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P.1772 – §1 On Sunday morning, September 18, Andrew
\n announced that no work would be planned for the coming week. All of the
\n apostles, except Nathaniel and Thomas, went home to visit their families
\n or to sojourn with friends. This week Jesus enjoyed a period of almost complete
\n rest, but Nathaniel and Thomas were very busy with their discussions with
\n a certain Greek philosopher from Alexandria named Rodan. <\/font><\/p>\n

This Greek had
\n recently become a disciple of Jesus through the teaching of one of Abner’s
\n associates who had conducted a mission at Alexandria. Rodan was now earnestly
\n engaged in the task of harmonizing his philosophy of life with Jesus’ new
\n religious teachings, and he had come to Magadan hoping that the Master would
\n talk these problems over with him. He also desired to secure a firsthand
\n and authoritative version of the gospel from either Jesus or one of his
\n apostles. Though the Master declined to enter into such a conference with
\n Rodan, he did receive him graciously and immediately directed that Nathaniel
\n and Thomas should listen to all he had to say and tell him about the gospel
\n in return.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

<\/font> named Rodan, \ub85c\ub2e8\uc774\ub77c \uc774\ub984\ud558\ub294<\/p>\n

theologians from Alexandria<\/p>\n

Clement, Origen,<\/p>\n

Pantaenus was first president of Catechetical School of Alexandria. (\uc791\ud488\uc740 \ub0a8\uc544 \uc788\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub2e4)<\/p>\n

Clement was a student of Pantaenus.<\/p>\n

Apostolic Fathers, \uc2e0\uc57d \uc774\ud6c4\uc758 \uc800\uc220.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1. RODAN’S GREEK PHILOSOPHY – P.1772
\nP.1772 – §2 Early Monday morning, Rodan began a series of ten addresses
\n to Nathaniel, Thomas, and a group of some two dozen believers who chanced
\n to be at Magadan. These talks, condensed, combined, and restated in modern
\n phraseology, present the following thoughts for consideration:<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

address, \uac15\uc5f0, \uc5f0\uc124<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1772 – §3 Human life consists in three great drives–urges, desires,
\n and lures. Strong character, commanding personality, is only acquired
\n by converting the natural urge of life into the social art of living,
\n by transforming present desires into those higher longings which are capable
\n of lasting attainment, while the commonplace lure of existence must be
\n transferred from one’s conventional and established ideas to the higher
\n realms of unexplored ideas and undiscovered ideals.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

drive, \ucd94\uc9c4\ub825, \uc6d0\ub3d9\ub825<\/p>\n

lure, \uc720\ud639\ud558\ub294 \ubb3c\uac74<\/p>\n

social art of living, \uc0b4\uc544\uac00\ub294 \uae30\uc220<\/p>\n

vita brevis, ars longa ≠\uc608\uc220\uc740 \uc9e7\ub2e4<\/p>\n

present desires, \ud604\uc7ac\uc758 \uc695\uad6c\ub97c \ucc38\uc74c\uc73c\ub85c \ub354 \ub098\uc740 \ubbf8\ub798\ub97c \ucd94\uad6c = \ud22c\uc790<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1772 – §4 The more complex civilization becomes, the more difficult
\n will become the art of living. The more rapid the changes in social usage,
\n the more complicated will become the task of character development. Every
\n ten generations mankind must learn anew the art of living if progress
\n is to continue. And if man becomes so ingenious that he more rapidly adds
\n to the complexities of society, the art of living will need to be remastered
\n in less time, perhaps every single generation. If the evolution of the
\n art of living fails to keep pace with the technique of existence, humanity
\n will quickly revert to the simple urge of living–the attainment of the
\n satisfaction of present desires. Thus will humanity remain immature; society
\n will fail in growing up to full maturity.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

\uc0b4\uc544\uac00\ub294 \uae30\uc220\uc774 \ub354 \ubcf5\uc7a1\ud574\uc9c4\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

character development, \uc778\ud488\uc758 \uac1c\ubc1c<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1773 – §1 Social maturity is equivalent to the degree to which
\n man is willing to surrender the gratification of mere transient and present
\n desires for the entertainment of those superior longings the striving
\n for whose attainment affords the more abundant satisfactions of progressive
\n advancement toward permanent goals.<\/font><\/p>\n

But the true badge of social maturity
\n is the willingness of a people to surrender the right to live peaceably
\n and contentedly under the ease-promoting standards of the lure of established
\n beliefs and conventional ideas for the disquieting and energy-requiring
\n lure of the pursuit of the unexplored possibilities of the attainment
\n of undiscovered goals of idealistic spiritual realities.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

disquiet, \ubd88\uc548\ud558\uac8c \ub9cc\ub4e4\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\ubbf8\uc9c0\uc758 \ud604\uc2e4\uc740 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc744 \ubd88\uc548\ud558\uac8c \ub9cc\ub4e0\ub2e4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1773 – §2 Animals respond nobly to the urge of life, but only man
\n can attain the art of living, albeit the majority of mankind only experience
\n the animal urge to live. Animals know only this blind and instinctive
\n urge; man is capable of transcending this urge to natural function. Man
\n may elect to live upon the high plane of intelligent art, even that of
\n celestial joy and spiritual ecstasy. Animals make no inquiry into the
\n purposes of life; therefore they never worry, neither do they commit suicide.
\n Suicide among men testifies that such beings have emerged from the purely
\n animal stage of existence, and to the further fact that the exploratory
\n efforts of such human beings have failed to attain the artistic levels
\n of mortal experience. Animals know not the meaning of life; man not only
\n possesses capacity for the recognition of values and the comprehension
\n of meanings, but he also is conscious of the meaning of meanings–he is
\n self-conscious of insight.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		ecstasy, \ud669\ud640\uacbd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1773 – §3 When men dare to forsake a life of natural craving for
\n one of adventurous art and uncertain logic, they must expect to suffer
\n the consequent hazards of emotional casualties–conflicts, unhappiness,
\n and uncertainties–at least until the time of their attainment of some
\n degree of intellectual and emotional maturity. Discouragement, worry,
\n and indolence are positive evidence of moral immaturity. Human society
\n is confronted with two problems: attainment of the maturity of the individual
\n and attainment of the maturity of the race. The mature human being soon
\n begins to look upon all other mortals with feelings of tenderness and
\n with emotions of tolerance. Mature men view immature folks with the love
\n and consideration that parents bear their children.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

