Seeking the Truth

An extremely significant letter regarding future thinking of our world as we know it – 2016

Carta extremamente significativa em relação ao pensamento e futuro de nosso mundo como conhecemos hoje - 2016

Todos os textos são excertos da 

Quinta Revelação de Época

“O Livro de Urântia”

O Livro de Urântia é uma revelação celestial planejada para os próximos mil anos da evolução humana.

Urântia é o nome atribuído ao nosso planeta pelas autoridades celestiais que governam o universo.

O Livro de Urântia é a chamada Quinta Revelação de Época.
Segundo os reveladores celestiais, estas são as grandes Revelações de Época no nosso planeta:

“Houve muitos acontecimentos de revelação religiosa, mas apenas cinco deles foram de significação para toda uma época. As revelações epocais foram as seguintes:

[Há cerca de 500 mil anos]
1. Os ensinamentos Dalamatianos. 
O verdadeiro conceito da Primeira Fonte e Centro foi promulgado em Urântia, pela primeira vez, pelos cem membros da assessoria corpórea do Príncipe Caligástia. 

Essa revelação expandida da Deidade persistiu por mais de trezentos mil anos, até que foi subitamente interrompida pela secessão planetária e pela ruptura do regime de ensino. Exceto pelo trabalho de Van, a influência da revelação Dalamatiana ficou praticamente perdida para todo o mundo. 

Até os noditas haviam esquecido essa verdade, já na época da chegada de Adão. Entre todos os que receberam os ensinamentos vindos dos cem, os homens vermelhos foram aqueles que os conservaram por mais tempo; mas a ideia do Grande Espírito não era senão uma concepção nebulosa, na religião ameríndia, quando o contato com o cristianismo clarificou-a e reforçou-a consideravelmente.

[Há cerca de 38 mil anos]
2. Os ensinamentos Edênicos. 
Adão e Eva retrataram, uma vez mais, o conceito do Pai de todos aos povos evolucionários. A dissolução do primeiro Éden interrompeu o curso da revelação adâmica, antes que ela tivesse começado de fato. Mas os ensinamentos abortados de Adão foram continuados pelos sacerdotes setitas, e algumas dessas verdades nunca foram inteiramente perdidas para o mundo. 

Toda a tendência da evolução religiosa do levante foi modificada pelos ensinamentos dos setitas. Mas, por volta de 2500 a.C., a humanidade tinha perdido de vista, em grande parte, a revelação promovida à época do Éden.

[Há cerca de 4 mil anos]
3. Melquisedeque de Salém. 
Este Filho emergencial de Nébadon inaugurou a terceira revelação da verdade em Urântia. Os preceitos cardinais dos seus ensinamentos foram: confiança e fé. Ele ensinou a confiança na beneficência onipotente de Deus e proclamou a fé como o ato por meio do qual os homens ganham o favorecimento de Deus. 

Os seus ensinamentos gradualmente misturaram-se às crenças e práticas de várias religiões evolucionárias e, finalmente, resultaram naqueles sistemas teológicos presentes em Urântia quando da abertura do primeiro milênio depois de Cristo.

[Há cerca de 2 mil anos]
4. Jesus de Nazaré. 
Cristo Micael apresentou o conceito de Deus, trazido assim em Urântia pela quarta vez, como o Pai Universal; e esse ensinamento perdurou em geral desde então. A essência do seu ensinamento foi amor e serviço, a adoração amorosa que um filho criatura dá voluntariamente em reconhecimento e em retorno à ministração do amor de Deus, o seu Pai; o serviço que tais filhos criaturas oferecem, de vontade espontânea aos seus irmãos, em uma alegre compreensão de que, nesse serviço, eles estão servindo, do mesmo modo, a Deus, o Pai.

[Em 1935]
5. Os Documentos de Urântia. 
Os documentos, dos quais este é um deles, constituem a mais recente apresentação da verdade aos mortais de Urântia. Esses documentos diferem de todas as revelações anteriores, pois não são trabalho de uma única personalidade do universo; são, sim, apresentações compostas, efetuadas por muitos seres. Nenhuma revelação, todavia, pode jamais ser completa antes de se alcançar o Pai Universal. 

