Mota

In the Urantia Book

Definition

• Religious speculation detriments the experiential connection between material and spiritual realms, causing paradoxes and falsifying the true essence of religion. 102:3.2
• Morontia wisdom determines the value of the vote on Jerusem, ranging from one to one thousand, reflecting individual achievement in understanding the correlation of morontia mota and mortal logic. 45:7.6 47:5.3
• Your ability to harmonize science and religion is hindered by your lack of knowledge about the morontia world, where mota serves as the bridge between reason and faith. 103:6.7
• Your ignorance of the morontia world hinders harmonious co-ordination between science and religion; mota, a supermaterial reality sensitivity, bridges the gap. 103:6.7

Effect

• Mota articulates morontia experiences with personality at an enhanced multidimensional level. 112:1.11
• Morontia Counselors guide souls in integrating meanings and unifying values on their journey to higher realms. 48:6.27
• Mota erases divergence between science and religion by bridging the gap with its supermaterial reality sensitivity, offering a harmonious co-ordination in the morontia world. 103:6.7
• Mota guides the early stages of morontia life for newly survived mortals, leading them towards volitional expression. 112:6.5
• Long experience with mota harmonizes science and religion, unifying perceptions of the universe. 103:7.12
• Mota partially proves postulates of science and religion on the morontia level, where finite proof gradually vanishes in the spiritual realm. 103:7.10

Mota levels

• Without the insight of mota, revelation is evolutionary man's only hope of discerning goodness, love, and truth in the material world. 103:6.13
• The lower planes of morontia mota directly intersect with advanced human philosophy on the first mansion world, where parallel teaching techniques are used to educate less advanced students. 48:7.1
• Revelatory religion offers assurance of faith and truth in living experience, while morontia religion brings a firmer grasp of mota in the progression of understanding universal realities and ultimate destinies. 101:5.13
• Ascending mortals achieve mota status after passing examinations by Melchizedek, Brilliant Evening Stars, counselors, and Material Sons before leaving system headquarters. 45:7.7-8
• The harmonious co-ordination between science and religion is hindered by ignorance of the morontia world, where mota bridges the gap between material perceptions. 103:6.7
• Possession of mota determines suffrage qualifications and classifies Jerusem citizens based on their morontia wisdom achievement. 45:7.6-7
• Your difficulty in harmonizing science and religion stems from a lack of understanding of the morontia world, where mota is based on the experience of surviving mortal life. 103:6.7
• Revelation, the substitute for mota, bridges the morontia gulf and provides the necessary technique for evolutionary man to construct a logical philosophy of the universe and understand his place within it. 4:2.7 (101:2.2,8) 102:3.5 (103:6.8,12-13)
• Mota provides a stereo perspective of meanings and values, elevating philosophy to a cosmic level through the guidance of seraphic counselors. 48:6.28
• The study on mansion worlds enhances understanding of the correlation between morontia mota and mortal logic, leading to personal and social achievement on Mansonia the third. 47:5.3

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.

• I AM 103:7.12 — Ex 3:13-14.

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