hazards, \uc704\ud5d8<\/p>\n

\uc131\uc219\ud55c \uc778\uac04\uc740 \ubd80\ubaa8\uac00 \uc790\uc2dd\uc744 \ubcf4\ub4ef \uc0ac\ub78c\uc744 \ubc14\ub77c\ubcf8\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1773 – §4 Successful living is nothing more or less than the art
\n of the mastery of dependable techniques for solving common problems. The
\n first step in the solution of any problem is to locate the difficulty,
\n to isolate the problem, and frankly to recognize its nature and gravity.
\n The great mistake is that, when life problems excite our profound fears,
\n we refuse to recognize them. Likewise, when the acknowledgment of our
\n difficulties entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the
\n admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated prejudices, the average
\n person prefers to cling to the old illusions of safety and to the long-cherished
\n false feelings of security. Only a brave person is willing honestly to
\n admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		prejudice < pre + judicare (judge), \ud3b8\uacac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1773 – §5 The wise and effective solution of any problem demands
\n that the mind shall be free from bias, passion, and all other purely personal
\n prejudices which might interfere with the disinterested survey of the
\n actual factors that go to make up the problem presenting itself for solution.
\n The solution of life problems requires courage and sincerity. Only honest
\n and brave individuals are able to follow valiantly through the perplexing
\n and confusing maze of living to where the logic of a fearless mind may
\n lead. And this emancipation of the mind and soul can never be effected
\n without the driving power of an intelligent enthusiasm which borders on
\n religious zeal. It requires the lure of a great ideal to drive man on
\n in
\nP.1774 – §0 the pursuit of a goal which is beset with difficult material
\n problems and manifold intellectual hazards.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

disinterested, \ubb34\uad00\uc2ec\ud55c, \uc0ac\uc2ec \uc5c6\ub294<\/p>\n

driving power, \ucd94\uc9c4\ub825<\/p>\n

border on (\uac00\uae4c\uc774 \uac00\ub2e4)<\/p>\n

beset, \uc2dc\ub2ec\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1774 – §1 Even though you are effectively armed to meet the difficult
\n situations of life, you can hardly expect success unless you are equipped
\n with that wisdom of mind and charm of personality which enable you to
\n win the hearty support and co-operation of your fellows. You cannot hope
\n for a large measure of success in either secular or religious work unless
\n you can learn how to persuade your fellows, to prevail with men. You simply
\n must have tact and tolerance.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

large measure (\uc0c1\ub2f9\ub7c9)<\/p>\n

\ub3d9\ub8cc\ub97c \uc124\ub4dd\ud560 \uc904 \uc54c\uc544\uc57c \ud070 \uc131\uacf5\uc744 \ubc14\ub784 \uc218 \uc788\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uc694\ub839\uacfc \uad00\uc6a9\uc774 \ud544\uc694\ud558\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1774 – §2 But the greatest of all methods of problem solving I
\n have learned from Jesus, your Master. I refer to that which he so consistently
\n practices, and which he has so faithfully taught you, the isolation of
\n worshipful meditation. In this habit of Jesus’ going off so frequently
\n by himself to commune with the Father in heaven is to be found the technique,
\n not only of gathering strength and wisdom for the ordinary conflicts of
\n living, but also of appropriating the energy for the solution of the higher
\n problems of a moral and spiritual nature. But even correct methods of
\n solving problems will not compensate for inherent defects of personality
\n or atone for the absence of the hunger and thirst for true righteousness.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		strength, wisdom + energy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1774 – §3 I am deeply impressed with the custom of Jesus in going
\n apart by himself to engage in these seasons of solitary survey of the
\n problems of living; to seek for new stores of wisdom and energy for meeting
\n the manifold demands of social service; to quicken and deepen the supreme
\n purpose of living by actually subjecting the total personality to the
\n consciousness of contacting with divinity; to grasp for possession of
\n new and better methods of adjusting oneself to the ever-changing situations
\n of living existence; to effect those vital reconstructions and readjustments
\n of one’s personal attitudes which are so essential to enhanced insight
\n into everything worth while and real; and to do all of this with an eye
\n single to the glory of God–to breathe in sincerity your Master’s favorite
\n prayer, "Not my will, but yours, be done."
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		contact with divinity (\uae30\ub3c4\ud558\ub294 \uacfc\uc815)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/p>\n

P.1774 – §4 This worshipful practice of your Master brings that relaxation
\n which renews the mind; that illumination which inspires the soul; that
\n courage which enables one bravely to face one’s problems; that self-understanding
\n which obliterates debilitating fear; and that consciousness of union with
\n divinity which equips man with the assurance that enables him to dare
\n to be Godlike. The relaxation of worship, or spiritual communion as practiced
\n by the Master, relieves tension, removes conflicts, and mightily augments
\n the total resources of the personality. And all this philosophy, plus
\n the gospel of the kingdom, constitutes the new religion as I understand
\n it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\"\"\/<\/a> \"\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1774 – §5 Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of truth,
\n and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul
\n to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of
\n one’s fellow men. Prejudice is inseparably linked to selfishness. Prejudice
\n can be eliminated only by the abandonment of self-seeking and by substituting
\n therefor the quest of the satisfaction of the service of a cause that
\n is not only greater than self, but one that is even greater than all humanity–the
\n search for God, the attainment of divinity. The evidence of maturity of
\n personality consists in the transformation of human desire so that it
\n constantly seeks for the realization of those values which are highest
\n and most divinely real.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		therefor (\uadf8 \uc790\ub9ac\uc5d0)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

P.1774 – §6 In a continually changing world, in the midst of an evolving
\n social order, it is impossible to maintain settled and established goals
\n of destiny. Stability of personality
\n P.1775 – §0 can be experienced only by those who have discovered
\n and embraced the living God as the eternal goal of infinite attainment.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

And thus to transfer one’s goal from time to eternity, from earth to Paradise,
\n from the human to the divine, requires that man shall become regenerated,
\n converted, be born again; that he shall become the re-created child of
\n the divine spirit; that he shall gain entrance into the brotherhood of
\n the kingdom of heaven. All philosophies and religions which fall short
\n of these ideals are immature. The philosophy which I teach, linked with
\n the gospel which you preach, represents the new religion of maturity,
\n the ideal of all future generations. And this is true because our ideal
\n is final, infallible, eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/p>\n

