The Local Universe Mother Spirit

34:7.1The flesh, the in­her­ent na­ture de­rived from the an­i­mal-ori­gin races, does not nat­u­rally bear the fruits of the di­vine Spirit. When the mor­tal na­ture has been up­stepped by the ad­di­tion of the na­ture of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, as the Uran­tia races were in a mea­sure ad­vanced by the be­stowal of Adam, then is the way bet­ter pre­pared for the Spirit of Truth to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster to bring forth the beau­ti­ful har­vest of the char­ac­ter fruits of the spirit. If you do not re­ject this spirit, even though eter­nity may be re­quired to ful­fill the com­mis­sion, “he will guide you into all truth.”

34:7.2Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals in­hab­it­ing nor­mal worlds of spir­i­tual prog­ress do not ex­pe­ri­ence the acute con­flicts be­tween the spirit and the flesh which char­ac­ter­ize the pres­ent-day Uran­tia races. But even on the most ideal plan­ets, pre-Adamic man must put forth pos­i­tive ef­forts to as­cend from the purely an­i­mal­is­tic plane of ex­is­tence up through suc­ces­sive lev­els of in­creas­ingly in­tel­lec­tual mean­ings and higher spir­i­tual val­ues.

34:7.3The mor­tals of a nor­mal world do not ex­pe­ri­ence con­stant war­fare be­tween their phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual na­tures. They are con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of climb­ing up from the an­i­mal lev­els of ex­is­tence to the higher planes of spir­i­tual liv­ing, but this as­cent is more like un­der­go­ing an ed­u­ca­tional train­ing when com­pared with the in­tense con­flicts of Uran­tia mor­tals in this realm of the di­ver­gent ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual na­tures.

34:7.4The Uran­tia peo­ples are suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of a dou­ble de­pri­va­tion of help in this task of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. The Cali­gas­tia up­heaval pre­cip­i­tated world-wide con­fu­sion and robbed all sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tions of the moral as­sis­tance which a well-or­dered so­ci­ety would have pro­vided. But even more dis­as­trous was the Adamic de­fault in that it de­prived the races of that su­pe­rior type of phys­i­cal na­ture which would have been more con­so­nant with spir­i­tual as­pi­ra­tions.

34:7.5Uran­tia mor­tals are com­pelled to un­dergo such marked strug­gling be­tween the spirit and the flesh be­cause their re­mote an­ces­tors were not more fully Adamized by the Edenic be­stowal. It was the di­vine plan that the mor­tal races of Uran­tia should have had phys­i­cal na­tures more nat­u­rally spirit re­spon­sive.

34:7.6Not­with­stand­ing this dou­ble dis­as­ter to man’s na­ture and his en­vi­ron­ment, pres­ent-day mor­tals would ex­pe­ri­ence less of this ap­par­ent war­fare be­tween the flesh and the spirit if they would en­ter the spirit king­dom, wherein the faith sons of God en­joy com­par­a­tive de­liv­er­ance from the slave-bond­age of the flesh in the en­light­ened and lib­er­at­ing ser­vice of whole­hearted de­vo­tion to do­ing the will of the Fa­ther in heaven. Je­sus showed man­kind the new way of mor­tal liv­ing whereby hu­man be­ings may very largely es­cape the dire con­se­quences of the Cali­gas­tic re­bel­lion and most ef­fec­tively com­pen­sate for the de­pri­va­tions re­sult­ing from the Adamic de­fault. “The spirit of the life of Christ Je­sus has made us free from the law of an­i­mal liv­ing and the temp­ta­tions of evil and sin.” “This is the vic­tory that over­comes the flesh, even your faith.”

34:7.7Those God-know­ing men and women who have been born of the Spirit ex­pe­ri­ence no more con­flict with their mor­tal na­tures than do the in­hab­i­tants of the most nor­mal of worlds, plan­ets which have never been tainted with sin nor touched by re­bel­lion. Faith sons work on in­tel­lec­tual lev­els and live on spir­i­tual planes far above the con­flicts pro­duced by un­re­strained or un­nat­u­ral phys­i­cal de­sires. The nor­mal urges of an­i­mal be­ings and the nat­u­ral ap­petites and im­pulses of the phys­i­cal na­ture are not in con­flict with even the high­est spir­i­tual at­tain­ment ex­cept in the minds of ig­no­rant, mis­taught, or un­for­tu­nately over­con­sci­en­tious per­sons.

34:7.8Hav­ing started out on the way of life ev­er­last­ing, hav­ing ac­cepted the as­sign­ment and re­ceived your or­ders to ad­vance, do not fear the dan­gers of hu­man for­get­ful­ness and mor­tal in­con­stancy, do not be trou­bled with doubts of fail­ure or by per­plex­ing con­fu­sion, do not fal­ter and ques­tion your sta­tus and stand­ing, for in ev­ery dark hour, at ev­ery cross­road in the for­ward strug­gle, the Spirit of Truth will al­ways speak, say­ing, “This is the way.”

34:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to ser­vice on Uran­tia.]