reason to follow
the life of Joseph of Arimathea
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or Mary Magdalene, but it is
interesting to record, is it
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not?
So, it's always for me at least
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fascinating to learn tidbits of
information, which is probably
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why I like the Rancher book so
much.
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So let's delve into paper 68,
because as I always find what
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I'm reading the Rancho book, I
always get these little
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glimpses.
Truth.
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It's like cereal sprinkled with
sugar.
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So a little bit, goes a long way
and you learn a little bit about
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who we are and what our
characteristics are.
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And what also I think is
important is that we learn what
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these the revelator's, these
Advanced Spirit personalities
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how they observe us. and how we
may one day, observe other
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primitive personalities, when
we're in a much more advanced
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stage perhaps And they write
from paper 68.
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This is the beginning of The
Narrative of the long long
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forward.
Struggle of the human species
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from a status.
That was little better than an
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animal existence through the
intervening ages and down to the
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later times.
When a real though imperfect
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civilization, had evolved among
the higher races of mankind.
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Civilization is a racial
acquirement.
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It is not biologically.
Inherent, hence must all
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children.
Be reared in an environment of
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Archer, while each succeeding
generation of Youth must receive
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a new, it's education.
The superior qualities of
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civilization, scientific
philosophical and religious are
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not transmitted from one
generation to another by direct
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inheritance.
These cultural achievements, are
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preserved only by the
enlightened conservation of
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social inheritance.
So, civilization must be
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constantly be renewed by
constantly being taught to our
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young.
They don't they don't learn this
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stuff.
Genetically, That's an
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interesting perspective, isn't
it?
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Social evolution of the
Co-operative order was initiated
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by the Dalmatia teachers hits
going back about a half, a
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million years with the planetary
Prince and the, of course, the
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100 teachers.
And for 300,000 years mankind,
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was nurtured in the idea of
group activities, the Blue, Man.
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Most of all profited by these
early social teachings, the Red
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Man to some extent and the black
man least of all in more recent
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times the yellow race and the
white race have presented the
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most advanced Social Development
on Urantia.
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Number one, protective
socialization when brought
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together closely men often learn
to like one another, But A
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Primitive man was not naturally
overflowing with the spirit of
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Brotherly feelings and the
desire for social contact with
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his fellows.
Rather did the early races
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learned by sad experiences that
quote in Union, there is
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strength and it is this lack of
natural brotherly of attraction
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that now stands in the way of
immediate realisation.
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Realization of the Brotherhood
of Man on Urantia.
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Association early became the
price of survival.
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The lone man was helpless unless
he bore a tribal Mark, which
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testified that he belonged to a
group which would certainly
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avenge any assault made upon
him.
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Even in the days of Cain, it was
fatal to go abroad alone without
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some Mark of group Association.
Civilization has become man's
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insurance against violent death.
While the premiums are paid by
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submission to societies numerous
law demands Primitive Society
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was thus founded on the
reciprocity of necessity and on
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the enhanced safety of
Association.
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And Human Society has evolved in
age long Cycles as a result of
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this isolation fear.
And by means of reluctant,
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cooperation, Primitive human
beings early learned that groups
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are vastly greater and stronger
than the mere sum of their
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individual units. 100 men United
and working in unison, can move
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a great Stone score of
well-trained.
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Guardians of Peace can restrain
an angry mob.
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And so Society was born not of
mere Association of numbers, but
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rather as a result of the
organization of intelligent
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Co-operators, but cooperation is
not a natural trait of man.
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He learns to cooperate first
through fear, and then later
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because he discovers, it is most
beneficial in meeting the
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difficulties of time and
guarding against the supposed
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Perils of Eternity.
The peoples, who the Surly
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organized themselves, into a
primitive Society became more
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successful in their attacks on
nature as well as in defense
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against their fellows.
They possessed greater survival
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possibilities.
