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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:28:19 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Where is the Urantia Community??   Re-Post from UrantiaNow.com]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 255); font-size: 21.6px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: -webkit-center;">Where is the Urantia Community?? Re-Post from UrantiaNow.com</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 255); font-size: 21.6px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: -webkit-center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Lately I&rsquo;ve been thinking about where our community exists. We don&rsquo;t have a single church or a center to call home base, nor do we have a network of readers homes that we can visit wherever we might be in town.</span></p><p><img alt="" height="282" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/87678/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; float: left;" width="311"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 21.6px;">This got me thinking about a few issues that I would like to tackle.<br />
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First&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">being the fact that we do not have a church to gather in or visit. I know that the UB does not call for us forming a church to praise and pray but it sure would be amazing to have a center or meeting place besides our living rooms that we could invite others to and have sermons by fellow readers, as well as a home base for the communities Urantia book readers and guests that we might invite. Though I very much respect the one on one interaction of an at home study group there is a definite missing. For me it is other ways to express my passion for what I learn when studying the UB. Look at the success of the large churches. They have a watered down version of Jesus&rsquo; truth and with a little light show and some music they rock the house and attract millions of followers!</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Second is a network of readers who are willing to host fellow traveling readers. How much more enticing would it be to a young evangelist if he knew he had a home to stay in for a night or two in most cities? A network of loving families to support him/her while traveling for the gospel of the good news. Outreach is going to take a million and one shapes but the support for the disciples must be solid. This website will be announcing a program that you can participate in to help this much needed network start to take shape. Stay toned for more and IC&rsquo;11!</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">There is another issue I would like to bring light to. Last week I was talking with a long time Urantia Book reader about the culture and attitude of the movement. We discussed how when many of the now older readers found the book they where immediately driven to serve. Many traveled to Chicago in search of a loving dynamic community to join and serve in. But what they found was a group of kind but inactive UB readers who looked down on these inspired souls and their desire to share this books greatness with the world. Most where told that the revelation needed to be spread through slow &ldquo;one on one&rdquo; introductions. This attitude still persists even now! And look where the Urantia Book sits on the world stage. It doesn&rsquo;t.</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Meredith Sprunger saw this happening in his community and tried to intervene. And I quote:</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1px 20px 25px; background-color: rgb(239, 248, 255); font-size: 0.95em; padding: 25px 5px 5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div>&ldquo; Many people who long to serve and help spread the good news of the fifth epochal revelation are confused by conflicting advice given by leaders in the URANTIA movement. Some are even afraid of violating some &ldquo;hidden&rdquo; or &ldquo;implied&rdquo; directive of the revelators of The URANTIA Book. It is time that these ambiguities be laid to rest.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://urantianow.com/clarifying-outreach-philosophy/" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(54, 138, 210); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(54, 138, 210);">follow the link for more.</a></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 21.6px;">Jesus tells us on p. 1729.6</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1px 20px 25px; background-color: rgb(239, 248, 255); font-size: 0.95em; padding: 25px 5px 5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div>&ldquo;The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The religion of the mind&ndash;the theology of authority&ndash;requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored truth in search for the farther shores of spiritual realities as they may be discovered by the progressive human mind and experienced by the evolving human soul.&rdquo;</div></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">THIS WAS IN 1983 for crying out loud! But let me be clear the time is here my friends. The beauty and truth in the UB can not be held down anymore by those who are afraid in their own hearts to live its teachings. This generation will hold itself and those who negate the outreach movement accountable.</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">It says in the UB loud and clear.</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1px 20px 25px; background-color: rgb(239, 248, 255); font-size: 0.95em; padding: 25px 5px 5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div>195:10.5 &rdquo; In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion that betokens the Jesusonian reaching forth to grasp his brother in love and sweep him on under spiritual guidance toward the higher and divine goal of mortal existence.