P.1775 – §1 My philosophy gave me the urge to search for the realities
\n of true attainment, the goal of maturity. But my urge was impotent; my
\n search lacked driving power; my quest suffered from the absence of certainty
\n of directionization. And these deficiencies have been abundantly supplied
\n by this new gospel of Jesus, with its enhancement of insights, elevation
\n of ideals, and settledness of goals. Without doubts and misgivings I can
\n now wholeheartedly enter upon the eternal venture.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

misgiving, \ubd88\uc548, \uc758\ud639<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. THE ART OF LIVING – P.1775
\nP.1775 – §2 There are just two ways in which mortals may live together:
\n the material or animal way and the spiritual or human way. By the use of
\n signals and sounds animals are able to communicate with each other in a
\n limited way. But such forms of communication do not convey meanings, values,
\n or ideas. The one distinction between man and the animal is that man can
\n communicate with his fellows by means of symbols which most certainly designate
\n and identify meanings, values, ideas, and even ideals.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

art of living, \uc0b4\uc544\uac00\ub294 \uae30\uc220, (\uc21c\uc218\ud55c \uc758\ubbf8\uc758) \ucc98\uc138\uc220<\/p>\n

\ubb3c\uc9c8\uc801(\ub3d9\ubb3c\uc801) \ubc29\ubc95<\/p>\n

\uc601\uc801 (\uc778\uac04\uc801) \ubc29\ubc95<\/p>\n

\uc758\ubbf8, \uac00\uce58, \uc0dd\uac01\uc744 \uc804\ud558\uc9c0 \ubabb\ud55c\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1775 – §3 Since animals cannot communicate ideas to each other, they
\n cannot develop personality. Man develops personality because he can thus
\n communicate with his fellows concerning both ideas and ideals.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1775 – §4 It is this ability to communicate and share meanings that
\n constitutes human culture and enables man, through social associations,
\n to build civilizations. Knowledge and wisdom become cumulative because of
\n man’s ability to communicate these possessions to succeeding generations.
\n And thereby arise the cultural activities of the race: art, science, religion,
\n and philosophy.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\uc778\uaca9\uc758 \ud544\uc218 \uc694\uc18c: \uc0dd\uac01\uc744 \uc804\ub2ec (\uc0dd\uac01\uacfc \uc774\uc0c1)<\/p>\n

\ubb38\uba85 \uac74\uc124\uc5d0\ub294 \uc0dd\uac01\uc744 \uad50\ud1b5\ud558\ub294 \ub2a5\ub825\uc774 \ud544\uc694<\/p>\n

\uc0dd\uac01\uc744 \uc804\ub2ec\ud568\uc73c\ub85c, \uc608\uc220, \uacfc\ud559, \uc885\uad50, \ucca0\ud559\uc774 \uc0dd\uae34\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1775 – §5 Symbolic communication between human beings predetermines
\n the bringing into existence of social groups. The most effective of all
\n social groups is the family, more particularly the two parents. Personal
\n affection is the spiritual bond which holds together these material associations.
\n Such an effective relationship is also possible between two persons of the
\n same sex, as is so abundantly illustrated in the devotions of genuine friendships.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\uac00\uc871\uc758 \ucd5c\uc18c \uc0ac\ud68c \uc9d1\ub2e8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1775 – §6 These associations of friendship and mutual affection are
\n socializing and ennobling because they encourage and facilitate the following
\n essential factors of the higher levels of the art of living:<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\uc0b4\uc544 \uac00\ub294 \uae30\uc220\uc758 \ud544\uc218 \uc694\uc18c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/p>\n

P.1775 – §7 1. Mutual self-expression and self-understanding. Many
\n noble human impulses die because there is no one to hear their expression.
\n Truly, it is not good for man to be alone. Some degree of recognition
\n and a certain amount of appreciation are essential to the development
\n of human character. <\/p>\n

Without the genuine love of a home, no child can achieve
\n the full development of normal
\n P.1776 – §0 character. Character is something more than mere mind
\n and morals. Of all social relations calculated to develop character, the
\n most effective and ideal is the affectionate and understanding friendship
\n of man and woman in the mutual embrace of intelligent wedlock. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

1. \uc11c\ub85c \uc790\uc544\uc758 \ud45c\ud604 (\uc0c1\ub2f4\uc758 \uc601)\uc740 \uc778\ud488\uc758 \uac1c\ubc1c\uc5d0 \ud544\uc218.<\/p>\n

\uacb0\ud63c\ud55c \ub0a8\ub140\uac00 \uc774\ub8e8\ub294 \uac00\uc815\uc774 \uae30\ubcf8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/p>\n

Marriage,
\n with its manifold relations, is best designed to draw forth those precious
\n impulses and those higher motives which are indispensable to the development
\n of a strong character. I do not hesitate thus to glorify family life,
\n for your Master has wisely chosen the father-child relationship as the
\n very cornerstone of this new gospel of the kingdom. And such a matchless
\n community of relationship, man and woman in the fond embrace of the highest
\n ideals of time, is so valuable and satisfying an experience that it is
\n worth any price, any sacrifice, requisite for its possession.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\ud2bc\ud2bc\ud55c \uc778\ud488\uc758 \uac1c\ubc1c\uc5d0\ub294 \uacb0\ud63c\uc774 \ucd5c\uc801\uc774\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\ubd80\ubaa8\uc640 \uc790\uc2dd \uad00\uacc4\uac00 \ud558\ub298\ub098\ub77c \ubcf5\uc74c\uc758 \uc8fc\ucda7\ub3cc\uc774\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1776 – §1 2. Union of souls–the mobilization of wisdom. Every
\n human being sooner or later acquires a certain concept of this world and
\n a certain vision of the next. Now it is possible, through personality
\n association, to unite these views of temporal existence and eternal prospects.
\n Thus does the mind of one augment its spiritual values by gaining much
\n of the insight of the other. In this way men enrich the soul by pooling
\n their respective spiritual possessions. Likewise, in this same way, man
\n is enabled to avoid that ever-present tendency to fall victim to distortion
\n of vision, prejudice of viewpoint, and narrowness of judgment. Fear, envy,
\n and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds.
\n I call your attention to the fact that the Master never sends you out
\n alone to labor for the extension of the kingdom; he always sends you out
\n two and two. And since wisdom is superknowledge, it follows that, in the
\n union of wisdom, the social group, small or large, mutually shares all
\n knowledge.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

