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experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe consciousness and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live within their souls."
There are several levels of attainment in truth comprehension that we may reach during our Urantian experience.
"This new teacher is the Spirit of Truth who will live with each one of you, in your hearts, and so will all the children of light be made one and be drawn toward one another. And in this very manner will my Father and I be able to live in the souls of each one of you and also in the hearts of all other men who love us and make that love real in their experiences by loving one another, even as I am now loving you."
To expand upon these levels of attainment, Jesus utilized the so-called Golden Rule. The Papers (p. 835) tell us it was taught in the Garden of Eden which may also explain it being known to such men as Plato, Aristotle, the Cyprian, Isocrates, Confucius in China, the first century BC Jewish scholars, Hillel and Philo, and also being cited in the Apocrypha (Tobias 4.15). Confucius taught it as, "Do to others as you would want them to do to you" but more often it was expressed in a negative form.
The Papers appear to distinguish four levels by which the Golden Rule progresses to its highest form. It's low level is:
"The golden rule, when divested of the superhuman insight of the Spirit of Truth, becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct."
It is raised to a higher level as the positive injunction of a great moral teacher who embodied it with "the highest concept of moral obligation as regards fraternal relationships" where it becomes "the wise center and circumference of all their philosophy."
It attains a higher level of interpretation in the kingdom of God-knowing truth lovers "requiring them so to relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer's contact with them."
This appears to be the level in which the Spirit of Truth lives "with each one in your hearts." Then at its highest level a quantum leap is made from "highest possible good" of recipients to their "highest cosmic good" relative to their future universe careers.
"But the true cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization, in the interpretation of the law of conduct by the spirit of the Son to the spirit of the Father that indwells the soul of mortal man."
"Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth. Love must thereby grasp the ever-changing and enlarging concepts of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved."
This is the level in which ""my Father and I will be able to live in the souls of each one of you."
"And then love goes on to strike this same attitude concerning all other individuals who could possibly be influenced by the growing and living relationship of one spirit-led mortal's love for other citizens of the universe."
To operate at this level we would need to have attained a communication level with the Spirit of Truth comparable to that which the human Jesus attained with his Thought Adjuster:
"Perfect synchrony and full communication had become established between the mortal mind of Jesus and the indwelling spirit Adjuster." (1511)
The following information may be helpful:
"Do not make the mistake of expecting to become strongly intellectually conscious of the outpoured Spirit of Truth. The spirit never creates a consciousness of himself, only a consciousness of Michael, the Son. From the beginning Jesus taught that the spirit would not speak of himself. The proof, therefore, of your fellowship with the Spirit of Truth is not to be found in your consciousness of this spirit but rather in your experience of enhanced fellowship with Michael." (2061)
It certainly provides us with something to work on.
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