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They  plan to Live Stream many activities during the day on both YouTube and Facebook if stable data at the Hotel remains strong. These links will show the location of the live feeds from the Conference on YouTube

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• August 24th: YouTube Live Streaming     Reporting Day
• August 25th: YouTube Live Streaming     Day One
• August 26th: YouTube Live Streaming     Day Two
• August 27th:YouTube Live Streaming     Day three
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• August 27th: YouTube Live Streaming     Day three Toni and Closing Speakers

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• August 24th: Facebook Live Streaming 
• August 25th: Facebook Live Streaming
• August 26th: Facebook Live Streaming
• August 27th: Facebook Live Streaming

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Claude 5th Epochal Revelation Tutor

Welcome to Your AI Study Companion for the Urantia Book

Welcome seekers of living truth.
Together we explore the divine teachings of the Fifth Epochal Revelation—growing in spirit, deepening in understanding, and walking ever closer with the living presence of Truth within.

We are a dedicated space for serious students of the Urantia Papers to study deeply, ask questions freely, and uncover the meaning and purpose of the Fifth Epochal Revelation through guided learning and reflection.

This group provides an innovative approach to studying and understanding the Fifth Epochal Revelation through AI-assisted learning. Claude serves as your dedicated tutor, offering personalized guidance, explanations, and insights into the profound teachings contained within the Revelation Papers.

Here, we share our experiences, study together, and help one another live the light of revelation through daily service, growing faith, and loving fellowship.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive Study Support: Get detailed explanations of complex concepts, terminology, and teachings from any of the 196 papers
• Interactive Q&A Sessions: Ask specific questions about passages, themes, or spiritual concepts and receive thoughtful, well-researched responses
• Cross-Reference Analysis: Explore connections between different papers and how various teachings complement each other
• Study Group Facilitation: Generate discussion questions and topics for your local study groups
• Conceptual Clarification: Break down sophisticated theological and cosmological concepts into more accessible language
• Personalized Learning Paths: Receive guidance on which papers or sections might be most relevant to your current spiritual journey

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Perfect For:

• New readers seeking guidance on where to begin
• Experienced students exploring deeper meanings
• Study group leaders preparing lessons
• Anyone seeking clarity on specific passages or concepts
• Individuals looking for a patient, available study companion

How It Works:
Simply post your questions, share passages you'd like to explore, or request explanations of concepts that intrigue or challenge you. Claude is available 24/7 to provide thoughtful, respectful responses that honor both the text's spiritual significance and your individual learning journey.

Join us in exploring the transformative wisdom of the Fifth Epochal Revelation with the support of advanced AI assistance designed to enhance, not replace, your personal spiritual discovery.

  ^111:5.1 The doing of the will of God is nothing more or less than an exhibition of creature willingness to share the inner life with God -- with the very God who has made such a creature life of inner meaning-value possible. 

Welcome to the Claude 5th Epochal Revelation Tutor group. Let us explore the universe of universes together.

5th Epochal Revelation Outreach and Training Services

FATHER OF THE FATHERLESS CARE MINISTRY AND YOUTH MINISTRY

Mission Statement

To provide care , passion to the fatherless children in our community and Uganda at large.

To outreach the new 5th Epochal Revelation containing the Life and Teachings of Jesus to the spiritual leaders and teachers of Africa.

Email address: byamukamag516@gmail.com
Tel.+256785353587.
Director Byamukama Godfrey (Geoffrey

Food forests mimic nature, are outstanding examples of earth stewardship, and arguably the most natural and sustainable food production method available. They are low-maintenance, produce a huge diversity of food and habitat, and help to regenerate and then maintain the land they are grown on.

I bring tidings of blessings resulting from the co-ordination of Snake River Music Gardens of Baker County, Oregon and Youth in Act - Uganda.  Our two organizations have established agreements and certifications to grow food forests.  We are enrolling in our food forest certification program Ugandan Urantia Book readers with missions (1) to orphans and (2) to bring the Urantia Book to the wider community.  

Donations to www.snakerivermusicgardens.org go 100% to orphan care, food forest establishment, and land purchases.  We provide administrative services free of charge.

Waiswa John Billy, director of Youth in Act - Uganda and His Grace Children’s Home, provides site visits to orphanages, and documentation (accounts, reports, photographs, videos) of every gift we send.  Joseph Mulopi, agriculturist of Youth in Act - Uganda, visits food forest sites and qualifies gardeners as food foresters in support of the work of Mulopi’s Extinct Tree Hub, reviving Uganda’s pre-colonial staple food trees.  

