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DO YOU LIKE TO VISIT (BIG) LIBRARIES?

YES? CHANCES ARE THAT YOU MAY ENJOY EXAMINING ONE OF THE MORE OR LESS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS, WHICH OUR DEDICATED REVELATORS RESEARCHED AND FROM WHICH THEY PARAPHRASED WHEN COMPILING THE PAPERS OF The Urantia Book. REMEMBER THIS QUOTE?

... In making these presentations about God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this purpose drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent residential universe. [Page 17]

Here is a research example you can do (It's only an example):

There are a couple of volumes entitled A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World. An attempt has been made to crystallize a deeper "unity shown by the continuity of the discussion of common themes and problems" in these great works of literature. If you are interested in this 'unity', this and other similar reference works are of great help.

We figure that some Human Concepts found their way into these kind of reference works. Just checking out the subjects seems promising: Angel; Beauty; Cause; Eternity; Evolution; Family; God etc. etc.

Finding the actual texts is often quite another matter; ancient books often need to be loaned and searched for from far away libraries.

We are committed to continually updating this study aid. Naturally, we are very interested in receiving any and all leads to Human Concepts and corollaries to The Urantia Book.

Please, be as precise and complete as your resources allow. If possible send us the entire context, such as with a poem etc. We have found that frequently even after we receive a lead, usually more library research is required.

AND ... ENJOY ALL OF YOUR TRUTH-SEEKING AND SEARCHING.

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"infinity of will" The URANTIA Book, page 6.5.

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"the noblest work of man." The URANTIA Book, page 23.6.

"An honest God is the noblest work of man." Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899 The Gods, and Other Lectures, [1876], page 1. Peoria, IL 1876 (Ingersoll ran for President of the US)

"An honest God's the noblest work of man." Samuel Butler, 1835-1902 Samuel Butler's Notebooks, page 312. Edit. Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill New York: E P Dutton & Company, Inc., 1951

"Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'an honest man's the noblest work of God."' (Quoted from Pope.) Robert Burns, 1759-1796 The Cotter's Saturday Night, 1786, stanza 19.

"A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 Essay on Man, 1733, epistle 4, line 247. Edit. Maynard Mack. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1951.

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"There is but one God, the infinite Father, who is also a faithful Creator." The URANTIA Book, page 34.2.

"The divine Creator is also the Universal Disposer, the source and destiny of souls. He is the Supreme Soul, the Primal Mind, and the Unlimited Spirit of all creation." The URANTIA Book, page 34.2.

Composite quotation from Hindu sacred books:

"He is the Creator, He the Disposer." Atharva Veda, 13.4.3, 12, 20.

"The last source of every soul." Brihad- Aranyaka Upanishad, 3.9.1, 10.

"Verily, there is one Supreme Soul." Bhagarata Purana, 11.18.32.

"The Primal Lord of Heaven." Bhagavada Gita, 10.12, 13, 15, 16.

"He is the cause of the creation." Vishnu Purana, 1.1.35.

"The great Controller makes no mistakes. He is resplendent in majesty and glory." The URANTIA Book, page 34.2.

"Great Heaven makes no mistakes." Shi King, 3.3.3.12. 8-10.

"But the face of the Lord shall abide resplendent with majesty and glory." Koran, 57:3.

"The Creator God is wholly devoid of fear and enmity. He is immortal, eternal, self- existent, divine, and bountiful." The URANTIA Book, page 34.2.

"There is but one God, whose name is True, the Creator, devoid of fear and enmity, immortal, unborn, self-existent, great, and bountiful." Jopji, Preamble (from Sikhism).

"How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor of all things!" The URANTIA Book page 34.2.

"How pure and still is the Supreme Being! How deep and unfathomable, as if the Honored Ancestor of all things." Tao-Teh-King 4.2, 1 (from Taoism).

"The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose." The URANTIA Book, page 34.2.

"It is only the Supreme that excels in imparting himself to men, and enabling them to achieve merit." Tao-Teh-King 41, 3 (from Taoism).

"As the beginning and the end, the Father of good purpose." Yasna 31.8 (from Zorastrianism).

"With God all things are possible; the eternal Creator is the cause of causes."

"With God all things are possible." Bible, Matthew 19:26.

"This universe has sprung from the Lord. In him it is established. He is the cause of creation." Vishnu Purana 1.1.35 (from Hindu).

