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Paper 92
The Later Evolution of Religion
92:0.1 Man possessed a religion of natural origin as a part
of his evolutionary experience long before any systematic revelations
were made on Urantia. But this religion of natural origin was,
in itself, the product of man's superanimal endowments. Evolutionary
religion arose slowly throughout the millenniums of mankind's
experiential career through the ministry of the following influences
operating within, and impinging upon, savage, barbarian, and
civilized man:
92:0.2 The adjutant of worship-the appearance in animal consciousness
of superanimal potentials for reality perception. This might
be termed the primordial human instinct for Deity.
92:0.3 The adjutant of wisdom-the manifestation in a worshipful
mind of the tendency to direct its adoration in higher channels
of expression and toward ever-expanding concepts of Deity reality.
92:0.4 The Holy Spirit-this is the initial supermind bestowal,
and it unfailingly appears in all bona fide human personalities.
This ministry to a worship-craving and wisdom-desiring mind
creates the capacity to self-realize the postulate of human
survival, both in theologic concept and as an actual and factual
personality experience.
92:0.5 The co-ordinate functioning of these three divine ministrations
is quite sufficient to initiate and prosecute the growth of
evolutionary religion. These influences are later augmented
by Thought Adjusters, seraphim, and the Spirit of Truth, all
of which accelerate the rate of religious development. These
agencies have long functioned on Urantia, and they will continue
here as long as this planet remains an inhabited sphere. Much
of the potential of these divine agencies has never yet had
opportunity for expression much will be revealed in the ages
to come as mortal religion ascends, level by level, toward the
supernal heights of morontia value and spirit truth.
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1.
Á¾±³ÀÇ ÁøÈÀû ¼ºÁú
92:1.1 (1003.6) ÃʱâÀÇ °øÆ÷Áõ°ú ±Í½Åµé·ÎºÎÅÍ, ¿µµéÀ» óÀ½¿¡
°Á¦ÇÏ°í ´ÙÀ½¿¡ ±¸½½¸®·Á´Â ³ë·ÂÀ» Æ÷ÇÔÇÏ¿©, ¿¬¼ÓµÈ ¿©·¯ ¹ßÀü ´Ü°è¸¦ ÅëÇØ¼ Á¾±³°¡ ÁøÈÇÑ °ÍÀ» ÃßÀûÇØ º¸¾Ò´Ù.
ºÎÁ·ÀÇ ÁÖ¹°Àº ¼ºÀåÇÏ¿© ÅäÅÛ°ú ºÎÁ· ½ÅÀÌ µÇ¾ú°í, ¸¶¼ú ÁÖ¹®Àº Çö´ëÀÇ ±âµµ°¡ µÇ¾ú´Ù. óÀ½¿¡ ÇϳªÀÇ Èñ»ý ÇàÀ§¿´´ø
ÇÒ·Ê´Â À§»ý ÀýÂ÷°¡ µÇ¾ú´Ù.
92:1.2 (1003.7) Á¾Á·µéÀÌ ¾ß¸¸ÀÎÀ̾ú´ø Ãʱ⠽ÃÀý Àüü¿¡ °ÉÃļ, Á¾±³´Â ÀÚ¿¬ ¼þ¹è·ÎºÎÅÍ ±Í½Å ¼þ¹è¸¦
°ÅÃļ ÁÖ¹° ¼þ¹è¿¡ À̸£±â±îÁö Áøº¸Çß´Ù. ¹®¸íÀÌ ¹à¾Æ¿È°ú ÇÔ²² Àηù´Â ´õ ½Åºñ½º·¯¿î »ó¡Àû °ü³äÀ» ½ÅºÀÇß°í,
ÇÑÆí ÀÌÁ¦ ¼º¼÷±â¿¡ °¡±î¿öÁö¸é¼ Àηù´Â Âü Á¾±³¸¦ ÀÌÇØÇϱ⿡, ¾Æ´Ï ¹Ù·Î Áø¸®ÀÇ °è½Ã°¡ ½ÃÀ۵Ǵ °ÍÀ» À§Çؼµµ
¼º¼÷ÇØÁö°í ÀÖ´Ù.
92:1.3 (1004.1) Á¾±³´Â ¿µÀû °ü³ä°ú ȯ°æ¿¡ ´ëÇÏ¿© Áö¼ºÀÌ »ý¹°ÇÐÀûÀ¸·Î ¹ÝÀÀÇÔÀ¸·Î ÀϾÙ. Á¾±³´Â
ÇÑ ¹ÎÁ· ¾È¿¡¼ Á»Ã³·³ ¸ê¸ÁÇϰųª ¹Ù²îÁö ¾Ê´Â °ÍÀÌ´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ¾î´À ½Ã´ë¿¡µµ ½Åºñ½º·¯¿î °Í¿¡ ´ëÇÑ »çȸÀÇ Á¶Á¤ÀÌ´Ù.
ÇϳªÀÇ »çȸ Á¦µµ·Î¼, Á¾±³´Â ÀǽĤý»ó¡¤ýÁ¦»ç¤ý¼º¼¤ýÁ¦´Ü¤ý¼º¼Ò(á¡á¶)¤ý¼ºÀüÀ» Æ÷ÇÔÇÑ´Ù. °Å·èÇÑ ¹°, À¯Ç°¤ýÁÖ¹°¤ýºÎÀû¤ý¿¹º¹¤ýÁ¾(ñ¤)¤ýºÏ¤ý»çÁ¦Á÷ÀÌ
¸ðµç Á¾±³¿¡ °øÅëÀ¸·Î ÀÖ´Ù. ±×¸®°í ¼øÀüÈ÷ ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³¸¦ ¸¶¼úÀ̳ª ¿ä¼ú·ÎºÎÅÍ ¿ÂÀüÈ÷ ºÐ¸®Çϱâ´Â ºÒ°¡´ÉÇÏ´Ù.
92:1.4 (1004.2) ½Åºñ¿Í ±Ç´ÉÀÌ ¾ðÁ¦³ª Á¾±³Àû ´À³¦°ú µÎ·Á¿òÀ» ÀÚ±ØÇØ ¿Ô°í, ÇÑÆí °¨Á¤Àº ÀÌ µÑÀÇ
¹ß´ÞÀ» °·ÂÇÏ°Ô Á¶ÀýÇÏ´Â ¿ä¼Ò·Î¼ ´Ã ÀÛ¿ëÇØ ¿Ô´Ù. µÎ·Á¿òÀº ¾ðÁ¦³ª ±âº»µÇ´Â Á¾±³Àû ÀÚ±ØÁ¦¿´´Ù. µÎ·Á¿òÀº ÁøÈ
Á¾±³¿¡¼ ½ÅµéÀÇ ¸ð½ÀÀ» ²Ù¹Ì°í, ¿ø½Ã ½ÅÀÚÀÇ Á¾±³ ÀǽÄ(ëðãÒ)À» ÀÚ±ØÇÑ´Ù. ¹®¸íÀÌ ¹ßÀüÇÔ¿¡ µû¶ó¼, µÎ·Á¿òÀº
°æ¿Ü¤ýÂù¹Ì¤ýÁ¸°æ¤ýµ¿Á¤½ÉÀ¸·Î ÀÎÇÏ¿© ¼öÁ¤µÇ°í, ±×¸®°í ³ª¼ °¡Ã¥°ú ´µ¿ìħÀÌ À̸¦ ´õ¿í Á¶ÀýÇÑ´Ù.
92:1.5 (1004.3) ¾î´À ¾Æ½Ã¾Æ ¹ÎÁ·Àº ¡°Çϳª´ÔÀº Å©°Ô µÎ·Á¿î ºÐÀÌ¶ó¡±°í °¡¸£ÃÆ´Ù. ±×°ÍÀº ¼øÀüÈ÷
ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³ÀÇ »ê¹°ÀÌ´Ù. °¡Àå ³ôÀº ºÎ·ùÀÇ Á¾±³Àû »ýȰÀÇ °è½Ã°¡ µÈ ¿¹¼ö´Â ¡°Çϳª´ÔÀÌ »ç¶ûÀÌ¶ó¡±°í ¼±¾ðÇß´Ù.
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1. The Evolutionary
Nature of Religion
92:1.1 The evolution of religion has been
traced from early fear and ghosts down through many successive
stages of development, including those efforts first to coerce
and then to cajole the spirits. Tribal fetishes grew into totems
and tribal gods; magic formulas became modern prayers. Circumcision,
at first a sacrifice, became a hygienic procedure.
92:1.2 Religion progressed from nature worship up through ghost
worship to fetishism throughout the savage childhood of the
races. With the dawn of civilization the human race espoused
the more mystic and symbolic beliefs, while now, with approaching
maturity, mankind is ripening for the appreciation of real religion,
even a beginning of the revelation of truth itself.
92:1.3 Religion arises as a biologic reaction of mind to spiritual
beliefs and the environment; it is the last thing to perish
or change in a race. Religion is society's adjustment, in any
age, to that which is mysterious. As a social institution it
embraces rites, symbols, cults, scriptures, altars, shrines,
and temples. Holy water, relics, fetishes, charms, vestments,
bells, drums, and priesthoods are common to all religions. And
it is impossible entirely to divorce purely evolved religion
from either magic or sorcery.
92:1.4 Mystery and power have always stimulated religious feelings
and fears, while emotion has ever functioned as a powerful conditioning
factor in their development. Fear has always been the basic
religious stimulus. Fear fashions the gods of evolutionary religion
and motivates the religious ritual of the primitive believers.
As civilization advances, fear becomes modified by reverence,
admiration, respect, and sympathy and is then further conditioned
by remorse and repentance.
92:1.5 One Asiatic people taught that "God is a great fear";
that is the outgrowth of purely evolutionary religion. Jesus,
the revelation of the highest type of religious living, proclaimed
that "God is love."
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Á¾±³¿Í µµ´ö °ü½À
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½ÅÃ༺ÀÌ ¾øÁö¸¸, º¯ÇÏ´Â »çȸ µÚ¿¡ óÁ®¼ ÀûÀÀÇÑ´Ù. °á±¹, ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â º¯ÇÏ´Â µµ´ö °ü½ÀÀ» ¹Ý¿µÇϸç, ´Ù½Ã
À̰ÍÀº °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³¿¡ ¿µÇâÀ» ¹Þ¾ÒÀ» ¼öµµ ÀÖ´Ù. ´À¸®°í È®½ÇÇϰÔ, ÇÏÁö¸¸ Åõ´ú°Å¸®¸é¼, Á¾±³(¿¹¹è)´Â ÁöÇý¡ªÃ¼ÇèÀû
³í¸®°¡ ¾È³»ÇÏ°í ½ÅÀÇ °è½Ã°¡ ºñÃç ÁÖ´Â Áö½Ä¡ªÀÇ ¹ßÀÚ±¹À» ÁÀ¾Æ¼ µû¶ó°£´Ù.
