My note is to draw your attention to “The Urantia Book.” What I say below is my opinion, yet I believe the information in this book is true. Some of my comments are conjecture. I do not know what happens in the Spirit world nor do I have any idea how the Deities think. I do not speak for the Urantia Foundation or any organization having interest in The Urantia Book. I speak only as a reader.
I, myself, have owned this book since I was twenty. While I suspected this book was true forty-seven years ago, it has been only within the last several years that I find the book’s significance undeniable.
Celestial beings exist. While many people believe angels exist, there are just as many who do not. Celestial personalities run the gamut from highest to lowest. And in my opinion, higher/lower simply indicates God consciousness, perhaps an endowment at creation.
Life is evolutionary, especially for mortals. Religion or personal religious experience is evolutionary, progressive. Increased understanding proportional to one’s devotion, sincerity, and time.
The purpose of life is to seek God. Other pursuits exist but finding God is the priority. Ironic considering lot of people don’t even believe God exists. If you refuse to believe that God exists then you are denying reality, you aren’t able to progress inward, and I suppose a case can be made for personality extinction.
The approach to God is through our indwelling Though Adjuster, the spiritual fragment of God within our minds. A goal would be to proclaim ‘sincere and wholehearted cooperation’ with our Adjuster daily, plus faith. This is most important.
Circuits exist. Gravity circuits, energy circuits, communication circuits, …even mindal circuits. Prayer, I believe, is transmitted by the indwelling Adjuster via the ‘personality circuit’ of the Universal Father. I do believe that celestial beings, Angels and Midwayers, help us on our journey. They might be able to read our thoughts and emotions on a mind circuit.
One premise, although not stated specifically in the book, is all religion is revealed and originates with the same source, Jesus; Michael of Nebadon. The religions on Earth are antagonistic for no reason. Gabriel spoke to, and inspired Mohammed. Machiventa Melchizedek spoke to, and inspired Abraham. Both are representative of Jesus. In no small part are the revelations from Gabriel and Machiventa accidental, they are in response to failures of two prior celestial visits. One was the Planetary Prince’s visit some 500,000 years ago, and the other, Adam and Eve’s visit, an attempt to physically enhance the mortal race. (I do wonder if the human genome can be augmented to increase religious understanding.) Jesus himself revealed God, The Universal Father, to us during his life.
133:0.3. …Said Jesus: “Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from another, before God and in the spiritual world all mortals stand on an equal footing. There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire to do his will and those who do not. As the universe looks upon an inhabited world, it likewise discerns two great classes: those who know God and those who do not.”
132:3.4 (1459.4) “Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit. The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father’s will, to find God and to become like him.”
132:3.5 (1459.5) “But truth can never become man’s possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man’s thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope. And all such true faith is predicated on profound reflection, sincere self-criticism, and uncompromising moral consciousness. Faith is the inspiration of the spiritized creative imagination.”
132:3.6 (1459.6) “Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark, the immortal germ, that lives within the mind of man, and which is the potential of eternal survival.”
So as we see, the password to a spiritual life is daily sincere and wholehearted cooperation with our Divine Adjuster. The passcode is faith. These two keys unlock the spiritual potential in each of us.
I state the above in an attempt to provide a more enlarged concept of religious life and human purpose. The Urantia Book is true and accurate. More importantly however is that we have a relationship with God. It starts with sincere and wholehearted cooperation, plus faith. Many times we will be tested to see if we can believe without surety of knowing. Perhaps this text is one such occasion?
Favorite movies? Ben-Hur, with Charlton Heston; Fences by August Wilson, with Denzel Washington.