&rdquo;</div></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Is slow growth going the second mile? I would say its surly is not. The second mile is living a dynamic spiritual life. Being upfront and proud of your relationship with God and all that it brings to your experience of existence.</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">This is not about making anyone or any group of people wrong let us make that clear. This conversation is about actually LIVING THE TEACHINGS OF THE URANITA BOOK! We must forgive ourselves for falling into the patterns that are natural to the nature of being human.</span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">To let religion take over your life is to exercise faith on a level we rarely see in our culture. And when we do see such a dynamic individual we have no idea how that person achieved it. So what our goal is as young readers is to form a community of purpose driven evangelist who are always in training on ways to live the teachings of the Urantia Book. &ldquo;The religion of the mind&ndash;the theology of authority&ndash;requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers.&rdquo; and not only that its not very inspiring.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="200" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/87677/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; float: left;" width="300"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">This generation is dedicated to bring a world full of lost </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">and hungry souls to the gates of heaven.</span></span><br style="font-size: 14.4px;">
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<strong style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal;">Thank you for listening. With love and respect.</strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">by&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://forum.spiritualfamily.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=3817&amp;sid=52c308aa7285769543ee1ea023a2bca2" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 255, 204); font-weight: bold;">Joseph Earle</a></strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal;"><img alt="" height="392" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/80443/master/" width="700"></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 10:48:08 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Should I Stay or Should I Go?!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Should I Stay or Should I Go?!</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="560"></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="https://strangepreacher.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="300" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/68324/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="300"></a></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/pages/view/68341/index-of-strange-preacher-substack-on-sfn" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;">STRANGE PREACHER SUBSTACK INDEX ON SFN</strong></a></p><h2 style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.625em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); font-style: normal; font-size: 1.625em; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 23.4px;">It required a great power,&nbsp;a mighty influence, to free the thinking and living of the Western peoples from the withering grasp of a totalitarian ecclesiastical domination. Secularism did break the bonds of church control, and now in turn it threatens to establish a new and godless type of mastery over the hearts and minds of modern man. The tyrannical and dictatorial political state is the direct offspring of scientific materialism and philosophic secularism. Secularism no sooner frees man from the domination of the institutionalized church than it&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 23.4px;">sells</em><span style="font-size: 23.4px;">&nbsp;him into slavish bondage to the totalitarian state. Secularism frees man from ecclesiastical slavery only to&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-size: 23.4px;">betray him into the tyranny of political and economic slavery</strong><span style="font-size: 23.4px;">.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:8.4]</span></span></h2><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px;"><div style="font-size: 14.4px; cursor: pointer;">&nbsp;</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">We know that Machiventa was the &lsquo;mighty influence&rsquo; referred to above and one has to wonder given that we now face GLOBAL political tyranny and economic slavery if it might be necessary for him to return to help us overcome this challenge?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">The Revelators continue:</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Materialism denies God, secularism simply ignores him; at least that was the earlier attitude. More recently,&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 19px;"><strong style="font-size: 19px;">secularism has assumed a more militant attitude</strong></em><span style="font-size: 19px;">, assuming to take the place of the religion whose totalitarian bondage it onetime resisted. Twentieth-century secularism tends to affirm that man does not need God. But beware! This godless philosophy of human society will lead only to unrest, animosity, unhappiness, war, and&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-size: 19px;">world-wide disaster</strong><span style="font-size: 19px;">.<span style="font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;[195:8.5]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">One could say that Secularism is something of a jealous god. It has long craved and even now demands complete allegiance. It has a growing resentment towards traditional religious devotion and is lining up to make such devotions illegal. Indeed, anywhere godless secularism has acquired the balance of power one of its first goals is the eradication of the faithful, a rather peculiar proclivity.