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OATS                                               791:         "the foolish notion of ""sowing wild oats."" Many later tribes sanctioned the formation"
OBADIAH                                      1067:       Isaiah was followed by Micah and Obadiah, who confirmed and embellished his soul
OBJECT-GOAL                              999:         mortals envision some symbol of the object-goal of their devotions.
OBJECTIFICATION                      1141:       religious experience far transcends the philosophic objectification of idealistic desire; it
OBJECTIFIED                                23:           desire of man, the mortal quest objectified Neither is God merely a concept,
OBJECTIVELY                                1431:       the subjective consciousness to express itself objectively and to experience the phenomenon of
OBJECTIVITY                                2095:       meaningful and intelligent response to total objectivity the universe and its Maker. The
OBLIGATE                                      1412:       he knew that he must not obligate himself in the least to be
OBLIGING                                       1461:       well chosen words or by some obliging service. Jesus was very fond of
OBLIQUE                                        1045:       abode of the kings. When the oblique rays of the sun were observed
OBLIQUELY                                   690:         Columbia; here the Cambrian rocks are obliquely thrust out over the Cretaceous layers.
OBLITERATING                            990:         old age and contagion is gradually obliterating man's fear of ghosts, spirits,
OBSERVATIONAL                       343:         then, as finaliters, are assigned on observational and co-operative service to the
OBSESSED                                      1567:       of the Master. Presently he became obsessed with the idea of getting even,
OBSTINACY                                  1786:       considerate. He grieves over the spiritual obstinacy of the people and rejoices when
OBSTRUCTION                             689:         it met with the first great obstruction on the deep floor of the
OBTRUSIVE                                   1785:       And yet never is his piety obtrusive or ostentatious. He is both meek
OBVIATES                                      549:         On Paradise the quality of worship obviates the necessity for reversion activities. But
OCCUPATIONAL                         493:         training and cultural schools of progressive occupational or practical socialization on some one
OCEAN-BOTTOM                        669:         the oceans. The continental pressure at ocean-bottom levels is about 20,000 pounds
OCEAN-FLOOR                             669:         feet above the ocean floor. the ocean-floor water pressure is only about
OCEANLIKE                                   664:         the salty ocean; today, this same oceanlike salty solution freely circulates about in
OCTILLION                                    459:         have reckoned it as about two octillion (2 X 1027) tons. It now
ODIOUS                                          1810:       might refrain from even speaking that odious word, Samaritan. The lawyer was forced
OFFENDERS                                   1830:       men who were thus destroyed were offenders above all their brethren in Jerusalem.
OFFENSES                                      1449:       "father who remits all our earthly offenses. ""God is our Father, the earth"
OFFENSIVELY                               576:         in seeking food or in fighting, offensively or defensively. The food quest is
OFFERS                                           2019:       women look upon Jesus as he offers up his life on the cross,
OFFICERED                                    1020:       enemy. His own bodyguard of 318 officered the army, numbering more than 4,
OFFICIATED                                  1794:       with a corresponding number of Levites officiated. At daybreak the pilgrims assembled from
OFFSPRING-PERSON                   88:           "Original and Eternal Son is the offspring-person of the ""first"" completed and"
OFTENER                                        817:         additional votes conferred upon them not oftener than every five years and not
OFT-REFERRED-TO                     1491:       beliefs. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to lectures of the caravan conductor had
OG                                                    779:         supposedly civilized peoples. The raid upon Og, the king of Bashan, was equally
OH                                                    1470:       himself to defend Jesus, Ganid said
OKHBAN                                        1046:       Amenemope they followed for a season; Okhban they murdered; Ikhnaton they accepted but
OLD-FASHIONED                         786:         to highly concentrated authority — a chief executive. Old-fashioned war did select the innately
OLEANDERS                                  1374:       fields of grain and the beautiful oleanders laden with their pink blossoms, while
OLIGARCHY                                  789:         the elders. This reign of the oligarchy of age gradually grew into the
OLIGOCENE                                   696:         ostriches. By the close of this Oligocene period, covering ten million years, the
OMEGA                                           1408:       "to declare, ""I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the"
OMEN                                              963:         of the ordinary was considered an omen. And even today the civilized races
OMINOUSLY                                1927:       flight from Bethany. John Mark was ominously silent after returning to camp, notwithstanding
OMIT                                               2092:       to do with the tendency to omit from the record those references which
OMNIFICENT                                1299:       truly omnipotent, but he is not omnificent he does not personally do all
OMRI                                               1073:       to trade in land. Even King Omri attempted to buy Shemer's estate.
