experience

• everything divine man grasps is experiential attainment, a unique possession

3:5.16The full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of truth, beauty, and good­ness is in­her­ent in the per­fec­tion of the di­vine uni­verse. The in­hab­i­tants of the Ha­vona worlds do not re­quire the po­ten­tial of rel­a­tive value lev­els as a choice stim­u­lus; such per­fect be­ings are able to iden­tify and choose the good in the ab­sence of all con­trastive and thought-com­pelling moral sit­u­a­tions. But all such per­fect be­ings are, in moral na­ture and spir­i­tual sta­tus, what they are by virtue of the fact of ex­is­tence. They have ex­pe­ri­en­tially earned ad­vance­ment only within their in­her­ent sta­tus. Mor­tal man earns even his sta­tus as an as­cen­sion can­di­date by his own faith and hope. Ev­ery­thing di­vine which the hu­man mind grasps and the hu­man soul ac­quires is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment; it is a re­al­ity of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence and is there­fore a unique pos­ses­sion in con­trast to the in­her­ent good­ness and righ­teous­ness of the in­errant per­son­al­i­ties of Ha­vona.

• subjective, except for validity of cosmic mind response

16:9.1The cos­mic-mind-en­dowed, Ad­juster-in­dwelt, per­sonal crea­ture pos­sesses in­nate rec­og­ni­tion-re­al­iza­tion of en­ergy re­al­ity, mind re­al­ity, and spirit re­al­ity. The will crea­ture is thus equipped to dis­cern the fact, the law, and the love of God. Aside from these three in­alien­ables of hu­man con­scious­ness, all hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence is re­ally sub­jec­tive ex­cept that in­tu­itive re­al­iza­tion of va­lid­ity at­taches to the uni­fi­ca­tion of these three uni­verse re­al­ity re­sponses of cos­mic rec­og­ni­tion.

• nothing takes the place of

22:9.6These twice-trin­i­tized sons are mar­velous be­ings, but they are nei­ther as ver­sa­tile nor de­pend­able as their as­cen­dant as­so­ciates; they lack that tremen­dous and pro­found per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which the rest of the sons be­long­ing to this group have ac­quired by ac­tu­ally climb­ing up to glory from the dark do­mains of space. We of the as­cen­dant ca­reer love them and do all in our power to com­pen­sate their de­fi­cien­cies, but they make us ever grate­ful for our lowly ori­gin and our ca­pac­ity for ex­pe­ri­ence. Their will­ing­ness to rec­og­nize and ac­knowl­edge their de­fi­cien­cies in the ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble re­al­i­ties of uni­verse as­cen­sion is tran­scen­dently beau­ti­ful and some­times most touch­ingly pa­thetic.

22:9.7Trin­i­tized Sons of Per­fec­tion are lim­ited in con­trast to other Trin­ity-em­braced sons be­cause their ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity is time-space in­hib­ited. They are ex­pe­ri­ence-de­fi­cient, de­spite long train­ing with the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives and the Teacher Sons, and if this were not the case, ex­pe­ri­en­tial sat­u­ra­tion would pre­clude their be­ing left in re­serve for ac­quir­ing ex­pe­ri­ence in a fu­ture uni­verse age. There is sim­ply noth­ing in all uni­ver­sal ex­is­tence which can take the place of ac­tual per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, and these crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are held in re­serve for ex­pe­ri­en­tial func­tion in some fu­ture uni­verse epoch.

22:9.8On the man­sion worlds I have of­ten seen these dig­ni­fied of­fi­cers of the high courts of the super­uni­verse look so long­ingly and ap­peal­ingly at even the re­cent ar­rivals from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space that one could not help re­al­iz­ing that these pos­ses­sors of non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial trin­i­ti­za­tion re­ally en­vied their sup­pos­edly less for­tu­nate breth­ren who as­cend the uni­ver­sal path by steps of bona fide ex­pe­ri­ence and ac­tual liv­ing. Not­with­stand­ing their hand­i­caps and lim­i­ta­tions they are a won­der­fully use­ful and ever-will­ing corps of work­ers when it comes to the ex­e­cu­tion of the com­plex ad­min­is­tra­tive plans of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

• education increases respect for others’ e.