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">...Jesus referred&nbsp;one phase&nbsp;of the kingdom to the future and did, on numerous occasions, intimate that such an event might appear as a&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 19px;">part of a world crisis</em><span style="font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-size: 11px;">[170:4.15]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">I think that it is fair to say that we are witnessing the beginnings of the first man-made disaster of truly global proportions. The Melchizedeks are the Emergency Sons, always first on the scene to help salvage wayward planets from catastrophe. There certainly is room for speculation that such a global disaster, as we now face, could be sufficient to merit the attention of the Melchizedeks, and if they were to send any then why not the vice-gerent himself?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">The Master told us: &ldquo;And when the kingdom shall have come to its full fruition, be assured that the Father in heaven will not fail to visit you with an enlarged&nbsp;</span><a href="https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/index.cfm?linkID=183" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="font-size: 19px; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary));">revelation</a><span style="font-size: 19px;">&nbsp;of truth and an&nbsp;enhanced&nbsp;demonstration&nbsp;of righteousness.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[176:2.3]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">I think we can all agree that the first part of the excerpt above as being the FER itself but the second element has not yet manifested and it would not be a stretch to imagine that this could be a response to the growing global crisis. The revelators teach that, &ldquo;Times of great testing and threatened defeat are always times of&nbsp;great revelation,&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:9.3]</span> and, Heaven knows, this is true. I have been frankly astounded by the revelations of the last three years.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">For all the pomp and ceremony, for all the apparent decorum and delicacies, we have only the thinnest veneer of civilisation. Scratch the surface and you find a ferocious brutality and chaos bristling to be free. Truth is not loved by the majority. Presently, the majority are motivated by convenience and ease. It is the twenty first century and many are so peasant minded that they subconsciously believe that &ldquo;the power to feed carries with it the right to rule,&rdquo; and they unflinchingly bend the knee to those that provide the bread. They resist, with almost murderous rage, having to think their way through a proposition. What&rsquo;s more ugly, is that they consider their blind acquiescence to this power a virtue, regardless of the fact that by bending the knee they are selling their children [and ours] into slavery. In this age of endless irony, the Virtue Signallers are, in fact, signalling the absence of virtue.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">It is worth noting that the next age, the so-called spiritual age, will be a time in which people will strive for a&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 19px;"><strong style="font-size: 19px;">quality of thought</strong></em><span style="font-size: 19px;">. The implication is that we are currently passing through an age during which quality thinking is not prevalent, the sufferings of the age being an indirect consequence of the lack of this. Given the recent turn of events this seems quite prophetic. It certainly seems hard to argue against.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">It seems clear that western civilisations are crumbling as a result of ideological and moral subversion. This subversion, whether brought about through Machiavellian design or spiritual ambivalence, is giving birth to a global tyranny that is being spearheaded by a powerful but corrupt elite. The teachings warn that we need to protect ourselves &ldquo;against the unfair and enslaving practices of unjust minorities who may be able to entrench themselves behind political, financial, or ecclesiastical power.&rdquo; The cleansing of the Temple by the Master teaches that &ldquo;Shrewd, wicked, and designing men&rdquo; should not &ldquo;be permitted to organize themselves for the exploitation and oppression...&rdquo; Interestingly, &ldquo;This episode also demonstrates that Jesus did not look with approval upon the refusal to employ force to protect the majority of any given human group.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[173:1.11]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">It certainly seems like economics, information, and institutions are being weaponised against the public in order to reduce the general population to &ldquo;economic &amp; political slavery&rdquo;. We are warned: &ldquo;&hellip; an ideal society cannot be realized when either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/index.cfm?linkID=321" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="font-size: 19px; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary));">goodness.</a><span style="font-size: 19px;">&nbsp;In such a situation only one course is practical: The &quot;golden rulers&quot; may establish a progressive society in which they live according to their ideals while maintaining an adequate defence against their&nbsp;benighted&nbsp;fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[71:4.16]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Nor need we fear such a move, if it is God&rsquo;s will, for we know that: &ldquo;All the forces of evil and the hosts of sin shall not&nbsp;prevail&nbsp;against this human fraternity of the divine spirit.