2. \ud63c\ub4e4\uc758 \uc5f0\ud569 (\uc9c0\ud61c\uc758 \ub3d9\uc6d0): (\uc77c\uc2dc\uc801, \uc601\uc6d0\ud55c \uc9c0\uc2dd\uc744 \ud655\ub300). \uac01\uc790 \uac00\uc9c4 \uac83\uc744 \uacf5\uc720\ud558\ub294 \uac83 (\uad50\uc721)<\/p>\n

\ub458\uc529 \uc81c\uc790\ub4e4\uc744 \ubcf4\ub0b4\ub294 \uc774\uc720.<\/p>\n

\ubaa8\ub450\uac00 \uc9c0\uc2dd\uc744 \uacf5\uc720\ud568\uc73c\ub85c \uc774\ub4dd\uc744 \ubcf8\ub2e4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/p>\n

P.1776 – §2 3. The enthusiasm for living. Isolation tends to exhaust
\n the energy charge of the soul. Association with one’s fellows is essential
\n to the renewal of the zest for life and is indispensable to the maintenance
\n of the courage to fight those battles consequent upon the ascent to the
\n higher levels of human living. Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies
\n the triumphs of life. Loving and intimate human associations tend to rob
\n suffering of its sorrow and hardship of much of its bitterness. <\/font><\/p>\n

The presence
\n of a friend enhances all beauty and exalts every goodness. By intelligent
\n symbols man is able to quicken and enlarge the appreciative capacities
\n of his friends. One of the crowning glories of human friendship is this
\n power and possibility of the mutual stimulation of the imagination. Great
\n spiritual power is inherent in the consciousness of wholehearted devotion
\n to a common cause, mutual loyalty to a cosmic Deity.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

  <\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\uc0b4\ub824\ub294 \uc5f4\uc2ec<\/p>\n

\uc9c0\ucce4\uc744 \ub54c, \uce5c\uad50\ub294 \uc5f4\uc2ec\uc744 \ubd88\ub7ec \uc77c\uc73c\ud0a8\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uc0b6\uc758 \uace0\ud1b5\uc744 \uac00\ubccd\uac8c \ub9cc\ub4e0\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uce5c\uad6c\uac00 \uc788\uc73c\uba74 \uc120\uc758 \ub2a5\ub825\uc774 \ucee4\uc9c4\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uacf5\ud1b5\ub41c \ubaa9\ud45c, \uc2e0\uc5d0\uac8c \ucda9\uc131\ud558\ub294 \ub370\uc11c \uc601\uc801 \ub3d9\ub825\uc774 \uc0dd\uaca8\ub09c\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/p>\n

P.1776 – §3 4. The enhanced defense against all evil. Personality
\n association and mutual affection is an efficient insurance against evil.
\n Difficulties, sorrow, disappointment, and defeat are more painful and
\n disheartening when borne alone. Association does not transmute evil into
\n righteousness, but it does aid in greatly lessening the sting. Said your
\n Master, "Happy are they who mourn"–if a friend is at hand to
\n comfort. There is positive strength in the knowledge that you live for
\n the welfare of others, and that these others likewise live for your welfare
\n and advancement. <\/p>\n

Man languishes in isolation. Human beings unfailingly
\n become discouraged when they view only the transitory transactions of
\n time. The present, when divorced from the past and the future, becomes
\n exasperatingly trivial. Only a glimpse of the circle of eternity can inspire
\n man to do his best and
\n P.1777 – §0 can challenge the best in him to do its utmost. And when
\n man is thus at his best, he lives most unselfishly for the good of others,
\n his fellow sojourners in time and eternity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\uc545\uc5d0 \ub300\ud55c \ubc29\uc5b4<\/p>\n

\uc2ac\ud514\uacfc \uc2e4\ub9dd\uc740 \ud63c\uc790 \uac10\ub2f9\ud558\uae30 \ud798\ub4e4\ub2e4<\/p>\n

\uc11c\ub85c\uac00 \ub0a8\uc744 \ubcf4\uc0b4\ud540\ub2e4\ub294 \uc54c\uba74 \uace0\ud1b5\uc774 \uc904\uc5b4\ub4e0\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\ud63c\uc790 \uc788\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc740 \uc2dc\ub4e0\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

P.1777 – §1 I repeat, such inspiring and ennobling association finds
\n its ideal possibilities in the human marriage relation. True, much is
\n attained out of marriage, and many, many marriages utterly fail to produce
\n these moral and spiritual fruits. Too many times marriage is entered by
\n those who seek other values which are lower than these superior accompaniments
\n of human maturity. Ideal marriage must be founded on something more stable
\n than the fluctuations of sentiment and the fickleness of mere sex attraction;
\n it must be based on genuine and mutual personal devotion. <\/p>\n

And thus, if
\n you can build up such trustworthy and effective small units of human association,
\n when these are assembled in the aggregate, the world will behold a great
\n and glorified social structure, the civilization of mortal maturity. Such
\n a race might begin to realize something of your Master’s ideal of "peace
\n on earth and good will among men." While such a society would not
\n be perfect or entirely free from evil, it would at least approach the
\n stabilization of maturity.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

fickle (\ubcc0\ub355\uc2a4\ub7ec\uc6b4), ~ness, \ubcc0\ub355<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

3. THE LURES OF MATURITY – P.1777<\/font><\/p>\n


\n P.1777 – §2 The effort toward maturity necessitates work, and work
\n requires energy. Whence the power to accomplish all this? The physical things
\n can be taken for granted, but the Master has well said, "Man cannot
\n live by bread alone." Granted the possession of a normal body and reasonably
\n good health, we must next look for those lures which will act as a stimulus
\n to call forth man’s slumbering spiritual forces. Jesus has taught us that
\n God lives in man; then how can we induce man to release these soul-bound
\n powers of divinity and infinity? How shall we induce men to let go of God
\n that he may spring forth to the refreshment of our own souls while in transit
\n outward and then to serve the purpose of enlightening, uplifting, and blessing
\n countless other souls? How best can I awaken these latent powers for good
\n which lie dormant in your souls? <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

take for granted, \ub2f9\uc5f0\ud55c \uac83\uc73c\ub85c \ubc1b\uc544\ub4e4\uc774\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

call forth, \uc694\uad6c\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

let go, \ubc29\uba74\ud558\ub2e4, \ud480\uc5b4 \ub193\ub2e4<\/p>\n

latent, \uc7a0\uc790\uace0 \uc788\ub294<\/p>\n

dormant < dormire (sleep), \uc7a0\uc790\ub294<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