Hence has civilization steadily
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progressed on Urantia
notwithstanding its many
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setbacks and it is only because
of the enhancement of survival
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value in association that man's
many blunders have thus far
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failed to stop or destroy human
civilization.
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That contemporary cultural
society is a rather recent
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phenomena, as well as shown by
the present-day survival of such
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primitive social conditions.
As characterized the Australian
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Natives and the Bushmen and
pygmies of Africa.
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Just an insert here.
If you've ever gone on, you can
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still find them.
But there are old pictures from
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the 50s and perhaps even earlier
when when we first were able to
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take movie cameras, into Faraway
Villages and remote areas of the
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Amazon and Africa and we found
these pockets and they're still
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there.
These people that haven't
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changed in thousands of years.
And it's so interesting to look
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at, I mean, they almost look,
it's like taking a look back in
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time.
It's an interesting observation
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and helps sort of give idea to
what they're talking about here.
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It's what they're saying here is
that, you know, cultural society
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is still recent the fact that we
still have Bushman and pygmies
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shows you that it wasn't that
long ago when much of society
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was very similar.
And it goes on to read or write
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among these backward.
Peoples, May observe something
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of the early group hostility,
personal suspicion and other
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highly antisocial traits which
were so characteristic of all
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primitive races.
These miserable remnants of the
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non-social peoples of ancient
times.
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Bear eloquent testimony to the
fact that the natural
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individualistic tendency of man
cannot successfully compete with
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the more potent and Powerful.
Powerful organizations and
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associations of social
progression.
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These backward and suspicious
antisocial races that speak a
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different dialect, every 40 or
50, miles illustrates what a
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world.
Might you live in today but for
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the combined teachings of the
corporeal staff of the planetary
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Prince a half a million years
ago and also the later labors of
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the adamic group of racial
uplifters.
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So they're saying that We could
very well, still be much like
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some of those primitive tribes
that still exist.
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Were it not for the teachings of
the pellet, planetary Prince,
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and then later the adamic
teachings The modern phrase,
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quote Back To Nature, is a
delusion of ignorance, a belief,
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in the reality of a one-time
fictitious Golden Age.
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The only basis for the legend of
the golden age is the historic
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fact of Dalmatia and Eden.
But these improve societies were
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far from the realization of
utopian dreams. so from paper to
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of this same series, paper 68,
section 2, We learn a little bit
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about the factors of social
progression and I as I read
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this, take into consideration
that they're trying to give us
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information to help us progress.
Always the underlying purpose of
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the Rancho book is to give us
information to improve our
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quality of thinking and our our
spiritual appreciation.
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So they write civilized society
is the result of band's early
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effort to overcome his dislike
of isolation but this does not
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necessarily signify Mutual
affection and the present
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turbulent state of certain
primitive groups.
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Well illustrates what the early
tribes came up through.
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But though, the individuals of a
civilization May collide with
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each other and struggle against
one another, and those
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civilization itself may appear
to be an inconsistent mass of
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striving and struggling, it does
evidence Earnest striving not
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the deadly monotony of
stagnation.
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While the levels of intelligence
has contributed considerably to
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the rate of cultural progress.
Society is essentially designed
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to lessen the risk element in
the individuals mode of living
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and it has progressed just as
fast as it has.
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Succeeded in lessening pain and
increasing the pleasure element
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in life.
Thus does the whole social body
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push on slowly toward the goal
of Destiny, Extinction or
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survival.
Society is concerned with
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self-perpetuation
self-maintenance and
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self-gratification but human,
self-realization is worthy of
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becoming the immediate goal of
many cultural groups.
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The herd Instinct and natural
man is hardly sufficient to
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account for the development of a
social organization as now
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exists on Urantia.
Do this innate gregarious.
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Propensity lies at the bottom of
human society.
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Much of man, sociability is an
acquirement to Great influences
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which contributed to the early
Association of human beings were
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food hunger and sex.
Love These instinctive urges
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man, shares with the animal
world to other emotions which
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drove human beings together and
held them together.
