Discovering the Urantia Book, part 1

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1 Discovering the Urantia Book, part 1

2 Discovering the Urantia Book Nobody in Particular Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 8:03 PM Discovering the Urantia Book There are occasionally threads here about what people think of the Urantia Book. There was one a few weeks ago in fact. This thread is for the purpose of helping people becoming interested in this great book to start their exploration without wading thru it. The Urantia Book was given to this planet around 1934 and finally published in Those who read the Bible know that God promised his word in the end times. This is his promised word. it is essentially an book describing God and the higher realms that are labeled heaven, and shows how these realms are governed. It provides a look at this history of OUR planet, whose name is Urantia. And also provides the story of the involvement of the higher government in this world. The last 1/3 of the book covers the life of the being called Jesus Christ by Christians. This one called Jesus Christ was Christ Michael, who is the Creator Son of our Universe called Nebadon. There are many universes and Nebadon belongs to the 7th SuperUniverse called Orvonton. The Milky Way Galaxy is the Central Core of Orvonton. Now, I have created this thread, for posting from the Urantia Book, which is found free online at [link to It is quite large, over 2000 pages. I have made a place for those that read and study the book to post your favorite quotes from it here. Please do not post whole Papers here, just shorter pieces that speak to you. Please do include the Paper number and the pages you are quoting so others cane view the surrounding material if they find the postings of interest. There are many who pull this off the shelf or go to the website and read the introduction or the first chapter (paper) and promptly decide it is not for them. They do not work further into the book. I did not read it from cover to cover, I jumped all around it. I have however, read the entire book and much of it several times now. The Creator Son of a universe is GOD of that Universe, whose father is the Universal Father and -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 1

3 the Eternal Son, from Paradise. Jesus was NOT the only begotten Son of God, there is terrible confusion. All the children of God are Son's and Daughters of God and this has nothing to do with religion. This text is NOT a book of religion. But it may help you develop your personal religion and understanding of God. NO master that has even visited this earth created a religion. Not one. Others did after they left. All teach that God is within you, and that your relationship with God is PERSONAL. It does not require the intercession of others. Christ Michael HAs returned already. IN 1954, which is WHY it was published in He can walk the planet if needed, but he does not do so regularly yet. It is not time. Although he is a spirit being he is once again making use of a body for the purpose of his return. Now since I am a paying member here, I am going to moderate this thread. I will eject posts that are not suitable. We all know what some do here! I want ONLY posts from the Urantia Book by people that love it and study it. The purpose again is to stimulate the interest of others, by presenting smaller posts from throughout the book, that readers might understand and then look further into the subject if they are interested. The purpose is not for discussion of the book either. Just posting. Just for the reading of others. Now I will close this post, and make my first here an example. Please, if you are a UB reader, bookmark this thread when you see it. Thankyou. PS. PLEASE do NOT post channeled material here (including mine), nor anything from the Phoenix Journals. I may create another thread for that. No bible posting either. ONLY the Urantia Book. NO discussion again, just posting, so people can explore as they wish. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/11/2010 8:28 PM Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. Love is the desire to do good to others-urantia Book Fresh Revelation for this age found in The Urantia Book, The Phoenix Journals, The Course in Miracles (the 365 lessons, NOT the URTEXT which is FULL of BLING and otherwise google Candace Frieze. Also visit [link to Dolores Cannon, and Conversations with God, in which the main God giving the material is Buddha. We must build a new SANE world, ONE THAT DOES NOT USE MONEY, for the reason money is the root of all evil, is that it Enslaves the SOUL. Be about watching Aaron Russo's From Freedom to Fascism. Seeking Visionaries,who can and will create the many messianic missions needed to heal Earth and her peoples, and bring balance. Seeking those who Know their truth, ( as they listen to Their Father Fragment) and will strive earnestly to stand in that truth 100% of the time, making every moment of everyday, a Holy Event. TWO OR MORE IN MY NAME. There is no special Day for God. Forget your Sabbath Days. Every Day is the Lord's Day AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 2

4 Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 8:06 PM From Paper #1 Pages 25 and God is a Universal Spirit (25.1) 1:3.1 God is spirit. He is a universal spiritual presence. The Universal Father is an infinite spiritual reality; he is the sovereign, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only true God. Even though you are the offspring of God, you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in form and physique because you are said to be created in his image indwelt by Mystery Monitors dispatched from the central abode of his eternal presence. Spirit beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood. (25.2) 1:3.2 Said the seer of old: Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not. We may constantly observe the works of God, we may be highly conscious of the material evidences of his majestic conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible manifestation of his divinity, not even to behold the presence of his delegated spirit of human indwelling. (25.3) 1:3.3 The Universal Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation rather is: You cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live. No material man could behold the spirit God and preserve his mortal existence. The glory and the spiritual brilliance of the divine personality presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritual luminosity of the Father s personal presence is a light which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see. But it is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the spiritualized mind. (25.4) 1:3.4 The spirit nature of the Universal Father is shared fully with his coexistent self, the Eternal Son of Paradise. Both the Father and the Son in like manner share the universal and eternal spirit fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit. God s spirit is, in and of himself, absolute; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spirit, universal, and in and by all of them, infinite. (25.5) 1:3.5 God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person. The supreme personal reality of the finite creation is spirit; the ultimate reality of the personal cosmos is absonite spirit. Only the levels of infinity are absolute, and only on such levels is there finality of oneness between matter, mind, and spirit. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 3

5 (25.6) 1:3.6 In the universes God the Father is, in potential, the overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung personality circuit does God deal directly with the personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of God abroad in the universes. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and there fosters the evolution of the immortal soul of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinity of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the local universes and must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential transformations of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature s choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven. (26.1) 1:3.7 In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. (26.2) 1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: God is spirit and God is love, and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the Eternal Son. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 8:20 PM Paper 4, pages 59 tp Erroneous Ideas of God (59.6) 4:5.1 Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the Godknowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker. (60.1) 4:5.2 One of the greatest sources of confusion on Urantia concerning the nature of God -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 4

6 grows out of the failure of your sacred books clearly to distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the local universe creators and administrators. During the past dispensations of partial understanding, your priests and prophets failed clearly to differentiate between Planetary Princes, System Sovereigns, Constellation Fathers, Creator Sons, Superuniverse Rulers, the Supreme Being, and the Universal Father. Many of the messages of subordinate personalities, such as Life Carriers and various orders of angels, have been, in your records, presented as coming from God himself. Urantian religious thought still confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the Universal Father himself, so that all are included under one appellation. (60.2) 4:5.3 The people of Urantia continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood these are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a realm of comparative law and order as far as concerns the administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers. (60.3) 4:5.4 The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath. (60.4) 4:5.5 The Hebrews believed that without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin. They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals. (60.5) 4:5.6 The bestowal of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary! (60.6) 4:5.7 But the inhabitants of Urantia are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God. (61.1) 4:5.8 [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.] Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 5

7 11/11/2010 8:39 PM Paper 123 page 1359 and Events of the Sixth Year (1 B.C.) ( Of Jesus' Life) (1359.2) 123:3.1 Already, with his mother s help, Jesus had mastered the Galilean dialect of the Aramaic tongue; and now his father began teaching him Greek. Mary spoke little Greek, but Joseph was a fluent speaker of both Aramaic and Greek. The textbook for the study of the Greek language was the copy of the Hebrew scriptures a complete version of the law and the prophets, including the Psalms which had been presented to them on leaving Egypt. There were only two complete copies of the Scriptures in Greek in all Nazareth, and the possession of one of them by the carpenter s family made Joseph s home a much-sought place and enabled Jesus, as he grew up, to meet an almost endless procession of earnest students and sincere truth seekers. Before this year ended, Jesus had assumed custody of this priceless manuscript, having been told on his sixth birthday that the sacred book had been presented to him by Alexandrian friends and relatives. And in a very short time he could read it readily. (1359.3) 123:3.2 The first great shock of Jesus young life occurred when he was not quite six years old. It had seemed to the lad that his father at least his father and mother together knew everything. Imagine, therefore, the surprise of this inquiring child, when he asked his father the cause of a mild earthquake which had just occurred, to hear Joseph say, My son, I really do not know. Thus began that long and disconcerting disillusionment in the course of which Jesus found out that his earthly parents were not all-wise and all-knowing. (1359.4) 123:3.3 Joseph s first thought was to tell Jesus that the earthquake had been caused by God, but a moment s reflection admonished him that such an answer would immediately be provocative of further and still more embarrassing inquiries. Even at an early age it was very difficult to answer Jesus questions about physical or social phenomena by thoughtlessly telling him that either God or the devil was responsible. In harmony with the prevailing belief of the Jewish people, Jesus was long willing to accept the doctrine of good spirits and evil spirits as the possible explanation of mental and spiritual phenomena, but he very early became doubtful that such unseen influences were responsible for the physical happenings of the natural world. (1359.5) 123:3.4 Before Jesus was six years of age, in the early summer of 1 B.C., Zacharias and Elizabeth and their son John came to visit the Nazareth family. Jesus and John had a happy time during this, their first visit within their memories. Although the visitors could remain only a few days, the parents talked over many things, including the future plans for their sons. While they were thus engaged, the lads played with blocks in the sand on top of the house and in many other ways enjoyed themselves in true boyish fashion. (1359.6) 123:3.5 Having met John, who came from near Jerusalem, Jesus began to evince an unusual interest in the history of Israel and to inquire in great detail as to the meaning of the Sabbath rites, the synagogue sermons, and the recurring feasts of commemoration. His father -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 6

8 explained to him the meaning of all these seasons. The first was the midwinter festive illumination, lasting eight days, starting out with one candle the first night and adding one each successive night; this commemorated the dedication of the temple after the restoration of the Mosaic services by Judas Maccabee. Next came the early springtime celebration of Purim, the feast of Esther and Israel s deliverance through her. Then followed the solemn Passover, which the adults celebrated in Jerusalem whenever possible, while at home the children would remember that no leavened bread was to be eaten for the whole week. Later came the feast of the first-fruits, the harvest ingathering; and last, the most solemn of all, the feast of the new year, the day of atonement. While some of these celebrations and observances were difficult for Jesus young mind to understand, he pondered them seriously and then entered fully into the joy of the feast of tabernacles, the annual vacation season of the whole Jewish people, the time when they camped out in leafy booths and gave themselves up to mirth and pleasure. (1360.1) 123:3.6 During this year Joseph and Mary had trouble with Jesus about his prayers. He insisted on talking to his heavenly Father much as he would talk to Joseph, his earthly father. This departure from the more solemn and reverent modes of communication with Deity was a bit disconcerting to his parents, especially to his mother, but there was no persuading him to change; he would say his prayers just as he had been taught, after which he insisted on having just a little talk with my Father in heaven. (1360.2) 123:3.7 In June of this year Joseph turned the shop in Nazareth over to his brothers and formally entered upon his work as a builder. Before the year was over, the family income had more than trebled. Never again, until after Joseph s death, did the Nazareth family feel the pinch of poverty. The family grew larger and larger, and they spent much money on extra education and travel, but always Joseph s increasing income kept pace with the growing expenses. (1360.3) 123:3.8 The next few years Joseph did considerable work at Cana, Bethlehem (of Galilee), Magdala, Nain, Sepphoris, Capernaum, and Endor, as well as much building in and near Nazareth. As James grew up to be old enough to help his mother with the housework and care of the younger children, Jesus made frequent trips away from home with his father to these surrounding towns and villages. Jesus was a keen observer and gained much practical knowledge from these trips away from home; he was assiduously storing up knowledge regarding man and the way he lived on earth. (1360.4) 123:3.9 This year Jesus made great progress in adjusting his strong feelings and vigorous impulses to the demands of family co-operation and home discipline. Mary was a loving mother but a fairly strict disciplinarian. In many ways, however, Joseph exerted the greater control over Jesus as it was his practice to sit down with the boy and fully explain the real and underlying reasons for the necessity of disciplinary curtailment of personal desires in deference to the welfare and tranquillity of the entire family. When the situation had been explained to Jesus, he was always intelligently and willingly co-operative with parental wishes and family regulations. (1360.5) 123:3.10 Much of his spare time when his mother did not require his help about the house was spent studying the flowers and plants by day and the stars by night. He evinced a troublesome penchant for lying on his back and gazing wonderingly up into the starry heavens long after his usual bedtime in this well-ordered Nazareth household. Anonymous Coward User ID: /11/2010 8:40 PM I read Parts 1-3 four times and Part 4 six times...))) -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 7

9 Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 8:46 PM I read Parts 1-3 four times and Part 4 six times...))) Quoting: Anonymous Coward Then Please share your favorites from those sections here. Otherwise this is NOT a discussion thread, just a thread to help people who might be interested explore some of the best concepts, and who find taking on a book daunting. It is. UB selections ONLY please. Anonymous Coward User ID: /11/2010 8:51 PM i am currently reading it thanks to your thread. I love my father in heaven, and his son, Jesus Christ. I am seeing that this indeed acknowledge both the Father and of his son, Jesus Christ. I am skeptical on reading this, but i will set a prayer over it. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 8:59 PM Quoting: Anonymous Coward God asks for honest skepticism, and for your asking to him, what is truth. I hope you find further enlightenment here. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/11/2010 9:01 PM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 8

10 Anonymous Coward User ID: /11/2010 9:17 PM Quoting: Nobody in Particular The Lucifer rebellion along with the Bestowals of Christ Michael are excellent. The most innovative concept is 'Indwelling Adjusters.' As a Bible reader I was aware of some apparent discrepancies in the Bible, such as the rivers at the Garden of Eden, which the UB note d and clarified. There are 2 or 3 logical discrepancies in the UB, so it is not flawless, and I think the science was limited to just outside that realm at the time, I am not sure how sound it is these days. It is more a book of knowledge than faith, but it is an excellent read. In some ways it is an Illuminati handbook of sorts, but 'know thine enemy' is reasonable advise. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /11/2010 9:49 PM Thanks for your support, but the purpose of the thread, is to POST SELECTIONS from the UB. Please add selections you find personally valuable to the thread. The object is not to debate the book, but to post samples that might enable people to begin an exploration of the Urantia Book (UB). If if they don't, they may still find merit in the teachings posted here for themselves. Each must discover God for themselves. The indwelling adjustor, is what Christianity misunderstands as God's "holy spirit" that he sent to them. It is a part of the Father's MIND that indwells your mind to help with your spiritualization. Let's now maven. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/11/2010 9:58 PM Anonymous Coward User ID: /12/ :23 AM IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia that being the name of your world there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 9

11 these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the Orvonton corps of truth revealers have been authorized to translate into the English language of Urantia. 0:0.2 It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception, when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed language of the realm. But our mandate admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the English tongue. We have been instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less distortion of meaning. 0:0.3 In the hope of facilitating comprehension and of preventing confusion on the part of every mortal who may peruse these papers, we deem it wise to present in this initial statement an outline of the meanings to be attached to numerous English words which are to be employed in designation of Deity and certain associated concepts of the things, meanings, and values of universal reality. 0:0.4 But in order to formulate this Foreword of definitions and limitations of terminology, it is necessary to anticipate the usage of these terms in the subsequent presentations. This Foreword is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall read the accompanying papers dealing with Deity and the universe of universes which have been formulated by an Orvonton commission sent to Urantia for this purpose. 0:0.5 Your world, Urantia, is one of many similar inhabited planets which comprise the local universe ofnebadon. This universe, together with similar creations, makes up the superuniverse of Orvonton, from whose capital, Uversa, our commission hails. Orvonton is one of the seven evolutionary superuniverses of time and space which circle the never-beginning, never-ending creation of divine perfection the central universe of Havona. At the heart of this eternal and central universe is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic center of infinity and the dwelling place of the eternal God. Trinity User ID: Germany 11/12/2010 7:27 AM The Urantia Book Paper 10 The Paradise Trinity (108.1) 10:0.1 THE Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father s escape from personality absolutism. The Trinity perfectly associates the limitless expression of God s infinite personal will with the absoluteness of Deity. The Eternal Son and the various Sons of divine origin, together with the Conjoint Actor and his universe children, effectively provide for the Father s liberation from the limitations otherwise inherent in primacy, perfection, changelessness, eternity, universality, absoluteness, and infinity. (108.2) 10:0.2 The Paradise Trinity effectively provides for the full expression and perfect -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 10