92:2.2 (1004.5) Á¾±³´Â µµ´ö °ü½À¿¡ ÁýÂøÇÑ´Ù. ÀÌ¹Ì ÀÖ´ø °ÍÀº ¿À·¡ µÇ¾ú°í, ½Å¼ºÇÏ´Ù°í »ý°¢µÈ´Ù.
´Ù¸¥ ÀÌÀ¯°¡ ¾Æ´Ï°í ÀÌ ¶§¹®¿¡, µ¹·Î ¸¸µç ¿¬ÀåÀº ûµ¿±â ½Ã´ë¿Í ö±â(ôÑÐï) ½Ã´ë±îÁö ¿À·§µ¿¾È Áö¼ÓµÇ¾ú´Ù.
ÀÌ ¸»ÀÌ ±â·ÏµÇ¾î ÀÖ´Ù: ¡°±×¸®°í ³ª¿¡°Ô µ¹·Î µÈ Á¦´ÜÀ» ¸¸µé°íÀÚ ÇÏ°Åµç ³ÊÈñ´Â ±ðÀº µ¹·Î ¼¼¿ìÁö ¸»Áö´Ï,
¸¸µå´Â µ¥ ¿¬ÀåÀ» ¾²¸é, ³ÊÈñ´Â Á¦´ÜÀ» ´õ·´Çû´À´Ï¶ó.¡± ¿À´Ã³¯µµ, ÈùµÎÀÎÀº ¿ø½ÃÀÇ ºÒ ¼Û°÷À» ½á¼ Á¦´Ü¿¡ ºÒÀ»
ÁöÇÉ´Ù. ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³ÀÇ °úÁ¤¿¡¼, »õ·Î¿î °ÍÀº ¾ðÁ¦³ª ½Å¼º ¸ðµ¶À¸·Î ¿©°å´Ù. ¼ºÂù(á¡óÉ)Àº »õ·Ó°í °¡°øµÈ ¸ÔÀ»
°ÍÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó, °¡Àå ¿ø½ÃÀû ½ÄǰÀ¸·Î ÀÌ·ç¾îÁ®¾ß Çß´Ù. ¡°ºÒ·Î ±¸¿î °í±â, ¾´ ³ª¹°°ú ÇÔ²² À̽ºÆ® ³ÖÁö ¾ÊÀº
»§.¡± ¿Â°® Á¾·ùÀÇ »çȸ °üÇà, ±×¸®°í ¹ý ÀýÂ÷±îÁöµµ ¿¾ ¸ð½À¿¡ ÁýÂøÇÑ´Ù.
92:2.3 (1004.6) À½ÅÁÇÏ´Ù°í ¿©±æ ¼ö ÀÖ´Â ¸¹Àº °ÍÀÌ ´Ù¸¥ Á¾±³ÀÇ ¼º¼¿¡ ¹ßÇ¥µÈ °ÍÀ» º¸°í Çö´ëÀÎÀÌ
³î¶ö ¶§, Áö³ª°¡´Â ¼¼´ëµéÀÌ ±×µéÀÇ ¼±Á¶°¡ °Å·èÇÏ°í ½Å¼ºÇÏ´Ù°í ¿©±ä °ÍÀ» µÎ·Á¿ö ¾ø¾ÖÁö ¸øÇß´Ù´Â °ÍÀ» ¸ØÃß¾î¼
»ý°¢ÇØ º¸¾Æ¾ß ÇÑ´Ù. ÇÑ ¼¼´ë°¡ À½ÅÁÇÏ´Ù°í º¼ ¼öµµ ÀÖ´Â ¸¹Àº °ÍÀ», ÀÌÀü ¼¼´ëµéÀº ¿ë³³µÈ °ü½ÀÀÇ ÀϺηÎ,
¾Æ´Ï ÀÎÁ¤¹ÞÀº Á¾±³ ÀǽÄÀ̶ó°í±îÁö ¿©°å´Ù. »ó´çÇÑ ¾çÀÇ Á¾±³Àû ³íÀïÀº, ¿À·¡ µÇ¾úÁö¸¸ ²Ù¢¾î ¸¶¶¥ÇÑ °ü½ÀÀ»
»õ·Î Á¦½ÃµÈ ³í¸®¿Í ÀýÃæÇϰí, ¿À·¡ µÇ°í ¹¬Àº dz½ÀÀ» ½ÅÁ¶·Î ¿µ¼Ó½ÃŰ´Â °ÍÀ» Á¤´çÈÇÏ¸é¼ ±×·²µíÇÑ ÀÌ·ÐÀ» ãÀ¸·Á´Â
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92:2.4 (1004.7) ±×·¯³ª Á¾±³ÀÇ ¼ºÀåÀ» ³Ê¹« °©Àڱ⠰¡¼ÓÇÏ·Á°í ¾Ö¾²´Â °ÍÀº ¾î¸®¼®À» µû¸§ÀÌ´Ù. ÇÑ
Á¾Á·À̳ª ¹ÎÁ·Àº ¾î¶² »ó±Þ Á¾±³·ÎºÎÅ͵µ, ÀûÀÀÇϴ õÀç¿Í ÇÔ²², ´ç´ëÀÇ ±× ÁøÈÀû ÁöÀ§¿Í »ó´çÈ÷ ÀÏÄ¡µÇ°í ¾ç¸³ÇÒ
¼ö ÀÖ´Â °ÍÀ» µ¿ÈÇÒ ¼ö ÀÖÀ» »ÓÀÌ´Ù. »çȸ¤ý±âÈĤýÁ¤Ä¡¤ý°æÁ¦ Á¶°ÇÀº ¸ðµÎ, Á¾±³Àû ÁøÈ °úÁ¤°ú Áøº¸¸¦ °áÁ¤ÇÏ´Â
µ¥ ¿ÂÅë ¿µÇâÀ» ¹ÌÄ£´Ù. »çȸÀÇ µµ´öÀº Á¾±³, ´Ù½Ã ¸»Çؼ, ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³¿¡ Á¿ìµÇÁö ¾Ê´Â´Ù. ¿ÀÈ÷·Á Á¾Á·ÀÇ
µµ´öÀÌ Á¾±³ÀÇ ÇüŸ¦ °áÁ¤ÇÑ´Ù.
92:2.5 (1005.1) »ç¶÷ÀÇ Á¾Á·µéÀº ÀÌ»óÇÏ°í »õ·Î¿î Á¾±³¸¦ ±×Àú °ÑÀ¸·Î¸¸ ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀδÙ. »õ Á¾±³¸¦ ±×µéÀÇ
µµ´ö °ü½À°ú ¿¾³¯ÀÇ ¹Ï´Â ¹æ½Ä¿¡ ½ÇÁ¦·Î ÀûÀÀ½ÃŲ´Ù. À̰ÍÀº ¾î¶² ´ºÁú·£µå ºÎÁ·ÀÇ ¿¹°¡ Àß º¸¿©ÁØ´Ù. ÀÌ ºÎÁ·ÀÇ
»çÁ¦µéÀº À̸§¸¸À¸·Î ±âµ¶±³¸¦ ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀÎ µÚ¿¡, °¡ºê¸®¿¤·ÎºÎÅÍ ¹Ù·Î °è½Ã¸¦ ¹Þ¾Ò´Ù°í °í¹éÇߴµ¥, ±× °è½ÃÀÇ ÃëÁö´Â
¹Ù·Î ÀÌ ºÎÁ·ÀÌ Çϳª´ÔÀÌ ÅÃÇÑ ¹ÎÁ·ÀÌ µÇ¾ú°í, ±×µéÀÌ ÀýÁ¦ ¾ø´Â ¼º°ü°è, ±×¸®°í ¿À·¡ µÇ°í ²Ù¢¾î ¸¶¶¥ÇÑ Ç³½À,
±×µéÀÇ ¼ö¸¹Àº ´Ù¸¥ dz½À¿¡ ¸¶À½´ë·Î ºüÁö´Â °ÍÀ» Çã¶ôÇÑ´Ù°í Áö½ÃÇß´Ù´Â °ÍÀÌ´Ù. »õ·Î ±âµ¶±³ÀÎÀÌ µÈ ÀÚµéÀº ¸ðµÎ,
»õ·Ó°í ´ú ±î´Ù·Î¿î ÀÌ ±âµ¶±³ ÇØ¼®À¸·Î Áï½Ã ÀüÇâÇÏ¿´´Ù.
92:2.6 (1005.2) Á¾±³´Â ¾ðÁ¨°¡ ¿Â°® Á¾·ùÀÇ ¹Ý´ëµÇ°í ¸ð¼øµÇ´Â ÇàÀ§¸¦ Àΰ¡ÇÑ ÀûÀÌ ÀÖ°í, Áö±Ý ºÎµµ´öÇϰųª
Á˶ó°í ¿©±â´Â °ÅÀÇ ¸ðµç °ÍÀ» ÇѶ§´Â ÀÎÁ¤Çß´Ù. üÇèÀ¸·Î ¹è¿ìÁö ¾Ê°í ³í¸®ÀÇ µµ¿òÀ» ¹ÞÁö ¾ÊÀº ¾ç½ÉÀº, °áÄÚ
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2. Religion and the Mores
92:2.1 Religion is the most rigid and unyielding
of all human institutions, but it does tardily adjust to changing
society. Eventually, evolutionary religion does reflect the
changing mores, which, in turn, may have been affected by revealed
religion. Slowly, surely, but grudgingly, does religion (worship)
follow in the wake of wisdom-knowledge directed by experiential
reason and illuminated by divine revelation.
92:2.2 Religion clings to the mores; that which was is ancient
and supposedly sacred. For this reason and no other, stone implements
persisted long into the age of bronze and iron. This statement
is of record: "And if you will make me an altar of stone,
you shall not build it of hewn stone, for, if you use your tools
in making it, you have polluted it." Even today, the Hindus
kindle their altar fires by using a primitive fire drill. In
the course of evolutionary religion, novelty has always been
regarded as sacrilege. The sacrament must consist, not of new
and manufactured food, but of the most primitive of viands:
" The flesh roasted with fire and unleavened bread served
with bitter herbs. " All types of social usage and even
legal procedures cling to the old forms.
