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See Etymology of Coined Terminology.
Introduction
Section 1: Morontia Materials
Section 2: Morontia Power Supervisors
p20: beyond human appears eight times, followed six times by comprehension and once by understanding and imagination.
Section 3: Morontia Companions
p10: student visitors See cross-reference study: Student Visitors and Daligastia.
Section 4: The Reversion Directors
p5: See Cross-reference study: Age 16, Child Mind, Childlike, Little Child, and Childish.
p7: See cross-reference study: Prophetic Prophec- Prophes-.
p15: See Ego in The Urantia Book, a Topical Study by Chuck Thurston.
Section 5: The Mansion World Teachers
p8: procrastination, problem avoidance, and ease seeking are used once.
[without] equivocation is used, also in connection with the mansion world experience, at 112:4.12.
insincere is used once and with regard to Lucifer. insincerity is used six times. See Topical Study: Insincere/Insincerity.
Section 6: Morontia World Seraphim Transition Ministers
p2: See Topical Study page: Abortion and resurrection for the unborn.
p22: See Topical Study: Sociology (+ all permutations).
p37: See Ego in The Urantia Book, a Topical Study by Chuck Thurston.
Section 7: Morontia Mota
From the 1995 publication of The Urantia Book by Pathways under the name God’s Bible: “Many of the 28 “statements of human philosophy” from [48:7.3-30] can be found in The New Dictionary of Thoughts, compiled by Tryon Edwards. All of these quotes are located consecutively in the first 50 pages of the 750-page book, which is arranged alphabetically by subject. The subjects from which the revelatory quotes include: Ability, Accident, Adversity, Affectation, Affliction, Anger, Anxiety, Art, Aspiration—almost as if the Archangel of Nebadon visited the mansion world class on the day they were doing the “A’s.””
Matthew Block’s “Morontia Mota: A New Perspective” reveals how his mind works in relationship to the study of “source material.”
p3: spiritual capacity See cross-reference study: Spirit(ual) Receptivity and Capacity(ies).
p5: Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart. DELAND, MARGARETTA. 1857-?. (American author). “A pint can’t hold a quart — if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”
p6: Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it. WALPOLE, HORACE. 1661-1724. (English author). “Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
p9: Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. 1807-1882. (American poet). “Nothing with God can be accidental.”
p10: Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort. DISRAELI, BENJAMIN. 1804-1881. (English statesman): “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
p11: Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm. RICHTER, JOHN PAUL. 1763-1826. (German humorist): “Only action gives to life its strength as only moderation gives to life its charm.”
p13: Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God’s. FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP. 1740-1818. (English statesman): “Actions are ours, their consequences belong to heaven.” MORE, HANNAH. 1745-1833. (English author): “Life though a short, is a working day.”
p14: The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted. Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation. SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. (Roman Stoic philosopher): “Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. We become wiser by adversity.” EDWARDS, TRYON, original compiler. The New Dictionary of Thoughts. Classic Publishing Co., London & New York, 1890-1934 and later. Edwards: “No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.”
See Tribulation(s) cross-reference study. See Topical Studies section: Prophecy, Melchizedek, and the Bald Knob Cross of Peace.
p15: Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops. SPURGEON, CHARLES. 1834-1892. (English clergy): “Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.”
p16: Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for. AMIEL, HENRI FREDERIC. 1821-1881. (Swiss philosopher): “Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or rather, have made it desired.”
p17: Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich. LAVATER, JOHN CASPER. 1741-1801. (Swiss theologian): “All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.”
p18: You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity. MILL, JOHN STUART. 1806-1873. (English economist): “There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” TAYLOR, JEREMY. 1613-1667. (English bishop): “Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.”
p20: Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet’s nest. EDWARDS, TRYON, original compiler. The New Dictionary of Thoughts. Classic Publishing Co., London & New York, 1890-1934 and later. “Anger is as to a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.” Malabar Proverb. (Quoted in Tyron Edwards’ The New Dictionary of Thoughts.)
p21: Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. 1819-1891. “Democracy and Addresses.” (American poet and essayist): “Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
p23: The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity. GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. 1749-1832. (German poet, dramatist and philosopher): “The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.”
p24: The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do. BROWNING, ROBERT. 1812-1889. (English poet): “Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!”
p26: The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow. LAVATER, JOHN CASPER. 1741-1801. (Swiss theologian): “Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.” CHAPIN, EDWIN HUBBEL. 1814-1880. (American clergy): “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
p27: Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength. BEECHER, HENRY WARD. 1813-1887. (American clergy): “Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”
p28: Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. 1803-1882. “Old Age.” Society and Solitude. Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1870. (American poet and essayist): “Knowledge exists to be imparted.”
p12: melody is used eight times in 44:1. The other three occurrences are at: (48:7.12), (132:6.3), and (195:7.20).
p20: See Topical Study: Impatient Impatiently Impatience.