12 revelation of the eternal nature of Deity. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity likewise afford a full and perfect revelation of divine justice. The Trinity is Deity unity, and this unity rests eternally upon the absolute foundations of the divine oneness of the three original and coordinate and coexistent personalities, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. (108.3) 10:0.3 From the present situation on the circle of eternity, looking backward into the endless past, we can discover only one inescapable inevitability in universe affairs, and that is the Paradise Trinity. I deem the Trinity to have been inevitable. As I view the past, present, and future of time, I consider nothing else in all the universe of universes to have been inevitable. The present master universe, viewed in retrospect or in prospect, is unthinkable without the Trinity. Given the Paradise Trinity, we can postulate alternate or even multiple ways of doing all things, but without the Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit we are unable to conceive how the Infinite could achieve threefold and co-ordinate personalization in the face of the absolute oneness of Deity. No other concept of creation measures up to the Trinity standards of the completeness of the absoluteness inherent in Deity unity coupled with the repleteness of volitional liberation inherent in the threefold personalization of Deity. 1. Self-Distribution of the First Source and Center (108.4) 10:1.1 It would seem that the Father, back in eternity, inaugurated a policy of profound self-distribution. There is inherent in the selfless, loving, and lovable nature of the Universal Father something which causes him to reserve to himself the exercise of only those powers and that authority which he apparently finds it impossible to delegate or to bestow. (108.5) 10:1.2 The Universal Father all along has divested himself of every part of himself that was bestowable on any other Creator or creature. He has delegated to his divine Sons and their associated intelligences every power and all authority that could be delegated. He has actually transferred to his Sovereign Sons, in their respective universes, every prerogative of administrative authority that was transferable. In the affairs of a local universe, he has made each Sovereign Creator Son just as perfect, competent, and authoritative as is the Eternal Son in the original and central universe. He has given away, actually bestowed, with the dignity and sanctity of personality possession, all of himself and all of his attributes, everything he possibly could divest himself of, in every way, in every age, in every place, and to every person, and in every universe except that of his central indwelling. (109.1) 10:1.3 Divine personality is not self-centered; self-distribution and sharing of personality characterize divine freewill selfhood. Creatures crave association with other personal creatures; Creators are moved to share divinity with their universe children; the personality of the Infinite is disclosed as the Universal Father, who shares reality of being and equality of self with two coordinate personalities, the Eternal Son and the Conjoint Actor. (109.2) 10:1.4 For knowledge concerning the Father s personality and divine attributes we will always be dependent on the revelations of the Eternal Son, for when the conjoint act of creation was effected, when the Third Person of Deity sprang into personality existence and executed the combined concepts of his divine parents, the Father ceased to exist as the unqualified personality. With the coming into being of the Conjoint Actor and the materialization of the central core of creation, certain eternal changes took place. God gave himself as an absolute personality to his Eternal Son. Thus does the Father bestow the personality of infinity upon his only-begotten Son, while they both bestow the conjoint personality of their eternal union upon the Infinite Spirit. (109.3) 10:1.5 For these and other reasons beyond the concept of the finite mind, it is exceedingly -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 11

13 difficult for the human creature to comprehend God s infinite father-personality except as it is universally revealed in the Eternal Son and, with the Son, is universally active in the Infinite Spirit. (109.4) 10:1.6 Since the Paradise Sons of God visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes even there dwell in the likeness of mortal flesh, and since these bestowals make it possible for mortal man actually to know something of the nature and character of divine personality, therefore must the creatures of the planetary spheres look to the bestowals of these Paradise Sons for reliable and trustworthy information regarding the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. 2. Deity Personalization (109.5) 10:2.1 By the technique of trinitization the Father divests himself of that unqualified spirit personality which is the Son, but in so doing he constitutes himself the Father of this very Son and thereby possesses himself of unlimited capacity to become the divine Father of all subsequently created, eventuated, or other personalized types of intelligent will creatures. As the absolute and unqualified personality the Father can function only as and with the Son, but as a personal Father he continues to bestow personality upon the diverse hosts of the differing levels of intelligent will creatures, and he forever maintains personal relations of loving association with this vast family of universe children. (109.6) 10:2.2 After the Father has bestowed upon the personality of his Son the fullness of himself, and when this act of self-bestowal is complete and perfect, of the infinite power and nature which are thus existent in the Father-Son union, the eternal partners conjointly bestow those qualities and attributes which constitute still another being like themselves; and this conjoint personality, the Infinite Spirit, completes the existential personalization of Deity. (110.1) 10:2.3 The Son is indispensable to the fatherhood of God. The Spirit is indispensable to the fraternity of the Second and Third Persons. Three persons are a minimum social group, but this is least of all the many reasons for believing in the inevitability of the Conjoint Actor. (110.2) 10:2.4 The First Source and Center is the infinite father-personality, the unlimited source personality. The Eternal Son is the unqualified personality-absolute, that divine being who stands throughout all time and eternity as the perfect revelation of the personal nature of God. The Infinite Spirit is the conjoint personality, the unique personal consequence of the everlasting Father-Son union. (110.3) 10:2.5 The personality of the First Source and Center is the personality of infinity minus the absolute personality of the Eternal Son. The personality of the Third Source and Center is the superadditive consequence of the union of the liberated Father-personality and the absolute Sonpersonality. (110.4) 10:2.6 The Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit are unique persons; none is a duplicate; each is original; all are united. (110.5) 10:2.7 The Eternal Son alone experiences the fullness of divine personality relationship, consciousness of both sonship with the Father and paternity to the Spirit and of divine equality with both Father-ancestor and Spirit-associate. The Father knows the experience of having a Son who is his equal, but the Father knows no ancestral antecedents. The Eternal Son has the experience of sonship, recognition of personality ancestry, and at the same time the Son is conscious of being joint parent to the Infinite Spirit. The Infinite Spirit is conscious of twofold personality ancestry but is not parental to a co-ordinate Deity personality. With the Spirit the existential cycle of Deity personalization attains completion; the primary personalities of the Third Source and Center are experiential and are seven in number. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 12

14 (110.6) 10:2.8 I am of origin in the Paradise Trinity. I know the Trinity as unified Deity; I also know that the Father, Son, and Spirit exist and act in their definite personal capacities. I positively know that they not only act personally and collectively, but that they also co-ordinate their performances in various groupings, so that in the end they function in seven different singular and plural capacities. And since these seven associations exhaust the possibilities for such divinity combination, it is inevitable that the realities of the universe shall appear in seven variations of values, meanings, and personality. 3. The Three Persons of Deity (110.7) 10:3.1 Notwithstanding there is only one Deity, there are three positive and divine personalizations of Deity. Regarding the endowment of man with the divine Adjusters, the Father said: Let us make mortal man in our own image. Repeatedly throughout the Urantian writings there occurs this reference to the acts and doings of plural Deity, clearly showing recognition of the existence and working of the three Sources and Centers. (110.8) 10:3.2 We are taught that the Son and the Spirit sustain the same and equal relations to the Father in the Trinity association. In eternity and as Deities they undoubtedly do, but in time and as personalities they certainly disclose relationships of a very diverse nature. Looking from Paradise out on the universes, these relationships do seem to be very similar, but when viewed from the domains of space, they appear to be quite different. (111.1) 10:3.3 The divine Sons are indeed the Word of God, but the children of the Spirit are truly the Act of God. God speaks through the Son and, with the Son, acts through the Infinite Spirit, while in all universe activities the Son and the Spirit are exquisitely fraternal, working as two equal brothers with admiration and love for an honored and divinely respected common Father. (111.2) 10:3.4 The Father, Son, and Spirit are certainly equal in nature, co-ordinate in being, but there are unmistakable differences in their universe performances, and when acting alone, each person of Deity is apparently limited in absoluteness. (111.3) 10:3.5 The Universal Father, prior to his self-willed divestment of the personality, powers, and attributes which constitute the Son and the Spirit, seems to have been (philosophically considered) an unqualified, absolute, and infinite Deity. But such a theoretical First Source and Center without a Son could not in any sense of the word be considered the Universal Father; fatherhood is not real without sonship. Furthermore, the Father, to have been absolute in a total sense, must have existed at some eternally distant moment alone. But he never had such a solitary existence; the Son and the Spirit are both coeternal with the Father. The First Source and Center has always been, and will forever be, the eternal Father of the Original Son and, with the Son, the eternal progenitor of the Infinite Spirit. (111.4) 10:3.6 We observe that the Father has divested himself of all direct manifestations of absoluteness except absolute fatherhood and absolute volition. We do not know whether volition is an inalienable attribute of the Father; we can only observe that he did not divest himself of volition. Such infinity of will must have been eternally inherent in the First Source and Center. (111.5) 10:3.7 In bestowing absoluteness of personality upon the Eternal Son, the Universal Father escapes from the fetters of personality absolutism, but in so doing he takes a step which makes it forever impossible for him to act alone as the personality-absolute. And with the final personalization of coexistent Deity the Conjoint Actor there ensues the critical trinitarian interdependence of the three divine personalities with regard to the totality of Deity function in absolute. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 13

15 (111.6) 10:3.8 God is the Father-Absolute of all personalities in the universe of universes. The Father is personally absolute in liberty of action, but in the universes of time and space, made, in the making, and yet to be made, the Father is not discernibly absolute as total Deity except in the Paradise Trinity. (111.7) 10:3.9 The First Source and Center functions outside of Havona in the phenomenal universes as follows: (111.8) 10: As creator, through the Creator Sons, his grandsons. (111.9) 10: As controller, through the gravity center of Paradise. (111.10) 10: As spirit, through the Eternal Son. (111.11) 10: As mind, through the Conjoint Creator. (111.12) 10: As a Father, he maintains parental contact with all creatures through his personality circuit. (111.13) 10: As a person, he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments in mortal man by the Thought Adjusters. (111.14) 10: As total Deity, he functions only in the Paradise Trinity. (112.1) 10:3.17 All these relinquishments and delegations of jurisdiction by the Universal Father are wholly voluntary and self-imposed. The all-powerful Father purposefully assumes these limitations of universe authority. (112.2) 10:3.18 The Eternal Son seems to function as one with the Father in all spiritual respects except in the bestowals of the God fragments and in other prepersonal activities. Neither is the Son closely identified with the intellectual activities of material creatures nor with the energy activities of the material universes. As absolute the Son functions as a person and only in the domain of the spiritual universe. (112.3) 10:3.19 The Infinite Spirit is amazingly universal and unbelievably versatile in all his operations. He performs in the spheres of mind, matter, and spirit. The Conjoint Actor represents the Father-Son association, but he also functions as himself. He is not directly concerned with physical gravity, with spiritual gravity, or with the personality circuit, but he more or less participates in all other universe activities. While apparently dependent on three existential and absolute gravity controls, the Infinite Spirit appears to exercise three supercontrols. This threefold endowment is employed in many ways to transcend and seemingly to neutralize even the manifestations of primary forces and energies, right up to the superultimate borders of absoluteness. In certain situations these supercontrols absolutely transcend even the primal manifestations of cosmic reality. 4. The Trinity Union of Deity (112.4) 10:4.1 Of all absolute associations, the Paradise Trinity (the first triunity) is unique as an exclusive association of personal Deity. God functions as God only in relation to God and to those who can know God, but as absolute Deity only in the Paradise Trinity and in relation to universe totality. (112.5) 10:4.2 Eternal Deity is perfectly unified; nevertheless there are three perfectly individualized persons of Deity. The Paradise Trinity makes possible the simultaneous expression of all the diversity of the character traits and infinite powers of the First Source and Center and his eternal co-ordinates and of all the divine unity of the universe functions of undivided Deity. (112.6) 10:4.3 The Trinity is an association of infinite persons functioning in a nonpersonal -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 14

16 capacity but not in contravention of personality. The illustration is crude, but a father, son, and grandson could form a corporate entity which would be nonpersonal but nonetheless subject to their personal wills. (112.7) 10:4.4 The Paradise Trinity is real. It exists as the Deity union of Father, Son, and Spirit; yet the Father, the Son, or the Spirit, or any two of them, can function in relation to this selfsame Paradise Trinity. The Father, Son, and Spirit can collaborate in a non-trinity manner, but not as three Deities. As persons they can collaborate as they choose, but that is not the Trinity. (112.8) 10:4.5 Ever remember that what the Infinite Spirit does is the function of the Conjoint Actor. Both the Father and the Son are functioning in and through and as him. But it would be futile to attempt to elucidate the Trinity mystery: three as one and in one, and one as two and acting for two. (112.9) 10:4.6 The Trinity is so related to total universe affairs that it must be reckoned with in our attempts to explain the totality of any isolated cosmic event or personality relationship. The Trinity functions on all levels of the cosmos, and mortal man is limited to the finite level; therefore must man be content with a finite concept of the Trinity as the Trinity. (113.1) 10:4.7 As a mortal in the flesh you should view the Trinity in accordance with your individual enlightenment and in harmony with the reactions of your mind and soul. You can know very little of the absoluteness of the Trinity, but as you ascend Paradiseward, you will many times experience astonishment at successive revelations and unexpected discoveries of Trinity supremacy and ultimacy, if not of absoluteness. 5. Functions of the Trinity (113.2) 10:5.1 The personal Deities have attributes, but it is hardly consistent to speak of the Trinity as having attributes. This association of divine beings may more properly be regarded as having functions, such as justice administration, totality attitudes, co-ordinate action, and cosmic overcontrol. These functions are actively supreme, ultimate, and (within the limits of Deity) absolute as far as all living realities of personality value are concerned. (113.3) 10:5.2 The functions of the Paradise Trinity are not simply the sum of the Father s apparent endowment of divinity plus those specialized attributes that are unique in the personal existence of the Son and the Spirit. The Trinity association of the three Paradise Deities results in the evolution, eventuation, and deitization of new meanings, values, powers, and capacities for universal revelation, action, and administration. Living associations, human families, social groups, or the Paradise Trinity are not augmented by mere arithmetical summation. The group potential is always far in excess of the simple sum of the attributes of the component individuals. (113.4) 10:5.3 The Trinity maintains a unique attitude as the Trinity towards the entire universe of the past, present, and future. And the functions of the Trinity can best be considered in relation to the universe attitudes of the Trinity. Such attitudes are simultaneous and may be multiple concerning any isolated situation or event: (113.5) 10: Attitude toward the Finite. The maximum self-limitation of the Trinity is its attitude toward the finite. The Trinity is not a person, nor is the Supreme Being an exclusive personalization of the Trinity, but the Supreme is the nearest approach to a power-personality focalization of the Trinity which can be comprehended by finite creatures. Hence the Trinity in relation to the finite is sometimes spoken of as the Trinity of Supremacy. (113.6) 10: Attitude toward the Absonite. The Paradise Trinity has regard for those levels of -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 15

17 existence which are more than finite but less than absolute, and this relationship is sometimes denominated the Trinity of Ultimacy. Neither the Ultimate nor the Supreme are wholly representative of the Paradise Trinity, but in a qualified sense and to their respective levels, each seems to represent the Trinity during the prepersonal eras of experiential-power development. (113.7) 10: The Absolute Attitude of the Paradise Trinity is in relation to absolute existences and culminates in the action of total Deity. (113.8) 10:5.7 The Trinity Infinite involves the co-ordinate action of all triunity relationships of the First Source and Center undeified as well as deified and hence is very difficult for personalities to grasp. In the contemplation of the Trinity as infinite, do not ignore the seven triunities; thereby certain difficulties of understanding may be avoided, and certain paradoxes may be partially resolved. (114.1) 10:5.8 But I do not command language which would enable me to convey to the limited human mind the full truth and the eternal significance of the Paradise Trinity and the nature of the never-ending interassociation of the three beings of infinite perfection. 6. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity (114.2) 10:6.1 All law takes origin in the First Source and Center; he is law. The administration of spiritual law inheres in the Second Source and Center. The revelation of law, the promulgation and interpretation of the divine statutes, is the function of the Third Source and Center. The application of law, justice, falls within the province of the Paradise Trinity and is carried out by certain Sons of the Trinity. (114.3) 10:6.2 Justice is inherent in the universal sovereignty of the Paradise Trinity, but goodness, mercy, and truth are the universe ministry of the divine personalities, whose Deity union constitutes the Trinity. Justice is not the attitude of the Father, the Son, or the Spirit. Justice is the Trinity attitude of these personalities of love, mercy, and ministry. No one of the Paradise Deities fosters the administration of justice. Justice is never a personal attitude; it is always a plural function. (114.4) 10:6.3 Evidence, the basis of fairness (justice in harmony with mercy), is supplied by the personalities of the Third Source and Center, the conjoint representative of the Father and the Son to all realms and to the minds of the intelligent beings of all creation. (114.5) 10:6.4 Judgment, the final application of justice in accordance with the evidence submitted by the personalities of the Infinite Spirit, is the work of the Stationary Sons of the Trinity, beings partaking of the Trinity nature of the united Father, Son, and Spirit. (114.6) 10:6.5 This group of Trinity Sons embraces the following personalities: (114.7) 10: Trinitized Secrets of Supremacy. (114.8) 10: Eternals of Days. (114.9) 10: Ancients of Days. (114.10) 10: Perfections of Days. (114.11) 10: Recents of Days. (114.12) 10: Unions of Days. (114.13) 10: Faithfuls of Days. (114.14) 10: Perfectors of Wisdom. (114.15) 10: Divine Counselors. (114.16) 10: Universal Censors. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 16

