Key concepts
From Symmetry of Soul
Contents
Essentials
- Being a serious student of The Urantia Book
- Seek first the kingdom of heaven
- Quid est veritas?
- New wine in old wineskins
- Favorable conditions to be grown
- You can rationalize anything
- Concept frame
- The observer is not the thing observed
- Preconceived opinions, settled ideas, and long-standing prejudices
- Hourglass analogy of mind
- Take delight in cultivating...
- Levels of meaning
- Strive to be born again again
- Sad to record...
- Threefold actuality. Core to the nature of reality.
- Face facts and adjust them to ideals
- True liberty versus false liberty
- Three cosmic intuitions
- Reflective thinking
- The inevitabilities
- All good things taken to an extreme become bad
- Aim higher
- There's no such thing as magic
- Courageous and independent cosmic thinking
- Be content, not satisfied
- Stop turning yourself inside out
- It's in your freewill hands
- Take your salvation for granted
- Let go
- Fear not
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
- As above, so below because the cosmos is patterned.
- Spirit is not innately divine
- Superadditive consequence
- Eight-fold path to progress
- This distinction is vital...
- Stop regretting the past, whining over the present, and vainly hoping for the future.
- Of all human knowledge...
- Start with yourself
- The Emergency
- The -ism problem
- Inner versus outer life
- False dichotomy
- Scientific dictation, social usage, and religious dogma
- False illusions of success
Essential Language Discrimination
The fancy-animal dictionary lightheartedly pokes at all of this incorrect understanding.
- Choice versus decision
- Appearance versus reality
- Analysis versus synthesis
- Thoughts versus feelings
- Top-down versus bottom-up
- Fact versus truth
- Created equal versus born equal
- Unity versus uniformity
- Faith versus belief
- Preservation, observation, and conservation
- Intention versus motivation
- Urge versus impulse
Important Concepts
- What is human experience? Active and questioning selves required!
- The value is in the potentiality, not the actuality
- Be unnatural, that is, artful (artificial)
- Don't be a helpless victim of antecedent causation
- Be more than a fancy animal.
- Strive for self-mastery
- Natural versus artificial
- Do better than your built-in error and evil detector
- Be a human, not a computer
- Have an unnatural positive response to a negative stimulus.
- Seven adjutant mind-spirits
- Time is an appearance
- Mustard seed of faith
- The Urantia Book provides Better initial assumptions
- After all, you can only conclude what you assume.
- More or less distortion of meaning
- Mind made and personality managed
- Suddenly
- The meaning of life is its adaptability
- Fruits of the spirit
- Change without growth is potential evil
- Civilization is a choice
- Befogged by much thinking
- This is the way
- Both eyes open
- Don't limit yourself to the ignorance of others
- Positive response to a negative stimulus
- Levels of mortal wisdom
- 12 properties of a religionist
- Four phases of religious philosophy
- Transcend, don't repress
- Stay hungry and thirsty, my friends
- Adjutant mind-spirits
- Ours is a Universe of motion, not fundamentally a universe of matter.
- Hemisphere analogy
- Rocky and Bullwinkle effect
- Origin, history, and destiny
- Through the looking glass of Deity.
- Infinity has consequences
- Three great satisfactions
More language discrimination
- Character versus temperament
- Personality versus temperament
- Compassion versus sympathy. The former is in the inner life. The latter in expressed in the outer life.
- Society, culture, and civilization
- Equality versus equity
- Chaos versus cosmos
- Place versus direction
- Inventive versus creative
- Quality versus quantity
- Good versus evil
- Liberty versus freedom
- Doing versus being
- Egoism versus altruism
- Faith and trust versus trust and faith
- Deity versus reality
- Transcendence versus immanence
- Revelation versus evolution
- Self-assertion versus free will
- Perfect versus perfecting
- Believing in versus believing with Jesus
- Progress versus growth
- Form versus substance
- Ideas versus ideals
- Personality itself versus the personalized self
- Courage versus bravery
- God-consciousness versus God-knowingness
- Religious experience versus spiritual experience
- Doing versus being
- Ethical versus moral
- Happiness versus joy
- Ubiquitous versus omnipresent
- Chance versus luck
- Individuality, associativity, and unity
- Truth, beauty, and goodness
- Error, evil, sin, and iniquity
- Prayer, worship, and thanksgiving
- Fear, dread, awe, and reverence
- Folkways, mores, and morals
- Prayer, worship, and thanksgiving
- The Urantia Book, The Urantia Papers, and the Fifth epochal revelation
Other
- Atonement doctrine
- The mind of perfect poise
- Facets of cosmic character
- Uncertainty with security
- Conditions of effective prayer
- Early and advancing civilization
- Seven psychic circles
- True monogamy
- Seven levels of salvation
- Gospel of the kingdom
- Human sources for the authors of The Urantia Book.
Broad cosmologic concepts
- Thought Adjuster
- Religion
- Spirit of Truth
- Survival value
- Ego
- Worship
- Personality
- Holy Spirit
- Pentecost
- Conversion
- Moral choice
- Soul
- Cosmic mind
- Salvation
- Philosophy
- Ultimaton
- Urantia
- Jesus
- Christ Michael
- God the Father
- God the Mother
- Planetary Prince
- Midwayer
- Machiventa Melchizedek
- Adamic default
- Lucifer Rebellion
- 6th century B.C.
- Greek philosophy
- Humus
- Indolence
- Material idealism
- Secularism
- Caveman story
- Agondonter character
