The Reality of Religious Experience

103:0.1All of man’s truly re­li­gious re­ac­tions are spon­sored by the early min­istry of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and are cen­sored by the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Man’s first super­mind en­dow­ment is that of per­son­al­ity en­cir­cuit­ment in the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit; and long be­fore ei­ther the be­stowals of the di­vine Sons or the uni­ver­sal be­stowal of the Ad­justers, this in­flu­ence func­tions to en­large man’s view­point of ethics, re­li­gion, and spir­i­tu­al­ity. Sub­se­quent to the be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons the lib­er­ated Spirit of Truth makes mighty con­tri­bu­tions to the en­large­ment of the hu­man ca­pac­ity to per­ceive re­li­gious truths. As evo­lu­tion ad­vances on an in­hab­ited world, the Thought Ad­justers in­creas­ingly par­tic­i­pate in the de­vel­op­ment of the higher types of hu­man re­li­gious in­sight. The Thought Ad­juster is the cos­mic win­dow through which the fi­nite crea­ture may faith-glimpse the cer­tain­ties and di­vini­ties of lim­it­less De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

103:0.2The re­li­gious ten­den­cies of the hu­man races are in­nate; they are uni­ver­sally man­i­fested and have an ap­par­ently nat­u­ral ori­gin; prim­i­tive re­li­gions are al­ways evo­lu­tion­ary in their gen­e­sis. As nat­u­ral re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence con­tin­ues to pro­gress, pe­ri­odic rev­e­la­tions of truth punc­tu­ate the oth­er­wise slow-mov­ing course of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion.

103:0.3On Uran­tia, to­day, there are four kinds of re­li­gion:

103:0.41. Nat­u­ral or evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion.

103:0.52. Super­nat­u­ral or rev­e­la­tory re­li­gion.

103:0.63. Prac­ti­cal or cur­rent re­li­gion, vary­ing de­grees of the ad­mix­ture of nat­u­ral and super­nat­u­ral re­li­gions.

103:0.74. Philo­sophic re­li­gions, man-made or phil­o­soph­i­cally thought-out the­o­logic doc­trines and rea­son-cre­ated re­li­gions.