18 (114.17) 10:6.16 We are the children of the three Paradise Deities functioning as the Trinity, for I chance to belong to the tenth order of this group, the Universal Censors. These orders are not representative of the attitude of the Trinity in a universal sense; they represent this collective attitude of Deity only in the domains of executive judgment justice. They were specifically designed by the Trinity for the precise work to which they are assigned, and they represent the Trinity only in those functions for which they were personalized. (115.1) 10:6.17 The Ancients of Days and their Trinity-origin associates mete out the just judgment of supreme fairness to the seven superuniverses. In the central universe such functions exist in theory only; there fairness is self-evident in perfection, and Havona perfection precludes all possibility of disharmony. (115.2) 10:6.18 Justice is the collective thought of righteousness; mercy is its personal expression. Mercy is the attitude of love; precision characterizes the operation of law; divine judgment is the soul of fairness, ever conforming to the justice of the Trinity, ever fulfilling the divine love of God. When fully perceived and completely understood, the righteous justice of the Trinity and the merciful love of the Universal Father are coincident. But man has no such full understanding of divine justice. Thus in the Trinity, as man would view it, the personalities of Father, Son, and Spirit are adjusted to co-ordinate ministry of love and law in the experiential universes of time. 7. The Overcontrol of Supremacy (115.3) 10:7.1 The First, Second, and Third Persons of Deity are equal to each other, and they are one. The Lord our God is one God. There is perfection of purpose and oneness of execution in the divine Trinity of eternal Deities. The Father, the Son, and the Conjoint Actor are truly and divinely one. Of a truth it is written: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God. (115.4) 10:7.2 As things appear to the mortal on the finite level, the Paradise Trinity, like the Supreme Being, is concerned only with the total total planet, total universe, total superuniverse, total grand universe. This totality attitude exists because the Trinity is the total of Deity and for many other reasons. (115.5) 10:7.3 The Supreme Being is something less and something other than the Trinity functioning in the finite universes; but within certain limits and during the present era of incomplete power-personalization, this evolutionary Deity does appear to reflect the attitude of the Trinity of Supremacy. The Father, Son, and Spirit do not personally function with the Supreme Being, but during the present universe age they collaborate with him as the Trinity. We understand that they sustain a similar relationship to the Ultimate. We often conjecture as to what will be the personal relationship between the Paradise Deities and God the Supreme when he has finally evolved, but we do not really know. (115.6) 10:7.4 We do not find the overcontrol of Supremacy to be wholly predictable. Furthermore, this unpredictability appears to be characterized by a certain developmental incompleteness, undoubtedly an earmark of the incompleteness of the Supreme and of the incompleteness of finite reaction to the Paradise Trinity. (115.7) 10:7.5 The mortal mind can immediately think of a thousand and one things catastrophic physical events, appalling accidents, horrific disasters, painful illnesses, and worldwide scourges and ask whether such visitations are correlated in the unknown maneuvering of this probable functioning of the Supreme Being. Frankly, we do not know; we are not really sure. But we do observe that, as time passes, all these difficult and more or less mysterious situations -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 17

19 always work out for the welfare and progress of the universes. It may be that the circumstances of existence and the inexplicable vicissitudes of living are all interwoven into a meaningful pattern of high value by the function of the Supreme and the overcontrol of the Trinity. (116.1) 10:7.6 As a son of God you can discern the personal attitude of love in all the acts of God the Father. But you will not always be able to understand how many of the universe acts of the Paradise Trinity redound to the good of the individual mortal on the evolutionary worlds of space. In the progress of eternity the acts of the Trinity will be revealed as altogether meaningful and considerate, but they do not always so appear to the creatures of time. 8. The Trinity Beyond the Finite (116.2) 10:8.1 Many truths and facts pertaining to the Paradise Trinity can only be even partially comprehended by recognizing a function that transcends the finite. (116.3) 10:8.2 It would be inadvisable to discuss the functions of the Trinity of Ultimacy, but it may be disclosed that God the Ultimate is the Trinity manifestation comprehended by the Transcendentalers. We are inclined to the belief that the unification of the master universe is the eventuating act of the Ultimate and is probably reflective of certain, but not all, phases of the absonite overcontrol of the Paradise Trinity. The Ultimate is a qualified manifestation of the Trinity in relation to the absonite only in the sense that the Supreme thus partially represents the Trinity in relation to the finite. (116.4) 10:8.3 The Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit are, in a certain sense, the constituent personalities of total Deity. Their union in the Paradise Trinity and the absolute function of the Trinity equivalate to the function of total Deity. And such completion of Deity transcends both the finite and the absonite. (116.5) 10:8.4 While no single person of the Paradise Deities actually fills all Deity potential, collectively all three do. Three infinite persons seem to be the minimum number of beings required to activate the prepersonal and existential potential of total Deity the Deity Absolute. (116.6) 10:8.5 We know the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit as persons, but I do not personally know the Deity Absolute. I love and worship God the Father; I respect and honor the Deity Absolute. (116.7) 10:8.6 I once sojourned in a universe where a certain group of beings taught that the finaliters, in eternity, were eventually to become the children of the Deity Absolute. But I am unwilling to accept this solution of the mystery which enshrouds the future of the finaliters. (116.8) 10:8.7 The Corps of the Finality embrace, among others, those mortals of time and space who have attained perfection in all that pertains to the will of God. As creatures and within the limits of creature capacity they fully and truly know God. Having thus found God as the Father of all creatures, these finaliters must sometime begin the quest for the superfinite Father. But this quest involves a grasp of the absonite nature of the ultimate attributes and character of the Paradise Father. Eternity will disclose whether such an attainment is possible, but we are convinced, even if the finaliters do grasp this ultimate of divinity, they will probably be unable to attain the superultimate levels of absolute Deity. (116.9) 10:8.8 It may be possible that the finaliters will partially attain the Deity Absolute, but even if they should, still in the eternity of eternities the problem of the Universal Absolute will continue to intrigue, mystify, baffle, and challenge the ascending and progressing finaliters, for we perceive that the unfathomability of the cosmic relationships of the Universal Absolute will tend to grow in -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 18

20 proportions as the material universes and their spiritual administration continue to expand. (117.1) 10:8.9 Only infinity can disclose the Father-Infinite. (117.2) 10:8.10 [Sponsored by a Universal Censor acting by authority from the Ancients of Days resident on Uversa.] tava6655 User ID: /12/ :05 AM The Urantia Book, Paper 31, The Corps of the Finality 3. Glorified Mortals (347.4) 31:3.1 Ascendant Adjuster-fused mortals compose the bulk of the primary Corps of the Finality. Together with the adopted and glorified seraphim they usually constitute 990 in each finaliter company. The proportion of mortals and angels in any one group varies, though the mortals far outnumber the seraphim. The Havona natives, glorified Material Sons, glorified midway creatures, the Gravity Messengers, and the unknown and missing member make up only one per cent of the corps; each company of one thousand finaliters has places for just ten of these nonmortal and nonseraphic personalities. (347.5) 31:3.2 We of Uversa do not know the finality destiny of the ascendant mortals of time. At present they reside on Paradise and temporarily serve in the Corps of Light and Life, but such a tremendous course of ascendant training and such lengthy universe discipline must be designed to qualify them for even greater tests of trust and more sublime services of responsibility. (347.6) 31:3.3 Notwithstanding that these ascendant mortals have attained Paradise, have been mustered into the Corps of the Finality, and have been sent back in large numbers to participate in the conduct of local universes and to assist in the administration of superuniverse affairs in the face of even this apparent destiny, there remains the significant fact that they are of record as only sixth-stage spirits. There undoubtedly remains one more step in the career of the Mortal Corps of the Finality. We do not know the nature of that step, but we have taken cognizance of, and here call attention to, three facts: (348.1) 31: We know from the records that mortals are spirits of the first order during their sojourn in the minor sectors, and that they advance to the second order when translated to the major sectors, and to the third when they go forward to the central training worlds of the superuniverse. Mortals become quartan or graduate spirits after reaching the sixth circle of Havona and become spirits of the fifth order when they find the Universal Father. They subsequently attain the sixth stage of spirit existence upon taking the oath that musters them forever into the eternity assignment of the Corps of the Mortal Finality. (348.2) 31:3.5 We observe that spirit classification, or designation, has been determined by actual advancement from one realm of universe service to another realm of universe service or from one universe to another universe; and we surmise that the bestowal of seventh-spirit classification upon the Mortal Corps of the Finality will be simultaneous with their advancement to eternal assignment for service on hitherto unrecorded and unrevealed spheres and concomitant with their attainment of God the Supreme. But aside from these bold conjectures, we really know no more -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 19

21 about all this than you do; our knowledge of the mortal career does not go beyond present Paradise destiny. tava6655 User ID: /12/ :11 AM The Urantia Book Paper 21 The Paradise Creator Sons (234.1) 21:0.1 THE Creator Sons are the makers and rulers of the local universes of time and space. These universe creators and sovereigns are of dual origin, embodying the characteristics of God the Father and God the Son. But each Creator Son is different from every other; each is unique in nature as well as in personality; each is the only-begotten Son of the perfect deity ideal of his origin. (234.2) 21:0.2 In the vast work of organizing, evolving, and perfecting a local universe, these high Sons always enjoy the sustaining approval of the Universal Father. The relationship of the Creator Sons with their Paradise Father is touching and superlative. No doubt the profound affection of the Deity parents for their divine progeny is the wellspring of that beautiful and well-nigh divine love which even mortal parents bear their children. (234.3) 21:0.3 These primary Paradise Sons are personalized as Michaels. As they go forth from Paradise to found their universes, they are known as Creator Michaels. When settled in supreme authority, they are called Master Michaels. Sometimes we refer to the sovereign of your universe of Nebadon as Christ Michael. Always and forever do they reign after the order of Michael, that being the designation of the first Son of their order and nature. (234.4) 21:0.4 The original or first-born Michael has never experienced incarnation as a material being, but seven times he passed through the experience of spiritual creature ascent on the seven circuits of Havona, advancing from the outer spheres to the innermost circuit of the central creation. The order of Michael knows the grand universe from one end to the other; there is no essential experience of any of the children of time and space in which the Michaels have not personally participated; they are in fact partakers not only of the divine nature but also of your nature, meaning all natures, from the highest to the lowest. (234.5) 21:0.5 The original Michael is the presiding head of the primary Paradise Sons when they assemble for conference at the center of all things. Not long since on Uversa we recorded a universal broadcast of a conclave extraordinary on the eternal Isle of one hundred fifty thousand Creator Sons assembled in the parental presence and engaged in deliberations having to do with the progress of the unification and stabilization of the universe of universes. This was a selected group of Sovereign Michaels, sevenfold bestowal Sons. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /12/ :34 AM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 20

22 I said I would remove inappropriate posts and I did. Thankyou Trinity for your new additions of this ability. UB Rocks User ID: Canada 11/12/ :16 PM Thanks for this thread hun! Paper The Incarnation Making Two One (1331.1) 120:4.1 And so certain unworthy children of Michael, who had accused their Creatorfather of selfishly seeking rulership and indulged the insinuation that the Creator Son was arbitrarily and autocratically upheld in power by virtue of the unreasoning loyalty of a deluded universe of subservient creatures, were to be silenced forever and left confounded and disillusioned by the life of self-forgetful service which the Son of God now entered upon as the Son of Man all the while subject to the will of the Paradise Father. (1331.2) 120:4.2 But make no mistake; Christ Michael, while truly a dual-origin being, was not a double personality. He was not God in association with man but, rather, God incarnate in man. And he was always just that combined being. The only progressive factor in such a nonunderstandable relationship was the progressive self-conscious realization and recognition (by the human mind) of this fact of being God and man. (1331.3) 120:4.3 Christ Michael did not progressively become God. God did not, at some vital moment in the earth life of Jesus, become man. Jesus was God and man always and even forevermore. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the Paradise Trinity of three beings is in reality one Deity. (1331.4) 120:4.4 Never lose sight of the fact that the supreme spiritual purpose of the Michael bestowal was to enhance the revelation of God. (1331.5) 120:4.5 Urantia mortals have varying concepts of the miraculous, but to us who live as citizens of the local universe there are few miracles, and of these by far the most intriguing are the incarnational bestowals of the Paradise Sons. The appearance in and on your world, by apparently natural processes, of a divine Son, we regard as a miracle the operation of universal laws beyond our understanding. Jesus of Nazareth was a miraculous person. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 21

23 (1331.6) 120:4.6 In and through all this extraordinary experience, God the Father chose to manifest himself as he always does in the usual way in the normal, natural, and dependable way of divine acting. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /12/ :25 PM Paper 113 Page1241 to 1242 An introduction to Guardian Angels, yes they are REAL. Seraphic Guardians of Destiny (1241.1) 113:0.1 HAVING presented the narratives of the Ministering Spirits of Time and the Messenger Hosts of Space, we come to the consideration of the guardian angels, seraphim devoted to the ministry to individual mortals, for whose elevation and perfection all of the vast survival scheme of spiritual progression has been provided. In past ages on Urantia, these destiny guardians were about the only group of angels that had recognition. The planetary seraphim are indeed ministering spirits sent forth to do service for those who shall survive. These attending seraphim have functioned as the spiritual helpers of mortal man in all the great events of the past and the present. In many a revelation the word was spoken by angels ; many of the mandates of heaven have been received by the ministry of angels. (1241.2) 113:0.2 Seraphim are the traditional angels of heaven; they are the ministering spirits who live so near you and do so much for you. They have ministered on Urantia since the earliest times of human intelligence. 1. The Guardian Angels (1241.3) 113:1.1 The teaching about guardian angels is not a myth; certain groups of human beings do actually have personal angels. It was in recognition of this that Jesus, in speaking of the children of the heavenly kingdom, said: Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, their angels do always behold the presence of the spirit of my Father. (1241.4) 113:1.2 Originally, the seraphim were definitely assigned to the separate Urantia races. But since the bestowal of Michael, they are assigned in accordance with human intelligence, spirituality, and destiny. Intellectually, mankind is divided into three classes: (1241.5) 113: The subnormal minded those who do not exercise normal will power; those who do not make average decisions. This class embraces those who cannot comprehend God; -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 22

24 they lack capacity for the intelligent worship of Deity. The subnormal beings of Urantia have a corps of seraphim, one company, with one battalion of cherubim, assigned to minister to them and to witness that justice and mercy are extended to them in the life struggles of the sphere. (1241.6) 113: The average, normal type of human mind. From the standpoint of seraphic ministry, most men and women are grouped in seven classes in accordance with their status in making the circles of human progress and spiritual development. (1241.7) 113: The supernormal minded those of great decision and undoubted potential of spiritual achievement; men and women who enjoy more or less contact with their indwelling Adjusters; members of the various reserve corps of destiny. No matter in what circle a human happens to be, if such an individual becomes enrolled in any of the several reserve corps of destiny, right then and there, personal seraphim are assigned, and from that time until the earthly career is finished, that mortal will enjoy the continuous ministry and unceasing watchcare of a guardian angel. Also, when any human being makes the supreme decision, when there is a real betrothal with the Adjuster, a personal guardian is immediately assigned to that soul. (1242.1) 113:1.6 In the ministry to so-called normal beings, seraphic assignments are made in accordance with the human attainment of the circles of intellectuality and spirituality. You start out in your mind of mortal investment in the seventh circle and journey inward in the task of selfunderstanding, self-conquest, and self-mastery; and circle by circle you advance until (if natural death does not terminate your career and transfer your struggles to the mansion worlds) you reach the first or inner circle of relative contact and communion with the indwelling Adjuster. (1242.2) 113:1.7 Human beings in the initial or seventh circle have one guardian angel with one company of assisting cherubim assigned to the watchcare and custody of one thousand mortals. In the sixth circle, a seraphic pair with one company of cherubim is assigned to guide these ascending mortals in groups of five hundred. When the fifth circle is attained, human beings are grouped in companies of approximately one hundred, and a pair of guardian seraphim with a group of cherubim is placed in charge. Upon attainment of the fourth circle, mortal beings are assembled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a pair of seraphim, assisted by one company of cherubim. (1242.3) 113:1.8 When a mortal mind breaks through the inertia of animal legacy and attains the third circle of human intellectuality and acquired spirituality, a personal angel (in reality two) will henceforth be wholly and exclusively devoted to this ascending mortal. And thus these human souls, in addition to the ever-present and increasingly efficient indwelling Thought Adjusters, receive the undivided assistance of these personal guardians of destiny in all their efforts to finish the third circle, traverse the second, and attain the first. tava6655 User ID: /12/ :42 PM The Urantia Book Paper 2 The Nature of God 1. The Infinity of God -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 23

25 (33.4) 2:1.1 Touching the Infinite, we cannot find him out. The divine footsteps are not known. His understanding is infinite and his greatness is unsearchable. The blinding light of the Father s presence is such that to his lowly creatures he apparently dwells in the thick darkness. Not only are his thoughts and plans unsearchable, but he does great and marvelous things without number. God is great; we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven (universe) and the heaven of heavens (universe of universes) cannot contain him. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out! (34.1) 2:1.2 There is but one God, the infinite Father, who is also a faithful Creator. The divine Creator is also the Universal Disposer, the source and destiny of souls. He is the Supreme Soul, the Primal Mind, and the Unlimited Spirit of all creation. The great Controller makes no mistakes. He is resplendent in majesty and glory. The Creator God is wholly devoid of fear and enmity. He is immortal, eternal, self-existent, divine, and bountiful. How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor of all things! The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose. With God all things are possible; the eternal Creator is the cause of causes. Anonymous Coward User ID: /12/ :56 PM I own the book. It validated my childhood thoughts on the various levels of dimensionality, god, spirituality, personality, history, and Christ. I don't have it handy to refrence it. Anonymous Coward User ID: Canada 11/12/2010 1:31 PM Really good site I often use: [link to lots of additional info, plus beautifully crafted videos that reference the UB tava6655 User ID: /12/2010 3:04 PM The Urantia Book Paper 2 Divine Truth And Beauty (43.3) 2:7.10 The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 24