ONCE-EMBRACED                       423:         When, as Mansion World Teachers, the once-embraced cherubim and sanobim have long served
ONE-CELLED                                 674:         over and consisted of the seaweeds, one-celled organisms, simple sponges, trilobites, and other
ONE-EYED                                      1434:       an ascending son of God. A one-eyed person can never hope to visualize
ONE-FOURTH                                824:         arrival, though the Garden was only one-fourth finished, it had thousands of miles
ONE-MAN                                      789:         had no chance against a strong one-man army. War has always been a
ONE-MAN-AT-A-TIME              925:         at a time. This practice of one-man-at-a-time was the first step away from
ONEMENT                                      1237:       eternal career. This is the at onement authorization, which, when issued, constitutes the
ONE-MILLIONTH                         462:         in that orbit for about one one-millionth of a second; but before the
ONE-ROOM                                    1350:       of Joseph and Mary was a one-room stone structure with a flat roof
ONE-THOUSANDTH                   460:         Orvonton, has a density only one one-thousandth that of Urantia's atmosphere. Were
ONLY-BEGETTABLE                    235:         Creator Son is the only-begotten and only-begettable offspring of the perfect union of
ONSLAUGHT                                 1030:       way in northern India before the onslaught of a militant Islam with its
OOZE                                               731:         ancestors were literally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in the
OPACITY                                        460:         a density would retain light by opacity until the light energy  pressure reached
OPENINGS                                      479:         to nature because there are seven openings in the human head, if he
OPEN-MINDED                             1861:       from prejudice and preconception; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.
OPEN-SPACE                                892:         races of Europe to change from open-space hunters to herders, and in some
OPERATOR                                    1364:       age, he was an expert loom operator. It was about this time that
OPHEL                                             1794:       contain the symbolic water, out through Ophel to near Siloam, where was located
OPIATE                                           2063:       the flesh. If religion is an opiate to the people, it is not
OPIUM                                            992:         for treating wounds; castor oil and opium were used by the Sumerians. Many
OPOSSUMS                                    694:         with proboscises, primitive pigs, squirrels, lemurs, opossums, and several tribes of monkeylike
OPPONENT                                    1383:       to take unfair advantage of an opponent which characterized his entire subsequent public
OPPOSITES                                    140:         cosmic mind intervenes between these universal opposites. The bestowal of mind and the
OPPRESS                                         753:         nor Daligastia was ever able to oppress mortals or to coerce any normal
OPPRESSING                                  805:         brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak.
OPPRESSIONS                               1464:       can stoop to engage in the oppressions of wealth. No noble man will
OPPRESSIVELY                             1491:       are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference
OPPRESSIVENESS                        1351:       and after much discussion concerning the oppressiveness of Roman rule, Herod, the census
ORACULAR                                   988:         Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the Chinese used magic as
ORANGE-GREEN-INDIGO           880:         least desirable third of the mixed orange-green-indigo inhabitants, then would India have
ORANGES                                       458:         room in space as one dozen oranges would have if they were circulating
ORATION                                       1075:       of God presented in the farewell oration of Moses for the rituals of
ORATOR                                         1552:       Matthew, James was the best public orator among the twelve. Though James was
ORATORS                                      992:         still others sacrificers; later came the orators preachers. And when religion became institutionalized,
ORCHESTRA                                 500:         reproduce the strains of a great orchestra by means of a single musical
ORCHID                                          492:         vegetative life have a violet or orchid tinge of varying hue and reflection.