25:3.126. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Super­uni­verse Ma­jor Sec­tors. The char­ac­ter of the work of the com­mis­sion­ers con­tin­ues to change as they ad­vance. There is less and less of mis­un­der­stand­ing to ad­ju­di­cate and more and more of mys­te­ri­ous phe­nom­ena to ex­plain and in­ter­pret. From stage to stage they are evolv­ing from ar­biters of dif­fer­ences to ex­plain­ers of mys­ter­ies—judges evolv­ing into in­ter­pre­ta­tive teach­ers. Ar­biters of those who through ig­no­rance per­mit dif­fi­cul­ties and mis­un­der­stand­ings to arise, they once were; but they are now be­com­ing in­struc­tors of those who are suf­fi­ciently in­tel­li­gent and tol­er­ant to avoid clashes of mind and wars of opin­ions. The higher a crea­ture’s ed­u­ca­tion, the more re­spect he has for the knowl­edge, ex­pe­ri­ence, and opin­ions of oth­ers.

• goal of e. is to attain wisdom

27:6.2The mas­ter philoso­phers of Par­a­dise de­light to lead the minds of its in­hab­i­tants, both na­tive and as­cen­dant, in the ex­hil­a­rat­ing pur­suit of at­tempt­ing to solve uni­verse prob­lems. These super­aphic mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy are the “wise men of heaven,” the be­ings of wis­dom who make use of the truth of knowl­edge and the facts of ex­pe­ri­ence in their ef­forts to mas­ter the un­known. With them knowl­edge at­tains to truth and ex­pe­ri­ence as­cends to wis­dom. On Par­a­dise the as­cen­dant per­son­al­i­ties of space ex­pe­ri­ence the heights of be­ing: They have knowl­edge; they know the truth; they may phi­los­o­phize—think the truth; they may even seek to en­com­pass the con­cepts of the Ul­ti­mate and at­tempt to grasp the tech­niques of the Ab­so­lutes.

• ascension plan characterized by giving e. to others as soon as acquired

30:3.9The en­tire as­cen­dant plan of mor­tal pro­gres­sion is char­ac­ter­ized by the prac­tice of giv­ing out to other be­ings new truth and ex­pe­ri­ence just as soon as ac­quired. You work your way through the long school of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment by serv­ing as teach­ers to those pupils just be­hind you in the scale of pro­gres­sion.

• outer-spacers will lack finite e.

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

• beings created in perfection are deprived of

32:3.10The fact of an­i­mal evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin does not at­tach stigma to any per­son­al­ity in the sight of the uni­verse as that is the ex­clu­sive method of pro­duc­ing one of the two ba­sic types of fi­nite in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. When the heights of per­fec­tion and eter­nity are at­tained, all the more honor to those who be­gan at the bot­tom and joy­fully climbed the lad­der of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which em­bod­ies an ac­tual knowl­edge of ev­ery phase of life from the bot­tom to the top.

32:3.11In all this is shown the wis­dom of the Cre­ators. It would be just as easy for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to make all mor­tals per­fect be­ings, to im­part per­fec­tion by his di­vine word. But that would de­prive them of the won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence of the ad­ven­ture and train­ing as­so­ci­ated with the long and grad­ual in­ward climb, an ex­pe­ri­ence to be had only by those who are so for­tu­nate as to be­gin at the very bot­tom of liv­ing ex­is­tence.

• God understands every creature’s need for

32:4.2God has full un­der­stand­ing of the need of ev­ery in­tel­li­gent crea­ture for func­tion and ex­pe­ri­ence, and there­fore, in ev­ery sit­u­a­tion, be it con­cerned with the des­tiny of a uni­verse or the wel­fare of the hum­blest of his crea­tures, God re­tires from ac­tiv­ity in fa­vor of the galaxy of crea­ture and Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties who in­her­ently in­ter­vene be­tween him­self and any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or cre­ative event. But not­with­stand­ing this re­tire­ment, this ex­hi­bi­tion of in­fi­nite co-or­di­na­tion, there is on God’s part an ac­tual, lit­eral, and per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion in these events by and through these or­dained agen­cies and per­son­al­i­ties. The Fa­ther is work­ing in and through all these chan­nels for the wel­fare of all his far-flung cre­ation.