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"He is man's all-powerful benefactor." The URANTIA Book, page 41.1.

"He is omnipotent, our own Lord, and our benefactor." Gauri and Sorath, 38 (from Sikhism).

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"We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man's inseparable companion." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

"We know we dwell..." Bible, 1 John 4:13.

"He is the ever-present and all-pervading God." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

"The spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

"Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

"The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

"...not afar off..." Bible, Je.23:23.

"The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny." The URANTIA Book, page 45.3.

Group of six quotations from Sikhism:

"As I behold creation, I am amazed and astonished. God is contained in the hearts of men. In my heart I hold God, who filleth every place." Hymns of Guru Nanak, Asa Ashtapadi: Macauliffe, Sikh religion 1.301.

"God is concealed in every heart. His light is in every heart." Hymns of Guru Nanak, Rag Sorath: Macauliffe, Sikh religion 1.330.

"Many millions search for God, and find him in their hearts." Hymns of Guru Arjan, Sukhmani; Ashtapadi 10.6: Macauliffe, Sikh religion 3.264.

"I go searching for the friend; but the friend is with me." Sloks of Shaikh Farid 121: Macauliffe, Sikh religion 6.413.

"Him whom I thought without me, I now find within me. When I found this secret, I recognized the Lord of the world." Kabir's Hymns, Acrostic 30: Macauliffe, Sikh religion 6.186.

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"Know yourself" The URANTIA Book, page 67.7 (Greek religion).

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"personality of infinity" The URANTIA Book, page 109.3.

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"Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God." The URANTIA Book, page 229.5.

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"the world of the cross." The URANTIA Book, page 229.6.

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"child of time and eternity" The URANTIA Book, page 262.4.

"high spirit personalities of circuit control" The URANTIA Book, page 266.2.

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"space reports of glory," The URANTIA Book, page 270.6.

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"Be you understanding of your ascendant brethren, even as the Paradise Creator Sons know and love them." The URANTIA Book, page 297.2.

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"wise men of heaven," The URANTIA Book, page 303.1.

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"oil of reconciliation" The URANTIA Book, page 312.1.

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"take note of the man, in what manner he was born." The URANTIA Book, page 314.2.

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"vale of tears," The URANTIA Book, page 449.3. The URANTIA Book, page 1675.1.

"Sorrow has, since they went, subdued and tamed The playful humor; he would now endure (Himself grown sober in the vale of tears) . . ." William Cowper, 1731- 1800. "The Winter Walk at Noon," line 48. The Task, Book VI, [1784].

"But though life's valley be a vale of tears, A brighter scene beyond that vale appears, Whose glory with a light that never fades, Shoots between scatter'd rocks and op'ning shades, And while it shows the land the soul desires, The language of the land she seeks inspires . . ." William Cowper, 1731-1800. "Conversation," [1782], line 881.

"But he, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, 'Go spend them in the vale of tears."' William Cowper, 1731-1800. "An Epistle to an Afflicted Protestant Lady in France," [1781], line 26.

"While struggling in the vale of tears below, That never fail'd, nor shall it fail me now . . ." William Cowper, 1731-1800. "Truth," [1780], line 585.

"The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is a 'vale of tears' from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven." John Keats, 1795-1821. "Letter to George and Georgiana Keats," [April 21, 1819]. The Letters of John Keats, page 335. Edit. Maurice B. Forman. Oxford University Press. 1935.

"There is so much to much to laugh at in this vale of tears." Hermann Sudermann, 1857-1928. The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben), Iii. Trans. Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scibner's Sons. 1914.

"Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love."
James Montgomery, 1771-1854. The Issues of Life and Death.

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The material eyes are truly the windows of the spirit-born soul. The URANTIA Book, page 483,last.

"The eyes are the windows of the soul." Leonardo da Vinci.

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"melody has power a whole world to transform." The URANTIA Book, page 500.6.

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"to see yourself as others see you" The URANTIA Book, page 553. Bobby Burns

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"to know yourself as angels know you." The URANTIA Book, page 553.

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28 Statements of Human Philosophy used by a Morontia Instructor from pages 556-557:

1. A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.

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2. Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.

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3. Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart. The spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the material memory mold. The URANTIA Book, page 556, #3.

Margaret Delain

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4. Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it.

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5. Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs.

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6. To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement--these are the marks of high civilization.

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7. Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. Neither do the celestial beings assist the lower being who refuses to act upon his light of truth.

