Most of us, if we think about our inevitable death at all, usually only think of one kind of death: the physical cessation of life. But there are really three kinds of death: Physical (body and mind) death; Intellectual (mind) death; and Spiritual (soul) death.
The Urantia Papers— the “fifth epochal revelation”— constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the entire mortal population of Urantia. The “papers” differ from all previous revelations propounded in the spiritual realm, in that they are not the work of a single universe personality, but a composite presentation by many beings. “But no revelation short of the attainment of …
It is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically, facing the vicissitudes of life. Religion is evolutionary man’s supreme endowment, the one thing which enables him to carry on and “endure as seeing Him who is invisible.”
On a billion screens like yours, a billion people are watching the technology of search transforming millions of isolated books into the Library of All Human Knowledge. The old saw has been turned on its axis: a lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A President with a Cosmology would be— A great president? Or the Greatest President.
Blind Willie Johnson’s plaintive question— What is the soul of a man?— still reverberates today, precisely because men still seek the answer. And fortunately, we live in a time when you can learn more about the soul than you can probably understand.
When you have made evil the means of survival,
do not expect men to remain good.
Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for
the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral.
Do not expect them to produce, when
production is punished and looting rewarded.
Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ •You are.**
