Divine Love
”Jesus’ devotion to the Father’s will and the service of man was even more than mortal decision and human determination; it was a wholehearted consecration of himself to such an unreserved bestowal of love.” (Urantia Book Paper 196)
If there was one word that I could use to say what the message is all about from all the celestials in the vast administrations of the Kingdom of Heaven to the Creator Son of our Universe and ultimately from God the Father The First Source and Center is … love. That is what this entire eternal gift of life is all about. That is the the reason and purpose of the plan for ascension. And so from the words that came from the very heart of God Jesus taught us that the most important commandments of all were “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and strength.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second commandment is like the first; indeed, it springs directly therefrom, and it is: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ‘There is no other commandments greater than these.” There is no greater demonstration of love, than a man who gives his life for his friend.”
The more advanced worlds of light and life operate their worlds with a love based mentality they already know what can happen to a civilization that does not live with the philosophy of love. Actually that is what Lucifer’s argument has always been that we do not need to live with love that it is possible to progress on our own without God. The way I see it, it’s really not that complicated the opposite of love is hate and there is no way anyone can really say with any confidence that any civilization that operates with a hate/fear based mentality or for that matter without God, will prosper for very long. Many civilizations have already been there and done it made their mistakes and learned that hard but valuable lesson of Love.
“Sonship in the kingdom, from the standpoint of advancing civilization, should assist you in becoming the ideal citizens of the kingdoms of this world since brotherhood and service are the cornerstones of the gospel of the kingdom. The love call of the spiritual kingdom should prove to be the effective destroyer of the hate urge of the unbelieving and war-minded citizens of the earthly kingdoms. But these material-minded sons in darkness will never know of your spiritual light of truth unless you draw very near them with that unselfish social service which is the natural outgrowth of the bearing of the fruits of the spirit in the life experience of each individual believer”-Urantia Book
Our Creator Son Christ Michael said “this generation shall not pass away until they see the coming of the Son of man” for a reason to let us know that we are not destined for extinction.We are going to make our mistakes where ever they may be first but we will learn to go on and become like those other beautiful advanced worlds that the Urantia Book refers to as worlds of light and life. Our destiny is to become a world of light and life, too. We are all a part of the bigger plan of evolution and progression. From an individual level to an entire civilization one by one world by world,we all keeping flowing forward into the higher levels of evolutionary progression slowly but surely making our way through eternityand being drawn all along the way by the love of God to Paradise.
Something that should be so simple and natural for us human beings to do living our lives expressing the love of God by doing good to others is really what it’s all about…In his letter to the Corinthian Church Paul from the Bible writes about the importance of love, ” If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The Lucifer Rebellion
For those of you who are not familiar with the history of the Lucifer Rebellion and wish to know how it all started read below. The rebellion is the reason why Earth was isolated and quarnteened so that no further damage could be done in the rest of our Creator Sons universe. Today our world is still suffering from the philosophy that Lucifer left behind…
Urantia Book Paper 53 ‘The Lucifer Rebellion’
In the universe of Nebadon, the domain of Christ Michael, there are ten thousand systems of inhabited worlds. In all the history of Lanonandek Sons, in all their work throughout these thousands of systems and at the universe headquarters, only three System Sovereigns have ever been found in contempt of the government of the Creator Son.
Lucifer was not an ascendant being; he was a created Son of the local universe, and of him it was said: ” You were perfect in all your ways from the day you were created till unrighteousness was found in you. ” Many times had he been in counsel with the Most Highs of Edentia. And Lucifer reigned ” upon the holy mountain of God, ” the administrative mount of Jerusem, for he was the chief executive of a great system of 607 inhabited worlds.
Lucifer was a magnificent being, a brilliant personality; he stood next to the Most High Fathers of the constellations in the direct line of universe authority. Notwithstanding Lucifer’s transgression, subordinate intelligences refrained from showing him disrespect and disdain prior to Michael’s bestowal on Urantia. Even the archangel of Michael, at the time of Moses’ resurrection, ” did not bring against him an accusing judgment but simply said, `the Judge rebuke you.’ ” Judgment in such matters belongs to the Ancients of Days, the rulers of the superuniverse.
Lucifer is now the fallen and deposed Sovereign of Satania. Self-contemplation is most disastrous, even to the exalted personalities of the celestial world. Of Lucifer it was said: ” Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness. ” Your olden prophet saw his sad estate when he wrote: ” How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cast down, you who dared to confuse the worlds! ”
Very little was heard of Lucifer on Urantia owing to the fact that he assigned his first lieutenant, Satan, to advocate his cause on your planet. Satan was a member of the same primary group of Lanonandeks but had never functioned as a System Sovereign; he entered fully into the Lucifer insurrection. The ” devil ” is none other than Caligastia, the deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia and a Son of the secondary order of Lanonandeks. At the time Michael was on Urantia in the flesh, Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia were leagued together to effect the miscarriage of his bestowal mission. But they signally failed.
Abaddon was the chief of the staff of Caligastia. He followed his master into rebellion and has ever since acted as chief executive of the Urantia rebels. Beelzebub was the leader of the disloyal midway creatures who allied themselves with the forces of the traitorous Caligastia.
The dragon eventually became the symbolic representation of all these evil personages. Upon the triumph of Michael, ” Gabriel came down from Salvington and bound the dragon (all the rebel leaders) for an age. ” Of the Jerusem seraphic rebels it is written: ” And the angels who kept not their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in sure chains of darkness to the judgment of the great day. ”
Lucifer and his first assistant, Satan, had reigned on Jerusem for more than five hundred thousand years when in their hearts they began to array themselves against the Universal Father and his then vicegerent Son, Michael.