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8. Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort. The URANTIA Book, page 555, #8.

Benjamin Disraeli

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9. Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm. The URANTIA Book, page 555.

"Only action gives to life its strength as only moderation gives to life its charm." John Paul Richter

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10. Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite.

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11. The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day's work--do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's. The URANTIA Book, page 555.

The act is ours; the consequences God's. The URANTIA Book, page 1286.4.

"Actions are ours, their consequences belong to heaven." Sir Philip Frances (Franc)?), [1818].

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12. The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted. Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation.

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13. Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops. The URANTIA Book, page 555, #13.

Charles Spurgeon

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14. Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for. The URANTIA Book, page 555.

Goethe

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15. Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich.

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16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity.

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17. Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.

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18. Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet's nest.

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19. Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come. The URANTIA Book, page 555, #19.

Lowell "Democracy and Addresses."

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20. Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine existence.

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21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity. The URANTIA Book, page 555.

"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality." Goethe.

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22. The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do. The URANTIA Book page 555.

"It is not what man doest that exalts him but what he would do." Raber Brenning (or Robert Browning?)

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23. Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it did add to the experiential status the consciousness of survival.

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24. The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow.

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25. Greatness lies not-so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.

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26. Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love.

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27. Progress demands development of individuality; mediocrity seeks perpetuation in standardization. The URANTIA Book, page 557, #27.

John Stuart Mill

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28. The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained.

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"that within every sin is concealed the seed of its own destruction" The URANTIA Book, page 612.1.

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"the world of the cross"

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"The dust we tread upon was once alive." The URANTIA Book, page 671.6.

Baron George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824. Sardanapalus, Act iv, Scene 1, Line 66.

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"Breath Giver to men and animals." The URANTIA Book, page 716.1. Onagar

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"O Breath of Life, give us this day our daily food, deliver us from the curse of the ice, save us from our forest enemies, and with mercy receive us into the Great Beyond." The URANTIA Book page 716.6. Onagar

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"in union there is strength" The URANTIA Book, page

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"back to nature," The URANTIA Book, page

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"golden age." The URANTIA Book, page

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"commons" The URANTIA Book, page

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"blood bonds." The URANTIA Book, page

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"sowing wild oats," The URANTIA Book, page 791.4.

"Philto: A good place for sowing wild oats, if there's a chance of their being nipped in the bud!" Titus Maccius Plautus, 254-184 B.C. Trinummus [c. 194 B.C.], Act 2, Scene 4, line 128. A Three-Dollar Day. Trans. E. F. Watling.

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"bride show," The URANTIA Book, page

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"blood money" The URANTIA Book, page 796.2.

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That state is best which co-ordinates most while governing least. The URANTIA Book, page 803.6.

"That state is best which governs least." Thomas Jefferson.

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"selling out" The URANTIA Book, page

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"where the Gods first blessed mankind with the example of civilized and cultured life." The URANTIA Book, page 860.3, (Sumerian clay tablets, "now silently resting on the dusty shelves of many museums.")

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"happy hunting grounds" The URANTIA Book, page

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"great mother." The URANTIA Book, page

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Knowledge is power. Invention always precedes the acceleration of cultural development on a world-wide scale. The URANTIA Book, page 907.6.

[Heretics] "give a wider rage to the knowledge of God than to his power; or rather to that part of God's power (for knowledge itself is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.] whereby he knows, than to that where by he works and acts; suffering him to foreknow some things as an unconcerned looker on, which he does not predestine and preordain." Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626. "Of Heresies [De Haeresibus]" Meditationes Sacrae [1597]. The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. XIV, page 95. Edit. James Spedding. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect." Francis Bacon, Vis count St. Albans, 1561-1626. "Summery," Part ii, paragraph 3. Novam Organum [1620].

"They say that 'knowledge is power.' I used to think so." Baron George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824. Letter to Prothero.

"Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. "Old Age," Society and Solitude, page 287. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1870.

"If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force." Mary Baker Clover Eddy, 1821-1910. Science and Health, page 196.

"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power." Horace Mann, 1796-1859. Lectures in Education, Number 1.

"Knowledge is power." Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679. Leviathan, Chapter 9.

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Familiarity breeds contempt; so, as the element of individual choice began to dominate mating, it became the custom to choose partners from outside the tribe. The URANTIA Book, page 919.2.

"Familiarity breeds contempt." Aesop, c. 550 B.C. "The Fox and the Lion," Aesop's Fable.

