oratory

• celestial artisans preserve thought for reproduction

44:4.74. Pro­mot­ers of or­a­tory. This group of re­cord­ers are oc­cu­pied with the task of pre­serv­ing thought for re­pro­duc­tion by or­a­tory. But in the lan­guage of Neb­a­don we could, in a half hour’s ad­dress, cover the sub­ject mat­ter of the en­tire life­time of a Uran­tia mor­tal. Your only hope of com­pre­hend­ing these trans­ac­tions is to pause and con­sider the tech­nique of your dis­or­dered and gar­bled dream life—how you can in a few sec­onds tra­verse years of ex­pe­ri­ence in these fan­tasies of the night sea­son.

44:4.8The or­a­tory of the spirit world is one of the rare treats which await you who have heard only the crude and stum­bling ora­tions of Uran­tia. There is har­mony of mu­sic and eu­phony of ex­pres­sion in the ora­tions of Sal­ving­ton and Eden­tia which are in­spir­ing be­yond de­scrip­tion. These burn­ing con­cepts are like gems of beauty in di­adems of glory. But I can­not do it! I can­not con­vey to the hu­man mind the breadth and depth of these re­al­i­ties of an­other world!

• speaker at forum

132:4.7To the speaker at the fo­rum he said: “Your elo­quence is pleas­ing, your logic is ad­mirable, your voice is pleas­ant, but your teach­ing is hardly true. If you could only en­joy the in­spir­ing sat­is­fac­tion of know­ing God as your spir­i­tual Fa­ther, then you might em­ploy your pow­ers of speech to lib­er­ate your fel­lows from the bond­age of dark­ness and from the slav­ery of ig­no­rance.” This was the Mar­cus who heard Pe­ter preach in Rome and be­came his suc­ces­sor. When they cru­ci­fied Si­mon Pe­ter, it was this man who de­fied the Ro­man per­se­cu­tors and boldly con­tin­ued to preach the new gospel.