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Discovering the Urantia Book

 
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Now another part of the same UB paper.


1. Jesus — The Man

196:1.1 (2090.2) Jesus’ devotion to the Father’s will and the service of man was even more than mortal decision and human determination; it was a wholehearted consecration of himself to such an unreserved bestowal of love. No matter how great the fact of the sovereignty of Michael, you must not take the human Jesus away from men. The Master has ascended on high as a man, as well as God; he belongs to men; men belong to him. How unfortunate that religion itself should be so misinterpreted as to take the human Jesus away from struggling mortals! Let not the discussions of the humanity or the divinity of the Christ obscure the saving truth that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious man who, by faith, achieved the knowing and the doing of the will of God; he was the most truly religious man who has ever lived on Urantia.

196:1.2 (2090.3) The time is ripe to witness the figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from his burial tomb amidst the theological traditions and the religious dogmas of nineteen centuries. Jesus of Nazareth must not be longer sacrificed to even the splendid concept of the glorified Christ. What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, the Son of Man should be recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be presented as the living Jesus to the church that bears his name, and to all other religions! Surely the Christian fellowship of believers will not hesitate to make such adjustments of faith and of practices of living as will enable it to “follow after” the Master in the demonstration of his real life of religious devotion to the doing of his Father’s will and of consecration to the unselfish service of man. Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus.

196:1.3 (2090.4) To “follow Jesus” means to personally share his religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master’s life of unselfish service for man. One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.

196:1.4 (2090.5) The common people heard Jesus gladly, and they will again respond to the presentation of his sincere human life of consecrated religious motivation if such truths shall again be proclaimed to the world. The people heard him gladly because he was one of them, an unpretentious layman; the world’s greatest religious teacher was indeed a layman.

196:1.5 (2091.1) It should not be the aim of kingdom believers literally to imitate the outward life of Jesus in the flesh but rather to share his faith; to trust God as he trusted God and to believe in men as he believed in men. Jesus never argued about either the fatherhood of God or the brotherhood of men; he was a living illustration of the one and a profound demonstration of the other.

196:1.6 (2091.2) Just as men must progress from the consciousness of the human to the realization of the divine, so did Jesus ascend from the nature of man to the consciousness of the nature of God. And the Master made this great ascent from the human to the divine by the conjoint achievement of the faith of his mortal intellect and the acts of his indwelling Adjuster. The fact-realization of the attainment of totality of divinity (all the while fully conscious of the reality of humanity) was attended by seven stages of faith consciousness of progressive divinization. These stages of progressive self-realization were marked off by the following extraordinary events in the Master’s bestowal experience:

196:1.7 (2091.3) 1. The arrival of the Thought Adjuster.

196:1.8 (2091.4) 2. The messenger of Immanuel who appeared to him at Jerusalem when he was about twelve years old.

196:1.9 (2091.5) 3. The manifestations attendant upon his baptism.

196:1.10 (2091.6) 4. The experiences on the Mount of Transfiguration.

196:1.11 (2091.7) 5. The morontia resurrection.

196:1.12 (2091.8) 6. The spirit ascension.

196:1.13 (2091.9) 7. The final embrace of the Paradise Father, conferring unlimited sovereignty of his universe.

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now last of paper 196. Reading the whole paper is very instructive on the nature of religion and the nature of jesus.


3. The Supremacy of Religion

196:3.1 (2093.6) Personal, spiritual religious experience is an efficient solvent for most mortal difficulties; it is an effective sorter, evaluator, and adjuster of all human problems. Religion does not remove or destroy human troubles, but it does dissolve, absorb, illuminate, and transcend them. True religion unifies the personality for effective adjustment to all mortal requirements. Religious faith — the positive leading of the indwelling divine presence — unfailingly enables the God-knowing man to bridge that gulf existing between the intellectual logic which recognizes the Universal First Cause as It and those positive affirmations of the soul which aver this First Cause is He, the heavenly Father of Jesus’ gospel, the personal God of human salvation.

196:3.2 (2094.1) There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith — physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value.

196:3.3 (2094.2) The progressive comprehension of reality is the equivalent of approaching God. The finding of God, the consciousness of identity with reality, is the equivalent of the experiencing of self-completion — self-entirety, self-totality. The experiencing of total reality is the full realization of God, the finality of the God-knowing experience.

196:3.4 (2094.3) The full summation of human life is the knowledge that man is educated by fact, ennobled by wisdom, and saved — justified — by religious faith.

196:3.5 (2094.4) Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience.

196:3.6 (2094.5) The mind of man can attain high levels of spiritual insight and corresponding spheres of divinity of values because it is not wholly material. There is a spirit nucleus in the mind of man — the Adjuster of the divine presence. There are three separate evidences of this spirit indwelling of the human mind:

196:3.7 (2094.6) 1. Humanitarian fellowship — love. The purely animal mind may be gregarious for self-protection, but only the spirit-indwelt intellect is unselfishly altruistic and unconditionally loving.

196:3.8 (2094.7) 2. Interpretation of the universe — wisdom. Only the spirit-indwelt mind can comprehend that the universe is friendly to the individual.

196:3.9 (2094.8) 3. Spiritual evaluation of life — worship. Only the spirit-indwelt man can realize the divine presence and seek to attain a fuller experience in and with this foretaste of divinity.

196:3.10 (2094.9) The human mind does not create real values; human experience does not yield universe insight. Concerning insight, the recognition of moral values and the discernment of spiritual meanings, all that the human mind can do is to discover, recognize, interpret, and choose.

196:3.11 (2094.10) The moral values of the universe become intellectual possessions by the exercise of the three basic judgments, or choices, of the mortal mind:

196:3.12 (2094.11) 1. Self-judgment — moral choice.

196:3.13 (2094.12) 2. Social-judgment — ethical choice.

196:3.14 (2094.13) 3. God-judgment — religious choice.

196:3.15 (2094.14) Thus it appears that all human progress is effected by a technique of conjoint revelational evolution.

196:3.16 (2094.15) Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love. Unless an interpreter lived in the mind, man could not truly realize the unity of the universe. Unless an evaluator dwelt with man, he could not possibly appraise moral values and recognize spiritual meanings. And this lover hails from the very source of infinite love; this interpreter is a part of Universal Unity; this evaluator is the child of the Center and Source of all absolute values of divine and eternal reality.