92:2.3 When modern man wonders at the presentation of so much
in the scriptures of different religions that may be regarded
as obscene, he should pause to consider that passing generations
have feared to eliminate what their ancestors deemed to be holy
and sacred. A great deal that one generation might look upon
as obscene, preceding generations have considered a part of
their accepted mores, even as approved religious rituals. A
considerable amount of religious controversy has been occasioned
by the never-ending attempts to reconcile olden but reprehensible
practices with newly advanced reason, to find plausible theories
in justification of creedal perpetuation of ancient and outworn
customs.
92:2.4 But it is only foolish to attempt the too sudden acceleration
of religious growth. A race or nation can only assimilate from
any advanced religion that which is reasonably consistent and
compatible with its current evolutionary status, plus its genius
for adaptation. Social, climatic, political, and economic conditions
are all influential in determining the course and progress of
religious evolution. Social morality is not determined by religion,
that is, by evolutionary religion; rather are the forms of religion
dictated by the racial morality.
92:2.5 Races of men only superficially accept a strange and
new religion; they actually adjust it to their mores and old
ways of believing. This is well illustrated by the example of
a certain New Zealand tribe whose priests, after nominally accepting
Christianity, professed to have received direct revelations
from Gabriel to the effect that this selfsame tribe had become
the chosen people of God and directing that they be permitted
freely to indulge in loose sex relations and numerous other
of their olden and reprehensible customs. And immediately all
of the new-made Christians went over to this new and less exacting
version of Christianity.
92:2.6 Religion has at one time or another sanctioned all sorts
of contrary and inconsistent behavior, has at some time approved
of practically all that is now regarded as immoral or sinful.
Conscience, untaught by experience and unaided by reason, never
has been, and never can be, a safe and unerring guide to human
conduct. Conscience is not a divine voice speaking to the human
soul. It is merely the sum total of the moral and ethical content
of the mores of any current stage of existence; it simply represents
the humanly conceived ideal of reaction in any given set of
circumstances.
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3.
ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³ÀÇ ¼ºÁú
92:3.1 (1005.3) Àΰ£ÀÇ Á¾±³¸¦ ¿¬±¸ÇÏ´Â °ÍÀº ȼ®À» Áö´Ñ,
Áö³ ½Ã´ëÀÇ »çȸÀÇ ÁöÃþÀ» °Ë»çÇÏ´Â °ÍÀÌ´Ù. Àΰ£ÀÇ ¸ð½ÀÀ» ÇÑ ½ÅµéÀÇ µµ´ö °ü½ÀÀº ±×·¯ÇÑ ½ÅµéÀ» óÀ½ »ý°¢ÇÑ
»ç¶÷µéÀÇ µµ´ö·üÀ» ÂüµÇ°Ô ¹Ý¿µÇÑ´Ù. ¿¾ Á¾±³¿Í ½ÅÈ(ãêü¥)´Â »ç¶óÁø Áö ¿À·¡µÈ, ¹ÎÁ·µéÀÇ ½Å¾Ó°ú ÀüÅëÀ» ÀÖ´Â
±×´ë·Î ±×¸°´Ù. ÀÌ ¿¾ ÀÇ½Ä °ü½ÀÀº »õ·Î¿î °æÁ¦ °ü½À°ú »çȸÀÇ ÁøÈ¿Í ³ª¶õÈ÷ Áö¼ÓÇϸç, ¹°·Ð Å͹«´Ï¾øÀÌ ¸ð¼øµÇ¾î
º¸ÀδÙ. ±× ÀǽÄ(ëðãÒ)ÀÇ ³²Àº Â±â´Â Áö³³¯ÀÇ ¹ÎÁ· Á¾±³ÀÇ Âü ¸ð½ÀÀ» º¸¿©ÁØ´Ù. ±× Á¾ÆÄµéÀº Áø¸®¸¦ ãÀ¸·Á´Â
°ÍÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó, ¿ÀÈ÷·Á ±×µéÀÇ ±³¸®¸¦ ³Î¸® ÆîÄ¡·Á°í Çü¼ºµÈ´Ù´Â °ÍÀ» ¹Ýµå½Ã ±â¾ïÇÏ¿©¶ó.
92:3.2 (1005.4) Á¾±³´Â ¾ðÁ¦³ª ´ëü·Î °ü·Ê¤ýÀǽĤý°üÇà¤ý¿¹½Ä¤ýµ¶´ÜÀÇ ¹®Á¦¿´´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ²öÁú±â°Ô ÇØ¾ÇÀ»
³¢Ä¡´Â À߸ø, Áï ¼±Åà ¹ÞÀº ¹é¼ºÀ̶ó´Â ¸Á»ó¿¡ º¸Åë ¹°µé¾î ÀÖ´Ù. ÁÖ¹® ¿Ü¿ì±â, ¿µ°¨, °è½Ã, ½ÅÀ» ´Þ·¡±â,
´µ¿ìħ, Á˰ª ¹°¾î³»±â, ÁßÀç, Èñ»ý¹° ¹ÙÄ¡±â, ±âµµ, ÁË °í¹é, ¿¹¹è, Á×Àº µÚ¿¡ ºÎȰ, ¼ºÂù¤ýÀǽĤý¸ö°ª¤ý±¸¿ø,
¸ö°ª ³»°í µÇã±â, °è¾à¤ý´õ·¯¿ò¤ýÁ¤È(ïäûù)¤ý¿¹¾ð¤ý¿øÁË(ê«ñª)¿Í °°Àº ±âº»Àû Á¾±³ °ü³ä¡ªÀÌ ¸ðµÎ°¡ ¿ø½ÃÀÇ ±Í½Å
°øÆ÷ÁõÀÌ ÀÖ¾ú´ø ¿¾ ½ÃÀý·Î °Å½½·¯ ¿Ã¶ó°£´Ù.
92:3.3 (1005.5) ¿ø½Ã Á¾±³´Â ¹°ÁúÀû Á¸À縦 À§ÇÑ ½Î¿òÀÌ ¹«´ýÀ» ³Ñ¾î¼ »ç´Â °ÍÀ» Æ÷ÇÔÇÏ·Á°í ¿¬ÀåµÈ
°Í¿¡ Áö³ªÁö ¾Ê´Â´Ù. ±×·¯ÇÑ ½ÅÁ¶¸¦ À¯ÁöÇÏ´Â °ÍÀº ÀÚ¾Æ º¸Á¸ ÅõÀïÀÌ, »ó»óÇÏ´Â ±Í½Å ¹× ¿µ ¼¼°èÀÇ ¿µÅä±îÁö
¿¬ÀåµÈ °ÍÀÌ´Ù. ±×·¯³ª ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³¸¦ ºñ³ÇÒ À¯È¤À» ¹ÞÀ» ¶§ Á¶½ÉÇÏ¿©¶ó. ¹Ù·Î ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â ÀÏ¾î³ »ç½ÇÀÓÀ»
±â¾ïÇÒÁö´Ï, ±×°ÍÀº ¿ª»çÀû »ç½ÇÀÌ´Ù. ±×¸®°í ¾î¶² °³³äÀÇ ÈûÀº ±× °³³äÀÌ È®½ÇÇϰųª Áø½ÇÇѰ¡¿¡ ÀÖ´Â °ÍÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó,
¿ÀÈ÷·Á ¾ó¸¶³ª »ý»ýÇÏ°Ô Àΰ£¿¡°Ô È£¼ÒÇϴ°¡¿¡ ÀÖ´Ù.
92:3.4 (1006.1) ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â º¯È³ª ¼öÁ¤À» À§ÇÏ¿© ¾Æ¹«·± ´ëÃ¥ÀÌ ¾ø´Ù. °úÇаú ´Þ¸®, ÁøÈµÈ
Á¾±³´Â ±× ÀÚü¸¦ ÁøÃëÀûÀ¸·Î ¼öÁ¤ÇÏ´Â ¹æ¾ÈÀ» ¸¶·ÃÇÏÁö ¾Ê´Â´Ù. ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â ±× ÃßÁ¾ÀÚµéÀÌ ±× Á¾±³°¡ ¡°À¯ÀÏÇÑ
Áø¸®¡±¶ó°í ¹Ï±â ¶§¹®¿¡ Á¸°æÀ» ¹Þ´Â´Ù. ¡°¼ºÀÚµéÀÌ ÀüÇØ ¹ÞÀº ½Å¾Ó¡±Àº ÀÌ·ÐÀûÀ¸·Î ÃÖÁ¾ÀÌ°í Æ²¸± ¼ö ¾ø´Â °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
ÁøÁ¤ÇÑ Áøº¸°¡ ±× ´Üü ÀÚü¸¦ ¼öÁ¤Çϰųª ÆÄ±«ÇÒ °ÍÀÌ È®½ÇÇϱ⠶§¹®¿¡, ¼þ¹è ´Üü´Â ¹ßÀü¿¡ ÀúÇ×ÇÑ´Ù. µû¶ó¼
¾ðÁ¦³ª ¼þ¹è ´Üü¿¡°Ô ¼öÁ¤À» °Á¦ÇØ¾ß ÇÑ´Ù.