There were no peculiar or special conditions in the system of Satania which suggested or favored rebellion. It is our belief that the idea took origin and form in Lucifer’s mind, and that he might have instigated such a rebellion no matter where he might have been stationed. Lucifer first announced his plans to Satan, but it required several months to corrupt the mind of his able and brilliant associate. However, when once converted to the rebel theories, he became a bold and earnest advocate of ” self-assertion and liberty. ”
No one ever suggested rebellion to Lucifer. The idea of self-assertion in opposition to the will of Michael and to the plans of the Universal Father, as they are represented in Michael, had its origin in his own mind. His relations with the Creator Son had been intimate and always cordial. At no time prior to the exaltation of his own mind did Lucifer openly express dissatisfaction about the universe administration. Notwithstanding his silence, for more than one hundred years of standard time the Union of Days on Salvington had been reflectivating to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lucifer’s mind. This information was also communicated to the Creator Son and the Constellation Fathers of Norlatiadek.
Throughout this period Lucifer became increasingly critical of the entire plan of universe administration but always professed wholehearted loyalty to the Supreme Rulers. His first outspoken disloyalty was manifested on the occasion of a visit of Gabriel to Jerusem just a few days before the open proclamation of the Lucifer Declaration of Liberty. Gabriel was so profoundly impressed with the certainty of the impending outbreak that he went direct to Edentia to confer with the Constellation Fathers regarding the measures to be employed in case of open rebellion.
It is very difficult to point out the exact cause or causes which finally culminated in the Lucifer rebellion. We are certain of only one thing, and that is: Whatever these first beginnings were, they had their origin in Lucifer’s mind. There must have been a pride of self that nourished itself to the point of self-deception, so that Lucifer for a time really persuaded himself that his contemplation of rebellion was actually for the good of the system, if not of the universe. By the time his plans had developed to the point of disillusionment, no doubt he had gone too far for his original and mischief-making pride to permit him to stop. At some point in this experience he became insincere, and evil evolved into deliberate and willful sin. That this happened is proved by the subsequent conduct of this brilliant executive. He was long offered opportunity for repentance, but only some of his subordinates ever accepted the proffered mercy. The Faithful of Days of Edentia, on the request of the Constellation Fathers, in person presented the plan of Michael for the saving of these flagrant rebels, but always was the mercy of the Creator Son rejected and rejected with increasing contempt and disdain.
To read more about Lucifer and the rebellion see Urantia Book paper 53
The Local Universe
Revelations 21 of the Bible John describes a vision “…and I saw a holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice from the thrown saying,”behold, the dwelling of God is with men.” In Paper 15 of the Urantia Book (The Architectural Spheres) it says ”while each super universe government presides near the center of the evolutionary universes of its space segment, it occupies a world made to order and is peopled by accredited personalities. These headquarter worlds are architectural spheres, space bodies specifically constructed for their special purpose.” Keep in mind that our Creator Son Christ Michael had chosen our planet for his final bestowal mission which would make Earth qualify to have a special made to order architectural world/sphere to be positioned near by as an out post for such a mission. “The various headquarters worlds are provided with every phase of material and spiritual creation. All kinds of material, morontial and spiritual beings are at home on these rendezvous worlds of the universes. As mortal creatures ascend the universe, passing from the material to the spiritual realms, they never lose their appreciation for,and enjoyment of ,their formal levels of existence.”
In Hour 19 , on the Saturn Earth Connection recording with Michael, when he asked the celestial where he was …they told him the New Jerusem. Paper 15 Urantia Book “Jerusem, the headquarters of your local system of satania, has seven worlds of transition culture, each of which is encircled by seven satellites, among which are the seven mansion worlds of morontia detention, man’s first post mortal residence. As the term heaven has been used on Urantia, it has sometimes meant these seven mansion worlds, the first mansion world being denominated the first heaven,and so on.” Sooner or later this will be world wide news.
Acsension
For myself, this part of the Urantia book basically says it all …In paper 193 ( Final Appearances And Ascension) Our Creator Son Christ Michael who we know as Jesus Christ, on making his 16Th final morontial appearence to the apostles and disciples gave his last instructions before going to the Father,” From the beginning of my sojourn as one of you, I taught you that my one purpose was to reveal my Father in heaven to his children on earth. I have lived the God-revealing bestowal that you might experience the God knowing career. I have revealed God as your Father in heaven;I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts. When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding God the Father on Paradise…”
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“Urantia is the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds, the mortal home of Christ Michael, sovereign of all Nebadon, a Melchizedek minister to the realms, a system savior, an Adamic redeemer, a seraphic fellow, an associate of ascending spirits, a morontia progressor, a Son of Man in the likeness of mortal flesh, and the Planetary Prince of Urantia. And your record tells the truth when it says that this same Jesus has promised some time to return to the world of his terminal bestowal, the World of the Cross.” Urantia Book Paper 119
We are all going in the same direction, the only difference is that, some people know it, and others don’t. We were chosen by Christ Michael the Creator Son of our universe, out of 10,000,000 planets for the purpose of his 7th and final bestowal mission.
Listen to Michael on the Saturn Earth Connection talk about our planet Earth being chosen by Christ Michael on recording hour 71
If we only knew how special this world is, and even more, how important we all are as human beings… Earth is well known through out the entire universe because of Christ Michael, who we know as Jesus Christ.
Read Urantia Book Paper 12o The Bestowal Of Michael On Urantia
“to live such identical lives as he imposes upon the intelligent beings of his own creation, thus to bestow himself in the likeness of his various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme sovereignty of his self-made universe of things and beings.”
” He had already bestowed himself six times after the similitude of six differing orders of his diverse creation of intelligent beings”. Urantia Book