Todas as outras ministrações celestes não são mais do que parciais, transitórias e praticamente adaptadas às condições locais de tempo e de espaço. É possível que ao admitir tudo isso possamos esvaziar a força imediata e a autoridade de todas as revelações, mas é chegado o tempo em Urântia em que é aconselhável fazer essa declaração franca, ainda que correndo o risco de enfraquecer a influência futura e a autoridade desta obra, que é a mais recente das revelações da verdade às raças mortais de Urântia.”

[O Livro de Urântia, 92:4.5-9]

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Fifth Epochal Revelation
"The Urantia Book"

The Urantia Book is a celestial revelation planned for the next thousand years of human evolution.

Urantia is the name given to our planet by the celestial authorities who rule the universe.

The Urantia Book is the so-called Fifth Epochal Revelation.
According to the celestial revelators, the following are the great Epochal Revelations on our planet:

There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:

[Around 500,000 years ago]

1. The Dalamatian teachings. 
The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia's staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam's arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.

[Around 38,000 years ago]

2. The Edenic teachings. 
Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden.

[Around 4,000 years ago]

3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God's favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.

[Around 2,000 years ago]

4. Jesus of Nazareth. 
Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.

[In 1935]

5. The Urantia Papers. 
The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia.

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Todos los textos son extractos de la

Quinta Revelación de Época

"El Libro de Urantia"

El Libro de Urantia es una revelación celestial planeada para los próximos mil años de evolución humana.

Urantia es el nombre atribuido a nuestro planeta por las autoridades celestiales que gobiernan el universo.

El Libro de Urantia es la Quinta Revelación de Época.
Según los reveladores celestiales, estas son las grandes Revelaciones de Época en nuestro planeta:

“Ha habido muchos acontecimientos de revelación religiosa pero sólo cinco de significado de época. Éstos fueron como sigue:

[hace unos 500 mil años]
1. Las enseñanzas dalamatianas. 
El verdadero concepto de la Primera Fuente y Centro fue promulgado por primera vez en Urantia por los cien miembros corpóreos del séquito del Príncipe Caligastia. Esta revelación de la Deidad en expansión duró más de trescientos mil años hasta que fue repentinamente interrumpida por la secesión planetaria y la ruptura del régimen de enseñanza. Excepto por el trabajo de Van, la influencia de la revelación dalamatiana prácticamente se perdió en todo el mundo. Aun los noditas habían olvidado esta verdad al tiempo de la llegada de Adán. De todos los que recibieron las enseñanzas de los cien, los hombres rojos las conservaron por más tiempo, pero la idea del Gran Espíritu no era sino un concepto nebuloso en la religión amerindia cuando el contacto con el cristianismo lo aclaró y fortaleció grandemente.

[hace unos 38 mil años]
2. Las enseñanzas edénicas. 
Adán y Eva nuevamente ilustraron el concepto del Padre de todos para los pueblos evolucionarios. La disolución del primer Edén interrumpió el curso de la revelación adánica antes de que hubiera comenzado plenamente. Pero las enseñanzas abortadas de Adán fueron continuadas por los sacerdotes setitas y algunas de estas verdades nunca se han perdido completamente en el mundo. La entera tendencia de la evolución religiosa levantina fue modificada por las enseñanzas de los setitas. Pero hacia el año 2500 a. de J. C. la humanidad había perdido en gran parte de vista la revelación patrocinada en los días del Edén.

[hace unos 4 mil años]
3. Melquisedek de Salem. 
Este Hijo de urgencia de Nebadon inauguró la tercera revelación de la verdad en Urantia. Los preceptos cardinales de sus enseñanzas fueron confianza y fe. Enseñó la confianza en la beneficencia omnipotente de Dios y proclamó que la fe era el acto por el cual el hombre ganaba el favor de Dios. Sus enseñanzas gradualmente se mezclaron con las creencias y prácticas de varias religiones evolucionarias y finalmente se desarrollaron en esos sistemas teológicos presentes en Urantia al principio del primer milenio después de Cristo.

[hace unos 2 mil años]
4. Jesús de Nazaret. 
Cristo Micael presentó por cuarta vez a Urantia el concepto de Dios como Padre Universal, y esta enseñanza en general ha persistido desde entonces. La esencia de su enseñanza era amor y servicio, la adoración amante que la criatura otorga voluntariamente en reconocimiento del ministerio amante de Dios su Padre, y en respuesta al mismo; el servicio por libre albedrío que estas criaturas otorgan a sus hermanos en la comprensión regocijada de que, mediante este servicio, están sirviendo del mismo modo a Dios el Padre.