26 divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. (43.4) 2:7.11 All truth material, philosophic, or spiritual is both beautiful and good. All real beauty material art or spiritual symmetry is both true and good. All genuine goodness whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems. (43.5) 2:7.12 Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher and divine levels. (43.6) 2:7.13 [Presented by a Divine Counselor acting by authority of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.] West TX User ID: /12/2010 3:13 PM History of Urantia - Bestowals of Christ Michael 119:3 THE THIRD BESTOWAL 119:3.1 The supreme council on Salvington had just finished the consideration of the call of the Life Carriers on planet 217 in system 87 in constellation 61 for the dispatch to their assistance of a Material Son. Now this planet was situated in a system of inhabited worlds where another System Sovereign had gone astray, the second such rebellion in all Nebadon up to that time. 119:3.2 Upon the request of Michael, action on the petition of the Life Carriers of this planet was deferred pending its consideration by Immanuel and his report thereon. This was an irregular procedure, and I well remember how we all anticipated something unusual, and we were not long held in suspense. Michael proceeded to place universe direction in the hands of Immanuel, while he intrusted command of the celestial forces to Gabriel, and having thus disposed of his administrative responsibilities, he took leave of the Universe Mother Spirit and vanished from the dispatching field of Salvington precisely as he had done on two previous occasions. 119:3.3 And, as might have been expected, on the third day thereafter there appeared, unannounced, on the headquarters world of system 87 in constellation 61, a strange Material Son, accompanied by a lone seconaphim, accredited by the Uversa Ancients of Days, and certified by Immanuel of Salvington. Immediately the acting System Sovereign appointed this new and -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 25

27 mysterious Material Son acting Planetary Prince of world 217, and this designation was at once confirmed by the Most Highs of constellation :3.4 Thus did this unique Material Son begin his difficult career on a quarantined world of secession and rebellion, located in a beleaguered system without any direct communication with the outside universe, working alone for one whole generation of planetary time. This emergency Material Son effected the repentance and reclamation of the defaulting Planetary Prince and his entire staff and witnessed the restoration of the planet to the loyal service of the Paradise rule as established in the local universes. In due time a Material Son and Daughter arrived on this rejuvenated and redeemed world, and when they had been duly installed as visible planetary rulers, the transitory or emergency Planetary Prince took formal leave, disappearing at noon one day. On the third day thereafter, Michael appeared in his accustomed place on Salvington, and very soon the superuniverse broadcasts carried the fourth proclamation of the Ancients of Days announcing the further advancement of the sovereignty of Michael in Nebadon. 119:3.5 I regret that I do not have permission to narrate the patience, fortitude, and skill with which this Material Son met the trying situations on this confused planet. The reclamation of this isolated world is one of the most beautifully touching chapters in the annals of salvation throughout Nebadon. By the end of this mission it had become evident to all Nebadon as to why their beloved ruler chose to engage in these repeated bestowals in the likeness of some subordinate order of intelligent being. 119:3.6 The bestowals of Michael as a Melchizedek Son, then as a Lanonandek Son, and next as a Material Son are all equally mysterious and beyond explanation. In each instance he appeared suddenly and as a fully developed individual of the bestowal group. The mystery of such incarnations will never be known except to those who have access to the inner circle of the records on the sacred sphere of Sonarington. 119:3.7 Never, since this marvelous bestowal as the Planetary Prince of a world in isolation and rebellion, have any of the Material Sons or Daughters in Nebadon been tempted to complain of their assignments or to find fault with the difficulties of their planetary missions. For all time the Material Sons know that in the Creator Son of the universe they have an understanding sovereign and a sympathetic friend, one who has in " all points been tried and tested, " even as they must also be tried and tested. 119:3.8 Each of these missions was followed by an age of increasing service and loyalty among all celestial intelligences of universe origin, while each succeeding bestowal age was characterized by advancement and improvement in all methods of universe administration and in all techniques of government. Since this bestowal no Material Son or Daughter has ever knowingly joined in rebellion against Michael; they love and honor him too devotedly ever consciously to reject him. Only through deception and sophistry have the Adams of recent times been led astray by higher types of rebel personalities. Anonymous Coward User ID: /12/2010 6:55 PM I. DEITY AND DIVINITY 0:1.1 The universe of universes presents phenomena of deity activities on diverse levels of cosmic realities, mind meanings, and spirit values, but all of these ministrations personal or otherwise are divinely co-ordinated. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 26

28 0:1.2 DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity actual or potential on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity. 0:1.3 Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is functional on the following seven levels: 0: Static self-contained and self-existent Deity. 0: Potential self-willed and self-purposive Deity. 0: Associative self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity. 0: Creative self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity. 0: Evolutional self-expansive and creature-identified Deity. 0: Supreme self-experiential and creature-creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the grand universe, sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity. 0: Ultimate self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /12/ :46 PM Paper 52. PP Urantia s Post-Bestowal Age (597.2) 52:6.1 The bestowal Son is the Prince of Peace. He arrives with the message, Peace on earth and good will among men. On normal worlds this is a dispensation of world-wide peace; the nations no more learn war. But such salutary influences did not attend the coming of your bestowal Son, Christ Michael. Urantia is not proceeding in the normal order. Your world is out of step in the planetary procession. Your Master, when on earth, warned his disciples that his advent would not bring the usual reign of peace on Urantia. He distinctly told them that there would be wars and rumors of wars, and that nation would rise against nation. At another time he said, Think not that I have come to bring peace upon earth. (597.3) 52:6.2 Even on normal evolutionary worlds the realization of the world-wide brotherhood of man is not an easy accomplishment. On a confused and disordered planet like Urantia such an achievement requires a much longer time and necessitates far greater effort. Unaided social evolution can hardly achieve such happy results on a spiritually isolated sphere. Religious revelation is essential to the realization of brotherhood on Urantia. While Jesus has shown the way -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 27

29 to the immediate attainment of spiritual brotherhood, the realization of social brotherhood on your world depends much on the achievement of the following personal transformations and planetary adjustments: (597.4) 52: Social fraternity. Multiplication of international and interracial social contacts and fraternal associations through travel, commerce, and competitive play. Development of a common language and the multiplication of multilinguists. The racial and national interchange of students, teachers, industrialists, and religious philosophers. (597.5) 52: Intellectual cross-fertilization. Brotherhood is impossible on a world whose inhabitants are so primitive that they fail to recognize the folly of unmitigated selfishness. There must occur an exchange of national and racial literature. Each race must become familiar with the thought of all races; each nation must know the feelings of all nations. Ignorance breeds suspicion, and suspicion is incompatible with the essential attitude of sympathy and love. (597.6) 52: Ethical awakening. Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife. Only a moral conscience can condemn the evils of national envy and racial jealousy. Only moral beings will ever seek for that spiritual insight which is essential to living the golden rule. (598.1) 52: Political wisdom. Emotional maturity is essential to self-control. Only emotional maturity will insure the substitution of international techniques of civilized adjudication for the barbarous arbitrament of war. Wise statesmen will sometime work for the welfare of humanity even while they strive to promote the interest of their national or racial groups. Selfish political sagacity is ultimately suicidal destructive of all those enduring qualities which insure planetary group survival. (598.2) 52: Spiritual insight. The brotherhood of man is, after all, predicated on the recognition of the fatherhood of God. The quickest way to realize the brotherhood of man on Urantia is to effect the spiritual transformation of present-day humanity. The only technique for accelerating the natural trend of social evolution is that of applying spiritual pressure from above, thus augmenting moral insight while enhancing the soul capacity of every mortal to understand and love every other mortal. Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man. (598.3) 52:6.8 If you could be transplanted from your backward and confused world to some normal planet now in the postbestowal Son age, you would think you had been translated to the heaven of your traditions. You would hardly believe that you were observing the normal evolutionary workings of a mortal sphere of human habitation. These worlds are in the spiritual circuits of their realm, and they enjoy all the advantages of the universe broadcasts and the reflectivity services of the superuniverse. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /12/ :58 PM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 28

30 This precedes the above post from paper 52. pp Post-Bestowal Son Man (595.6) 52:5.1 When a certain standard of intellectual and spiritual development is attained on an inhabited world, a Paradise bestowal Son always arrives. On normal worlds he does not appear in the flesh until the races have ascended to the highest levels of intellectual development and ethical attainment. But on Urantia the bestowal Son, even your own Creator Son, appeared at the close of the Adamic dispensation, but that is not the usual order of events on the worlds of space. (595.7) 52:5.2 When the worlds have become ripe for spiritualization, the bestowal Son arrives. These Sons always belong to the Magisterial or Avonal order except in that case, once in each local universe, when the Creator Son prepares for his terminal bestowal on some evolutionary world, as occurred when Michael of Nebadon appeared on Urantia to bestow himself upon your mortal races. Only one world in near ten million can enjoy such a gift; all other worlds are spiritually advanced by the bestowal of a Paradise Son of the Avonal order. (595.8) 52:5.3 The bestowal Son arrives on a world of high educational culture and encounters a race spiritually trained and prepared to assimilate advanced teachings and to appreciate the bestowal mission. This is an age characterized by the world-wide pursuit of moral culture and spiritual truth. The mortal passion of this dispensation is the penetration of cosmic reality and communion with spiritual reality. The revelations of truth are extended to include the superuniverse. Entirely new systems of education and government grow up to supplant the crude regimes of former times. The joy of living takes on new color, and the reactions of life are exalted to heavenly heights of tone and timbre. (596.1) 52:5.4 The bestowal Son lives and dies for the spiritual uplift of the mortal races of a world. He establishes the new and living way ; his life is an incarnation of Paradise truth in mortal flesh, that very truth even the Spirit of Truth in the knowledge of which men shall be free. (596.2) 52:5.5 On Urantia the establishment of this new and living way was a matter of fact as well as of truth. The isolation of Urantia in the Lucifer rebellion had suspended the procedure whereby mortals can pass, upon death, directly to the shores of the mansion worlds. Before the days of Christ Michael on Urantia all souls slept on until the dispensational or special millennial resurrections. Even Moses was not permitted to go over to the other side until the occasion of a special resurrection, the fallen Planetary Prince, Caligastia, contesting such a deliverance. But ever since the day of Pentecost, Urantia mortals again may proceed directly to the morontia spheres. (596.3) 52:5.6 Upon the resurrection of a bestowal Son, on the third day after yielding up his incarnated life, he ascends to the right hand of the Universal Father, receives the assurance of the acceptance of the bestowal mission, and returns to the Creator Son at the headquarters of the local universe. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Michael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the bestowal world. This is the occasion when the spirit of the triumphant Son -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 29

31 is poured out upon all flesh. The Universe Mother Spirit also participates in this bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, and concomitant therewith there issues the bestowal edict of the Thought Adjusters. Thereafter all normal-minded will creatures of that world will receive Adjusters as soon as they attain the age of moral responsibility, of spiritual choice. (596.4) 52:5.7 If such a bestowal Avonal should return to a world after the bestowal mission, he would not incarnate but would come in glory with the seraphic hosts. (596.5) 52:5.8 The postbestowal Son age may extend from ten thousand to a hundred thousand years. There is no arbitrary time allotted to any of these dispensational eras. This is a time of great ethical and spiritual progress. Under the spiritual influence of these ages, human character undergoes tremendous transformations and experiences phenomenal development. It becomes possible to put the golden rule into practical operation. The teachings of Jesus are really applicable to a mortal world which has had the preliminary training of the prebestowal Sons with their dispensations of character ennoblement and culture augmentation. (596.6) 52:5.9 During this era the problems of disease and delinquency are virtually solved. Degeneracy has already been largely eliminated by selective reproduction. Disease has been practically mastered through the high resistant qualities of the Adamic strains and by the intelligent and world-wide application of the discoveries of the physical sciences of preceding ages. The average length of life, during this period, climbs well above the equivalent of three hundred years of Urantia time. (597.1) 52:5.10 Throughout this epoch there is a gradual lessening of governmental supervision. True self-government is beginning to function; fewer and fewer restrictive laws are necessary. The military branches of national resistance are passing away; the era of international harmony is really arriving. There are many nations, mostly determined by land distribution, but only one race, one language, and one religion. Mortal affairs are almost, but not quite, utopian. This truly is a great and glorious age! Douglass Fir lerking in waves User ID: /13/ :13 AM I have trouble with knowing we live in a part of the super universe called Satania. I have had to skip thru the first third of it because I can not relate to the heavenly superstructure and it's principalities. I do like the rebellion part and have not got to the Jesus part but am interested to read what it has to say. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 30

32 not dissin your thread, just sayn' it is hard for me to read and to relate to things I know nothing about. Last Edited by Douglass Fir on 11/13/ :24 AM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /13/ :35 AM I have trouble with knowing we live in a part of the super universe called Satania. I have had to skip thru the first third of it because I can not relate to the heavenly superstructure and it's principalities. I do like the rebellion part and have not got to the Jesus part but am interested to read what it has to say. not dissin your thread, just sayn' it is hard for me to read and relate to things I know nothing about. Quoting: Douglass Fir That is WHY the thread, to help introduce this stuff. The first 1/3 can wait, but ponder some of what IS here from the first 3rd. It is fine to skip around the book and read what is best for YOU first. I did. Satania is actually part of Nebadon, which is one of 100,000 universes in Orvonton, the 7th Superuniverse, of which it's core is the Milky Way Galaxy. When you gaze out at night, you see the Milky Way. I think you will find the last 3rd, the Jesus part, reasonably "readable." I have one small post here from the life of Jesus in his 6th year. I will post more likely from that section. Most having a Christian background would appreciate this first in fact. Then move "backward" perhaps thru the book. For purposes of GOVERNMENT, evolutionary planets are grouped together, up to 1000 in a group. We belong to Satania, as planet # 606. Satania has many worlds in it for living and management. You will all live on these at some point, unless you are incarnate starseeds who have long finished this adventure. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 31

33 ALL beings including spirit beings, live on worlds, they do not live in space. Heaven is NOT space, which is not understood much on earth. The spheres or worlds of 'Heaven" are custom built from scratch worlds. When you get to "heaven" you will start a new life, in a new body made for you, on one of these worlds, and which one is dependent on your spiritual status of learning upon your death. You do not take these bodies to heaven. I am posting this for Christians who may chance upon this thread, as I run into folks who literally think these bodies to go to heaven upon resurrection. This is a corrupted teaching by the Catholic Church, because the Body of Jesus was not found in the grave. I can teach more on this later, not now. It is your SOUL that goes to heaven upon your resurrection. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/13/ :39 AM Douglass Fir lerking in waves User ID: /13/2010 1:03 AM thanks, I have trouble reading the Bible too, but I enjoy learning about it. after reading Sitchen, I found the Old Testament very amazing and can visualize all those things happening. I'm going thru a Nassim Haramein lecture series now. His concept of dimensions within dimensions makes spiritual ideas easier to understand as well. I bought a copy of the Urantia book because they say Jerry Garcia kept a copy and read from it often. Must be something good if Jerry liked it :) Anonymous Coward User ID: /13/2010 1:09 AM I read the majority of this incredible book a few years ago. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 32

34 It connects a lot of information together. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /13/2010 9:18 AM For those interested the "source" person of the UB, was a "sleeping prophet," similar to what Edgar Cayce did. Edgar Cayce did NOT source his own material, folks from the celestial realms came thru him, one of which was Monjoronson, our First Magisterial Avonal that IS on the planet now and in fact arrived about 1200 AD, and is behind bringing for the papers of the UB but did not make personal contributions to it. Stenographers wrote down the dictations coming thru the "sleeping prophet" during the years of collecting the material. These handwritten papers were then carefully checked only for spelling errors only, no rewriting otherwise was considered. Eventually they were formally published. Back then,, there were no tape recorders. No one ever knew the sleeping prophet, nor formally knew the stenographer either. Those of you who have explored any of Dolores Cannon's books, know that many from the celestial realms came thru her subjects which were under hypnosis. Also people's "higher selves" came thru some of the subjects, recording previous lives on this planet and elsewhere. I loved those works, which formed a portion of my preparation for what I do now. In addition to the Urantia Book, there has been additional of the promised revelation for these "end times." Dolores Cannon above was and is a part of the total process. Also the PHoenix Journals. Those of you who may have looked at them, the main author IS our returned Creator Son, Christ Michael, operating as a fleet commander, called "Hatonn/Aton". I am considering opening a 2nd thread JUST for the Phoenix Journals. that project started in The material was given not thru a sleeping prophet, but thru a fully awake person by radio signal from craft. Andronover User ID: Sweden 11/13/2010 3:45 PM 2. Organization of the Superuniverses (165.6) 15:2.1 Only the Universal Father knows the location and actual number of inhabited worlds in space; he calls them all by name and number. I can give only the approximate number of inhabited or inhabitable planets, for some local universes have more worlds suitable for intelligent life than others. Nor have all projected local universes been organized. Therefore the estimates which I offer are solely for the purpose of affording some idea of the immensity of the material -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 33

