#divine indwelling

[thinkingonscripture]

The Apostle Paul: A NT Example of Submission to God

A New Testament person who exemplifies living in submission to God is the Apostle Paul. Despite his weaknesses and failures, Paul’s life demonstrates steady submission to God’s will. His transformation from a persecutor of Christians to a devoted apostle of Christ illustrates this submission. Unlike most Christians, Paul surrendered to the Lord very shortly after his conversion on the road to…

[catholicdailyreflections]

Reflection 105: The Effects of God’s Indwelling

Reflection 105: The Effects of God’s Indwelling - Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy: 365 Days with Saint Faustina

What would you experience if God were to fully dwell in the depths of your soul?  Peace, joy and amazement!  And from these gifts, and from the indwelling of the Trinity, you would have courage in the face of hardship, strength to cast out fear and an impenetrable defense against the evil one, against his lies and his snares.  You will not be free from temptation and suffering, but you…

[winged-thinged]

I lived for a while bending over backwards to try to justify how my liberal beliefs fit into my Catholicism, cherrypicking scripture and arguing with tradition. It's definitely possible. But you know what? It's exhausting, constantly fighting for a place in a community that ultimately does not want you and isn't interested in changing.

When I was a theology student, I snarled at people who suggested that what I was really doing was asserting my beliefs and then assigning them to God (because I knew that gay people were natural and good, and God was good, so God must think so too, right?). I talked a lot about "ongoing revelation." About "indwelling" and human reason. I had to justify it to myself, because I wasn't willing to question the foundation that I had built myself on.

Because so little of my belief was actually built on what the Church and the Bible said, many of the traditional debunking arguments just didn't work on me. I didn't think that. I was sure that I was right and those other Christians were wrong.

But all that work eventually begs the question. Is it worth it? Why call yourself a Christian at all, when you have already traveled so far away from the foundations of Christianity?

And so I took a good hard look at what most of the Christians around me actually believed and how they acted. I finally let myself ask the question: what if I do them the courtesy of taking them at their word? What if I take their claims seriously, instead of imposing my own ideas about right and wrong onto the god that they believe in?

And what I immediately felt was revulsion. If God was actually like what the Church teaches, and not like the image I had been building up in my head all these years, then I wanted nothing to do with him. I remember, shortly after asking myself this question, I took communion for what would turn out to be the last time. I couldn't swallow. I wanted to vomit. The idea of taking a deity who believed and acted like my community said he did into my body, letting him touch my soul, was despicable. I decided then and there that, if God was real, I'd rather go to hell than worship him. I walked away, and I have never looked back.

I am so much lighter, now, not having to twist myself into knots justifying how my beliefs fit into a Catholic structure. I cut out the middle man. It is enough to simply use my mind and my heart to observe the world decide what's right for me. I'm perfectly capable of philosophical and moral reasoning on my own. No divine revelations required.

[achyutapriya]

Obeisance to Lord Krishna, who is both the abode and the indweller of all beings! Though reputed as born of Devaki, he is really the eternal and ancient one. Surrounded by the attendants of the Yadu clan, he destroyed the forces of adharma by the prowess of his arms. He redeemed all beings, animate and inanimate, from their sins. By his benign and smiling countenance, he inspired divine love in the hearts of the gopis and gopas of Vraja and Mathura.

Srimad Bhagavatam, Skanda 10: chapter 90, verse 48

[mirrormysteria]

Motivation: The Unspoken Factor

Motivation: (Noun) (Reason): the need or reason for doing something

Motivation, the Underlying Factor

Motivation is the Child of Negative and Positive. If we were to take the contemporary 'Law of Polarity', then there are two extreme points (negative thought vs. positive thought), and a central point which brings the two and neutralizes them. This is action or motivation. The negative force is the force that states "I don't like this circumstance" and the positive force is the force that states "so what I can do to make this better." If we only have the positive force, then we don't have a baseline. We constantly move in hopes of finding something, and that results in aimless wandering or expansive energy. If we only have the negative, there is no movement and pure critical nature.

So for the person, negative and positive are required. A person needs to be critical if they're going to get anywhere and they need a desire to move towards something better, which requires the brighter side. Likewise, criticality discerns the 'negative' and 'immovable' parts of a situation and optimism discerns the 'positive' and 'movable' parts.