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We're vanity and fear more
particularly goes fear.
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History is but the record of
man's age long food, struggle
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primitive, man.
Only thought when he was hungry
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food, savings was his first
self-denial self-discipline.
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With the growth of society food,
hunger cease to be the only
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incentive for Mutual
Association.
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Numerous other sorts of hunger,
the realization of various
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needs, all led to the closer
Association of mankind.
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But today, Society is top-heavy
with the overgrowth of supposed
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or supposed human needs.
Occidental civilization of the
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20th century groans wearily
under the tremendous overload of
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luxury and the inordinate
multiplication of human desires
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and longings.
Modern society is in during the
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strain of one of its most
dangerous phases of far-flung
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interests.
Association and highly
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complicated interdependence.
No, pause to consider that.
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This book was written in the
30s.
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And look at where 100 years
right now.
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And nothing could be more
truthful than that, right?
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Occidental civilization groans
wearily, what a great phrase,
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groans wearily under the
tremendous overload of luxury in
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the inordinate, multiplication
of human desires and longings.
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Isn't that the truth?
Isn't that the truth?
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Think about everywhere you go.
Now we're all looking into our
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phones and we got our headphones
on and we've got our cars.
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And we've got our base music and
It just it's a lot of luxury,
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indeed.
Alright, continuing on Hunger,
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vanity and goes fear were
continuous and their social
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pressure.
But sexual gratification was
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transient and spasmodic the sex
urge alone.
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Did not impel primitive man.
Men or women to assume the heavy
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burdens of Home Maintenance.
The early home was founded upon
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the sex restlessness of the mail
when deprived or frequent
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gratification and upon that
devoted Mother Love of the human
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female which in Sure.
She shares with the females of
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all of the higher animals, the
presence of a helpless.
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Babe determined the early
differential differentiation of
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male and female activities.
The woman had to maintain a
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settled residence where she
could cultivate the soil.
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And from the earliest times
where woman was has always been
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regarded as the home.
Woman, The Surly became
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indispensable to the evolving
social scheme, not so much
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because of the fleeting sex
passions.
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As, in consequence of food
requirement, she was an
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essential partner and
self-maintenance.
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She was a food provider a beast
of burden and a companion.
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Who would stand great abuse
without violent resentment.
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And in addition to all of these
desirable traits, she was a
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Present means of sex
gratification.
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Almost everything of lasting
value in Civilization.
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Has its roots in the family?
The family was the first
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successful piece group, the man
and woman learning how to adjust
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their antagonisms.
While at the same time, teaching
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the Pursuits of peace to their
children.
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The function of marriage and
evolution is the insurance of
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race survival.
Not merely the realization of
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personal happiness,
self-maintenance, and
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self-perpetuation are the real
objects of the home.
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Self gratification is incidental
and non or not essential except
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as an incentive, ensuring sex
Association, nature, demands
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survival, but the Arts of
civilization continued to
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increase the pleasures of
marriage and the satisfactions
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of family life.
If vanity be enlarged to cover
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Pride, ambition and honor then
we may discern not only how
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these propensities contribute to
the formation of human
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associations, but also how they
hold men together since such
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emotions are futile without an
audience to parade before.
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Soon, vanity associated with
itself other emotions and
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impulses which required a social
Arena where in they might
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exhibit and gratify themselves.
This group of emotions gave
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origin to the early beginnings
of all art ceremonial Andy forms
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of sport of games and contests
Vanity contributed mightily to
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the birth of society.
But at the time of these Rebel
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has eight of these Revelations.
The devious strivings of a
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vainglorious generation
threatened to swamp and submerge
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the whole complicated structure
of a highly specialized
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civilization.
Pleasure want has long since
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superseded hunger want the
legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly
translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of
self-gratification.
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Self-maintenance.
Build Society, unbridled
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self-gratification unfailingly
destroys civilization.
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And thus concludes the first two
segments of paper 68, I
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encourage you to continue on
with that paper much more to
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learn.
