adventure

78:4.6These And­ites were ad­ven­tur­ous; they had rov­ing dis­po­si­tions. An in­crease of ei­ther San­gik or An­don­ite stock tended to sta­bi­lize them. But even so, their later de­scen­dants never stopped un­til they had cir­cum­nav­i­gated the globe and dis­cov­ered the last re­mote con­ti­nent.

78:5.8The mi­gra­tory con­quests of the And­ites con­tin­ued on down to their fi­nal dis­per­sions, from 8000 to 6000 B.C. As they poured out of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, they con­tin­u­ously de­pleted the bi­o­logic re­serves of their home­lands while markedly strength­en­ing the sur­round­ing peo­ples. And to ev­ery na­tion to which they jour­neyed, they con­tributed hu­mor, art, ad­ven­ture, mu­sic, and man­u­fac­ture. They were skill­ful do­mes­ti­ca­tors of an­i­mals and ex­pert agri­cul­tur­ists. For the time be­ing, at least, their pres­ence usu­ally im­proved the re­li­gious be­liefs and moral prac­tices of the older races. And so the cul­ture of Mes­o­po­ta­mia qui­etly spread out over Eu­rope, In­dia, China, north­ern Africa, and the Pa­cific Is­lands.

195:5.10Do not try to sat­isfy the cu­rios­ity or grat­ify all the la­tent ad­ven­ture surg­ing within the soul in one short life in the flesh. Be pa­tient! be not tempted to in­dulge in a law­less plunge into cheap and sor­did ad­ven­ture. Har­ness your en­er­gies and bri­dle your pas­sions; be calm while you await the ma­jes­tic un­fold­ing of an end­less ca­reer of pro­gres­sive ad­ven­ture and thrilling dis­cov­ery.

5:1.12The great God makes di­rect con­tact with mor­tal man and gives a part of his in­fi­nite and eter­nal and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble self to live and dwell within him. God has em­barked upon the eter­nal ad­ven­ture with man. If you yield to the lead­ings of the spir­i­tual forces in you and around you, you can­not fail to at­tain the high des­tiny es­tab­lished by a lov­ing God as the uni­verse goal of his as­cen­dant crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space.

14:5.10Love of ad­ven­ture, cu­rios­ity, and dread of mo­not­ony—these traits in­her­ent in evolv­ing hu­man na­ture—were not put there just to ag­gra­vate and an­noy you dur­ing your short so­journ on earth, but rather to sug­gest to you that death is only the be­gin­ning of an end­less ca­reer of ad­ven­ture, an ev­er­last­ing life of an­tic­i­pa­tion, an eter­nal voy­age of dis­cov­ery.

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.

1:0.6This is the true mean­ing of that di­vine com­mand, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect,” which ever urges mor­tal man on­ward and beck­ons him in­ward in that long and fas­ci­nat­ing strug­gle for the at­tain­ment of higher and higher lev­els of spir­i­tual val­ues and true uni­verse mean­ings. This sub­lime search for the God of uni­verses is the su­preme ad­ven­ture of the in­hab­i­tants of all the worlds of time and space.

155:5.10And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fear­ful, and hes­i­tant in­di­vid­u­als who will pre­fer thus to se­cure their re­li­gious con­so­la­tions, even though, in so cast­ing their lot with the re­li­gions of au­thor­ity, they com­pro­mise the sov­er­eignty of per­son­al­ity, de­base the dig­nity of self-re­spect, and ut­terly sur­ren­der the right to par­tic­i­pate in that most thrilling and in­spir­ing of all pos­si­ble hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences: the per­sonal quest for truth, the ex­hil­a­ra­tion of fac­ing the per­ils of in­tel­lec­tual dis­cov­ery, the de­ter­mi­na­tion to ex­plore the re­al­i­ties of per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the per­sonal tri­umph of the ac­tual re­al­iza­tion of the vic­tory of spir­i­tual faith over in­tel­lec­tual doubt as it is hon­estly won in the su­preme ad­ven­ture of all hu­man ex­is­tence—man seek­ing God, for him­self and as him­self, and find­ing him.