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Life is filled with the inexplicable. Instincts, intuition, insight, guardian angels, midwayers, and other mortals often intersect in life in very mysterious ways.
Even the celestials are filled with wonder and awe at the mysterious and inexplicable and seemingly miraculous.
The human hope and need to explain such phenomena is itself interesting. The wish for certain proofs or evidence or signs and wonders is also interesting and so very human.
The favor of the gods or good and bad luck or fortune and misfortunes are given significant consideration in the UB. I am always amused (and a little annoyed) by athletes (for one example) who give thanks to the gods for their victory or performance. As if those who were in opposition or came second, or even last, were not also beloved children of the gods too or the gods take sides in such human efforts and competitions! The UB teaches that those who believe in such favors exhibit age old primitive superstitions.
It is good to be thankful for all blessings but….
I am reminded of the warning in the teachings about the curse of good fortune and the benefits of adversity, disappointment, failure… and not just victory….delivered by the hammer and anvil!!
156:5.17 (1740.4) The measure of the spiritual capacity of the evolving soul is your faith in truth and your love for man, but the measure of your human strength of character is your ability to resist the holding of grudges and your capacity to withstand brooding in the face of deep sorrow. Defeat is the true mirror in which you may honestly view your real self.
Your own certainty of the agent and agency of your personal deliverance from disaster and in the posted videos is also of interest.
Regardless…life is filled with wonder and mystery.
123:4.5 (1361.5) The only real accident Jesus had up to this time was a fall down the back-yard stone stairs which led up to the canvas-roofed bedroom. It happened during an unexpected July sandstorm from the east. The hot winds, carrying blasts of fine sand, usually blew during the rainy season, especially in March and April. It was extraordinary to have such a storm in July. When the storm came up, Jesus was on the housetop playing, as was his habit, for during much of the dry season this was his accustomed playroom. He was blinded by the sand when descending the stairs and fell. After this accident Joseph built a balustrade up both sides of the stairway.
123:4.6 (1361.6) There was no way in which this accident could have been prevented. It was not chargeable to neglect by the midway temporal guardians, one primary and one secondary midwayer having been assigned to the watchcare of the lad; neither was it chargeable to the guardian seraphim. It simply could not have been avoided. But this slight accident, occurring while Joseph was absent in Endor, caused such great anxiety to develop in Mary’s mind that she unwisely tried to keep Jesus very close to her side for some months.
123:4.7 (1361.7) Material accidents, commonplace occurrences of a physical nature, are not arbitrarily interfered with by celestial personalities. Under ordinary circumstances only midway creatures can intervene in material conditions to safeguard the persons of men and women of destiny, and even in special situations these beings can so act only in obedience to the specific mandates of their superiors.
102:8.7 (1128.3) But religion is never enhanced by an appeal to the so-called miraculous. The quest for miracles is a harking back to the primitive religions of magic. True religion has nothing to do with alleged miracles, and never does revealed religion point to miracles as proof of authority….
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."