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Also: causality, the cause, causative-impregnated, causes.

causation is the cosmic mind response in reality domain of physical senses 16:6.6

The cosmic mind unfailingly responds, recognizes response, on three levels of universe reality. 16:6.5

In the Urantia Book

Evolution in thinking about causality

  • Primitive man assigned all phenomena to a person. In case of death the savage asked, not what killed him, but who 70:10.3
  • The ancients sought a supernatural explanation for all natural phenomena. But the frank, honest, and fearless search for true causes gave birth to modern science 81:2.9 165:3.6

Antecedent causation

  • Exploration of the phenomena of life sooner or later destroys man’s belief in chance, luck, and so-called accidents, substituting therefor a universe of law and order wherein all effects are preceded by definite causes. 86:2.5
  • Father liberate our inner self from the fetters of absolute dependence on antecedent causation 5:6.8-9
  • The material level of law provides for causality continuity, the unending response of effect to antecedent action 101:10.3
  • Natural justice is a man-made theory; it is not a reality. In nature, justice is purely theoretic, wholly a fiction. Nature provides but one kind of justice—inevitable conformity of results to causes. 70:10.1

First Cause

  • Reason, through the study of science, may lead back through nature to a First Cause (101:2.3,7) 195:6.5
  • The vital distinction between first causes and second causes is that first causes produce original effects which are free from inheritance of any factor derived from any antecedent causation 118:4
  • The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. 3:1.2
  • Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. 3:6.3
  • Finite origins are helpful, but only divine causes reveal final effects. 19:1.11

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Where it appears

Causation is linked in 3 paragraphs of the text.