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The New Epochal Revelation of Truth, Page 319


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Teacher-Brother Dave's initial comments: I am presenting some of my Topical Studies from the fully public domain, 2097 page, Fifth Epochal Revelation of Truth and with my added comments. The Revealed text is free of copyright, so you may freely share individually these supernal quotes with your friends and relatives. But my order of selections, font types for emphasis and my added comments are Copyright 2020 by Dave@PureChristians.org All Rights Reserved. Contact me first about using the whole Study or group of Studies.

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Topical Study 124

"Our Creative Mother (Holy) Spirit", Part 4

Compiled July 08, 2020 by Dave@PureChristians.org


The Urantia Book

[Paper:Section.Paragraph (numbers)]

PAPER 37. Personalities of the Local Universe

0. Introduction

37:0.1 At the head of all personality in Nebadon [our large local universe] stands the Creator and Master Son, Michael, the universe father and sovereign. Co-ordinate in divinity and complemental in creative attributes is the local universe Mother Spirit, the Divine Minister of Salvington. And these creators are in a very literal sense the Father-Son and the Spirit-Mother of all the native creatures of Nebadon. [Thus we humans are Jesusonians – sons and daughters of our Local Universe Sovereign Creator Father and Co-equal Creative Spirit Mother. We God-seeking humans are also sons (grandsons also) of our Universal Father Mother-God on Paradise. Our human parents only co-create our mortal physical bodies; our Spirit of God within, our eternal unchanging Personality, our evolving souls, and our minds are all of higher and highest Divine origins !]

1. The Universe Aids

37:1.10 During the earlier times of Nebadon, Gabriel [the Bright and Morning Star, our Chief Executive under our Creator Son Christ Michael] worked quite alone with Michael and the Creative Spirit. As the universe grew and administrative problems multiplied, he was provided with a personal staff of unrevealed assistants, and eventually this group was augmented by the creation of the Nebadon corps of Evening Stars. [“Michael” is a high Title of Jesus which means: HE Who IS Just Like GOD. Jesus is now elevated as a Master Son and that elevates His and our Creative Mother (Holy) Spirit as they are One in Spirit Union.]

2. The Brilliant Evening Stars

37:2.1 These brilliant creatures were planned by the Melchizedeks a[Sons of God just one level under our Creator Son] nd were then brought into being by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. They serve in many capacities but chiefly as liaison officers of Gabriel, the local universe chief executive. One or more of these beings function as his representatives at the capital of every [100] constellation and [10,000] system in Nebadon.

3. The Archangels

37:3.1 Archangels are the offspring of the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit. They are the highest type of high spirit being produced in large numbers in a local universe, and at the time of the last registry there were almost eight hundred thousand in Nebadon. [After Jesus’ Seventh Bestowal here, A.D. 30 – on, we now have a Division of Archangels now working on Urantia ! (Earth.) Nebadon has 570 progressive soul-level Heavens that we will ascend through, then obtain 1st stage Spirit level. Nebadon will have 10,000,000 human-inhabited planets at the end of this long and first Grand Universe (Supreme) Age. Then, in higher Ultimate, then Absolute Ages we will experience as a part of the Eternal (NOW) Cosmos-Infinite of God the Paradise Universal Father-Infinite I AM.]

5. High Commissioners

37:5.2 Surviving souls of this order attain immortality by eternal fusion with an individualized fragment of the spirit of the local universe Mother Spirit. They are not a numerous group, at least not in Nebadon. On the mansion worlds you will meet and fraternize with these Spirit-fused mortals as they ascend the Paradise path with you as far as Salvington, where they stop. Some of them may subsequently ascend to higher universe levels, but the majority will forever remain in the service of the local universe; as a class they are not destined to attain Paradise. [humans on Urantia are all destined to be Father-fused; some will be Son-fused, or Spirit-fused, in this Supreme level Age]

9. Permanent Citizens of the Local Universe

37:9.9 The Material Sons of God. When a creative liaison between the Creator Son and the universe representative of the Infinite Spirit, the Universe Mother Spirit, has completed its cycle, when no more offspring of the combined nature are forthcoming, then does the Creator Son personalize in dual form his last concept of being, thus finally confirming his own and original dual [Paradise Father-Eternal Son origin !!] In and of himself he then creates the beautiful and superb Sons and Daughters of the material order of universe sonship. This is the origin of the original Adam and Eve of each local system of Nebadon. They are a reproducing order of sonship, being created male and female. Their progeny function as the relatively permanent citizens of a system capital, though some are commissioned as Planetary Adams.

PAPER 38. Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe

1. Origin of Seraphim

38:1.1 Seraphim are created by the Universe Mother Spirit and have been projected in unit formation — 41,472 at a time — ever since the creation of the “pattern angels” and certain angelic archetypes in the early times of Nebadon. [Around 400 to 300 billion years ago. The “Big Bang” mere 13 billion year origin has been disproved in our modern physics] The Creator Son and the universe representation of the Infinite Spirit [our Creative (Holy) Spirit Minister] collaborate in the creation of a large number of Sons and other universe personalities. Following the completion of this united effort, the Son engages in the creation of the Material Sons, [Adam and Eve pairs] the first of the sex creatures, while the Universe Mother Spirit concurrently engages in her initial solitary effort at spirit reproduction. Thus begins the creation of the [huge number of] seraphic hosts of a local universe.

38:1.2 These angelic orders are projected at the time of planning for the evolution of mortal will creatures. The creation of seraphim dates from the attainment of relative personality by the Universe Mother Spirit, not as the later co-ordinate of the Master Son, but as the early creative helper of the Creator Son. Previous to this event the seraphim on duty in Nebadon were temporarily loaned by a neighboring universe.

38:1.3 Seraphim are still being periodically created; the universe of Nebadon is still in the making. [Maybe 2/3 done? So maybe a few hundred billion years to go in this first Supreme Grand Universe Age] The Universe Mother Spirit never ceases creative activity in a growing and perfecting universe.

3. Unrevealed Angels

38:3.1 Numerous orders of spirit beings function throughout the domains of the local universe that are unrevealed to mortals because they are in no manner connected with the evolutionary plan of Paradise ascension. In this paper the word “angel” is purposely limited to the designation of those seraphic and associated offspring of the Universe Mother Spirit who are so largely concerned with the operation of the plans of mortal survival. There serve in the local universe six other orders of related beings, the unrevealed angels, who are not in any specific manner connected with those universe activities pertaining to the Paradise ascent of evolutionary mortals. These six groups of angelic associates are never called seraphim, neither are they referred to as ministering spirits. These personalities are wholly occupied with the administrative and other affairs of Nebadon, engagements which are in no way related to man’s progressive career of spiritual ascent and perfection attainment.

7. Cherubim and Sanobim

[They are aids to our Seraphim angels; similar to them, but a little lower, starting out. They can evolve higher.]

38:7.6 Cherubim and sanobim are by nature very near the morontia [soul] level of existence, and they prove to be most efficient in the borderland work of the physical, morontial, and spiritual domains. These children of the local universe Mother Spirit are characterized by “fourth creatures” much as are the Havona Servitals and the conciliating commissions. Every fourth cherubim and every fourth sanobim are quasi-material, very definitely resembling the morontia level of existence.

8. Evolution of Cherubim and Sanobim

38:8.1 Numerous avenues of advancing service are open to cherubim and sanobim leading to an enhancement of status, which may be still further augmented by the embrace of the Divine Minister. …

38:8.5 While the second and third groups are somewhat limited in growth potential, the ascension candidates may attain the heights of universal seraphic service. Many of the more experienced of these cherubim are attached to the seraphic guardians of destiny and are thus placed in direct line for advancement to the status of Mansion World Teachers when deserted by their seraphic seniors. Guardians of destiny do not have cherubim and sanobim as helpers when their mortal wards attain the morontia life. And when other types of evolutionary seraphim are granted clearance for Seraphington and Paradise, they must forsake their former subordinates when they pass out of the confines of Nebadon. Such deserted cherubim and sanobim are usually embraced by the Universe Mother Spirit, thus achieving a level equivalent to that of a Mansion World Teacher in the attainment of seraphic status.

38:8.6 When, as Mansion World Teachers, the once-embraced cherubim and sanobim have long served on the morontia spheres, from the lowest to the highest, and when their corps on Salvington is overrecruited, the Bright and Morning Star [Gabriel] summons these faithful servants of the creatures of time to appear in his presence. The oath of personality transformation is administered; and thereupon, in groups of seven thousand, these advanced and senior cherubim and sanobim are re-embraced by the Universe Mother Spirit. From this second embrace they emerge as full-fledged seraphim. Henceforth, the full and complete career of a seraphim, with all of its Paradise possibilities, is open to such reborn cherubim and sanobim. Such angels may be assigned as guardians of destiny to some mortal being, and if the mortal ward attains survival, then do they become eligible for advancement to Seraphington and the seven circles of seraphic attainment, even to Paradise and the Corps of the Finality. [That is our Destiny !]