92:3.5 (1006.2) ¿À·ÎÁö µÎ °¡Áö ¿µÇâÀÌ ÀÚ¿¬ Á¾±³ÀÇ ±³¸®¸¦ ¼öÁ¤(áóïá)Çϰí Çâ»óÇÒ ¼ö Àִµ¥,
Çϳª´Â ´À¸®°Ô ÁøÇàÇÏ´Â µµ´ö °ü½ÀÀÇ ¾Ð·ÂÀÌ¿ä, ´Ù¸¥ Çϳª´Â ½Å±â¿øÀÇ °è½Ã°¡ Á¤±âÀûÀ¸·Î ºûÀ» ºñÃß´Â °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
±×¸®°í Áøº¸°¡ ´À¸° °ÍÀº ÀÌ»óÇÑ ÀÏÀÌ ¾Æ´Ï´Ù. ¿¾³¯¿¡´Â ÁøÃ뼺À̳ª âÀǼºÀÌ ÀÖÀ¸¸é ¿ä¼ú»ç·Î¼ Á×À½À» ´çÇÏ´Â
°ÍÀ» ¶æÇß´Ù. ¼þ¹è ´Üü´Â ¸î ¼¼´ë¿¡ °ÉÄ£ ½Ã´ë¿Í ¿À·£ ¼¼¿ù¿¡ °ÉÄ£ Áֱ⸦ °¡Áö°í ´À¸®°Ô Áøº¸ÇÑ´Ù. ±×·¯³ª
±× ´Üü´Â ¾ÕÀ¸·Î ³ª¾Æ°£´Ù. ±Í½ÅÀ» ¹Ï´Â ÁøÈµÈ ½Å¾ÓÀº °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³ÀÇ Ã¶ÇÐÀ» ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀÏ ±âÃʸ¦ ½×¾Ò°í, À̰ÍÀº
±Ã±Ø¿¡ ±× ±Ù¿øÀÎ ¹Ì½ÅÀ» ÆÄ±«ÇÒ °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
92:3.6 (1006.3) Á¾±³´Â ¿©·¯ °¡Áö·Î »çȸÀÇ ¹ßÀü¿¡ Àå¾Ö°¡ µÇ¾úÁö¸¸, Á¾±³°¡ ¾øÀÌ Áö¼ÓµÇ´Â µµ´öÀ̳ª
À±¸®, °¡Ä¡ ÀÖ´Â ¹®¸íÀÌ Çϳªµµ ¾ø¾úÀ» °ÍÀÌ´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ¸¹Àº ºñÁ¾±³ ¹®ÈÀÇ ¾î¸Ó´Ï°¡ µÇ¾ú´Ù: Á¶°¢Àº ¿ì»ó ¸¸µé±â¿¡¼,
°ÇÃàÀº ¼ºÀü Áþ±â¿¡¼, ½Ã(ãÌ)´Â ÁÖ¹®¿¡¼, À½¾ÇÀº ¿¹¹èÇÏ´Â ³ë·¡¿¡¼, ¿¬±ØÀº ¿µÀÇ Àεµ¸¦ ´ë½ÅÇÏ´Â ¿¬±â¿¡¼,
ÃãÀº ö¸¶´Ù ¿¹¹èÇÏ´Â ÀÜÄ¡¿¡¼ ºñ·ÔÇÏ¿´´Ù.
92:3.7 (1006.4) ±×·¯³ª Á¾±³°¡ ¹®¸íÀÇ ¹ßÀü°ú º¸Á¸¿¡ Çʼö¿´´Ù´Â »ç½Ç¿¡ ÁÖÀǸ¦ ºÒ·¯ÀÏÀ¸Å°´Â ÇÑÆí,
ÀÚ¿¬ Á¾±³´Â ´Þ¸® ±× Á¾±³°¡ À°¼ºÇϰí À¯ÁöÇÑ ¹Ù·Î ±× ¹®¸íÀ» ¶ÇÇÑ Àý¸§¹ßÀÌ·Î ¸¸µé°í ¹æÇØÇÏ·Á°í ¸¹ÀÌ ¼ö°íÇß´Ù´Â
°ÍÀ» Àû¾î¾ß ÇÑ´Ù. Á¾±³´Â »ê¾÷ Ȱµ¿°ú °æÁ¦ ¹ßÀüÀ» ¹æÇØÇß´Ù. ³ëµ¿À» ÇìÇÁ°Ô ¾²°í ÀÚº»À» ³¶ºñÇß´Ù. Á¾±³´Â
°¡Á·¿¡°Ô ¹Ýµå½Ã µµ¿òÀÌ µÇÁö´Â ¾Ê¾Ò´Ù. ÆòÈ¿Í ¼±ÀǸ¦ ÀûÀýÈ÷ À°¼ºÇÏÁö ¾Ê¾Ò´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ¶§¶§·Î ±³À°À» °ÔÀ»¸®
Çß°í °úÇÐÀÇ ¼ºÀåÀ» ´õµð°Ô ¸¸µé¾ú´Ù. Á×À½À» ºÎÀ¯ÇÏ°Ô ²Ù¹Ì±â À§Çؼ »îÀ» Áö³ªÄ¡°Ô ºó°ïÇÏ°Ô ¸¸µé¾ú´Ù. ÁøÈµÈ
Á¾±³, Àΰ£ÀÇ Á¾±³´Â Á¤¸»·Î ÀÌ ¸ðµç °Í, ±×¸®°í ´õ ¸¹Àº À߸ø¤ý¿À·ù¤ý½Ç¼ö¸¦ ÀúÁö¸¥ Á˰¡ ÀÖ´Ù. ±×·±µ¥µµ Á¾±³´Â
¹®ÈÀû À±¸®, ¹®¸íÈµÈ µµ´ö, »çȸÀÇ ´Ü°áÀ» À¯ÁöÇß°í, °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³°¡ ÈÄÀÏ¿¡ ¸¹Àº ÀÌ·¯ÇÑ ÁøÈÀû °áÁ¡À» ¸Þ¿ì´Â
°ÍÀ» °¡´ÉÇÏ°Ô Çß´Ù.
92:3.8 (1006.5) ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â »ç¶÷¿¡°Ô °¡Àå ºñ¿ëÀÌ ¸¹ÀÌ µç Á¦µµ¿´Áö¸¸, ºñÇÒ ¼ö ¾øÀÌ È¿°ú°¡
ÀÖ¾ú´Ù. Àΰ£ÀÇ Á¾±³´Â ¿ÀÁ÷ ÁøÈµÈ ¹®¸í¿¡ ºñÃß¾î¼ Á¤´ç鵃 ¼ö ÀÖ´Ù. »ç¶÷ÀÌ µ¿¹°ÀÇ ÁøÈ¿¡¼ ¿Ã¶ó°£ °á°ú°¡
¾Æ´Ï¶ó¸é, ±×·¯ÇÑ Á¾±³ ¹ßÀü °úÁ¤À» Á¤´çÈÇÒ ¼ö ¾øÀ» °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
92:3.9 (1006.6) Á¾±³´Â ÀÚº»ÀÇ ÃàÀûÀ» ¿ëÀÌÇÏ°Ô ¸¸µé¾ú°í, ¾î¶² Á¾·ùÀÇ ÀÏÀ» À°¼ºÇß´Ù. »çÁ¦µéÀÇ
¿©°¡´Â ¿¹¼ú°ú Áö½ÄÀ» ±ÇÀåÇß°í, °á±¹ ±× Á¾Á·Àº Ãʱ⿡ À±¸®Àû ±â¹ýÀÇ ¿Â°® À߸øÀÇ °á°ú·Î¼ ¸¹Àº °ÍÀ» ¾ò¾ú´Ù.
Á¤Á÷ÇÑ »þ¸Õ°ú ±×·¸Áö ¾ÊÀº »þ¸ÕÀº ºñ¿ëÀÌ ¹«Ã´ ºñ½Î°Ô µé¾ú¾îµµ, ±×µéÀº Á¦ °ªÀ» ÃæºÐÈ÷ Çß´Ù. Áö½Ä °è±Þ°ú
°úÇÐ ±× ÀÚü´Â, ±â»ýÇÏ´Â »çÁ¦ °è±ÞÀ¸·ÎºÎÅÍ ¼Ú¾Æ³ª¿Ô´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ¹®¸íÀ» À°¼ºÇϰí, »çȸÀÇ ¿¬¼Ó¼ºÀ» ¸¶·ÃÇØ ÁÖ¾ú°í,
¼¼¼¼Åä·Ï µµ´öÀ» À¯ÁöÇÏ´Â °æÂû·ÂÀÌ µÇ¾ú´Ù. Á¾±³´Â Àΰ£ÀÇ ´Ü·Ã°ú ÀÚÁ¦¸¦ ¸¶·ÃÇØ ÁÖ¾ú°í, À̰ÍÀº ÁöÇý°¡ »ý±æ
¼ö ÀÖ°Ô ¸¸µé¾ú´Ù. Á¾±³´Â ÁøÈ¿¡¼ È¿°ú Àִ äÂïÀ̸ç, ÀÌ Ã¤ÂïÀº °ÔÀ¸¸£°í °íÅë ¹Þ´Â Àηù¸¦ Áö´ÉÀÌ ³î°í
ÀÖ´Â ÀÚ¿¬ »óÅ·κÎÅÍ ´õ ³ôÀº À̼º°ú ÁöÇýÀÇ ¼öÁØÀ¸·Î, ¾ÕÀ¸·Î, À§·Î °¡µµ·Ï »çÁ¤ ¾øÀÌ ¸ó´Ù.
92:3.10 (1006.7) ±×¸®°í µ¿¹°·Î¼ ¿Ã¶ó°¡¼ ¾òÀº ÀÌ ½Å¼ºÇÑ À¯»ê, ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³¸¦ °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³·Î
°è¼Ó °Ë¿ÇÔÀ¸·Î, ±×¸®°í ÁøÁ¤ÇÑ °úÇÐÀÇ ºÒŸ´Â ¿ë±¤·Î¸¦ ÀÌ¿ëÇÏ¿© ´Ã °è¼Ó ´Ùµë°í °í±ÍÇÏ°Ô ¸¸µé¾î¾ß ÇÑ´Ù.
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3. The Nature of Evolutionary
Religion
92:3.1 The study of human religion is the
examination of the fossil-bearing social strata of past ages.
The mores of the anthropomorphic gods are a truthful reflection
of the morals of the men who first conceived such deities. Ancient
religions and mythology faithfully portray the beliefs and traditions
of peoples long since lost in obscurity. These olden cult practices
persist alongside newer economic customs and social evolutions
and, of course, appear grossly inconsistent. The remnants of
the cult present a true picture of the racial religions of the
past. Always remember, the cults are formed, not to discover
truth, but rather to promulgate their creeds.
92:3.2 Religion has always been largely a matter of rites, rituals,
observances, ceremonies, and dogmas. It has usually become tainted
with that persistently mischief-making error, the chosen-people
delusion. The cardinal religious ideas of incantation, inspiration,
revelation, propitiation, repentance, atonement, intercession,
sacrifice, prayer, confession, worship, survival after death,
sacrament, ritual, ransom, salvation, redemption, covenant,
uncleanness, purification, prophecy, original sin-they all go
back to the early times of primordial ghost fear.
92:3.3 Primitive religion is nothing more nor less than the
struggle for material existence extended to embrace existence
beyond the grave. The observances of such a creed represented
the extension of the self-maintenance struggle into the domain
of an imagined ghost-spirit world. But when tempted to criticize
evolutionary religion, be careful. Remember, that is what happened;
it is a historical fact. And further recall that the power of
any idea lies, not in its certainty or truth, but rather in
the vividness of its human appeal.
