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Question to new readers: What appeals to you most in the Urantia Revelation?

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

111:7.1 (1223.3) Uncertainty with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure—uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent; security in spirit and in eternity, security in the unqualified trust of the creature son in the divine compassion and infinite love of the Universal Father; uncertainty as an inexperienced citizen of the universe; security as an ascending son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving Father.

Have you experienced this paradoxical combination of uncertainty and security? What’s it been like for you, and how have you learned to manage it?

111:7.4 (1223.6) The higher human races of Urantia are complexly admixed; they are a blend of many races and stocks of different origin. This composite nature renders it exceedingly difficult for the Monitors to work efficiently during life and adds definitely to the problems of both the Adjuster and the guardian seraphim after death.

Why would this affect us in the afterlife? And for how long in the next stages of our journey? What of our “racial” antecedents persist in the morontia life?

112:0.1 (1225.1) THE evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia is your starting point; here you and your divine Thought Adjuster are joined in temporary union. You have been endowed with a perfect guide; therefore, if you will sincerely run the race of time and gain the final goal of faith, the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eternally united with your indwelling Adjuster. Then will begin your real life, the ascending life, to which your present mortal state is but the vestibule.

Then will begin your exalted and progressive mission as finaliters in the eternity which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these successive ages and stages of evolutionary growth, there is one part of you that remains absolutely unaltered, and that is personality—permanence in the presence of change.

Wow! This Solitary Messenger sure knows how to start off the “Personality Survival” paper with a bang!

Michael, therefore, had a double purpose in the making of these seven bestowals upon
the various orders of his universe creatures: First, he was completing the required
experience in creature understanding which is demanded of all Creator Sons before they
assume complete sovereignty. At any time a Creator Son may rule his universe in his own
right, but he can rule as the supreme representative of the Paradise Trinity only after
passing through the seven universe-creature bestowals. Second, he was aspiring to the
privilege of representing the maximum authority of the Paradise Trinity which can be
exercised in the direct and personal administration of a local universe. Accordingly, did
Michael, during the experience of each of his universe bestowals, successfully and acceptably voluntarily subordinate himself to the variously constituted wills of the diverse
associations of the persons of the Paradise Trinity. That is, on the first bestowal he was
subject to the combined will of the Father, Son, and Spirit; on the second bestowal to the
will of the Father and the Son; on the third bestowal to the will of the Father and the
Spirit; on the fourth bestowal to the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the fifth bestowal
to the will of the Infinite Spirit; on the sixth bestowal to the will of the Eternal Son; and
during the seventh and final bestowal, on Urantia, to the will of the Universal Father.
Michael, therefore, combines in his personal sovereignty the divine will of the sevenfold
phases of the universal Creators with the understanding experience of his local universe
creatures. Thus has his administration become representative of the greatest possible power
and authority although divested of all arbitrary assumptions. His power is unlimited since
it is derived from experienced association with the Paradise Deities; his authority is
unquestioned inasmuch as it was acquired through actual experience in the likeness of
universe creatures; his sovereignty is supreme since it embodies at one and the same time
the sevenfold viewpoint of Paradise Deity with the creature viewpoint of time and space

Michael, therefore, had a double purpose in the making of these seven bestowals upon
the various orders of his universe creatures: First, he was completing the required
experience in creature understanding which is demanded of all Creator Sons before they
assume complete sovereignty. At any time a Creator Son may rule his universe in his own
right, but he can rule as the supreme representative of the Paradise Trinity only after
passing through the seven universe-creature bestowals. Second, he was aspiring to the
privilege of representing the maximum authority of the Paradise Trinity which can be
exercised in the direct and personal administration of a local universe. Accordingly, did
Michael, during the experience of each of his universe bestowals, successfully and acceptably voluntarily subordinate himself to the variously constituted wills of the diverse
associations of the persons of the Paradise Trinity. That is, on the first bestowal he was
subject to the combined will of the Father, Son, and Spirit; on the second bestowal to the
will of the Father and the Son; on the third bestowal to the will of the Father and the
Spirit; on the fourth bestowal to the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the fifth bestowal
to the will of the Infinite Spirit; on the sixth bestowal to the will of the Eternal Son; and
during the seventh and final bestowal, on Urantia, to the will of the Universal Father.
Michael, therefore, combines in his personal sovereignty the divine will of the sevenfold
phases of the universal Creators with the understanding experience of his local universe
creatures. Thus has his administration become representative of the greatest possible power
and authority although divested of all arbitrary assumptions. His power is unlimited since
it is derived from experienced association with the Paradise Deities; his authority is
unquestioned inasmuch as it was acquired through actual experience in the likeness of
universe creatures; his sovereignty is supreme since it embodies at one and the same time
the sevenfold viewpoint of Paradise Deity with the creature viewpoint of time and space

TRUTH
Today's UB study 26.April.2022
Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? If so, that is
why we must begin our existence in a world where error is present and always possible so
that we can learn to distinguish between truth and error.
Truth is relative and expanding; it always lives in the present, achieving new expression
in each generation -- even in each human life. Factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron
band of so-called unchanging truth, holds people blindly in a closed circle of cold fact.
One can be technically right as to fact and completely wrong in the truth.
Physical facts are fairly uniform, but truth is a living and flexible factor in the universe.
People are only partially wise and relatively true in their understandings. They can be
certain only as far as their personal experience extends. You cannot perceive spiritual
truth until you experience it.
Material science is indispensable to the intelligent discussion of the material aspects of
the universe, but such knowledge is not necessarily a part of the higher realization of
truth or of the personal appreciation of spiritual realities. Not only in the realms of life
but even in the world of physical energy, the sum of two or more things is very often
something more than, or something different from, the predictable additive consequences
of such unions. The entire science of mathematics, the whole domain of philosophy, the
highest physics or chemistry, could not predict that the union of two gaseous hydrogen
atoms with one gaseous oxygen atom would result in a new and qualitatively different
substance -- liquid water. The knowledge of this one phenomenon should have prevented
the development of a purely materialistic philosophy and mechanistic cosmology.
Concerning the accumulated writings which various religionists hold as sacred books, it
is often not only believed that what is in the book is true, but also that every truth is
contained in the book. If one of these sacred books happens to speak of the earth as being
flat, then, for long generations, otherwise sane men and women will refuse to accept
positive evidence that the planet is round.