Morontia Mota: Faith and Fear

I love the Morontia Mota. It was one of the sections I fell in love with as a teenager reading the UB. As I re-reread the book, new layers of meaning pop out at me. Here’s one about faith and fear.

Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. (556.4)48:7.4

I think one of the things we are most afraid of is discovering the power of the our wondrous light. Our own inherent ability and developed skill has such phenomenal power to do good in the service of others, but when coupled with the true faith in our hearts, it’s nearly unstoppable. What we could accomplish without fear.

Fear is the ultimate fraud, the chains you cannot see or taste or smell or touch. It is a prison for your mind, the veil of illusion pulled over your perceptions to conceal the truth, that you are beautiful child of God, a coupled with a fragment of the divine who is an ally of unparalleled potential.