92:3.4 Evolutionary religion makes no provision for change or
revision; unlike science, it does not provide for its own progressive
correction. Evolved religion commands respect because its followers
believe it is The Truth; "the faith once delivered to the
saints" must, in theory, be both final and infallible.
The cult resists development because real progress is certain
to modify or destroy the cult itself; therefore must revision
always be forced upon it.
92:3.5 Only two influences can modify and uplift the dogmas
of natural religion: the pressure of the slowly advancing mores
and the periodic illumination of epochal revelation. And it
is not strange that progress was slow; in ancient days, to be
progressive or inventive meant to be killed as a sorcerer. The
cult advances slowly in generation epochs and agelong cycles.
But it does move forward. Evolutionary belief in ghosts laid
the foundation for a philosophy of revealed religion which will
eventually destroy the superstition of its origin.
92:3.6 Religion has handicapped social development in many ways,
but without religion there would have been no enduring morality
nor ethics, no worth-while civilization. Religion enmothered
much nonreligious culture: Sculpture originated in idol making,
architecture in temple building, poetry in incantations, music
in worship chants, drama in the acting for spirit guidance,
and dancing in the seasonal worship festivals.
92:3.7 But while calling attention to the fact that religion
was essential to the development and preservation of civilization,
it should be recorded that natural religion has also done much
to cripple and handicap the very civilization which it otherwise
fostered and maintained. Religion has hampered industrial activities
and economic development; it has been wasteful of labor and
has squandered capital; it has not always been helpful to the
family; it has not adequately fostered peace and good will;
it has sometimes neglected education and retarded science; it
has unduly impoverished life for the pretended enrichment of
death. Evolutionary religion, human religion, has indeed been
guilty of all these and many more mistakes, errors, and blunders;
nevertheless, it did maintain cultural ethics, civilized morality,
and social coherence, and made it possible for later revealed
religion to compensate for these many evolutionary shortcomings.
92:3.8 Evolutionary religion has been man's most expensive but
incomparably effective institution. Human religion can be justified
only in the light of evolutionary civilization. If man were
not the ascendant product of animal evolution, then would such
a course of religious development stand without justification.
92:3.9 Religion facilitated the accumulation of capital; it
fostered work of certain kinds; the leisure of the priests promoted
art and knowledge; the race, in the end, gained much as a result
of all these early errors in ethical technique. The shamans,
honest and dishonest, were terribly expensive, but they were
worth all they cost. The learned professions and science itself
emerged from the parasitical priesthoods. Religion fostered
civilization and provided societal continuity; it has been the
moral police force of all time. Religion provided that human
discipline and self-control which made wisdom possible. Religion
is the efficient scourge of evolution which ruthlessly drives
indolent and suffering humanity from its natural state of intellectual
inertia forward and upward to the higher levels of reason and
wisdom.
92:3.10 And this sacred heritage of animal ascent, evolutionary
religion, must ever continue to be refined and ennobled by the
continuous censorship of revealed religion and by the fiery
furnace of genuine science.
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4.
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92:4.1 (1007.1) °è½Ã´Â ÁøÈ¸¦ µû¸£Áö¸¸ ¾ðÁ¦³ª ÁøÃëÀûÀÌ´Ù.
ÇÑ ¼¼°èÀÇ ¿ª»ç ½Ã´ë¸¦ ÅëÇØ¼ Á¾±³ÀÇ °è½Ã´Â ´Ã È®´ëµÇ°í ÀÖ°í ¿¬´Þ¾Æ »ç¶÷À» ´õ¿í ±ú¿ìÄ¡´Â °ÍÀ̾ú´Ù. ¿¬¼ÓÇÏ¿©
ÁøÈÇÏ´Â Á¾±³µéÀ» ºÐ·ùÇÏ°í °Ë¿ÇÏ´Â °ÍÀÌ °è½ÃÀÇ »ç¸íÀÌ´Ù. ±×·¯³ª °è½Ã°¡ ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³µéÀ» ³ôÀÌ°í °³¼±ÇÏ·Á¸é,
½ÅÀÇ ±×·¯ÇÑ ¹æ¹®Àº ±× °¡¸£Ä§À» ¹ßÇ¥ÇÏ´Â ½Ã´ëÀÇ »ý°¢ ¹× ¹ÝÀÀ°ú ³Ê¹« ¸Ö¸® µ¿¶³¾îÁöÁö ¾ÊÀº °¡¸£Ä§À» ¹¦»çÇØ¾ß
ÇÑ´Ù. ÀÌó·³ °è½Ã´Â ¾ðÁ¦³ª ÁøÈ¿Í ¿¬¶ôÀ» À¯ÁöÇØ¾ß Çϰí, ¶Ç ±×·¸°Ô ÇÑ´Ù. °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³´Â ¹Ýµå½Ã ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀÌ´Â
»ç¶÷ÀÇ ´É·Â¿¡ Á¦ÇÑÀ» ¹Þ´Â´Ù.
92:4.2 (1007.2) ±×·¯³ª °ÑÀ¸·Î ³ªÅ¸³ª´Â ¿¬¶ôÀ̳ª À¯·¡¿Í »ó°ü ¾øÀÌ, °è½ÃµÈ Á¾±³´Â ¹Ýµå½Ã, ÃÖÁ¾
°¡Ä¡¸¦ °¡Áø ¾î¶² ½Å, ±×¸®°í Á×Àº µÚ¿¡ ÀÎ°Ý ½ÅºÐÀÌ »ì¾Æ³²´Â´Ù´Â ¾î¶² °³³äÀ» ¹Ï´Â ½Å¾ÓÀÇ Æ¯Â¡À» °¡Áø´Ù.
92:4.3 (1007.3) ÁøÈµÈ Á¾±³´Â °¨»óÀûÀÌÁö¸¸ ³í¸®°¡ ¾ø´Ù. ±× Á¾±³´Â °¡»óÇÏ´Â ±Í½Å ¹× ¿µ ¼¼°è¸¦
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4. The Gift of Revelation
92:4.1 Revelation is evolutionary but always
progressive. Down through the ages of a world's history, the
revelations of religion are ever-expanding and successively
more enlightening. It is the mission of revelation to sort and
censor the successive religions of evolution. But if revelation
is to exalt and upstep the religions of evolution, then must
such divine visitations portray teachings which are not too
far removed from the thought and reactions of the age in which
they are presented. Thus must and does revelation always keep
in touch with evolution. Always must the religion of revelation
be limited by man's capacity of receptivity.
92:4.2 But regardless of apparent connection or derivation,
the religions of revelation are always characterized by a belief
in some Deity of final value and in some concept of the survival
of personality identity after death.
92:4.3 Evolutionary religion is sentimental, not logical. It
is man's reaction to belief in a hypothetical ghost-spirit world
¡ª the human belief-reflex, excited by the realization and fear
of the unknown. Revelatory religion is propounded by the real
spiritual world; it is the response of the superintellectual
cosmos to the mortal hunger to believe in, and depend upon,
the universal Deities. Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous
gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion
is that very truth.
92:4.4 There have been many events of religious revelation but
only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:
92:4.5 The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First
Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one
hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia' s staff. This
expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred
thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary
secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except
for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation
was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had
forgotten this truth by the time of Adam' s arrival. Of all
who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held
them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy
concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity
greatly clarified and strengthened it.
92:4.6 The Edenic teachings. Adam and Eve again portrayed the
concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The
disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic
revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted
teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and
some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world.
The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified
by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had
largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of
Eden.
92:4.7 Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated
the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts
of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the
omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was
the act by which men earned God's favor. His teachings gradually
commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary
religions and finally developed into those theologic systems
present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after
Christ.
92:4.8 Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Michael presented for the fourth
time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father,
and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence
of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which
a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response
to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service
which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous
realization that in this service they are likewise serving God
the Father.
92:4.9 The Urantia Papers. The papers, of which this is one,
constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals
of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations,
for they are not the work of a single universe personality but
a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short
of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete.
All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial,
transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time
and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract
from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the
time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such
frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence
and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of
truth to the mortal races of Urantia.
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5.
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Áö³³¯¿¡ À¯¶õ½Ã¾Æ¿¡¼ ÀÖ¾ú´ø °¢ Á¾±³ÀÇ ºÎÈïÀº ¾î¶² Á¾±³ ÁöµµÀÚÀÇ ÀÏ»ý°ú °¡¸£Ä§°ú µ¿ÀϽõǾú´Ù. ±Ù·¡ÀÇ ¼±»ýµéÀ»
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5. The Great
Religious Leaders
92:5.1 In evolutionary religion, the gods
are conceived to exist in the likeness of man's image; in revelatory
religion, men are taught that they are God's sons-even fashioned
in the finite image of divinity; in the synthesized beliefs
compounded from the teachings of revelation and the products
of evolution, the God concept is a blend of:
92:5.2.1. The pre-existent ideas of the evolutionary cults.
92:5.3.2. The sublime ideals of revealed religion.
92:5.4.3. The personal viewpoints of the great religious leaders,
the prophets and teachers of mankind.
92:5.5 Most great religious epochs have been inaugurated by
the life and teachings of some outstanding personality; leadership
has originated a majority of the worth-while moral movements
of history. And men have always tended to venerate the leader,
even at the expense of his teachings; to revere his personality,
even though losing sight of the truths which he proclaimed.
And this is not without reason; there is an instinctive longing
in the heart of evolutionary man for help from above and beyond.
This craving is designed to anticipate the appearance on earth
of the Planetary Prince and the later Material Sons. On Urantia
man has been deprived of these superhuman leaders and rulers,
and therefore does he constantly seek to make good this loss
by enshrouding his human leaders with legends pertaining to
supernatural origins and miraculous careers.
92:5.6 Many races have conceived of their leaders as being born
of virgins; their careers are liberally sprinkled with miraculous
episodes, and their return is always expected by their respective
groups. In central Asia the tribesmen still look for the return
of Genghis Khan; in Tibet, China, and India it is Buddha; in
Islam it is Mohammed; among the Amerinds it was Hesunanin Onamonalonton;
with the Hebrews it was, in general, Adam' s return as a material
ruler. In Babylon the god Marduk was a perpetuation of the Adam
legend, the son-of-God idea, the connecting link between man
and God. Following the appearance of Adam on earth, so-called
sons of God were common among the world races.
92:5.7 But regardless of the superstitious awe in which they
were often held, it remains a fact that these teachers were
the temporal personality fulcrums on which the levers of revealed
truth depended for the advancement of the morality, philosophy,
and religion of mankind.