PAPER 39. The Seraphic Hosts

1. Supreme Seraphim

39:1.2 #1. Son-Spirit Ministers. The first group of the supreme seraphim are assigned to the service of the high Sons and Spirit-origin beings resident and functioning in the local universe. This group of angelic ministers also serve the Universe Son and the Universe Spirit and are closely affiliated with the intelligence corps of the Bright and Morning Star, the universe chief executive of the united wills of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit.

PAPER 40. The Ascending Sons of God

5. Mortals of Time and Space

40:5.10 An experiential Adjuster [God the Universal Father’s pure Spirit Essence – His will (Volition) indwelling you now !] remains with a primitive human being throughout his entire lifetime in the flesh. The Adjusters contribute much to the advancement of primitive men but are unable to form eternal unions with such mortals. This transient ministry of the Adjusters accomplishes two things: First, they gain valuable and actual experience in the nature and working of the evolutionary intellect, an experience which will be invaluable in connection with later contacts on other worlds with beings of higher development. Second, the transient sojourn of the Adjusters contributes much towards preparing their mortal subjects for possible subsequent Spirit fusion. All God-seeking souls of this type achieve eternal life through the spiritual embrace of the Mother Spirit of the local universe, thus becoming ascending mortals of the local universe regime. [All normal humans on Earth may be Father-fused.] Many persons from pre-Adamic Urantia [from nearly one million to 38,000 years ago is pre-Adamic Bestowal here] were thus advanced to the mansion worlds of Satania. [our system, not “Satan”]

9. Spirit-Fused Mortals

40:9.3 When such sleeping survivors are repersonalized [resurrected up] on the mansion worlds, the place of the departed Adjuster is filled by an individualization of the spirit of the Divine Minister, the representative of the Infinite Spirit in the local universe concerned. This spirit infusion constitutes these surviving creatures Spirit-fused mortals. Such beings are in every way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are indeed your contemporaries, sharing the mansion and morontia spheres in common with your order of [Father-] fusion candidates and with those who are to be Son fused.

10. Ascendant Destinies

40:10.2 Spirit-fused mortals are of the local universe; they do not, ordinarily, ascend beyond the confines of their native realm, beyond the boundaries of the space range of the [Mother] spirit that pervades them. Son-fused ascenders likewise rise to the source of spirit endowment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Creator Son focalizes in the associated Divine Minister, so is his “fusion spirit” implemented in the Reflective Spirits of the higher universes. Such spirit relationship between the local and the superuniverse levels of God the Sevenfold may be difficult of explanation but not of discernment, being unmistakably revealed in those children of the Reflective Spirits — the secoraphic Voices of the Creator Sons. The Thought Adjuster, hailing from the Father on Paradise, never stops until the mortal son stands face to face with the eternal God. [!!!] [Note: All male and all female humans are spiritually classified as sons of God; the many types of angels and spirits are the daughters of God God is no respecter of persons; He loves each one with his Infinite Eternal Universal love and mercy Ministry !]

PAPER 41. Physical Aspects of the Local Universe

0. Introduction

41:0.1 The characteristic space phenomenon which sets off each local creation from all others is the presence of the Creative Spirit. All Nebadon is certainly pervaded by the space presence of the Divine Minister of Salvington, [Nebadon Spiritual Headquarters] and such presence just as certainly terminates at the outer borders of our local universe. That which is pervaded by our local universe Mother Spirit is Nebadon; that which extends beyond her space presence is outside Nebadon, being the extra-Nebadon space regions of the superuniverse of Orvonton — other local universes. [100,000 local universes in each of the seven Superuniverses; seven trillion human-inhabited planets in this first Grand Universe Age, much more to come to our awareness and progressive experiences without end !]

PAPER 42. Energy—Mind and Matter

10. Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems

42:10.4 #2. Adjutant-spirit minds. This is the ministry of a local universe Mother Spirit functioning through her seven adjutant mind-spirits on the teachable (nonmechanical) level of material mind. On this level material mind is experiencing: as subhuman (animal) intellect in the first five adjutants; as human (moral) intellect in the seven adjutants; as superhuman (midwayer) intellect in the last two adjutants. [#6 the adjutant-spirit of worship, #7 the adjutant-spirit of wisdom. The highest animals on our planet have not yet evolved enough to have the highest two adjutant-spirit minds; so they do not have souls and do not resurrect.]

42:10.5 #3. Evolving morontia minds — the expanding consciousness of evolving personalities in the local universe ascending careers. This is the bestowal of the local universe Mother Spirit in liaison with the Creator Son. This mind level connotes the organization of the morontia type of life vehicle, a synthesis of the material and the spiritual which is effected by the Morontia Power Supervisors of a local universe. Morontia mind functions differentially in response to the 570 levels of morontia life, disclosing increasing associative capacity with the cosmic mind on the higher levels of attainment. This is the evolutionary course of mortal creatures, but mind of a nonmorontia order is also bestowed by a Universe Son and a Universe Spirit upon the nonmorontia children of the local creations. [There are millions of types of other beings not revealed; mostly because they are beyond our present human comprehension capacities, or they are not a part of our Paradise Ascension Plan by God.]

11. Universe Mechanisms

42:11.8 The higher the universe mind associated with any universe phenomenon, the more difficult it is for the lower types of mind to discover it. And since the mind of the universe mechanism is creative spirit-mind (even the mindedness of the Infinite), it can never be discovered or discerned by the lower-level minds of the universe, much less by the lowest mind of all, the human. The evolving animal mind, while naturally God-seeking, is not alone and of itself inherently God-knowing. [Do not feel sad or discouraged; there is Great Benefit in starting down at the bottom – at your sperm-egg union; and you personally knew nothing with zero mind ! We have the Highest Final Destiny –unlimited exploration of the Eternal Infinity of God our Universal Father in Jesus in Spirit !!!]

PAPER 43. The Constellations

7. The Univitatia

43:7.1 Univitatia are the permanent citizens of Edentia and its associated worlds, all seven hundred seventy worlds surrounding the constellation headquarters being under their supervision. These children of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit are projected on a plane of existence in between the material and the spiritual, but they are not morontia creatures. The natives of each of the seventy major spheres of Edentia possess different visible forms, and the morontia mortals have their morontia forms attuned to correspond with the ascending scale of the univitatia each time they change residence from one Edentia sphere [Heaven] to another as they pass successively from world number one to world number seventy. [570 morontia Heavens that we will ascend up thru Ndebadon to then get transformed by our Creator Son Jesus and our Creative Mother Spirit to First-Stage Spirit for our Orvontion Superuniverse career.]

PAPER 45. The Local System Administration

1. Transitional Culture Worlds

45:1.8 Number 6. The World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the system rendezvous of the high personalities of the Infinite Spirit. Its seven surrounding satellites are assigned to individual groups of these diverse orders. But on transition world number six there is no representation of the Spirit, neither is such a presence to be observed on the [10,000] system capitals; the Divine Minister of Salvington is everywhere in Nebadon.

PAPER 47. The Seven Mansion Worlds

[These are the first of the 570 soul-level Heavens in Nebadon. These lowest seven are probationary to carefully and surely remove our animalistic, savage, unspiritual tendencies prior to Father-fusion.]

3. The First Mansion World

47:3.11 The center of the seven major circles of the first mansion world administration is occupied by the temple of the Morontia Companions, the personal guides assigned to ascending mortals. These companions are the offspring of the local universe Mother Spirit, and there are several million of them on the morontia worlds of Satania. [our system.] Aside from those assigned as group companions, you will have much to do with the interpreters and translators, the building custodians, and the excursion supervisors. And all of these companions are most co-operative with those who have to do with developing your personality factors of mind and spirit within the morontia body. [71 hour day, no sleep, no physical food, no disease, no physical tiredness, no body maintenance, no more mind forgetting, maybe mental telepathy, vision range greatly extended, a huge improvement ! And that is just the beginning !]

PAPER 48. The Morontia Life

3. Morontia Companions

48:3.1 These hosts of the mansion and morontia worlds are the offspring of a local universe Mother Spirit. They are created from [millennial?] age to age in groups of one hundred thousand, and in Nebadon there are at present over seventy billion of these unique beings.

5. The Mansion World Teachers

48:5.9 Beginning service on the lowest of the tarrying spheres, the Mansion World Teachers advance, with experience, through the educational spheres of the system and the constellation to the training worlds of Salvington. They are subjected to no special discipline either before or after their embrace by the Universe Mother Spirit. They have already been trained for their work while serving as seraphic associates on the worlds native to their pupils of mansion world sojourn. They have had actual experience with these advancing mortals on the inhabited worlds. They are practical and sympathetic teachers, wise and understanding instructors, able and efficient guides. They are entirely familiar with the ascendant plans and thoroughly experienced in the initial phases of the progression career.

48:5.10 Many of the older of these teachers, those who have long served on the worlds of the Salvington circuit, are re-embraced by the Universe Mother Spirit, and from this second embrace these cherubim and sanobim emerge with the status of seraphim.