But those are the basics going
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back in time to the early
beginnings of civilization and
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what were the forces that drove
civilization forward, and it's a
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great narrative.
And it's what's inside the
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Revelation.
If you've got a section of the
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book that you'd like for us to
share or talk about, feel free
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to email me at your Ranch, a
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and we will continue in an
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upcoming episode check back soon
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the ranch a book has been with
us.
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We're so thrilled.
As we start another hundred
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years of helping to spread the
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Until next time, thanks for
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In a moment we're going to read
from a great paper that I love
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that sort of tells our early
history of what drove Humanity
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forward.
What were the key principles
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that ended up getting us to a
more Progressive state, where we
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find ourselves today and also
there's a great piece of music.
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I don't know if you are on
social media but I thought I'd
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play this.
This is just a, I don't know,
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any of the history on it, but
it's, it seems to be everywhere
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and I see it popping up and I
just want to play this for you
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and then we'll get to our
podcast episode paper 68 and the
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dawn of civilization, but check
this out.
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Out.
That's something just beautiful.
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Those are seven words and they
each mean a different definition
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of God.
And like I said, it's been
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floating around on the internet
and I don't know anything about
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the history, but I just I find
it spiritually.
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Uplifting, don't you?
All right.
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We're on to our subject of the
our inside, the Revelation
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podcast.
In a minute we're going to
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discuss paper 68, the dawn of
civilization and we'll go back
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in time and read what the ranch
a book has to say about the
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times.
Before people started writing
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things down, when we were little
more than just Savages in the
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jungle going back almost to the
beginnings of time.
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You know a few weeks ago I got a
great email from a listener and
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they inform you about something
that I had no idea about but
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apparently is very credible and
it has to do with some
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personalities people in Jesus's
life.
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You know what happened to them
after the resurrection in the
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Rancher book, we're told a
little bit about what happens to
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the apostles after Pentecost and
how the teachings of
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Christianity spread in the
different parts of the world.
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And but what we don't know too
much about at least for me is
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the history of some of the
people who were important.
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So this woman was kind enough to
write Story.
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And I want to share it with you
because it has to do with Mary
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and Mary Magdalene and Joseph of
Arimathea.
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And she writes, and I did not
know this.
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I thought it'd be fascinating to
share.
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She writes that Joseph had a few
ships and traded not only around
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the Mediterranean, but also came
to England for copper.
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From Cornwall and and led from
Somerset about an inch.
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He's from this area.
So she knows about the old
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history is about a year after
the crucifixion because of the
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terrible persecution from the
Romans and in fear for their
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lives.
Joseph mother, Mary Mary
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Magdalene Lazarus and his wife
and two sisters, Simon zelotes
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and two disciples sailed for
Britain.
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They stopped in the south of
France and Mary Magdalene
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disembarked.
She wanted to spread Jesus's
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teachings.
There, there are many churches,
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dedicated to her from this from
his trading.
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And with people of Somerset,
Joseph new nude, king Agra varis
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who had always warmly welcomed
him.
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When the group arrived, the king
accommodated them and eventually
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gave each of them large pieces
of land exempting them from
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paying for paying a tax.
This gift is recorded in the
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archives of Glastonbury.
Joseph built a small waddle
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church and also traveled around
Britain spreading the word.
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He was also a shaman and could
materialize crystals and heal.
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The sick that was his Legend
Made It much later in the 12th
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century.
A large Abby was built in the
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center of Glastonbury but was
later destroyed by Henry the
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eighth in the 14th century.
When he destroyed hundreds of
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Abby's and monasteries because
the monks or Abbott's would not
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convert to protestantism and
thus allow him to divorce his
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first wife Anyway, it's an
interesting story.
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About that.
And I was not not that.
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I would have a reason to follow
the life of Joseph of Arimathea
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or Mary Magdalene, but it is
interesting to record, is it
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not?
So, it's always for me at least
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fascinating to learn tidbits of
information, which is probably
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why I like the Rancher book so
much.