• finaliters’ e. will embrace everything presently possible

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

• gives conceptual capacity to comprehend problems

54:6.10As you as­cend in the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence, you will broaden your uni­verse con­cepts and ex­tend your hori­zon of mean­ings and val­ues; and thus will you be able the bet­ter to un­der­stand why such be­ings as Lu­cifer and Sa­tan are per­mit­ted to con­tinue in re­bel­lion. You will also bet­ter com­pre­hend how ul­ti­mate (if not im­me­di­ate) good can be de­rived from time-lim­ited evil. Af­ter you at­tain Par­a­dise, you will re­ally be en­light­ened and com­forted when you lis­ten to the super­aphic philoso­phers dis­cuss and ex­plain these pro­found prob­lems of uni­verse ad­just­ment. But even then, I doubt that you will be fully sat­is­fied in your own minds. At least I was not even when I had thus at­tained the acme of uni­verse phi­los­o­phy. I did not achieve a full com­pre­hen­sion of these com­plex­i­ties un­til af­ter I had been as­signed to ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties in the super­uni­verse, where by ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence I have ac­quired con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity ad­e­quate for the com­pre­hen­sion of such many-sided prob­lems in cos­mic eq­uity and spir­i­tual phi­los­o­phy. As you as­cend Par­adis­e­ward, you will in­creas­ingly learn that many prob­lem­atic fea­tures of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion can only be com­pre­hended sub­se­quent to the ac­quire­ment of in­creased ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity and to the achieve­ment of en­hanced spir­i­tual in­sight. Cos­mic wis­dom is es­sen­tial to the un­der­stand­ing of cos­mic sit­u­a­tions.

• Lucifer, with maximum intelligence and e., went astray

67:3.9Cali­gas­tia, with a max­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and a vast ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse af­fairs, went astray—em­braced sin. Amadon, with a min­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and ut­terly de­void of uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence, re­mained stead­fast in the ser­vice of the uni­verse and in loy­alty to his as­so­ciate. Van uti­lized both mind and spirit in a mag­nif­i­cent and ef­fec­tive com­bi­na­tion of in­tel­lec­tual de­ter­mi­na­tion and spir­i­tual in­sight, thereby achiev­ing an ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of per­son­al­ity re­al­iza­tion of the high­est at­tain­able or­der. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are po­ten­tial for the cre­ation of super­hu­man val­ues, even mor­ontia re­al­i­ties.

• Jesus simplifies

100:7.18Je­sus was the per­fectly uni­fied hu­man per­son­al­ity. And to­day, as in Gal­i­lee, he con­tin­ues to unify mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence and to co-or­di­nate hu­man en­deav­ors. He uni­fies life, en­no­bles char­ac­ter, and sim­pli­fies ex­pe­ri­ence. He en­ters the hu­man mind to el­e­vate, trans­form, and trans­fig­ure it. It is lit­er­ally true: “If any man has Christ Je­sus within him, he is a new crea­ture; old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• determined by depth of concept, force of expectant imagination, keenness of sensory discovery

102:4.2What is hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence? It is sim­ply any in­ter­play be­tween an ac­tive and ques­tion­ing self and any other ac­tive and ex­ter­nal re­al­ity. The mass of ex­pe­ri­ence is de­ter­mined by depth of con­cept plus to­tal­ity of rec­og­ni­tion of the re­al­ity of the ex­ter­nal. The mo­tion of ex­pe­ri­ence equals the force of ex­pec­tant imag­i­na­tion plus the keen­ness of the sen­sory dis­cov­ery of the ex­ter­nal qual­i­ties of con­tacted re­al­ity. The fact of ex­pe­ri­ence is found in self-con­scious­ness plus other-ex­is­tences—other-thing­ness, other-mind­ness, and other-spir­it­ness.