PAPER 50. The Planetary Princes

1. Mission of the Princes

50:1.1 The Planetary Prince and his assistant brethren represent the nearest personalized approach (aside from incarnation) that the Eternal Son of Paradise can make to the lowly creatures of time and space. True, the Creator Son touches the creatures of the realms through his spirit, but the Planetary Prince is the last of the orders of personal Sons extending out from Paradise to the children of men. The Infinite Spirit comes very near in the persons of the guardians of destiny and other angelic beings; the Universal Father lives in man by the prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors; but the Planetary Prince represents the last effort of the Eternal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly inhabited world the Planetary Prince is the sole representative of complete divinity, springing from the Creator Son (the offspring of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son) and the Divine Minister (the universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit). [Our first Planetary Prince, Caligastia, arrived here 500,000 years ago. He defaulted –-rebelled against the righteous Rule of the Paradise Universal Father and our Nebadon Universe Creator Father-Son – about 200,000 years ago, along with the System rebellion of Lucifer and Satan. All fallen sons and spirits were removed by Jesus Christ Michael when here on Urantia, on May 18, A.D. 30 – on. Jesus holds the title of Planetary Prince of Peace here now. A Melchizedek is here loyally representing our Sovereign Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael.]

PAPER 51. The Planetary Adams

1. Origin and Nature of the Material Sons of God

51:1.1 The material or sex Sons and Daughters are the offspring of the Creator Son; the Universe Mother Spirit does not participate in the production of these beings who are destined to function as physical [biological] uplifters on the evolutionary worlds. [Our Adam and Eve arrived here 38,000 years ago. They were deceived by Satan and Caligastia, so we now have only a small percentage of their superior, disease-free genes. So our biological and mental improvement is still delayed here. More intelligent human procreation and scientific genetic advances will help now. Another Adam and Eve arrival might happen if needed.]

PAPER 52. Planetary Mortal Epochs

5. Post-Bestowal Son Man

52:5.6 [Important !] Upon the resurrection of a bestowal Son, on the third day after yielding up his incarnated life, he ascends to the right hand of the Universal Father, receives the assurance of the acceptance of the bestowal mission, and returns to the Creator Son at the headquarters of the local universe. Thereupon the bestowal Avonal and the Creator Michael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the bestowal world. This is the occasion when the “spirit of the triumphant Son is poured out upon all flesh.” The Universe Mother Spirit also participates in this bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, and concomitant therewith there issues the bestowal edict of the Thought Adjusters. Thereafter all normal-minded will creatures of that world will receive Adjusters as soon as they attain the age of moral responsibility, of spiritual choice. [We did not receive an Avonal Son; we were/are Gifted directly by our Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael. He gave us His Father-Son Union Spirit of Truth here upon all humans, allowing all moral humans to receive a Thought Adjuster. That was done May 18, A.D. 30 – on. Thank You, our Good Master Jesus !]

PAPER 54. Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion

5. The Wisdom of Delay

54:5.11 #10. [200,000 Earth years ago] The Divine Minister of Salvington issued as her third independent proclamation a mandate directing that nothing be done to half cure, cowardly suppress, or otherwise hide the hideous visage of rebels and rebellion. The angelic hosts were directed to work for full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin-expression as the quickest technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil and sin. [All things, good and evil, work for the Glory of God and the certain progress and eventual perfection of all mankind !]

PAPER 55. The Spheres of Light and Life

6. The Individual Mortal

55:6.4 The Adjusters continue to come as in former evolutionary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mortals are increasingly able to commune with the indwelling Father fragment. During the embryonic and prespiritual stages of development the adjutant mind-spirits are still functioning. The Holy Spirit and the ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive [seven] epochs of settled life are experienced. In the fourth stage of light and life the advanced mortals seem to experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, while the philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme. More than one half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living. Even so, “old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”

10. The Fourth or Local Universe Stage

55:10.4 The settling of an entire local universe in light and life inaugurates profound readjustments in the entire scheme of administration, from the individual inhabited worlds to the universe headquarters. New relationships extend down to the constellations and systems. The local universe Mother Spirit experiences new liaison relations with the Master Spirit of the superuniverse, and Gabriel establishes direct contact with the Ancients of Days to be effective when and as the Master Son [our Michael Creator Son] may be absent from the headquarters world.

55:10.9 Speculation concerning the function of these Creator Sons in connection with the outer universes now in process of preliminary assembly is wholly futile. But we all engage in such postulations from time to time. On attaining this fourth stage of development the Creator Son becomes administratively free; the Divine Minister is progressively blending her ministry with that of the superuniverse Master Spirit and the Infinite Spirit. There seems to be evolving a new and sublime relationship between the Creator Son, the Creative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-increasing finaliter corps.[Paradise Resident Spirit-perfected Spirit Human Sons of God come down on assignment to help in our local universe on all levels !]

55:10.11 We are, however, satisfied regarding two features of our speculations: If the Creator [Master] Sons are destined to the outer universes, [Master Universe Age] the Divine Ministers will undoubtedly accompany them. We are equally sure that the Melchizedeks are to remain with the universes of their origin. We hold that the Melchizedeks are destined to play ever-increasingly responsible parts in local universe government and administration.

PAPER 56. Universal Unity

3. Spiritual Unification

56:3.3 No matter on what level of universe activities you may encounter spiritual phenomena or contact with spirit beings, you may know that they are all derived from the God who is spirit by the ministry of the Spirit Son and the Infinite Mind Spirit. And this far-flung spirit functions as a phenomenon on the evolutionary worlds of time as it is directed from the headquarters of the local universes. From these capitals of the Creator Sons come the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth, together with the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits, to the lower and evolving levels of material minds.

56:3.4 While mind is more unified on the level of the Master Spirits in association with the Supreme Being and as the cosmic mind in subordination to the Absolute Mind, the spirit ministry to the evolving worlds is more directly unified in the personalities resident on the headquarters of the local universes and in the persons of the presiding Divine [Creative Holy Spirit] Ministers, who are in turn well-nigh perfectly correlated with the Paradise gravity circuit of the Eternal Son, wherein occurs final unification of all time-space spirit manifestations. [!!!]

7. Universal Evolutionary Repercussions

56:7.2 As the components of a local universe are progressively settled in light and life, God the Sevenfold [First is our God-Man Spirit Person Jesus Christ Michael and His Creative Spirit Partner] is increasingly made manifest. Time-space evolution begins on a planet with the first expression of God the Sevenfold — the Creator Son-Creative Spirit association — in control. With the settling of a system in light, this Son-Spirit liaison attains the fullness of function; and when an entire constellation is thus settled, the second phase of God the Sevenfold [the three Ancients of Days on our Orvonton Seventh Superuniverse] becomes more active throughout such a realm. The completed administrative evolution of a local universe is attended by new and more direct ministrations of the [seven} superuniverse [Seven] Master Spirits; and at this point there also begins that ever-expanding revelation and realization of God the Supreme [evolving here with and as us ! Much more in Papers 115 through 118] which culminates in the ascender’s comprehension of the Supreme Being while passing through the worlds of the sixth Havona circuit. [Havona is one billion Ultimate-Absolute All-Perfected immense Spheres that circle in seven orbits around the Nuclear Isle of Paradise. We humans will long ascend all of these Havona Spheres to become perfected six-stage Spirits for Eternal Paradise Residence !]

56:7.7 As the frontiers of experiential Deity are extended out into the domains of the Unqualified Absolute, we envision the activity of God the Sevenfold during the earlier evolutionary epochs of these creations of the future. We are not all in agreement respecting the future status of the Ancients of Days and the superuniverse Master Spirits. Neither do we know whether or not the Supreme Being will therein function as in the seven superuniverses. But we all conjecture that the Michaels, the Creator Sons, are destined to function in these outer universes. [The larger, more Glorious Master Universe. Our Jesus Christ Michael and His Creative Spirit Partner are now active in the Trinity Ultimate !] Some hold that the future ages will witness some closer form of union between the associated Creator Sons and Divine Ministers; it is even possible that such a creator union might eventuate in some new expression of associate-creator identity of an ultimate nature. But we really know nothing about these possibilities of the unrevealed future.

Topical Study 124

"Our Creative Mother (Holy) Spirit", Part 5

Compiled July 10, 2020 by Dave@PureChristians.org


The Urantia Book

PART III. The History of Urantia, Papers 57 – 119

PAPER 86. Early Evolution of Religion

5. The Ghost-Soul Concept

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86:5.13 Primitive men thought that the soul was associated with the breath, and that its qualities could be imparted or transferred by the breath. The brave chief would breathe upon the newborn child, thereby imparting courage. Among early Christians the ceremony of bestowing the Holy Spirit was accompanied by breathing on the candidates. Said the Psalmist: “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” It was long the custom of the eldest son to try to catch the last breath of his dying father.

PAPER 92. The Later Evolution of Religion

0. Introduction

92:0.4 #3. The Holy Spirit — this is the initial supermind bestowal, and it unfailingly appears in all bona fide human personalities. This [Holy Spirit mind bestowal] ministry to a worship-craving and wisdom-desiring mind creates the capacity to self-realize the postulate of human survival, both in theologic concept and as an actual and factual personality experience.

PAPER 99. The Social Problems of Religion

5. Social Aspects of Religion

99:5.4 Religion has little chance to function until the religious group becomes separated from all other groups -- the social association of the spiritual membership of the kingdom of heaven. [and also here on earth now !]

