Blessed are the purified ones who have cleansed their heart and mind and body from the vibratory emanations of ephemerality and dishonesty; for the Kingdom of Love shall be upon them as they have made themselves readily receptive to hear their own Godhood, to listen with humility, to obey the leadings of Reality, and to enter this fruit-bearing association with Us.
(1104.6) 101:1.3 The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man, not by feelings or emotions, but in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking.
It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward.
The divine nature may be perceived only with the eyes of the mind. But the mind that really discerns God, hears the indwelling Adjuster, is the pure mind. “Without holiness no man may see the Lord.” All such inner and spiritual communion is termed spiritual insight.
Such religious experiences result from the impress made upon the mind of man by the combined operations of the Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth as they function amid and upon the ideas, ideals, insights, and spirit strivings of the evolving sons of God.
(1105.1) 101:1.4 Religion lives and prospers, then, not by sight and feeling, but rather by faith and insight.
It consists not in the discovery of new facts or in the finding of a unique experience, but rather in the discovery of new and spiritual meanings in facts already well known to mankind.
The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and purely mystical emotions.
It is, rather, a profoundly deep and actual experience of spiritual communion with the spirit influences resident within the human mind, and as far as such an experience is definable in terms of psychology, it is simply the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God as the reality of such a purely personal experience.
Michael Of Nebadon
Urantia Fellowship
