The later evolution of religion

PAPER 92

CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVE PRAYER

^91:9.1 If you would engage in effective praying, you should bear in mind the laws of prevailing petitions:

^91:9.2 1. You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.

^91:9.3 2. You must have honestly exhausted the human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious.

^91:9.4 3. You must surrender every wish of mind and every craving of soul to the transforming embrace of spiritual growth. You must have experienced an enhancement of meanings and an elevation of values.

^91:9.5 4. You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.

^91:9.6 5. You not only recognize the Father's will and choose to do it, but you have effected an unqualified consecration, and a dynamic dedication, to the actual doing of the Father's will.

^91:9.7 6. Your prayer will be directed exclusively for divine wisdom to solve the specific human problems encountered in the Paradise ascension -- the attainment of divine perfection.

^91:9.8 7. And you must have faith -- living faith.

^{91:9.9 Presented by the Chief of the Urantia Midwayers.}

The Urantia Book

^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 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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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