99:5.5 The doctrine of the total depravity of man destroyed much of the potential of religion for effecting social repercussions of an uplifting nature and of inspirational value. Jesus sought to restore man's dignity when he declared that all men are the children of God. [True ! All humans worldwide need to know that and live this real Gospel of Jesus for real peace and progress !!]

99:5.6 Any religious belief which is effective in spiritualizing the believer is certain to have powerful repercussions in the social life of such a religionist. Religious experience unfailingly yields the "fruits of the spirit" in the daily life of the spirit-led mortal. [Listed here by Jesus:]

193:2.2 “…the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. …”

PAPER 100. Religion in Human Experience

5. Conversion and Mysticism

100:5.7 In contrast with conversion-seeking, the better approach to the morontia zones [your soul super-consciousness] of possible contact with the Thought Adjuster [God the Father’s pure Spirit Essence –His will – indwelling you !] would be through living faith and sincere worship, wholehearted and unselfish prayer. Altogether too much of the uprush of the memories of the unconscious levels of the human mind has been mistaken for divine revelations and spirit leadings.

PAPER 101. The Real Nature of Religion

2. The Fact of Religion

101:2.12 Revelation as an epochal phenomenon is periodic; as a personal human experience it is continuous. [!! but little realized today by most humans on Urantia (Earth)] Divinity functions in mortal personality as the Adjuster gift of the Father, as the Spirit of Truth of the Son, and as the Holy Spirit of the Universe Spirit, while these three supermortal endowments are unified in human experiential evolution as the ministry of the [evolving with us here God the] Supreme.

3. The Characteristics of Religion

101:3.2 Faith-insight, or spiritual intuition, is the endowment of the cosmic mind in association with the Thought Adjuster, which is the Father’s gift to man. Spiritual reason, soul intelligence, is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, the Creative Spirit’s gift to man. Spiritual philosophy, the wisdom of spirit realities, is the endowment of the Spirit of Truth, [of Jesus Christ here,] the combined [Father-Son Union] gift of the bestowal [Creator] Sons to the children of men. And the co-ordination and interassociation of these spirit endowments constitute man a spirit personality in potential [and Eternal] destiny.

PAPER 103. The Reality of Religious Experience

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103:0.1 All of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early [Holy Spirit mind] ministry of the adjutant of worship and are censored by the adjutant of wisdom. Man’s first supermind endowment is that of personality encircuitment in the Holy Spirit of the Universe Creative Spirit; and long before either the bestowals of the divine Sons or the universal bestowal of the Adjusters, this influence functions to enlarge man’s viewpoint of ethics, religion, and spirituality. Subsequent to the bestowals of the Paradise Sons [ A.D. 30 – on here] the liberated Spirit of Truth makes mighty contributions to the enlargement of the human capacity to perceive religious truths. As evolution advances on an inhabited world, the Thought Adjusters increasingly participate in the development of the higher types of human religious insight. The Thought Adjuster is the cosmic window through which the finite creature may faith-glimpse the certainties and divinities of limitless Deity, the Universal Father. [here and now !]

1. Philosophy of Religion

103:1.1 The unity of religious experience among a social or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality is unique -- no two mortals being alike -- it inevitably follows that no two human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit of divinity which lives within their minds. A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity. And this diversity of the interpretation of religious thought and experience is shown by the fact that twentieth-century theologians and philosophers have formulated upward of five hundred different definitions of religion. In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings. [Our faith is individual, personal, and unique. “Faith of our (ancient church) Fathers” is a spiritual and philosophical and mental delusion.]

2. Religion and the Individual

103:2.10 Man tends to identify the urge to be self-serving with his ego -- himself. In contrast he is inclined to identify the will to be altruistic with some influence outside himself -- God. And indeed is such a judgment right, for all such nonself desires do actually have their origin in the leadings of the indwelling Thought Adjuster, and this Adjuster is a fragment of God. The impulse of the spirit Monitor is realized in human consciousness as the urge to be altruistic, fellow-creature minded. At least this is the early and fundamental experience of the child mind. When the growing child fails of personality unification, the altruistic drive may become so overdeveloped as to work serious injury to the welfare of the self. A misguided conscience can become responsible for much conflict, worry, sorrow, and no end of human unhappiness.

5. The Origin of Ideals

103:5.3 All men recognize the morality of this universal human urge to be unselfish and altruistic. The humanist ascribes the origin of this urge to the natural working of the material mind; the religionist more correctly recognizes that the truly unselfish drive of mortal mind is in response to the inner spirit leadings of the Thought Adjuster. [and the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit. All three Spirits work as one in guiding the individual humans and humanity as a whole.]

8. Philosophy and Religion

103:8.1 Although both science and philosophy may assume the probability of God by their reason and logic, only the personal religious experience of a spirit-led man can affirm the certainty of such a supreme and personal Deity. By the technique of such an incarnation of living truth [God's Spirt(s) in an individual human !] the philosophic hypothesis of the probability of God becomes a religious reality.

PAPER 104. Growth of the Trinity Concept

1. Urantian [Earthly] Trinity Concepts

104:1.6 The Buddhist faith developed two doctrines of a trinitarian [and triad] nature: The earlier was Teacher, Law, and Brotherhood; that was the presentation made by Gautama Siddhartha. The later idea, developing among the northern branch of the followers of Buddha, embraced Supreme Lord, Holy Spirit, and Incarnate Savior.

104:1.12 The Christian concept of the Trinity, which began to gain recognition near the close of the first century after Christ, was comprised of the Universal Father, the Creator Son of Nebadon, and the Divine Minister of Salvington — Mother Spirit of the local universe and creative consort of the Creator Son.

PAPER 108. Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

2. Prerequisites of Adjuster Indwelling

108:2.1 Though the Adjusters volunteer for service as soon as the personality forecasts have been relayed to Divinington, they are not actually assigned until the human subjects make their first moral personality decision. The first moral choice of the human child is automatically indicated in the seventh mind-adjutant and registers instantly, by way of the local universe Creative Spirit, over the universal mind-gravity circuit of the Conjoint Actor [Paradise Infinite Spirit] in the presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, who forthwith dispatches this intelligence to Divinington. Adjusters reach their human subjects on Urantia, on the average, just prior to the sixth birthday. In the present generation [circa A.D. 1935] it is running five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134th day of terrestrial life.

108:2.2 The Adjusters cannot invade the mortal mind until it has been duly prepared by the indwelling ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits and encircuited in the Holy Spirit. And it requires the co-ordinate function of all seven adjutants to thus qualify the human mind for the reception of an Adjuster. Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil — moral choice.

108:2.3 Thus is the stage of the human mind set for the reception of Adjusters, but as a general rule they do not immediately appear to indwell such minds except on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is functioning as a spiritual co-ordinator of these different spirit ministries. If this spirit of the bestowal Sons is present, the Adjusters unfailingly come the instant the seventh adjutant mind-spirit begins to function and signalizes to the Universe Mother Spirit that it has achieved in potential the co-ordination of the associated six adjutants of prior ministry to such a mortal intellect. Therefore have the divine Adjusters been universally bestowed upon all normal minds of moral status on Urantia ever since the day of Pentecost. [Jesus ascended to God the Paradise Universal Father, Received full Deity Sovereignty here in our local universe of Nebadon, and returned here that same day as He the Father-Son Union Spirit of All Truth, all on May 18, A.D. 30 – on !]

4. Relation to Other Spiritual Influences

108:4.3 Thought Adjusters appear to come and go quite independent of any and all other spiritual presences; they seem to function in accordance with universe laws quite apart from those which govern and control the performances of all other spirit influences. But regardless of such apparent independence, long-range observation unquestionably discloses that they function in the human mind in perfect synchrony and co-ordination with all other spirit ministries, including adjutant mind-spirits, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, and other influences.

PAPER 110. Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

6. The Seven Psychic Circles

110:6.4 When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, such a situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leadings of the divine indweller. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function -- when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development -- that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first. [They are individualized according to the potential capacity of progress in this first, brief mortal life.]

110:6.13 The seventh circle. This level is entered when human beings develop the powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality. This signifies the united function of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal creature in the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Urantia, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth, together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind. Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature a truly potential citizen of the local universe.

110:6.21 The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level to the lowest actual contactual morontia [soul] level of self-consciousness as a personality experience. The mastery of the first cosmic circle signalizes the attainment of premorontia mortal maturity and marks the termination of the conjoint ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits as an exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes increasingly akin to the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.

7. The Attainment of Immortality

110:7.6 But with the vast majority of humans on Earth the Adjuster must patiently await the arrival of death deliverance; must await the liberation of the emerging soul from the well-nigh complete domination of the energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent material nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters. The ear of the human mind is almost deaf to the spiritual pleas which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal broadcasts of love proceeding from the Father of mercies. The Adjuster finds it almost impossible to register these inspiring spirit leadings in an animal mind so completely dominated by the chemical and electrical forces inherent in your physical natures. [Most humans on our still confused planet lack adequate self-control over their inherent animal emotions. Learn to self-control yourself with your God-given freewill ! In a well-balanced human, God’s Spirit will controls your personality will to control you as a perfecting soul to control your mind to control your body. Learn from difficult experiences the great value of knowing and doing God’s will above your unspiritual will !]