Motivation and Lack?

What defines lack?

Lack (Verb T.): To not have, or not have enough of something that is need or wanted.

Therefore, lack is the feeling that something is not had. It is thus not negative, but an observation. What we can consider as 'lack mindset' is simply the constant observation that there is nothing, leading to stress, panic and anxiety that then shapes the rest of our reactions and observations. It is easy to see things through a constant lens of negativity (i.e. being critical of a situation) without the understanding or application of method to move the situation towards a resolution.

Motivation: Buddhist

A basic rendition of the Four Immeasurables, and their developing Bodhicitta, is as follows:

"May all beings be free from suffering and its causes. May all beings obtain divine happiness and its causes. May all beings never be separate from that divine happiness that is free from suffering. May all beings abide in equanimity, without attachment to their friend nor hatred to their enemy."

The motivation is thus established in compassion, but also the acknowledgement of suffering and the desire to be the end, and to end the causes, of suffering. By taking these Four Vows or Qualities, the person develops the Mind of the Bodhisattva, and this mind is free from enmity and ill will, it does not make a distinction - it simply knows that there is a pure happiness, and that all sentient beings are deserving of it. It acknowledges Karma in the causes. It acknowledges result in the effect. The motivation is thus to rectify and purify Karma, and to instill virtuous causes for others and the self to establish the seed and promise of Buddhahood and enlightenment in this life or the next.

So what can this tell us about motivation?

"I close my eyes and give my thanks to Gd, peace in my head and I'm singing this song - and it goes like: ATHMAA RAMA ANANDA RAMANA ACHYUTHA KESHAVA HARI NARAYANA"

"O' Lord Rama, you are the indwelling soul. You are the embodiment of all Bliss. Chant the Names of Keshava, Narayana and Sai, the remover of worldly fears."

All motivations should, preferably, be sourced from a clear state. That is, a person should unite both negative (critical thought) and positive (understanding or hopeful thought) together to make the motivation or resolution. It should not be born from fear, or desire, or attachment - but from the understanding that this is a moment, and we're simply moving it to another moment. It is a practice of present awareness, there is no future of a past, but a present resolve and action. Preferably, there should also be a source of mutual awareness and loving-kindness. This is most noted in the concept of 'harming none'. The focus should be on sustainable, rather than temporal, virtue and happiness. There should be no attachment to the friend or enemy, simply a constant state of awareness that says 'there is nothing in this moment but myself, and my decision to react.'

Usui Reki, Motivations and Some Small Affirmations

Usui Reiki Tenets: Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Just for today, I will express gratitude for this experience. Just for today, I will work honestly and devoutedly. Just for today, I will be kind to all sentient and living beings.

Some small affirmations:

In this time, and this hour, I resolve to be at peace with myself, and my environment, and others.

In this time, and this hour, I resolve to let go of obstacles and attachment to temporal events, and to surrender to the Universe and Divine Plan.

In this time, and this hour, I resolve to work towards bliss and sustainable happiness and health, for myself and others.

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[talonabraxas]

"As above, so below. The microcosm corresponds to the macrocosm, and we must therefore seek in man the Kether above the head which shines with a pure white brilliance in Adam Kadmon, the Heavenly Man.

The rabbis call it the Yechidah, the Divine Spark; the Egyptians call it the Sab; the Hindus call it the Thousand-petalled Lotus. But under all these names we have the same idea-the nucleus of pure spirit which emanates but does not indwell its many manifestations upon the planes of form."

"The Spiritual Experience assigned to Kether is said to be Union with God. This is the end and aim of all mystical experience, and if we look for any other goal we are as those who build a house in the world of illusion.

Anything that holds him back from the straight path to this goal is felt by the mystic to be a bond that binds, and as such to be broken All that holds consciousness to form, all desires other than the one desire-these are to him evils, and from the standpoint of his philosophy he is right, and to act otherwise would invalidate his technique."

