The Search for Modern Prophets

1
00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,700
Welcome to another edition of
the ranch, Radio podcast.

2
00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:05,500
I'm Jim Watkins and it's good to
have you here in a moment.

3
00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:08,700
We're going to talk about paper
111 in the human Paradox.

4
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,500
Also what of the modern prophets
will talk about all that coming

5
00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:27,600
up on the Rancher Radio podcast?
We're going to get into our

6
00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,500
discussion about modern prophets
just a second here.

7
00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,600
Thank you for joining me again
on the ranch Radio podcast.

8
00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,100
And also, there's some
announcements to make about

9
00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:42,000
upcoming events.
And let me see if I can find

10
00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,200
those.
I always save them in my, your

11
00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,200
Ranch of file, if you've got an
event or some event coming up,

12
00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,100
but you want to share, feel free
to send your information to me,

13
00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:57,700
your Ranch, a book radio at
Mail.com, I try to like to have

14
00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:00,600
things like two weeks in advance
because it takes about a week

15
00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,000
for the podcast.
Just sort of circle through the

16
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,500
growing number of listeners that
we have a couple of things.

17
00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,800
First of all, the ranches
Foundation is announced to you,

18
00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:13,900
your Ranch, a book Android app
which is free and is available

19
00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:18,500
in 20 languages.
So I suppose if you go to Google

20
00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:22,200
Play, you'll find the the
Android app featuring the

21
00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,500
Urantia book.
And I've been sort of sort of

22
00:01:26,508 --> 00:01:31,500
honking on that for a while.
I say I just because I'm getting

23
00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:34,700
a little older and it's easier
to read but I typically will

24
00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:38,400
read the ranch a book on my
smart phone or my tablet and I

25
00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,700
still have the same experience
as if I was reading the book.

26
00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:45,100
Some argue that the book just
feels better but my eyes, you

27
00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,800
know I need bright light.
You know it's just so much

28
00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,700
better to read it on my but I do
appreciate the book.

29
00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:55,800
It does have a different And
feel so, but that's out.

30
00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,300
And I was asking the Rancho
Foundation at that also included

31
00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,200
the Apple because Apple used to
have the blue book and I still

32
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,400
have it on my phone.
Thank goodness, but I couldn't

33
00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,100
find it recently.
So I wonder if apple is taken it

34
00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:11,000
off.
Taking it out of there.

35
00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,900
Their App Store, who knows?
Let me know if you know about

36
00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:16,000
that.
I also want to talk about the

37
00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,800
ranch of book.
International School is starting

38
00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,900
again, registration opens
Monday, April 17th which is

39
00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,800
coming up after Her.
Well, it's also the day your

40
00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,700
taxes are due of courses begin
on April 24th and you can also

41
00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,300
go to the Rancho foundation for
that which is your ancha

42
00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,900
dot-org.
And then also coming up, is I

43
00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:42,500
see 23 from the Rancho book
Fellowship, the International

44
00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:48,600
Conference 2023, And that is
going to be coming up and I'm

45
00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,600
reading the press release now.
Go to your Ranch of book.

46
00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,200
Dot org, front /.
I see 23.

47
00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:03,100
Your Ranch a book dot-org.
Front slash, I see 23 and you

48
00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:06,000
get all the information on the
International Conference that's

49
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,200
coming up.
So that's all exciting.

50
00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:14,400
And I want to talk about modern
prophets, just because it came

51
00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,500
in my into my mind, a few weeks
ago, I was doing some reading

52
00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:21,100
and I started thinking about
modern prophets who are the

53
00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,200
modern-day prophets.
So, let me Define what I mean.

54
00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,700
When I use the word Prophet,
some I think I refer to a holy

55
00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:32,100
man, like Jesus or Abraham or
even Muhammad, but that is not

56
00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:34,300
the kind of profit.
I'm talking about.

57
00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,000
You see, history tells us, those
profits were a direct Revelation

58
00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,900
from God.
A furtherance is spiritual Truth

59
00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:45,800
for our edification that we
might broaden our understanding

60
00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,200
of God and, and I believe that's
true.

61
00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,000
So this would be the primary
Revelations, the epochal

62
00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,800
Revelations.
But there are other kinds of

63
00:03:55,808 --> 00:04:00,100
prophets prophets like Samuel
Ezekiel, John the Baptist and

64
00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:04,700
even Moses these two are profits
and that is the kind of profit.