&rdquo; <a href="http://www.urantia.org/node/546?term=%22prevail%22#U157_4_5"><span style="font-size: 11px;">[157:4:5]</span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11px;">(1747.3)]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">So, we are faced with one of two choices: we either fight to retrieve our world from the growing gloom of tyranny and the despair and tragedy that ever follow in its wake or we find some way strike out on our own. Undoubtedly, if we do nothing we, along with our children, will be consumed by the growing darkness. But should we, or could we, withdraw and endeavour to establish a more progressive society on the fringes of the collapsing civilisation? Or should we stand our ground and fight for the establishment of a better world? That&rsquo;s a tough call. Both have their merits.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">We are taught that &ldquo;The spiritual impetus of nominally accepting Hellenized Christianity came to Rome too late to prevent the well-started moral decline or to compensate for the already well-established and increasing racial deterioration. This new religion was a cultural necessity for imperial Rome, and it is exceedingly unfortunate that it did not become a means of spiritual salvation in a larger sense.&nbsp;&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:3.8]</span> </span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Many of our current prophets assert that our current cultural pathology is distressingly similar to the final days of Rome [even Egypt]. We have allowed corrupt and venal men to occupy the seats of power in our countries, and they are &ndash; literally and figuratively &ndash; selling us out before our very eyes. Without question, this ascendancy of the corrupt is in part a response to the failing spiritual immunity of an aging religious structure whose spiritual power, allure, and influence is waning to socially dangerous levels. Consequently, &ldquo;paganized and socialized Christianity stands in need of new contact with the uncompromised teachings of Jesus; it languishes for lack of a new vision of the Master&#39;s life on earth. A new and fuller revelation of the religion of Jesus is&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 19px;"><strong style="font-size: 19px;">destined</strong></em><span style="font-size: 19px;">&nbsp;to conquer an empire of materialistic secularism and to overthrow a world sway of mechanistic naturalism. Urantia is now quivering on the very brink of one of its most amazing and enthralling epochs of social readjustment, moral quickening, and spiritual enlightenment</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:9.2]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Perhaps I am making too much of this. Perhaps the phase of the kingdom we are passing through refers to the grave danger that occurs &ldquo;when most men will speak well of kingdom believers and many in high places nominally accept the gospel of the heavenly kingdom. Learn to be faithful to the kingdom even in times of peace and prosperity. Tempt not the angels of your supervision to lead you in troublous ways as a loving discipline designed to save your ease-drifting souls&nbsp;.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[178:1.10]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Our current trials might simply be a lesson to teach us the importance of not abandoning or the dangers inherent in neglecting our spirituality and faith, as opposed to a dramatic global crisis that might merit divine intervention.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><span style="font-size: 19px;">We are offered avenues wherewith to challenge the current trend: cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization. This would imply not only that we should &lsquo;cease to sponsor&rsquo; but that we should actively seek to&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 19px;">sponsor that which is better</em><span style="font-size: 19px;">. This presents multiple challenges in the interregnum, between abandoning the old and not yet having established the new. However, there is inspiration to be found in the Cross. The Cross reveals a tremendous light to those that have the faith to see. It is the ultimate symbol of loving service, of the bestowing of one&rsquo;s life for the enhancement of all life, of an all consuming and fearless love for both the Great Father and the brotherhood of His divine children - the worship of the One expressed in service for the many, it is the great symbol of that unflinching courage which recognises its duty and dares to do it regardless of the consequences. Above all the Cross reveals the courageous abandonment of what was and the daring faith required to establish what could and should be.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">The Revelators teach us that:&nbsp;If the Christian church&nbsp;would&nbsp;only dare to espouse the Master&#39;s program, thousands of apparently indifferent youths&nbsp;would&nbsp;rush forward to enlist in such a spiritual undertaking, and they&nbsp;would&nbsp;not&nbsp;hesitate&nbsp;to go all the way through with this great adventure. <span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:10.10]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">How many times have the brethren asked &ldquo;but what is the Master&rsquo;s Program&rdquo;? What does he prescribe?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">The answer is there: cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization. Reform the social contract - exalt the Great Father, Family, and Fatherland, promote justice and eschew corruption, foster and protect freedom of thought and expression, honour service, condemn and punish treason and treachery, exalt trustworthiness and reward faithfulness.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">We need a community of spiritual people who:&nbsp;&ldquo;delight in bearing one another&#39;s burdens; [who] actually desire to practice the&nbsp;golden&nbsp;rule.&rdquo; Who know how and who will abundantly and knowing fully the cost willingly bear the fruits of the spirit.