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| Human Rights | |
| Rights Asserted by Society at Present | |
| 1. | Assurance of food supply. |
| 2. | Military defense — security through preparedness. |
| 3. | Internal peace preservation — prevention of personal violence and social disorder. |
| 4. | Sex control — marriage, the family institution. |
| 5. | Property — the right to own. |
| 6. | Fostering of individual and group competition. |
| 7. | Provision for educating and training youth. |
| 8. | Promotion of trade and commerce — industrial development. |
| 9. | Improvement of labor conditions and rewards. |
| 10. | The guarantee of the freedom of religious practices to the end that all of these other social activities may be exalted by becoming spiritually motivated. |
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"Nature confers no rights on man, only life and a world in which to live it. Nature does not even confer the right to live, as might be deduced by considering what would likely happen if an unarmed man met a hungry tiger face to face in the primitive forest. Society’s prime gift to man is security." |
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Reference Paper 70 The Evolution of Human Government Section 9 Human Rights |
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| Education - The Business of Living | |
| The Ascending Levels of Mortal Wisdom | |
| 1. | The knowledge of things |
| 2. | The realization of meanings |
| 3. | The appreciation of values |
| 4. | The nobility of work — duty |
| 5. | The motivation of goals — morality |
| 6. | The love of service — character |
| 7. | Cosmic insight — spiritual discernment |
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"And then, by means of these achievements, many will ascend to the mortal ultimate of mind attainment, God-consciousness." |
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Reference Paper 71 The Development of the State Section 7 Education |
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| Conditions of Effective Prayer | |
| The Laws of Prevailing Petitions | |
| 1. | You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina. |
| 2. | You must have honestly exhausted the human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious. |
| 3. | You must surrender every wish of mind and every craving of soul to the transforming embrace of spiritual growth. You must have experienced an enhancement of meanings and an elevation of values. |
| 4. | You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision. |
| 5. | You not only recognize the Father's will and choose to do it, but you have effected an unqualified consecration, and a dynamic dedication, to the actual doing of the Father's will. |
| 6. | Your prayer will be directed exclusively for divine wisdom to solve the specific human problems encountered in the Paradise ascension--the attainment of divine perfection. |
| 7. | And you must have faith--living faith. |
| Reference Paper 91 The Evolution of Prayer Section 9 Conditions of Effective Prayer |
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| Influences Giving Rise to Evolutionary Religion | ||
| Ministry | Description | |
| 1. | The adjutant of worship | the appearance in animal consciousness of superanimal potentials for reality perception. This might be termed the primordial human instinct for Deity. |
| 2. | The adjutant of wisdom | the manifestation in a worshipful mind of the tendency to direct its adoration in higher channels of expression and toward ever-expanding concepts of Deity reality. |
| 3. | The Holy Spirit | this is the initial supermind bestowal, and it unfailingly appears in all bona fide human personalities. This ministry to a worship-craving and wisdom-desiring mind creates the capacity to self-realize the postulate of human survival, both in theologic concept and as an actual and factual personality experience. |
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"These influences are later augmented by Thought Adjusters, seraphim, and the Spirit of Truth, all of which accelerate the rate of religious development." |
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Reference Paper 92 The Later Evolution of Religion Intro |
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| Revelations of Epochal Significance | ||
| Revelation | ||
| 1. | The Dalamatian teachings ~500,000 years ago |
The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia’s staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam’s arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it. |
| 2. | The Edenic teachings BC 35,913 |
Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden. |
| 3. | Melchizedek of Salem BC 1980-1886 |
This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God’s favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ. |
| 4. | Jesus of Nazareth BC 7 - AD 30 |
Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father. |
| 5. | The Urantia Papers AD 1934, 1935 |
The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia. |
| Reference Paper 92 The Later Evolution of Religion Section 4 The Gift of Revelation |
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| Revealed Statements on Cosmology | |
| Transiently Clarify Knowledge by: | |
| 1. | The reduction of confusion by the authoritative elimination of error. |
| 2. | The co-ordination of known or about-to-be-known facts and observations. |
| 3. | The restoration of important bits of lost knowledge concerning epochal transactions in the distant past. |
| 4. | The supplying of information which will fill in vital missing gaps in otherwise earned knowledge. |
| 5. | Presenting cosmic data in such a manner as to illuminate the spiritual teachings contained in the accompanying revelation. |
| "Truth may be but relatively inspired, even though revelation is invariably a spiritual phenomenon. While statements with reference to cosmology are never inspired, such revelations are of immense value in that they at least transiently clarify knowledge by: " [above] | |
Reference: Paper 101 The Real Nature of Religion Section 4 The Limitations of Revelation |
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| Religion and Revelation | |
| Religion's Two Phases of Manifestation | |
| 1. | Evolutionary religion. The experience of primitive worship, the religion which is a mind derivative. |
| 2. | Revealed religion. The universe attitude which is a spirit derivative; the assurance of, and belief in, the conservation of eternal realities, the survival of personality, and the eventual attainment of the cosmic Deity, whose purpose has made all this possible. It is a part of the plan of the universe that, sooner or later, evolutionary religion is destined to receive the spiritual expansion of revelation. |
| "Revelation is a technique whereby ages upon ages of time are saved in the necessary work of sorting and sifting the errors of evolution from the truths of spirit acquirement." | |
Reference: Paper 101 The Real Nature of Religion Section 3 Religion Expanded by Revelation |
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