65
00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:08,900
I want to talk about these
prophets, didn't so much ravit

66
00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:13,000
receive divine revelation, but
they did do something as

67
00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,500
important.
They kept the truth alive from

68
00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:22,100
one generation to another From
the Urantia book, paper, 97

69
00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:25,900
Samuel, Samuel sprang from a
long line of these Salem

70
00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,200
teachers, who had persisted in
maintaining the truce of

71
00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,000
Melchizedek as part of their
worship forms.

72
00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,600
This teacher was a viral and
Resolute, man, only his great

73
00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,200
devotion coupled.
With his extraordinary,

74
00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,900
determination enables him to
withstand the almost Universal

75
00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,200
opposition, which he
encountered.

76
00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,600
When he started out to turn all
of Israel, back to the word,

77
00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:54,400
Ship of the Supreme Yahweh or
mosaic times and even then he

78
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,300
was only partially successful.
He won back to the service of

79
00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:02,100
the higher concepts of Yahweh.
Only the more intelligent half

80
00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:05,500
of the Hebrews the other half
continued in the worship of the

81
00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:10,400
tribal gods and the country and
in the baser conceptions of

82
00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,600
Yahweh, Samuel was a Rough and
Ready type of man a practical

83
00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,400
reformer who could go out one
day with his associates and

84
00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,900
over.
Lowest score of ball sites.

85
00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:27,500
And then it refers to as those
profits down through her history

86
00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:33,700
from paper 97 10 from Moses to
John the Baptist here, extended

87
00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,000
an unbroken line of faithful
teachers who pass the

88
00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:42,300
monotheistic torch of light from
one generation to another while

89
00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:46,900
they unceasingly rebuked,
unscrupulous rulers denounced,

90
00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:51,400
commercializing priests and ever
extorted, the people to adhere

91
00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,500
to the worship of the Supreme.
May the Lord God of Israel.

92
00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:58,800
And why is that important?
So see, in this case, they're

93
00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,000
defining these kinds of profits
that we read about in the Old

94
00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,500
Testament, who for their time in
generation, that they lived

95
00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,400
going back to the days of
Abraham.

96
00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,900
And of course Melchizedek which
is around 2000 years b.c., all

97
00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,800
the way up to the times of John.
The Baptist you had a string of

98
00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:23,300
people who would continue to
carry the truth all but albeit

99
00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,800
Hushed.
But still enough of the truce to

100
00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:32,300
keep that idea of a monotheistic
God that we serve and over time

101
00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,400
although there have been Ebbs
and flows of that.

102
00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,300
Some of the profits were more
successful than the others but

103
00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:42,900
they all had that one key
commonality which is that they

104
00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:47,200
carry the truth forward.
And so the definition of a

105
00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,200
profit in the current context is
to include faithful teachers,

106
00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,100
who pass the monotheistic torch
of light from one generation to

107
00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:59,400
another while they unceasingly
rebuked, unscrupulous rulers

108
00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,700
denounced, commercializing
priests and ever extorted.

109
00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,200
The people to adhering to the
worship of the Supreme.

110
00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,400
So in our day you know, it could
be seen that Martin Luther King

111
00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,800
was a prophet.
Even Gandhi was a prophet in his

112
00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,800
own way with his own people.
And he carried the torch,

113
00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:20,600
although he was much more
political, but still as Samuel

114
00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,700
was political Ezekiel, all these
people were constantly battling

115
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,600
with the city Folk the
Canaanites, the ball lights

116
00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:31,500
trying to say, no, no no, you
come over to our side, our

117
00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:37,100
society will be better.
If you uphold God as the most

118
00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:39,300
high, that was their calling
card.

119
00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:42,100
If you go with those guys, those
are the progressives.

120
00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,200
Those are the ones.
Well, back in the day, they

121
00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,000
would have been considered the
city, Folk the city dwellers,

122
00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:50,400
who had ball worship sites all
over the place.

123
00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:55,600
And for some reason, people in
large cities, find it a lot

124
00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:02,200
easier to believe in anything,
but a singular, most high God.

125
00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:05,800
And so the profits Those days
carried that truth forward, they

126
00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,600
never let it die.
And then of course, when Christ

127
00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,300
came along, he furthered that
expansion of the Revelation by

128
00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:16,800
saying that not only to God
belong to everybody, but God was

129
00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:23,500
a personal loving father.
So I think that no doubt the

130
00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:27,400
impact of the ranch of a covert.
I'm in, my opinion, will be the

131
00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,700
production of these prophets of
the Contemporary age as well.

