fanofVan wrote:
I agree that all true worship and communion is received by God by the personality circuit. Indeed, one might say that this is an early and primary form of "attainment of the Father"....we may attain communion and we may communicate by prayer and worship. This is the love circuit too, to give love to Father is as effective as giving love to others.
"fanofVan", I understand you statement above but you add "prayer" with "worship" and the Urantia Book narrations, quote which you presented seem not to present the UB context of "true worship" where I'm sure that you are also aware of the following quotes which would indicate something slightly different, from my point of view, and simply stated within text.
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(65.5) 5:3.3 Worship is for its own sake; prayer embodies a self- or creature-interest element; that is the great difference between worship and prayer. There is absolutely no self-request or other element of personal interest in true worship; we simply worship God for what we comprehend him to be. Worship asks nothing and expects nothing for the worshiper. We do not worship the Father because of anything we may derive from such veneration; we render such devotion and engage in such worship as a natural and spontaneous reaction to the recognition of the Father’s matchless personality and because of his lovable nature and adorable attributes.
(65.6) 5:3.4 The moment the element of self-interest intrudes upon worship, that instant devotion translates from worship to prayer and more appropriately should be directed to the person of the Eternal Son or the Creator Son. But in practical religious experience there exists no reason why prayer should not be addressed to God the Father as a part of true worship.
Although in the last quote above and the last sentence it indicates that there is no reason to not pray to the Father but in the previous sentences it should be addressed to "the Eternal Son or the Creator Son" where there are additional sections in the UB which state this also, and that prayer is redirected to the Son.
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(22.5) 1:1.2 The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves — in their own hearts — recognize, love, and voluntarily worship him. The Creator refuses to coerce or compel the submission of the spiritual free wills of his material creatures. The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father’s will is man’s choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man’s only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father’s will, and such decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father.
(22.6) 1:1.3 When you have once become truly God-conscious, after you really discover the majestic Creator and begin to experience the realization of the indwelling presence of the divine controller, then, in accordance with your enlightenment and in accordance with the manner and method by which the divine Sons reveal God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately expressive of your concept of the First Great Source and Center. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in spirit of relationship all meaning the same but, in words and symbols, each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his enthronement in the hearts of his creatures of any given realm.
Generally, "true worship" is a state of communication within oneself, through the heart full, understanding of the attainment of the Father in doing the Father's will, as is perceived and understood by the individual and their personal experience with Him. The attainment of the Father cannot be taught, it must be experienced, and everyone's experience is different, therefore cannot be taught by others.