brotherhood of man

• derives from fatherhood of God
• universality of God’s love creates

12:7.8The Fa­ther­hood of God and the broth­er­hood of man pre­sent the para­dox of the part and the whole on the level of per­son­al­ity. God loves each in­di­vid­ual as an in­di­vid­ual child in the heav­enly fam­ily. Yet God thus loves ev­ery in­di­vid­ual; he is no re­specter of per­sons, and the uni­ver­sal­ity of his love brings into be­ing a re­la­tion­ship of the whole, the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood.

• derives from fatherhood of God
• fact of relationship among all personalities
• universality of God’s love creates

12:7.10This very love of God for the in­di­vid­ual brings into be­ing the di­vine fam­ily of all in­di­vid­u­als, the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood of the free­will chil­dren of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. And this broth­er­hood, be­ing uni­ver­sal, is a re­la­tion­ship of the whole. Broth­er­hood, when uni­ver­sal, dis­closes not the each re­la­tion­ship, but the all re­la­tion­ship. Broth­er­hood is a re­al­ity of the to­tal and there­fore dis­closes qual­i­ties of the whole in con­tradis­tinc­tion to qual­i­ties of the part.

• no person escapes benefits or penalties resulting from

12:7.11Broth­er­hood con­sti­tutes a fact of re­la­tion­ship be­tween ev­ery per­son­al­ity in uni­ver­sal ex­is­tence. No per­son can es­cape the ben­e­fits or the penal­ties that may come as a re­sult of re­la­tion­ship to other per­sons. The part prof­its or suf­fers in mea­sure with the whole. The good ef­fort of each man ben­e­fits all men; the er­ror or evil of each man aug­ments the tribu­la­tion of all men. As moves the part, so moves the whole. As the prog­ress of the whole, so the prog­ress of the part. The rel­a­tive ve­loc­i­ties of part and whole de­ter­mine whether the part is re­tarded by the in­er­tia of the whole or is car­ried for­ward by the mo­men­tum of the cos­mic broth­er­hood.

• derives from fatherhood of God

16:9.14You be­come con­scious of man as your crea­ture brother be­cause you are al­ready con­scious of God as your Cre­ator Fa­ther. Fa­ther­hood is the re­la­tion­ship out of which we rea­son our­selves into the rec­og­ni­tion of broth­er­hood. And Fa­ther­hood be­comes, or may be­come, a uni­verse re­al­ity to all moral crea­tures be­cause the Fa­ther has him­self be­stowed per­son­al­ity upon all such be­ings and has en­cir­cuited them within the grasp of the uni­ver­sal per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We wor­ship God, first, be­cause he is, then, be­cause he is in us, and last, be­cause we are in him.

• revelation essential to realization of

52:6.2Even on nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds the re­al­iza­tion of the world-wide broth­er­hood of man is not an easy ac­com­plish­ment. On a con­fused and dis­or­dered planet like Uran­tia such an achieve­ment re­quires a much longer time and ne­ces­si­tates far greater ef­fort. Un­aided so­cial evo­lu­tion can hardly achieve such happy re­sults on a spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated sphere. Re­li­gious rev­e­la­tion is es­sen­tial to the re­al­iza­tion of broth­er­hood on Uran­tia. While Je­sus has shown the way to the im­me­di­ate at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual broth­er­hood, the re­al­iza­tion of so­cial broth­er­hood on your world de­pends much on the achieve­ment of the fol­low­ing per­sonal trans­for­ma­tions and plan­e­tary ad­just­ments:

• derives from fatherhood of God
• spiritual transformation quickest way to realize

52:6.75. Spir­i­tual in­sight. The broth­er­hood of man is, af­ter all, pred­i­cated on the rec­og­ni­tion of the fa­ther­hood of God. The quick­est way to re­al­ize the broth­er­hood of man on Uran­tia is to ef­fect the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion of pres­ent-day hu­man­ity. The only tech­nique for ac­cel­er­at­ing the nat­u­ral trend of so­cial evo­lu­tion is that of ap­ply­ing spir­i­tual pres­sure from above, thus aug­ment­ing moral in­sight while en­hanc­ing the soul ca­pac­ity of ev­ery mor­tal to un­der­stand and love ev­ery other mor­tal. Mu­tual un­der­stand­ing and fra­ter­nal love are tran­scen­dent civ­i­liz­ers and mighty fac­tors in the world-wide re­al­iza­tion of the broth­er­hood of man.

