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our moral choices we need the guidance of our Thought Adjuster, but God-consciousness and our realization of Adjuster presence are dependent upon our morality level.
"Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love. Unless an interpreter lived in the mind, man could not truly realize the unity of the universe. Unless an evaluator dwelt with man, he could not possibly appraise moral values and recognize spiritual meanings. And this lover hails from the very source of infinite love; this interpreter is a part of Universal Unity; this evaluator is the child of the Center and Source of all absolute values of divine and eternal reality."
Thus it is axiomatic that we must achieve a close relationship with our Thought Adjuster if we are to succeed in our task. There may be no better way to do so than to practice the "alter ego" method recommended in Paper 91. This cites the children's game of inventing an imaginary companion, then play acting both parts when conversing with the "other ego."
To adapt the method to our task we need to know the life of Jesus to the point at which we can make a reasonable appraisal on how he would react in any given circumstance. We may then ask ourselves a question about what to do, answering ourselves from our memory banks of knowledge of Jesus' own life. Perhaps this is the reason for:
"One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it."
Nobody said it would be easy. The mission required of us, to love and serve as Jesus loved and served, requires sincerity, dedication, devotion, and stickability.
Moral evaluation at the super-animal level needs the spiritual insight of our Thought Adjuster. It "connotes the individual's choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity."
Like so many other things having that nebulous quality termed "spiritual value," morality is something we know within ourselves to be "right" simply because we are at least subconsciously "listening" to the voice of the God-spirit within. But the moment we attempt to define morality it collapses into a set of rules or commandments to be obeyed.
"The Hebrews of Jesus' day already had a religion of moral sublimity." (2095) But "Jesus revealed and exemplified a religion of love: security in the Father's love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing this love in the service of the human brotherhood."
Without real morality--Jesus kind--we are without real love. Without real love--Jesus' kind--we stagnate in our animal heritage. "Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent."
Once equipped with an appropriately moral nature, God-consciousness and the realization of Adjuster presence becomes possible. We are ready for the mission for which the Urantia revelation has been provided. And we are ready to undertake the task specifically ordained for us, "the life which you will live among men--the actual and living experience of loving men and serving them, even as I have loved and served you."
Ask yourself, "If it were not so, why then do I have the Urantia Papers?"
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