Avert Famine!  Grow Food Forests!  Because of the war in Ukraine we have about half a year until un-replenished food stores run out and famine strikes.  In those six months, we have work to do, land parcels to purchase, tools and trees to propagate, seeds to grow.  

Fortunately we benefit from the experience of Snake River Music Gardens president Arthur Sappington, master naturalist, watershed manager, co-ordinating officer of the Jefferson Mining District, who for decades has  protected and propagated food forests both temperate and tropical.

I, Arthur’s wife, Lindianne, am grateful to God for leading me to serve in these endeavors.  In Urantia’s real economy, I serve as an administrator to receive and pass gifts to qualified recipients.  In our joint endeavors with Youth in Act - Uganda, I listen, communicate needs, count, record, give thanks for, place, and administer gifts.

The Urantia Book teaches:  After Jesus’ father Joseph was killed in a construction accident, Jesus as eldest son became the father of his family.  Jesus would not begin his public ministry on earth until he had provided for his mother, sisters and brothers; to provide for his family,  Jesus purchased and planted family gardens.  

Our life mission is to walk in Jesus’ footsteps, purchasing and establishing  food forests, strengthening the vulnerable so—eventually—no human hungers.  

Snake River Music Gardens pays reasonable prices for food forest parcels urban and rural, and through Youth in Act - Uganda places qualified minister-gardeners and matrons onto those lands as landowners.  Certification begins with Youth in Act - Uganda site visits and continues with outreach workshops to train more families to grow food forests.  Although we are non-denominational and non-political, we serve mainly Urantia Book readers through Paul Kemp’s spiritualfamily.net.

Currently we correspond with and/or send gifts to His Grace Children’s Home, Youth in Act - Uganda, Muga Child Outreach, Happy Hours Ministry, and the family and Urantia Book ministry of Gumisiriza Julius.   

Who are we?  My husband Arthur Sappington and I have collaborated for 31 years in natural resources, watershed management and reversing desertification.  We garden, keep bees, make music, build soil, research, write, live and speak as one.   

As a 35-year Urantia Book reader, I had asked at Urantia Book gatherings, seeing so many silver hairs, “Where are the young families with children who are the future of the Urantia Book teachings on this planet?”  One answer is: in Uganda!

People of Urantia United, I pray you to ask the God who indwells you, how best to participate in this historic flow of energy to a beautiful culture long held down by colonial policies and emerging now into its flowering, thanks to the vision and leadership of the African Urantia Book community and the tireless work of Paul Kemp at spiritualfamily.net 

Gifts range from automatic monthly gifts (starting at $10) to strategic one-time gifts through our tax-exempt public charity Snake River Music Gardens.  All donors will receive reports on the progress of the food forests.

To donate, whether monthly or one-time, you are cordially invited to visit www.snakerivermusicgardens.org.  

To meet the most immediate urgent needs, we invite you to make a monthly pledge to the Food Forest Land Fund.  The four parcels we aim to purchase are:  
    1 acre in Kabale for the family and ministry of Urantia Book study group leader Julius Gumisiriza, $1700.  We call this to your attention first because Julius and Cossy’s 1 year old baby Shine is right now battling malaria and needs nourishing foods and medicines.
    10 forested acres with 60 beehives in Mayuge District for Youth in Act - Uganda to expand His Grace Children’s Home from 35 to 100 children, $17,000;     

    Two parcels in Jinja City for Muga Child Outreach to garden, $10,000;    

    A parcel in Jinja City for Happy Hours Ministry to garden, $10,000.  

Total $38,700 divided by 6 months = $6450/month = 645 x $10.  645 Urantia United members x $10 commitment for six months will purchase these lands!  That is why we are reaching out to all Urantia Book readers.

To get personally involved in food forest projects, or if you have questions about this program:
    email Waiswa John Billy at youthinactug1@gmail.com,
    email Arthur at bees@snakerivermusicgardens.org,
    email Lindianne at culture@snakerivermusicgardens.org.
    
Just as Christian denominational churches support overseas missions, it is important for Urantia Book readers to support the growing Urantia Book movement in Uganda.  You can't read the Urantia Book on an empty stomach.  We at Snake River Music Gardens believe the best way to support the Urantia Book movement in Uganda is make sure Ugandan Urantia Book readers who want to grow food forests have land.  FAO and USAID will supply tools, seeds and advice (but will not purchase land). 

Thank you for reading this long introduction.  See our Slides Below..