One thing I am sure of: Emotional excitement
\n is not the ideal spiritual stimulus. Excitement does not augment energy;
\n it rather exhausts the powers of both mind and body. Whence then comes the
\n energy to do these great things? Look to your Master. Even now he is out
\n in the hills taking in power while we are here giving out energy. The secret
\n of all this problem is wrapped up in spiritual communion, in worship. From
\n the human standpoint it is a question of combined meditation and relaxation.
\n Meditation makes the contact of mind with spirit; relaxation determines
\n the capacity for spiritual receptivity. And this interchange of strength
\n for weakness, courage for fear, the will of God for the mind of self, constitutes
\n worship. At least, that is the way the philosopher views it.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

whence, \uc5b4\ub514\uc11c\ubd80\ud130<\/p>\n

standpoint, \uacac\uc9c0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1777 – §3 When these experiences are frequently repeated, they crystallize
\n into habits, strength-giving and worshipful habits, and such habits eventually
\n formulate themselves into a spiritual character, and such a character is
\n finally recognized by one’s fellows as a mature personality. These practices
\n are difficult and time-consuming at first, but when they become habitual,
\n they are at once restful and time-saving. <\/font><\/p>\n

The more complex society becomes,
\n and the more the lures of civilization multiply, the more urgent will become
\n the necessity for God-knowing individuals to form such protective habitual
\n practices designed to conserve and augment their spiritual energies.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1778 – §1 Another requirement for the attainment of maturity is the
\n co-operative adjustment of social groups to an ever-changing environment.
\n The immature individual arouses the antagonisms of his fellows; the mature
\n man wins the hearty co-operation of his associates, thereby many times multiplying
\n the fruits of his life efforts.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\uc131\uc219\ud55c \uc778\uac04\uc740 \ub3d9\ub8cc\ub4e4\uc758 \ud611\uc870\ub97c \uc5bb\ub294\ub2e4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1778 – §2 My philosophy tells me that there are times when I must
\n fight, if need be, for the defense of my concept of righteousness, but I
\n doubt not that the Master, with a more mature type of personality, would
\n easily and gracefully gain an equal victory by his superior and winsome
\n technique of tact and tolerance. All too often, when we battle for the right,
\n it turns out that both the victor and the vanquished have sustained defeat.
\n I heard the Master say only yesterday that the "wise man, when seeking
\n entrance through the locked door, would not destroy the door but rather
\n would seek for the key wherewith to unlock it." Too often we engage
\n in a fight merely to convince ourselves that we are not afraid.<\/font><\/td>\n		\n

if need be, (if necessary) \ud544\uc694\ud558\ub2e4\uba74<\/p>\n

winsome (attractive)<\/p>\n

tact, \uc694\ub839<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1778 – §3 This new gospel of the kingdom renders a great service
\n to the art of living in that it supplies a new and richer incentive for
\n higher living. It presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme
\n life purpose. And these new concepts of the eternal and divine goal of existence
\n are in themselves transcendent stimuli, calling forth the reaction of the
\n very best that is resident in man’s higher nature. On every mountaintop
\n of intellectual thought are to be found relaxation for the mind, strength
\n for the soul, and communion for the spirit. <\/font><\/p>\n

From such vantage points of
\n high living, man is able to transcend the material irritations of the lower
\n levels of thinking–worry, jealousy, envy, revenge, and the pride of immature
\n personality. These high-climbing souls deliver themselves from a multitude
\n of the crosscurrent conflicts of the trifles of living, thus becoming free
\n to attain consciousness of the higher currents of spirit concept and celestial
\n communication. But the life purpose must be jealously guarded from the temptation
\n to seek for easy and transient attainment; likewise must it be so fostered
\n as to become immune to the disastrous threats of fanaticism.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

render, \uc81c\uacf5\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

in that, \uc774\ubbc0\ub85c<\/p>\n

crosscurrent, \uc5ed\ub958 \ub300\ub9bd\ud558\ub294<\/p>\n

jealously, \uc870\uc2ec\ud558\uc5ec<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

4. THE BALANCE OF MATURITY – P.1778
\nP.1778 – §4 While you have an eye single to the attainment of eternal
\n realities, you must also make provision for the necessities of temporal
\n living. While the spirit is our goal, the flesh is a fact. Occasionally
\n the necessities of living may fall into our hands by accident, but in
\n general, we must intelligently work for them. The two major problems of
\n life are: making a temporal living and the achievement of eternal survival.
\n And even the problem of making a living requires religion for its ideal
\n solution. These are both highly personal problems. True religion, in fact,
\n does not function apart from the individual.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\uade0\ud615\ub41c \uc131\uc219<\/p>\n

eye single to, ~\ub9cc \ub178\ub9ac\ub294<\/p>\n

\uc601\uc6d0 \ubfd0 \uc544\ub2c8\ub77c \ud604\uc138\uc758 \ud544\uc218\ud488\uc744 \ucd5c\ub300\ub85c \uc7a5\ub9cc\ud558\uae30 \uc704\ud558\uc5ec \uc9c0\uc801 \ub178\ub825\uc774 \ud544\uc694\ud558\ub2e4. \uadf8 \ucd5c\ub300\uc810\uc740 \ub610\ud55c \uc774\ub97c \uc131\ucde8\ud558\uae30 \uc704\ud558\uc5ec \ud604\uc138\uc5d0 \ucd5c\uc18c\uc758 \ub178\ub825\uc744 \uae30\uc6b8\uc774\ub294 \uc810\uc774\ub2e4 (\ube44\uc6a9\uc758 \uadf9\uc18c\ud654, \uc131\uacfc\uc758 \uadf9\ub300\ud654)<\/p>\n