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">We are warned that &ldquo;The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement.&rdquo; <span style="font-size: 11px;">[2:7.9]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear - the living gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. <span style="font-size: 11px;">[195:10.21]</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/64505/i-am-eden-international"><img alt="" height="146" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/73823/master/" width="260"></a></span></p><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><hr style="margin: var(--size-32) 0; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"><div style="margin: 24px auto; font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); font-size: 19px; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); text-align: center;"><div style="margin-top: var(--size-16); margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); font-size: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0; font-size: 18px; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary));">Thanks for reading Strange&rsquo;s Substack! 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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;">A Calling to the Sons and Daughters of God on Urantia</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="170" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Signature-Machiventa-700x150.gif" style="font-size: 28px;" width="700"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="325" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44396/master/" style="font-size: 28px;" width="260"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><blockquote style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="margin: 5pt 36pt; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="" height="67" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44398/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; float: left;" width="74"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18px;">&quot;My Father is no respecter of races or generations in that the word of truth is vouchsafed one age and withheld from another. Commit not the folly of calling that divine which is wholly human, and fail not to discern the words of truth which come not through the traditional oracles of supposed inspiration.&quot;</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 5pt 36pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 26px;">1679 Prophecy to the Sons of God By Jane Leade</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><img alt="" height="350" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44395/master/" style="font-size: 26px;" width="350"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><a href="http://translate.google.co.in/?hl=en&amp;tab=wT#" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 26px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="60" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44402/master/" style="font-size: 26px;" width="360"></a></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><img alt="" height="20" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/AniBar-GoldGlobe-01.gif" style="font-size: 26px;" width="700"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Therefore let it be known with truth and assurance that the sons of God belong in all things to a higher realm. Unto this high realm many are now proceeding, and from it the world will be filled with the knowledge and government of the Lord.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="20" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/AniBar-GoldGlobe-01.gif" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);" width="700"></p><blockquote style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="" height="67" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44398/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; font-size: 14.4px; float: left;" width="74"><span style="font-size: 18px;">&quot;Now that you are ambassadors of my Father&#39;s kingdom, you have thereby become a class of men separate and distinct from all other men on earth. You are not now as men among men but as the enlightened citizens of another and heavenly country among the ignorant creatures of this dark world. It is not enough that you live as you were before this hour, but henceforth must you live as those who have tasted the glories of a better life and have been sent back to earth as ambassadors of the Sovereign of that new and better world. Of the teacher more is expected than of the pupil; of the master more is exacted than of the servant. Of the citizens of the heavenly kingdom more is required than of the citizens of the earthly rule. Some of the things which I am about to say to you may seem hard, but you have elected to represent me in the world even as I now represent the Father; and as my agents on earth you will be obligated to abide by those teachings and practices which are reflective of my ideals of mortal living on the worlds of space, and which I exemplify in my earth life of revealing the Father who is in heaven.