"Too much familiarity breeds contempt. [Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]" Publilius Syrus, c. 2 B.C. "Maxim No 640," from Sentences of Publilius Syrus. Edit. Jules Chenu [1835].

" . . .Lest familiarity should breed contempt." Diogenes Laertius, 211-235. Heraclitus. ix., page 6.

" . . .Familiarity breeds contempt." Alanus de Insulis [AlaIn de Lille], 1114-1203. Minor Anglo- Latin Satirists. ii., page 454. [Earliest use in English c. 1160].

"Get three or four steps off, friend, said Don Quixote (all this without taking his fingers from his nostrils), and hence forward be more careful of your own person, and of what you owe to mine; my overmuch familiarity with you has bred contempt." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547- 1616. Don Quixote [1605], page 157, Part 1, Chapter XX. Trans. Charles Jervas [1742]. Edit. William Dean Howells. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1923.

"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children." Mark Twain [Samuel Longhorne Clemens], 1835-1910. Mark Twain's Notebook, page 237. Edit. Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1935.

"Greater familiarity on his side might have bred contempt." Smollett. Adventures of an Atom [1769], page 148.

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration." Hazlitt.

"I hope upon familiarity will grow more content..."? Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Publitius in The Merry Wives of Windsor [1597]

"Men seyn that over -- greet homlinesse [familiarity] engendreth dispteysinge." Chauser. Melibus.

"To much to oys [use] familiaritee; Contempnyug bryngith one to hie dugre." Lancelot of the Lake Scottish Metrical Romance, c. 1490-1500.

"Contempt born of familiarity." Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius [c. 70-140]. "Tiberius," Twelve Caesars [De Vita Caesarum]. iii, 10,1.

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"mysterious dispensations of Providence." The URANTIA Book, page 944.4.

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"the seven circles of the universe." The URANTIA Book, page 947.6. (Chaldeans.)

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"Who is tormenting me?" The URANTIA Book, page 951.4 (primitive man).

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"God bless you!" The URANTIA Book, page 954.5.

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"the name or day one never mentions." The URANTIA Book, page 960.1.

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"If the spirits are jealous of our beauty and prosperity, we will disfigure ourselves and speak lightly of our success." The URANTIA Book, page 963.1 (primitive man).

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"foundation sacrifice." The URANTIA Book, page

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"life for life." The URANTIA Book, page 981.4.

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"dust to dust." The URANTIA Book, page 981.4.

The URANTIA Book, page 2023. last.

"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life." Episcopal Church. "Burial of the Dead," Book of Common Prayer [1549], page 333. Rev. 1928.

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"Wish me luck." The URANTIA Book, page

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"God is a great fear" The URANTIA Book, page 1004.4 (one Asiatic peoples).

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"a shared quest of the good life." The URANTIA Book, page 1012.2. (religion is but ..)

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"El Elyon, the Most High, is the divine creator of the stars of the firmament and even of this very earth on which we live, and he is also the supreme God of heaven." The URANTIA Book, page

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"white man's religion," The URANTIA Book, page

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"man's eternal destiny was everlasting union with Tao, Supreme God and Universal King." The URANTIA Book, page 1033.6. (Lao-tee).

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"Unity arises out of the Absolute Tao, and from Unity there appears cosmic Duality, and from such Duality, Trinity springs forth into existence, and Trinity is the primal source of all reality." The URANTIA Book, page 1033.6.

"Reason begets unity; unity begets duality; duality begets trinity; and trinity begets the ten thousand things. The ten thousand things are sustained by YIN; they are encompassed YANG, and the immaterial breath of life [CH'I] renders them harmonious." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 119.3, Chapter 42. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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"All reality is ever in balance between the potentials and the actuals of the cosmos, and these are eternally harmonized by the spirit of divinity." The URANTIA Book, page 1033.6, Lao-tse.

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"Goodness begets goodness, but to the one who is truly good, evil also begets goodness." The URANTIA Book page 1033.7.

"The good I meet with goodness; the bad I also meet with goodness." Lao- Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 121.1, Chapter 49. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

"attitude of a little child." The URANTIA Book, page 1034.1. Lao-tse.

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"The Absolute Deity does not strive but is always victorious; he does not coerce mankind but always stands ready to respond to their true desires; the will of God is eternal in patience and eternal in the inevitability of its expression." The URANTIA Book, page 1034.2.

