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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 soulOBJECT-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; itOBJECTIFIED 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 ofOBJECTIVITY 2095: meaningful and intelligent response to total objectivity the universe and its Maker. TheOBLIGATE 1412: he knew that he must not obligate himself in the least to beOBLIGING 1461: well chosen words or by some obliging service. Jesus was very fond ofOBLIQUE 1045: abode of the kings. When the oblique rays of the sun were observedOBLIQUELY 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 theOBSESSED 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 whenOBSTRUCTION 689: it met with the first great obstruction on the deep floor of theOBTRUSIVE 1785: And yet never is his piety obtrusive or ostentatious. He is both meekOBVIATES 549: On Paradise the quality of worship obviates the necessity for reversion activities. ButOCCUPATIONAL 493: training and cultural schools of progressive occupational or practical socialization on some oneOCEAN-BOTTOM 669: the oceans. The continental pressure at ocean-bottom levels is about 20,000 poundsOCEAN-FLOOR 669: feet above the ocean floor. the ocean-floor water pressure is only aboutOCEANLIKE 664: the salty ocean; today, this same oceanlike salty solution freely circulates about inOCTILLION 459: have reckoned it as about two octillion (2 X 1027) tons. It nowODIOUS 1810: might refrain from even speaking that odious word, Samaritan. The lawyer was forcedOFFENDERS 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 isOFFERS 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 fromOFFSPRING-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 notOFT-REFERRED-TO 1491: beliefs. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to lectures of the caravan conductor hadOG 779: supposedly civilized peoples. The raid upon Og, the king of Bashan, was equallyOH 1470: himself to defend Jesus, Ganid saidOKHBAN 1046: Amenemope they followed for a season; Okhban they murdered; Ikhnaton they accepted butOLD-FASHIONED 786: to highly concentrated authority — a chief executive. Old-fashioned war did select the innatelyOLEANDERS 1374: fields of grain and the beautiful oleanders laden with their pink blossoms, whileOLIGARCHY 789: the elders. This reign of the oligarchy of age gradually grew into theOLIGOCENE 696: ostriches. By the close of this Oligocene period, covering ten million years, theOMEGA 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 racesOMINOUSLY 1927: flight from Bethany. John Mark was ominously silent after returning to camp, notwithstandingOMIT 2092: to do with the tendency to omit from the record those references whichOMNIFICENT 1299: truly omnipotent, but he is not omnificent he does not personally do allOMRI 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 servedONE-CELLED 674: over and consisted of the seaweeds, one-celled organisms, simple sponges, trilobites, and otherONE-EYED 1434: an ascending son of God. A one-eyed person can never hope to visualizeONE-FOURTH 824: arrival, though the Garden was only one-fourth finished, it had thousands of milesONE-MAN 789: had no chance against a strong one-man army. War has always been aONE-MAN-AT-A-TIME 925: at a time. This practice of one-man-at-a-time was the first step away fromONEMENT 1237: eternal career. This is the at onement authorization, which, when issued, constitutes theONE-MILLIONTH 462: in that orbit for about one one-millionth of a second; but before theONE-ROOM 1350: of Joseph and Mary was a one-room stone structure with a flat roofONE-THOUSANDTH 460: Orvonton, has a density only one one-thousandth that of Urantia's atmosphere. WereONLY-BEGETTABLE 235: Creator Son is the only-begotten and only-begettable offspring of the perfect union ofONSLAUGHT 1030: way in northern India before the onslaught of a militant Islam with itsOOZE 731: ancestors were literally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in theOPACITY 460: a density would retain light by opacity until the light energy pressure reachedOPENINGS 479: to nature because there are seven openings in the human head, if heOPEN-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 someOPERATOR 1364: age, he was an expert loom operator. It was about this time thatOPHEL 1794: contain the symbolic water, out through Ophel to near Siloam, where was locatedOPIATE 2063: the flesh. If religion is an opiate to the people, it is notOPIUM 992: for treating wounds; castor oil and opium were used by the Sumerians. ManyOPOSSUMS 694: with proboscises, primitive pigs, squirrels, lemurs, opossums, and several tribes of monkeylikeOPPONENT 1383: to take unfair advantage of an opponent which characterized his entire subsequent publicOPPOSITES 140: cosmic mind