"The virtue assigned to Kether is that of Attainment, the Completion of the Great Work, to use a term borrowed from the alchemists. Without completion there can be no attainment, and without attainment no completion. Good intentions weigh light in the scale of cosmic justice; it is by our completed work that we are known. True, we have all eternity in which to complete it, but complete it we must, even to the final Yod. There is no mercy in perfect justice save that which gives us leave to try again."

"Kether, viewed from the standpoint of form, is the crown of the kingdom of oblivion. Unless we have realisation of the nature of the life of the pure white light we shall have little temptation to strive for the Crown which is not of this order of being at all; and if we have this realisation, then are we free from the bondage of manifestation and can speak to all forms as one having authority."

— Dion Fortune - "The Mystical Qabala"

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

True Vine

by Andrew Murray

"Abide in Me, and I in You" – John 15:4

When a new graft is placed in a vine and it abides there, there is a twofold process that takes place. The first is in the wood. The graft shoots its little roots and fibers down into the stem, and the stem grows up into the graft, and what has been called the structural union is effected. The graft abides and becomes one with the vine, and even though the vine were to die, would still be one wood with it. Then there is the second process, in which the sap of the vine enters the new structure, and uses it as a passage through which sap can flow up to show itself in young shoots and leaves and fruit. Here is the vital union. Into the graft which abides in the stock, the stock enters with sap to abide in it.

When our Lord says: “Abide in me, and I in you,” He points to something analogous to this. “Abide in me”: that refers more to that which we have to do. We have to trust and obey, to detach ourselves from all else, to reach out after Him and cling to Him, to sink ourselves into Him. As we do this, through the grace He gives, a character is formed, and a heart prepared for the fuller experience: “I in you,” God strengthens us with might by the Spirit in the inner man, and Christ dwells in the heart by faith.

Many believers pray and long very earnestly for the filling of the Spirit and the indwelling of Christ, and wonder that they do not make more progress. The reason is often this, the “I in you” cannot come because the “abide in me” is not maintained. “There is one body and one spirit”; before the Spirit can fill, there must be a body prepared. The graft must have grown into the stem, and be abiding in it before the sap can flow through to bring forth fruit. It is as in lowly obedience we follow Christ, even in external things, denying ourselves, forsaking the world, and even in the body seeking to be conformable to Him, as we thus seek to abide in Him, that we shall be able to receive and enjoy the “I in you.” The work enjoined on us: “Abide in me,” will prepare us for the work undertaken by Him: “I in you.”

In—The two parts of the injunction have their unity in that central deep-meaning word “in.” There is no deeper word in Scripture. God is in all. God dwells in Christ. Christ lives in God. We are in Christ. Christ is in us: our life taken up into His; His life received into ours; in a divine reality that words cannot express, we are in Him and He in us. And the words, “Abide in me and I in you,” just tell us to believe it, this divine mystery, and to count upon our God the Husbandman, and Christ the Vine, to make it divinely true. No thinking or teaching or praying can grasp it; it is a divine mystery of love. As little as we can effect the union can we understand it. Let us just look upon this infinite, divine, omnipotent Vine loving us, holding us, working in us. Let us in the faith of His working abide and rest in Him, ever turning heart and hope to Him alone. And let us count upon Him to fulfill in us the mystery: “Ye in me, and I in you.”

Blessed Lord, Thou dost bid me abide in Thee. How can I, Lord, except Thou show Thyself to me, waiting to receive and welcome and keep me? I pray Thee show me how Thou as Vine undertaketh to do all. To be occupied with Thee is to abide in Thee. Here I am, Lord, a branch, cleansed and abiding—resting in Thee, and awaiting the inflow of Thy life and grace.

[blushlillyyy]

• Prajnānam Brahma : divine consciousness is the supreme reality (brahman) (aitareya : 5.3)

• Aham Brahmāsmi : I am brahman ( brihadāranyaka : 1.4.10)

• Tat tvam asi : you are that (brahman) (chāndogya: 6.8.7)

• Ayam ātmā Brahma : this indwelling self is brahman ( Māndukya :2)

[michaelofnebadon]

The Truest Religious Way

The divine nature may be perceived only with the eyes of the mind. But the mind that really discerns God, hears the indwelling Adjuster, is the pure mind.

