108:5.8 (1192.3) The Thought Adjusters would like to change your feelings of fear to convictions of love and confidence; but they cannot mechanically and arbitrarily do such things; that is your task. In executing those decisions which deliver you from the fetters of fear, you literally supply the psychic fulcrum on which the Adjuster may subsequently apply a spiritual lever of uplifting and advancing illumination.

180:5.2 Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality. Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God. You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct. When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. Post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom. Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind.

180:5.3 Intelligence grows out of a material existence which is illuminated by the presence of the cosmic mind. Wisdom comprises the consciousness of knowledge elevated to new levels of meaning and activated by the presence of the universe endowment of the adjutant of wisdom. Truth is a spiritual reality value experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe consciousness, and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls.

180:5.4 The true child of universe insight looks for the living Spirit of Truth in every wise saying. The God-knowing individual is constantly elevating wisdom to the living-truth levels of divine attainment; the spiritually unprogressive soul is all the while dragging the living truth down to the dead levels of wisdom and to the domain of mere exalted knowledge.

That is quite a process and seems to be precisely what you are saying, BB. Truth does not require facts to be truth, it requires deliberate and honest perception within our personality. The fact that we are told that truth is a reality value that must be experienced is quite telling. This is not to say that facts are not supportive in most cases, but perception of reality does not require facts to be true in order for reality to be perceived. If it did we would never get anywhere. Science and society and even religion operate on theories which may or may not be factual. Jesus died for my sins is a fact that is not true but Paul built a whole religion upon it.

And truth is always only as real as the one who perceives it allows. When we say to God, "I love you" we may realize we are afforded the potential to realize the truth of that as a personal value perception. The immediate experience of which reveals a greater value of it than the previous realization we experienced. Deeper and deeper we journey inward, seeking a more perfect realization, greater value, more Godly realization of truth. Facts are not the sole building blocks upon which we venture forth on this journey. Spiritual growth is not built on getting things right, it is built on becoming more real, more Godlike in ourselves which is why many who believe what we now know from the Urantia Book to be all kinds of errors, are progressing spiritually.

Jim

Awesome explanation!

Indeed, because it is based on experience and fuelled by love.

I consider truth as any idea operable by the TA though.

Another important fact about truth and the TA is that the TA delivers personal revelation....revelatory truth and truth assurance and does not impart facts. That is the role of Epochal Revelation and those text/fact books that we would normally find in the libraries of Dalamatia and The Garden schools...and now in the UB. The TA's concern is soul growth and truth assurance...not the facts of universe reality....which, as has been demonstrated here, are not required for the work of the TA and truth.

Which makes epochal revelation a book of fact to be read and studied and accepted literally. The two forms of revelation thereby work in harmony. Metaphor is a tool of truth presentation....the nonliteral presentation of that which is illustrative of truth. Facts are given to provide clarity and detail and reduce confusions and eliminate errors...and so does the UB claim itself in purpose and in deed!!

Truth in literature is inspired....facts are not inspired....they are facts.

101:0.3 (1104.3) Religion, the conviction-faith of the personality, can always triumph over the superficially contradictory logic of despair born in the unbelieving material mind. There really is a true and genuine inner voice, that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience. The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy. Religion is faith, trust, and assurance.

101:2.4 (1106.3) There are two basic reasons for believing in a God who fosters human survival:

101:2.5 (1106.4) 1. Human experience, personal assurance, the somehow registered hope and trust initiated by the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

101:2.6 (1106.5) 2. The revelation of truth, whether by direct personal ministry of the Spirit of Truth, by the world bestowal of divine Sons, or through the revelations of the written word.

I consider truth as any idea operable by the TA though.