17 - The 17th of the 28 Principles in The Urantia Book

the 17th of the 28 principles in the urantia book

The 17th of the 

28 Principles in The Urantia Book

The Great Question Number Five

5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.

The Great Goal of Hue-manimal Existence

It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function—when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development—that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.

The Urantia Book 110:6.4

On the Path to Understanding the "Mastery of Self"

It is accurate to say that "understanding" the 28 principles of "high mortal philosophy" found in Paper 48, The Morontia Life required the asking of many questions and not a small amount of meditative thinking on them.

When Ambition Becomes "Lethal"

As a boy, I ever heard from my dad. "Son, you're too young to know what is good for you. Do not question my authority. Do as I say, not as I do."

Had my dad succeeded, had my aunts and uncles succeeded, and indeed, had the "public failed-you-cation system" succeeded in programming me to "fear ever asking a question" and "never question authority," I would no doubt have experienced the "legal lethal execution of my mental faculties."

Has not "ambition" become "lethal" when it programs the child mind, from birth to day of transition with the "fear to question authority?"

Has not "ambition" become "lethal" when "continuous mind control" causes weaker minds to line up to be injected with a lethal cocktail of poisons and where the individual has not the slightest idea of what those "lethal cocktails" contain?

• What are you -- what does one become when...he and she individually abuses the privilege of "being alive," licenses liberty to all others, has power and uses it for self-aggrandizement?
  
• Is the answer really obvious?
• Does it matter which politically driven economic system is in control of a population and its culture when reckless and unbridled "ambition" is being driven from both the top down and the bottom up?
• What happens to a population that is driven by "unrestrained ambition?"
• Is "ambition," let alone "unrestrained ambition" dangerous, and even "lethal?"

You cannot solve the problems and great challenges hue-man civilization is currently experiencing and through which it is transitioning.

When you take the weight of the world onto your shoulders, all you ever succeed in doing is to vibrationally support the "matrix of deception-illusion," which, to begin with, created your state of anxiety.

You may only elect to solve your own individual problems and great challenges of the life path progression you are pursuing. And you will either choose to solve your problems and great challenges without including the indwelling divine Thought Adjuster in them, or choosing a deliberate and soul-conscious inclusion of the Thought Adjuster and the "blueprint" for your spiritualization, which your divine partner has brought with him.

This "divine blueprint for your spiritualization" may be greatly enhanced by following the four (4) steps outlined below.

1. self-correction of your own "deficiencies of character,"
2. self-discipline and control of your own "deficiencies of character,"
3. direction of the "I am that I am" that you are back to the indwelling divine presence--the Thought Adjuster, and ask to be spirit-led through every difficulty, and
4. mastering of the hue-manimal to eventually achieve, in honest and sincerely devoted cooperation with your Thought Adjuster -- the supreme perfection of the domination of spirit over mind and matter.

This is what you ever and always may elect to do, as an individual child of God.

The 17th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book clearly states:

48:7.19 17. Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.

Turning this Principle into a Personal "I am" Declaration

I am ever socializing my ambitions by the living of a principled life of spiritual values through the virtuous acts of my day to day experiences with fellow children of God.

Always remember: it is not possible to grow into the "living spiritual value" contained within an intellectual principle typed onto a page; you must "internalize" the principle by converting it into a personal "I am" declaration of the person you desire to become.

Were you "programmed from birth" to beLIEve only your perspective of 

• what is "right and wrong," 
• what is "truth and error," 
• what is "right action and sin," 
• what is "allowable speech and what is not," 

is "absolute?

Jesus is the Master Example of Virtuous Living

• But what does it truly mean to "socialize your ambition" by "your acts making you worthy of virtue?"
• What is "virtue" and "virtuous living?"

The dictionary gives us three very applicable definitions to consider in relation to "virtue:"

Definition of virtue

1a: conformity to a standard of right : MORALITY

b: a particular moral excellence

c: a commendable quality or trait : MERIT 

By these very definitions, "virtuous living" becomes synonymous with a life devoted to daily actions which 

• exemplify the "right-use" of personal power
• a principled life adhering to "moral excellence," and
• the manifestation of true character in relations with fellow children of God.

Every "right-use" (righteousness) of personal power, every act

of "high moral excellence," and every manifested virtue of true character we see in the life of Michael of Nebadon, our Creator Father, incarnated as Joshua Ben Joseph.

Each of us may study The Life and Teachings of Jesus, and learn nothing.

Without comparing the life we are living to that which Jesus of Nazareth lived, we may "aspire" to embrace the perfectly high moral character, virtues and values manifest in his superb "true character" revelation of our Paradise Father's personality.