92:5.8 There have been hundreds upon hundreds of religious leaders
in the million-year human history of Urantia from Onagar to
Guru Nanak. During this time there have been many ebbs and flows
of the tide of religious truth and spiritual faith, and each
renaissance of Urantian religion has, in the past, been identified
with the life and teachings of some religious leader. In considering
the teachers of recent times, it may prove helpful to group
them into the seven major religious epochs of post-Adamic Urantia:
92:5.9 The Sethite period. The Sethite priests, as regenerated
under the leadership of Amosad, became the great post-Adamic
teachers. They functioned throughout the lands of the Andites,
and their influence persisted longest among the Greeks, Sumerians,
and Hindus. Among the latter they have continued to the present
time as the Brahmans of the Hindu faith. The Sethites and their
followers never entirely lost the Trinity concept revealed by
Adam.
92:5.10 Era of the Melchizedek missionaries. Urantia religion
was in no small measure regenerated by the efforts of those
teachers who were commissioned by Machiventa Melchizedek when
he lived and taught at Salem almost two thousand years before
Christ. These missionaries proclaimed faith as the price of
favor with God, and their teachings, though unproductive of
any immediately appearing religions, nevertheless formed the
foundations on which later teachers of truth were to build the
religions of Urantia.
92:5.11 The post-Melchizedek era. Though Amenemope and Ikhnaton
both taught in this period, the outstanding religious genius
of the post-Melchizedek era was the leader of a group of Levantine
Bedouins and the founder of the Hebrew religion¡ªMoses. Moses
taught monotheism. Said he: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one God." "The Lord he is God. There is none
beside him." He persistently sought to uproot the remnants
of the ghost cult among his people, even prescribing the death
penalty for its practitioners. The monotheism of Moses was adulterated
by his successors, but in later times they did return to many
of his teachings. The greatness of Moses lies in his wisdom
and sagacity. Other men have had greater concepts of God, but
no one man was ever so successful in inducing large numbers
of people to adopt such advanced beliefs.
92:5.12 The sixth century before Christ. Many men arose to proclaim
truth in this, one of the greatest centuries of religious awakening
ever witnessed on Urantia. Among these should be recorded Gautama,
Confucius, Lao-tse, Zoroaster, and the Jainist teachers. The
teachings of Gautama have become widespread in Asia, and he
is revered as the Buddha by millions. Confucius was to Chinese
morality what Plato was to Greek philosophy, and while there
were religious repercussions to the teachings of both, strictly
speaking, neither was a religious teacher; Lao-tse envisioned
more of God in Tao than did Confucius in humanity or Plato in
idealism. Zoroaster, while much affected by the prevalent concept
of dual spiritism, the good and the bad, at the same time definitely
exalted the idea of one eternal Deity and of the ultimate victory
of light over darkness.
92:5.13 The first century after Christ. As a religious teacher,
Jesus of Nazareth started out with the cult which had been established
by John the Baptist and progressed as far as he could away from
fasts and forms. Aside from Jesus, Paul of Tarsus and Philo
of Alexandria were the greatest teachers of this era. Their
concepts of religion have played a dominant part in the evolution
of that faith which bears the name of Christ.
92:5.14 The sixth century after Christ. Mohammed founded a religion
which was superior to many of the creeds of his time. His was
a protest against the social demands of the faiths of foreigners
and against the incoherence of the religious life of his own
people.
92:5.15 The fifteenth century after Christ. This period witnessed
two religious movements: the disruption of the unity of Christianity
in the Occident and the synthesis of a new religion in the Orient.
In Europe institutionalized Christianity had attained that degree
of inelasticity which rendered further growth incompatible with
unity. In the Orient the combined teachings of Islam, Hinduism,
and Buddhism were synthesized by Nanak and his followers into
Sikhism, one of the most advanced religions of Asia.
92:5.16 The future of Urantia will doubtless be characterized
by the appearance of teachers of religious truth-the Fatherhood
of God and the fraternity of all creatures. But it is to be
hoped that the ardent and sincere efforts of these future prophets
will be directed less toward the strengthening of interreligious
barriers and more toward the augmentation of the religious brotherhood
of spiritual worship among the many followers of the differing
intellectual theologies which so characterize Urantia of Satania.
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92:6.18 (1011.16) ±âµ¶±³´Â ±×¸®½ºµµÀÇ ÀÏ»ý°ú °¡¸£Ä§¿¡ °üÇÑ Á¾±³À̸ç, À̰ÍÀº À¯´ë±³ÀÇ ½ÅÇп¡
±âÃʸ¦ µÎ¾ú°í, Á¶·Î¾Æ½ºÅͱ³ÀÇ ¾î¶² °¡¸£Ä§°ú ±×¸®½º öÇÐÀ» Èí¼öÇÔÀ¸·Î ´õ¿í ¼öÁ¤µÇ¾ú´Âµ¥, ÁÖ·Î ºô·Î¤ýº£µå·Î¤ý¹Ù¿ï,
ÀÌ ¼¼ »ç¶÷ÀÌ À̸¦ Çü¼ºÇß´Ù. ¹Ù¿ïÀÇ ½ÃÀý ÀÌÈÄ·Î ÀÌ Á¾±³´Â ¿©·¯ ´Ü°èÀÇ ÁøÈ¸¦ °ÅÃÆ°í, ¾ÆÁÖ ¼Ó¼ÓµéÀÌ ¼¾çȵǾî¼,
À¯·´ ¹Ù±ù¿¡ ¿©·¯ ¹ÎÁ·ÀÌ ±âµ¶±³¸¦ ³¸¼± Çϳª´ÔÀÌ ³¸¼± »ç¶÷µé¿¡°Ô ÁØ ÀÌ»óÇÑ °è½Ã·Î ¹Ù¶óº» °ÍÀº ¾ÆÁÖ ´ç¿¬ÇÏ´Ù.
92:6.19 (1011.17) À̽½¶÷Àº ºÏ ¾ÆÇÁ¸®Ä«, ·¹¹ÝÆ®, µ¿³² ¾Æ½Ã¾ÆÀÇ Á¾±³ ¹®È¸¦ ¿¬°áÇÑ´Ù. ÈÄÀÏÀÇ
±âµ¶±³ °¡¸£Ä§°ú ¿¬°áÇÏ¿©, À̽½¶÷À» ÀϽű³·Î ¸¸µç °ÍÀº À¯´ëÀÎÀÇ ½ÅÇÐÀ̾ú´Ù. ¸ðÇϸ޵åÀÇ ÃßÁ¾ÀÚµéÀº ³ôÀº »ïÀ§ÀÏü
°¡¸£Ä§À» ¹Ï±â ¾î·Á¿öÇß´Ù. ±×µéÀº ¼¼ ºÐÀÇ ½Å´Ù¿î ¼º°ÝÀÚ¿Í ÇϳªÀÇ ½ÅÀÇ ±³¸®¸¦ ¾Ë¾ÆµéÀ» ¼ö ¾ø¾ú´Ù. °©ÀÚ±â
»ó±ÞÀÇ °è½ÃµÈ Áø¸®¸¦ ¹Þ¾ÆµéÀ̶ó°í ÁøÈµÈ Áö¼ºµéÀ» À¯µµÇϱâ´Â ¾ðÁ¦³ª ¾î·Æ´Ù. »ç¶÷Àº ÁøÈµÈ Àΰ£À̸ç, ´ëü·Î
ÁøÈÀû ±â¹ýÀ¸·Î Á¾±³¸¦ ¾ò¾î¾ß ÇÑ´Ù.
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Áøº¸µÈ ¾ÆÁÖ ¸¹Àº °Í »çÀÌ¿¡, ÀÌ ¿ø½Ã °³³äÀÌ Áß±¹¤ýÀϺ»¤ýÀεµ¿¡¼ Áö¼ÓÇÏ´Â °ÍÀº ³î¶ø°íµµ µüÇÏ´Ù. ¼¾ç¿¡¼
Á¶»ó ¼þ¹è´Â ¹ÎÁ·ÀÇ ½ÅÀ» ¿ì·¯·¯º¸°í Á¾Á·ÀÇ ¿µ¿õÀ» Á¸°æÇÏ´Â °ÍÀ¸·Î ¹ßÀüÇß´Ù. 20¼¼±â¿¡, ¿µ¿õÀ» ¸ð½Ã´Â ÀÌ
¹ÎÁ·ÁÖÀÇ Á¾±³´Â ¿©·¯ °¡Áö ±ÞÁøÀû¤ý¹ÎÁ·ÁÖÀÇÀû ºñÁ¾±³ÁÖÀÇ¿¡¼ ±× ¸ð½ÀÀ» ³ªÅ¸³»¸ç, À̰ÍÀÌ ¼¾ç¿¡¼ ¸¹Àº Á¾Á·°ú
¹ÎÁ·ÀÇ Æ¯Â¡À» ³ªÅ¸³½´Ù. ¹Ù·Î ÀÌ Åµµ Áß¿¡ ¸¹Àº °ÍÀÌ ¿µ¾î¸¦ ¾²´Â ¹ÎÁ·µéÀÇ À̸§³ ´ëÇаú Å« »ê¾÷ °øµ¿Ã¼¿¡¼
¶ÇÇÑ ¹ß°ßµÈ´Ù. ÀÌ °³³äµé°ú Å©°Ô ´Ù¸£Áö ¾ÊÀº °ÍÀº Á¾±³´Â ´Ù¸¸ ¡°Ç³Á·ÇÑ »ýȰÀ» ÇÔ²² Ãß±¸ÇÏ´Â °Í¡±À̶ó´Â °ü³äÀÌ´Ù.
¡°¹ÎÁ· Á¾±³¡±´Â ·Î¸¶ ÃʱâÀÇ È²Á¦ ¼þ¹è·Î, ±×¸®°í ½Åµµ(ãêÔ³)·Î¡ª±¹°¡ÀÇ È²Á¦ °¡Á· ¼þ¹è·Î¡ªµ¹¾Æ°¡´Â °Í¿¡ Áö³ªÁö
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6. The Composite Religions
92:6.1 Twentieth-century Urantia religions
present an interesting study of the social evolution of man's
worship impulse. Many faiths have progressed very little since
the days of the ghost cult. The Pygmies of Africa have no religious
reactions as a class, although some of them believe slightly
in a spirit environment. They are today just where primitive
man was when the evolution of religion began. The basic belief
of primitive religion was survival after death. The idea of
worshiping a personal God indicates advanced evolutionary development,
even the first stage of revelation. The Dyaks have evolved only
the most primitive religious practices. The comparatively recent
Eskimos and Amerinds had very meager concepts of God; they believed
in ghosts and had an indefinite idea of survival of some sort
after death. Present-day native Australians have only a ghost
fear, dread of the dark, and a crude ancestor veneration. The
Zulus are just evolving a religion of ghost fear and sacrifice.