PAPER 112. Personality Survival

6. The Morontia Self

112:6.4 In the morontia estate the ascending mortal is endowed with the Nebadon modification of the cosmic-mind endowment of the Master Spirit of Orvonton. The mortal intellect, as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as a focalized universe entity apart from the undifferentiated mind circuits of the Creative Spirit. But the meanings and values of the mortal mind have not perished. Certain phases of mind are continued in the surviving soul; certain experiential values of the former human mind are held by the Adjuster; and there persist in the local universe the records of the human life as it was lived in the flesh, together with certain living registrations in the numerous beings who are concerned with the final evaluation of the ascending mortal, beings extending in range from seraphim to Universal Censors and probably on beyond to the Supreme.

112:6.6 There are no influences in the local universe career comparable to the seven adjutant mind-spirits of human existence. The morontia mind must evolve by direct contact with cosmic mind, as this cosmic mind has been modified and translated by the creative source of local universe intellect — the Divine Minister.

PAPER 113. Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

3. Relation to Other Spirit Influences

113:3.2 More especially can and does this seraphic guardian [angel] correlate the manifold agencies and influences of the Infinite Spirit, ranging from the domains of the physical controllers and the adjutant mind-spirits up to the Holy Spirit of the Divine Minister and to the Omnipresent [Infinite] Spirit presence of the Paradise Third Source and Center. Having thus unified and made more personal these vast ministries of the Infinite Spirit, the seraphim then undertakes to correlate this integrated influence of the Conjoint Actor [Infinite Spirit] with the spirit presences of the Father and the Son.

4. Seraphic Domains of Action

113:4.1 The guardian seraphim are not mind, though they do spring from the same source that also gives origin to mortal mind, the Creative Spirit. Seraphim are mind stimulators; they continually seek to promote circle-making decisions in human mind. They do this, not as does the Adjuster, operating from within and through the soul, but rather from the outside inward, working through the social, ethical, and moral environment of human beings. Seraphim are not the divine Adjuster lure of the Universal Father, but they do function as the personal agency of the ministry of the Infinite Spirit.

113:4.4 The impulse of worship largely originates in the spirit promptings of the higher mind adjutants, [of worship and wisdom] reinforced by the leadings of the Adjuster. But the urge to pray so often experienced by God-conscious mortals very often arises as the result of seraphic influence. The guarding seraphim [a pair, acting as one spirit] is constantly manipulating the mortal environment for the purpose of augmenting the cosmic insight of the human ascender to the end that such a survival candidate may acquire enhanced realization of the presence of the indwelling Adjuster and thus be enabled to yield increased co-operation with the spiritual mission of the divine presence.

113:4.6 The ministering personality of the guardian seraphim, the God presence of the indwelling Adjuster, the encircuited action of the Holy Spirit, and the Son-consciousness of the Spirit of Truth are all divinely correlated into a meaningful unity of spiritual ministry in and to a mortal personality. Though hailing from different sources and different levels, these celestial influences are all integrated in the enveloping and evolving presence of the Supreme Being.

[Papers 115 through 118 are very difficult to grasp; but long reflections on these high realities are worthwhile.]

PAPER 116. The Almighty Supreme

2. The Almighty and God the Sevenfold

116:2.2 God the Supreme derives his spirit and personality attributes from the Paradise Trinity, but he is power-actualizing in the doings of the Creator Sons, the Ancients of Days, and the Master Spirits, whose collective acts are the source of his growing power as almighty sovereign to and in the seven superuniverses.

116:2.3 Unqualified Paradise Deity is incomprehensible to the evolving creatures of time and space. Eternity and infinity connote a level of deity reality which time-space creatures cannot comprehend. Infinity of deity and absoluteness of sovereignty are inherent in the Paradise Trinity, and the Trinity is a reality which lies somewhat beyond the understanding of mortal man. Time-space creatures must have origins, relativities, and destinies in order to grasp universe relationships and to understand the meaning values of divinity. Therefore does Paradise Deity attenuate and otherwise qualify the extra-Paradise personalizations of divinity, thus bringing into existence the Supreme Creators and their associates, who ever carry the light of life farther and farther from its Paradise source until it finds its most distant and beautiful expression in the earth lives of the bestowal Sons on the evolutionary worlds.

116:2.4 And this is the origin of God the Sevenfold, whose successive levels are encountered by mortal man in the following order:

116:2.5 #1. The Creator Sons (and Creative Spirits).

116:2.6 #2. The Ancients of Days.

116:2.7 #3. The Seven Master Spirits.

116:2.8 #4. The Supreme Being.

116:2.9 #5. The Conjoint Actor.

116:2.10 #6. The Eternal Son.

116:2.11 #7. The Universal Father.

116:2.12 The first three levels are the Supreme Creators; the last three levels are the Paradise Deities. The Supreme ever intervenes as the experiential spirit personalization of the Paradise Trinity and as the experiential focus of the evolutionary almighty power of the creator children of the Paradise Deities. The Supreme Being is the maximum revelation of Deity to the seven superuniverses and for the present universe age. [maybe of about one trillion years. Our local universe here is over 400 billion years old – so far.]

3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity

116:3.2 #1. The mind focalizations of the Third Source and Center. The finite domains of energy and spirit are literally held together by the mind presences of the Conjoint Actor. This is true from the Creative Spirit in a local universe through the Reflective Spirits of a superuniverse to the Master Spirits in the grand universe. The mind circuits emanating from these varied intelligence focuses represent the cosmic arena of creature choice. Mind is the flexible reality which creatures and Creators can so readily manipulate; it is the vital link connecting matter and spirit. The mind bestowal of the Third Source and Center unifies the spirit person of God the Supreme with the experiential power of the evolutionary Almighty.

4. The Almighty and the Supreme Creators

116:4.8 [Important !:] In the local universes even the Creators evolve: The presence of the Conjoint Actor evolves from a living power focus to the status of the divine personality of a Universe Mother Spirit; the Creator Son evolves from the nature of existential Paradise divinity to the experiential nature of supreme sovereignty. The local universes are the starting points of true evolution, the spawning grounds of bona fide imperfect personalities endowed with the freewill choice of becoming cocreators of themselves as they are to be. [!!]

116:4.9 The Magisterial Sons in their bestowals upon the evolutionary worlds eventually acquire natures expressive of Paradise divinity in experiential unification with the highest spiritual values of material human nature. And through these and other bestowals the Michael Creators [Our Master Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael] likewise acquire the natures and cosmic viewpoints of their actual local universe children. Such Master Creator Sons approximate the completion of subsupreme experience; and when their local universe sovereignty is enlarged to embrace the associated Creative [our Holy Minister Spirit Partner of Jesus] Spirits, it may be said to approximate the limits of supremacy within the present potentials of the evolutionary grand universe. [With our Creative Mother Spirit in Union with our Master Creator Son Jesus Christ Michael, A.D. 30 -on, now has all Divine Power as our Creator Father God ! God the Paradise Universal Father and Jesus our Nebadon Universe Father are Eternally One in Spirit. SEE JESUS: SEE GOD; as They are One !]

5. The Almighty and the Sevenfold Controllers

116:5.13 In the early days of universe building [around 400 billion years ago in Nebadon] even the Paradise Creators are primarily concerned with material equilibrium. The pattern of a local universe takes shape not only as a result of the activities of the power centers but also because of the space presence of the Creative Spirit. [She is omnipresent everywhere in Nebadon !] And throughout these early epochs of local universe building the Creator Son exhibits a little-understood attribute of material control, and he does not leave his capital planet [Salvington] until the gross equilibrium of the local universe has been established.

6. Spirit Dominance

116:6.5 There is an interdependence of all forces and personalities throughout the universe of universes. Creator Sons and Creative Spirits depend on the co-operative function of the power centers and physical controllers in the organization of universes; the Supreme Power Directors are incomplete without the overcontrol of the Master Spirits. In a human being the mechanism of physical life is responsive, in part, to the dictates of (personal) mind. This very mind may, in turn, become dominated by the leadings of purposive spirit, and the result of such evolutionary development is the production of a new child of the Supreme, [our evolutionary Mother] a new personal unification of the several kinds of cosmic reality. [On Paradise non-spirit Energy and Spirit are One !]

PAPER 117. God the Supreme

3. Significance of the Supreme to Universe Creatures

117:3.13 The Supreme apparently cannot initiate original causation but appears to be the catalyzer of all universe growth and is seemingly destined to provide totality culmination as regards the destiny of all experiential-evolutionary beings. The Father originates the concept of a finite cosmos; the Creator Sons factualize this idea in time and space with the consent and co-operation of the Creative Spirits; the Supreme culminates the total finite and establishes its relationship with the destiny of the absonite. [The Transcendental God the Ultimate in the (future to us) much larger and more Glorious Master Universe of Ultimacy]

5. The Oversoul of Creation

117:5.8 And so it is with the spiritual circuits: Man utilizes these in his ascent through the universes, but he never possesses them as a part of his eternal personality. But these circuits of spiritual ministry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit presences, are receptive and reactive to the emerging values in ascending personality, and these values are faithfully transmitted through the Sevenfold to the Supreme.

