26 - The 26th of the 28 Principles in The Urantia Book
the 26th of the 28 principles in the urantia book
The 26th of the
28 Principles in The Urantia Book
The Great Question Number Seven
7. Is loyalty— devotion to highest duty—desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
7. Is loyalty— devotion to highest duty—desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
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.
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.
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.
We hue-man children of God are highly specialized in all of our acquired and developed skills, from sophisticated linguistic abilities to advancing A.I; we are clever but very little of all that we say and build manifests true character.
All you have to do is to stand in front of a mirror and sincerely and honestly acknowledge all of your character flaws to know that what I am saying is true.
Mimicry vs. Sharing
As a general observation, we hue-man children of God are unwilling to freely share anything of our valuable life-experiences.
And what we are willing to share is often, perhaps more often than not, given with the expectation of getting something in return.
And yet, in the 26th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book, we learn that...
48:7.28 26. Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love.
Turning this Principle into a Personal "I am" Declaration
I am safeguarding wisdom by freely sharing knowledge and experience; I am socializing experience--knowledge and wisdom by socializing in love.
I am safeguarding wisdom by freely sharing knowledge and experience; I am socializing experience--knowledge and wisdom by socializing in love.
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.
You cannot possibly share true knowledge and wisdom from your experience by merely "copying and pasting," mimicking what others have done and continue to do.
Mimicry is the group and herd practice of "playing it safe," out of fear, so that you may avoid exposing yourself to criticism. And "playing it safe" is but one of endless examples of hue-man selfishness.
Such focus bent inward upon the self is largely "programmed" subconscious and autonomic (robotic) patterns of behavior, but nonetheless lacking in spiritual courage.
5:4.3. All nonreligious human activities seek to bend the universe to the distorting service of self; the truly religious individual seeks to identify the self with the universe and then to dedicate the activities of this unified self to the service of the universe family of fellow beings, human and superhuman.
True sharing is based in your acquired experiences of knowledge and wisdom accumulation, and then choosing to impart your experiential knowledge and wisdom with fellow children of God, because you love them.
From Section 5. The Consecration of Choice, we learn the following:
111:5.1 The doing of the will of God is nothing more or less than an exhibition of creature willingness to share the inner life with God—with the very God who has made such a creature life of inner meaning-value possible. Sharing is Godlike—divine. God shares all with the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, while they, in turn, share all things with the divine Sons and spirit Daughters of the universes.
111:5.2 The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
111:5.3 Mortals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mortals. As men trust themselves to him, so has he—and first—trusted a part of himself to be with men; has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the human will.
Our Paradise Father never defaults; he is the absolute trustworthy Friend. But we hue-man children of God readily default in our mutual relationships.
There is great suspicion of motives and distrust of intentions even in many familial relationships. And nowhere is there more mimicry occurring than in families and relations with extended family bloodlines.
From Wikidiff, we get a clear definition of the difference between "imitation" and "mimicry."
While mimicking and imitation both have to do with the repetition (or replication) of something that is heard or seen, there is a significant difference between the two actions. A mimic is able to repeat something, albeit not necessarily accurately. Mimicry is a superficial means of imitation.
Monkeys mimic. The great challenge to we hue-man children of God is to stop "mimicking" what everyone else around us is doing and "allow" ourselves to grow into our "authentic true character selves."
The child of God of the "authentic true self" cares not whether he and she is attacked for opening up and sharing his and her life experiences of knowledge and wisdom accumulation. In fact and truth, the child of God does not react, but acts to respond out of understanding compassion, kindness, intuitive thoughtfulness in service to the "higher good."
Our acts of sharing what we have experientially learned with fellow children of God is our divine imitation of our Paradise Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit and our Creator Father and Creative Spirit Mother.
To freely share all--even divest ourselves of all we may freely share is indeed the divine imitation of our divine Parents.
And this is the true meaning of the 26th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book.
The 26th principle is about self-discipline and self-control. And it takes experiential spiritual courage to self-correct, self-discipline and exercise self-control, and ever-momentarily self-direct back to alignment with Father's will, by giving our most honestly sincere cooperation to the spirit-leading of the indwelling divine spirit--the Thought Adjuster -- all of which leads to self-mastery.
The 26th of the 28 principles in The Urantia Book correlates to the individual child of God vibrationally responding to the marshalling impulse of the seventh (7th) Adjutant Mind spirit of Wisdom (cosmic insight). The 26th principle is the second (2nd) of the set of principles 25 through 28, which are the generalized requirements to experientially master the first (1st) psychic circle of experiential spiritual cosmic insight into the reality of the Paradise Father, also corresponding to the seventh (7th) planetary age and the seventh (7th) Mansion Training World system of educational and socialization equivalency requirements.
Note: Any of the first twenty-four (24) principles representing the generalized requirements for the mastery of the seventh, six, fifth, fourth, third and second psychic circles of experiential spiritual intuition, experiential spiritual understanding, experiential spiritual courage, experiential spiritual knowledge, experiential spiritual fraternalhood, and experiential spiritual worship (cosmic insight) which were not mastered (after entrance in the second (1st) psychic circle) will be carried over into the first 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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- 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-control3. 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.
- 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.
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