196:3.17 (2095.1) Moral evaluation with a religious meaning — spiritual insight — connotes the individual’s choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity. Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the choosing of those values selected by this spirit-value sorter — the indwelling interpreter and unifier. Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and revelation by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and attain the divine revelation. But such attitudes of spiritual nonprogression cannot long persist because of the presence and influence of the indwelling Thought Adjusters.

196:3.18 (2095.2) This profound experience of the reality of the divine indwelling forever transcends the crude materialistic technique of the physical sciences. You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope; you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate the quality of spiritual worship.

196:3.19 (2095.3) The Hebrews had a religion of moral sublimity; the Greeks evolved a religion of beauty; Paul and his conferees founded a religion of faith, hope, and charity. Jesus revealed and exemplified a religion of love: security in the Father’s love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing this love in the service of the human brotherhood.

196:3.20 (2095.4) Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul. Moral choosing constitutes religion as the motive of inner response to outer conditions. But such a real religion is not a purely subjective experience. It signifies the whole of the subjectivity of the individual engaged in a meaningful and intelligent response to total objectivity — the universe and its Maker.

196:3.21 (2095.5) The exquisite and transcendent experience of loving and being loved is not just a psychic illusion because it is so purely subjective. The one truly divine and objective reality that is associated with mortal beings, the Thought Adjuster, functions to human observation apparently as an exclusively subjective phenomenon. Man’s contact with the highest objective reality, God, is only through the purely subjective experience of knowing him, of worshiping him, of realizing sonship with him.

196:3.22 (2095.6) True religious worship is not a futile monologue of self-deception. Worship is a personal communion with that which is divinely real, with that which is the very source of reality. Man aspires by worship to be better and thereby eventually attains the best.

196:3.23 (2095.7) The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness is not a substitute for genuine religious experience — spiritual reality. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality. The projections of the human intellect may indeed originate false gods — gods in man’s image — but the true God-consciousness does not have such an origin. The God-consciousness is resident in the indwelling spirit. Many of the religious systems of man come from the formulations of the human intellect, but the God-consciousness is not necessarily a part of these grotesque systems of religious slavery.

196:3.24 (2095.8) God is not the mere invention of man’s idealism; he is the very source of all such superanimal insights and values. God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived. The truth, beauty, and goodness of man’s world are unified by the increasing spirituality of the experience of mortals ascending toward Paradise realities. The unity of truth, beauty, and goodness can only be realized in the spiritual experience of the God-knowing personality.

196:3.25 (2096.1) Morality is the essential pre-existent soil of personal God-consciousness, the personal realization of the Adjuster’s inner presence, but such morality is not the source of religious experience and the resultant spiritual insight. The moral nature is superanimal but subspiritual. Morality is equivalent to the recognition of duty, the realization of the existence of right and wrong. The moral zone intervenes between the animal and the human types of mind as morontia functions between the material and the spiritual spheres of personality attainment.

196:3.26 (2096.2) The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God.

196:3.27 (2096.3) Morality is not necessarily spiritual; it may be wholly and purely human, albeit real religion enhances all moral values, makes them more meaningful. Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves.

196:3.28 (2096.4) Religion stands above science, art, philosophy, ethics, and morals, but not independent of them. They are all indissolubly interrelated in human experience, personal and social. Religion is man’s supreme experience in the mortal nature, but finite language makes it forever impossible for theology ever adequately to depict real religious experience.

196:3.29 (2096.5) Religious insight possesses the power of turning defeat into higher desires and new determinations. Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception. Love must always be redefined on successive levels of morontia and spirit progression.

196:3.30 (2096.6) Art results from man’s attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level. Science is man’s effort to solve the apparent riddles of the material universe. Philosophy is man’s attempt at the unification of human experience. Religion is man’s supreme gesture, his magnificent reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him.

196:3.31 (2096.7) In the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential reality. Man’s forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man’s universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.

196:3.32 (2096.8) 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.

196:3.33 (2097.1) Be not discouraged; human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail.

196:3.34 (2097.2) The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness — contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Such spirit-consciousness is the equivalent of the knowledge of the actuality of sonship with God. Otherwise, the assurance of sonship is the experience of faith.

196:3.35 (2097.3) And God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience. If man does not choose to survive, then does the surviving Adjuster conserve those realities born of love and nurtured in service. And all these things are a part of the Universal Father. The Father is living love, and this life of the Father is in his Sons. And the spirit of the Father is in his Sons’ sons — mortal men. When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God. *

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Paper 3 I remind any Christian visitors to this thread that Jesus is the CREATOR SON of this local universe. You have your origin in this sector thru him and the Creative Spirit. This is the WHY behind you cannot reach the Father except by going thru HIS SYSTEM. You cannot skip around it. It has nothing to do with the churches being special as our Creator son did NOT make them. Our Creator Son is however the FATHER of Nebadon and the Son by the way as to Trinity.

The Attributes of God

3:0.1 (44.1) GOD is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity. But he rules in the local universes in the persons of his Paradise Creator Sons, even as he bestows life through these Sons. “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Sons.” These Creator Sons of God are the personal expression of himself in the sectors of time and to the children of the whirling planets of the evolving universes of space.

3:0.2 (44.2) The highly personalized Sons of God are clearly discernible by the lower orders of created intelligences, and so do they compensate for the invisibility of the infinite and therefore less discernible Father. The Paradise Creator Sons of the Universal Father are a revelation of an otherwise invisible being, invisible because of the absoluteness and infinity inherent in the circle of eternity and in the personalities of the Paradise Deities.

3:0.3 (44.3) Creatorship is hardly an attribute of God; it is rather the aggregate of his acting nature. And this universal function of creatorship is eternally manifested as it is conditioned and controlled by all the co-ordinated attributes of the infinite and divine reality of the First Source and Center. We sincerely doubt whether any one characteristic of the divine nature can be regarded as being antecedent to the others, but if such were the case, then the creatorship nature of Deity would take precedence over all other natures, activities, and attributes. And the creatorship of Deity culminates in the universal truth of the Fatherhood of God.

1. God’s Everywhereness

3:1.1 (44.4) The ability of the Universal Father to be everywhere present, and at the same time, constitutes his omnipresence. God alone can be in two places, in numberless places, at the same time. God is simultaneously present “in heaven above and on the earth beneath”; as the Psalmist exclaimed: “Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence?”

3:1.2 (44.5) “‘I am a God at hand as well as afar off,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’The Universal Father is all the time present in all parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is “the fullness of him who fills all and in all,” and “who works all in all,” and further, the concept of his personality is such that “the heaven (universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes) cannot contain him.” It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of the infinity of God.