117:5.9 While such spiritual influences as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are local universe ministrations, their guidance is not wholly confined to the geographic limitations of a given local creation. As the ascending mortal passes beyond the boundaries of his local universe of origin, he is not entirely deprived of the ministry of the Spirit of Truth which has so constantly taught and guided him through the philosophic mazes of the material and morontial worlds, in every crisis of ascension unfailingly directing the Paradise pilgrim, ever saying: “This is the way.” When you leave the domains of the local universe, through the ministry of the spirit of the emerging Supreme Being and through the provisions of superuniverse reflectivity, [instant seeing and communicating at any distance !] you will still be guided in your Paradise ascent by the comforting directive spirit of the Paradise bestowal Sons of God. [Wonderful !]

117:5.10 How do these manifold circuits of cosmic ministry register the meanings, values, and facts of evolutionary experience in the Supreme? We [Mighty Messengers and other high Beings in our Superuniverse of Orvonton which has one trillion human-inhabited planets at the end of this first, Supreme-level, Grand Universe Age] are not exactly certain, but we believe that this registry takes place through the persons of the Supreme Creators of Paradise origin [our Creator Father-Son Jesus and His Creative Spirit] who are the immediate bestowers of these circuits of time and space. The mind-experience accumulations of the seven adjutant mind-spirits, in their ministry to the physical level of intellect, are a part of the local universe experience of the Divine Minister, and through this Creative Spirit they probably find registry in the mind of Supremacy. Likewise are mortal experiences with the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit probably registered by similar techniques in the person of Supremacy. [!]

7. The Future of the Supreme

117:7.5 #3. The Supreme is not completely real to universe creatures, but there are many reasons for deducing that he is quite real to the Sevenfold Deity, extending from the Universal Father on Paradise to the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits of the local universes.

PAPER 118. Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

9. Universe Mechanisms

118:9.8 In the eternity of the past the Father and the Son found union in the unity of the expression of the Infinite Spirit. If, in the eternity of the future, the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits of the local universes of time and space should attain creative union in the realms of outer space, what would their unity create as the combined expression of their divine natures? It may well be that we are to witness a hitherto unrevealed manifestation of Ultimate Deity, a new type of superadministrator. Such beings would embrace unique prerogatives of personality, being the union of personal Creator, impersonal Creative Spirit, mortal-creature experience, and progressive personalization of the Divine Minister. Such beings could be ultimate in that they would embrace personal and impersonal reality, while they would combine the experiences of Creator and creature. Whatever the attributes of such third persons of these postulated functioning trinities of the creations of outer space, they will sustain something of the same relation to their Creator Fathers and their Creative Mothers that the Infinite Spirit does to the Universal Father and the Eternal Son.

118:9.9 God the Supreme is the personalization of all universe experience, the focalization of all finite evolution, the maximation of all creature reality, the consummation of cosmic wisdom, the embodiment of the harmonious beauties of the galaxies of time, the truth of cosmic mind meanings, and the goodness of supreme spirit values. And God the Supreme will, in the eternal future, synthesize these manifold finite diversities into one experientially meaningful whole, even as they are now existentially united on absolute levels in the Paradise Trinity. [Don’t fear so-called “mind-blowing”; as we are much more real and stable than just the mind-level. Mind-stretching is probably a better term. Or to suddenly“Grok” or “Ding”]

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PAPER 119. The Bestowals of Christ Michael

1. The First Bestowal

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119:1.2 After sending this farewell broadcast, [our local universe Creator Son Christ] Michael appeared on the dispatching field of Salvington, [our Nebadon Universe Spiritual Headquarters] just as on many previous occasions when preparing for departure to Uversa or Paradise except that he came alone. He concluded his statement of departure with these words: “I leave you but for a short season. Many of you, I know, would go with me, but whither I go you cannot come. That which I am about to do, you cannot do. I go to do the will of the Paradise Deities, and when I have finished my mission and have acquired this experience, I will return to my place among you.” [Each Bestowal was about 150 million years apart; thus about one billion years to complete the seven Bestowals of doing the will of the seven only possible will combinations of the three Persons of the Paradise Trinity] And having thus spoken, Michael of Nebadon vanished from the sight of all those assembled and did not reappear for twenty years of standard time. In all Salvington, only the Divine Minister [Holy Creative Spirit Partner of Christ Michael] and Immanuel [Christ’s elder Brother and our Union of Days Trinity Representative] knew what was taking place, and the Union of Days shared his secret only with the chief executive of the [our Nebadon] universe, Gabriel, the Bright and Morning Star. [Michael is a high Title of our now Universe Sovereign Father-Son Jesus Christ Michael which means: HE Who IS Just Like GOD !]

3. The Third Bestowal

119:3.2 Upon the request of Michael, action on the petition of the Life Carriers [to help in a system rebellion; but Christ Michel was going there to resolve that problem] ] of this planet was deferred pending its consideration by Immanuel and his report thereon. This was an irregular procedure, and I well remember how we all anticipated something unusual, and we were not long held in suspense. Michael proceeded to place universe direction in the hands of Immanuel, while he intrusted command of the celestial forces to Gabriel, and having thus disposed of his administrative responsibilities, he took leave of the Universe [Creative] Mother Spirit and vanished from the dispatching field of Salvington precisely as he had done on two previous occasions.

PART IV. The Life and teachings of Jesus, Papers 120 – 196

PAPER 135. John the Baptist

7. John Journeys North

135:7.2 As John journeyed north, he thought much about Jesus. He paused at more than a dozen places as he traveled up the Jordan. It was at Adam that he first made reference to “another one who is to come after me” in answer to the direct question which his disciples asked him, “Are you the Messiah?” And he went on to say: “There will come after me one who is greater than I, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I baptize you with water, but he [Jesus Christ] will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. [Actually the Spirit of Truth Who is One with our Creator Jesus’ coordinate Deity Partner, our Creative Holy Spirit] And his shovel is in his hand thoroughly to cleanse his threshing floor; he will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff will he burn up with the judgment fire.”

9. Forty Days of Preaching

135:9.4 About three weeks after Jesus had left them, there arrived on the scene at Pella a new deputation from the priests and Pharisees at Jerusalem. They asked John directly if he was Elijah or the prophet that Moses promised; and when John said, “I am not,” they made bold to ask, “Are you the Messiah?” and John answered, “I am not.” Then said these men from Jerusalem: “If you are not Elijah, nor the prophet, nor the Messiah, then why do you baptize the people and create all this stir?” And John replied: “It should be for those who have heard me and received my baptism to say who I am, but I declare to you that, while I baptize with water, there has been among us one [Jesus Christ] who will return to baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

135:9.7 It was early on the morning of Sabbath, February 23, that the company of John, engaged in eating their morning meal, looked up toward the north and beheld Jesus coming to them. As he approached them, John stood upon a large rock and, lifting up his sonorous voice, said: “Behold the Son of God, the deliverer of the world! This is he of whom I have said, ‘After me there will come one who is preferred before me because he was before me.’ For this cause came I out of the wilderness to preach repentance and to baptize with water, proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And now comes one who shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. [All three Spirits of the Father, Son and Creative Holy Spirit are as One in their combined Divine Ministry to us] And I beheld the divine spirit descending upon this man, and I heard the voice of God declare, ‘This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’”

PAPER 137. Tarrying Time in Galilee

8. Sermon on the Kingdom

137:8.9 [Jesus:] “Be not deceived by those who come saying here is the kingdom or there is the kingdom, for my Father’s kingdom concerns not things visible and material. And this kingdom is even now among you, for where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven. And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.” [All three Spirits of God here are Omnipresent. God has no outside and no beyond !]

137:8.10 “John did indeed baptize you in token of repentance and for the remission of your sins, but when you enter the heavenly kingdom, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

PAPER 138. Training the Kingdom's Messengers

5. The Call of Thomas and Judas

138:5.2 When they had refreshed themselves, Jesus took the twelve [apostles] apart for a season to pray with them and to instruct them in the nature and work of the Holy Spirit, but again did they largely fail to comprehend the meaning of those wonderful truths which he endeavored to teach them. One would grasp one point and one would comprehend another, but none of them could encompass the whole of his teaching. Always would they make the mistake of trying to fit Jesus’ new gospel into their old forms of religious belief. They could not grasp the idea that Jesus had come to proclaim a new gospel of salvation and to establish a new way of finding God; they did not perceive that he was a new revelation of the Father in heaven. [Our Sovereign Savior Jesus Christ Michael is eternally our NEW LIVING WAY in The Family of God !]

PAPER 141. Beginning the Public Work

7. At Bethany Beyond Jordan

141:7.3 Jesus endeavored to make clear that he desired his disciples, having tasted of the good Spirit realities of the kingdom, so to live in the world that men, by seeing their lives, would become kingdom conscious and hence be led to inquire of believers concerning the ways of the kingdom. All such sincere seekers for the truth are always glad to hear the glad tidings of the [Universal Father’s] faith gift which insures admission to the kingdom with its eternal and divine Spirit Realities.

