17
Dec/2008

by MYSTERYMONITORS

SPIRITUAL COMMUNION


103:4.1 The characteristic difference between a social occasion and a religious gathering is that in contrast with the secular the religious is pervaded by the atmosphere of communion. In this way human association generates a feeling of fellowship with the divine, and this is the beginning of group worship. Partaking of a common meal was the earliest type of social communion, and so did early religions provide that some portion of the ceremonial sacrifice should b... Read More

17
Dec/2008

by MYSTERYMONITORS

RELIGION AND THE HUMAN RACE


103:3.1 While the belief in spirits, dreams, and diverse other superstitions all played a part in the evolutionary origin of primitive religions, you should not overlook the influence of the clan or tribal spirit of solidarity. In the group relationship there was presented the exact social situation which provided the challenge to the egoistic-altruistic conflict in the moral nature of the early human mind. In spite of their belief in spirits, primitive Aus... Read More

17
Dec/2008

by MYSTERYMONITORS

RELIGION AND THE INDIVIDUAL


103:2.1 Religion is functional in the human mind and has been realized in experience prior to its appearance in human consciousness. A child has been in existence about nine months before it experiences birth. But the " birth " of religion is not sudden; it is rather a gradual emergence. Nevertheless, sooner or later there is a " birth day. " You do not enter the kingdom of heaven unless you have been " born again "—born of the Spirit. Many spiritual births... Read More

17
Dec/2008

by MYSTERYMONITORS

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

103:1.1 The unity of religious experience among a social or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality is unique—no two mortals being alike—it inevitably follows that no two human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit of divinity which lives within their minds. A group... Read More

17
Dec/2008

by MYSTERYMONITORS

THE REALITY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

103:0.1 All of man's truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutant of worship and are censored by the adjutant of wisdom. Man's first supermind endowment is that of personality encircuitment in the Holy Spirit of the Universe Creative Spirit; and long before either the bestowals of the divine Sons or the universal bestowal of the Adjusters, this influence functions to enlarge man's viewpoint of ethics, religion, and spir... Read More