3:1.3 (45.1) The Father’s presence unceasingly patrols the master universe. “His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it; and there is nothing hidden from the light thereof.”

3:1.4 (45.2) The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. “We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man’s inseparable companion.” “He is the ever-present and all-pervading God.” “The spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child.” “Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” “The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.” “The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny.”

3:1.5 (45.3) Truly of the human race has it been said, “You are of God” because “he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration.

3:1.6 (45.4) The omnipresence of God is in reality a part of his infinite nature; space constitutes no barrier to Deity. God is, in perfection and without limitation, discernibly present only on Paradise and in the central universe. He is not thus observably present in the creations encircling Havona, for God has limited his direct and actual presence in recognition of the sovereignty and the divine prerogatives of the co-ordinate creators and rulers of the universes of time and space. Hence must the concept of the divine presence allow for a wide range of both mode and channel of manifestation embracing the presence circuits of the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and the Isle of Paradise. Nor is it always possible to distinguish between the presence of the Universal Father and the actions of his eternal co-ordinates and agencies, so perfectly do they fulfill all the infinite requirements of his unchanging purpose. But not so with the personality circuit and the Adjusters; here God acts uniquely, directly, and exclusively.

3:1.7 (45.5) The Universal Controller is potentially present in the gravity circuits of the Isle of Paradise in all parts of the universe at all times and in the same degree, in accordance with the mass, in response to the physical demands for this presence, and because of the inherent nature of all creation which causes all things to adhere and consist in him. Likewise is the First Source and Center potentially present in the Unqualified Absolute, the repository of the uncreated universes of the eternal future. God thus potentially pervades the physical universes of the past, present, and future. He is the primordial foundation of the coherence of the so-called material creation. This nonspiritual Deity potential becomes actual here and there throughout the level of physical existences by the inexplicable intrusion of some one of his exclusive agencies upon the stage of universe action.

3:1.8 (45.6) The mind presence of God is correlated with the absolute mind of the Conjoint Actor, the Infinite Spirit, but in the finite creations it is better discerned in the everywhere functioning of the cosmic mind of the Paradise Master Spirits. Just as the First Source and Center is potentially present in the mind circuits of the Conjoint Actor, so is he potentially present in the tensions of the Universal Absolute. But mind of the human order is a bestowal of the Daughters of the Conjoint Actor, the Divine Ministers of the evolving universes.

3:1.9 (46.1) The everywhere-present spirit of the Universal Father is co-ordinated with the function of the universal spirit presence of the Eternal Son and the everlasting divine potential of the Deity Absolute. But neither the spiritual activity of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons nor the mind bestowals of the Infinite Spirit seem to exclude the direct action of the Thought Adjusters, the indwelling fragments of God, in the hearts of his creature children.

3:1.10 (46.2) Concerning God’s presence in a planet, system, constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any creational unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being: It is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are in a certain sense quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. And all this, as it operates on Urantia, is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as possible, from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority. ( and lately we seem to have a greater "minority" thru the use of controlling religions.-C)

3:1.11 (46.3) While the Father parentally encircuits all his sons — all personalities — his influence in them is limited by the remoteness of their origin from the Second and the Third Persons of Deity and augmented as their destiny attainment nears such levels. The fact of God’s presence in creature minds is determined by whether or not they are indwelt by Father fragments, such as the Mystery Monitors, but his effective presence is determined by the degree of co-operation accorded these indwelling Adjusters by the minds of their sojourn.

3:1.12 (46.4) The fluctuations of the Father’s presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because he has been slighted; his affections are not alienated because of the creature’s wrongdoing. Rather, having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning Himself), his children, in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations of the Father’s divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is no respecter of persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of time he confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes. *
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Bestowal of the Spirit of Truth

194:0.1 (2059.1) ABOUT one o’clock, as the one hundred and twenty believers were engaged in prayer, they all became aware of a strange presence in the room. At the same time these disciples all became conscious of a new and profound sense of spiritual joy, security, and confidence. This new consciousness of spiritual strength was immediately followed by a strong urge to go out and publicly proclaim the gospel of the kingdom and the good news that Jesus had risen from the dead.

194:0.2 (2059.2) Peter stood up and declared that this must be the coming of the Spirit of Truth which the Master had promised them and proposed that they go to the temple and begin the proclamation of the good news committed to their hands. And they did just what Peter suggested.

194:0.3 (2059.3) These men had been trained and instructed that the gospel which they should preach was the fatherhood of God and the sonship of man, but at just this moment of spiritual ecstasy and personal triumph, the best tidings, the greatest news, these men could think of was the fact of the risen Master. And so they went forth, endowed with power from on high, preaching glad tidings to the people — even salvation through Jesus — but they unintentionally stumbled into the error of substituting some of the facts associated with the gospel for the gospel message itself. Peter unwittingly led off in this mistake, and others followed after him on down to Paul, who created a new religion out of the new version of the good news.

194:0.4 (2059.4) The gospel of the kingdom is: the fact of the fatherhood of God, coupled with the resultant truth of the sonship-brotherhood of men. Christianity, as it developed from that day, is: the fact of God as the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, in association with the experience of believer-fellowship with the risen and glorified Christ.

194:0.5 (2059.5) It is not strange that these spirit-infused men should have seized upon this opportunity to express their feelings of triumph over the forces which had sought to destroy their Master and end the influence of his teachings. At such a time as this it was easier to remember their personal association with Jesus and to be thrilled with the assurance that the Master still lived, that their friendship had not ended, and that the spirit had indeed come upon them even as he had promised.

194:0.6 (2059.6) These believers felt themselves suddenly translated into another world, a new existence of joy, power, and glory. The Master had told them the kingdom would come with power, and some of them thought they were beginning to discern what he meant.

194:0.7 (2059.7) And when all of this is taken into consideration, it is not difficult to understand how these men came to preach a new gospel about Jesus in the place of their former message of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men.
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Have a blessed Easter everyonehf

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"To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such manner as to enhance the values of the future." The Urantia Book
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“If someone* irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.” Paper 100, The Urantia Book
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“If someone* irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.” Paper 100, The Urantia Book
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It also shows where one-self is lacking sometimes.A look into the mirror I call it.

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Its time to reactivate my olden thread.

I have posted a lot the last 3 to 4 days.. here you go.. start here maybe.. You ones need the information in the Urantia Book some of which is scattered in my old thread.
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Ok In the last few days I have covered something of the Sons of God.