• Lucifer advocated brotherhood of intelligence

53:4.2Self-as­ser­tion was the bat­tle cry of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. One of his chief ar­gu­ments was that, if self-gov­ern­ment was good and right for the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other groups, it was equally good for all or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. He was bold and per­sis­tent in the ad­vo­cacy of the “equal­ity of mind” and “the broth­er­hood of in­tel­li­gence.” He main­tained that all gov­ern­ment should be lim­ited to the lo­cal plan­ets and their vol­un­tary con­fed­er­a­tion into the lo­cal sys­tems. All other super­vi­sion he dis­al­lowed. He prom­ised the Plan­e­tary Princes that they should rule the worlds as su­preme ex­ec­u­tives. He de­nounced the lo­ca­tion of leg­isla­tive ac­tiv­i­ties on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and the con­duct of ju­di­cial af­fairs on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. He con­tended that all these func­tions of gov­ern­ment should be con­cen­trated on the sys­tem cap­i­tals and pro­ceeded to set up his own leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly and or­ga­nized his own tri­bu­nals un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Sa­tan. And he di­rected that the princes on the apos­tate worlds do the same.

• highest human goal

71:4.15And this prog­ress in the arts of civ­i­liza­tion leads di­rectly to the re­al­iza­tion of the high­est hu­man and di­vine goals of mor­tal en­deavor—the so­cial achieve­ment of the broth­er­hood of man and the per­sonal sta­tus of God-con­scious­ness, which be­comes re­vealed in the su­preme de­sire of ev­ery in­di­vid­ual to do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven.

• entails adjustment of the self to other selves

99:5.1While re­li­gion is ex­clu­sively a per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing God as a Fa­ther—the corol­lary of this ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing man as a brother—en­tails the ad­just­ment of the self to other selves, and that in­volves the so­cial or group as­pect of re­li­gious life. Re­li­gion is first an in­ner or per­sonal ad­just­ment, and then it be­comes a mat­ter of so­cial ser­vice or group ad­just­ment. The fact of man’s gre­gar­i­ous­ness per­force de­ter­mines that re­li­gious groups will come into ex­is­tence. What hap­pens to these re­li­gious groups de­pends very much on in­tel­li­gent lead­er­ship. In prim­i­tive so­ci­ety the re­li­gious group is not al­ways very dif­fer­ent from eco­nomic or po­lit­i­cal groups. Re­li­gion has al­ways been a con­ser­va­tor of morals and a sta­bi­lizer of so­ci­ety. And this is still true, not­with­stand­ing the con­trary teach­ing of many mod­ern so­cial­ists and hu­man­ists.

• civilization encompassed by love

100:4.6You can­not truly love your fel­lows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thor­ough­go­ing un­der­stand­ing of your neigh­bor’s mo­tives and sen­ti­ments. It is not so im­por­tant to love all men to­day as it is that each day you learn to love one more hu­man be­ing. If each day or each week you achieve an un­der­stand­ing of one more of your fel­lows, and if this is the limit of your abil­ity, then you are cer­tainly so­cial­iz­ing and truly spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing your per­son­al­ity. Love is in­fec­tious, and when hu­man de­vo­tion is in­tel­li­gent and wise, love is more catch­ing than hate. But only gen­uine and un­selfish love is truly con­ta­gious. If each mor­tal could only be­come a fo­cus of dy­namic af­fec­tion, this be­nign virus of love would soon per­vade the sen­ti­men­tal emo­tion-stream of hu­man­ity to such an ex­tent that all civ­i­liza­tion would be en­com­passed by love, and that would be the re­al­iza­tion of the broth­er­hood of man.