“Without holiness no man may see the Lord.” All such inner and spiritual communion is termed spiritual insight. Such religious experiences result from the impress made upon the mind of man by the combined operations of the Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth as they function amid and upon the ideas, ideals, insights, and spirit strivings of the evolving sons of God.

Religion lives and prospers, then, not by sight and feeling, but rather by faith and insight. It consists not in the discovery of new facts or in the finding of a unique experience, but rather in the discovery of new and spiritual meanings in facts already well known to mankind.

The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and purely mystical emotions. It is, rather, a profoundly deep and actual experience of spiritual communion with the spirit influences resident within the human mind, and as far as such an experience is definable in terms of psychology, it is simply the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God as the reality of such a purely personal experience.

True religion is not a system of philosophic belief which can be reasoned out and substantiated by natural proofs, neither is it a fantastic and mystic experience of indescribable feelings of ecstasy which can be enjoyed only by the romantic devotees of mysticism. Religion is not the product of reason, but viewed from within, it is altogether reasonable. Religion is not derived from the logic of human philosophy, but as a mortal experience it is altogether logical. Religion is the experiencing of divinity in the consciousness of a moral being of evolutionary origin; it represents true experience with eternal realities in time, the realization of spiritual satisfactions while yet in the flesh.

The Thought Adjuster has no special mechanism through which to gain self-expression; there is no mystic religious faculty for the reception or expression of religious emotions. These experiences are made available through the naturally ordained mechanism of mortal mind. And therein lies one explanation of the Adjuster’s difficulty in engaging in direct communication with the material mind of its constant indwelling. Urantia Papers The Sevenfold Revelation of Michael

[walkswithmyfather]

Ephesians 1:3-10 (PHILLIPS). “Praise be to God for giving us through Christ every possible spiritual benefit as citizens of Heaven! For consider what he has done—before the foundation of the world he chose us to become, in Christ, his holy and blameless children living within his constant care. He planned, in his purpose of love, that we should be adopted as his own children through Jesus Christ—that we might learn to praise that glorious generosity of his which has made us welcome in the everlasting love he bears towards the Son. It is through the Son, at the cost of his own blood, that we are redeemed, freely forgiven through that full and generous grace which has overflowed into our lives and opened our eyes to the truth. For God had allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: he purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfilment in him.”

“The God Who Meets All Needs” By In  Touch Ministries:

“Our heavenly Father is concerned about every aspect of our life.”

“God’s care for us isn’t limited to spiritual matters. He is interested in the details of our daily life too. We tend to divide life into categories, distinguishing between issues related to work, home, and faith. But our heavenly Father sees us as whole persons.Scripture shows that God keeps bodies fed (Luke 12:29), minds wise (Proverbs 2:6-7), and hearts at ease (Philippians 4:7). And since believers are in union with Jesus through His indwelling Spirit, every aspect of a Christian’s existence has a spiritual connection. There is not a time in the day when the Christian’s life separates into “sacred” and “secular” components.

The Word of God stresses His commitment to believers’ whole selves: “His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3). We need never wonder if He can or wants to meet our needs. El-Shaddai, the all-sufficient One whose kindness never ceases (Lamentations 3:22), gives believers whatever is required to grow their faith—whether that is food, comfort, knowledge, or peace.

The loving heavenly Father sees His children as whole people rather than physical beings with a spiritual life on the side. We cheat ourselves when we think God is interested solely in our spiritual needs. He has many kinds of blessings to offer—all we have to do is ask.”

[newlyfaithfulhumanity]

The Sovrnty Foundation

fides spes caritas

Faith, Hope, and Charity in the rehabilitation and restoration and reordering of the Universal Planetary Government.

The United Ministry of the Paradise Sons of the Original Mother Son of Paradise dedicated to guiding the individual evolutionary experience of the individual and the planetary sphere.

The Michael Revelation is a sevenfold revelation and teaching which includes:

1. Jesus Michael's personal writings and discourses given to the apostles of the 1st century.

2. The Michael Of Nebadon Archival Library of the 21st Century.

3. The Urantia Book text given by the Divine Personalities coming from Uversa with a commission to enlighten the race and who serve to exalt and elevate and ennoble all lives.

