2. The Kingdom of Heaven
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What is the Kingdom of Heaven?
The Kingdom of Heaven is neither a social nor economic order; it is an exclusively spiritual brotherhood of God-knowing individuals.
The 5 cardinal features of the good news of the kingdom are:
- Pre-eminence of the individual.
- Will as determining factor.
- Sonship with God the Father.
- The loving service of men.
- Transcendency of the spiritual over the material.
These can be summarized as: The Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
- The keys of this Kingdom are: sincerity, more sincerity, and even more sincerity.
- The two essentials for entering the kingdom are: sincere faith and truth hunger.
Truth Beauty and Goodness represent man’s highest approach to mind, matter, and spirit.
- Truth relates to science, Beauty to art, Goodness embraces ethics, morality, and religion.
- Spirituality enhances the ability to discover Beauty in things, Truth in meanings, and Goodness in values.
- Our senses tell us of things, mind discovers meanings, but spiritual experience reveals true values.
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