"The Heavenly Reason strives not, but it is sure to conquer...It summons not, but it comes of itself." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 134.4, Chapter 73. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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"The good man seeks not to retain truth for himself but rather attempts to bestow these riches upon his fellows, for that is the realization of truth. The will of the Absolute God always benefits, never destroys; the purpose of the true believer is always to act but never to coerce." The URANTIA Book, page 1034.2. Lao-tse

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"seeing, doing, and thinking nothing." The URANTIA Book, page 1034.3. (perverted teachings of Lao)

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"the glad tidings of free salvation; that all men, high and low, can attain bliss by faith in righteousness and justice." The URANTIA Book, page 1035.6, Gautama.

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"Work out your own salvation." The URANTIA Book, page 1036.1, Gautama.

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"I take my refuge in the Buddha; I take my refuge in the Doctrine; I take my refuge in the Brotherhood." The URANTIA Book, page 1036.4, Buddhist Refuge.

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"man's having his heart taken away from him in the nether world." The URANTIA Book, page 1044.5.

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"King Pepi has put down his radiance as a stairway under his feet whereon to ascend to his mother." The URANTIA Book, page 1045.2.

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"murder, robbery, falsehood, adultery, theft, and selfishness," The URANTIA Book, page 1045.3.

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"Established is the man whose standard is righteousness; who walks according to its way." The URANTIA Book, page 1045.7.

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"Do right and deal justly with all." The URANTIA Book, page 1045.7.

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"Life is given to the peaceful and death to the guilty." The URANTIA Book, page 1046.1.

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"The peaceful is he who does what is loved; the guilty is he who does what is hated." The URANTIA Book page 1046.1.

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"The One God," The URANTIA Book page 1048.2 (title of Ikhnaton's book).

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"whole world, man and beasts, and all the foreign lands, even Syria and Kush, besides this land of Egypt. He sets all in their place and provides all with their needs." The URANTIA Book page 1048.4 (Ikhnaton's gospel).

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"truth of the Lord of light." The URANTIA Book, page 1050

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"day of judgment," The URANTIA Book, page 1050

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"who knows the invisible and the visible. He is the merciful and the compassionate." The URANTIA Book, page 1051.4 (Islam).

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"Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men." The URANTIA Book, page 1051.4 (Islam).

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"And when I am sick, it is he who heals me." The URANTIA Book, page 1051.4 (Islam).

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"For whenever as many as three speak together, God is present as a fourth," The URANTIA Book page 1051.4 (Islam).

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"the first and the last, also the seen and the hidden"? The URANTIA Book, page 1051.4 (Islam).

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"one spirituality of the gods" The URANTIA Book, page 1052.1 (Hindu).

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"holy women" The URANTIA Book, page 1065

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"God of all nations" The URANTIA Book, page 1066.1 (Amos).

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"The Doings of the Kings of Israel" The URANTIA Book, page 1070

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"The Doings of the Kings of Judah," The URANTIA Book, page 1070

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"divine line of descent" The URANTIA Book, page 1072

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"anointed him king of Israel." The URANTIA Book, page 1073

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"The Lord God of Hosts." The URANTIA Book, page 1073

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"ark of Yahweh," The URANTIA Book, page 1073

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"Elohim and the king." The URANTIA Book, page 1074

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"remnant of Israel" The URANTIA Book, page 1074

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"the Intelligence of the universe," The URANTIA Book, page 1079

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"the idea of God," The URANTIA Book, page 1079

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"the Great Source." The URANTIA Book, page 1079

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"sacred scriptures" The URANTIA Book, page 1079

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"day of blood," The URANTIA Book, page 1081

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Paul little dreamed that his well-intentioned letters to his converts would someday be regarded by still later Christians as the "word of God." The URANTIA Book, page 1084.8.

In the enthusiasm of Pentecost, Peter unintentionally inaugurated a new religion, the religion of the risen and glorified Christ. The Apostle Paul later on transformed this new gospel into Christianity, a religion embodying his own theologic views and portraying his own personal experience with the Jesus of the Damascus road. The URANTIA Book, page 2091.5.

