Therefore
settle in your philosophy now and forever: To each of you and to all of
us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is open; the
forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration
are all interlocked in an effort to facilitate the advancement of every
worthy intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the
Universal Father.
Our Universal Association brings the fruits of
eternity to each individual wholeheartedly willing to doeth the
Everlasting Will of the Parenthood of Life.
I make it clear that
the kingdom of heaven must begin with, and be centered in, the dual
concept of the truth of the fatherhood of God and the correlated fact of
the brotherhood of man.
The acceptance of such a teaching, I
declare, would liberate man from the age-long bondage of animal fear and
at the same time enrich human living with the following endowments of
the new life of spiritual liberty:
1. The possession of new
courage and augmented spiritual power. The gospel of the kingdom is to
set man free and inspires him to dare to hope for eternal life.
2. The gospel carries a message of new confidence and true consolation for all men, even for the poor.
3.
It is in itself a new standard of moral values, a new ethical yardstick
wherewith to measure human conduct. It portrays the ideal of a
resultant new order of human society.
4. It teaches the
pre-eminence of the spiritual compared with the material; it glorifies
spiritual realities and exalts superhuman ideals.
5. This new
gospel holds up spiritual attainment as the true goal of living. Human
life receives a new endowment of moral value and divine dignity.
6.
I teach that eternal realities are the result (reward) of righteous
earthly striving. Man’s mortal sojourn on earth acquires new meanings
consequent upon the recognition of a noble destiny.
7. The new
gospel affirms that human salvation is the revelation of a far-reaching
divine purpose to be fulfilled and realized in the future destiny of the
endless service of the salvaged daughters and sons of God.
Michael Of Nebadon
The Planetary Urantia