• impulse of social service is basis of

103:2.8When a moral be­ing chooses to be un­selfish when con­fronted by the urge to be self­ish, that is prim­i­tive re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. No an­i­mal can make such a choice; such a de­ci­sion is both hu­man and re­li­gious. It em­braces the fact of God-con­scious­ness and ex­hibits the im­pulse of so­cial ser­vice, the ba­sis of the broth­er­hood of man. When mind chooses a right moral judg­ment by an act of the free will, such a de­ci­sion con­sti­tutes a re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence.

• derives from fatherhood of God

134:4.1The broth­er­hood of men is founded on the fa­ther­hood of God. The fam­ily of God is de­rived from the love of God—God is love. God the Fa­ther di­vinely loves his chil­dren, all of them.

• highest human goal

143:1.4“I have come into this world to do the will of my Fa­ther and to re­veal his lov­ing char­ac­ter to all man­kind. That, my breth­ren, is my mis­sion. And this one thing I will do, re­gard­less of the mis­un­der­stand­ing of my teach­ings by Jews or gen­tiles of this day or of an­other gen­er­a­tion. But you should not over­look the fact that even di­vine love has its se­vere dis­ci­plines. A fa­ther’s love for his son of­ten­times im­pels the fa­ther to re­strain the un­wise acts of his thought­less off­spring. The child does not al­ways com­pre­hend the wise and lov­ing mo­tives of the fa­ther’s re­strain­ing dis­ci­pline. But I de­clare to you that my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise does rule a uni­verse of uni­verses by the com­pelling power of his love. Love is the great­est of all spirit re­al­i­ties. Truth is a lib­er­at­ing rev­e­la­tion, but love is the su­preme re­la­tion­ship. And no mat­ter what blun­ders your fel­low men make in their world man­age­ment of to­day, in an age to come the gospel which I de­clare to you will rule this very world. The ul­ti­mate goal of hu­man prog­ress is the rev­er­ent rec­og­ni­tion of the fa­ther­hood of God and the lov­ing ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of the broth­er­hood of man.

• derives from fatherhood of God

159:5.7And this is il­lus­tra­tive of the way Je­sus, day by day, ap­pro­pri­ated the cream of the He­brew scrip­tures for the in­struc­tion of his fol­low­ers and for in­clu­sion in the teach­ings of the new gospel of the king­dom. Other re­li­gions had sug­gested the thought of the near­ness of God to man, but Je­sus made the care of God for man like the so­lic­i­tude of a lov­ing fa­ther for the wel­fare of his de­pen­dent chil­dren and then made this teach­ing the cor­ner­stone of his re­li­gion. And thus did the doc­trine of the fa­ther­hood of God make im­per­a­tive the prac­tice of the broth­er­hood of man. The wor­ship of God and the ser­vice of man be­came the sum and sub­stance of his re­li­gion. Je­sus took the best of the Jew­ish re­li­gion and trans­lated it to a wor­thy set­ting in the new teach­ings of the gospel of the king­dom.

• Jesus used term for kingdom of heaven

170:2.24By the time the Apos­tle John be­gan to write the story of Je­sus’ life and teach­ings, the early Chris­tians had ex­pe­ri­enced so much trou­ble with the king­dom-of-God idea as a breeder of per­se­cu­tion that they had largely aban­doned the use of the term. John talks much about the “eter­nal life.” Je­sus of­ten spoke of it as the “king­dom of life.” He also fre­quently re­ferred to “the king­dom of God within you.” He once spoke of such an ex­pe­ri­ence as “fam­ily fel­low­ship with God the Fa­ther.” Je­sus sought to sub­sti­tute many terms for the king­dom but al­ways with­out suc­cess. Among oth­ers, he used: the fam­ily of God, the Fa­ther’s will, the friends of God, the fel­low­ship of be­liev­ers, the broth­er­hood of man, the Fa­ther’s fold, the chil­dren of God, the fel­low­ship of the faith­ful, the Fa­ther’s ser­vice, and the lib­er­ated sons of God.

• derives from fatherhood of God

195:8.11The in­her­ent weak­ness of sec­u­lar­ism is that it dis­cards ethics and re­li­gion for pol­i­tics and power. You sim­ply can­not es­tab­lish the broth­er­hood of men while ig­nor­ing or deny­ing the fa­ther­hood of God.