I am posting simply extracts from this paper of the Urantia Book to start.
I may go to some of the threads I posted in where I can show the teaching in the Urantia Book that corresponds to my posts.

I may review some posts in this thread and bump them forward. The EARTH HUMAN IS GOING TO CONCEPT AS that Planet makes her ascension ... his sonship with God the Father. And he is going to concept something of the HUGE CREATION...This is NOT God's only planet with God's only son and you have been not only deceived.. but have had your HERITAGE STOLEN FROM YOU BY EVERY ONE OF YOUR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. The dark ones IN ROME have corrupted almost everything Jesus taught when here and has taught since his return in 1954. And yes there will be the BIG return that will be noticed by the whole world... when the MILLENNIAL REIGN begins.


OK... now to copy paste.

The Urantia Book

Paper 22

The Trinitized Sons of God

22:0.1 (243.1) THERE are three groups of beings who are called Sons of God. In addition to descending and ascending orders of sonship there is a third group known as the Trinitized Sons of God

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The DESCENDING SONS are the angelic sons in essense.. but way beyond the simple concept of angels on this world.

The ASCENDING SONS are the HUMAN BEINGS and some of the angels such as the Seraphim which can also make an ascension to Paradise. I will cover my own angel here in a later post.. or maybe I will one already done... She is here with ME at this time.

The Trinitized Sons are Ascending Son who have been Trinitized after reaching Paradise. I AM ONE OF THESE. I there fore know my shit.. OK. BEEN THERE and DONE THAT.

1. The Trinity-Embraced Sons

22:1.1 (243.6) All Trinity-embraced sons are originally of dual or single origin, but subsequent to the Trinity embrace they are forever devoted to Trinity service and assignment. This corps, as revealed and as organized for superuniverse service, embraces seven orders of personalities:

22:1.2 (243.7) 1. Mighty Messengers.

22:1.3 (243.8) 2. Those High in Authority.

22:1.4 (243.9) 3. Those without Name and Number.

22:1.5 (243.10) 4. Trinitized Custodians.

22:1.6 (243.11) 5. Trinitized Ambassadors.

22:1.7 (243.12) 6. Celestial Guardians.

22:1.8 (243.13) 7. High Son Assistants.



I will not cover all of these. I AM A MIGHTY MESSENGER. You can read about my order in the very paper I am quoting from if interested.

The other one I will cover is Trinitized Custodians who are descendant angels in the lower universal ranks such as Seraphin who have taken the journey to Paradise.

I am accompanied here by my DESTINY GUARDIAN.. who is my personal guardian angel since my very early days of my beginning creation. Her Name is ANDREA. She is aboard ship and assists me in various ways.

Every one of you that are HUMAN in origin that reaches 5d consciousness is assigned a permanent Guardian Angel...Your Destiny Guardian. Me and Andrea have been together for many many millions of years.

So this covers in a basic way the 3 general groups of the Sons of God.

I am on duty on this planet to serve during the millennial Reign of Christ Jesus. He is returned since 1954 and has been with helpers preparing this planet for that.
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From Paper #1 Pages 25 and 26.


3. 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.

(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.
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for those under Christian mind control about the nature of the Father.
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"To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such manner as to enhance the values of the future." The Urantia Book
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For those who deny the need to grow their maturity which will help develop overall a better future for this world.

If this world were going to be "destroyed".. there would have been no point in a large number of celestial beings providing the finest spiritual information ever given to this sorry prison ward. It would have been pointless also for those incarnate here who the thing published.
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To the red thumb person.. my name never was Candance and my dancing is awful.. I just groove to the music.

I AM KAN DAEK.. that is my celestial name.. It is Candace SPELLED RIGHT.
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for those under Christian mind control about the nature of the Father.
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Those who push craprantia book are under the mind control of their father....satan of nebadon.
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KAN .DAEK: I am going to add small details in this.. in BLUE Italics.

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 creation.

(Our local universe earth is in.. is Nebadon...which was initiated about 1 Trillion years ago. Currently there are about 3.8 MILLION planets in Nebadon which have evolved INTELLIGENT HUMAN LIFE. Eventually there will potentially be 10 million )


(166.1) 15:2.2 There are seven superuniverses in the grand universe, and they are constituted approximately as follows:

(166.2) 15:2.3 1. 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.

(Our planet is in) the system called SATANIA nothing related to "satan". There are over 600 planets with intelligent life. At one point.. Lucifer was the system head of Satania until he blew it off. Our planet was governed by Caligastia... the fallen PRINCE.. The Prince of this world was Him and not "Satan". Satan merely served Lucifer. Architectural worlds are HEAVEN Worlds.. and are constructed on purpose. They are quite real. Our headquarters of Satania is called JERUSEM. With the default of Lucifer.. another System head was appointed.. named Lanaforge. )


(166.3) 15:2.4 2. 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. (The most High's are "governors" so to speak.. as are of course the system heads. The entire creation is governed by Celestial Beings. These can include the very advanced Human origin Sons of God in some cases. Our Michael..(Jesus) has some human origin system heads .. I think 2 in Nebadon.. See systems above. Our Constellation we belong to is called Norlatiadek. )


(166.4) 15:2.5 3. 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.

(Our Local universe again is Nebadon.. and our MIchael is Christ Michael Aton.. who incarnated here as Jesus 2000 years ago. This does not mention the Holy Spirit.. Mother Spirit his consort of Nebadon.. we call her Nebadonia.)

(166.5) 15:2.6 4. 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) 15:2.7 5. 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) 15:2.8 6. 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.

(One of those 3 Ancients of Days has a personal interest in our world. His name is Mantustia and I know and serve him personally)



(166.8) 15:2.9 7. 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. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(167.3) 15:2.12 Major sectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
(167.4) 15:2.13 Minor sectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 7,000
(167.5) 15:2.14 Local universes . . . . . . . . . 700,000
(167.6) 15:2.15 Constellations . . . . . . . . .70,000,000
(167.7) 15:2.16 Local systems. . . . . . . . 7,000,000,000
(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. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 worlds
(167.11) 15:2.20 One constellation (100 systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000 worlds
(167.12) 15:2.21 One universe (100 constellations) . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000,000 worlds
(167.13) 15:2.22 One minor sector (100 universes) . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000,000 worlds
(167.14) 15:2.23 One major sector (100 minor sectors) . . . . 100,000,000,000 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.
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I did not delete the question, I answered it. The question is in the post right above my answer.
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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.


