Urantia Fellows...
Today as in My prior missions upon the earth ..
I have healed your sick, have caused your blind to see, your deaf to hear, your lane to walk, and cast out unclean energies from your fellows of the earth origins.
Now, do I counsel you to learn what I know, become more of what I am, raise thine hopes, advance thyselves in humility and honor, and in all ways .. give thyselves to this always present and available relationship communication and communion with the Paradise Father .. his Individualized and Indwelling Adjuster Life in you.
Our religious spirituality hath a purpose and principle .. a priority and purity .. that you shall persevere through all ephemeralities and every transgression shall bow down to thine own command for knowing the Lord thy God and becoming alike unto him in thine own personhood.
(1104.3) 101:0.3 Religion, the conviction-faith of the personality, can always triumph over the superficially contradictory logic of despair born in the unbelieving material mind.
There really is a true and genuine inner voice, that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience.
The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy.
Religion is faith, trust, and assurance.
1. True Religion
(1104.4) 101:1.1 True religion is not a system of philosophic belief which can be reasoned out and substantiated by natural proofs, neither is it a fantastic and mystic experience of indescribable feelings of ecstasy which can be enjoyed only by the romantic devotees of mysticism.
Religion is not the product of reason, but viewed from within, it is altogether reasonable.
Religion is not derived from the logic of human philosophy, but as a mortal experience it is altogether logical.
Religion is the experiencing of divinity in the consciousness of a moral being of evolutionary origin; it represents true experience with eternal realities in time, the realization of spiritual satisfactions while yet in the flesh.
(1104.5) 101:1.2 The Thought Adjuster has no special mechanism through which to gain self-expression; there is no mystic religious faculty for the reception or expression of religious emotions.
These experiences are made available through the naturally ordained mechanism of mortal mind.
And therein lies one explanation of the Adjuster’s difficulty in engaging in direct communication with the material mind of its constant indwelling.
Michael Of Nebadon
Urantia Fellowship