35 creation. (166.1) 15:2.2 There are seven superuniverses in the grand universe, and they are constituted approximately as follows: (166.2) 15: The System. The basic unit of the supergovernment consists of about one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds. Blazing suns, cold worlds, planets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suitable for creature habitation are not included in this group. These one thousand worlds adapted to support life are called a system, but in the younger systems only a comparatively small number of these worlds may be inhabited. Each inhabited planet is presided over by a Planetary Prince, and each local system has an architectural sphere as its headquarters and is ruled by a System Sovereign. (166.3) 15: The Constellation. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an architectural headquarters sphere and is presided over by three Vorondadek Sons, the Most Highs. Each constellation also has a Faithful of Days in observation, an ambassador of the Paradise Trinity. (166.4) 15: The Local Universe. One hundred constellations (about 10,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a local universe. Each local universe has a magnificent architectural headquarters world and is ruled by one of the co-ordinate Creator Sons of God of the order of Michael. Each universe is blessed by the presence of a Union of Days, a representative of the Paradise Trinity. (166.5) 15: The Minor Sector. One hundred local universes (about 1,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a minor sector of the superuniverse government; it has a wonderful headquarters world, wherefrom its rulers, the Recents of Days, administer the affairs of the minor sector. There are three Recents of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities, on each minor sector headquarters. (166.6) 15: The Major Sector. One hundred minor sectors (about 100,000,000,000 inhabitable worlds) make one major sector. Each major sector is provided with a superb headquarters and is presided over by three Perfections of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities. (166.7) 15: The Superuniverse. Ten major sectors (about 1,000,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a superuniverse. Each superuniverse is provided with an enormous and glorious headquarters world and is ruled by three Ancients of Days. (166.8) 15: The Grand Universe. Seven superuniverses make up the present organized grand universe, consisting of approximately seven trillion inhabitable worlds plus the architectural spheres and the one billion inhabited spheres of Havona. The superuniverses are ruled and administered indirectly and reflectively from Paradise by the Seven Master Spirits. The billion worlds of Havona are directly administered by the Eternals of Days, one such Supreme Trinity Personality presiding over each of these perfect spheres. (167.1) 15:2.10 Excluding the Paradise-Havona spheres, the plan of universe organization provides for the following units: (167.2) 15:2.11 Superuniverses (167.3) 15:2.12 Major sectors (167.4) 15:2.13 Minor sectors ,000 (167.5) 15:2.14 Local universes ,000 (167.6) 15:2.15 Constellations ,000, AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 34

36 (167.7) 15:2.16 Local systems ,000,000,000 (167.8) 15:2.17 Inhabitable planets.. 7,000,000,000,000 (167.9) 15:2.18 Each of the seven superuniverses is constituted, approximately, as follows: (167.10) 15:2.19 One system embraces, approximately ,000 worlds (167.11) 15:2.20 One constellation (100 systems) ,000 worlds (167.12) 15:2.21 One universe (100 constellations) ,000,000 worlds (167.13) 15:2.22 One minor sector (100 universes) ,000,000,000 worlds (167.14) 15:2.23 One major sector (100 minor sectors) ,000,000,000 worlds (167.15) 15:2.24 One superuniverse (10 major sectors)...1,000,000,000,000 worlds (167.16) 15:2.25 All such estimates are approximations at best, for new systems are constantly evolving while other organizations are temporarily passing out of material existence. Munchaab User ID: United Kingdom 11/13/ :14 PM Quoting: Anonymous Coward I just downloaded so I can have a read of it - I've read the Bible, the Qu'Ran, the Bhagavadh-Ghita etc. so why not? Cult is what YOU do with it NOT what it may be - close your mind to other possibilities if you choose to fear the unknown (that is your prerogative) but you will not find knowledge if you are not looking for it! Why fear what reading a text can do? Read it before deciding it is not for you/is for you! Thanks Candace - I'll give it a read, can't say I'll fall in head, neck and shoulders but this is a good thread for those who are not scared to investigate! I hope Scrump hassles this thread less - that was just over the top on the other thread in my opinion and I do like the dude! But that was a poor show! P.S. Is the link in the OP the 1955 publication? Or a revision? If revision, where can I get the earliest text for this? Last Edited by Munchaab on 11/13/ :41 PM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/ :05 AM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 35

37 The link is for the 1955 version, totally matches my copy. The only difference is the paragraphs are all labeled etc which is a newer feature. There has been no official revision. There will be a UB #2 that is planned for the future which include also coverage of the galactic warring with the anunnaki and others that affected this planet, the colonization of this planet by people from other worlds and the like. It's under commission by Gabriel. It will include reincarnation, more teaching of dimensions vs density and more. Reincarnation was denied to protect the incarnating star seeds. This is a nasty planet. But it's implied a lot accidentally here and there thruout. There was a smaller new book, an addendum basically, I saw in the bookstore once, which covered the outworking of the Lucifer trial and his uncreation and I have never found that online, and have never seen it again. So I don't know what happened. Scrump already made a visit here. I deleted the post, his usual that he puts in Urantian's thread. Since I am a paid member, which I became again, after Trinity added the benefit that paid members can moderate their threads, these will not be allowed here. I already deleted a couple tonight, not of his, but others. Feel free to skip around the UB and read what grabs you first. That's how I did it. If you have heard of "Mother Shehkmet" in "new age, she is REAL but not involved in the shit you may have seen. She actually IS a mighty messenger and wrote three papers in the book. Her soul mate wrote some of the others. I have them marked as to their contributions. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/14/2010 1:25 AM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/ :27 AM Paper 55 Spheres of Light and Life: This is the upcoming goal of this planet, the Ascension of "new age." Actually it's the Ascension of GAIA, called the Planetary Supreme in the UB. She is a conscious being now in her own right, and just like mortals receive a thought adjuster, and must fuse with it to guarantee eternal life, Gaia (who is not "mortal" and doesn't receive an adjustor) -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 36

38 must fuse with Christ MIchael for her eternal life, not unlike the discussions in the UB of the Son Fused Mortals who do not have thought adjusters. We are also expecting the arrival of something called "the wave" in some resources, and mentioned in the PJ's, in which the Creator, will slip within THIS creation. That is part of all the various interesting things in this time for this planet. There is much yet to learn about "Creator" on this planet. The Creator must slip inside this creation as part of the ascension into Eternal Life of GAIA and this system. Those completing 51% of their karma will continue to develop with GAIA at this time. Our entire Solar system will become eternal, as part of the process called "light and Life." The beginning stage of Light and Life IS the 5th dimension. We are a ways off, no magic wand, the civilization must be built by man. I am placing portions of this chapter here in the next few posts before I retire for the night. The life style of an evolutionary planet entering light and life, is more or less similar to the experiences of the 5th Mansion world, for those that are more familiar with the UB. Ignore terminology in this section that you are not familiar with, and read that which IS easy to understand. Please don't skip it over and roll your eye balls because of unfamiliar terms. 3. The Golden Ages (624.7) 55:3.1 During this age of light and life the world increasingly prospers under the fatherly rule of the Planetary Sovereign. By this time the worlds are progressing under the momentum of one language, one religion, and, on normal spheres, one race. But this age is not perfect. These worlds still have well-appointed hospitals, homes for the care of the sick. There still remain the problems of caring for accidental injuries and the inescapable infirmities attendant upon the decrepitude of old age and the disorders of senility. Disease has not been entirely vanquished, neither have the earth animals been subdued in perfection; but such worlds are like Paradise in comparison with the early times of primitive man during the pre-planetary Prince age. You would instinctively describe such a realm could you be suddenly transported to a planet in this stage of development as heaven on earth. (625.1) 55:3.2 Human government in the conduct of material affairs continues to function throughout this age of relative progress and perfection. The public activities of a world in the first stage of light and life which I recently visited were financed by the tithing technique. Every adult worker and all able-bodied citizens worked at something paid ten per cent of his income or increase to the public treasury, and it was disbursed as follows: (625.2) 55: Three per cent was expended in the promotion of truth science, education, and philosophy. (625.3) 55: Three per cent was devoted to beauty play, social leisure, and art. (625.4) 55: Three per cent was dedicated to goodness social service, altruism, and religion. (625.5) 55: One per cent was assigned to the insurance reserves against the risk of incapacity for labor resultant from accident, disease, old age, or unpreventable disasters. (625.6) 55:3.7 The natural resources of this planet were administered as social possessions, community property. (625.7) 55:3.8 On this world the highest honor conferred upon a citizen was the order of supreme service, being the only degree of recognition ever to be granted in the morontia temple. This recognition was bestowed upon those who had long distinguished themselves in some phase of supermaterial discovery or planetary social service. (625.8) 55:3.9 The majority of social and administrative posts were held jointly by men and women. Most of the teaching was also done jointly; likewise all judicial trusts were discharged by -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 37

39 similar associated couples. (625.9) 55:3.10 On these superb worlds the childbearing period is not greatly prolonged. It is not best for too many years to intervene between the ages of a family of children. When close together in age, children are able to contribute much more to their mutual training. And on these worlds they are magnificently trained by the competitive systems of keen striving in the advanced domains and divisions of diverse achievement in the mastery of truth, beauty, and goodness. Never fear but that even such glorified spheres present plenty of evil, real and potential, which is stimulative of the choosing between truth and error, good and evil, sin and righteousness. (625.10) 55:3.11 Nevertheless, there is a certain, inevitable penalty attaching to mortal existence on such advanced evolutionary planets. When a settled world progresses beyond the third stage of light and life, all ascenders are destined, before attaining the minor sector, to receive some sort of transient assignment on a planet passing through the earlier stages of evolution. (626.1) 55:3.12 Each of these successive ages represents advancing achievements in all phases of planetary attainment. In the initial age of light the revelation of truth was enlarged to embrace the workings of the universe of universes, while the Deity study of the second age is the attempt to master the protean concept of the nature, mission, ministry, associations, origin, and destiny of the Creator Sons, the first level of God the Sevenfold. (626.2) 55:3.13 A planet the size of Urantia, when fairly well settled, would have about one hundred subadministrative centers. These subordinate centers would be presided over by one of the following groups of qualified administrators: (626.3) 55: Young Material Sons and Daughters brought from the system headquarters to act as assistants to the ruling Adam and Eve. (626.4) 55: The progeny of the semimortal staff of the Planetary Prince who were procreated on certain worlds for this and other similar responsibilities. (626.5) 55: The direct planetary progeny of Adam and Eve. (626.6) 55: Materialized and humanized midway creatures. (626.7) 55: Mortals of Adjuster-fusion status who, upon their own petition, are temporarily exempted from translation by the order of the Personalized Adjuster of universe chieftainship in order that they may continue on the planet in certain important administrative posts. (626.8) 55: Specially trained mortals of the planetary schools of administration who have also received the order of supreme service of the morontia temple. (626.9) 55: Certain elective commissions of three properly qualified citizens who are sometimes chosen by the citizenry by direction of the Planetary Sovereign in accordance with their special ability to accomplish some definite task which is needful in that particular planetary sector. (626.10) 55:3.21 The great handicap confronting Urantia in the matter of attaining the high planetary destiny of light and life is embraced in the problems of disease, degeneracy, war, multicolored races, and multilingualism. (626.11) 55:3.22 No evolutionary world can hope to progress beyond the first stage of settledness in light until it has achieved one language, one religion, and one philosophy. Being of one race greatly facilitates such achievement, but the many peoples of Urantia do not preclude the attainment of higher stages. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/14/2010 1:12 AM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 38

40 User ID: /14/ :52 AM Another section from Paper 55, Sphere's of Light and Life. (Urantia is a sphere of darkness and death, STILL, but showing some signs of improvement while worsening in others.) Those reading here schooled in the magic new age ascension, please read these sections of Paper 55 I am presenting, very carefully. You are not going to be transplanted into a perfect world, anymore than are Christians going to be raptured by Jesus riding across the sky on a white horse. (yes that idea exists, fairly generously amongst many in the evangelical movement.) 5. The Acme of Material Development (629.10) 55:5.1 Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Urantia, can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development which characterize these advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless sphere. (629.11) 55:5.2 The advanced stages of a world settled in light and life represent the acme of evolutionary material development. On these cultured worlds, gone are the idleness and friction of the earlier primitive ages. Poverty and social inequality have all but vanished, degeneracy has disappeared, and delinquency is rarely observed. Insanity has practically ceased to exist, and feeble-mindedness is a rarity. (629.12) 55:5.3 The economic, social, and administrative status of these worlds is of a high and perfected order. Science, art, and industry flourish, and society is a smoothly working mechanism of high material, intellectual, and cultural achievement. Industry has been largely diverted to serving the higher aims of such a superb civilization. The economic life of such a world has become ethical. (630.1) 55:5.4 War has become a matter of history, and there are no more armies or police forces. Government is gradually disappearing. Self-control is slowly rendering laws of human enactment obsolete. The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship. (630.2) 55:5.5 Schools are vastly improved and are devoted to the training of mind and the expansion of soul. The art centers are exquisite and the musical organizations superb. The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment. (630.3) 55:5.6 The provisions for competitive play, humor, and other phases of personal and group achievement are ample and appropriate. A special feature of the competitive activities on such a highly cultured world concerns the efforts of individuals and groups to excel in the sciences and -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 39

41 philosophies of cosmology. Literature and oratory flourish, and language is so improved as to be symbolic of concepts as well as to be expressive of ideas. Life is refreshingly simple; man has at last co-ordinated a high state of mechanical development with an inspiring intellectual attainment and has overshadowed both with an exquisite spiritual achievement. The pursuit of happiness is an experience of joy and satisfaction. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/ :57 AM Continuing selections from paper 55 on Light and Life. That IS the goal ahead of us, as part of the MASSIVE Correcting Time, instigated by Christ MIchael who IS Returned and Heading the show. 6. The Individual Mortal (630.4) 55:6.1 As worlds advance in the settled status of light and life, society becomes increasingly peaceful. The individual, while no less independent and devoted to his family, has become more altruistic and fraternal. (630.5) 55:6.2 On Urantia, and as you are, you can have little appreciation of the advanced status and progressive nature of the enlightened races of these perfected worlds. These people are the flowering of the evolutionary races. But such beings are still mortal; they continue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This great evolution is not heaven, but it is a sublime foreshadowing of the divine worlds of the Paradise ascent. (630.6) 55:6.3 On a normal world the biologic fitness of the mortal race was long since brought up to a high level during the post-adamic epochs; and now, from age to age throughout the settled eras the physical evolution of man continues. Both vision and hearing are extended. By now the population has become stationary in numbers. Reproduction is regulated in accordance with planetary requirements and innate hereditary endowments: The mortals on a planet during this age are divided into from five to ten groups, and the lower groups are permitted to produce only one half as many children as the higher. The continued improvement of such a magnificent race throughout the era of light and life is largely a matter of the selective reproduction of those racial strains which exhibit superior qualities of a social, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature. (630.7) 55:6.4 The Adjusters continue to come as in former evolutionary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mortals are increasingly able to commune with the indwelling Father fragment. During the embryonic and prespiritual stages of development the adjutant mind-spirits are still functioning. The Holy Spirit and the ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive epochs of settled life are experienced. In the fourth stage of light and life the advanced mortals seem to experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, while the philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 40

42 comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme. More than one half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living. Even so, old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new. (631.1) 55:6.5 We conceive that physical evolution will have attained its full development by the end of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We observe that the upper limits of spiritual development associated with evolving human mind are determined by the Adjuster-fusion level of conjoint morontia values and cosmic meanings. But concerning wisdom: While we do not really know, we conjecture that there can never be a limit to intellectual evolution and the attainment of wisdom. On a seventh-stage world, wisdom can exhaust the material potentials, enter upon mota insight, and eventually even taste of absonite grandeur. (631.2) 55:6.6 We observe that on these highly evolved and long seventh-stage worlds human beings fully learn the local universe language before they are translated; and I have visited a few very old planets where abandonters were teaching the older mortals the tongue of the superuniverse. And on these worlds I have observed the technique whereby the absonite personalities reveal the presence of the finaliters in the morontia temple. (631.3) 55:6.7 This is the story of the magnificent goal of mortal striving on the evolutionary worlds; and it all takes place even before human beings enter upon their morontia careers; all of this splendid development is attainable by material mortals on the inhabited worlds, the very first stage of that endless and incomprehensible career of Paradise ascension and divinity attainment. (631.4) 55:6.8 But can you possibly imagine what sort of evolutionary mortals are now coming up from worlds long existing in the seventh epoch of settled light and life? It is such as these who go on to the morontia worlds of the local universe capital to begin their ascension careers. (631.5) 55:6.9 If the mortals of distraught Urantia could only view one of these more advanced worlds long settled in light and life, they would nevermore question the wisdom of the evolutionary scheme of creation. Were there no future of eternal creature progression, still the superb evolutionary attainments of the mortal races on such settled worlds of perfected achievement would amply justify man s creation on the worlds of time and space. (631.6) 55:6.10 We often ponder: If the grand universe should be settled in light and life, would the ascending exquisite mortals still be destined to the Corps of the Finality? But we do not know. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/2010 1:43 AM Paper 58 I think many of you would enjoy this particular paper in it's entirety. It is quite readable and you have already studied some of this in your schooling. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 41

