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interference and distortion created by human institutions is kept to a minimum. from a process viewpoint, any attempt to apply institutional control through the enforcement of a particular ideology represents an illusory understanding of reality and is predestined to fail.
Reality constantly metamorphoses into novel configurations that were unforeseen when the institutional or ideological structures were developed. When we have a growing number of individuals dedicated to seeking the Father's will in all things, and interacting in consultation and seeking group wisdom, we provide our spiritual benefactors with a fertile, growing field of particular occasions which can be utilized for purposes of the revelation. As we work to bring about the social coordination of these individuals, we help to mitigate the extremes of ultra-individualism as well as the wild fluctuations inherent when a few self-selected individuals try to control a dynamic system.
The challenge here is to keep the task of social coordination from becoming one of ideological control. This approach recognizes and attempts to harmonize with the locus of planetary spiritual ministry in the inner world of individuals and communities. The real frontiers become psychological and spiritual domains rather the domains of institutions which attempt to achieve a spiritual objective by manipulating social processes. Considering the loss of the external ministry infrastructure which would have been provided by the Prince's staff and the Adamic regime, can we look at the last three epochal revelations (Melchizedek, Jesus, and The Urantia Book) and postulate the fostering of an internal ministry structure consistent with the nature of Supremacy?
The concept that access to the Fifth Epochal Revelation needs to be limited and controlled seems highly untenable in a society whose very lifeblood has become the free flow of information. And how can such views be reconciled with those expressed by the Master, "The invitation is and always will be: Whosoever will, let him come and partake of the water of life." (1820) Can we imagine Jesus laying down criteria about who is and who is not ready or worthy to receive his revelation?
Our challenges are increasingly psychological and spiritual as we seek to orient ourselves to the service of God and our fellows in this world of Supremacy. How do we more clearly perceive the Father's will? How do we more wisely discern the difference between genuine spiritual guidance and expressions of our own psychological processes and social needs? How do we effect the social coordination of readers from radically different backgrounds, perspectives and levels of education?
These become the issues at the frontiers of growth and service. Jesus revealed to us the way in which to operate creatively for the Father's purposes in an environment of increasing complex, novel and unpredictable process--simply by doing as he did and living our lives fully dedicated to the discovery and the doing of the Father's will.
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