132
00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:35,700
Christianity will continue to do
that and those who rebuke the

133
00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:39,200
liars and the people who want to
run the world like it is today

134
00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,500
like a factory again.
Going back to the difference

135
00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:46,400
between the city Folk you know
the people that want to plan

136
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,100
everything right.
And these would be today in the

137
00:08:49,108 --> 00:08:51,000
modern day.
These would Be the globalist,

138
00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:56,100
the the outcome based people who
think they can, you know,

139
00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,500
arrange Society in a certain
way, take away freedom of

140
00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,400
Liberty and replace it with, you
know, the Call of Duty to the

141
00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,700
greater good.
This is my own a interpretation

142
00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:09,100
But ultimately it's defined as
this.

143
00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:11,200
And this is what I've come to
the conclusion.

144
00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,900
In today's world, the
ideological struggle.

145
00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:21,400
Is who is the ultimate power?
Is that a most high spiritual

146
00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,400
Creator from which we are
endowed with a free spirit, Free

147
00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,600
Will of choice.
Or is it the state?

148
00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,800
The ultimate state which serves
the people and I put quotations

149
00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,200
around the word serve and these
are the globalist the extreme

150
00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,800
progresses who Define things by
how we're classified by Race by

151
00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,000
gender and they and they're
trying to equalize make

152
00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,000
everybody the kind of the same
And interestingly in politics

153
00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,800
you do not see anybody today.
Who was a prophet.

154
00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:58,300
There are no spiritual profits
in politics that I can see.

155
00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:02,100
Probably the closest one.
You might say that.

156
00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:06,400
The way the people felt about
Obama was similar to the way

157
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,300
they would have felt about a
profit, but you could also apply

158
00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,600
that same measurement towards
Trump.

159
00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,000
There are people who believe in
that.

160
00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,600
Don't want to mix politics.
I'm just making an observation

161
00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,700
that today because politics
political leaders are completely

162
00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,700
devoid of any spiritual
principles or ideals that

163
00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:26,500
they're proud enough to talk
about.

164
00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,500
This is why people still want a
prophet.

165
00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:33,000
I mean, people are looking for
profits, they're looking for

166
00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,900
people to give them truth to
Carry On from generation to

167
00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:40,200
generation.
So you know, the goal of any

168
00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,800
person who believes in God is to
carry the light of truth from

169
00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,400
one generation to the other to
keep alone.

170
00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,400
The truth of one God and that is
free will creatures.

171
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,600
He is the he is the higher
power, not the state, not the

172
00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,700
UN, not the federal government.
And when we sacrifice God for

173
00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:00,900
the state and we put all the
thority into their hands, then

174
00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:04,000
it is literally true that we're
giving the power of or over our

175
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,700
lives to them.
And that's where the conflict

176
00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:10,200
comes.
So who is the ultimate power and

177
00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,500
depending on how you answer that
question will reveal who you

178
00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:16,300
serve.
So there's an observation.

179
00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:20,100
So now I want to get into the
human Paradox for a few minutes

180
00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:21,900
here.
This is a great paper written

181
00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,300
paper 111 section 6.
X and I want to read through it

182
00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,100
and it pertains to our hard
choices that we have to make in

183
00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:32,900
the world today.
It truly does.

184
00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,800
And I and that's why I want to I
want to explore it a little bit.

185
00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:38,100
See how much time?
Yeah, we got about 5 or 6

186
00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:42,100
minutes here.
So the way I look at it today,

187
00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:45,000
the Big Challenge here and it's
getting more intense with.

188
00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,500
Now, we've got the stock market
to deal with in the inflation to

189
00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:51,800
deal with and all of these isms
that are out there and you know,

190
00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,300
who do we believe in all that
stuff and it's getting hard to

191
00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:58,000
make a decision.
And I think this paper is

192
00:11:58,008 --> 00:12:01,100
particular paper.
Really sort of helps us

193
00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,300
understand that dilemma and I
think that's why the

194
00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:07,100
revelator's.
This one is coming from a

195
00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:10,100
solitary messenger messenger.
ER, of the spirit.

196
00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,100
The human Paradox.
Many of the temporal Troubles of

197
00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,200
mortal man grow out of his
two-fold.

198
00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,500
Relation to the cosmos, man, is
a part of nature.

199
00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:25,300
He exists in nature and yet he
is able to transcend nature.