<a href="https://machiventamelchizedek.org/Urantia-Book/The-Urantia-Papers/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #808080;"> From the teachings of the Urantia Revelations (1955)</span></a></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="560"></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="500" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/79898/master/" style="margin: 6px 12px; float: left;" width="700">The following remarkable prophecy, given in the year 1679, forcefully confirms the truths written above. We quote it in its entirety for your benefit and blessing. Please read and re-read it for its truths are profound:</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">01 &quot;There shall be a total and full redemption by Christ. This is a hidden mystery not to be understood without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is at hand to reveal the same unto all holy seekers and loving enquirers. The completion of such a redemption is withheld and abstracted by the seals of Revelation. Wherefore as the Spirit of God shall open seal after seal, <a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6699ff;">(Paper after Paper)</span></a> so shall this redemption come to be revealed, both particularly and universally. In the gradual opening of the mystery of redemption in Christ doth consist the unsearchable wisdom of God which may continually reveal new and fresh things to the worthy seeker. In order to which the&nbsp;<a href="http://machiventamelchizedek.org/Urantia-Book/The-Urantia-Papers/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Ark of the Testimony in Heaven&nbsp;</a>shall be opened before the end of this age, and the living testimony herein contained shall be unsealed.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/images2023/Sign-To_The_Elect_of_God-1%20copy.gif"></a></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">02 &quot;The presence of the Divine Ark (Christ) will constitute the life of this Virgin Church, and wherever this body is, there must the Ark of necessity be. The unsealing of the living testimony within the Ark of God must begin the promulgation of&nbsp;<a href="http://machiventamelchizedek.org/Urantia-Book/Jesus-Papers/0000-Index-Text.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">the everlasting gospel of the Kingdom.</a>&nbsp;The proclamation of the testimony will be as the sounding of a trumpet of alarm to the nations of professed Christendom. Authority shall be given by Christ to the putting an end to all controversies concerning the true church that is born of the New Jerusalem mother. This decision will be the actual sealing of the body of Christ with the name (or authority) of God, giving them a commission to act by the same. This new name (or authority) will distinguish them from the seven thousand names of Babylon.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">03 &quot;The election and preparation of this Virgin Church is to be after a secret and hidden manner. As David in his ministry was chosen and anointed by the prophet of the Lord, yet was not admitted to the outward profession of the kingdom for a considerable time afterward, of the stem of David a Virgin Church, which hath known nothing of a man or human constitution, is to be born, and it will require some time for it to get out of the minority and arrive at full and mature age.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">04 &quot;The birth of this Virgin Church was typified by St. John&#39;s vision where the great wonder appeared in heaven, bringing forth her first born, that was caught up to the throne of God (or identified with the authority of God). For as a woman brought forth Christ after the flesh, so shall a Sonship Family bring forth the first born after the Spirit, who shall be endowed with the seven spirits of God. This spiritual family so brought forth and sealed with the mark of divine authority will have no bonds or impositions; but the holy unction among these new born spirits will be &quot; I AM all in all a new revelation of the Supreme Being.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">05 &quot;There is not at this day (1679) visible upon the earth such a church; all profession being found light when weighed in the balances. Therefore they are rejected by the Supreme Judge, which rejection will be for this cause, that out of them may come a new and glorious church. (Comprising a single human family) Then shall the glory of God and the Lamb so rest upon this typical tabernacle, so that it shall be called the Tabernacle of Wisdom, and though it is not now known in visibility, yet it shall be seen as coming out of the wilderness within a short time. Then will it go on to multiply and propogate itself universally, not only to the number of the first born (144,000) but also to the remnant of the seed, against whom the dragon will make war continually.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">06 &quot;Wherefore the spirit of David shall revive in this church and most especially in some elect members of it as the blossoming root. These will have might given them to overcome the dragon and his angels even as David overcame Goliath and the Philistine army. This will be the standing up of the great Prince Michael, and it will be as the appearing of Moses against Pharaoh in order that the chosen seed may be brought out of hard servitude.&quot; Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world&hellip;(the Power Elite)</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44401/master/" style="font-size: 18px;" width="684"></span></p><blockquote style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">157:4.5 Jesus, still standing, then said to the twelve: &quot;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&#39;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&#39;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.&quot; And again he charged them, for the time being, that they should tell no man that he was the Son of God.<a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank"> From the teachings of the Urantia Revelations(1955)</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="60" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-12-Divider3.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="903"></p><blockquote style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Eph. 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the full armour of God, that ye may withstand the evil day.<br />
Eph. 6:14 Girt your loins about with truth, and have on the breast plate of righteousness&hellip;<br />
Eph. 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.<br />
Eph. 6:16 and above all, take the Shield of Faith&hellip;<br />
