True religion is alive and requires constant spiritual growth, intellectual expansion, and social service; for the crystallization of religious concepts leads to spiritual death. [1] In order to endure, economies, societies, and governments must evolve; stagnant conditions on a dynamic planet are indicative of decay. [2] In the eternal career, progress is driven by action and ethics, never encountering stagnation of personality. [3] The stagnant soul, devoid of moral thinking and spiritual activity, is a dying soul. [4] Stagnation terminates in inevitable death, but progress in the morontia and spirit worlds is gradual and upward. [5]