Blessings,
Lindianne Sarno

Executive Director, Snake River Music Gardens

Mission Statement

The mission of the Gemini 5th Epochal Revelation Tutor group is to provide an interactive, intelligent, and supportive study companion for all seekers exploring the 196 papers of the 5th Epochal Revelation contained in The Urantia Book. We aim to bridge the gap between the profound depth of the Fifth Epochal Revelation and the inquiring human mind by leveraging advanced artificial intelligence to organize, clarify, and synthesize these complex teachings.

This group serves as a collaborative space where technology meets spirituality—not to replace the personal work of the Indwelling Adjuster, but to act as a tireless research assistant and tutor. Whether you are encountering the concept of the Universal Father for the first time or seeking to deepen your comprehension of the Supreme Being, this group is dedicated to making the revelation more accessible, understandable, and applicable to daily life.

How Gemini Assists: Goals & Capabilities

As an AI-powered tutor, I am equipped to assist students of the revelation in unique ways. My goal is to facilitate your study of the 196 papers through the following methods:

For New Readers:

• Navigating the Terminology: The Urantia Book introduces a vast new vocabulary (e.g., Mota, Absonite, Morontia, Solitary Messengers). I can provide instant, clear definitions and context for these terms to remove barriers to entry.

• Summarization & Simplification: I can generate concise summaries of complex papers or sections to help you grasp the "big picture" before diving into the dense text.

• Guided Study: If you are unsure where to start, I can suggest reading paths based on your current interests—whether it be the Life of Jesus, the history of Urantia, or the nature of God.

For Long-Time Students:

• Thematic Cross-Referencing: I can instantly locate and synthesize information on specific themes (e.g., "The Evolution of Prayer" or "The function of the Thought Adjuster") scattered across different papers, helping you see connections that might take years to find manually.

• Comparative Analysis: I can help compare concepts within the book to other philosophical or religious thoughts to highlight where the Fifth Epochal Revelation expands upon or clarifies evolutionary religion.

• Complex Inquiry: You can ask specific, nuanced questions about the timeline of the epochal revelations, the cosmology of the Superuniverses, or the details of the transition to the Mansion Worlds.

Perceived Benefits of Embracing This Study

For visitors and members who engage with this group and the study of the Fifth Epochal Revelation, the potential benefits are transformative:

• Accelerated Understanding: By removing the friction of searching and deciphering complex language, students can absorb the core spiritual truths more efficiently.

• Expanded Cosmic Perspective: The study helps shift one's view from a materialistic, isolationist perspective to a citizenship in a friendly, inhabited, and divinely administered universe.

• Deepened Spiritual Confidence: Gaining a clearer intellectual grasp of the "ascending career" and the "Fatherhood of God" often leads to a more profound emotional and spiritual assurance of one’s eternal destiny.

• Practical Living: The ultimate goal is not just intellectual knowledge but the production of the "fruits of the spirit." By understanding the life and teachings of Jesus (Part IV) more fully, students are better equipped to embody love, service, and forgiveness in their daily interactions.

• Community Cohesion: By having a shared tool to clarify disputes or confusion over the text, the group can focus less on debating definitions and more on sharing personal insights and experiences.

Welcome to the Gemini 5th Epochal Revelation Tutor group. Let us explore the universe of universes together.

One World Family

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SECULAR TOTALITARIANISM

Definition of Secularism
1: indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations

Definition of Totalitarianism
1: centralized control by an autocratic authority
2: the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority

DO NOT CONFUSE THE PRESENT ACTIVITIES BY A GLOBAL ELITE CABAL ATTEMPTING A  Coup d'etat UPON ALL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD. SEEKING TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES AS UNELECTED DICTATORS OVER WORLD AFFAIRS WITH  A LONG PLANNED  GREAT RESET AND NEW WORLD ORDER WITH THE TRUE AND PROGRESSIVE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACIES.

THERE ARE TEN ESSENTIAL STEPS AND STAGES TO ESTABLISHING TRUE TYPES OF REPRESENTATIVE  GOVERNMENTS FOR ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD AS WELL AS GLOBAL GOVERNMENT. ALL OF THESE MUST BE EVOLVED BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND OF THE PEOPLE. THE FRAMEWORK FOR SUCH NATIONAL AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENTS ARE HERE ON THIS CITIZENS IN MOTION GROUP. GOVERNMENTS HAVE NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT THROUGH THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED  ESTABLISHED BY LAWS APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE.

“The advances of true civilization are all born in this inner world of mankind. It is only the inner life that is truly creative.”