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So let's delve into paper 68,
because as I always find what
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I'm reading the Rancho book, I
always get these little
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glimpses.
Truth.
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It's like cereal sprinkled with
sugar.
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So a little bit, goes a long way
and you learn a little bit about
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who we are and what our
characteristics are.
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And what also I think is
important is that we learn what
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these the revelator's, these
Advanced Spirit personalities
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how they observe us. and how we
may one day, observe other
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primitive personalities, when
we're in a much more advanced
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stage perhaps And they write
from paper 68.
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This is the beginning of The
Narrative of the long long
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forward.
Struggle of the human species
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from a status.
That was little better than an
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animal existence through the
intervening ages and down to the
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later times.
When a real though imperfect
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civilization, had evolved among
the higher races of mankind.
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Civilization is a racial
acquirement.
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It is not biologically.
Inherent, hence must all
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children.
Be reared in an environment of
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Archer, while each succeeding
generation of Youth must receive
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a new, it's education.
The superior qualities of
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civilization, scientific
philosophical and religious are
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not transmitted from one
generation to another by direct
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inheritance.
These cultural achievements, are
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preserved only by the
enlightened conservation of
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social inheritance.
So, civilization must be
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constantly be renewed by
constantly being taught to our
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young.
They don't they don't learn this
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stuff.
Genetically, That's an
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interesting perspective, isn't
it?
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Social evolution of the
Co-operative order was initiated
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by the Dalmatia teachers hits
going back about a half, a
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million years with the planetary
Prince and the, of course, the
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100 teachers.
And for 300,000 years mankind,
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was nurtured in the idea of
group activities, the Blue, Man.
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Most of all profited by these
early social teachings, the Red
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Man to some extent and the black
man least of all in more recent
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times the yellow race and the
white race have presented the
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most advanced Social Development
on Urantia.
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Number one, protective
socialization when brought
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together closely men often learn
to like one another, But A
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Primitive man was not naturally
overflowing with the spirit of
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Brotherly feelings and the
desire for social contact with
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his fellows.
Rather did the early races
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learned by sad experiences that
quote in Union, there is
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strength and it is this lack of
natural brotherly of attraction
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that now stands in the way of
immediate realisation.
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Realization of the Brotherhood
of Man on Urantia.
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Association early became the
price of survival.
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The lone man was helpless unless
he bore a tribal Mark, which
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testified that he belonged to a
group which would certainly
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avenge any assault made upon
him.
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Even in the days of Cain, it was
fatal to go abroad alone without
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some Mark of group Association.
Civilization has become man's
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insurance against violent death.
While the premiums are paid by
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submission to societies numerous
law demands Primitive Society
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was thus founded on the
reciprocity of necessity and on
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the enhanced safety of
Association.
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And Human Society has evolved in
age long Cycles as a result of
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this isolation fear.
And by means of reluctant,
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cooperation, Primitive human
beings early learned that groups
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are vastly greater and stronger
than the mere sum of their
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individual units. 100 men United
and working in unison, can move
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a great Stone score of
well-trained.
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Guardians of Peace can restrain
an angry mob.
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And so Society was born not of
mere Association of numbers, but
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rather as a result of the
organization of intelligent
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Co-operators, but cooperation is
not a natural trait of man.
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He learns to cooperate first
through fear, and then later
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because he discovers, it is most
beneficial in meeting the
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difficulties of time and
guarding against the supposed
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Perils of Eternity.
The peoples, who the Surly
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organized themselves, into a
primitive Society became more
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successful in their attacks on
nature as well as in defense
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against their fellows.
They possessed greater survival
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possibilities.
Hence has civilization steadily
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progressed on Urantia
notwithstanding its many
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setbacks and it is only because
of the enhancement of survival
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value in association that man's
many blunders have thus far
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failed to stop or destroy human
civilization.
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That contemporary cultural
society is a rather recent
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phenomena, as well as shown by
the present-day survival of such
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primitive social conditions.