PAPER 142. The Passover at Jerusalem

6. The Visit with Nicodemus

142:6.7 And Nicodemus said: "But how can I begin to lay hold upon this spirit which is to remake me in preparation for entering into the kingdom?" Jesus answered: "Already does the Spirit of the Father in heaven indwell you. If you would be led by this Spirit from above, very soon would you begin to see with the eyes of the Spirit, and then by the wholehearted choice of Spirit guidance would you be Born of the Spirit since your only purpose in living would be to do the will of your Father who is in heaven. And so finding yourself Born of the Spirit and happily in the Kingdom of God, you would begin to bear in your daily life the abundant fruits of the Spirit."

PAPER 143. Going Through Samaria

2. Lesson on Self-Mastery

143:2.7 [Jesus states:] "Your sonship is grounded in faith, and you are to remain unmoved by fear. Your joy is born of trust in the divine word, and you shall not therefore be led to doubt the reality of the Father's love and mercy. It is the very goodness of God that leads men into true and genuine repentance. Your secret of the mastery of self is bound up with your faith in the indwelling Spirit, which ever works by love. Even this saving faith you have not of yourselves; it also is the gift of God. And if you are the children of this living faith, you are no longer the bondslaves of self but rather the triumphant masters of yourselves, the liberated sons of God."

146. First Preaching Tour of Galilee

3. The Stop at Ramah

146:3.6 [Jesus states:] "While you cannot observe the divine Spirit at work in your minds, there is a practical method of discovering the degree to which you have yielded the control of your soul powers to the teaching and guidance of this indwelling Spirit of the heavenly Father, and that is the degree of your love for your fellow men. This Spirit of the Father partakes of the love of the Father, and as it dominates man, it unfailingly leads in the directions of divine worship and loving regard for one's fellows. At first you believe that you are sons of God because my teaching has made you more conscious of the inner leadings of our Father's indwelling presence; but presently the Spirit of Truth shall be poured out upon all flesh, [May 18, A.D. 30 - on ! Always here with us !] and it [actually He Jesus here in Spirit, as Jesus will reveal later] will live among men and teach all men, even as I now live among you and speak to you the words of Truth. And this Spirit of Truth, speaking for the spiritual endowments of your souls, will help you to know that you are the sons of God. It will unfailingly bear witness with the Father's indwelling presence, your Spirit, then dwelling in all men [ALL humans] as it now dwells in some, telling you that you are in reality the sons of God.

PAPER 149. The Second Preaching Tour

5. Lesson Regarding Contentment

149:5.2 [Jesus states:] "Simon, some persons are naturally more happy than others. Much, very much, depends upon the willingness of man to be led and directed by the Father's Spirit which lives within him. Have you not read in the Scriptures the words of the wise man, 'The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts'? And also that such Spirit-led mortals say: 'The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.' 'A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked,' for 'a good man shall be satisfied from within himself."A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance and is a continual feast. Better is a little with the reverence of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred therewith. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without rectitude.' 'A merry heart does good like a medicine.' 'Better is a handful with composure than a superabundance with sorrow and vexation of Spirit.'"

PAPER 150. The Third Preaching Tour

5. What Must I Do to Be Saved?

150:5.5 In summing up his final statement, Jesus said: "You cannot buy salvation; you cannot earn righteousness. Salvation is the gift of God, and righteousness is the natural fruit of the Spirit-born life of sonship in the kingdom. You are not to be saved because you live a righteous life; rather is it that you live a righteous life because you have already been saved, have recognized sonship as the gift of God and service in the kingdom as the supreme delight of life on earth. When men believe this gospel, which is a Revelation of the goodness of God, they will be led to voluntary repentance of all known sin. Realization of sonship is incompatible with the desire to sin. Kingdom believers hunger for righteousness and thirst for divine perfection."

PAPER 155. Fleeing Through Northern Galilee

6. The Second Discourse on Religion

155:6.5 [Jesus states:] While the religion of authority may impart a present feeling of settled security, you pay for such a transient satisfaction the price of the loss of your spiritual freedom and religious liberty. My Father does not require of you as the price of entering the kingdom of heaven that you should force yourself to subscribe to a belief in things which are spiritually repugnant, unholy, and untruthful. It is not required of you that your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth should be outraged by submission to an outworn system of religious forms and ceremonies. The religion of the Spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the Spirit may take you. And who can judge -- perhaps this Spirit may have something to impart to this generation which other generations have refused to hear?

155:6.11 [Jesus states:] Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will. And fail not to remember that the will of God can be done in any earthly occupation. Some callings are not holy and others secular. All things are sacred in the lives of those who are Spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness -- justice. The Spirit which my Father and I [as One] shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the Spirit of idealistic beauty.

PAPER 156. The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon

5. Jesus' Teaching at Tyre

156:5.2 It was during this same sermon that Jesus made use of his first and only parable having to do with his own trade -- carpentry. In the course of his admonition to "Build well the foundations for the growth of a noble character of spiritual endowments," he said: "In order to yield the fruits of the Spirit, you must be born of the Spirit. You must be taught by the Spirit and be led by the Spirit if you would live the Spirit-filled life among your fellows. But do not make the mistake of the foolish carpenter who wastes valuable time squaring, measuring, and smoothing his worm-eaten and inwardly rotting timber and then, when he has thus bestowed all of his labor upon the unsound beam, must reject it as unfit to enter into the foundations of the building which he would construct to withstand the assaults of time and storm. Let every man make sure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny. Your spirit nature -- the jointly created soul -- is a living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must spring. The soil of the evolving soul is human and material, but the destiny of this combined creature of mind and Spirit is spiritual and divine."

PAPER 157. At Caesarea-Philippi

4. The Talk about the Kingdom

157:4.5 [The suddenly spiritually inspired apostles said to Jesus: "We believe that you are the Son of the living God."] Jesus, still standing, then said to the twelve: "You are my chosen ambassadors, but I know that, in the circumstances, you could not entertain this belief as a result of mere human knowledge. This is a revelation of the Spirit of my Father to your inmost souls. And when, therefore, you make this confession by the insight of the Spirit of my Father which dwells within you, I am led to declare that upon this foundation will I build the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. Upon this rock of spiritual reality will I build the living temple of spiritual fellowship in the eternal realities of my Father's kingdom. All the forces of evil and the hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human fraternity of the divine Spirit. And while my Father's Spirit shall ever be the divine guide and mentor of all who enter the bonds of this Spirit fellowship, to you and your successors I now deliver the keys of the outward kingdom -- the authority over things temporal -- the social and economic features of this association of men and women as fellows of the kingdom." And again he charged them, for the time being, that they should tell no man that he was the Son of God. [Note that this "rock of spiritual reality" is the Spirit of God upon and within you and all moral humans ! Not Peter ! Not Paul !]

PAPER 159. The Decapolis Tour

3. Instruction for Teachers and Believers

159:3.5 [Jesus, paraphrased in modern language, stated:] Never be guilty of such unworthy tactics as endeavoring to frighten men and women into the kingdom. A loving father does not frighten his children into yielding obedience to his just requirements.

159:3.6 Sometime the children of the kingdom will realize that strong feelings of emotion are not equivalent to the leadings of the divine Spirit. To be strongly and strangely impressed to do something or to go to a certain place, does not necessarily mean that such impulses are the leadings of the indwelling Spirit.

PAPER 170. The Kingdom of Heaven

5. Later Ideas of the Kingdom

170:5.9 The kingdom of Jesus' teaching, the spiritual ideal of individual righteousness and the concept of man's divine fellowship with God, became gradually submerged into the mystic conception of the person of Jesus as the Redeemer-Creator and spiritual head of a socialized [sub-spiritual, mainly secular] religious community. In this way a formal and institutional church became the substitute for the individually Spirit-led brotherhood of the kingdom.

170:5.10 The church was an inevitable and useful social result of Jesus' life and teachings; the tragedy consisted in the fact that this social reaction to the teachings of the kingdom so fully displaced the spiritual concept of the real kingdom as Jesus taught and lived it. [Today, there is no "social gospel", no "green gospel to protect nature", etc. The true, living Gospel (Good News) OF JESUS is: God is your infinitely loving and merciful Creator Father; and you and all moral humans are now His sons ! Believing this Truth in faith gives you the assurances of gloriously unfolding, thrilling, Sacred Eternal Life in the Family of God in Paradise and also on Urantia (Earth) ! Be now the son of God in Jesus Christ that you are ! Love and serve all humans as you believe that God and Jesus, One in Spirit here, would want you to say and do !]

PAPER 176. Tuesday Evening on Mount Olivet

3. Later Discussion at the Camp

176:3.7 Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service. You are not given truth to crystallize into settled, safe, and honored forms. Your revelation of truth must be so enhanced by passing through your personal experience that new beauty and actual spiritual gains will be disclosed to all who behold your spiritual fruits and in consequence thereof are led to glorify the Father who is in heaven. Only those faithful servants who thus grow in the knowledge of the truth, and who thereby develop the capacity for divine appreciation of spiritual realities, can ever hope to "enter fully into the joy of their Lord." What a sorry sight for successive generations of the professed followers of Jesus to say, regarding their stewardship of divine truth: "Here, Master, is the truth you committed to us a hundred or a thousand years ago. We have lost nothing; we have faithfully preserved all you gave us; we have allowed no changes to be made in that which you taught us; here is the truth you gave us." But such a plea concerning spiritual indolence will not justify the barren steward of truth in the presence of the Master. In accordance with the truth committed to your hands will the Master of Truth require a reckoning.