"Most of our Christian theology comes from Paul, but Paul never thought that he would become Christianity's first great theologian. It never occurred to him that his formulations of his own personal faith would become normative for later Christian thought. His statements of his faith were not framed in a selfconscious way. His only interest was in expressing the controlling elements of his experience of Christ. His doctrines of the cross and resurrection were in no sense formal for himself or for his original readers. They were far removed from theological theories, for both were cardinal centers of his personal Christian experience. Paul felt that he had been crucified with Christ, that he had died with him, and that he had seen the Risen Lord on the Damascus Road." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 289.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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"feelings that lie too deep for words." The URANTIA Book, page 1091.9.

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To the unbelieving materialist, man is simply an evolutionary accident. The URANTIA Book, page 1118.1 and 2.

"Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no provision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocation of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction is the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins--all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

Only with in the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, page 47.2. Longmans, Green and CO, London, 1921.

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"Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known." The URANTIA Book, page 1118,last. Pascal.

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"birth of religion" The URANTIA Book, page 1131.1.

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"pilot light" The URANTIA Book, page 1181.2.

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"light of life." The URANTIA Book, page 1181.2.

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"I did not disregard its speech; I feared to transgress its guidance. I prospered thereby greatly; I was thus successful by reason of that which it caused me to do; I was distinguished by its guidance." The URANTIA Book, page 1216.1. (Egyptian ruler).

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"an oracle from God in everybody." The URANTIA Book, page 1216.1. (many believed).

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"spend eternity in gladness of heart in the favor of the God that is in you." 1216.1 (many believed)

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"the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord." The URANTIA Book, page 1216.2 (many primitive peoples).

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"My mind speaks to my heart." The URANTIA Book, page 1216.2. (Rig-Veda).

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"It is my will that your will be done." The URANTIA Book, page 1221.8. "It is my will that your will be done." The URANTIA Book, page 1303.1.

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"the evolution of dominance," The URANTIA Book, page 1229.2.

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"realization of identity transition," The URANTIA Book, page 1232.2.

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"weep because of your willful intolerance and stubbornness." The URANTIA Book, page 1246.2.

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"The act is ours, the consequences God's." The URANTIA Book, page 1286.4.

The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day's work--do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's. The URANTIA Book, page 555, #11.

"Actions are ours, their consequences belong to heaven." Sir Philip Frances (Franci?), [1818].

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"He is the within and the without of all things and beings, moving and quiescent. Unrecognizable in his mystery, though distant, yet is he near." The URANTIA Book, page 1287, last.

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"the form of the yet unformed, the pattern of the yet uncreated." The URANTIA Book, page 1288.1.

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"How universal is the Supreme--he is on all sides! The limitless things of creation depend on his presence for life, and none are refused." The URANTIA Book, page 1288.2.

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"all points been tried and tested," The URANTIA Book, page 1313.3.

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While the Stoics professed to be the "offspring of God," they failed to know him and therefore failed to find him." The URANTIA Book, page 1336.1.

"Yet he is not far from each one of us, for 'In him we live and move and have our being;' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we are indeed his offspring.' Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man." Francis Bacon, Vis count St. Albans, 15611-1626.(?)--CHECK THIS! "Of Heresies [De Haeresibus]" Meditationes Sacrae [1597]. The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. XIV, page 95. Edit. James Spedding. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

"For we are your offspring." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao- Tze 's Tao- Teh-King, line 4. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

"From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: Full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring." [Said to be the passage quoted by St. Paul, Acts 17.28]. Aratus, cat 315-240 B.C. Phaenomena.

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How pure and tranquil is the Supreme One and yet how powerful and mighty, how deep and unfathomable! This God of heaven is the honored ancestor of all things. The URANTIA Book, page 1451,last.

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"Reason ['the eternal prototype of Reason; the standard of Reason; the objective standard of truth; the Tao'] is empty, but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity, verily, it resembles the arch-father of the ten thousand things. . .Oh, how calm it seems to remain . . ." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 99.1, Chapter 4. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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If you know the Eternal, you are enlightened and wise. If you know the Eternal, then does ignorance manifest itself as evil, and thus do the passions of sin arise. The URANTIA Book, page 1451,last.

"Knowing the eternal means enlightenment. Not knowing the eternal causes passions to rise; and that is evil." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 104.6, Chapter 16. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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This wondrous Being existed before the heavens and the earth were. He is truly spiritual; he stands alone and changes not. He is indeed the world's mother, and all creation moves around him." The URANTIA Book, page 1451,last.

