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ultimately fail. (Billy Graham, etc.) Also the undertaking of massive good works will fail. (Salvation Army, etc.) Even giving out millions of Urantia Books will fail. (Gideons and Bible) But that quiet, unobtrusive, unannounced elimination of animal behavioral habits from our daily lives, particularly when in our home environment or with our intimate friends, will be absorbed, even if unconsciously so--and it will affect those who know us well.4
This inconspicuous change in our lives, these acts of not reacting to the will of others but instead modifying our animalistic reactions to coincide with the cosmic good of others, has the incredible power to bring about radical change, not only to other lives, but eventually to the whole world. How will it happen?
All who have been brought up in a church-going Christian family will be well aware that although Christianity is among the most ethical religions ever to exist on Earth, nevertheless the vast majority of its members are just as much plagued with humanity's animal behavioral problems as any other community. The cure then is not going to be in church-going nor in inspiring sermons, nor in good works. Primarily it is in what parents actually "are" in their own home lives that will matter. The revelation informs us:
"The family is the fundamental unit of fraternity in which parents and children learn the lessons of patience, altruism, tolerance, and forbearance which are so essential to the realization of brotherhood among all men." (941)
Our revelation also tells us that the coming of the kingdom of God in the hearts of individuals must precede the onset of the brotherhood of man--which implies that the spiritualization of the individual must come first. It also indicates that the roots of this coming brotherhood of man will be in family life--and it must be God-conscious parents who will bear the responsibility of being the initiators of the whole process.
How will it all happen? Slowly, maybe over hundreds of years even. And the dominant factor will be because children observe Jesus-like behavior in their parents and, in their turn, pass it on to their own children, who pass it on to their children, and so on, and so on.
Three hundred and fifty years ago the Quakers almost got it right. They lost their way when they moved their sphere of action to the secular world--and lost the guidance of their "Inward Light." Imagine where we would now be if they had had the Urantia revelation to help them and they had understood its real message. Light and Life might have been just around the corner.
References.
1. New Scientist, August 10, 2002, p. 23
2. "Exhibit in your one short life in the flesh…the transcendent possibilities attainable by a God-knowing human…" (p. 1358. Immanuel to Michael prior to his incarnation)
3. Ann Bendall, "The Mind of Jesus." Innerface International Vol. 9., No. 5, 2002.
4. "Let me emphatically state this eternal truth; if you, by truth coordination, learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your fellow men will then seek after you that they may gain what you have so acquired." (1726)
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