ORDER-PRODUCING                   1275:       the responsiveness of mass to the order-producing presence of mind. And that spirit
ORDOVICIAN                                676:         known to your geologists as the Ordovician.
ORES                                                894:         the Egyptians. Here they worked iron ores coming from Mount Sinai instead of
ORGANISMAL-ENVIRONMENTAL         1227:       and meanings of continuity to this organismal-environmental association. Thus it will
ORGANIZATIONAL                    1247:       from the commander of this highest organizational unit, such a guardian of destiny
ORGIES                                            1082:       of these mystery cults and the orgies of their ceremonials, which were supposed
ORGY                                               604:         of Liberty that Lucifer launched his orgy of darkness and death.
ORIENTED                                      1439:       inhabited worlds, human personality (indwelt and oriented by the Paradise Father's spirit)
ORIGINALS                                    1193:       are the eternal ancestors, the divine originals, of your evolving immortal souls; they
ORIGINATIVE                                482:         to conceal the presence of the originative or creative indwelling mind from any
ORIGINATORS                              169:         manipulate. Paradise force organizers are nebulae originators; they are able to initiate about
ORION                                             1065:       who formed the seven stars and Orion, who turns the shadow of death
ORNAMENT                                  904:         first, was used only as an ornament. Copper was next employed but not
ORNAMENTATION                     915:         such as hairdress, clothing, veil, seclusion, ornamentation, and rings.
ORNAMENTATIONS                  486:         of creature hands. Material and morontial ornamentations are limited to the dwelling areas.
ORNATENESS                               1840:       is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man's
ORPHANAGE                                1258:       feeling of cosmic desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the planet
ORPHANED                                   637:         would its derivations seem to be orphaned in time and space did they
ORPHANHOOD                             2061:       destroy the believer's feeling of orphanhood. Jesus having been among men, all
ORPHANS                                      750:         races; many of these children were orphans. They were favored with the discipline
ORPHIC                                           1079:       best of the cults was the Orphic brotherhood, whose moral preachments and promises
ORTHODOXY                                1092:       it becomes an intolerant judge of orthodoxy; it fails to hold the interest
ORVONTONLIKE                          275:         with the creation of one thousand Orvontonlike servitals, one thousand of the seventh
OSCILLATORY                              675:         remained above these shallow but widespread oscillatory inland seas. Three major inundations
OSTENSIBLY                                988:         of their various fees which were ostensibly offerings to the spirits. Not infrequently
OSTRICHLIKE                               694:         of the mountain regions. A large ostrichlike land bird developed to a height
OTHER-AWARENESS                 196:         on this very fact of innate other-awareness, this innate ability to recognize and
OTHER-CENTURY                        1521:       the mind of a twentieth-century or other-century mortal. By this we mean to
OTHER-CONSCIOUSNESS          994:         there occurred the inevitable corollary of other-consciousness, the dual potential of
OTHER-EXISTENCES                   1123:       is found in self consciousness plus other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, and
OTHER-PERSONALITY               1226:       nontotalable. 11. Personality responds directly to other-personality presence. 12. It is one
OTHER-PERSONALIZATION    4:             to successive and progressive levels of other-personalization. Deity now encounters,
OTHER-SPIRITNESS                    1123:       other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, and other-spiritness. Man very early
OTHER-THAN-ADJUSTER         333:         and Center. The functions of the other-than-Adjuster fragments are manifold and little
OTHER-THAN-DIVINITY            1171:       triune grouping have to do with other-than-divinity values in the expanding cosmos. But
OTHER-THAN-FATHER-ENDOWED       266:         but they possess a type of other-than-Father-endowed personality not encountered in
OTHER-THAN-MORTAL            1163:       ways of looking at reality from other-than-mortal perspective and from the standpoint of
OTHER-THAN-PERFECTION     1159:       (time-creative) experience implies something other-than-perfection as a point of
OTHER-THAN-SELFWILL          1134:       conflicts between the ego-will and the other-than-self-will is not always dependable. Only
OTHER-THAN-SPIRAL               170:         stars are also of origin in other-than-spiral nebulae. 3. Gravity-explosion Planets. When a
OTHER-THAN-SPIRITUAL        184:         outer space — have been conditioned by the other-than-spiritual diversity of these Seven
OTHER-THINGNESS                    1123:       is found in self consciousness plus other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, and
OTHERWISE-THAN-PERSONAL              149:         that these worlds teem with the otherwise-than-personal life of the beings of the
OTTERS                                          697:         all over the world. Weasels, martens, otters, and raccoons thrived and developed throughout
OUDAH                                           994:         mana practices of the Melanesians, the oudah beliefs of the African Pygmies, and
OUNCE                                            477:         electron equaled one tenth of an ounce, then were size to be proportionately
OUT-AND-OUT                             947:         forgets a score of negative results, out-and-out failures. Fire reverence reached its height
OUTBRED                                       918:         for evolutionary variation and advancement. The outbred individuals were more versatile and had
OUTCOMES                                   1681:       to disclose the divine will. Such outcomes are purely matters of material chance.