Eph. 6:17 the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">07 &quot;Egypt doth figure this servile creation under which Abraham&#39;s seed groans, but a prophet, and the most prophetical generation, will the Most High raise up who shall deliver His people by the force of spiritual arms; for which there must be raised up certain head powers to bear the first office, who are to be persons in favor with God whose dread and fear shall fall on all nations visible and invisible, because of the mighty acting power of the Holy Spirit which shall rest upon them. For Christ will appear in some chosen vessels to bring into the Promised Land the New Creation state.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">08 &quot;Thus Moses, Joshua, and Aaron may be considered types of some upon whom the same Spirit will come, yet in greater proportion. Whereby they shall make way for the ransomed of the Lord to return to Mt. Zion; but none shall stand under God but those who have become &quot;tried&quot; stones after the pattern and similitude of Christ. This will be fiery trial through which a very few will be able to pass or bear up in it. Whereby the waiters for this visible breaking forth are strictly charged to hold fast, and wait together in the unity of Pure Love. This trial will be of absolute necessity to all for the clearing away of all remaining infirmities of the natural mind, and the burning of all wood, hay, and stubble. For nothing must remain in the fire, for as a refiner shall He purify the sons of the Kingdom.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">09 &quot;There will be some who will be fully redeemed, being clothed upon with a priestly garment after the Melchizedek order. This will qualify them for governing Authority. Therefore it is required on their part to suffer the Spirit of burning and fanning of the fiery breath searching every part within them until they arrive at a Fixed Body from whence the wonders are to flow out.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">10 &quot;Upon this body will be the fixation of the Urim and Thummim that are the portion of the Melchizedek priesthood whose descent is not counted in the genealogy of that creation which is under the fall, but in another genealogy which is a New Creation. Hence these priests will have a deep inward search and divine sight into secret things of Deity; will be able to prophesy in a clear ground; not darkly and enigmatically, for they will know what is couched in the first originality of all beings, in the eternal anti-type of nature, and will be able to bring them forth according to the divine counsel and ordination.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">11 &quot;The Lord sweareth in truth and righteousness that from Abraham&#39;s line, according to the Spirit, there shall arise a holy seed, produced and manifested in the last age. The mighty spirit of Cyrus is appointed to lay the foundation of this Third Temple and support it in building.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">12 &quot;There are characteristics and marks whereby the pure Virgin Church shall be known and distinguished from all others that are low, false, and counterfeit. There must be a manifestation of the Spirit whereby to edify and raise up this church, bringing heaven down upon the earth and representing here the New Jerusalem state, in order to which spirits are thus begotten and born of God, ascended to New Jerusalem above where their Head in majesty doth reign.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">13 &quot;None but those who have so ascended and received His glory can condescend and communicate the same, being thereby His representatives upon the earth and subordinate priests under Him now. He that has ascended and glorified has made Himself, as it were, our Debtor. Consequently, He will not be wanting in qualifying and furnishing certain high and principal instruments who shall be most humble and as little regarded as David was, whom He will dignify with honour and priestly sovereignty for drawing to them the scattered flocks, and gathering them into one fold out of all nations.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">14 &quot;Therefore, there should be a holy emulation and ambition stirred up among the bands of believers that they may be of the first-fruits unto Him that is risen from the dead, <a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/3786/the-planetary-reserve-corps-of-destiny" target="_blank">and so be made principal agents for Him and with Him</a>, that they may be, if possible, of the number of the First-born of the New Jerusalem mother. All true waiters of His Kingdom in Spirit, under whatsoever profession they may be, ought to be numbered among the virgin spirits to whom this message appertains. Be watchful and quicken your pace.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><br />
<img alt="" height="67" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44398/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(226, 242, 254); text-align: justify; float: left;" width="74"><span style="font-size: 18px;">155:6.2 You have come out from among those of your fellows who choose to remain satisfied with a religion of mind, who crave security and prefer conformity. You have elected to exchange your feelings of authoritative certainty for the assurances of the spirit of adventurous and progressive faith. You have dared to protest against the grueling bondage of institutional religion and to reject the authority of the traditions of record which are now regarded as the word of God. Our Father did indeed speak through Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea, but he did not cease to minister words of truth to the world when these prophets of old made an end of their utterances. My Father is no respecter of races or generations in that the word of truth is vouchsafed one age and withheld from another. Commit not the folly of calling that divine which is wholly human, and fail not to discern the words of truth which come not through the traditional oracles of supposed