• confidence in dependability of personal

102:6.4Faith trans­forms the philo­sophic God of prob­a­bil­ity into the sav­ing God of cer­tainty in the per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. Skep­ti­cism may chal­lenge the the­o­ries of the­ol­ogy, but con­fi­dence in the de­pend­abil­ity of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence af­firms the truth of that be­lief which has grown into faith.

• always has advantage over theory

102:6.7Be­lief may not be able to re­sist doubt and with­stand fear, but faith is al­ways tri­umphant over doubt­ing, for faith is both pos­i­tive and liv­ing. The pos­i­tive al­ways has the ad­van­tage over the neg­a­tive, truth over er­ror, ex­pe­ri­ence over the­ory, spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties over the iso­lated facts of time and space. The con­vinc­ing ev­i­dence of this spir­i­tual cer­tainty con­sists in the so­cial fruits of the spirit which such be­liev­ers, faithers, yield as a re­sult of this gen­uine spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Said Je­sus: “If you love your fel­lows as I have loved you, then shall all men know that you are my dis­ci­ples.”

• confidence in dependability of personal

102:7.7If sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, or so­ci­ol­ogy dares to be­come dog­matic in con­tend­ing with the proph­ets of true re­li­gion, then should God-know­ing men re­ply to such un­war­ranted dog­ma­tism with that more farsee­ing dog­ma­tism of the cer­tainty of per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, “I know what I have ex­pe­ri­enced be­cause I am a son of I AM.” If the per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of a faither is to be chal­lenged by dogma, then this faith-born son of the ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble Fa­ther may re­ply with that un­chal­lenge­able dogma, the state­ment of his ac­tual son­ship with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• man constitutively dependent on

106:9.83. The pur­pose of hu­man ex­is­tence, the fact that man­kind is de­signed to evolve by the tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence and, there­fore, must be in­her­ently and con­sti­tu­tively de­pen­dent on ex­pe­ri­ence. Only an Ab­so­lute can be both ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

• infinity of God encompasses potential for
• nothing takes the place of

108:0.2Noth­ing in the en­tire uni­verse can sub­sti­tute for the fact of ex­pe­ri­ence on nonex­is­ten­tial lev­els. The in­fi­nite God is, as al­ways, re­plete and com­plete, in­finitely in­clu­sive of all things ex­cept evil and crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. God can­not do wrong; he is in­fal­li­ble. God can­not ex­pe­ri­en­tially know what he has never per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced; God’s pre­knowl­edge is ex­is­ten­tial. There­fore does the spirit of the Fa­ther de­scend from Par­a­dise to par­tic­i­pate with fi­nite mor­tals in ev­ery bona fide ex­pe­ri­ence of the as­cend­ing ca­reer; it is only by such a method that the ex­is­ten­tial God could be­come in truth and in fact man’s ex­pe­ri­en­tial Fa­ther. The in­fin­ity of the eter­nal God en­com­passes the po­ten­tial for fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence, which in­deed be­comes ac­tual in the min­istry of the Ad­juster frag­ments that ac­tu­ally share the life vi­cis­si­tude ex­pe­ri­ences of hu­man be­ings.

• nothing takes the place of

109:1.3Ac­tual liv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence has no cos­mic sub­sti­tute. The per­fec­tion of the di­vin­ity of a newly formed Thought Ad­juster does not in any man­ner en­dow this Mys­tery Mon­i­tor with ex­pe­ri­enced min­is­tra­tive abil­ity. Ex­pe­ri­ence is in­sep­a­ra­ble from a liv­ing ex­is­tence; it is the one thing which no amount of di­vine en­dow­ment can ab­solve you from the ne­ces­sity of se­cur­ing by ac­tual liv­ing. There­fore, in com­mon with all be­ings liv­ing and func­tion­ing within the pres­ent sphere of the Su­preme, Thought Ad­justers must ac­quire ex­pe­ri­ence; they must evolve from the lower, in­ex­pe­ri­enced, to the higher, more ex­pe­ri­enced, groups.