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Old post but I need to put it back up. IT IS WITHIN ALL OF YOU TO KNOW IF SOMETHING IS TRUTH OR NOT.. YOU ASK YOUR INNER GOD not the fellow in the sky that is fake... in a state of quiet. There is a cosmic rule.. ASK AND IT SHALL BE ANSWERED UNTO YOU.. Give that a chance... and don't block it. Learn to relax your mind into a meditative state...Read tings in that state where possible. Sometimes Inner Father will send a warm hug down your spine if something bears truth. You can ask inner Father for a particular signal you will recognize.

God is reall but indwells Human beings.. he never went to the mountain to give Moses the commandments.. that stuff is always done by Human beings... In the case of Moses.. Humans from the Planet Jehovah gave the commandments using lasers on the tablets. Two tablets were lost ... so 10 of them are missing... These same people frided Sodom and Gomorah too .

There was no burning bush on that mountain.. fairy tale put into the bible.. Moses knew what he saw.. it was not hidden to him. Craft do have energy systems.. not burning bushes.

Now on Ask and it shalll be answered... the answer will vary depending on your spiitual maturity and there are some things planets cannot have because of destructive beings on them.. but generally you will get what you need.

I used to get urges to go to the book store... and then the book I needed to read.. would come partially off the shelf.. courtesy of an angel.

Some times you will just open a book that has appearl and there will be your answer

sometimes it will be a movie. I wanted to know something of a past life on this world... and I was urged to go to the DVD store.. do we still have those.. I don't know.. but the movie I needed was there and while it wasn't my own past life.. it was the story of some free blacks in new orleans... I have been part of such a community once.

There are many ways your answers will come.... learn trust.. there is too much "demon" crap in religion. Some reject the warm signals up and down the spine.. complaining those are demons.. we had somebody on GLP once big on that one. If its warm and loving.. its not demons.. they are COLD.

Best of luck to anyone reading this today .... years later. I didn't check to see what I may have answered back then as "nobody in particular"... my user name at that time.
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Now another part of the same UB paper.


1. Jesus — The Man

196:1.1 (2090.2) Jesus’ devotion to the Father’s will and the service of man was even more than mortal decision and human determination; it was a wholehearted consecration of himself to such an unreserved bestowal of love. No matter how great the fact of the sovereignty of Michael, you must not take the human Jesus away from men. The Master has ascended on high as a man, as well as God; he belongs to men; men belong to him. How unfortunate that religion itself should be so misinterpreted as to take the human Jesus away from struggling mortals! Let not the discussions of the humanity or the divinity of the Christ obscure the saving truth that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious man who, by faith, achieved the knowing and the doing of the will of God; he was the most truly religious man who has ever lived on Urantia.

196:1.2 (2090.3) The time is ripe to witness the figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from his burial tomb amidst the theological traditions and the religious dogmas of nineteen centuries. Jesus of Nazareth must not be longer sacrificed to even the splendid concept of the glorified Christ. What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, the Son of Man should be recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be presented as the living Jesus to the church that bears his name, and to all other religions! Surely the Christian fellowship of believers will not hesitate to make such adjustments of faith and of practices of living as will enable it to “follow after” the Master in the demonstration of his real life of religious devotion to the doing of his Father’s will and of consecration to the unselfish service of man. Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus.

196:1.3 (2090.4) To “follow Jesus” means to personally share his religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master’s life of unselfish service for man. One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.

196:1.4 (2090.5) The common people heard Jesus gladly, and they will again respond to the presentation of his sincere human life of consecrated religious motivation if such truths shall again be proclaimed to the world. The people heard him gladly because he was one of them, an unpretentious layman; the world’s greatest religious teacher was indeed a layman.

196:1.5 (2091.1) It should not be the aim of kingdom believers literally to imitate the outward life of Jesus in the flesh but rather to share his faith; to trust God as he trusted God and to believe in men as he believed in men. Jesus never argued about either the fatherhood of God or the brotherhood of men; he was a living illustration of the one and a profound demonstration of the other.

196:1.6 (2091.2) Just as men must progress from the consciousness of the human to the realization of the divine, so did Jesus ascend from the nature of man to the consciousness of the nature of God. And the Master made this great ascent from the human to the divine by the conjoint achievement of the faith of his mortal intellect and the acts of his indwelling Adjuster. The fact-realization of the attainment of totality of divinity (all the while fully conscious of the reality of humanity) was attended by seven stages of faith consciousness of progressive divinization. These stages of progressive self-realization were marked off by the following extraordinary events in the Master’s bestowal experience:

196:1.7 (2091.3) 1. The arrival of the Thought Adjuster.

196:1.8 (2091.4) 2. The messenger of Immanuel who appeared to him at Jerusalem when he was about twelve years old.

196:1.9 (2091.5) 3. The manifestations attendant upon his baptism.

196:1.10 (2091.6) 4. The experiences on the Mount of Transfiguration.

196:1.11 (2091.7) 5. The morontia resurrection.

196:1.12 (2091.8) 6. The spirit ascension.

196:1.13 (2091.9) 7. The final embrace of the Paradise Father, conferring unlimited sovereignty of his universe.

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Nice one worth repeating. KAN DAEK. Jesus demonstrated the travel of men to paradise. What this means.. as that when humans reach Paradise.... They all sit at the right hand of the Father... Take the old man in the sky and let him go.. that is not the Father. hf
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Old post but I need to put it back up. IT IS WITHIN ALL OF YOU TO KNOW IF SOMETHING IS TRUTH OR NOT.. YOU ASK YOUR INNER GOD not the fellow in the sky that is fake... in a state of quiet. There is a cosmic rule.. ASK AND IT SHALL BE ANSWERED UNTO YOU.. Give that a chance... and don't block it. Learn to relax your mind into a meditative state...Read tings in that state where possible. Sometimes Inner Father will send a warm hug down your spine if something bears truth. You can ask inner Father for a particular signal you will recognize.

God is reall but indwells Human beings.. he never went to the mountain to give Moses the commandments.. that stuff is always done by Human beings... In the case of Moses.. Humans from the Planet Jehovah gave the commandments using lasers on the tablets. Two tablets were lost ... so 10 of them are missing... These same people frided Sodom and Gomorah too .

There was no burning bush on that mountain.. fairy tale put into the bible.. Moses knew what he saw.. it was not hidden to him. Craft do have energy systems.. not burning bushes.

Now on Ask and it shalll be answered... the answer will vary depending on your spiitual maturity and there are some things planets cannot have because of destructive beings on them.. but generally you will get what you need.

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NOPE.