constrained maximization problem<\/p>\n

L = f(x) + λg(x).<\/p>\n

two surfaces are tangent to each other.<\/p>\n

λ is called a Lagrange multiplier.<\/p>\n

\uadf8\ub9bc\uc73c\ub85c \ubcf4\uba74 \ub2ec\uac40 \ub450 \uac1c\uac00 \uc11c\ub85c \uc811\ucd09\ud558\ub294 \uc810\uc5d0\uc11c \ub450 \uac1c\uc758 \uace1\uba74\uc758 \uae30\uc6b8\uae30\uac00 \uac19\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1795) developed the method.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1778 – §5 The essentials of the temporal life,
\n as I see them, are:<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1778 – §6 1. Good physical health.
\n P.1778 – §7 2. Clear and clean thinking.
\n P.1778 – §8 3. Ability and skill.
\n P.1778 – §9 4. Wealth–the goods of life.
\n P.1778 – §10 5. Ability to withstand defeat.
\n P.1778 – §11 6. Culture–education and wisdom.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\ud328\ubc30\ub97c \uacac\ub514\ub294 \ub2a5\ub825<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1779 – §1 Even the physical problems of bodily
\n health and efficiency are best solved when they are viewed from the religious
\n standpoint of our Master’s teaching: That the body and mind of man are
\n the dwelling place of the gift of the Gods, the spirit of God becoming
\n the spirit of man. The mind of man thus becomes the mediator between material
\n things and spiritual realities.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\uc9c0\uc131\uc740 \ubb3c\uc9c8\uacfc \uc601\uc801 \uc2e4\uccb4\uc758 \uc911\uc7ac\uc790\uac00 \ub41c\ub2e4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

P.1779 – §2 It requires intelligence to secure one’s
\n share of the desirable things of life. It is wholly erroneous to suppose
\n that faithfulness in doing one’s daily work will insure the rewards of
\n wealth. Barring the occasional and accidental acquirement of wealth, the
\n material rewards of the temporal life are found to flow in certain well-organized
\n channels, and only those who have access to these channels may expect
\n to be well rewarded for their temporal efforts. Poverty must ever be the
\n lot of all men who seek for wealth in isolated and individual channels.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

Wise planning, therefore, becomes the one thing essential to worldly prosperity.
\n Success requires not only devotion to one’s work but also that one should
\n function as a part of some one of the channels of material wealth. If
\n you are unwise, you can bestow a devoted life upon your generation without
\n material reward; if you are an accidental beneficiary of the flow of wealth,
\n you may roll in luxury even though you have done nothing worth while for
\n your fellow men.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\uc778\uc0dd\uc5d0\uc11c \ubc14\ub78c\uc9c1\ud55c \ubb3c\uac74\uc744 \uc7a5\ub9cc\ud558\ub294 \ub370 \uc9c0\ub2a5\uc774 \ud544\uc694.<\/p>\n

\ucda9\uc2e4\ud788 \uc77c\ud55c\ub2e4\uace0 \ubd80\uc720\ud558\uac8c \ub418\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\ud604\uba85\ud55c \uacc4\ud68d\uc774 \ubc88\uc601\uc5d0 \ud544\uc218.<\/p>\n

\uc6b4\uc774 \uc88b\uc73c\uba74, \uc0ac\uce58 \uc18d\uc5d0 \ub4b9\uad74 \uc218\ub3c4 \uc788\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n


\nP.1779 – §3 Ability is that which you inherit, while skill is what
\n you acquire. Life is not real to one who cannot do some one thing well,
\n expertly. Skill is one of the real sources of the satisfaction of living.
\n Ability implies the gift of foresight, farseeing vision. Be not deceived
\n by the tempting rewards of dishonest achievement; be willing to toil for
\n the later returns inherent in honest endeavor. The wise man is able to
\n distinguish between means and ends; otherwise, sometimes overplanning
\n for the future defeats its own high purpose. As a pleasure seeker you
\n should aim always to be a producer as well as a consumer.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		later returns, \uc790\ubcf8\uc774\ub098 \uae30\uc220\uc744 \ubc30\uc6b0\ub294 \uc774\uc720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1779 – §4 Train your memory to hold in sacred trust the strength-giving
\n and worth-while episodes of life, which you can recall at will for your
\n pleasure and edification. Thus build up for yourself and in yourself reserve
\n galleries of beauty, goodness, and artistic grandeur. But the noblest
\n of all memories are the treasured recollections of the great moments of
\n a superb friendship. And all of these memory treasures radiate their most
\n precious and exalting influences under the releasing touch of spiritual
\n worship.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\uc88b\uc558\ub358 \ub54c\ub97c \uae30\uc5b5\ud560 \uac83 (\uc694\uc998\uc5d0\ub294 photos, videos serve this purpose.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1779 – §5 But life will become a burden of existence unless you
\n learn how to fail gracefully. There is an art in defeat which noble souls
\n always acquire; you must know how to lose cheerfully; you must be fearless
\n of disappointment. Never hesitate to admit failure. Make no attempt to
\n hide failure under deceptive smiles and beaming optimism. It sounds well
\n always to claim success, but the end results are appalling. Such a technique
\n leads directly to the creation of a world of unreality and to the inevitable
\n crash of ultimate disillusionment.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

fail gracefully, \uc2e4\ud328\ud560 \ub54c \ud488\uc704\ub97c \uc9c0\ud0a4\ub2e4<\/p>\n

lose cheerfully, \uc9c0\uba74\uc11c \uba85\ub791\ud560 \uac83.<\/p>\n

admit failure, \uc2e4\ud328\ub97c \uc778\uc815\ud560 \uac83.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1779 – §6 Success may generate courage and promote confidence,
\n but wisdom comes only from the experiences of adjustment to the results
\n of one’s failures. Men who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can
\n never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals
\n can achieve wisdom. Wisdom embraces both the fact and the ideal and therefore
\n saves its devotees from both of those barren extremes of philosophy–the
\n man whose idealism excludes facts and the materialist who is devoid of
\n spiritual outlook. <\/font><\/p>\n

Those timid souls who can only keep up the struggle
\n of life by the aid of continuous false illusions of success
\n P.1780 – §0 are doomed to suffer failure and experience defeat as
\n they ultimately awaken from the dream world of their own imaginations.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/a> \"\"\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\uc2e4\ud328\ub85c\ubd80\ud130 \uc9c0\ud61c\ub97c<\/p>\n

devotee, \uc2e0\uc790<\/p>\n

\uc9c0\ud61c\ub294 \ub450 \uadf9\ub2e8\uc744 \ud53c\ud558\uac8c \ud55c\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1780 – §1 And it is in this business of facing failure and adjusting
\n to defeat that the far-reaching vision of religion exerts its supreme
\n influence. Failure is simply an educational episode–a cultural experiment
\n in the acquirement of wisdom–in the experience of the God-seeking man
\n who has embarked on the eternal adventure of the exploration of a universe.
\n To such men defeat is but a new tool for the achievement of higher levels
\n of universe reality.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

exert influence, \uc601\ud5a5\uc744 \ubbf8\uce58\ub2e4<\/p>\n

episode = epi (in addition) + hodos (way)<\/p>\n

\uc0bd\ud654\uac19\uc740 \uc791\uc740 \uc0ac\uac74.<\/p>\n

exodos = exit (out + way)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1780 – §2 The career of a God-seeking man may prove to be a great
\n success in the light of eternity, even though the whole temporal-life
\n enterprise may appear as an overwhelming failure, provided each life failure
\n yielded the culture of wisdom and spirit achievement.<\/font><\/p>\n