43 Life Establishment on Urantia (664.1) 58:0.1 IN ALL Satania there are only sixty-one worlds similar to Urantia, life-modification planets. The majority of inhabited worlds are peopled in accordance with established techniques; on such spheres the Life Carriers are afforded little leeway in their plans for life implantation. But about one world in ten is designated as a decimal planet and assigned to the special registry of the Life Carriers; and on such planets we are permitted to undertake certain life experiments in an effort to modify or possibly improve the standard universe types of living beings. 1. Physical-Life Prerequisites (664.2) 58: ,000,000 years ago the commission of Life Carriers sent out from Jerusem arrived on Urantia and began the study of physical conditions preparatory to launching life on world number 606 of the Satania system. This was to be our six hundred and sixth experience with the initiation of the Nebadon life patterns in Satania and our sixtieth opportunity to make changes and institute modifications in the basic and standard life designs of the local universe. (664.3) 58:1.2 It should be made clear that Life Carriers cannot initiate life until a sphere is ripe for the inauguration of the evolutionary cycle. Neither can we provide for a more rapid life development than can be supported and accommodated by the physical progress of the planet. (664.4) 58:1.3 The Satania Life Carriers had projected a sodium chloride pattern of life; therefore no steps could be taken toward planting it until the ocean waters had become sufficiently briny. The Urantia type of protoplasm can function only in a suitable salt solution. All ancestral life vegetable and animal evolved in a salt-solution habitat. And even the more highly organized land animals could not continue to live did not this same essential salt solution circulate throughout their bodies in the blood stream which freely bathes, literally submerses, every tiny living cell in this briny deep. (664.5) 58:1.4 Your primitive ancestors freely circulated about in the salty ocean; today, this same oceanlike salty solution freely circulates about in your bodies, bathing each individual cell with a chemical liquid in all essentials comparable to the salt water which stimulated the first protoplasmic reactions of the first living cells to function on the planet. (664.6) 58:1.5 But as this era opens, Urantia is in every way evolving toward a state favorable for the support of the initial forms of marine life. Slowly but surely physical developments on earth and in adjacent space regions are preparing the stage for the later attempts to establish such life forms as we had decided would be best adapted to the unfolding physical environment both terrestrial and spatial. (665.1) 58:1.6 Subsequently the Satania commission of Life Carriers returned to Jerusem, preferring to await the further breakup of the continental land mass, which would afford still more inland seas and sheltered bays, before actually beginning life implantation. (665.2) 58:1.7 On a planet where life has a marine origin the ideal conditions for life implantation are provided by a large number of inland seas, by an extensive shore line of shallow waters and sheltered bays; and just such a distribution of the earth s waters was rapidly developing. These ancient inland seas were seldom over five or six hundred feet deep, and sunlight can penetrate ocean water for more than six hundred feet. (665.3) 58:1.8 And it was from such seashores of the mild and equable climes of a later age that -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 42

44 primitive plant life found its way onto the land. There the high degree of carbon in the atmosphere afforded the new land varieties of life opportunity for speedy and luxuriant growth. Though this atmosphere was then ideal for plant growth, it contained such a high degree of carbon dioxide that no animal, much less man, could have lived on the face of the earth. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/2010 1:47 AM One more selection from Paper 58. Life Establishment on Urantia. Life does not spring forth by accident. It is deliberately planted and supervised. God's scientists, called Life Carriers take on this task, and as you journey upward you will spend some time studying and assisting them. Heaven is NOT a place of silly bliss in the skies. IT is a real place of many custom built spheres, places where you will learn and experience everything your heart could desire and will more. Eternal life is for trillions of years. And you will not spend it all with "Jesus" dear christians. "Jesus" Christ MIchael provides your schools and abodes of living for the first major portion of your journey. When you graduate the schools of Nebadon you are then a real spirit being and begin even higher training. You will thank Christ Michael for this that was provided for you, and move on next to training sphere's of the Superuniverse of Orvonton. Learning and experience never stop. 4. The Life-Dawn Era (667.5) 58:4.1 That we are called Life Carriers should not confuse you. We can and do carry life to the planets, but we brought no life to Urantia. Urantia life is unique, original with the planet. This sphere is a life-modification world; all life appearing hereon was formulated by us right here on the planet; and there is no other world in all Satania, even in all Nebadon, that has a life existence just like that of Urantia. (667.6) 58: ,000,000 years ago the Life Carrier corps returned to Urantia. In co-operation with spiritual powers and superphysical forces we organized and initiated the original life patterns of this world and planted them in the hospitable waters of the realm. All planetary life (aside from extraplanetary personalities) down to the days of Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, had its origin in our three original, identical, and simultaneous marine-life implantations. These three life implantations have been designated as: the central or Eurasian-African, the eastern or Australasian, and the western, embracing Greenland and the Americas. (668.1) 58: ,000,000 years ago primitive marine vegetable life was well established on Urantia. Greenland and the arctic land mass, together with North and South America, were beginning their long and slow westward drift. Africa moved slightly south, creating an east and west trough, the Mediterranean basin, between itself and the mother body. Antarctica, Australia, and the land indicated by the islands of the Pacific broke away on the south and east and have drifted far away since that day. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 43

45 (668.2) 58:4.4 We had planted the primitive form of marine life in the sheltered tropic bays of the central seas of the east-west cleavage of the breaking-up continental land mass. Our purpose in making three marine-life implantations was to insure that each great land mass would carry this life with it, in its warm-water seas, as the land subsequently separated. We foresaw that in the later era of the emergence of land life large oceans of water would separate these drifting continental land masses. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/14/2010 1:55 AM Real N' Raw User ID: /14/2010 1:56 AM "Secularism can never bring peace to mankind. Nothing can take the place of God in human society." Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/2010 2:18 AM Continuing from Paper 58. I have bolded a comment at the end and added a note. 6. The Transition Period (669.2) 58: ,000,000 years ago the transition from vegetable to animal life occurred. This metamorphosis took place in the shallow waters of the sheltered tropic bays and lagoons of the extensive shore lines of the separating continents. And this development, all of which was inherent in the original life patterns, came about gradually. There were many transitional stages between the early primitive vegetable forms of life and the later well-defined animal organisms. Even today the transition slime molds persist, and they can hardly be classified either as plants or as animals. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 44

46 (669.3) 58:6.2 Although the evolution of vegetable life can be traced into animal life, and though there have been found graduated series of plants and animals which progressively lead up from the most simple to the most complex and advanced organisms, you will not be able to find such connecting links between the great divisions of the animal kingdom nor between the highest of the prehuman animal types and the dawn men of the human races. These so-called missing links will forever remain missing, for the simple reason that they never existed. (669.4) 58:6.3 From era to era radically new species of animal life arise. They do not evolve as the result of the gradual accumulation of small variations; they appear as full-fledged and new orders of life, and they appear suddenly. (669.5) 58:6.4 The sudden appearance of new species and diversified orders of living organisms is wholly biologic, strictly natural. There is nothing supernatural connected with these genetic mutations. (669.6) 58:6.5 At the proper degree of saltiness in the oceans animal life evolved, and it was comparatively simple to allow the briny waters to circulate through the animal bodies of marine life. But when the oceans were contracted and the percentage of salt was greatly increased, these same animals evolved the ability to reduce the saltiness of their body fluids just as those organisms which learned to live in fresh water acquired the ability to maintain the proper degree of sodium chloride in their body fluids by ingenious techniques of salt conservation. (669.7) 58:6.6 Study of the rock-embraced fossils of marine life reveals the early adjustment struggles of these primitive organisms. Plants and animals never cease to make these adjustment experiments. Ever the environment is changing, and always are living organisms striving to accommodate themselves to these never-ending fluctuations. (670.1) 58:6.7 The physiologic equipment and the anatomic structure of all new orders of life are in response to the action of physical law, but the subsequent endowment of mind is a bestowal of the adjutant mind-spirits in accordance with innate brain capacity. Mind, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments. (670.2) 58:6.8 Through almost endless cycles of gains and losses, adjustments and readjustments, all living organisms swing back and forth from age to age. Those that attain cosmic unity persist, while those that fall short of this goal cease to exist. My comments mentioned above. Each human, who wishes to seek eternal life, MUST and WILL come into cosmic Unity. GAIA herself faces the same challenge also, as well do the angels. Cosmic Unity, is that state of oneness with the creation. Yea who persist in destruction, (ie those who kill by the sword) will find themselves destructed (Ie will be killed by the sword.) My right to create this thread and to encourage seekers and like minded people to share in it, will not be put asunder by those who specialize in killing threads here. You attempt to kill this thread, I will remove your posts and if necessary remove your ability to post in it. Free speech does not extend to the destruction of other's good work. OK, do we understand that now. Trinity has created a marvelous site for the 4th dimensional process of separation into groups sharing common goals. He has made this further possible by allowing paid members to moderate their threads, so that they have some chance of accomplishing their purpose. He allows an incredible amount of access and topics to be placed under discussion of interested parties. Please honor the purpose of this discussion by staying out of it, if it is not your cup of tea. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 45

47 I do however suggest READING and THINKING about the contents that those sharing in this process post here. You might actually choose to LIKE the material if you would be of open mind. Miracles do happen. If you wish to voice your disagreements about the Urantia Book, in these unsavory manners, please go about creating your own thread for that purpose. Thankyou. I promise to stay out of it, it would not be my cup of tea. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/14/2010 2:43 AM A User ID: Australia 11/14/2010 3:27 AM As my own experience with the works and confirmations by creation may not find resonance here being purely from self... I would like to offer something visual that does well to supplement the fractle nature of wording strings that define all that is and the order that is... perfection. Its not much... please enjoy... "A tour through reality" [link to Bless to all seekers. Anonymous Coward User ID: /14/2010 6:17 PM The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect." In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia. AL MURREDIN Synchropsyopmagick : "Imitatio Dei" User ID: /14/2010 6:25 PM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 46

48 Ive found the Bible to be much more sufficient and brilliant than Urantia, the Bible has astrological, alchemical clues and truth thru-out, it is still written in easy to memorize beauty, the Bible is perfect for the most simple person to the scholar. the classic Bible is sufficient for me. Real N' Raw User ID: /14/2010 7:30 PM "Some men's lives are too great and noble to descend to the low level of being merely successful. The animal must adapt itself to the environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through this insight of divine love. This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness." Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/2010 9:26 PM Th bible is terribly compromised and written by man. And it has been deliberately changed in order to cause support for Israel, and the Khazars who are the "antichrist." Has some truth yes, but can't hold a candle to the modern revelation given this planet at the end of this age. The bible promised -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 47

49 that the word would be brought forth at this time. And so it is. No more bible arguments please, out they will go. It's time to move UPward. Man is to grow his soul. The video posted above is lovely. I had seen it before. Thankyou for sharing it. Ok, now, here's commentary from the UB on the Four Gospels. paper 121. Times of the Bestowal pp Previous Written Records (1341.2) 121:8.1 As far as possible, consistent with our mandate, we have endeavored to utilize and to some extent co-ordinate the existing records having to do with the life of Jesus on Urantia. Although we have enjoyed access to the lost record of the Apostle Andrew and have benefited from the collaboration of a vast host of celestial beings who were on earth during the times of Michael s bestowal (notably his now Personalized Adjuster), it has been our purpose also to make use of the so-called Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (1341.3) 121:8.2 These New Testament records had their origin in the following circumstances: (1341.4) 121: The Gospel by Mark. John Mark wrote the earliest (excepting the notes of Andrew), briefest, and most simple record of Jesus life. He presented the Master as a minister, as man among men. Although Mark was a lad lingering about many of the scenes which he depicts, his record is in reality the Gospel according to Simon Peter. He was early associated with Peter; later with Paul. Mark wrote this record at the instigation of Peter and on the earnest petition of the church at Rome. Knowing how consistently the Master refused to write out his teachings when on earth and in the flesh, Mark, like the apostles and other leading disciples, was hesitant to put them in writing. But Peter felt the church at Rome required the assistance of such a written narrative, and Mark consented to undertake its preparation. He made many notes before Peter died in A.D. 67, and in accordance with the outline approved by Peter and for the church at Rome, he began his writing soon after Peter s death. The Gospel was completed near the end of A.D. 68. Mark wrote entirely from his own memory and Peter s memory. The record has since been considerably changed, numerous passages having been taken out and some later matter added at the end to replace the latter one fifth of the original Gospel, which was lost from the first manuscript before it was ever copied. This record by Mark, in conjunction with Andrew s and Matthew s notes, was the written basis of all subsequent Gospel narratives which sought to portray the life and teachings of Jesus. (1341.5) 121: The Gospel of Matthew. The so-called Gospel according to Matthew is the record of the Master s life which was written for the edification of Jewish Christians. The author of this record constantly seeks to show in Jesus life that much which he did was that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. Matthew s Gospel portrays Jesus as a son of David, picturing him as showing great respect for the law and the prophets. (1341.6) 121:8.5 The Apostle Matthew did not write this Gospel. It was written by Isador, one of his disciples, who had as a help in his work not only Matthew s personal remembrance of these events but also a certain record which the latter had made of the sayings of Jesus directly after the crucifixion. This record by Matthew was written in Aramaic; Isador wrote in Greek. There was no intent to deceive in accrediting the production to Matthew. It was the custom in those days for pupils thus to honor their teachers. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 48

50 (1342.1) 121:8.6 Matthew s original record was edited and added to in A.D. 40 just before he left Jerusalem to engage in evangelistic preaching. It was a private record, the last copy having been destroyed in the burning of a Syrian monastery in A.D (1342.2) 121:8.7 Isador escaped from Jerusalem in A.D. 70 after the investment of the city by the armies of Titus, taking with him to Pella a copy of Matthew s notes. In the year 71, while living at Pella, Isador wrote the Gospel according to Matthew. He also had with him the first four fifths of Mark s narrative. (1342.3) 121: The Gospel by Luke. Luke, the physician of Antioch in Pisidia, was a gentile convert of Paul, and he wrote quite a different story of the Master s life. He began to follow Paul and learn of the life and teachings of Jesus in A.D. 47. Luke preserves much of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in his record as he gathered up these facts from Paul and others. Luke presents the Master as the friend of publicans and sinners. He did not formulate his many notes into the Gospel until after Paul s death. Luke wrote in the year 82 in Achaia. He planned three books dealing with the history of Christ and Christianity but died in A.D. 90 just before he finished the second of these works, the Acts of the Apostles. (1342.4) 121:8.9 As material for the compilation of his Gospel, Luke first depended upon the story of Jesus life as Paul had related it to him. Luke s Gospel is, therefore, in some ways the Gospel according to Paul. But Luke had other sources of information. He not only interviewed scores of eyewitnesses to the numerous episodes of Jesus life which he records, but he also had with him a copy of Mark s Gospel, that is, the first four fifths, Isador s narrative, and a brief record made in the year A.D. 78 at Antioch by a believer named Cedes. Luke also had a mutilated and much-edited copy of some notes purported to have been made by the Apostle Andrew. (1342.5) 121: The Gospel of John. The Gospel according to John relates much of Jesus work in Judea and around Jerusalem which is not contained in the other records. This is the socalled Gospel according to John the son of Zebedee, and though John did not write it, he did inspire it. Since its first writing it has several times been edited to make it appear to have been written by John himself. When this record was made, John had the other Gospels, and he saw that much had been omitted; accordingly, in the year A.D. 101 he encouraged his associate, Nathan, a Greek Jew from Caesarea, to begin the writing. John supplied his material from memory and by reference to the three records already in existence. He had no written records of his own. The Epistle known as First John was written by John himself as a covering letter for the work which Nathan executed under his direction. (1342.6) 121:8.11 All these writers presented honest pictures of Jesus as they saw, remembered, or had learned of him, and as their concepts of these distant events were affected by their subsequent espousal of Paul s theology of Christianity. And these records, imperfect as they are, have been sufficient to change the course of the history of Urantia for almost two thousand years. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/14/2010 9:47 PM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /14/2010 9:44 PM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 49

51 Now here's the final commentary to the same Paper, 121 above: [Acknowledgment: In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of Jesus of Nazareth, I have drawn freely upon all sources of record and planetary information. My ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all future generations. From the vast store of information made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this purpose. As far as possible I have derived my information from purely human sources. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are superhuman. When ideas and concepts of Jesus life and teachings have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave preference to such apparently human thought patterns. Although I have sought to adjust the verbal expression the better to conform to our concept of the real meaning and the true import of the Master s life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the actual human concept and thought pattern in all my narratives. I well know that those concepts which have had origin in the human mind will prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human expressions, I have next resorted to the memory resources of my own order of earth creatures, the midwayers. And when that secondary source of information proved inadequate, I have unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of information. (1343.2) 121:8.13 The memoranda which I have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus aside from the memory of the record of the Apostle Andrew embrace thought gems and superior concepts of Jesus teachings assembled from more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly restatements. The revelatory permission has been utilized only when the human record and human concepts failed to supply an adequate thought pattern. My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources. (1343.3) 121:8.14 While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking. In many ways I have served more as a collector and editor than as an original narrator. I have unhesitatingly appropriated those ideas and concepts, preferably human, which would enable me to create the most effective portraiture of Jesus life, and which would qualify me to restate his matchless teachings in the most strikingly helpful and universally uplifting phraseology. In behalf of the Brotherhood of the United Midwayers of Urantia, I most gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all sources of record and concept which have been hereinafter utilized in the further elaboration of our restatement of Jesus life on earth.] -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 50

52 Anonymous Coward User ID: /14/ :33 PM Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One. Douglass Fir lerking in waves User ID: /15/ :04 AM was reading about the suns, pretty interesting considering when this was written. I don't know what part that is in but I belive life was seeded here and the conditions for life were created to be optimal. Aboriginal people have all left pictures of strange supernatural beings visiting this planet. These could be overseers to creation on this world. The fact that civilization sprang up out of nowhere is a curious notion that would be easily explained by guiding hands modern man is only vaguely aware of if at all. reading the rebellion now. It's really entertaining if nothing else. Last Edited by Douglass Fir on 11/15/ :05 AM Douglass Fir lerking in waves User ID: /15/2010 1:12 AM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 51