Craprantia book is satanic, new-age, deception.

there is no planet jehovah, no spaceships and no lasers. and no there are only 10 commandments.

the only fairytales are those told in craprantia book.

The bible is the word of GOD
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Problem is Nobody in Particular, you don't believe in the UB either as you think Jesus died in India. You have many beliefs contrary to what the UB teaches.
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Problem is the UB does not tell the whole story. Michael of Nebadon LEFT, the BODY did not die and Esu continued to India. At the time of the material being given, this was NOT TO BE KNOWN because they murder people, dig up sites and destroy information. This was revealed in the 1960' when A priest was taken to the old grave to get the materials scribed by Judas, who also was not the betrayer, that Esu's son Joseph took to the old grave after Esu did pass in India.

You cannot give pearls to THUGS and sadly the priest and all his known family were murdered, but some of the material found was translated into German from the Aramaic by Billy Meier. And then into English by another from the German. It is also covered in PJ #2

I don't "believe" in the UB, I KNOW WHAT IS IT and far more about it than even its readers believe. it is a masterpiece of information for this sad little world. Even if they did have to withhold some pearls. Michael of Nebadon himself is the main author of the Phoenix Journals with Esu and others taking lesser roles. And If I have a "belief" I will state such, because a belief is not knowing. Its is something suspected to be true. The incarnation of Michael was shared with Esu Immanuel and I have taught that here until I could gag almost.

You can read PJ #2 here, And they Called His Name Sananda, which is done mostly by Esu and Judas. [link to www.freewebs.com] click on PJ #2 to download it and also I highly recommend you read #3.

Here is the linky to The Talmud of Immanuel, the english translation of the German translation of the Aramaic of the scrolls Joseph Esu's son returned to the olden grave. [link to fourwinds10.com]

Now and I wish I had put a BIG X on the page, the UB does one time mention there was another as part of the incarnation. But they state they don't know what happened to him.

I am in partnership with Christ Michael, and Esu. We have formed the 2nd Coming Organization and my team puts out what they want put out. So be it. And the story of the shared incarnation is accurate. Actually a creator son cannot be incarnate in a matter body, there was a linkage. All spirit beings can set up a brain connection and view the world thru the eyes of the human brain, and experience the thoughts and emotions. Michael accompained Esu ore accurately in this manner but that said Esu is a spirit being from Paradise also, having earned it over his long ascension, so he was never "in" the body either. The body was shared . I am not "in" my body either. I cannot be as Spirit being either, if I moved into this body, it would immediately be incinerated and rather useless then.
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This is one of my older teaching posts in this thread. It needs repeating...
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Paper 123 page 1359 and 1360.

3. 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 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.
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this is a nice example of all children on this world... Jesus experiences in his young days MINUS his memory pretty much.
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this is a nice example of all children on this world... Jesus experiences in his young days MINUS his memory pretty much.

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NOPE.

Jesus is the only begotten son of GOD.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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I will not cover all of these. I AM A MIGHTY MESSENGER. You can read about my order in the very paper I am quoting from if interested.

The other one I will cover is Trinitized Custodians who are descendant angels in the lower universal ranks such as Seraphin who have taken the journey to Paradise.

I am accompanied here by my DESTINY GUARDIAN.. who is my personal guardian angel since my very early days of my beginning creation. Her Name is ANDREA. She is aboard ship and assists me in various ways.

Every one of you that are HUMAN in origin that reaches 5d consciousness is assigned a permanent Guardian Angel...Your Destiny Guardian. Me and Andrea have been together for many many millions of years.

So this covers in a basic way the 3 general groups of the Sons of God.

I am on duty on this planet to serve during the millennial Reign of Christ Jesus. He is returned since 1954 and has been with helpers preparing this planet for that.
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How do you interpret this? Are the seasons literal or just a way of expressing the stages of our current world?

P1915:3, 176:2.6 "And now concerning the travail of Jerusalem, about which I have spoken to you, even this generation will not pass away until my words are fulfilled; but concerning the times of the coming again of the Son of Man, no one in heaven or on earth may presume to speak. But you should be wise regarding the ripening of an age; you should be alert to discern the signs of the times. You know when the fig tree shows its tender branches and puts forth its leaves that summer is near. Likewise, when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near.
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How do you interpret this? Are the seasons literal or just a way of expressing the stages of our current world?

P1915:3, 176:2.6 "And now concerning the travail of Jerusalem, about which I have spoken to you, even this generation will not pass away until my words are fulfilled; but concerning the times of the coming again of the Son of Man, no one in heaven or on earth may presume to speak. But you should be wise regarding the ripening of an age; you should be alert to discern the signs of the times. You know when the fig tree shows its tender branches and puts forth its leaves that summer is near. Likewise, when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near.
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all evolution is in stages on any evolutionary world. Some of that timing is determined by cosmic energy fields a planet rotates into... and we are in 6 of them.. but teach only 3. The cosmos as "god" has a lot to do with evolution. The whole thing is HOLY F ROM THE BEGINNING although there is no way to date any beginning.

As to seasons.. that is an expression not relating to spring.. fall and such. Just timing for when things are right. Humans evolve individually during the early stages on any planet and as they come to cosmic and god knowing of actual HOW IT IS.. there begins to form a unity of knowing.

3d is not length.. width and height.. .3d is a state of where mankind both individually and as an group... get smarter but still follow like crazy.

4d.. the "season" so to speak we have entered.. is where manking is CONFOUNDED so greatly he can't copy cat anymore.

Look at the animals and how they follow in any family and in their groups.. so it is with humans too... young immature souls FOLLOW because they are stupid. This is NOT mean.. don't take it to that intent... they simply don't have enough EXPERIENCE to be otherwise.

4d begins to take people from stupid to smart. It is supposed to be confounding and it should be obvious at this time at least in my country.. the confounding is in full run of the confounding season. It forces people to thing and it can get vicious. Some worlds have destroyed themselves in the fighting for perceived truth that has no truth in it.

Like this HELLFIRE shit in Christianity for example.. not one iota of truth in it. NONE at all. The "truths" about God are garbage. Almost no truth at all.

In early evolution of mind man thinks he is his meat suit. He is not. During 4d he learns he is God indwelt and not his meat suit.. We still have people thinking they are going to be taken out of the grave and their meat suits put back together and this is NOT possible. Its one reason humans over time do things trying to preserve the meat suit that is meat and decomposes and cannot be resurrected hundreds of years later.

that said per the Lazarus story... during a certain amount of time they can be resurrected... some can do it mentally.. as Jesus did.. and there is technology... But once the meat is gone.. not possible. Period. As one is moved into the next world and there are a lot of those.. new form is provided in alignment with soul.. Not to cover more on that hear.