After all... Did not Jesus say... "When you see me you see the Father?"

To fully socialize one's ambitions means to ever-momentarily

self-correct, self-discipline and self-control "privilege, liberty and power" when interrelating with one's fellow beings.

But such "socializing of ambition" very specifically begins with "self-correction." And to effectively socialize one's ambitions means to slow the mind down to listen--really listen to what a fellow child or children of God are saying, instead of "merely reacting, and more often than not, "overreacting."

Questions Worth Considering and on which to Meditate

• Are you self-aware enough to recognize when you are dominating a conversation with others (talking excessively?)
• Are you really listening when another child of God is talking or almost entirely focused on your reaction--what your going to say to get your own viewpoint across?
• Do you ever really attempt to "correct" you character deficient behavior toward others?
• And what is there ever to "correct" if you are not self-aware enough to recognize your selfish behavior toward others?

115:0.1 WITH GOD THE FATHER, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement is the prerequisite to status—one must do something as well as be something. 

When one applies this definition to "ambition," 

a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work, 

there is no place within each of us where this definition is more applicable than to the daily self-correction required to acquire a more charming true character personality when interrelating and interacting with fellow children of God, especially those whose less mature display of character deficiencies are more greatly challenging.

The 17th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book is all about self-correcting leading to self-discipline, leading to being led by the indwelling divine spirit presence of the Thought Adjuster--the "light of life" indwelling the hue-manimal mind. 

The 17th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book correlates to the individual child of God vibrationally responding to the marshalling impulse of the fifth (5th) Adjutant Mind spirit of Counsel. The 17th principle is the first (1st) of the set of principles 17 through 20, which are the generalized requirements to experientially master the third (3rd) psychic circle of experiential spiritual fraternalhood, also corresponding to the 5th planetary age and the 5th Mansion Training World educational and socialization equivalency requirements.

Note: Any of the first sixteen principles representing the generalized requirements for the mastery of the seventh, sixth, fifth, and fourth psychic circles of experiential spiritual intuition, experiential spiritual understanding, experiential spiritual courage, and experiential spiritual knowledge, which were not mastered (after entrance in the 3rd psychic circle) will be carried over into the third (3rd) for further experiential acquirement.

The Great Goal of Hue-man Attainment

• I am the mind of perfect poise.
• I am housed in a body of clean habits, and clear and pure thinking.
• I am stabilized in neural energies.
• I am balanced in chemical function.
• I am ever-momentarily transferring all mortal experiential meanings and values into the unifying whole.
• I am ever-momentarily unifying the physical, mental, and spiritual powers with the "I am that I am" personality. 
• I am ever-momentarily giving you, my indwelling divine partner and Thought Controller, my most honest, sincere, and dedicated cooperation in attaining to "supremacy of spirit domination over mind and matter."

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Supplemental Reading

• What are the four cosmic dimensions of personality unification?

1. Body                            1. self-correction 

2. Mind                           2. self-discipline / self-control

3. Soul                             3. self-direction to spirit-leading,

4. Spirit                           4. self-mastery

Personality unity self-realizes supremacy of spirit domination over mind and matter.

What is your definition of religion?

How do you define 'your religion?'

How do you keep your religion...pure...?

Personal religion must be kept uncontaminated by:

1. maintaining a self-corrective philosophy of daily living.

2. maintaining non-involvement and impartiality with regard to all social, economic, and political alliances.

3. seeking out and maintaining creative, comforting, and love-expanding relations with one's fellow beings.

4. enhancing personal progress of spiritual insight and the appreciation of cosmic values.

5. prevention of fanaticism by the compensations of the scientific mental attitude.

What is a character deficiency?

What is self-correction of a character-deficiency?

What are the steps involved in correcting one's own character-deficiencies?

What replaces a character-deficiency?

Does a character-deficiency automatically disappear when one is exercising self-correction, self-control and self-direction?

1. Self-correction.

99:3.7 The great weakness of all this unrecognized and unconscious type of religious activity is that it is unable to profit from open religious criticism and thereby attain to profitable levels of self-correction. It is a fact that religion does not grow unless it is disciplined by constructive criticism, amplified by philosophy, purified by science, and nourished by loyal fellowship.

2. Self-control.

54:1.6 True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.

3. Self-direction.

36:5.8.  3. The spirit of courage—the fidelity endowment—in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.

4. Supremacy of spirit domination over mind and matter.

109:3.2 ...comparatively few will elect to ascend the moral heights beyond the hills of self-mastery and character acquirement to attain the higher levels of emerging spirituality..