53 Here's the page, it's an amazing read. [link to this morning 'nat geo' had a program on talking abut the sun and other stars. what are the odds of reading about the sun's mass being 2 'octillion' (2x10-27)tons and walking into the room first thing in the morning and hearing the exact same thing!!! and check this out: 41:5.3 The interior of your sun is a vast X-ray generator. The suns are supported from within by the incessant bombardment of these mighty emanations. 41:5.4 It requires more than one-half million years for an X-ray-stimulated electron to work its way from the very center of an average sun up to the solar surface, whence it starts out on its space adventure, maybe to warm an inhabited planet, to be captured by a meteor, to participate in the birth of an atom, to be attracted by a highly charged dark island of space, or to find its space flight terminated by a final plunge into the surface of a sun similar to the one of its origin. 41:5.5 The X rays of a sun's interior charge the highly heated and agitated electrons with sufficient energy to carry them out through space, past the hosts of detaining influences of intervening matter and, in spite of divergent gravity attractions, on to the distant spheres of the remote systems. The great energy of velocity required to escape the gravity clutch of a sun is sufficient to insure that the sunbeam will travel on with unabated velocity until it encounters considerable masses of matter; whereupon it is quickly transformed into heat with the liberation of other energies. 41:5.6 Energy, whether as light or in other forms, in its flight through space moves straight forward. The actual particles of material existence traverse space like a fusillade. They go in a straight and unbroken line or procession except as they are acted on by superior forces, and except as they ever obey the linear-gravity pull inherent in material mass and the circular-gravity presence of the Isle of Paradise. 41:5.7 Solar energy may seem to be propelled in waves, but that is due to the action of coexistent and diverse influences. A given form of organized energy does not proceed in waves but in direct lines. The presence of a second or a third form of force-energy may cause the stream under observation to appear to travel in wavy formation, just as, in a blinding rainstorm accompanied by a heavy wind, the water sometimes appears to fall in sheets or to descend in waves. The raindrops are coming down in a direct line of unbroken procession, but the action of the wind is such as to give the visible appearance of sheets of water and waves of raindrops. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 52

54 and this, "WE LIVE IN THE BOONIES" 41:10.5 Urantia is comparatively isolated on the outskirts of Satania, your solar system, with one exception, being the farthest removed from Jerusem, while Satania itself is next to the outermost system of Norlatiadek, and this constellation is now traversing the outer fringe of Nebadon. You were truly among the least of all creation until Michael's bestowal elevated your planet to a position of honor and great universe interest. Sometimes the last is first, while truly the least becomes greatest. Last Edited by Douglass Fir on 11/15/2010 1:13 AM UNtypical USer User ID: /15/2010 1:13 AM It's more top-down hierarchy. I like Jesus' way, bottom-up responsibility, better. spirit compiler User ID: Germany 11/15/2010 5:42 AM Just a few short quotes from this amazing 2000 page Urantia Book. I have taken them from various sections (starting with records on the life of Jesus) to show the incredible range of topics and experiences it covers, personal and universal, history and future possibilities... As Jesus entered upon his adolescent years, he found himself the head and sole support of a large family. Within a few years of his father s death, all their property was gone. As time passed he became increasingly conscious of his pre-existence: at the same time he began more fully to realise that he was present on earth and in the flesh for the express purpose of revealing his Paradise Father to the children of men. (From THE ADOLESCENT YEARS, Paper 127) But real praying does attain reality. Even when the air currents are ascending, no bird can ascend except by outstretched wings (From PRAYING AS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, Paper 91) God s answers the soul s attitude, not the words. Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. Pray only for values, not things: for growth, not for gratification (From PRAYING AS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, Paper 91) Jesus often took his apostles away by themselves for short periods to engage in mediation and -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 53

55 prayer, but for the most part he kept them in service-contact with the multitudes. The soul of man requires spiritual exercise as well as spiritual nourishment (From MYSTICISM, ECSTASY, and INSPIRATION, Paper 91) Jesus usual technique of social contact was to draw people out and into talking with them by asking them questions. The interview would usually begin by his asking them questions and end by their asking him questions. He was equally adept in teaching either by asking or answering questions. As a rule, to those he taught the most. He said the least. (From THE LIFE OF JESUS, Paper 132) The morose emperor was unusually cheerful on this day and chatted long with the trio. And when they had gone from his presence, the emperor, referring to Jesus, remarked to the aide standing on his right, If I had that fellow s kingly bearing and gracious manner, I would be a real emperor, eh? (From THE SOUJOURN AT ROME, Paper 132) That man was not ripe for the harvest of salvation: he must be allowed more time for the trials and difficulties of life to prepare him for the reception of wisdom and higher learning. Or, if we could have him live with us, we might by our lives show him the Father in Heaven, and thus would he become so attracted by our lives as sons of God that he would be constrained to enquire about our father. You cannot reveal God to those who do not seek him (From TRIPS ABOUT ROME, THE LIFE OF JESUS, Paper 132) To Jesus, Judas was a faith adventure. From the beginning the Master fully understood the weakness of this apostle and well knew the dangers of admitting him to fellowship. But it is the nature of the Sons of God to give every created being a full and equal chance for salvation and survival. (From THE TWELVE APOSTLES, THE LIFE OF JESUS, PAPER 139) I have called upon you to be born again, to be born of the spirit. I have called you out of the darkness of authority and the lethargy of tradition into the transcendent light of the realisation of the possibility of making for yourselves the greatest discovery possible for the human soul to make the supernatural experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself, and of doing all this as a fact in your own personal experience (From THE SECOND DISCOURSE ON RELIGION, THE LIFE OF JESUS, Paper 155) The sufferings of Jesus were not confined to the crucifixion. In reality, Jesus of Nazareth spent upwards of 25 years on the cross of a real and intense mortal existence. The real value of the cross consists in the fact that it was the supreme and final expression of his love, the completed revelation of his mercy. On millions of inhabited worlds, tens of trillions of evolving creatures who may have been tempted to give up the moral struggle and abandon the good flight of faith, have taken one more look at Jesus on the cross and then have forged on ahead, inspired by the sight of God s laying down his incarnate life in devotion to the unselfish service of man (From THE TIME OF THE TOMB, THE LIFE OF JESUS, Paper 188) The faith of Jesus attained the purity of a child s trust. His faith was so absolute and undoubting that it responded to the charm of contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe. His sense of dependence on the divine was so complete and confident that it yielded the joy and assurance of absolute personal security. There was no hesitating pretence in his religious experience. In this giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child remained supreme in all matters (From THE FAITH OF JESUS, THE LIFE OF JESUS, Paper 196). -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 54

56 Love of adventure, curiosity and a dread of monotony these traits inherent in evolving human nature were not just put there just to aggravate you and annoy you during your short sojourn on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, and eternal voyage of discovery. (From LIFE IN HAVONA, CENTRAL AND SUPERUNIVERSES, Paper 14) Irrespective of origin, the various spheres of space are classifiable into the following major divisions: 1. The suns the stars of space 2. The dark islands of space 3. Minor space bodies comets, meteors and planetesimals 4. The planets, including the inhabited worlds 5. Architectural spheres the world made to order (From: THE SPHERES OF SPACE, THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES, Paper 15 The relative free will which characterises the self-consciousness of human personality is involved in: 1. Moral decision, highest wisdom 2. Spiritual choice, truth discernment 3. Unselfish love, brotherhood service 4. Purposeful co-operation, group loyalty 5. Cosmic insight, the grasp of universe meanings 6. Personality dedication, wholehearted devotion to doing the father s will. 7. Worship, the sincere pursuit of divine values and the wholehearted love of the divine Value- Giver. (From URANTIA PERSONALITY, SEVEN MASTER SPIRITS, Paper 16) One of the most important lessons to be learned during your mortal career is teamwork. The spheres of perfection are manned by those who have mastered this art of working with other beings. Few are the duties in the universe for the lone servant. The higher you ascend, the more lonely you become without the association of your fellows (From THE SECONDARY SECONAPHIM, MINISTERING SPIRITS OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES, Paper 28) We here desire to present a synopsis of the following seven stages of the ascending universe career: 1. Planetary Mortals 2. Sleeping Survivors 3. Mansion World Students 4. Morontia Progressors 5. Superuniverse Wards 6. Havona Pilgrims 7. Paradise Arrivals (From THE ASCENDING MORTALS, PERSONALITIES OF THE GRAND UNIVERSE, Paper 30) The Edentia sea of glass is one enormous circular crystal about one hundred miles in circumpherence and about thirty miles in depth. This magnificent crystal serves as the receiving field for all transport seraphim and other beings arriving from points outside the sphere: such a sea of glass greatly facilitates the landing of transport seraphim. A crystal field on this order is found on almost all architectural worlds: and it serves many purposes apart from its decorative value, being utilized for portraying superuniverse reflectivity to assembled groups and as a factor in the energytransformation technique for modifying the currents of space and for adapting other incoming physical-energy streams. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 55

57 (From THE CONSTALLATIONS, THE LOCAL UNIVERSE, Paper 43) The craftworkers of colour. These are they who make the ten thousand color tones of spirit reflection peal forth their exquisite messages of harmonious beauty. Aside from color perception there is nothing in human experience to which these activities may be compared. The sound designer. Spirit waves of diverse identity and morontia appreciation are depicted by these designers of what you would call sound. These impulses are in reality the superb reflections of the naked and glorious spirit-souls of the celestial hosts. (From THE DESIGNERS AND EMBELLISHERS, THE CELESTIAL ARTISANS, Paper 44) This era of primitive man is a long, dark and bloody chapter. The ethics of the jungle and the morals of the primeval forests are not in keeping with the standards of later dispensations of revealed religion and higher spiritual development. On normal and nonexperimental worlds, this epoch is very different from the prolonged and extraordinary brutal struggles which characterised this age on Urantia. When you have emerged from your first world experience, you will begin to see why this long and painful struggle on the evolutionary worlds occurs, and as you go forward in the Paradise path, you will increasingly understand the wisdom of these apparently strange doings. (From PRIMITIVE MAN, THE LOCAL UNIVERSE, Paper 52) 650,000,000 years ago witnessed the further separation of the land masses and, in consequence a further extension of the continental seas. And these waters were rapidly gaining the degree of saltiness which was essential to Urantia life. (From THE ORIGIN OF URANTIA, THE HISTORY OF URANTIA, Paper 57 The golden age is a myth, but Eden was a fact, and the Garden civilisation was actually overthrown. Adam and Eve carried on in the Garden for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of Eve and the errors of judgement of Adam, they presumed to turn aside from the ordained way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental progression of all Urantia. (From ADAM AND EVE, THE HISTORY OF URANTIA, Paper 74) The hungers of the soul cannot be satisfied with physical pleasures: the love of home and children is not augmented by the unwise pursuit of leisure. Though you exhaust the resources of art, color, sound, rhythm, music and adornment of person, you cannot hope thereby to elevate the soul or nourish the spirit. Vanity and fashion cannot minister to home building and child culture; pride and rivalry are powerless to enhance the survival qualities of succeeding generations. (From MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, THE HISTORY OF URANTIA, Paper 84) The art of snake charming has been handed down from the days of the female shamans of the snake love cult, who, as the result of daily snake bites, became immune, in fact, became genuine venom addicts and could not get along without the poison. (From THE ORIGINS OF WORSHIP, THE HISTORY OF URANTIA, Paper 85) Some persons are too busy to grow and are therefore in grave danger of spiritual fixation. Provision must be made for growth of meanings at different ages, in successive cultures, and in the passing stages f advancing civilisation. The chief inhibitors of growth are prejudice and ignorance. Give every developing child a chance to grow his own religious experience: do not force a ready-made adult experience on him. (From RELIGION IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE, THE HISTORY OF URANTIA, Paper 100) The educational system of this nation is compulsory and coeducational in the precollege schools that the student attends from the ages of five to eighteen. These schools are vastly different from -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 56

58 those on Urantia (earth). There are no classrooms, only one study is pursued at a time, and after the first three years all pupils become assistant teachers, instructing those below them. Books are used only to secure information that will assist in solving the problems arising in the school shops and on the school farms. ( ) Agriculture and horticulture are also taught throughout the entire educational period on the extensive farms adjoining every school. ( ) One quarter of the school time is devoted to play ( ) The chief object of education on this continent is to make every pupil a self-supporting citizen. (From THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, GOVERNMENT ON A NEIGHBOURING PLANET, Paper 72). Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /15/2010 9:08 AM Quoting: UNtypical USer Really? Jesus Christ IS the top of the hierarchy of this universe. But we have failed at bottom up, hugely and the planet faces again, a pole reversal. And that very jesus ordered the temporary salvation of this planet after ww2 because it was going to do an 18 degree axis shift from the negativity and toss man right off. Consider that. Anonymous Coward User ID: /15/2010 9:13 AM Uranatia is great but it was mostly in terms that I couldn't relate to. Ever heard of a book called The Dissapearance of the Universe? A Course in Miracles? Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /15/2010 9:20 AM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 57

59 I have heard of Course in Miracles, it's original conception (has been mucked up a bit) was from Jesus and part of revelation at this time. Work on the terms, they are not that difficult. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /15/2010 9:20 PM I did not delete the question, I answered it. The question is in the post right above my answer. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/15/2010 9:22 PM Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /15/ :18 PM Page 196 "Only a Cod-Knowing individual can love another person as he loves himself." Kan User ID: AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 58

60 Canada 11/16/2010 1:05 AM Quoting: UNtypical USer What good is bottom up responsibility if you have no top down organization to grow into? About as good as having a spiritual hierarchy without somewhere to ground it? Both sides of the coin have merit. At the risk of having this post deleted for being off topic, I'm going to ask anyway: 4 Levels of Collective Consciousness Evolution Individual Reflectivity Collective Force Collective Reflectivity Individual Force Is this concept from UB? Sweet thread too, UB can open many doors of remembering if you allow the concepts described by the language to come to you from within. Thanks Candace. Namaste. MagiChristmas 3*8** User ID: /16/2010 1:13 AM Quoting: Nobody in Particular Is there somewhere in the book where we are instructed to ask God to know if it's true? Please post the passage if it exists. 3*8**.. Last Edited by 3*8** on 11/16/2010 1:15 AM -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 59

61 MagiChristmas 3*8** User ID: /16/2010 2:10 AM Quoting: Nobody in Particular Somewhere there is a disconnect. Hopefully reposting it will get us back on track. Is there somewhere in the book where we are instructed to ask God to know if it's true? Please post the passage if it exists. 3*8**.. Last Edited by 3*8** on 11/16/2010 2:10 AM Anonymous Coward User ID: Brazil 11/16/2010 4:24 AM are interested. Artemis User ID: Portugal 11/16/ :20 AM Creator Sons Michaels P Each Creator Son is the only-begotten and only-begettable offspring of the perfect union of the original concepts of the two infinite and eternal and perfect minds of the ever-existent Creators of the universe of universes. There never can be another such Son because each Creator Son is the unqualified, finished, and final expression and embodiment of all of every phase of every feature of every possibility of every divine reality that could, throughout all eternity, ever be found in, expressed by, or evolved from, those divine creative potentials which united to bring this Michael Son into existence. Each Creator Son is the absolute of the united deity concepts which constitute his divine origin. P When the fullness of absolute spiritual ideation in the Eternal Son encounters the fullness of absolute personality concept in the Universal Father, when such a creative union is -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 60

62 finally and fully attained, when such absolute identity of spirit P and such infinite oneness of personality concept occur, then, right then and there, without the loss of anything of personality or prerogative by either of the infinite Deities, there flashes into full-fledged being a new and original Creator Son, the only-begotten Son of the perfect ideal and the powerful idea whose union produces this new creator personality of power and perfection. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /16/ :23 AM (166.2) 15: The System. The basic unit of the supergovernment consists of about one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds. Blazing suns, cold worlds, planets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suitable for creature habitation are not included in this group. These one thousand worlds adapted to support life are called a system, but in the younger systems only a comparatively small number of these worlds may be inhabited. Each inhabited planet is presided over by a Planetary Prince, and each local system has an architectural sphere as its headquarters and is ruled by a System Sovereign. (166.3) 15: The Constellation. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an architectural headquarters sphere and is presided over by three Vorondadek Sons, the Most Highs. Each constellation also has a Faithful of Days in observation, an ambassador of the Paradise Trinity. This is a portion of a post on page two about the organization of the creation. The system is NOT a solar system. Nor even a collection of solar systems with life bearing planets. But the various inhabited planets do come for a general area that are incorporated into the system. The system could be likened to the as a system having 50 states to govern as an example. The system is the first level of super government, super government meaning of course celestial government. The System government not only governs the inhabited evolutionary spheres but also the architectural worlds in the system. The system is in a sense the first level of what people here think as "heaven". Heaven is truly a state in mind in reality for each individual. And if we could but develop a race that engages in generous introspect as individuals and who then these ones group together to serve the whole, we would create heaven ON earth, which is the goal of getting this planet into light and life. There are many planets with life evolving on them that are not included in the list of "inhabited planets." For a planet to be called "inhabited" it must have evolved the beginnings of God Mind, mind that can make decisions, that is developing "free will" to self determine. This is always when -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 61