Do not make the
\n mistake of confusing knowledge, culture, and wisdom. They are related
\n in life, but they represent vastly differing spirit values; wisdom ever
\n dominates knowledge and always glorifies culture.<\/font><\/p>\n


\n <\/font><\/td>\n

\n

overwhelm, \uc555\ub3c4\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

culture, \uad50\uc591, \ubb38\ud654<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

5. THE RELIGION OF THE IDEAL – P.1780
\nP.1780 – §3 You have told me that your Master regards genuine human
\n religion as the individual’s experience with spiritual realities. I have
\n regarded religion as man’s experience of reacting to something which he
\n regards as being worthy of the homage and devotion of all mankind. In
\n this sense, religion symbolizes our supreme devotion to that which represents
\n our highest concept of the ideals of reality and the farthest reach of
\n our minds toward eternal possibilities of spiritual attainment.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\uc774\uc0c1\uc801 \uc885\uad50<\/p>\n

\uc9c4\uc815\ud55c \uc885\uad50\ub294 \uac1c\uc778\uc774 \uc601\uc801 \uc2e4\uccb4\ub97c \uccb4\ud5d8\ud558\ub294 \uac83.<\/p>\n

\uc774\uc0c1\uc801 \uc2e4\uccb4\uc5d0 \ud5cc\uc2e0\ud558\ub294 \uac83.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1780 – §4 When men react to religion in the tribal, national, or
\n racial sense, it is because they look upon those without their group as
\n not being truly human. We always look upon the object of our religious
\n loyalty as being worthy of the reverence of all men. Religion can never
\n be a matter of mere intellectual belief or philosophic reasoning; religion
\n is always and forever a mode of reacting to the situations of life; it
\n is a species of conduct. Religion embraces thinking, feeling, and acting
\n reverently toward some reality which we deem worthy of universal adoration.<\/font><\/td>\n		\n

\uc790\uae30 \uc9d1\ub2e8\uc5d0 \uc18d\ud558\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294 \uc790\ub97c \uc778\uac04\uc73c\ub85c \ubcf4\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uc885\uad50\ub294 \uad00\ub150\uc758 \ubb38\uc81c\uac00 \uc544\ub2c8\ub77c \uc2e4\uc0dd\ud65c\uc5d0 \ubc18\uc751\ud558\ub294 \ud615\uc2dd.<\/p>\n

\ud589\uc704\ud558\ub294 \uc885\uc790\uc774\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1780 – §5 If something has become a religion in your experience,
\n it is self-evident that you already have become an active evangel of that
\n religion since you deem the supreme concept of your religion as being
\n worthy of the worship of all mankind, all universe intelligences. If you
\n are not a positive and missionary evangel of your religion, you are self-deceived
\n in that what you call a religion is only a traditional belief or a mere
\n system of intellectual philosophy. If your religion is a spiritual experience,
\n your object of worship must be the universal spirit reality and ideal
\n of all your spiritualized concepts. All religions based on fear, emotion,
\n tradition, and philosophy I term the intellectual religions, while those
\n based on true spirit experience I would term the true religions. The object
\n of religious devotion may be material or spiritual, true or false, real
\n or unreal, human or divine. Religions can therefore be either good or
\n evil.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

\uc778\uc0dd\uc744 \uccb4\ud5d8\ud558\uba74\uc11c \ubb34\uc5c7\uc778\uac00 \uc885\uad50\uac00 \ub418\uc5c8\ub2e4\uba74, \ub108\ub294 \uc774\ubbf8 \uadf8 \uc804\ub3c4\uc0ac\uac00 \ub41c \uac83\uc774\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

\uc9c0\uc801\uc778 \uc885\uad50 = \uacf5\ud3ec, \uac10\uc815, \uc804\ud1b5, \ucca0\ud559\uc5d0 \uae30\ucd08\ub97c \ub454 \uc885\uad50<\/p>\n

good or evil, \uc88b\uc744 \uc218\ub3c4 \ub098\uc060 \uc218\ub3c4 \uc788\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n


\nP.1780 – §6 Morality and religion are not necessarily the same. A
\n system of morals, by grasping an object of worship, may become a religion.
\n A religion, by losing its universal appeal to loyalty and supreme devotion,
\n may evolve into a system of philosophy or a code of morals. This thing,
\n being, state, or order of existence, or possibility of attainment which
\n constitutes the supreme ideal of religious
\nP.1781 – §0 loyalty, and which is the recipient of the religious
\n devotion of those who worship, is God. Regardless of the name applied
\n to this ideal of spirit reality, it is God.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

morals, \ub3c4\ub355\ub960 \ubc0f \uccb4\uacc4<\/p>\n

\uc601 \uc2e4\uccb4\uc778 \uc774 \uc774\uc0c1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

P.1781 – §1 The social characteristics of a true religion consist
\n in the fact that it invariably seeks to convert the individual and to
\n transform the world. Religion implies the existence of undiscovered ideals
\n which far transcend the known standards of ethics and morality embodied
\n in even the highest social usages of the most mature institutions of civilization.
\n Religion reaches out for undiscovered ideals, unexplored realities, superhuman
\n values, divine wisdom, and true spirit attainment. <\/font><\/p>\n