Many African tribes, except through missionary work of Christians
and Mohammedans, are not yet beyond the fetish stage of religious
evolution. But some groups have long held to the idea of monotheism,
like the onetime Thracians, who also believed in immortality.
92:6.2 On Urantia, evolutionary and revelatory religion are
progressing side by side while they blend and coalesce into
the diversified theologic systems found in the world in the
times of the inditement of these papers. These religions, the
religions of twentieth-century Urantia, may be enumerated as
follows:
92:6.3.1. Hinduism-the most ancient.
92:6.4.2. The Hebrew religion.
92:6.5.3. Buddhism.
92:6.6.4. The Confucian teachings.
92:6.7.5. The Taoist beliefs.
92:6.8.6. Zoroastrianism.
92:6.9.7. Shinto.
92:610..8. Jainism.
92:6.11.9. Christianity.
92:6.12.10. Islam.
92:6.13.11. Sikhism-the most recent.
92:6.14 The most advanced religions of ancient times were Hinduism
and Judaism, and each respectively has greatly influenced the
course of religious development in Orient and Occident. Both
Hindus and Hebrews believed that their religions were inspired
and revealed, and they believed all others to be decadent forms
of the one true faith.
92:6.15 India is divided among Hindu, Sikh, Mohammedan, and
Jain, each picturing God, man, and the universe as these are
variously conceived. China follows the Taoist and the Confucian
teachings; Shinto is revered in Japan.
92:6.16 The great international, interracial faiths are the
Hebraic, Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic. Buddhism stretches
from Ceylon and Burma through Tibet and China to Japan. It has
shown an adaptability to the mores of many peoples that has
been equaled only by Christianity.
92:6.17 The Hebrew religion encompasses the philosophic transition
from polytheism to monotheism; it is an evolutionary link between
the religions of evolution and the religions of revelation.
The Hebrews were the only western people to follow their early
evolutionary gods straight through to the God of revelation.
But this truth never became widely accepted until the days of
Isaiah, who once again taught the blended idea of a racial deity
combined with a Universal Creator: "O Lord of Hosts, God
of Israel, you are God, even you alone; you have made heaven
and earth." At one time the hope of the survival of Occidental
civilization lay in the sublime Hebraic concepts of goodness
and the advanced Hellenic concepts of beauty.
92:6.18 The Christian religion is the religion about the life
and teachings of Christ based upon the theology of Judaism,
modified further through the assimilation of certain Zoroastrian
teachings and Greek philosophy, and formulated primarily by
three individuals: Philo, Peter, and Paul. It has passed through
many phases of evolution since the time of Paul and has become
so thoroughly Occidentalized that many non-European peoples
very naturally look upon Christianity as a strange revelation
of a strange God and for strangers.
92:6.19 Islam is the religio-cultural connective of North Africa,
the Levant, and southeastern Asia. It was Jewish theology in
connection with the later Christian teachings that made Islam
monotheistic. The followers of Mohammed stumbled at the advanced
teachings of the Trinity; they could not comprehend the doctrine
of three divine personalities and one Deity. It is always difficult
to induce evolutionary minds suddenly to accept advanced revealed
truth. Man is an evolutionary creature and in the main must
get his religion by evolutionary techniques.
92:6.20 Ancestor worship onetime constituted a decided advance
in religious evolution, but it is both amazing and regrettable
that this primitive concept persists in China, Japan, and India
amidst so much that is relatively more advanced, such as Buddhism
and Hinduism. In the Occident, ancestor worship developed into
the veneration of national gods and respect for racial heroes.
In the twentieth century this hero-venerating nationalistic
religion makes its appearance in the various radical and nationalistic
secularisms which characterize many races and nations of the
Occident. Much of this same attitude is also found in the great
universities and the larger industrial communities of the English-speaking
peoples. Not very different from these concepts is the idea
that religion is but "a shared quest of the good life."
The "national religions" are nothing more than a reversion
to the early Roman emperor worship and to Shinto-worship of
the state in the imperial family.
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7.
Á¾±³ÀÇ °è¼ÓµÈ ÁøÈ
92:7.1 (1012.2) Á¾±³´Â °áÄÚ °úÇÐÀû »ç½ÇÀÌ µÉ ¼ö ¾ø´Ù. öÇÐÀº
Á¤¸»·Î °úÇÐÀû ±âÃÊ À§¿¡ ³õ¿©ÀÖÁö¸¸, Á¾±³´Â ´Ã ÁøÈµÈ °ÍÀ̰ųª °è½ÃµÈ °ÍÀ̰ųª, ¾Æ´Ï¸é ¿À´Ã³¯ ¼¼»ó¿¡¼ ±×·±
°Íó·³, ÀÌ µÎ °¡ÁöÀÇ °¡´ÉÇÑ Á¶ÇÕÀ¸·Î ³²À» °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
92:7.2 (1012.3) »õ Á¾±³´Â ¹ß¸íµÉ ¼ö ¾ø´Ù. »õ Á¾±³´Â ÁøÈµÇµçÁö ¾Æ´Ï¸é °©Àڱ⠰è½ÃµÈ´Ù. ¸ðµç
»õ·Î¿î ÁøÈ Á¾±³´Â ´ÜÁö ¿À·¡ µÈ ½Å¾ÓÀÇ Áøº¸Çϴ ǥÇöÀÌ¿ä, »õ·Ó°Ô ÀûÀÀÇϰí Á¶Á¤µÈ °ÍÀÏ µû¸§ÀÌ´Ù. ¿À·¡ µÈ
°ÍÀº Á¸ÀçÇϱ⸦ ±×Ä¡Áö ¾ÊÀ¸¸ç, ÈùµÎ±³¤ýºÒ±³¤ýÀ̽½¶÷±³, ±×¸®°í ´ç´ëÀÇ ´Ù¸¥ Á¾ÆÄµéÀÌ ÀÚ¶õ ±× Åä¾ç°ú ÇüÅ·κÎÅÍ
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Áø¸®¸¦ ¿¬±¸ÇÏ°í ¼ÒÈÇÔÀ¸·Î À̵æÀ» ¾òÀ» ¼ö ¾ø´Â À¯¶õ½Ã¾Æ Á¾±³´Â Çϳªµµ ¾øÀ¸´Ï, ¸ðµÎ Áø¸®¸¦ ´ã°í Àֱ⠶§¹®ÀÌ´Ù.
Á¾±³°¡µéÀº ÀÌ¿ôÀÇ ³²¾Æ ÀÖ´Â ¹Ì½Å°ú ³°¾ÆºüÁø ÀǽÄ(ëðãÒ) °¡¿îµ¥ °¡Àå ³ª»Û °ÍÀ» Çæ¶â±âº¸´Ù, ±×µéÀÇ »ì¾Æ ÀÖ´Â
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92:7.4 (1012.5) ÀÌ ¸ðµç Á¾±³´Â »ç¶÷ÀÌ ¶È°°Àº ¿µÀû Àεµ¿¡ ´ëÇÏ¿© ´Ù¸¥ ÁöÀû ¹ÝÀÀÀ» º¸ÀÌ´Â °á°ú·Î¼
ÀϾ´Ù. ÀÌ Á¾±³µéÀº °áÄÚ ±× ½ÅÁ¶¤ý±³¸®¤ýÀǽÄÀÌ ÇѰᰰÀÌ µÇ±â¸¦ ¹Ù¶ö ¼ö ¾ø´Ù¡ªÀ̰͵éÀº ÁöÀûÀÎ °ÍÀÌ´Ù. ±×·¯³ª
ÀÌ Á¾±³µéÀº ¸¸¹°ÀÇ ¾Æ¹öÁö¸¦ ÂüÀ¸·Î °æ¹èÇÏ´Â µ¥¼ ÅëÀÏÀ» ¾òÀ» ¼ö ÀÖ°í, ¾ðÁ¨°¡ ±×·¸°Ô Çϸ®´Ï, À̰ÍÀÌ ¿µÀûÀÎ
°ÍÀ̱⠶§¹®À̸ç, ¿µÀûÀ¸·Î ¸ðµç »ç¶÷Àº µ¿µîÇÏ´Ù´Â °ÍÀº ¾ðÁ¦±îÁö³ª Âü¸»ÀÌ´Ù.
92:7.5 (1012.6) ¿ø½Ã Á¾±³´Â ´ëü·Î ¹°ÁúÀÇ °¡Ä¡¸¦ ÀǽÄÇÏ´Â °ÍÀ̾úÁö¸¸, ¹®¸íÀº Á¾±³Àû °¡Ä¡¸¦ ³ôÀ̸ç,
ÀÌ´Â Âü Á¾±³°¡ ÀÇ¹Ì ÀÖ°í ÃÖ°íÀÇ °¡Ä¡¸¦ °¡Áø ºÀ»ç¿¡ ÀھƸ¦ ¹ÙÄ¡´Â °ÍÀ̱⠶§¹®ÀÌ´Ù. Á¾±³°¡ ÁøÈÇÔ¿¡ µû¶ó¼,
À±¸®´Â µµ´öÀ» ´Ù·ç´Â öÇÐÀÌ µÇ°í, µµ´ö¼ºÀº °¡Àå ³ôÀº Àǹ̸¦ °¡Áø °Í°ú ÃÖ»óÀÇ °¡Ä¡¡ª½Å´ä°í ¿µÀûÀÎ ÀÌ»ó¡ªÀÇ
±âÁØÀ¸·Î, ÀھƸ¦ ÈÆ·ÃÇÏ´Â °ÍÀÌ µÈ´Ù. ÀÌó·³ Á¾±³´Â ÀúÀý·Î ¿ì·¯³ª¿À´Â Áö±ØÇÑ Çå½Å, »ç¶ûÀ¸·Î Ãæ¼ºÇÏ´Â »ê
üÇèÀÌ µÈ´Ù.
92:7.6 (1013.1) ´ÙÀ½ÀÌ Á¾±³ÀÇ Ç°ÁúÀ» °¡¸®Å²´Ù.
92:7.7 (1013.2) 1. ¼öÁØ °¡Ä¡¡ªÃ漺½É.