We are in the season of 4d. Take advantage of the confusion and GROW. For those that get thru it.. they discover they are ONLY BEGOTTEN SONS OF THE FATHER.. a grand beginning into glory. Its called then 5d and as I said.. this is both individual and an average of society. There are people here in all levels of consciousness and a lot of us from higher realms are here to contribute to that average to raise the global consciousness.

In the "season" of 5d when we get there as a global consciousness...peace begins more and more. Things calms down.. People go within for their instructions and purposely grow their minds.. since each of us can only grow our minds ourselves anyway.

Late 5d into 6d.. people begin to consciously hear their Inner Father Fragment...to really commune mentally back and forth.. Mind is the communicator. The world enters its stages.. that season of GLORY where most are in communion with THEIR PERSONAL FATHER.. as these Father fragments get personality from those they indwell... and it becomes truly PERSONAL.. this relationship with the Inner Father and the Growing up Soul.

The season of peach and growth is at hand... We will get there.

the reason TIME cannot be given for the actual return of Jesus.. is because the people VARY... and they must be in the season.. its coming.

The 1000 year Millennial Government of Michael /Jesus is ready to go.. but the actual date cannot be given on a calendar because you see.. it depends on a huge variety of factors... Mankind.. and the effects of the cosmic energies we are in.. But its READY beloved... ITS READY... the government has about 10,000 ground grew in it. Trump and Putin and Xi are but 3 in it.. just to mention 3 of 10,000 names.

WATCH THE RIPENING BEFORE YOUR EYES GOING ON NOW.
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all evolution is in stages on any evolutionary world. Some of that timing is determined by cosmic energy fields a planet rotates into... and we are in 6 of them.. but teach only 3. The cosmos as "god" has a lot to do with evolution. The whole thing is HOLY F ROM THE BEGINNING although there is no way to date any beginning.

Like this HELLFIRE shit in Christianity for example.. not one iota of truth in it. NONE at all. The "truths" about God are garbage. Almost no truth at all.

In early evolution of mind man thinks he is his meat suit. He is not. During 4d he learns he is God indwelt and not his meat suit.. We still have people thinking they are going to be taken out of the grave and their meat suits put back together and this is NOT possible. Its one reason humans over time do things trying to preserve the meat suit that is meat and decomposes and cannot be resurrected hundreds of years later.

that said per the Lazarus story... during a certain amount of time they can be resurrected... some can do it mentally.. as Jesus did.. and there is technology... But once the meat is gone.. not possible. Period. As one is moved into the next world and there are a lot of those.. new form is provided in alignment with soul.. Not to cover more on that hear.

We are in the season of 4d. Take advantage of the confusion and GROW. For those that get thru it.. they discover they are ONLY BEGOTTEN SONS OF THE FATHER.. a grand beginning into glory. Its called then 5d and as I said.. this is both individual and an average of society. There are people here in all levels of consciousness and a lot of us from higher realms are here to contribute to that average to raise the global consciousness.

In the "season" of 5d when we get there as a global consciousness...peace begins more and more. Things calms down.. People go within for their instructions and purposely grow their minds.. since each of us can only grow our minds ourselves anyway.

Late 5d into 6d.. people begin to consciously hear their Inner Father Fragment...to really commune mentally back and forth.. Mind is the communicator. The world enters its stages.. that season of GLORY where most are in communion with THEIR PERSONAL FATHER.. as these Father fragments get personality from those they indwell... and it becomes truly PERSONAL.. this relationship with the Inner Father and the Growing up Soul.

The season of peach and growth is at hand... We will get there.

the reason TIME cannot be given for the actual return of Jesus.. is because the people VARY... and they must be in the season.. its coming.

The 1000 year Millennial Government of Michael /Jesus is ready to go.. but the actual date cannot be given on a calendar because you see.. it depends on a huge variety of factors... Mankind.. and the effects of the cosmic energies we are in.. But its READY beloved... ITS READY... the government has about 10,000 ground grew in it. Trump and Putin and Xi are but 3 in it.. just to mention 3 of 10,000 names.

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FALSE.

this 4d 5d new-age nonsense is not the HOW IT IS.

There is still the tribulation period, as well as several prophecies that need to be fulfilled before the millennial reign of Christ, who is the only begotten son of GOD, will begin.

What will happen is told in the word of GOD, the holy bible, last book, the Revelation.

At the end of the tribulation period, there will be the
sheep and goat judgement. The goats, the ones who worshiped satan of nebadon and took his mark do not go into the millennial kingdom.

Matthew 25:31-33 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Matthew 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.


and that is the HOW IT WILL BE.

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To the person I wrote to above... I don't know how much of the UB you have read.. but if you have read abut the CIRCLES to be obtained.. that is what we call dimensional consciousness. The circles start at 7.. which would be 1d... the most immature. 5d which is coming after 4d is 3rd circle. You get the idea.

At some point in the future when the planet is in peace and mankind is balanced.. we will loose our tilt and the planet will be straight up and down.. we won't have seasons so pronounced then.. as to the weather seasons... A planet that has tilt is always an UNBALANCED WORLD.
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now last of paper 196. Reading the whole paper is very instructive on the nature of religion and the nature of jesus.


3. The Supremacy of Religion

196:3.1 (2093.6) Personal, spiritual religious experience is an efficient solvent for most mortal difficulties; it is an effective sorter, evaluator, and adjuster of all human problems. Religion does not remove or destroy human troubles, but it does dissolve, absorb, illuminate, and transcend them. True religion unifies the personality for effective adjustment to all mortal requirements. Religious faith — the positive leading of the indwelling divine presence — unfailingly enables the God-knowing man to bridge that gulf existing between the intellectual logic which recognizes the Universal First Cause as It and those positive affirmations of the soul which aver this First Cause is He, the heavenly Father of Jesus’ gospel, the personal God of human salvation.

196:3.2 (2094.1) There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith — physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value.

196:3.3 (2094.2) The progressive comprehension of reality is the equivalent of approaching God. The finding of God, the consciousness of identity with reality, is the equivalent of the experiencing of self-completion — self-entirety, self-totality. The experiencing of total reality is the full realization of God, the finality of the God-knowing experience.

196:3.4 (2094.3) The full summation of human life is the knowledge that man is educated by fact, ennobled by wisdom, and saved — justified — by religious faith.

196:3.5 (2094.4) Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience.