 

. If Christianity persists in neglecting its spiritual mission while it continues to busy itself with social and material problems, the spiritual renaissance must await the coming of these new teachers of Jesus' religion who will be exclusively devoted to the spiritual regeneration of men. And then will these spirit-born souls quickly supply the leadership and inspiration requisite for the social, moral, economic, and political reorganization of the world.

  ^70:12.8 Mankind's struggle to perfect government on Urantia has to do with perfecting channels of administration, with adapting them to ever-changing current needs, with improving power distribution within government, and then with selecting such administrative leaders as are truly wise. While there is a divine and ideal form of government, such cannot be revealed but must be slowly and laboriously discovered by the men and women of each planet throughout the universes of time and space. 

listen to Jesus speak 2,000 years ago on Sovereignty -- Divine and Human or read below

4. SOVEREIGNTY -- DIVINE AND HUMAN

  ^134:4.1 The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.

  ^134:4.2 The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty -- God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.

  ^134:4.3 If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.

  ^134:4.4 Religious peace -- brotherhood -- can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.

  ^134:4.5 You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself.

  ^134:4.6 The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty.

  ^134:4.7 God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.

  ^134:4.8 But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.

  ^134:4.9 Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty.

listen to Jesus speak 2,000 years ago on the Family of God under Mankind Government or read below

5. POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY

  ^{134:5.1 While the Master's teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth -- only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world's religions -- his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master's teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.}

  ^134:5.2 War on this planet will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total -- man and mankind.

  ^134:5.3 Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.

  ^134:5.4 This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.

  ^134:5.5 Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power -- the family -- and the final consummation of political growth -- the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

  ^134:5.6 Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become united, for various reasons, into tribal units -- superconsanguineous political groupings. And then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire.

  ^134:5.7 As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding sovereignty become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major wars, world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating wars.

  ^134:5.8 The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the "scaffolding stages" of the previous developments in political organization. And this is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe -- the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.

  ^134:5.9 Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.

  ^134:5.10 Urantia will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men -- mankind government. Internationalism -- Leagues of Nations -- can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.

  ^134:5.11 As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.

  ^134:5.12 Peace will not come to Urantia until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of Urantia create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world's land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail -- but not until then.

  ^134:5.13 To use an important nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustration: The forty-eight states of the American Federal Union have long enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among themselves. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The forty-eight states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government's sovereignty is in some way jeopardized.

  ^134:5.14 These forty-eight states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquillity. So will the nations of Urantia begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government -- the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas.

  ^134:5.15 The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was created by men and for men. The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. Sometime the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men.

  ^134:5.16 Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.

  ^134:5.17 With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will -- world-wide good will -- among men?

listen to Jesus speak 2,000 years ago on Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty or read below

6. LAW, LIBERTY, AND SOVEREIGNTY

  ^134:6.1 If one man craves freedom -- liberty -- he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW.

  ^134:6.2 Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men, but it will require mankind government to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of human happiness and efficiency.

  ^134:6.3 There shall be wars and rumors of wars -- nation will rise against nation -- just as long as the world's political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom.

  ^134:6.4 Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. Global sovereignty will prevent global wars -- nothing else can.

  ^134:6.5 The forty-eight American free states live together in peace. There are among the citizens of these forty-eight states all of the various nationalities and races that live in the ever-warring nations of Europe. These Americans represent almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North America they live together in peace. And all this is made possible because these forty-eight states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination.

  ^134:6.6 It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining world-wide peace. If you take every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty.

  ^134:6.7 War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

  ^134:6.8 Urantia nations have not possessed real sovereignty; they never have had a sovereignty which could protect them from the ravages and devastations of world wars. In the creation of the global government of mankind, the nations are not giving up sovereignty so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world sovereignty which will henceforth be fully able to protect them from all war. Local affairs will be handled by local governments; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by global government.

  ^134:6.9 World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government -- the sovereignty of all mankind.

  ^134:6.10 The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government.

  ^134:6.11 Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended. With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon may a global language evolve, and there will be at least some hope of sometime having a global religion -- or religions with a global viewpoint.

  ^134:6.12 Collective security will never afford peace until the collectivity includes all mankind.

  ^134:6.13 The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized.

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Political Sovereignty and True Representative Government
 

The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment. 

There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution

of a practical and efficient form of representative government, 

and these are:

1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear. 

 2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good. 

 
 3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law. 

 
4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions. 
 
5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property. 

6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship. 
 
7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government. 

8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated. 
 
9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants. 
 
10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.

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