92:7.8 (1013.3) 2. ÀÇ¹Ì ÀÖ´Â °ÍµéÀÇ ±íÀÌ¡ªÃÖ°íÀÇ °¡Ä¡°¡ ÀÖ´Â À̰͵éÀ» ÀÌ»óÀûÀ¸·Î ÀÌÇØÇÏ´Â µ¥
°³ÀÎÀÌ ¹Î°¨ÇØÁö´Â °Í.
92:7.9 (1013.4) 3. Çå½ÅÀÇ ±íÀÌ¡ªÀÌ ½Å¼ºÇÑ °¡Ä¡ ±âÁØ¿¡ Çå½ÅÇÏ´Â Á¤µµ.
92:7.10 (1013.5) 4. ÀÌ»óÁÖÀÇ·Î ¿µÀû »ýȰÀ» ÇÏ´Â ÀÌ ¿ìÁÖÀÇ ±æ¿¡¼ ÀΰÝÀÌ ¸ÅÀÌÁö ¾Ê°í Áøº¸ÇÏ´Â
°Í, °ð Çϳª´ÔÀÇ ¾ÆµéÀÌ¿ä, ¿ìÁÖ¿¡¼ °áÄÚ ±×Ä¡Áö ¾Ê°í Áøº¸ÇÏ´Â ½Ã¹ÎÀÓÀ» ±ú´Ý´Â °Í.
92:7.11 (1013.6) Á¾±³Àû Àǹ̴ ¾î¸°¾ÆÀ̰¡ Àü´É °³³äÀ» ºÎ¸ð·ÎºÎÅÍ Çϳª´ÔÀ¸·Î ¿Å±æ ¶§ ÀÚÀÇ½Ä ¼Ó¿¡¼
Áøº¸ÇÑ´Ù. ±×·¯ÇÑ ¾ÆÀÌÀÇ Á¾±³Àû üÇèÀº ÀüºÎ, ´ëü·Î µÎ·Á¿ò ¾Æ´Ï¸é »ç¶ûÀÌ ºÎ¸ð¿Í ÀÚ½Ä °ü°è¸¦ Áö¹èÇߴ°¡¿¡
´Þ·Á ÀÖ´Ù. ³ë¿¹µéÀº ÁÖÀÎÀ» µÎ·Á¿öÇÏ´Â ¸¶À½À» Çϳª´ÔÀ» »ç¶ûÇÏ´Â °³³äÀ¸·Î ¹Ù²Ù´Â µ¥ ¾ðÁ¦³ª Å« ¾î·Á¿òÀ» °Þ¾ú´Ù.
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92:7.12 (1013.7) Àΰ£´ä°í ´«¿¡ º¸ÀÌ´Â °ÍÀ» ¼þ¹èÇÔÀ¸·ÎºÎÅÍ ½Å´ä°í ´«¿¡ º¸ÀÌÁö ¾Ê´Â °ÍÀ» ¼þ¹èÇϵµ·Ï
¿Å°Ü°¡´Â °úÁ¤¿¡¼, ¿ì»ó ¼þ¹è·Î ¸Ó¹µ°Å¸®´Â ÀÌ Áß°£ ´Ü°è¸¦ ÇÇÇÒ ¼ö ¾øÁö¸¸, ÀÌ ´Ü°è´Â ±êµå´Â ½ÅÀÇ ¿µÀÌ µ½´Â
ºÀ»ç¸¦ ÀǽÄÇÔÀ¸·Î ´ÜÃàµÇ¾î¾ß ÇÑ´Ù. ±×·±µ¥µµ »ç¶÷Àº ±×ÀÇ ½Å °³³ä »Ó ¾Æ´Ï¶ó, ¶ÇÇÑ ±×°¡ ¸í¿¹¸¦ µ¹¸®±â·Î ¼±ÅÃÇÑ
¿µ¿õµéÀÇ ÀÎǰ¿¡µµ ±íÀÌ ¿µÇâÀ» ¹Þ¾Æ ¿Ô´Ù. ½Å´ä°í ´Ù½Ã »ç½Å ±×¸®½ºµµ¸¦ ¼þ¹èÇÏ°Ô µÈ ÀÚµéÀÌ ±× »ç¶÷À»¡ª¾¿¾¿Çϰí
¿ë±â°¡ ³ÑÄ¡´Â ±× ¿µ¿õ¡ª¿ä¼ÁÀÇ ¾Æµé ¿ä¼ö¾Æ¸¦ ³õÄ¡°í ¸øº¸¾Ò´Ù´Â °ÍÀº ¹«Ã´ À¯°¨ÀÌ´Ù.
92:7.13 (1013.8) Çö´ëÀÎÀº ¾Ë¸Â°Ô Á¾±³¸¦ ½º½º·Î ÀǽÄÇϰí ÀÖÁö¸¸, »çȸÀÇ º¯È°¡ °¡¼ÓµÇ°í Àü·Ê
¾øÀÌ °úÇÐÀÌ ¹ßÀüÇÔÀ¸·Î Çö´ëÀÎÀÇ ¿¹¹è °ü½ÀÀº È¥¶õ¿¡ ºüÁö°í ÀǽÉÀ» ¹Þ°í ÀÖ´Ù. »ý°¢ÇÏ´Â ³²³à´Â Á¾±³¸¦ ´Ù½Ã
Á¤ÀÇÇϱ⸦ ¹Ù¶ó°í, ÀÌ ¿ä±¸´Â Á¾±³°¡ ÀÚü¸¦ ´Ù½Ã Æò°¡Çϱ⸦ °¿äÇÒ °ÍÀÌ´Ù.
92:7.14 (1013.9) Çö´ëÀÎÀº 2õ ³â µ¿¾È¿¡ ÀÏ¾î³ °Íº¸´Ù ´õ ¸¹ÀÌ, ÇÑ ¼¼´ë¿¡ Àΰ£ÀÇ °¡Ä¡¸¦ ´Ù½Ã
Á¶Á¤ÇÏ´Â ÀÏ¿¡ ºÎ´ÚÃÆ´Ù. ±×¸®°í ÀÌ ¸ðµÎ°¡ Á¾±³¿¡ ´ëÇÑ »çȸÀÇ Åµµ¿¡ ¿µÇâÀ» ¹ÌÄ¡¸ç, ÀÌ´Â Á¾±³°¡ »ý°¢ÇÏ´Â
±â¼úÀÏ »Ó ¾Æ´Ï¶ó »ì¾Æ°¡´Â ±æÀ̱⠶§¹®ÀÌ´Ù.
92:7.15 (1013.10) ÂüµÈ Á¾±³´Â ´Ã, µ¿½Ã¿¡ ¸ðµç Áö¼ÓÇÏ´Â ¹®¸íÀÇ ¿µ¿øÇÑ ±âÃÊÀÌÀÚ ¾È³»ÇÏ´Â º°ÀÌ
µÇ¾î¾ß ÇÑ´Ù.
92:7.16 (1013.11) [³×¹Ùµ·ÀÇ ÇÑ ¸á±â¼¼µ¦ÀÌ ¹ßÇ¥Çß´Ù.]
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7. The Further Evolution
of Religion
92:7.1 Religion can never become a scientific
fact. Philosophy may, indeed, rest on a scientific basis, but
religion will ever remain either evolutionary or revelatory,
or a possible combination of both, as it is in the world today.
92:7.2 New religions cannot be invented; they are either evolved,
or else they are suddenly revealed. All new evolutionary religions
are merely advancing expressions of the old beliefs, new adaptations
and adjustments. The old does not cease to exist; it is merged
with the new, even as Sikhism budded and blossomed out of the
soil and forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other contemporary
cults. Primitive religion was very democratic; the savage was
quick to borrow or lend. Only with revealed religion did autocratic
and intolerant theologic egotism appear.
92:7.3 The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent
that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the
Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists
to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak
more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith. There
is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and
assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith,
for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow
the best in their neighbors' living spiritual faith rather than
to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn
rituals.
92:7.4 All these religions have arisen as a result of man's
variable intellectual response to his identical spiritual leading.
They can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas,
and rituals¡ªthese are intellectual; but they can, and some day
will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all,
for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit
all men are equal.
92:7.5 Primitive religion was largely a material-value consciousness,
but civilization elevates religious values, for true religion
is the devotion of the self to the service of meaningful and
supreme values. As religion evolves, ethics becomes the philosophy
of morals, and morality becomes the discipline of self by the
standards of highest meanings and supreme values-divine and
spiritual ideals. And thus religion becomes a spontaneous and
exquisite devotion, the living experience of the loyalty of
love.
92:7.6 The quality of a religion is indicated by:
92:7.7.1. Level of values-loyalties.
92:7.8.2. Depth of meanings-the sensitization of the individual
to the idealistic appreciation of these highest values.
92:7.9.3. Consecration intensity-the degree of devotion to these
divine values.
92:7.10. The unfettered progress of the personality in this
cosmic path of idealistic spiritual living, realization of sonship
with God and never-ending progressive citizenship in the universe.
92:7.11 Religious meanings progress in self-consciousness when
the child transfers his ideas of omnipotence from his parents
to God. And the entire religious experience of such a child
is largely dependent on whether fear or love has dominated the
parent-child relationship. Slaves have always experienced great
difficulty in transferring their master-fear into concepts of
God-love. Civilization, science, and advanced religions must
deliver mankind from those fears born of the dread of natural
phenomena. And so should greater enlightenment deliver educated
mortals from all dependence on intermediaries in communion with
Deity.
92:7.12 These intermediate stages of idolatrous hesitation in
the transfer of veneration from the human and the visible to
the divine and invisible are inevitable, but they should be
shortened by the consciousness of the facilitating ministry
of the indwelling divine spirit. Nevertheless, man has been
profoundly influenced, not only by his concepts of Deity, but
also by the character of the heroes whom he has chosen to honor.
It is most unfortunate that those who have come to venerate
the divine and risen Christ should have overlooked the man-the
valiant and courageous hero-Joshua ben Joseph.
92:7.13 Modern man is adequately self-conscious of religion,
but his worshipful customs are confused and discredited by his
accelerated social metamorphosis and unprecedented scientific
developments. Thinking men and women want religion redefined,
and this demand will compel religion to re-evaluate itself.
92:7.14 Modern man is confronted with the task of making more
readjustments of human values in one generation than have been
made in two thousand years. And this all influences the social
attitude toward religion, for religion is a way of living as
well as a technique of thinking.
92:7.15 True religion must ever be, at one and the same time,
the eternal foundation and the guiding star of all enduring
civilizations.
92:7.16 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon. ]
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