True religion does
\n all of this; all other beliefs are not worthy of the name. You cannot
\n have a genuine spiritual religion without the supreme and supernal ideal
\n of an eternal God. A religion without this God is an invention of man,
\n a human institution of lifeless intellectual beliefs and meaningless emotional
\n ceremonies. A religion might claim as the object of its devotion a great
\n ideal. But such ideals of unreality are not attainable; such a concept
\n is illusionary. The only ideals susceptible of human attainment are the
\n divine realities of the infinite values resident in the spiritual fact
\n of the eternal God.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

consist in, ~\uc5d0 \uc788\ub2e4<\/p>\n

\uc601\uc6d0\ud55c \uc2e0\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uc774\uc0c1\uc774 \uc5c6\uc774<\/p>\n

susceptible, \ubbfc\uac10\ud55c, \uc601\ud5a5\uc744 \ubc1b\uae30 \uc26c\uc6b4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1781 – §2 The word God, the idea of God as contrasted with the
\n ideal of God, can become a part of any religion, no matter how puerile
\n or false that religion may chance to be. And this idea of God can become
\n anything which those who entertain it may choose to make it. The lower
\n religions shape their ideas of God to meet the natural state of the human
\n heart; the higher religions demand that the human heart shall be changed
\n to meet the demands of the ideals of true religion.<\/font><\/td>\n		\n

idea of God, \uc2e0\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uac1c\ub150<\/p>\n

ideal of God, \uc2e0\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uc774\uc0c1<\/p>\n

puerile, \ucca0\uc5c6\ub294, \ubbf8\uc219\ud55c<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

P.1781 – §3 The religion of Jesus transcends all
\n our former concepts of the idea of worship in that he not only portrays
\n his Father as the ideal of infinite reality but positively declares that
\n this divine source of values and the eternal center of the universe is
\n truly and personally attainable by every mortal creature who chooses to
\n enter the kingdom of heaven on earth, thereby acknowledging the acceptance
\n of sonship with God and brotherhood with man. That, I submit, is the highest
\n concept of religion the world has ever known, and I pronounce that there
\n can never be a higher since this gospel embraces the infinity of realities,
\n the divinity of values, and the eternity of universal attainments. Such
\n a concept constitutes the achievement of the experience of the idealism
\n of the supreme and the ultimate.
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\n

idea of worship, \uc608\ubc30\ub77c\ub294 \uac1c\ub150<\/p>\n

ideal of infinite reality, \ubb34\ud55c\ud55c \uc2e4\uccb4\ub77c\ub294 \uc774\uc0c1<\/p>\n

thereby, \uadf8\ub9ac \ud568\uc73c\ub85c<\/p>\n

submit, \uc81c\uc548\ud558\uac74\ub300<\/p>\n

idealism of the supreme, \ucd5c\uc0c1\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uc774\uc0c1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1781 – §4 I am not only intrigued by the consummate ideals of this
\n religion of your Master, but I am mightily moved to profess my belief
\n in his announcement that these ideals of spirit realities are attainable;
\n that you and I can enter upon this long and eternal adventure with his
\n assurance of the certainty of our ultimate arrival at the portals of Paradise.
\n My brethren, I am a believer, I have embarked; I am on my way with you
\n in this eternal venture. The Master says he came from the Father, and
\n that he will show us the way. I am fully persuaded he speaks the truth.
\n I am finally convinced that there are no attainable ideals of reality
\n or values of perfection apart from the eternal and Universal Father.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

intrigue, \ud638\uae30\uc2ec\uc744 \uac00\uc9c0\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

embark, \ubc30\ub97c \ud0d4\ub2e4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1781 – §5 I come, then, to worship, not merely the God of existences,
\n but the God of the possibility of all future existences. Therefore must
\n your devotion to a supreme ideal, if that ideal is real, be devotion to
\n this God of past, present, and future universes of things and beings.
\n And there is no other God, for there cannot possibly be any other God.
\n All other gods are figments of the imagination, illusions of mortal mind,
\n distortions of false logic, and the self-deceptive idols of those who
\n create them. Yes, you can have a religion without this God, but it
\nP.1782 – §0 does not mean anything. And if you seek to substitute
\n the word God for the reality of this ideal of the living God, you have
\n only deluded yourself by putting an idea in the place of an ideal, a divine
\n reality. Such beliefs are merely religions of wishful fancy.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

devotion, \ud5cc\uc2e0<\/p>\n

figment of imagination, \uc0c1\uc0c1\uc758 \uc0b0\ubb3c, \ud5c8\uad6c, \uafb8\uba70\ub0b8 \uac83<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1782 – §1 I see in the teachings of Jesus, religion at its best.
\n This gospel enables us to seek for the true God and to find him. But are
\n we willing to pay the price of this entrance into the kingdom of heaven?
\n Are we willing to be born again? to be remade? Are we willing to be subject
\n to this terrible and testing process of self-destruction and soul reconstruction?
\n Has not the Master said: "Whoso would save his life must lose it.
\n Think not that I have come to bring peace but rather a soul struggle"?
\n True, after we pay the price of dedication to the Father’s will, we do
\n experience great peace provided we continue to walk in these spiritual
\n paths of consecrated living.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

religion at its best, \ucd5c\uc120\uc5d0 \ub3c4\ub2ec\ud55c \uc885\uad50<\/p>\n

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P.1782 – §2 Now are we truly forsaking the lures of the known order
\n of existence while we unreservedly dedicate our quest to the lures of
\n the unknown and unexplored order of the existence of a future life of
\n adventure in the spirit worlds of the higher idealism of divine reality.
\n And we seek for those symbols of meaning wherewith to convey to our fellow
\n men these concepts of the reality of the idealism of the religion of Jesus,
\n and we will not cease to pray for that day when all mankind shall be thrilled
\n by the communal vision of this supreme truth. Just now, our focalized
\n concept of the Father, as held in our hearts, is that God is spirit; as
\n conveyed to our fellows, that God is love.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		\n

known order of existence, \uc54c\ub824\uc9c4 \uacc4\uae09\uc758 \uc874\uc7ac<\/p>\n

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P.1782 – §3 The religion of Jesus demands living and spiritual experience.
\n Other religions may consist in traditional beliefs, emotional feelings,
\n philosophic consciousness, and all of that, but the teaching of the Master
\n requires the attainment of actual levels of real spirit progression.
\n <\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

P.1782 – §4 The consciousness of the impulse to be like God is not
\n true religion. The feelings of the emotion to worship God are not true
\n religion. The knowledge of the conviction to forsake self and serve God
\n is not true religion. The wisdom of the reasoning that this religion is
\n the best of all is not religion as a personal and spiritual experience.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

True religion has reference to destiny and reality of attainment as well
\n as to the reality and idealism of that which is wholeheartedly faith-accepted.
\n And all of this must be made personal to us by the revelation of the Spirit
\n of Truth.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1782 – §5 And thus ended the dissertations of the
\n Greek philosopher, one of the greatest of his race, who had become a believer
\n in the gospel of Jesus.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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