PAPER 180. The Farewell Discourse

5. The Spirit of Truth

180:5.7 In the kingdom of the believing brotherhood of God-knowing truth lovers, this golden rule takes on living qualities of spiritual realization on those higher levels of interpretation which cause the mortal sons of God to view this injunction of the Master as requiring them so to relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer’s contact with them. This is the essence of true religion: that you love your neighbor as yourself.

180:5.8 But the highest realization and the truest interpretation of the golden rule consists in the consciousness of the Spirit of the Truth of the enduring and living reality of such a divine declaration. The true cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization, in the interpretation of the law of conduct by the Spirit of the Son to the Spirit of the Father that indwells the soul of mortal man. And when such Spirit-led mortals realize the true meaning of this golden rule, they are filled to overflowing with the assurance of citizenship in a friendly universe, and their ideals of Spirit reality are satisfied only when they love their fellows as Jesus loved us all, and that is the reality of the realization of the love of God. [!!]

180:5.9 This same philosophy of the living flexibility and cosmic adaptability of divine truth to the individual requirements and capacity of every son of God, must be perceived before you can hope adequately to understand the Master’s teaching and practice of nonresistance to evil. The Master’s teaching is basically a spiritual pronouncement. Even the material implications of his philosophy cannot be helpfully considered apart from their spiritual correlations. The spirit of the Master’s injunction consists in the nonresistance of all selfish reaction to the universe, coupled with the aggressive and progressive attainment of righteous levels of true spirit values: divine beauty, infinite goodness, and eternal truth — to know God and to become increasingly like him. 180:5.10 Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth. Love must thereby grasp the ever-changing and enlarging concepts of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved. And then love goes on to strike this same attitude concerning all other individuals who could possibly be influenced by the growing and living relationship of one Spirit-led mortal's love for other citizens of the universe. And this entire living adaptation of love must be effected in the light of both the environment of present evil and the eternal goal of the perfection of divine destiny. [True love is the spiritual desire to do good to others.]

PAPER 182. In Gethsemane

1. The Last Group Prayer

182:1.8 Jesus prayed for [spiritual] unity among his followers, but he did not desire [mere intellectual] uniformity. Sin creates a dead level of evil inertia, but righteousness nourishes the creative spirit of individual experience in the living realities of eternal truth and in the progressive communion of the divine spirits of the Father and the Son. In the spiritual fellowship of the believer-son with the divine Father there can never be doctrinal finality and sectarian superiority of group consciousness.

PAPER 193. Final Appearances and Ascension

2. The Phoenician Appearance

193:2.2 [Important! Jesus Christ states:] "… And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. …”

PAPER 194. Bestowal of the Spirit of Truth

2. The Significance of Pentecost

194:2.11 Since the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, [May 18, A.D. 30 – on] man is subject to the teaching and guidance of a threefold spirit endowment: the spirit of the Father, the Thought Adjuster; the spirit of the Son, the Spirit of Truth; the spirit of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

194:2.12A In a way, mankind is subject to the double influence of the sevenfold appeal of the universe spirit influences. The early evolutionary races of mortals are subject to the progressive contact of the seven adjutant mind-spirits of the local universe Mother Spirit. [Review: 34:4.10 The seven adjutant mind-spirits are the creation of the Divine Minister of a local universe. These mind-spirits are similar in character but diverse in power, and all partake alike of the nature of the Universe Spirit, although they are hardly regarded as personalities apart from their Mother Creator. The seven adjutants have been given the following names: the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of worship, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of courage, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of intuition — of quick perception. [without these mind spirits, our brain (probably as a receiving antenna) would be nonfunctional !]

194:2.12B As man progresses upward in the scale of intelligence and spiritual perception, there eventually come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit influences. And these seven spirits of the advancing worlds are:

194:2.13 #1. The bestowed spirit of the Universal Father — the Thought Adjusters.

194:2.14 #2. The spirit presence of the Eternal Son — the spirit gravity of the universe of universes and the certain channel of all spirit communion.

194:2.15 #3. The spirit presence of the Infinite Spirit — the universal spirit-mind of all creation, the spiritual source of the intellectual kinship of all progressive intelligences.

194:2.16 #4. The spirit of the Universal Father and the Creator Son — the Spirit of Truth, generally regarded as the spirit of the Universe Son.

194:2.17 #5. The spirit of the Infinite Spirit and the Universe Mother Spirit — the Holy Spirit, generally regarded as the spirit of the Universe Spirit.

194:2.18 #6. The mind-spirit of the Universe Mother Spirit — the seven adjutant mind-spirits of the local universe.

194:2.19 #7. The spirit of the Father, Sons, and Spirits — the new-name spirit of the ascending mortals of the realms after the fusion of the mortal spirit-born soul with the Paradise Thought Adjuster and after the subsequent attainment of the divinity and glorification of the status of the Paradise Corps of the Finality.

194:2.20 And so did the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth bring to the world and its peoples the last of the spirit endowment designed to aid in the ascending search for God. [up through just over one billion progressively higher Spirit Heavens for possibly one trillion years. Then Eternal Paradise Residence ! And higher adventures in the unending explorations of Eternal Infinity of God the Universal Father-Infinite I AM]

3. What Happened at Pentecost

194:3.2 Many things which happen in the course of a human life are hard to understand, difficult to reconcile with the idea that this is a universe in which truth prevails and in which righteousness triumphs. It so often appears that slander, lies, dishonesty, and unrighteousness -- sin -- prevail. Does faith, after all, triumph over evil, sin, and iniquity? It does. And the life and death of Jesus are the eternal proof that the truth of goodness and the faith of the Spirit-led creature will always be vindicated. They taunted Jesus on the cross, saying, "Let us see if God will come and deliver him." It looked dark on that day of the crucifixion, but it was gloriously bright on the resurrection morning; it was still brighter and more joyous on the day of Pentecost. [The worldwide bestowal of He the Spirit of Truth -- Jesus here in Spirit with us -- ever flooding down upon all humans ! and within all Truth-seeking and God-loving humans !] The religions of pessimistic despair seek to obtain release from the burdens of life; they crave extinction in endless slumber and rest. These are the religions of primitive fear and dread. The religion of Jesus is a new Gospel of faith to be proclaimed to struggling humanity. This new religion [progressively unfolding from within Jesus and thus in God] is founded on faith, hope, and love.

4. Beginnings of the Christian Church

194:4.9 At first they baptized in the name of Jesus; it was almost twenty years before they began to baptize in “the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” Baptism was all that was required for admission into the fellowship of believers. They had no organization as yet; it was simply the Jesus brotherhood. [There are now millions of home-family-based spiritual fellowship groups of up to 10 to 15 individuals. When they get to around 12 persons, they split and advance into one or two other homes . By this process, the many anti-Christian, dictator-run countries are now becoming Christian secretly. “Priesthood of all believers”]

PAPER 195. After Pentecost

10. The Future

195:10.14 It is all too true that such a [distorted, imperfect Christian] church would not have survived unless there had been men in the world who preferred such a style of worship. Many spiritually indolent souls crave an ancient and authoritative religion of ritual and sacred traditions. Human evolution and spiritual progress are hardly sufficient to enable all men to dispense with religious authority. And the invisible brotherhood of the Kingdom [of Jesus, of God] may well include these family groups of various social and temperamental classes if they are only willing to become truly Spirit-led sons of God. But in this brotherhood of Jesus there is no place for sectarian rivalry, group bitterness, nor assertions of moral superiority and spiritual infallibility. [We God-conscious Jesusonian Christians are living and progressing in peace and joy in this Jesus' Brotherhood on Earth and in Heaven ! Here and now and Eternally ! Amen !]

PAPER 196. The Faith of Jesus

2. The Religion of Jesus

196:2.2 Jesus' life in the flesh portrays a transcendent religious growth from the early ideas of primitive awe and human reverence up through years of personal spiritual communion until he finally arrived at that advanced and exalted status of the consciousness of his oneness with the Father. And thus, in one short life, did Jesus traverse that experience of religious spiritual progression which man begins on earth and ordinarily achieves only at the conclusion of his [extremely] long sojourn in the Spirit training schools of the successive levels of the pre-Paradise career. Jesus progressed from a purely human consciousness of the faith certainties of personal religious experience to the sublime spiritual heights of the positive realization of his divine nature and to the consciousness of his close association with the Universal Father in the management of a universe. He progressed from the humble status of mortal dependence which prompted him spontaneously to say to the one who called him Good Teacher, "Why do you call me good? None is good but God," to that sublime consciousness of achieved Divinity which led him to exclaim, "Which one of you convicts me of sin?" And this progressing ascent from the human to the Divine was an exclusively mortal achievement. And when he had thus attained Divinity, he was still the same human Jesus, the Son of Man as well as the Son of God. [Jesus here with us: Our One God-Man, Divine-Human, Spirit Person !]

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