196:3.6 (2094.5) The mind of man can attain high levels of spiritual insight and corresponding spheres of divinity of values because it is not wholly material. There is a spirit nucleus in the mind of man — the Adjuster of the divine presence. There are three separate evidences of this spirit indwelling of the human mind:

196:3.7 (2094.6) 1. Humanitarian fellowship — love. The purely animal mind may be gregarious for self-protection, but only the spirit-indwelt intellect is unselfishly altruistic and unconditionally loving.

196:3.8 (2094.7) 2. Interpretation of the universe — wisdom. Only the spirit-indwelt mind can comprehend that the universe is friendly to the individual.

196:3.9 (2094.8) 3. Spiritual evaluation of life — worship. Only the spirit-indwelt man can realize the divine presence and seek to attain a fuller experience in and with this foretaste of divinity.

196:3.10 (2094.9) The human mind does not create real values; human experience does not yield universe insight. Concerning insight, the recognition of moral values and the discernment of spiritual meanings, all that the human mind can do is to discover, recognize, interpret, and choose.

196:3.11 (2094.10) The moral values of the universe become intellectual possessions by the exercise of the three basic judgments, or choices, of the mortal mind:

196:3.12 (2094.11) 1. Self-judgment — moral choice.

196:3.13 (2094.12) 2. Social-judgment — ethical choice.

196:3.14 (2094.13) 3. God-judgment — religious choice.

196:3.15 (2094.14) Thus it appears that all human progress is effected by a technique of conjoint revelational evolution.

196:3.16 (2094.15) Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love. Unless an interpreter lived in the mind, man could not truly realize the unity of the universe. Unless an evaluator dwelt with man, he could not possibly appraise moral values and recognize spiritual meanings. And this lover hails from the very source of infinite love; this interpreter is a part of Universal Unity; this evaluator is the child of the Center and Source of all absolute values of divine and eternal reality.

196:3.17 (2095.1) Moral evaluation with a religious meaning — spiritual insight — connotes the individual’s choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity. Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the choosing of those values selected by this spirit-value sorter — the indwelling interpreter and unifier. Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and revelation by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and attain the divine revelation. But such attitudes of spiritual nonprogression cannot long persist because of the presence and influence of the indwelling Thought Adjusters.

196:3.18 (2095.2) This profound experience of the reality of the divine indwelling forever transcends the crude materialistic technique of the physical sciences. You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope; you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate the quality of spiritual worship.

196:3.19 (2095.3) The Hebrews had a religion of moral sublimity; the Greeks evolved a religion of beauty; Paul and his conferees founded a religion of faith, hope, and charity. Jesus revealed and exemplified a religion of love: security in the Father’s love, with joy and satisfaction consequent upon sharing this love in the service of the human brotherhood.

196:3.20 (2095.4) Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul. Moral choosing constitutes religion as the motive of inner response to outer conditions. But such a real religion is not a purely subjective experience. It signifies the whole of the subjectivity of the individual engaged in a meaningful and intelligent response to total objectivity — the universe and its Maker.

196:3.21 (2095.5) The exquisite and transcendent experience of loving and being loved is not just a psychic illusion because it is so purely subjective. The one truly divine and objective reality that is associated with mortal beings, the Thought Adjuster, functions to human observation apparently as an exclusively subjective phenomenon. Man’s contact with the highest objective reality, God, is only through the purely subjective experience of knowing him, of worshiping him, of realizing sonship with him.

196:3.22 (2095.6) True religious worship is not a futile monologue of self-deception. Worship is a personal communion with that which is divinely real, with that which is the very source of reality. Man aspires by worship to be better and thereby eventually attains the best.

196:3.23 (2095.7) The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness is not a substitute for genuine religious experience — spiritual reality. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality. The projections of the human intellect may indeed originate false gods — gods in man’s image — but the true God-consciousness does not have such an origin. The God-consciousness is resident in the indwelling spirit. Many of the religious systems of man come from the formulations of the human intellect, but the God-consciousness is not necessarily a part of these grotesque systems of religious slavery.

196:3.24 (2095.8) God is not the mere invention of man’s idealism; he is the very source of all such superanimal insights and values. God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived. The truth, beauty, and goodness of man’s world are unified by the increasing spirituality of the experience of mortals ascending toward Paradise realities. The unity of truth, beauty, and goodness can only be realized in the spiritual experience of the God-knowing personality.

196:3.25 (2096.1) Morality is the essential pre-existent soil of personal God-consciousness, the personal realization of the Adjuster’s inner presence, but such morality is not the source of religious experience and the resultant spiritual insight. The moral nature is superanimal but subspiritual. Morality is equivalent to the recognition of duty, the realization of the existence of right and wrong. The moral zone intervenes between the animal and the human types of mind as morontia functions between the material and the spiritual spheres of personality attainment.

196:3.26 (2096.2) The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God.

196:3.27 (2096.3) Morality is not necessarily spiritual; it may be wholly and purely human, albeit real religion enhances all moral values, makes them more meaningful. Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves.

196:3.28 (2096.4) Religion stands above science, art, philosophy, ethics, and morals, but not independent of them. They are all indissolubly interrelated in human experience, personal and social. Religion is man’s supreme experience in the mortal nature, but finite language makes it forever impossible for theology ever adequately to depict real religious experience.

196:3.29 (2096.5) Religious insight possesses the power of turning defeat into higher desires and new determinations. Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception. Love must always be redefined on successive levels of morontia and spirit progression.

196:3.30 (2096.6) Art results from man’s attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level. Science is man’s effort to solve the apparent riddles of the material universe. Philosophy is man’s attempt at the unification of human experience. Religion is man’s supreme gesture, his magnificent reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him.

196:3.31 (2096.7) In the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential reality. Man’s forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man’s universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.

196:3.32 (2096.8) 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.

196:3.33 (2097.1) Be not discouraged; human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail.

196:3.34 (2097.2) The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness — contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Such spirit-consciousness is the equivalent of the knowledge of the actuality of sonship with God. Otherwise, the assurance of sonship is the experience of faith.

196:3.35 (2097.3) And God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience. If man does not choose to survive, then does the surviving Adjuster conserve those realities born of love and nurtured in service. And all these things are a part of the Universal Father. The Father is living love, and this life of the Father is in his Sons. And the spirit of the Father is in his Sons’ sons — mortal men. When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God. *

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Wonderful spiritual teaching.... UB is full of GREAT STUFF Hey Club Baloney... this is for you! Please do not shit all over it.





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