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Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love. Unless an
interpreter lived in the mind, man could not truly realize the unity of the universe. Unless an
evaluator dwelt with man, he could not possibly appraise moral values and recognize spiritual
meanings. And this lover hails from the very source of infinite love; this interpreter is a part of
Universal Unity; this evaluator is the child of the Center and Source of all absolute values of
divine and eternal reality.
Moral evaluation with a religious meaning — spiritual insight — connotes the individual‘s
choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and
eternity. Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the
choosing of those values selected by this spirit-value sorter — the indwelling interpreter and
unifier. Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and
revelation by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the
irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to
suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and
attain the divine revelation. But such attitudes of spiritual nonprogression cannot long persist
because of the presence and influence of the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
This profound experience of the reality of the divine indwelling forever transcends the crude
materialistic technique of the physical sciences. You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope;
you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate
the quality of spiritual worship.
The Hebrews had a religion of moral sublimity; the Greeks evolved a religion of beauty; Paul
and his conferees founded a religion of faith, hope, and charity. Jesus revealed and exemplified a
religion of love: security in the Father‘s love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing
this love in the service of the human brotherhood.
Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine
invasion of his soul. Moral choosing constitutes religion as the motive of inner response to outer
conditions. But such a real religion is not a purely subjective experience. It signifies the whole of
the subjectivity of the individual engaged in a meaningful and intelligent response to total
objectivity — the universe and its Maker.
The exquisite and transcendent experience of loving and being loved is not just a psychic illusion
because it is so purely subjective. The one truly divine and objective reality that is associated
with mortal beings, the Thought Adjuster, functions to human observation apparently as an
exclusively subjective phenomenon. Man‘s contact with the highest objective reality, God, is
only through the purely subjective experience of knowing him, of worshiping him, of realizing
sonship with him.
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True religious worship is not a futile monologue of self-deception. Worship is a personal
communion with that which is divinely real, with that which is the very source of reality. Man
aspires by worship to be better and thereby eventually attains the best.