• all experience is part of the Supreme

117:5.14The evolv­ing Su­preme will even­tu­ally com­pen­sate fi­nite crea­tures for their in­abil­ity ever to achieve more than lim­ited ex­pe­ri­ence con­tact with the uni­verse of uni­verses. Crea­tures can at­tain the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, but their evo­lu­tion­ary minds, be­ing fi­nite, are in­ca­pable of re­ally un­der­stand­ing the in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute Fa­ther. But since all crea­ture ex­pe­ri­enc­ing reg­is­ters in, and is a part of, the Su­preme, when all crea­tures at­tain the fi­nal level of fi­nite ex­is­tence, and af­ter to­tal uni­verse de­vel­op­ment makes pos­si­ble their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme as an ac­tual di­vin­ity pres­ence, then, in­her­ent in the fact of such con­tact, is con­tact with to­tal ex­pe­ri­ence. The fi­nite of time con­tains within it­self the seeds of eter­nity; and we are taught that, when the full­ness of evo­lu­tion wit­nesses the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity for cos­mic growth, the to­tal fi­nite will em­bark upon the ab­so­nite phases of the eter­nal ca­reer in quest of the Fa­ther as Ul­ti­mate.

• concomitant of lengthening time unit

118:1.3There is a di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween ma­tu­rity and the unit of time con­scious­ness in any given in­tel­lect. The time unit may be a day, a year, or a longer pe­riod, but in­evitably it is the cri­te­rion by which the con­scious self eval­u­ates the cir­cum­stances of life, and by which the con­ceiv­ing in­tel­lect mea­sures and eval­u­ates the facts of tem­po­ral ex­is­tence.

118:1.4Ex­pe­ri­ence, wis­dom, and judg­ment are the con­comi­tants of the length­en­ing of the time unit in mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence. As the hu­man mind reck­ons back­ward into the past, it is eval­u­at­ing past ex­pe­ri­ence for the pur­pose of bring­ing it to bear on a pres­ent sit­u­a­tion. As mind reaches out into the fu­ture, it is at­tempt­ing to eval­u­ate the fu­ture sig­nif­i­cance of pos­si­ble ac­tion. And hav­ing thus reck­oned with both ex­pe­ri­ence and wis­dom, the hu­man will ex­er­cises judg­ment-de­ci­sion in the pres­ent, and the plan of ac­tion thus born of the past and the fu­ture be­comes ex­is­tent.

118:1.5In the ma­tu­rity of the de­vel­op­ing self, the past and fu­ture are brought to­gether to il­lu­mi­nate the true mean­ing of the pres­ent. As the self ma­tures, it reaches fur­ther and fur­ther back into the past for ex­pe­ri­ence, while its wis­dom fore­casts seek to pen­e­trate deeper and deeper into the un­known fu­ture. And as the con­ceiv­ing self ex­tends this reach ever fur­ther into both past and fu­ture, so does judg­ment be­come less and less de­pen­dent on the mo­men­tary pres­ent. In this way does de­ci­sion-ac­tion be­gin to es­cape from the fet­ters of the mov­ing pres­ent, while it be­gins to take on the as­pects of past-fu­ture sig­nif­i­cance.

118:1.6Pa­tience is ex­er­cised by those mor­tals whose time units are short; true ma­tu­rity tran­scends pa­tience by a for­bear­ance born of real un­der­stand­ing.

118:1.7To be­come ma­ture is to live more in­tensely in the pres­ent, at the same time es­cap­ing from the lim­i­ta­tions of the pres­ent. The plans of ma­tu­rity, founded on past ex­pe­ri­ence, are com­ing into be­ing in the pres­ent in such man­ner as to en­hance the val­ues of the fu­ture.