As characterized the Australian
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Natives and the Bushmen and
pygmies of Africa.
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Just an insert here.
If you've ever gone on, you can
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still find them.
But there are old pictures from
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the 50s and perhaps even earlier
when when we first were able to
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take movie cameras, into Faraway
Villages and remote areas of the
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Amazon and Africa and we found
these pockets and they're still
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there.
These people that haven't
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changed in thousands of years.
And it's so interesting to look
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at, I mean, they almost look,
it's like taking a look back in
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time.
It's an interesting observation
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and helps sort of give idea to
what they're talking about here.
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It's what they're saying here is
that, you know, cultural society
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is still recent the fact that we
still have Bushman and pygmies
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shows you that it wasn't that
long ago when much of society
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was very similar.
And it goes on to read or write
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among these backward.
Peoples, May observe something
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of the early group hostility,
personal suspicion and other
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highly antisocial traits which
were so characteristic of all
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primitive races.
These miserable remnants of the
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non-social peoples of ancient
times.
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Bear eloquent testimony to the
fact that the natural
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individualistic tendency of man
cannot successfully compete with
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the more potent and Powerful.
Powerful organizations and
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associations of social
progression.
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These backward and suspicious
antisocial races that speak a
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different dialect, every 40 or
50, miles illustrates what a
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world.
Might you live in today but for
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the combined teachings of the
corporeal staff of the planetary
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Prince a half a million years
ago and also the later labors of
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the adamic group of racial
uplifters.
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So they're saying that We could
very well, still be much like
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some of those primitive tribes
that still exist.
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Were it not for the teachings of
the pellet, planetary Prince,
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and then later the adamic
teachings The modern phrase,
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quote Back To Nature, is a
delusion of ignorance, a belief,
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in the reality of a one-time
fictitious Golden Age.
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The only basis for the legend of
the golden age is the historic
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fact of Dalmatia and Eden.
But these improve societies were
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far from the realization of
utopian dreams. so from paper to
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of this same series, paper 68,
section 2, We learn a little bit
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about the factors of social
progression and I as I read
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this, take into consideration
that they're trying to give us
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information to help us progress.
Always the underlying purpose of
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the Rancho book is to give us
information to improve our
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quality of thinking and our our
spiritual appreciation.
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So they write civilized society
is the result of band's early
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effort to overcome his dislike
of isolation but this does not
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necessarily signify Mutual
affection and the present
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turbulent state of certain
primitive groups.
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Well illustrates what the early
tribes came up through.
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But though, the individuals of a
civilization May collide with
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each other and struggle against
one another, and those
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civilization itself may appear
to be an inconsistent mass of
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striving and struggling, it does
evidence Earnest striving not
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the deadly monotony of
stagnation.
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While the levels of intelligence
has contributed considerably to
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the rate of cultural progress.
Society is essentially designed
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to lessen the risk element in
the individuals mode of living
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and it has progressed just as
fast as it has.
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Succeeded in lessening pain and
increasing the pleasure element
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in life.
Thus does the whole social body
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push on slowly toward the goal
of Destiny, Extinction or
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survival.
Society is concerned with
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self-perpetuation
self-maintenance and
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self-gratification but human,
self-realization is worthy of
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becoming the immediate goal of
many cultural groups.
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The herd Instinct and natural
man is hardly sufficient to
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account for the development of a
social organization as now
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exists on Urantia.
Do this innate gregarious.
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Propensity lies at the bottom of
human society.
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Much of man, sociability is an
acquirement to Great influences
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which contributed to the early
Association of human beings were
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food hunger and sex.
Love These instinctive urges
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man, shares with the animal
world to other emotions which
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drove human beings together and
held them together.
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We're vanity and fear more
particularly goes fear.
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History is but the record of
man's age long food, struggle
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primitive, man.
Only thought when he was hungry
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food, savings was his first
self-denial self-discipline.