"There is a Being wondrous and complete. Before heaven and earth, it was. How calm it is! How spiritual! Alone it stands, and it changes not.... Yet therefore can it be the world's mother." Lao- Tse [c.604-531 B.C.?] The Canon of Reason and Virtue, page 90.3, Chapter 25. Transliteration, Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

"The Unnameable is of heaven and earth the beginning. The Nameable becomes of the ten thousand things the mother." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 97.1, Chapter 1. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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Even if one has but a little knowledge, he can still walk in the ways of the Supreme; he can conform to the will of heaven. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.1.

"If I have ever so little knowledge, I shall walk in the great Reason." Lao- Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 123, Chapter 53. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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"The wise man universalizes his heart. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Those who aspire to greatness must learn to humble themselves." The URANTIA Book, page 1452.3.

"The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually leads to pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly disconcerting." The URANTIA Book, page 2076.8.

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." Pope, Alexander [1688-1744]. Essay on Criticism. Part 1, line 9.

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True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing. And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid, and that is because it is akin to the Supreme. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.2.

"Superior goodness resembles water. Water in goodness benefits the ten thousand things, yet it quarrels not. Because it dwells in places which the multitude of men shun, therefore it is near unto the eternal Reason." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 100.4, Chapter 8. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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All things depend on the Great Source of life. The Great Supreme seeks no credit for his bestowals. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.2.

"The ten thousand things depend upon it for their life....When its merit is accomplished it assumes not the name." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 114.6, Chapter 34. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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He guides and directs, but without self-assertion. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.2.

Reason always practices non-assertion, and there is nothing that remains undone." Lao- Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 115.5, Chapter 37. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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The wise man universalizes his heart. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.3.

"[The holy man] universalizes his heart." Lao-Tse [c. 604- 531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 122.1, Chapter 49. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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In creation the Supreme became the world's mother. To know one's mother is to recognize one's sonship. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.3.

"When the world takes its beginning, Reason becomes the world's mother. When he who knows his mother, knows in turn that he is her child." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 123.2, Chapter 52. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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Relate yourself to every man as if you were in his place. Recompense injury with kindness. If you love people, they will draw near you. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.3.

"The holy man has not a heart of his own. The hundred families' hearts he makes his heart. The good I meet with goodness; the bad I also meet with goodness. . .The hundred families fix upon him [the holy man] their ears and eyes." Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 121.5, Chapter 49. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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The Great Supreme is all-pervading; he is on the left hand and on the right; he supports all creation and indwells all true beings. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.4.

"How all-pervading is the great Reason! It can be on the left* and it can be on the right. The ten thousand things depend upon it for their life, and it refuses them not" Lao-Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 114.6, Chapter 34. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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The Supreme is the secure refuge of all creation. The URANTIA Book, page 1452.4.

"It is Reason that is the ten thousand creatures' refuge." Lao- Tse [c. 604-531 B.C.?] Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King, page 128.4, Chapter 62. Transliteration by Dr. Paul Carus. La Salle: The Open Court Publishing Company. 1964.

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"chosen people," The URANTIA Book, page 1488.3.

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--the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind. The URANTIA Book, page 1488.4.

". . .of the people, by the people, and for the people. . ." Abraham Lincoln. Gettysburg Address, [November 19, 1863].

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"scaffolding stages," The URANTIA Book, page 1488.7.

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"vale of soul making," "The URANTIA Book, page 1675.1.

"The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is a 'vale of tears' from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven. --What a little circumscribed straightened notion! Call the world if you Please 'The vale of Soul- making.' Then you will find out the use of the world. (I am speaking now in the highest terms for human nature admitting it to be immortal which I will here take for granted for the purpose of showing a thought which has struck me concerning it.) I say 'Soul-making' Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence -- Then may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions--but they are not Souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself. Intelligences are atoms of perception-they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are God -- How then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them--so as even to possess a bliss peculiar to each one's individual existence? How, but by the medium of a world like this? This point I sincerely wish to consider because I think it a grander system of salvation than the Christian religion--or rather it is a system of Spirit creation-- . . ." John Keats, 1795-1 821. "Letter to George and Georgiana Keats," [April 21, 1819]. The Letters of John Keats, page 335. Edit. Maurice B. Forman. Oxford University Press. 1935.

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hope which springs eternal in the human breast, The URANTIA Book, page 1954.4.

"Hope humbly then; With trembling pinions soar; Wait the greater teacher Death, and God adore! What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come." Alexander Pope, 1688-1744. Essay on Man, [1733], epistle i, line 95. edit. Maynard Mack. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1951.