OUTCROP                                       674:         fossil bearing strata of this epoch outcrop here and there throughout all the
OUTCROPS                                    690:         semirock pick up water at upturned outcrops and convey it downward to furnish
OUTDISTANCED                          1414:       trend of Jewish affairs had virtually outdistanced the Babylonian school of thought. They
OUTDOOR                                      1371:       could be thus benefited by wholesome outdoor physical activities. Joseph talked earnestly and
OUTER-SPACE                              474:         light of the sun are the outer-space energy rays so frequently commingled
OUTFLOWING                              91:           second form of energy, and this outflowing spirit is instantly grasped by the
OUTGENERALED                         934:         but at home woman has usually outgeneraled even the most primitive of men.
OUTGREW                                     834:         the size of the Adamic family outgrew these early provisions, the whole Edenic
OUT-GROUP                                  784:         who always disliked and hated the out-group, foreigners. Early man regarded it
OUTGROWTHS                             1865:       should appear as unconscious and inevitable outgrowths, or natural fruits, of this inner
OUTLETS                                        891:         of Saharans led them to seek outlets for their increasing numbers to the
OUTLINING                                    1526:       Andrew, and John while Jesus was outlining to James the trip through Galilee
OUTLIVE                                         1955:       "youngest and will therefore very likely outlive these other apostles. ""Once we called"
OUTLIVED                                      685:         greatly reduced numbers. Very few types outlived the rigorous trials of the preceding
OUTLOOKS                                    838:         the nonutopian condition of society. These outlooks on life and man's place
OUTMANEUVERED                     583:         this archrebel, by a wily stratagem, outmaneuvered the Edenic pair and entrapped them
OUT-MATING                               919:         But it was not possible for out-mating to become prevalent until neighboring
OUTNUMBER                                347:         group varies, though the mortals far outnumber the seraphim. The Havona natives, glorified
OUTNUMBERED                          972:         the practitioner to work unclothed. Women outnumbered the men among primitive magicians. In
OUT-OF-THE-WAY                      1895:       out into the highways and the out-of-the-way places, and they gathered together as
OUT-PRESSURE                            119:         its stationary status and the greater out-pressure of force energy at the
OUTRAGEOUS                              1673:       Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous.' 'Angry men stir up strife, while
OUTRAN                                        2027:       Master. John, being younger than Peter, outran him and arrived first at the
OUTRANKED                                986:         religion. In many groups the shaman outranked the war chief, marking the beginning
OUTRANKS                                   1239:       first to enjoy personality and, therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters concerned
OUT-RIVAL                                    1412:       a center of learning which would out-rival Alexandria. And he proposed that Jesus
OUTSIDER                                      1334:       they were then ruled by an outsider, Herod the Idumean, who had seized
OUTSPREAD                                476:         on through a vast ocean of outspread force energy; neither is the space
OUTSPREADING                          1157:       the diversification of cosmic energy, the outspreading of Paradise spirit, and the endowment
OUTSURGE                                    1265:       the power controllers, signifies the vast outsurge of Supremacy into the domains of
OUTWEIGHED                              762:         of Orvonton than can ever be outweighed by the sum total of all
OUTWORKINGS                           57:           the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, growth, and progress
OVEN                                               1350:       was the shelter which covered the oven and the mill for grinding grain.