200
00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,600
Man is finite, but he is
indwelled by a spark of

201
00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,200
infinity.
Such a dual situation, not only

202
00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,000
provides the potential for evil
but also in genders many social

203
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,300
and moral situations fraught
with much uncertainty.

204
00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:46,000
And not a little anxiety.
The courage required to effect

205
00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,700
the conquest of Nature and to
transcend one's self as a

206
00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:53,500
courage that might succumb to
the Temptation Of self-pride,

207
00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,700
The Mortal who can transcend
self might yield to the

208
00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:00,500
temptation to deify his own
self-consciousness.

209
00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:05,100
The moral dilemma consists in
the double fact that man is in

210
00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,000
bondage to Nature.
While the same time, he

211
00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,200
possesses a unique Liberty,
freedom of spiritual choice and

212
00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,200
action On material levels, man
finds himself subservient to

213
00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,700
Nature.
While on spiritual levels, he is

214
00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,900
triumphant over nature and
overall things temporal and

215
00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,400
finite such a paradox is
inseparable from Temptation,

216
00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,300
potential evil decisional
errors.

217
00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,800
And when self becomes proud and
arrogant sin May evolve.

218
00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,000
The problem of sin is not self
existent in the finite world.

219
00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:44,000
The fact of finiteness is not
evil or sin.

220
00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:46,700
Sinful.
The finite world was made by an

221
00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,700
infinite Creator.
It is the handiwork of his

222
00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,400
Divine sons and therefore it
must be good.

223
00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:58,800
It is the misuse Distortion and
perversion of the finite it

224
00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:04,200
gives origin to evil and sin.
The spirit can dominate mind so

225
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,100
mind can control energy but mine
can control energy.

226
00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:11,600
Only through his intelligent
manipulation.

227
00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,700
Of the metamorphic potentials
inherent in the mathematical

228
00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:20,400
level of causes and effects of
the physical domains.

229
00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,000
Creature.
Mind Sons.

230
00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:26,400
Do not inherently control
energy.

231
00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:32,300
That is a deity prerogative but
creature mind can and choose and

232
00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,800
does manipulate energy just in
so far, as it has become a

233
00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,700
master of the energy secrets of
the physical universe.

234
00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,200
When man wishes to modify
physical reality, be it himself

235
00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:51,600
or his environment, he succeeds
to the extent that he has

236
00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,400
discovered the ways and means of
controlling matter.

237
00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:59,000
And directing energy, unaided
mind is impotent.

238
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,500
To influence anything material,
save its own physical mechanism

239
00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,300
with which it is inescapably
linked.

240
00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,000
But through the intelligent use
of the body mechanism, mind can

241
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,400
create other mechanisms, even
energy, relationships and living

242
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:20,100
Relationships by the utilization
of which this mind can

243
00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:23,400
increasingly control.
And even dominate.

244
00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,600
Its physical level in the
universe.

245
00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,800
Science is the source of facts
in mind cannot operate without

246
00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,900
facts.
They are the building blocks in

247
00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:37,800
the construction of wisdom which
are cemented together by life

248
00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,500
experience.
Man can find the love of God

249
00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:45,300
without facts and man can
discover the laws of God without

250
00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:50,200
love, but man could never begin
to appreciate the infinite

251
00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:56,300
symmetry the supernal Harmony,
and the Exquisite replete - of

252
00:15:56,300 --> 00:16:00,000
the all-inclusive nature of the
First Source and Center until he

253
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,900
is found Divine Law, and divine
love and has experientially

254
00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:08,700
unified these in his own
evolving, Cosmic philosophy.

255
00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:13,400
The expansion of material
knowledge, permits a greater

256
00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,700
intellectual, appreciation of
the meanings of ideas and the

257
00:16:17,708 --> 00:16:22,500
values of ideals, a human being
can find truth in his inner

258
00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:25,600
experience.
But he needs a clear knowledge

259
00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:30,100
of facts to apply his personal
discovery of Truth to the

260
00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:33,400
ruthlessly practical demands of
everyday life.

261
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,700
It is only natural that mortal
man should be harassed by

262
00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:42,500
feelings of insecurity, as he
views himself inextricably Bound

263
00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,700
To Nature while he possesses
spiritual Powers.

264
00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:49,700
Holy Transcendent to All Things
temporal and finite.

265
00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:55,400
Only religious confidence,
Living Faith, can sustain, man.

266
00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,200
Amid.
Such difficult and perplexing

267
00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,100
problems.
Of all the dangers was which

268
00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:05,400
beset man's mortal nature and
jeopardizes.