intervenes between these universal opposites. The bestowal of mind and theOPPRESS 753: nor Daligastia was ever able to oppress mortals or to coerce any normalOPPRESSING 805: brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak.OPPRESSIONS 1464: can stoop to engage in the oppressions of wealth. No noble man willOPPRESSIVELY 1491: are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interferenceOPPRESSIVENESS 1351: and after much discussion concerning the oppressiveness of Roman rule, Herod, the censusORACULAR 988: Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the Chinese used magic asORANGE-GREEN-INDIGO 880: least desirable third of the mixed orange-green-indigo inhabitants, then would India haveORANGES 458: room in space as one dozen oranges would have if they were circulatingORATION 1075: of God presented in the farewell oration of Moses for the rituals ofORATOR 1552: Matthew, James was the best public orator among the twelve. Though James wasORATORS 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 musicalORCHID 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 spiritORDOVICIAN 676: known to your geologists as the Ordovician.ORES 894: the Egyptians. Here they worked iron ores coming from Mount Sinai instead ofORGANISMAL-ENVIRONMENTAL 1227: and meanings of continuity to this organismal-environmental association. Thus it willORGANIZATIONAL 1247: from the commander of this highest organizational unit, such a guardian of destinyORGIES 1082: of these mystery cults and the orgies of their ceremonials, which were supposedORGY 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; theyORIGINATIVE 482: to conceal the presence of the originative or creative indwelling mind from anyORIGINATORS 169: manipulate. Paradise force organizers are nebulae originators; they are able to initiate aboutORION 1065: who formed the seven stars and Orion, who turns the shadow of deathORNAMENT 904: first, was used only as an ornament. Copper was next employed but notORNAMENTATION 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'sORPHANAGE 1258: feeling of cosmic desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the planetORPHANED 637: would its derivations seem to be orphaned in time and space did theyORPHANHOOD 2061: destroy the believer's feeling of orphanhood. Jesus having been among men, allORPHANS 750: races; many of these children were orphans. They were favored with the disciplineORPHIC 1079: best of the cults was the Orphic brotherhood, whose moral preachments and promisesORTHODOXY 1092: it becomes an intolerant judge of orthodoxy; it fails to hold the interestORVONTONLIKE 275: with the creation of one thousand Orvontonlike servitals, one thousand of the seventhOSCILLATORY 675: remained above these shallow but widespread oscillatory inland seas. Three major inundationsOSTENSIBLY 988: of their various fees which were ostensibly offerings to the spirits. Not infrequentlyOSTRICHLIKE 694: of the mountain regions. A large ostrichlike land bird developed to a heightOTHER-AWARENESS 196: on this very fact of innate other-awareness, this innate ability to recognize andOTHER-CENTURY 1521: the mind of a twentieth-century or other-century mortal. By this we mean toOTHER-CONSCIOUSNESS 994: there occurred the inevitable corollary of other-consciousness, the dual potential ofOTHER-EXISTENCES 1123: is found in self consciousness plus other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, andOTHER-PERSONALITY 1226: nontotalable. 11. Personality responds directly to other-personality presence. 12. It is oneOTHER-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 earlyOTHER-THAN-ADJUSTER 333: and Center. The functions of the other-than-Adjuster fragments are manifold and littleOTHER-THAN-DIVINITY 1171: triune grouping have to do with other-than-divinity values in the expanding cosmos. ButOTHER-THAN-FATHER-ENDOWED 266: but they possess a type of other-than-Father-endowed personality not encountered inOTHER-THAN-MORTAL 1163: ways of looking at reality from other-than-mortal perspective and from the standpoint ofOTHER-THAN-PERFECTION 1159: (time-creative) experience implies something other-than-perfection as a point ofOTHER-THAN-SELFWILL 1134: conflicts between the ego-will and the other-than-self-will is not always dependable. OnlyOTHER-THAN-SPIRAL 170: stars are also of origin in other-than-spiral nebulae. 