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With the growth of society food,
hunger cease to be the only
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incentive for Mutual
Association.
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Numerous other sorts of hunger,
the realization of various
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needs, all led to the closer
Association of mankind.
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But today, Society is top-heavy
with the overgrowth of supposed
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or supposed human needs.
Occidental civilization of the
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20th century groans wearily
under the tremendous overload of
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luxury and the inordinate
multiplication of human desires
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and longings.
Modern society is in during the
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strain of one of its most
dangerous phases of far-flung
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interests.
Association and highly
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complicated interdependence.
No, pause to consider that.
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This book was written in the
30s.
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And look at where 100 years
right now.
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And nothing could be more
truthful than that, right?
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Occidental civilization groans
wearily, what a great phrase,
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groans wearily under the
tremendous overload of luxury in
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the inordinate, multiplication
of human desires and longings.
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Isn't that the truth?
Isn't that the truth?
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Think about everywhere you go.
Now we're all looking into our
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phones and we got our headphones
on and we've got our cars.
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And we've got our base music and
It just it's a lot of luxury,
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indeed.
Alright, continuing on Hunger,
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vanity and goes fear were
continuous and their social
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pressure.
But sexual gratification was
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transient and spasmodic the sex
urge alone.
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Did not impel primitive man.
Men or women to assume the heavy
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burdens of Home Maintenance.
The early home was founded upon
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the sex restlessness of the mail
when deprived or frequent
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gratification and upon that
devoted Mother Love of the human
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female which in Sure.
She shares with the females of
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all of the higher animals, the
presence of a helpless.
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Babe determined the early
differential differentiation of
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male and female activities.
The woman had to maintain a
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settled residence where she
could cultivate the soil.
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And from the earliest times
where woman was has always been
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regarded as the home.
Woman, The Surly became
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indispensable to the evolving
social scheme, not so much
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because of the fleeting sex
passions.
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As, in consequence of food
requirement, she was an
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essential partner and
self-maintenance.
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She was a food provider a beast
of burden and a companion.
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Who would stand great abuse
without violent resentment.
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And in addition to all of these
desirable traits, she was a
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Present means of sex
gratification.
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Almost everything of lasting
value in Civilization.
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Has its roots in the family?
The family was the first
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successful piece group, the man
and woman learning how to adjust
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their antagonisms.
While at the same time, teaching
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the Pursuits of peace to their
children.
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The function of marriage and
evolution is the insurance of
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race survival.
Not merely the realization of
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personal happiness,
self-maintenance, and
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self-perpetuation are the real
objects of the home.
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Self gratification is incidental
and non or not essential except
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as an incentive, ensuring sex
Association, nature, demands
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survival, but the Arts of
civilization continued to
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increase the pleasures of
marriage and the satisfactions
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of family life.
If vanity be enlarged to cover
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Pride, ambition and honor then
we may discern not only how
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these propensities contribute to
the formation of human
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associations, but also how they
hold men together since such
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emotions are futile without an
audience to parade before.
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Soon, vanity associated with
itself other emotions and
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impulses which required a social
Arena where in they might
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exhibit and gratify themselves.
This group of emotions gave
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origin to the early beginnings
of all art ceremonial Andy forms
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of sport of games and contests
Vanity contributed mightily to
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the birth of society.
But at the time of these Rebel
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has eight of these Revelations.
The devious strivings of a
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vainglorious generation
threatened to swamp and submerge
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the whole complicated structure
of a highly specialized
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civilization.
Pleasure want has long since
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superseded hunger want the
legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly
translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of
self-gratification.
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Self-maintenance.
Build Society, unbridled
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self-gratification unfailingly
destroys civilization.
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And thus concludes the first two
segments of paper 68, I
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encourage you to continue on
with that paper much more to
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learn.
But those are the basics going
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back in time to the early
beginnings of civilization and
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what were the forces that drove
civilization forward, and it's a
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great narrative.
And it's what's inside the
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Revelation.
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