269
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:13,300
His spiritual Integrity pride
pride is the greatest courage is

270
00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:18,500
valorous but egotism is bang
glorious and suicidal

271
00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:21,700
reasonable.
Self-confidence is not to be

272
00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,700
deplored.
Man's ability to transcend

273
00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:28,500
himself is the one thing which
distinguishes him from the

274
00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:34,100
Animal Kingdom Then I'm going to
close with this because it's at

275
00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:38,200
the tail end of this same
section not long.

276
00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:40,600
And again this is a solitary
messenger.

277
00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,600
Giving this narration not long,
I was present on salvington and

278
00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,800
heard a guardian of Destiny
present a formal statement and

279
00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,700
extenuation of the difficulties
of ministering to her mortal

280
00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:56,500
subject.
Okay.

281
00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:58,800
So grab that concept for a
moment.

282
00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,700
So here's a solitary messenger
who was recently on salvington

283
00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:06,400
which is where nebadon finds his
Capital to where Michael Christ,

284
00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,600
Michael lives actually, it's the
center of our local creation.

285
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,900
And while he was there, he's
listening in on a a statement

286
00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:19,300
that was made by a seraphic
Guardian who had recently been

287
00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:21,400
ministering to the Mortal
subject.

288
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,800
This is how this seraphim
described her experience from

289
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:32,300
paper 111, section 7, paragraph,
5, Much of my difficulty was due

290
00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:36,300
to the unending conflict between
the two Nature's of my subject,

291
00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:41,600
the urge of ambition opposed by
animal indolence, the ideals of

292
00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:46,100
a superior people crossed by the
instincts of an inferior race.

293
00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:50,500
The high purposes of a great
mind and antagonize by The Urge

294
00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,800
of a primitive inheritance.
The long-distance view of a

295
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,200
far-seeing monitor counteracted
by the nearsightedness of a

296
00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,100
creature of time.
And in this way, this solitary

297
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:07,800
messenger is explaining how this
Mortal worked with her spirit,

298
00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,700
the thought adjuster monitor.
That's the spirit.

299
00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:14,300
And how these two interacted in
the life of this ascending

300
00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:18,400
mortal?
The aims of the best between

301
00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,400
overshadowed by the drifts of
the worse, the conflict,

302
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,300
including the flight of Genius
neutralized by the gravity of

303
00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:30,500
mediocrity, the progress of the
good retarded by the inertia of

304
00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:32,900
the bad.
The art of the Beautiful

305
00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:35,600
besmirched by the presence of
the evil.

306
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,900
The buoyancy of Health
neutralized by the debility of

307
00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:45,000
disease, the Fountain of Faith
polluted by the poisons of fear.

308
00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:49,400
Here the spring of Joy
embittered By the Waters of

309
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,900
Sorrow, the gladness of
anticipation, disillusioned by

310
00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:58,500
the bitterness of realization.
The joys of living ever

311
00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:02,300
threatened by the Sorrows of
death, such a life on such a

312
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,900
planet and yet because of the
ever-present help in urge of the

313
00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:10,500
thought, adjuster spirit, this
Soul did achieve a fair degree

314
00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:15,200
of happiness and success.
And has even now ascended to the

315
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,800
judgement Halls of man's Sonia.
And again, presented by a

316
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:25,100
solitary messenger that group of
universe Trinity Offspring

317
00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:28,200
personality beings who
originated from the infinite

318
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,500
Spirit, the third person of
deity and you serve as

319
00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:34,400
Messengers and teachers
throughout creation.

320
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,500
So there's your there's your
lesson for today.

321
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,800
It's not easy to be in ascendant
mortal is it?

322
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,100
No, no, it is not.
So, we're going to leave it

323
00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:46,200
there and I thank you for
joining me on this edition of

324
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,000
the Rancher Radio podcast as
Ways.

325
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,700
If you've got an experience you
want to share last week, we

326
00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,800
shared my experience and finding
You know, the Urantia book.

327
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,200
What's your experience?
Once you send me an email and

328
00:20:59,208 --> 00:21:01,500
tell me your story, I'd love to
share it.

329
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,100
And the number of course, for
the email address, your answer

330
00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:07,400
book radio at gmail.com until
next time.

331
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:28,700
Thanks again for stopping by
In his presence, it just for the

332
00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:34,600
day, what a day, thousands of
years in a day.

333
00:21:55,500 --> 00:22:02,400
And we will be only one.
Nothing is greater than one.