3. Gravity-explosion Planets. When aOTHER-THAN-SPIRITUAL 184: outer space — have been conditioned by the other-than-spiritual diversity of these SevenOTHER-THINGNESS 1123: is found in self consciousness plus other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, andOTHERWISE-THAN-PERSONAL 149: that these worlds teem with the otherwise-than-personal life of the beings of theOTTERS 697: all over the world. Weasels, martens, otters, and raccoons thrived and developed throughoutOUDAH 994: mana practices of the Melanesians, the oudah beliefs of the African Pygmies, andOUNCE 477: electron equaled one tenth of an ounce, then were size to be proportionatelyOUT-AND-OUT 947: forgets a score of negative results, out-and-out failures. Fire reverence reached its heightOUTBRED 918: for evolutionary variation and advancement. The outbred individuals were more versatile and hadOUTCOMES 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 theOUTCROPS 690: semirock pick up water at upturned outcrops and convey it downward to furnishOUTDISTANCED 1414: trend of Jewish affairs had virtually outdistanced the Babylonian school of thought. TheyOUTDOOR 1371: could be thus benefited by wholesome outdoor physical activities. Joseph talked earnestly andOUTER-SPACE 474: light of the sun are the outer-space energy rays so frequently commingledOUTFLOWING 91: second form of energy, and this outflowing spirit is instantly grasped by theOUTGENERALED 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 EdenicOUT-GROUP 784: who always disliked and hated the out-group, foreigners. Early man regarded itOUTGROWTHS 1865: should appear as unconscious and inevitable outgrowths, or natural fruits, of this innerOUTLETS 891: of Saharans led them to seek outlets for their increasing numbers to theOUTLINING 1526: Andrew, and John while Jesus was outlining to James the trip through GalileeOUTLIVE 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 precedingOUTLOOKS 838: the nonutopian condition of society. These outlooks on life and man's placeOUTMANEUVERED 583: this archrebel, by a wily stratagem, outmaneuvered the Edenic pair and entrapped themOUT-MATING 919: But it was not possible for out-mating to become prevalent until neighboringOUTNUMBER 347: group varies, though the mortals far outnumber the seraphim. The Havona natives, glorifiedOUTNUMBERED 972: the practitioner to work unclothed. Women outnumbered the men among primitive magicians. InOUT-OF-THE-WAY 1895: out into the highways and the out-of-the-way places, and they gathered together asOUT-PRESSURE 119: its stationary status and the greater out-pressure of force energy at theOUTRAGEOUS 1673: Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous.' 'Angry men stir up strife, whileOUTRAN 2027: Master. John, being younger than Peter, outran him and arrived first at theOUTRANKED 986: religion. In many groups the shaman outranked the war chief, marking the beginningOUTRANKS 1239: first to enjoy personality and, therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters concernedOUT-RIVAL 1412: a center of learning which would out-rival Alexandria. And he proposed that JesusOUTSIDER 1334: they were then ruled by an outsider, Herod the Idumean, who had seizedOUTSPREAD 476: on through a vast ocean of outspread force energy; neither is the spaceOUTSPREADING 1157: the diversification of cosmic energy, the outspreading of Paradise spirit, and the endowmentOUTSURGE 1265: the power controllers, signifies the vast outsurge of Supremacy into the domains ofOUTWEIGHED 762: of Orvonton than can ever be outweighed by the sum total of allOUTWORKINGS 57: the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, growth, and progressOVEN 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, toOVERALL 1272: Seventh Master Spirit is (in his overall supervision of Orvonton from the centralOVERANXIOUS 1640: then Jesus saidOVERATTRACTIVE 1423: not to build up an overattractive and attention consuming personal career. HeOVERBALANCE 657: of the sun, was sufficient to overbalance the gravity grasp of Angona andOVERBOARD 1703: whereon he slept and actually stepped overboard and into the water. And heOVERCAST 1389: Mary, and even the children, were overcast with sadness. Joseph was gone. JosephOVERCHARGE 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, whileOVERCHASTISE 1213: solicitous devotion and without intent to overchastise or discourage, for me, make recordOVERCONSCIENTIOUS 383: minds of ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious persons. Having started outOVERCONSERVATIVE 1673: the dangers of the dullness of overconservative mediocrity. And then Jesus discoursed onOVERCONTROLLING 1487: in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty. The UrmiaOVERCROWDED 1351: Bethlehem in midafternoon. The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly sought lodgings withOVERDEVELOPED 1132: the altruistic drive may become so overdeveloped as to work serious injury toOVERDOSE 2086: years as a result of an overdose of mysteries and paganism, it resurrectedOVEREMPHASIS 1670: about the person of Jesus. This overemphasis of the personality of Jesus inOVEREMPHASIZING 43: pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to theOVERENDOWED 2079: mechanism of mortal man is not overendowed with