4. The Golden Scripts of Christ Michael.

5. A Course in Miracles text.

6. The Pathwork Lectures of the Host of Nebadon Administration who are ascended and free.

7. The Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara with the Sons and Daughters of Nebadon present a unique and expansive teaching array and a narrative of the Royal Road of Transformation Ascendancy.

The Sevenfold Cosmic Viewpoint of the Paradise Trinity to Enhance all Meanings, Values, and Vision:

1. The Universal Father:

   - The Michael Revelation describes God as the Universal Father, emphasizing a personal relationship with each individual.

   - God's love is unconditional, and He is accessible to all through the indwelling presence of the Thought Adjuster (a fragment of God within each person).

2. Eternal Progression:

   - The Michael Revelation and its teachings emphasize that life is a journey of eternal progression.

   - Mortals evolve spiritually through experiences, choices, and growth.

   - The goal is to attain perfection through alignment with divine will.

  3. The Supreme Being:

   - The revelatory cosmology introduces the concept of the Supreme Being, an evolving deity.

   - The Supreme is the sum total of all finite experiences and the unifying force in the grand universe.

   - Mortals contribute to the Supreme's growth through their decisions and actions.

4. Spiritual Realities:

   - The Sevenfold Michael Revelation discusses various spiritual realities, including angels, celestial beings, and the afterlife.

   - Angels serve as ministering spirits, guiding and assisting humans.

   - The soul survives physical death and continues its journey in the morontia realms.

5. Cosmic Citizenship:

   - The Michael of Nebadon teachings emphasize that we are citizens of a vast cosmic family.

   - Our spiritual growth contributes to the harmony of the universe.

   - We participate in the cosmic brotherhood of beings from diverse worlds.

6. Jesus Christ Michael:

   - The Michael Revelation presents an expanded narrative of Jesus' life and teachings, as well as, revealing the 21st century bestowal mission and ministry of Michael.

   - Jesus Michael is portrayed as both divine (the Son of God) and human (the Son of Man).

   - His mission, was and still is, to reveal the Father's love and show the way to eternal life.

7. Personal Religious Experience:

   - The Michael Revelatory Perspective encourages personal religious experience.

   - It values inner communion, worship, and the pursuit of truth.

   - Each person's spiritual journey is unique and significant.

2025. The Sovrnty Foundation

[silmandstuff]

Soooo.....

I kinda like eldritch, biblically accurate angbang, but like really their floofy for each other. Their really soft ancient terrors.

The Ainur function similarly to Aeons in Gnosticism, kinda. Their all manifestations of a specific aspect of Eru's will, and often, as with the Valar, are born in complementary pairs, as equals and opposites. Because I can, I see Mairon as the other end of Melkor's syzygy. Order and Chaos. Anyhow, I view the Ainur as more metaphysical beings, and as such, their relationships. I don't mean this as an absence of sexuality, but I mean the underlying nature of their mind, to me, would work differently, them being divine beings. They are primordial incarnations of specific divine attributes.

I think the intensity of emotions in their relationships would be well beyond mortal feeling, and the connection involved between the members of a syzygy would be akin to the divine union talked about in regards to Gnostic Aeons, or nearly any other divine dyad.

Melkor and Mairon would enable the existence of and complete each other. They literally coexist and indwell.

So, like the soul mates trope up to an eleven or something.

Also, the Idea of Tolkein's eternal flame is reminiscent of the progenitive nous in Christian, Greco-roman and Gnostic tradition. It's god's genitive, or creative capacity. All life is endowed with a bit of it, it is the quality of god's love and desire. Anyhow, each syzygy cocreates from eachother. Interestingly, in Gnosticism the fall happens when one Aeon tries to create outside her syzygy.

Melkor is the destructive and chaotic aspect of Eru's will, and Sauron is the aspect concerned with order, preservation and control. They fit together prefectly despite being opposites.

I imagine them as quite loving, particularly Melkor.

I know some people write Mairon as the devoted one, but for me it's the opposite. Melkor is very doting and caring, while Mairon is quite dreadful. Mairon has an innate comprehension of the innerworkings of nearly everything, save Eru himself. He has the gift of foresight, to a degree, and so is a great strategist. Melkor has what Mairon lacks in power, and with Mairon's direction, can get shit done. The absence of one would imbalance the other. So oof, the whole void ordeal.