OVERAGGREGATED                    175:         condensed matter. 176 When mass becomes overaggregated and threatens to unbalance energy, to
OVERALL                                       1272:       Seventh Master Spirit is (in his overall supervision of Orvonton from the central
OVERANXIOUS                            1640:       then Jesus said
OVERATTRACTIVE                     1423:       not to build up an overattractive and attention consuming personal career. He
OVERBALANCE                            657:         of the sun, was sufficient to overbalance the gravity grasp of Angona and
OVERBOARD                                 1703:       whereon he slept and actually stepped overboard and into the water. And he
OVERCAST                                    1389:       Mary, and even the children, were overcast with sadness. Joseph was gone. Joseph
OVERCHARGE                               1889:       time or another systems of exorbitant overcharge were practiced upon the common people,
OVERCHARGING                          1890:       argument had arisen over the alleged overcharging of a Jew from Alexandria, while
OVERCHASTISE                           1213:       solicitous devotion and without intent to overchastise or discourage, for me, make record
OVERCONSCIENTIOUS               383:         minds of ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious persons. Having started out
OVERCONSERVATIVE                1673:       the dangers of the dullness of overconservative mediocrity. And then Jesus discoursed on
OVERCONTROLLING                   1487:       in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty. The Urmia
OVERCROWDED                          1351:       Bethlehem in midafternoon. The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly sought lodgings with
OVERDEVELOPED                        1132:       the altruistic drive may become so overdeveloped as to work serious injury to
OVERDOSE                                     2086:       years as a result of an overdose of mysteries and paganism, it resurrected
OVEREMPHASIS                          1670:       about the person of Jesus. This overemphasis of the personality of Jesus in
OVEREMPHASIZING                   43:           pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the
OVERENDOWED                          2079:       mechanism of mortal man is not overendowed with consistency and wisdom. Man's
OVERENLIGHTENMENT             750:         the backward races by overteaching and overenlightenment. When Christian missionaries go into
OVERFAST                                     1302:       human action. For when culture advances overfast, when material achievement outruns the evolution
OVERFLOWS                                 1446:       filled with content, and my heart overflows with the bliss of peaceful trust.
OVERGROWN                                1038:       present day Tibetan rituals reveals an overgrown brotherhood of priests with shaven heads
OVERGROWTH                             765:         society is top heavy with the overgrowth of supposed human needs. Occidental civilization
OVERHEAR                                    1933:       he drew closer that he might overhear their conversation. But David Zebedee, who
OVERHEARING                             1977:       Judas marched along near the captains, overhearing all that was said, but took
OVERHONOR                                 1581:       to correct the Jewish tendency to overhonor ancestors. He exalted family life as
OVERHUNG                                    1873:       a sycamore tree whose spreading branches overhung the roadway. He knew that in
OVERINDULGED                           914:         emotion or impulse, when unbridled and overindulged, can produce so much harm and
OVERINDULGENCE                      942:         a means of pleasure. And this overindulgence, this widely spread pleasure mania, now
OVERINDULGENT                        1653:       appear that God is like some overindulgent and unwise parents who conspire with
OVERLOADED                              920:         as present day races are so overloaded with inferior and degenerate strains, race
OVERLOOKS                                  524:         of the outer and larger circles overlooks the inner and smaller ones, each
OVERLOVED                                  1921:       and therefore you have not been overloved so as injuriously to exalt your
OVERMAGNIFY                            1558:       watch carefully your steps; do not overmagnify your office. Who of us is
OVER-MASTERING                      1206:       to the final attainment of that overmastering desire. When we speak of an
OVERMATERIALIZE                   176:         gravity's own further tendency to overmaterialize energy is defeated by the occurrence
OVERMINISTRY                           380:         they become increasingly blended with the overministry of the Paradise Trinity. Although Divinity
OVEROPTIMISTIC                        1070:       a worldly wise reaction to these overoptimistic beliefs in Providence.