63 the first thought adjusters begin to arrive, and that is told in a charming story, for our planet, recounted in Paper 63. This is an easily read paper and a lovely story. Now back to my above quote from the earlier post. The world Constellation is not the same as the word constellations we are taught as to arrangements of stars in our sky, such as the Big Dipper, and Orion with Orion's Belt. The Constellation is a unit of government. If in my example, of the, we might relate to the true world government we will one day build on this planet, that is not the one planned for enslavement by the New World Order. The Constellation is a super government that overseas governments of the systems contained within. The system has it's own headquarters, and so does each constellation. These are the worlds of heaven, to which man on this planet would wish to attain for himself, starting at the bottom run of the ladder, the mansion worlds, which are the lowest rung of the ladder in the system. Heaven is NOT some fluffy place and Eternal life is challenging and must be decided upon by the soul to seek it. The whole purpose of the soul that seeks eternal life is to do the will of the Father, by seeking to become LIKE the Father, having all knowledge which requires a lot of experience to gain. now from the Bible KJV, matthew 5:48 Be ye Therefore Perfect, Even as your Father which is in heaven, is Perfect. And John 10:34 Is is not written in your law, I Said YE ARE GOD's. The Father IS the universal Father, First Source or First Person of the Trinity. You journey, should you choose eternal life thru an amazing series of experiences lasting ages for some, until you arrive on Paradise, the Home of the Father and become One with God. No fluffy clouds. for those who have trashed the idea on GLP that you are NOT God's, will yes you are, God's in training at least, and this is a training world for those already God's and for those that are the God's to come. it is NOT a "new age" false concept, it is REAL. Ye will one day be all sorts of Gods. Some of ye will become even Creator Sons of the new universes forming in outer space. Last Edited by Nobody in Particular on 11/16/ :02 AM Artemis User ID: Portugal 11/16/ :36 AM The Local Universe of Nebadon P Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is the God-man of Nebadon, Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington. And all of Michael's plans for this local universe were fully approved by the Paradise Trinity before he ever embarked upon the supreme adventure of space. P The spiral and other nebulae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are initiated by Paradise force organizers; and following nebular evolution of gravity response, they are superseded in superuniverse function by the power P centers and physical controllers, who thereupon assume full responsibility for directing -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 62

64 the physical evolution of the ensuing generations of stellar and planetary offspring. P Subsequent to the initiation of such nebular revolutions, the living force organizers simply withdraw at right angles to the plane of the revolutionary disk, and from that time forward, the inherent qualities of energy insure the progressive and orderly evolution of such a new physical system. P ,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover system was assuming gigantic proportions, and additional physical controllers were dispatched to nine surrounding material creations to afford support and supply co-operation to the power centers of this new material system which was so rapidly evolving. At this distant date all of the material bequeathed to the subsequent creations was held within the confines of this gigantic space wheel, which continued ever to whirl and, after reaching its maximum of diameter, to whirl faster and faster as it continued to condense and contract. P It was scarcely a million years subsequent to this epoch that Michael of Nebadon, a Creator Son of Paradise, selected this disintegrating nebula as the site of his adventure in universe building. Almost immediately the architectural worlds of Salvington and the one hundred constellation headquarters groups of planets were begun. It required almost one million years to complete these clusters of specially created worlds. The local system headquarters planets were constructed over a period extending from that time to about five billion years ago. P The local universe of Nebadon is now ruled by a Creator Son who has completed his service of bestowal; he reigns in just and merciful supremacy over all the vast realms of his evolving and perfecting universe. Michael of Nebadon is the 611,121st bestowal of the Eternal Son upon the universes of time and space, and he began the organization of your local universe about four hundred billion years ago. Michael made ready for his first bestowal adventure about the time Urantia was taking on its present form, one billion years ago. His bestowals have occurred about one hundred and fifty million years apart, the last taking place on Urantia nineteen hundred years ago. I will now proceed to unfold the nature and character of these bestowals as fully as my commission permits. P It was scarcely a million years subsequent to this epoch that Michael of Nebadon, a Creator Son of Paradise, selected this disintegrating nebula as the site of his adventure in universe building. Almost immediately the architectural worlds of Salvington and the one hundred constellation headquarters groups of planets were begun. It required almost one million years to complete these clusters of specially created worlds. The local system headquarters planets were constructed over a period extending from that time to about five billion years ago. P ,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the progression of contraction and condensation with enormous heat generation in the Andronover central cluster, or nuclear mass. Relative space appeared even in the regions near the central mother-sun wheel. The outer regions were becoming more stabilized and better organized; some planets revolving around the newborn suns had cooled sufficiently to be suitable for life implantation. The oldest inhabited planets of Nebadon date from these times. P The local system headquarters planets were constructed over a period extending from that time [200 billion years ago] to about five billion years ago. P Although Michael's headquarters is officially located on Salvington, the capital of Nebadon, he spends much of his time visiting the constellation and system headquarters and even -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 63

65 the individual planets. Periodically he journeys to Paradise and often to Uversa, where he counsels with the Ancients of Days. When he is away from Salvington, his place is assumed by Gabriel, who then functions as regent of the universe of Nebadon. P The Sons of God previously introduced have had a Paradise origin. They are the offspring of the divine Rulers of the universal domains. Of the first Paradise order of sonship, the Creator Sons, there is in Nebadon only one, Michael, the universe father and sovereign. Of the second order of Paradise sonship, the Avonal or Magisterial Sons, Nebadon has its full quota -- 1,062. And these "lesser Christs" are just as effective and all-powerful in their planetary bestowals as was the Creator and Master Son on Urantia. The third order, being of Trinity origin, do not register in a local universe, but I estimate there are in Nebadon between fifteen and twenty thousand Trinity Teacher Sons exclusive of 9,642 creature-trinitized assistants of record. These Paradise Daynals are neither magistrates nor administrators; they are superteachers. Nobody in Particular (OP) Paradise Citizen attempting to reduce BLING User ID: /16/ :40 AM I have posted a section of Paper 62, the Dawn Races of Early Man here, #5 which introduces the story in Paper 63, The First Human Family, mentioned in my previous post. I have included a couple statements from part 4 which introduce part 5 below. **********************pp And now, after almost nine hundred generations of development, covering about twenty-one thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the Primates suddenly gave birth to two remarkable creatures, the first true human beings. (707.6) 62:4.7 Thus it was that the dawn mammals, springing from the North American lemur type, gave origin to the mid-mammals, and these mid-mammals in turn produced the superior Primates, who became the immediate ancestors of the primitive human race. The Primates tribes were the last vital link in the evolution of man, but in less than five thousand years not a single individual of these extraordinary tribes was left. 5. The First Human Beings (707.7) 62:5.1 From the year A.D back to the birth of the first two human beings is just 993,419 years. (707.8) 62:5.2 These two remarkable creatures were true human beings. They possessed perfect human thumbs, as had many of their ancestors, while they had just as perfect feet as the present- -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 64

66 day human races. They were walkers and runners, not climbers; the grasping function of the big toe was absent, completely absent. When danger drove them to the treetops, they climbed just like the humans of today would. They would climb up the trunk of a tree like a bear and not as would a chimpanzee or a gorilla, swinging up by the branches. (708.1) 62:5.3 These first human beings (and their descendants) reached full maturity at twelve years of age and possessed a potential life span of about seventy-five years. (708.2) 62:5.4 Many new emotions early appeared in these human twins. They experienced admiration for both objects and other beings and exhibited considerable vanity. But the most remarkable advance in emotional development was the sudden appearance of a new group of really human feelings, the worshipful group, embracing awe, reverence, humility, and even a primitive form of gratitude. Fear, joined with ignorance of natural phenomena, is about to give birth to primitive religion. (708.3) 62:5.5 Not only were such human feelings manifested in these primitive humans, but many more highly evolved sentiments were also present in rudimentary form. They were mildly cognizant of pity, shame, and reproach and were acutely conscious of love, hate, and revenge, being also susceptible to marked feelings of jealousy. (708.4) 62:5.6 These first two humans the twins were a great trial to their Primates parents. They were so curious and adventurous that they nearly lost their lives on numerous occasions before they were eight years old. As it was, they were rather well scarred up by the time they were twelve. (708.5) 62:5.7 Very early they learned to engage in verbal communication; by the age of ten they had worked out an improved sign and word language of almost half a hundred ideas and had greatly improved and expanded the crude communicative technique of their ancestors. But try as hard as they might, they were able to teach only a few of their new signs and symbols to their parents. (708.6) 62:5.8 When about nine years of age, they journeyed off down the river one bright day and held a momentous conference. Every celestial intelligence stationed on Urantia, including myself, was present as an observer of the transactions of this noontide tryst. On this eventful day they arrived at an understanding to live with and for each other, and this was the first of a series of such agreements which finally culminated in the decision to flee from their inferior animal associates and to journey northward, little knowing that they were thus to found the human race. (708.7) 62:5.9 While we were all greatly concerned with what these two little savages were planning, we were powerless to control the working of their minds; we did not could not arbitrarily influence their decisions. But within the permissible limits of planetary function, we, the Life Carriers, together with our associates, all conspired to lead the human twins northward and far from their hairy and partially tree-dwelling people. And so, by reason of their own intelligent choice, the twins did migrate, and because of our supervision they migrated northward to a secluded region where they escaped the possibility of biologic degradation through admixture with their inferior relatives of the Primates tribes. (708.8) 62:5.10 Shortly before their departure from the home forests they lost their mother in a gibbon raid. While she did not possess their intelligence, she did have a worthy mammalian affection of a high order for her offspring, and she fearlessly gave her life in the attempt to save the wonderful pair. Nor was her sacrifice in vain, for she held off the enemy until the father arrived with reinforcements and put the invaders to rout. -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 65

67 (709.1) 62:5.11 Soon after this young couple forsook their associates to found the human race, their Primates father became disconsolate he was heartbroken. He refused to eat, even when food was brought to him by his other children. His brilliant offspring having been lost, life did not seem worth living among his ordinary fellows; so he wandered off into the forest, was set upon by hostile gibbons and beaten to death. Artemis User ID: Portugal 11/16/ :41 AM Archangel P Two senior archangels are always assigned as the personal aids of a Paradise Avonal on all planetary missions, whether involving judicial actions, magisterial missions, or bestowal incarnations. When this Paradise Son has finished the judgment of a realm and the dead are called to record (the so-called resurrection), it is literally true that the seraphic guardians of the slumbering personalities respond to "the voice of the archangel." The roll call of a dispensation termination is promulgated by an attendant archangel. This is the archangel of the resurrection, sometimes referred to as the "archangel of Michael." P Archangels are the offspring of the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit. They are the highest type of high spirit being produced in large numbers in a local universe, and at the time of the last registry there were almost eight hundred thousand in Nebadon. P The Worlds of the Archangels. The seventh group of the encircling Salvington worlds, with their associated satellites, is assigned to the archangels. Sphere number one and all of its six tributary satellites are occupied by the personality record keepers. This enormous corps of recorders busy themselves with keeping straight the record of each mortal of time from the moment of birth up through the universe career until such an individual either leaves Salvington for the superuniverse regime or is "blotted out of recorded existence" by the mandate of the Ancients of Days. Artemis User ID: Portugal 11/16/ :51 AM Lucifer Rebellion P Lucifer was a brilliant primary Lanonandek Son of Nebadon. He had experienced service in many systems, had been a high counselor of his group, and was distinguished for wisdom, sagacity, and efficiency. Lucifer was number 37 of his order, and when commissioned by the Melchizedeks, he was designated as one of the one hundred most able and brilliant personalities in more than seven hundred thousand of his kind. From such a magnificent beginning, through evil and error, he embraced sin and now is numbered as one of three System Sovereigns in Nebadon who have succumbed to the urge of self and surrendered to the sophistry of spurious personal liberty--rejection of universe allegiance and disregard of fraternal obligations, blindness to cosmic relationships. P Very little was heard of Lucifer on Urantia owing to the fact that he assigned his first lieutenant, Satan, to advocate his cause on your planet. Satan was a member of the same primary -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 66

68 group of Lanonandeks but had never functioned as a System Sovereign; he entered fully into the Lucifer insurrection. The "devil" is none other than Caligastia, the deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia and a Son of the secondary order of Lanonandeks. At the time Michael was on Urantia in the flesh, Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia were leagued together to effect the miscarriage of his bestowal mission. But they signally failed. P No one ever suggested rebellion to Lucifer. The idea of self-assertion in opposition to the will of Michael and to the plans of the Universal Father, as they are represented in Michael, had its origin in his own mind. His relations with the Creator Son had been intimate and always cordial. At no time prior to the exaltation of his own mind did Lucifer openly express dissatisfaction about the universe administration. Notwithstanding his silence, for more than one hundred years of standard time the Union of Days on Salvington had been reflectivating to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lucifer's mind. This information was also communicated to the Creator Son and the Constellation Fathers of Norlatiadek. P The Lucifer manifesto was issued at the annual conclave of Satania on the sea of glass, in the presence of the assembled hosts of Jerusem, on the last day of the year, about two hundred thousand years ago, Urantia time. Satan proclaimed that worship could be accorded the universal forces--physical, intellectual, and spiritual--but that allegiance could be acknowledged only to the actual and present ruler, Lucifer, the "friend of men and angels" and the "God of liberty." P Gabriel was personally present throughout all these disloyal proceedings and only announced that he would, in due time, speak for Michael, and that all beings would be left free and unmolested in their choice; that the "government of the Sons for the Father desired only that loyalty and devotion which was voluntary, wholehearted, and sophistry-proof." P Since Michael elected to remain aloof from the actual warfare of the Lucifer rebellion, Gabriel called his personal staff together on Edentia and, in counsel with the Most Highs, elected to assume command of the loyal hosts of Satania. Michael remained on Salvington while Gabriel proceeded to Jerusem, and establishing himself on the sphere dedicated to the Father--the same Universal Father whose personality Lucifer and Satan had questioned--in the presence of the forgathered hosts of loyal personalities, he displayed the banner of Michael, the material emblem of the Trinity government of all creation, the three azure blue concentric circles on a white background. P "There was war in heaven; Michael's commander and his angels fought against the dragon (Lucifer, Satan, and the apostate princes); and the dragon and his rebellious angels fought but prevailed not." This "war in heaven" was not a physical battle as such a conflict might be conceived on Urantia. In the early days of the struggle Lucifer held forth continuously in the planetary amphitheater. Gabriel conducted an unceasing exposure of the rebel sophistries from his headquarters taken up near at hand. The various personalities present on the sphere who were in doubt as to their attitude would journey back and forth between these discussions until they arrived at a final decision. P It was over two years of system time from the beginning of the "war in heaven" until the installation of Lucifer's successor. But at last the new Sovereign came, landing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the reserves mobilized on Edentia by Gabriel, and I well remember the first message of Lanaforge to the Constellation Father of Norlatiadek. It read: "Not a single Jerusem citizen was lost. Every ascendant mortal survived the fiery trial and emerged P from the crucial test triumphant and altogether victorious." And on to Salvington, Uversa, and Paradise went this message of assurance that the survival experience of mortal ascension is the greatest security against rebellion and the surest safeguard against sin. This noble Jerusem band -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 67

69 of faithful mortals numbered just 187,432,811. P But these mercy delays are not interminable. Notwithstanding the long delay (as time is reckoned on Urantia) in adjudicating the Lucifer rebellion, we may record that, during the time of effecting this revelation, the first hearing in the pending case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer was held on Uversa, and soon thereafter there issued the mandate of the Ancients of Days directing that Satan be henceforth confined to the prison world with Lucifer. This ends the ability of Satan to pay further visits to any of the fallen worlds of Satania. Justice in a mercy-dominated universe may be slow, but it is certain. West TX User ID: /16/ :38 AM PAPER 47: THE SEVEN MANSION WORLDS pgs :0.1 The Creator Son, when on Urantia, spoke of the " many mansions in the Father's universe. " In a certain sense, all fifty-six of the encircling worlds of Jerusem are devoted to the transitional culture of ascending mortals, but the seven satellites of world number one are more specifically known as the mansion worlds. 47:0.2 Transition world number one itself is quite exclusively devoted to ascendant activities, being the headquarters of the finaliter corps assigned to Satania This world now serves as the headquarters for more than one hundred thousand companies of finaliters, and there are one thousand glorified beings in each of these groups. 47:0.3 When a system is settled in light and life, and as the mansion worlds one by one cease to serve as mortal-training stations, they are taken over by the increasing finaliter population which accumulates in these older and more highly perfected systems. 47:0.4 The seven mansion worlds are in charge of the morontia supervisors and the Melchizedeks. There is an acting governor on each world who is directly responsible to the Jerusem rulers. The Uversa conciliators maintain headquarters on each of the mansion worlds, while adjoining is the local rendezvous of the Technical Advisers. The reversion directors and celestial artisans maintain group headquarters on each of these worlds. The spironga function from mansion world number two onward, while all seven, in common with the other transitionalculture planets and the headquarters world, are abundantly provided with spornagia of standard creation. 47:1 THE FINALITERS' WORLD 47:1.1 Although only finaliters and certain groups of salvaged children and their caretakers are -- AH- Candace GLP #2 -- page. 68