Also, I see the roles the Valar play in the Silm as heavily symbolic, as with most divine figures in religious texts. Death/destruction is very much a symbol of transformation, and Melkor, being endowed with a share in the powers of all Valar, seems to mediate the relationship between each idea, destroying the state of one thing so it can pass into the next.

Of course, Tolkien wrote Melkor in a way as so his goal was the world's destruction, but in many religions the world's destruction is the most ultimate and conclusive sign of reunification with god, or the coming of heaven, and the apocalypse itself is seen as a holy act.

Basically I see Melkor as a representation of death and transformation. He is the final destruction of the world in order for the souls return to Eru. Anything mortal that follows him is 'destroyed' in it's mortality, and would surely 'die'.

anyhow, back to basic headcanons.

They both took many different forms, sometimes daily, before they lost that ability. When Melkor was confined to a damaged, finite form it aided in driving him mad.

To me, Melkor wouldn't lash out at Mairon as he was going insane, but would instead overly rely on him, entrusting him with more and more tasks he couldn't accomplish. To me the Anu are like paragons of whatever idea they represent, and rely heavily on connection. As Melkor becomes more and more isolated, he is driven further into madness, as he is a being made of connection, even if his function is to wreck shit. Mairon has always been his only true connection, being his syzygy, but now he would fully rely on Mairon for all his interaction. He can't go blow up mountains or yell at orcs anymore. He just sits and lays in Mairons lap, while Mai sings to him.

.....That was long.

[comparativetarot]

The High Priestess. Art by ​Robert Riedel, from Darkness, Earth, and Light.

Wears a crescent horned diadem, a symbol of the moon reflected in the sky. The large cross on her breast represents the balance between the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The scroll in her hands are the memories of the past, present and future.  She is the female indwelling presence of the divine. She is secrets, mystery, and the future as yet unrevealed.

[madamlaydebug]

In Kamit, if it is said that a woman is as beautiful as a rose, it is because her actions are reflective of the divine indwelling intelligence behind the birth, maturation, decay, death and rebirth cycle of that rose, not merely its aesthetic appeal and alluring fragrance.

So in the eyes of the beholder, he holds her in the light of divinity that he may see god in all her brilliance.

Ra Amma Aresh Bakau

(stta)

[azspot]

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

Wendell Berry

[schooloftheprince]

Spiritual Growth

Spiritual development depends, first, on the maintenance of a living spiritual connection with true spiritual forces and, second, on the continuous bearing of spiritual fruit: yielding the ministry to one’s fellows of that which has been received from one’s spiritual benefactors. Spiritual progress is predicated on intellectual recognition of spiritual poverty coupled with the self-consciousness of perfection-hunger, the desire to know God and be like him, the wholehearted purpose to do the will of the Father in heaven.

Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. The evidence of true spiritual development consists in the exhibition of a human personality motivated by love, activated by unselfish ministry, and dominated by the wholehearted worship of the perfection ideals of divinity. And this entire experience constitutes the reality of religion as contrasted with mere theological beliefs.

Religion can progress to that level of experience whereon it becomes an enlightened and wise technique of spiritual reaction to the universe. Such a glorified religion can function on three levels of human personality: the intellectual, the morontial, and the spiritual; upon the mind, in the evolving soul, and with the indwelling spirit.

Spirituality becomes at once the indicator of one’s nearness to God and the measure of one’s usefulness to fellow beings. Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefor and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love.

Actual spiritual status is the measure of Deity attainment, Adjuster attunement. The achievement of finality of spirituality is equivalent to the attainment of the maximum of reality, the maximum of Godlikeness. Eternal life is the endless quest for infinite values.

The goal of human self-realization should be spiritual, not material. The only realities worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal. Mortal man is entitled to the enjoyment of physical pleasures and to the satisfaction of human affections; he is benefited by loyalty to human associations and temporal institutions; but these are not the eternal foundations upon which to build the immortal personality which must transcend space, vanquish time, and achieve the eternal destiny of divine perfection and finaliter service.

Urantia Revelation

City Of God Amphitheatrum