OVERPLANNING                          1779:       between means and ends; otherwise, sometimes overplanning for the future defeats its own
OVERRAPID                                   435:         stagnation is certain death, but that overrapid growth is equally suicidal; that as
OVERREVELATION                      330:         best that man not have an overrevelation; it stifles imagination.
OVERREVERENCE                        885:         had not been weakened by an overreverence for the past, and numbering less
OVERRIDDEN                                1302:       of those times had not experientially overridden. That mind which can effect a
OVERRIDES                                    1488:       that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual
OVERRULE                                     617:         In this instance they refused to overrule the Michael decisions.
OVERRULED                                  1562:       his conservatism was voted down or overruled, he was always the first fearlessly
OVERRUNNING                             898:         the Andonites reached Europe. And this overrunning of all Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and
OVERSEER                                      1869:       of his life, becoming the financial overseer of all those large interests of
OVERSERIOUS                              549:         thus preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious self contemplation. Humor and play
OVER-SEX                                      936:         of women also protected men from over sex indulgence, thereby indirectly contributing to
OVERSIMPLIFYING                      215:         commit the supreme philosophical blunder by oversimplifying cosmic evolutionary (experiential)
OVERSOPHISTICATION             2095:       by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the
OVERSPECIALIZATION             1673:       but he deplored all tendency toward overspecialization, toward becoming narrowminded and
OVERSPECIALIZED                     1726:       do, become not one sided and overspecialized. The Pharisees who seek our destruction
OVERSPIRITUAL                          1209:       Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a
OVERSPREADING                        1079:       the mystery cults which were then overspreading the Mediterranean lands. The Eleusinian
OVERSTRESSED                           43:           dissociated concept of isolated goodness. The overstressed and isolated morality of modern
OVERSTRIDES                               1302:       creatures. As man's mind successfully overstrides increasingly difficult barriers, this same
OVERSUPERVISION                     410:         operate in Nebadon subject to the oversupervision of this ambassador of the Paradise
OVERTAKING                               1975:       his linen coat, gave chase, almost overtaking him. In fact, the soldier got
OVERTAXATION                         2074:       affairs of government, from overmuch paternalism, overtaxation and gross collection abuses,
OVERTHREW                                2086:       to triumph over the barbarians who overthrew Rome. This same Christianity conquered absorbed
OVERTHROWS                             317:         "he who ""takes a City"" or ""overthrows a nation,"" but rather ""he who"
OVERTHRUSTS                             692:         and tilting occurred, coupled with enormous overthrusts of the various layers, both underground
OVERTONES                                  550:         of an ascendant mortal contributes the overtones of divinity to the joyous expressions,
OVERTOOK                                    1715:       had ever equaled that which now overtook them. And, too, there was now
OVERTURNED                               1537:       waits not upon marching armies, upon overturned kingdoms of this world, nor upon
OVERTURNING                             944:         erosion or the results of the overturning of soil. Stones also greatly impressed
OVERWHELMINGLY                   887:         the present), the conservatism of an overwhelmingly ,agricultural people, and a well developed
OVERWORKED                             936:         did some good since they gave overworked females, at least when young, one
OVERWORLD                                1297:       co-ordination of the divine and unchanging overworld with the finite and ever-changing underworld,
OVID                                                1019:       of Melchizedek through the preaching of Ovid, a Phoenician teacher who proclaimed the
OWLS                                              696:         gulls, herons, flamingoes, buzzards, falcons, eagles, owls, quails, and ostriches. By the close
OWNING                                         1394:       they gave up the ambition of owning a home in the country. As
OXCART                                         1438:       by the breakdown of a loaded oxcart. They carried him home to his
OXIDIZED                                      662:         falling on the land were largely oxidized, subsequently worn down by erosion, and
OXYGENATE                                 737:         environment. The higher animals, including man, oxygenate their tissues by the action of
OYSTER                                          732:         soon followed by the mollusks the oyster, octopus, and snail. Hundreds upon hundreds