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• on Paradise worlds determined by service, origin

13:2.5You might as­sume that Cre­ator Sons, be­ing of Fa­ther-Son ori­gin, would re­gard Vicegering­ton as their home, but such is not the case in this uni­verse age of the func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold. And there are many sim­i­lar prob­lems that will per­plex you, for you are sure to en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties as you at­tempt to un­der­stand these things which are so near Par­a­dise. Nor can you suc­cess­fully rea­son out these ques­tions; you know so lit­tle. And if you knew more about the Fa­ther’s worlds, you would sim­ply en­counter more dif­fi­cul­ties un­til you knew all about them. Sta­tus on any of these se­cret worlds is ac­quired by ser­vice as well as by na­ture of ori­gin, and the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages may and do re­dis­tribute cer­tain of these per­son­al­ity group­ings.

• differences in s. essential to develop tolerance, altruism

64:6.344. Dif­fer­ences in sta­tus of the races and of groups within each race are es­sen­tial to the de­vel­op­ment of hu­man tol­er­ance and al­tru­ism.

• action essential to consciousness of kinship with Supreme

110:6.17The mo­ti­va­tion of faith makes ex­pe­ri­en­tial the full re­al­iza­tion of man’s son­ship with God, but ac­tion, com­ple­tion of de­ci­sions, is es­sen­tial to the evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of con­scious­ness of pro­gres­sive kin­ship with the cos­mic ac­tu­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. Faith trans­mutes po­ten­tials to ac­tu­als in the spir­i­tual world, but po­ten­tials be­come ac­tu­als in the fi­nite realms of the Su­preme only by and through the re­al­iza­tion of choice-ex­pe­ri­ence. But choos­ing to do the will of God joins spir­i­tual faith to ma­te­rial de­ci­sions in per­son­al­ity ac­tion and thus sup­plies a di­vine and spir­i­tual ful­crum for the more ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing of the hu­man and ma­te­rial lever­age of God-hunger. Such a wise co-or­di­na­tion of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual forces greatly aug­ments both cos­mic re­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme and mor­ontia com­pre­hen­sion of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

• less important than direction of life

111:1.5Mor­tal mind is a tem­po­rary in­tel­lect sys­tem loaned to hu­man be­ings for use dur­ing a ma­te­rial life­time, and as they use this mind, they are ei­ther ac­cept­ing or re­ject­ing the po­ten­tial of eter­nal ex­is­tence. Mind is about all you have of uni­verse re­al­ity that is sub­ject to your will, and the soul—the mor­ontia self—will faith­fully por­tray the har­vest of the tem­po­ral de­ci­sions which the mor­tal self is mak­ing. Hu­man con­scious­ness rests gen­tly upon the elec­tro­chem­i­cal mech­a­nism be­low and del­i­cately touches the spirit-mor­ontia en­ergy sys­tem above. Of nei­ther of these two sys­tems is the hu­man be­ing ever com­pletely con­scious in his mor­tal life; there­fore must he work in mind, of which he is con­scious. And it is not so much what mind com­pre­hends as what mind de­sires to com­pre­hend that in­sures sur­vival; it is not so much what mind is like as what mind is striv­ing to be like that con­sti­tutes spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. It is not so much that man is con­scious of God as that man yearns for God that re­sults in uni­verse as­cen­sion. What you are to­day is not so im­por­tant as what you are be­com­ing day by day and in eter­nity.

• action essential to consciousness of kinship with Supreme

115:0.1With God the Fa­ther, son­ship is the great re­la­tion­ship. With God the Su­preme, achieve­ment is the pre­req­ui­site to sta­tus—one must do some­thing as well as be some­thing.

• less important than direction of life

147:5.7That same evening Je­sus made the long-to-be-re­mem­bered ad­dress to the apos­tles re­gard­ing the rel­a­tive value of sta­tus with God and prog­ress in the eter­nal as­cent to Par­a­dise. Said Je­sus: “My chil­dren, if there ex­ists a true and liv­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the child and the Fa­ther, the child is cer­tain to pro­gress con­tin­u­ously to­ward the Fa­ther’s ide­als. True, the child may at first make slow prog­ress, but the prog­ress is none the less sure. The im­por­tant thing is not the ra­pid­ity of your prog­ress but rather its cer­tainty. Your ac­tual achieve­ment is not so im­por­tant as the fact that the di­rec­tion of your prog­ress is God­ward. What you are be­com­ing day by day is of in­finitely more im­por­tance than what you are to­day.