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"man of sorrows," The URANTIA Book, page 1954.5.

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Although Jesus did not die this death on the cross to atone for the racial guilt of mortal man . . . The URANTIA Book, page 2016.7.

"The cross of Jesus has almost broken down under the weight of the theories of atonement that have been heaped upon it. But Jesus himself attached no expiatory or propitiatory significance to his death; he fitted it into no scheme of salvation." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 261.3. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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If religion is an opiate to the people, it is not the religion of Jesus. The URANTIA Book, page 2063.3.

"Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world and the soul of soulless circumstances. It is the opium of the people." Karl Marx, 1818-1883. "Introduction," page 116.1 Towards A Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, [1844]. Trans. and ed. David McLellan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1971.

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Christianity exhibits a history of having originated out of the unintended transformation of the religion of Jesus into a religion about Jesus. The URANTIA Book, page 2075.2.

"Christianity from the moment of its birth was a religion about Jesus rather than the religion of Jesus." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 277.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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The true church--the Jesus brotherhood--is invisible, spiritual, and is characterized by unity, not necessarily by uniformity. The URANTIA Book, page 2085.4.

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"What we should seek is not conformity but unity in the midst of greatest natural variety." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 306.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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Jesus' God was at one and the same time "The Holy One of Israel" and "The living and loving Father in heaven." The URANTIA Book, page 2087.2.

"The faith in God that came to Jesus by social inheritance he makes his very own in that the Holy One of Israel lays hold on the deepest sources of his personal life and in the crucible of his religious experience becomes the Heavenly Father." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 85.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

Jesus did not cling to faith in God as would a struggling soul at war with the universe and at death grips with a hostile and sinful world;..." The URANTIA Book, page 2087.3.

"Jesus did not resort to faith in God as a man at bay in the world; he did not trudge along under the strain of existence as a man who makes the best of things. In spite of all the facts to the contrary, Jesus felt the thrill of living life in the uninterrupted presence of the Heavenly Father, and he lived his life as an experiment in faith, not as a compromise with fact." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 84. top. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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this Galilean, God's Galilean" The URANTIA Book, page 2088.4.

"Jesus was God's Galilean." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page IX.1. (First line of Preface). The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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To him prayer was . . . The URANTIA Book, page 2089.1.

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"On the whole, we may say that prayer for Jesus meant an expression of need, a release of soul, a relief of inner pressure, conquest over severe subjective struggle, an elevation and enrichment of mind, a reinforcement and refreshment of spirit, clarifying of vision, a freshened functioning of faith, a whetting of will, discovery and illumination, restoration of confidence and courage, increased consecration and devotion, adjustment and orientation, a mobilization of personal powers to perform, in short, the energy and power by which to live and work."

"In prayer to God he found that marvelous source of strength that enabled him to perform the divine will even to the cup that was his to drink. Not in visions and voices, but in prayer and communion with God--purely religious sources of light and strength-Jesus learned the divine will and found the personal power to perform it." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 208.1-2. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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In this giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child reigned supreme in all matters relating to the religious consciousness. The URANTIA Book, page 2089.3.

"He seems to have in mind no special trait; rather he lays at the very base of religious experience the whole of the child's outlook and approach to life. He regards the child mind as indispensable in the relationship of man to his Maker. It is the very heart of his conception of men as the children of God." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 219.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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Jesus does not require his disciples to believe in him but rather to believe with him . . . The URANTIA Book page 2089,last.

"Jesus did not demand that his followers believe in or on him, but that they believe with him." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 264.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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Jesus most touchingly challenged his followers, not only to believe what he believed, but also to believe as he believed. The URANTIA Book page 2089,last.

"Jesus not only challenged his followers to believe what he believed but to believe as he believed." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 265.1. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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The people heard him gladly because he was one of them, an unpretentious layman; the world's greatest religious teacher was indeed a layman. The URANTIA Book, page 2090,last.

"Jesus was a layman, a lay prophet and preacher of the kingdom of God." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 10,top. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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But the greatest mistake was made in that, while the human Jesus was recognized as having a religion, the divine Jesus (Christ) almost overnight became a religion. The URANTIA Book page 2092.2.

"The common idea is that Jesus founded a religion--Christianity. But it is better history to say: Jesus became a religion." Walter E. Bundy. The Religion of Jesus, page 277.1. The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1928.

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