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.
Where Did The Urantia Book Come From?
The Urantia Book should not be considered as a religious book it is designed to be more of a text book full of information to help us better understand how we fit into the universe and more importantly in this amazing plan of God. In recording hour # 11 Stan ( Urantia Book reader of 25 years) does a wonderful job of introducing the origin of the Urantia Book. Stan mentions how a lot of times the first thing that people are interested to know is where did this Book come from? I think you will will find hour 11 quite interesting.
You may also find more information on the history of the Urantia book at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book which is loaded with all kinds of back ground information.
As well, I would like to take the time to remind the readers out there that in no way do I consider myself an authority on the Urantia Book and further more that all the contents of this site are a reflection of my own opinions and feelings and that I am simply relating, commentating and expressing what I have learned and discovered through my own journey.
In Through The Out Doors
“ Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” Genesis 5:24
“Natural, physical death is not a mortal inevitability. The majority of advanced evolutionary beings, citizens on worlds existing in the final era of light and life, do not die; they are translated directly from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence.” Urantia book
In other worlds that are not affected by the Lucifer rebellion, mortal beings are very much aware of their spiritual destiny. And after attaining the seven psychic circles of attainment, “Are directly translated from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence” . Death is not consider as a time of sadness or loss, infact, it is quite the opposite. It is something of a graduation or a promotion to the next level of ascension and attainment, in your eternal career and service in the kingdom of God. You are given a morontial form/body to awaken to, so that you may continue your life. And those mortal beings that were translated from their perfected worlds, awaken already knowing where they are, and why they are there…so life simply continues for them as they ascend in their mortal careers. However, with our isolated and quarantined world, because of the Lucifer rebellion, mortal souls are in great need of rehabilitation and correction which is offered to them at the time when they first awakened in the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.
Death and Translation Urantia Book
Natural, physical death is not a mortal inevitability. The majority of advanced evolutionary beings, citizens on worlds existing in the final era of light and life, do not die; they are translated directly from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence.
This experience of translation from the material life to the morontia state–fusion of the immortal soul with the indwelling Adjuster–increases in frequency commensurate with the evolutionary progress of the planet. At first only a few mortals in each age attain translation levels of spiritual progress, but with the onset of the successive ages of the Teacher Sons, more and more Adjuster fusions occur before the termination of the lengthening lives of these progressing mortals; and by the time of the terminal mission of the Teacher Sons, approximately one quarter of these superb mortals are exempt from natural death.
Farther along in the era of light and life the midway creatures or their associates sense the approaching status of probable soul-Adjuster union and signify this to the destiny guardians, who in turn communicate these matters to the finaliter group under whose jurisdiction this mortal may be functioning; then there is issued the summons of the Planetary Sovereign for such a mortal to resign all planetary duties, bid farewell to the world of his origin, and repair to the inner temple of the Planetary Sovereign, there to await morontia transit, the translation flash, from the material domain of evolution to the morontia level of prespirit progression.
When the family, friends, and working group of such a fusion candidate have forgathered in the morontia temple, they are distributed around the central stage whereon the fusion candidates are resting, meantime freely conversing with their assembled friends. A circle of intervening celestial personalities is arranged to protect the material mortals from the action of the energies manifest at the instant of the “life flash” which delivers the ascension candidate from the bonds of material flesh, thereby doing for such an evolutionary mortal everything that natural death does for those who are thereby delivered from the flesh.
Many fusion candidates may be assembled in the spacious temple at the same time. And what a beautiful occasion when mortals thus forgather to witness the ascension of their loved ones in spiritual flames, and what a contrast to those earlier ages when mortals must commit their dead to the embrace of the terrestrial elements! The scenes of weeping and wailing characteristic of earlier epochs of human evolution are now replaced by ecstatic joy and the sublimest enthusiasm as these God-knowing mortals bid their loved ones a transient farewell as they are removed from their material associations by the spiritual fires of consuming grandeur and ascending glory. On worlds settled in light and life, “funerals” are occasions of supreme joy, profound satisfaction, and inexpressible hope.
The souls of these progressing mortals are increasingly filled with faith, hope, and assurance. The spirit permeating those gathered around the translation shrine resembles that of the joyful friends and relatives who might assemble at a graduating exercise for one of their group, or who might come together to witness the conferring of some great honor upon one of their number. And it would be decidedly helpful if less advanced mortals could only learn to view natural death with something of this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
Mortal observers can see nothing of their translated associates subsequent to the fusion flash. Such translated souls proceed by Adjuster transit direct to the resurrection hall of the appropriate morontia-training world. These transactions concerned with the translation of living human beings to the morontia world are supervised by an archangel who was assigned to such a world on the day when it was first settled in light and life.
By the time a world attains the fourth stage of light and life, more than half the mortals leave the planet by translation from among the living. Such diminishment of death continues on and on, but I know of no system whose inhabited worlds, even though long settled in life, are entirely free from natural death as the technique of escape from the bonds of flesh. And until such a high state of planetary evolution is uniformly attained, the morontia-training worlds of the local universe must continue in service as educational and cultural spheres for the evolving morontia progressors. The elimination of death is theoretically possible, but it has not yet occurred according to my observation. Perhaps such a status may be attained during the faraway stretches of the succeeding epochs of the seventh stage of settled planetary life.
The translated souls of the flowering ages of the settled spheres do not pass through the mansion worlds. Neither do they sojourn, as students, on the morontia worlds of the system or constellation. They do not pass through any of the earlier phases of morontia life. They are the only ascending mortals who so nearly escape the morontia transition from material existence to semispirit status. The initial experience of such Son-seized mortals in the ascension career is in the services of the progression worlds of the universe headquarters. And from these study worlds of Salvington they go back as teachers to the very worlds they passed by, subsequently going on inward to Paradise by the established route of mortal ascension.
Could you but visit a planet in an advanced stage of development, you would quickly grasp the reasons for providing for the differential reception of ascending mortals on the mansion and higher morontia worlds. You would readily understand that beings passing on from such highly evolved spheres are prepared to resume their Paradise ascent far in advance of the average mortal arriving from a disordered and backward world like Urantia.
No matter from what level of planetary attainment human beings may ascend to the morontia worlds, the seven mansion spheres afford them ample opportunity to gain in experience as teacher-students all of everything which they failed to pass through because of the advanced status of their native planets.
The universe is unfailing in the application of these equalizing techniques designed to insure that no ascender shall be deprived of aught which is essential to his ascension experience.