consistency and wisdom. Man'sOVERENLIGHTENMENT 750: the backward races by overteaching and overenlightenment. When Christian missionaries go intoOVERFAST 1302: human action. For when culture advances overfast, when material achievement outruns the evolutionOVERFLOWS 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 headsOVERGROWTH 765: society is top heavy with the overgrowth of supposed human needs. Occidental civilizationOVERHEAR 1933: he drew closer that he might overhear their conversation. But David Zebedee, whoOVERHEARING 1977: Judas marched along near the captains, overhearing all that was said, but tookOVERHONOR 1581: to correct the Jewish tendency to overhonor ancestors. He exalted family life asOVERHUNG 1873: a sycamore tree whose spreading branches overhung the roadway. He knew that inOVERINDULGED 914: emotion or impulse, when unbridled and overindulged, can produce so much harm andOVERINDULGENCE 942: a means of pleasure. And this overindulgence, this widely spread pleasure mania, nowOVERINDULGENT 1653: appear that God is like some overindulgent and unwise parents who conspire withOVERLOADED 920: as present day races are so overloaded with inferior and degenerate strains, raceOVERLOOKS 524: of the outer and larger circles overlooks the inner and smaller ones, eachOVERLOVED 1921: and therefore you have not been overloved so as injuriously to exalt yourOVERMAGNIFY 1558: watch carefully your steps; do not overmagnify your office. Who of us isOVER-MASTERING 1206: to the final attainment of that overmastering desire. When we speak of anOVERMATERIALIZE 176: gravity's own further tendency to overmaterialize energy is defeated by the occurrenceOVERMINISTRY 380: they become increasingly blended with the overministry of the Paradise Trinity. Although DivinityOVEROPTIMISTIC 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 ownOVERRAPID 435: stagnation is certain death, but that overrapid growth is equally suicidal; that asOVERREVELATION 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 lessOVERRIDDEN 1302: of those times had not experientially overridden. That mind which can effect aOVERRIDES 1488: that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritualOVERRULE 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 fearlesslyOVERRUNNING 898: the Andonites reached Europe. And this overrunning of all Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, andOVERSEER 1869: of his life, becoming the financial overseer of all those large interests ofOVERSERIOUS 549: thus preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious self contemplation. Humor and playOVER-SEX 936: of women also protected men from over sex indulgence, thereby indirectly contributing toOVERSIMPLIFYING 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 theOVERSPECIALIZATION 1673: but he deplored all tendency toward overspecialization, toward becoming narrowminded andOVERSPECIALIZED 1726: do, become not one sided and overspecialized. The Pharisees who seek our destructionOVERSPIRITUAL 1209: Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce aOVERSPREADING 1079: the mystery cults which were then overspreading the Mediterranean lands. The EleusinianOVERSTRESSED 43: dissociated concept of isolated goodness. The overstressed and isolated morality of modernOVERSTRIDES 1302: creatures. As man's mind successfully overstrides increasingly difficult barriers, this sameOVERSUPERVISION 410: operate in Nebadon subject to the oversupervision of this ambassador of the ParadiseOVERTAKING 1975: his linen coat, gave chase, almost overtaking him. In fact, the soldier gotOVERTAXATION 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 absorbedOVERTHROWS 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 undergroundOVERTONES 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 nowOVERTURNED 1537: waits not upon marching armies, upon overturned kingdoms of this world, nor uponOVERTURNING 944: erosion or the results of the overturning of soil. Stones also greatly impressedOVERWHELMINGLY 887: the present), the conservatism of an overwhelmingly ,agricultural people, and a well developedOVERWORKED 936: did some good since they gave overworked females, at least when young, oneOVERWORLD 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 theOWLS 696: gulls, herons, flamingoes, buzzards, falcons, eagles, owls, quails, and ostriches. By the closeOWNING 1394: they gave up the ambition of owning a home in the country. AsOXCART 1438: by the breakdown of a loaded oxcart. They carried him home to hisOXIDIZED 662: falling on the land were largely oxidized, subsequently worn down by erosion, andOXYGENATE 737: environment. The higher animals, including man, oxygenate their tissues by the action ofOYSTER 732: soon followed by the mollusks the oyster, octopus, and snail. Hundreds upon hundreds