118:1.8The time unit of im­ma­tu­rity con­cen­trates mean­ing-value into the pres­ent mo­ment in such a way as to di­vorce the pres­ent of its true re­la­tion­ship to the not-pres­ent—the past-fu­ture. The time unit of ma­tu­rity is pro­por­tioned so to re­veal the co-or­di­nate re­la­tion­ship of past-pres­ent-fu­ture that the self be­gins to gain in­sight into the whole­ness of events, be­gins to view the land­scape of time from the panoramic per­spec­tive of broad­ened hori­zons, be­gins per­haps to sus­pect the non­be­gin­ning, non­end­ing eter­nal con­tin­uum, the frag­ments of which are called time.

• Michael required to earn sovereignty by

119:8.2It re­quired al­most one bil­lion years of Uran­tia time to com­plete the be­stowal ca­reer of Mi­chael and to ef­fect the fi­nal es­tab­lish­ment of his su­preme au­thor­ity in the uni­verse of his own cre­ation. Mi­chael was born a cre­ator, ed­u­cated an ad­min­is­tra­tor, trained an ex­ec­u­tive, but he was re­quired to earn his sov­er­eignty by ex­pe­ri­ence. And thus has your lit­tle world be­come known through­out all Neb­a­don as the arena wherein Mi­chael com­pleted the ex­pe­ri­ence which is re­quired of ev­ery Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son be­fore he is given un­lim­ited con­trol and di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of his own mak­ing. As you as­cend the lo­cal uni­verse, you will learn more about the ide­als of the per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in Mi­chael’s pre­vi­ous be­stowals.

• good when it heightens appreciation of truth, beauty, goodness

132:2.5Good­ness is al­ways grow­ing to­ward new lev­els of the in­creas­ing lib­erty of moral self-re­al­iza­tion and spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment—the dis­cov­ery of, and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with, the in­dwelling Ad­juster. An ex­pe­ri­ence is good when it height­ens the ap­pre­ci­a­tion of beauty, aug­ments the moral will, en­hances the dis­cern­ment of truth, en­larges the ca­pac­ity to love and serve one’s fel­lows, ex­alts the spir­i­tual ide­als, and uni­fies the su­preme hu­man mo­tives of time with the eter­nal plans of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, all of which lead di­rectly to an in­creased de­sire to do the Fa­ther’s will, thereby fos­ter­ing the di­vine pas­sion to find God and to be more like him.

• age oftentimes represents
• nothing takes the place of

181:2.5As John Zeb­e­dee stood there in the up­per cham­ber, the tears rolling down his cheeks, he looked into the Mas­ter’s face and said: “And so I will, my Mas­ter, but how can I learn to love my breth­ren more?” And then an­swered Je­sus: “You will learn to love your breth­ren more when you first learn to love their Fa­ther in heaven more, and af­ter you have be­come truly more in­ter­ested in their wel­fare in time and in eter­nity. And all such hu­man in­ter­est is fos­tered by un­der­stand­ing sym­pa­thy, un­selfish ser­vice, and un­stinted for­give­ness. No man should de­spise your youth, but I ex­hort you al­ways to give due con­sid­er­a­tion to the fact that age of­ten­times rep­re­sents ex­pe­ri­ence, and that noth­ing in hu­man af­fairs can take the place of ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Strive to live peace­ably with all men, es­pe­cially your friends in the broth­er­hood of the heav­enly king­dom. And, John, al­ways re­mem­ber, strive not with the souls you would win for the king­dom.”

• nothing takes the place of

181:2.24“I have taught you much by word of mouth, and I have lived my life among you. I have done all that can be done to en­lighten your minds and lib­er­ate your souls, and what you have not been able to get from my teach­ings and my life, you must now pre­pare to ac­quire at the hand of that mas­ter of all teach­ers—ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. And in all of this new ex­pe­ri­ence which now awaits you, I will go be­fore you and the Spirit of Truth shall be with you. Fear not; that which you now fail to com­pre­hend, the new teacher, when he has come, will re­veal to you through­out the re­main­der of your life on earth and on through your train­ing in the eter­nal ages.”