[En 1935]
5. Los documentos de Urantia. 
Los documentos, de los cuales éste es uno, constituyen la presentación más reciente de la verdad a los mortales de Urantia. Estos documentos difieren de todas las revelaciones previas, porque no son trabajo de una sola personalidad universal sino una combinación de presentaciones de muchos seres. Pero ninguna revelación es completa hasta la que se obtiene cuando se llegue al Padre Universal. Todas las demás ministraciones celestiales no son más que parciales, transitorias y adaptadas prácticamente a las condiciones locales en el tiempo y en el espacio. Aunque estas admisiones puedan tal vez restar la fuerza y autoridad inmediatas a todas las revelaciones, ha llegado el momento en Urantia en que es aconsejable hacer estas declaraciones francas, aun a riesgo de debilitar la influencia futura y autoridad de éstas, las más recientes revelaciones de la verdad para las razas mortales de Urantia.

[El Libro de Urantia, 92:4.4-9]

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Quinta Revelación de Época del Padre divino

"El Libro de Urantia"

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6 Vi outro anjo voando pelo meio do céu, tendo um evangelho eterno para pregar aos que se assentam sobre a terra, e a cada nação, e tribo, e língua, e povo,
7 dizendo, em grande voz: Temei a Deus e dai-lhe glória, pois é chegada a hora do seu juízo; e adorai aquele que fez o céu, e a terra, e o mar, e as fontes das águas.

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6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the EVERLASTING GOSPEL to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

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Political Sovereignty and True Representative Government
 

The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment. 


There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are:



1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear. 
 
 2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good. 
 
 3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law. 
 
4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions. 
 
5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property. 

6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship. 
 
7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government. 
 
8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated. 
 
9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants. 
 
10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.


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The Ten Stages of a True Representative Government by the People, for the People and of the People are the only peacfull way forward for the human race.

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SOVEREIGNTY -- DIVINE AND HUMAN by Jesus of Nazareth, May AD 25 at Urmia

  The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.

  The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty -- God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.

  f different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.

   Religious peace -- brotherhood -- can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.

   You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself.

   The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty.

   God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.

   But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.

   Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty.

   The Urmia religionists lived together in comparative peace and tranquillity because they had fully surrendered all their notions of religious sovereignty. Spiritually, they all believed in a sovereign God; socially, full and unchallengeable authority rested in their presiding head -- Cymboyton. They well knew what would happen to any teacher who assumed to lord it over his fellow teachers. There can be no lasting religious peace on this world until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth.

   POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY

   ^{While the Master's teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth -- only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world's religions -- his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master's teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.}

   War on this world will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total -- man and mankind.

   Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.

   This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.

   Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power -- the family -- and the final consummation of political growth -- the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

   Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become united, for various reasons, into tribal units -- superconsanguineous political groupings. And then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire.

   As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding sovereignty become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major wars, world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating wars.

   The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the "scaffolding stages" of the previous developments in political organization. And this is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe -- the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.

   Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.

   This world will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men -- mankind government. Internationalism -- Leagues of Nations -- can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.

   As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.

   Peace will not come to this world until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of the world create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world's land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail -- but not until then.

   To use an important nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustration: The forty-eight states of the American Federal Union have long enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among themselves. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The forty-eight states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government's sovereignty is in some way jeopardized.

   These forty-eight states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquillity. So will the nations of the world begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government -- the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas.

   The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was created by men and for men. The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. Sometime the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men.

   Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.

   With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will -- world-wide good will -- among men?

THE PROFIT MOTIVE

   Present-day profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motives can be augmented by service motives. Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain. Exclusive and self-serving profit motivation is incompatible with Christian ideals -- much more incompatible with the teachings of Jesus.

   In economics, profit motivation is to service motivation what fear is to love in religion. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed; it keeps many otherwise slothful mortals hard at work. It is not necessary, however, that this social energy arouser be forever selfish in its objectives.

   The profit motive of economic activities is altogether base and wholly unworthy of an advanced order of society; nevertheless, it is an indispensable factor throughout the earlier phases of civilization. Profit motivation must not be taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior types of nonprofit motives for economic striving and social serving -- the transcendent urges of superlative wisdom, intriguing brotherhood, and excellency of spiritual attainment. 

THE SOLUTION