VanAmadon wrote: Which book did he read Brad? Perhaps it was best for him that he didn’t have a book that said (according to you) that it was alright to wait to live on another world to be personally perfect. That might have been dangerous to the fulfillment of his purpose.
This is another bunch of poppycock that just mystifies me for so many reasons. We’re clearly told that the psychic circles must eventually be attained. There is nothing at all mentioned about the necessity of completing them in one lifetime, or even that it’s a likelihood . I actually think it’s rather arrogant to think you will.
112:5.6 Though the cosmic circles of personality growth must eventually be attained, if, through no fault of your own, the accidents of time and the handicaps of material existence prevent your mastering these levels on your native planet, if your intentions and desires are of survival value, there are issued the decrees of probation extension. You will be afforded additional time in which to prove yourself.
Fusing during this lifetime is not as important as the experience of living and learning God’s way to live.
p435:6 39:4.13 To the inhabited worlds the quickeners of morality portray mortal life as an unbroken chain of many links. Your short sojourn on Urantia, on this sphere of mortal infancy, is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. It is not so much what you learn in this first life; it is the experience of living this life that is important. Even the work of this world, paramount though it is, is not nearly so important as the way in which you do this work. There is no material reward for righteous living, but there is profound satisfaction—consciousness of achievement—and this transcends any conceivable material reward.
Does it really matter where we fuse? Here, there or nowhere? Don’t forget that there are some unfortunate souls, due to no fault of their own, who never fuse. It’s a huge disappointment to them, but they carry on.
40:8.1 While practically all surviving mortals are fused with their Adjusters on one of the mansion worlds or immediately upon their arrival on the higher morontia spheres, there are certain cases of delayed fusion, some not experiencing this final surety of survival until they reach the last educational worlds of the universe headquarters; and a few of these mortal candidates for never-ending life utterly fail to attain identity fusion with their faithful Adjusters.
And there’s another little thing mentioned in that quote above. It says that practically all mortals fuse on one of the mansion worlds. I know elsewhere it says in the later eras of light and life this changes, but what arrogance to think you’re going to fuse while living this life in this era!! It’s pretty unlikely. Yes, it’s okay to desire it, but to belittle people into thinking they’re inadequate for reading a book and not playing baseball beats the hell out of me.
Which leads me to the real reason I’m responding to this poppycock. Both the oral and the written word is extremely important in matters of the spirit. Although it is true that God listens to our intentions rather than our words, God is not the only person we talk to. Words play a vital part in person to person communication on many different levels. It’s not only in deeds, but also in words that we reveal what is inside our hearts, minds and souls. Enlightened individuals take care with their words and with the words of others. The words of celestials, which we are so privileged to have the opportunity to read in the revelation, are painstakingly chosen and worth focused study. And, truly enlightened individuals find those words compellingly authoritative, as it says in the quote below. Words, not as rules, regulations and mandates to live by, but words of authoritative truth; dependable, trustworthy and definitive truth. Who would not want to read and contemplate truth? I guess the unenlightened.
102:2.2 One of the characteristic peculiarities of genuine religious assurance is that, notwithstanding the absoluteness of its affirmations and the stanchness of its attitude, the spirit of its expression is so poised and tempered that it never conveys the slightest impression of self-assertion or egoistic exaltation. The wisdom of religious experience is something of a paradox in that it is both humanly original and Adjuster derivative. Religious force is not the product of the individual’s personal prerogatives but rather the outworking of that sublime partnership of man and the everlasting source of all wisdom. Thus do the words and acts of true and undefiled religion become compellingly authoritative for all enlightened mortals.
Oh, and one more thing for Van/nod. If you notice in the above quote, it says that religious force, i.e. uplift, is the product of a partnership. Just another example of what I’ve been trying to explain to you in so many varied ways.