inspiration. <a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #A9A9A9;">From the teachings of the Urantia Revelations (1955)</span></a></span></p><blockquote style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;"><p style="font-size: 14.4px;"><img alt="" height="67" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44398/master/" style="margin: 4px 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify; float: left;" width="74"><span style="font-size: 18px;">155:6.2 You have come out from among those of your fellows who choose to remain satisfied with a religion of mind, who crave security and prefer conformity. You have elected to exchange your feelings of authoritative certainty for the assurances of the spirit of adventurous and progressive faith. You have dared to protest against the grueling bondage of institutional religion and to reject the authority of the traditions of record which are now regarded as the word of God. Our Father did indeed speak through Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea, but he did not cease to minister words of truth to the world when these prophets of old made an end of their utterances. My Father is no respecter of races or generations in that the word of truth is vouchsafed one age and withheld from another. Commit not the folly of calling that divine which is wholly human, and fail not to discern the words of truth which come not through the traditional oracles of supposed inspiration. <a href="https://machiventamelchizedek.org/Urantia-Book/The-Urantia-Papers/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank">From the teachings of the Urantia Revelations (1955)</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" src=".%20In%20accordance%20with%20the%20truth%20committed%20to%20your%20hands%20will%20the%20Master%20of%20truth%20require%20a%20reckoning."><img alt="" height="561" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/83922/master/" width="1000"></p><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;">5TH EPOCHAL REVELATION OF GOD TO MAN</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="http://theuniversalfather.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="128" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44397/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="637"></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44394/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="700"></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="523" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44403/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="700"></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="67" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/44408/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="74"></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="1000"></div><div>&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">LETTER FROM LINDIANNE SAPPINGTON TO EDEN INTERNATIONAL</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="475" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/62570/master/" width="696"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">On Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 9:20 p.m. Lindianne Sappington &lt;lindisarno@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br />
Dearest Monica,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Make your statement of mission and goals clear and brief. Send around<br />
Mission and Goals until all of Eden International are satisfied with<br />
the wording.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">After Mission and Goals, append a Spiritual Rule, such as the rule of<br />
St. Benedict, Rule of Saint Francis, Rule of Saint Brigid:<br />
All residents, (farmers, WWOOFers, spiritual ambassadors) contribute<br />
physical activity on the property, share meals, and take daily<br />
solitude time with our Father, praying for and receiving guidance on<br />
how and where best to serve Eden.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Winter 2023-2024:&nbsp; Plan crops, acquire seeds, plan animals and<br />
poultry.&nbsp; Evolve permaculture design on map of property with vector<br />
overlays of sunlight, wind, water, animals, humans, buildings,<br />
fencing.&nbsp; &nbsp;Design principles are shared on spiritual family.net as<br />
edenic properties in every nation adapt permaculture principles to<br />
their watershed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Spring and Summer, 2024: fencing and water system including ponds.<br />
Wood and stone fencing for pulsed grazing, poultry runs, chicken<br />
tractors, gardens, orchards, no till pastures, compost zone.&nbsp; Build<br />
rabbitry, WWOOFer bungalows, compost zone, greenhouses.&nbsp; Commence<br />
horse logging and haying.&nbsp; Initiate Herbarium of perennial medicinals.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">We of Eden International are readers of the Urantia Papers, living in<br />
the Fifth Epochal Revelation.&nbsp; We are farmers, foresters, WWOOFers,<br />
and spiritual ambassadors. Everyone on the property engages in<br />
physical activity, we share meals, we engage in daily solitude, time<br />
with God, praying for and receiving guidance to do God&#39;s will, how<br />
best we may serve, how best to tend forest and garden, where to direct<br />
our service.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">I love your statement:&nbsp; this is a property for inquiring minds who are<br />
seeking solace!&nbsp; Work, pray, travel or stay!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Blessings,<br />
Lindianne</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">PS Please pass this on to Eden International.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" height="600" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/65369/master/" width="1000"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></span></p>]]></description>
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