Although most all of you never had to go through this applicatioon process, we are instituting a more formal enrollment for those coming forward at this time.
Here is an excerpt from our application page.
Welcome new aspirants.
We’re here to guide you through the process of applying to Salvington
College. It all starts here...
You've explored Sovrnty Society and discovered that Salvington College is
a good fit for you. Everything you need to start your application can be found here,
including instructions, deadlines, application requirements, and links to
application forms.
Before you begin, here are a few things we would like you to know.
- Salvington
College welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We are looking for the
best and the brightest students who will take advantage of the
one-of-a-kind opportunity available here.
- Future Salvington
Students will come from public and private schools, businesses, from very
small towns and great urban centers, and from every corner of the world.
- Some admitted
students will be the first in their families to attend our college. Many
will need some or all financial assistance to attend.
- All incoming Aspirants
will bring dazzling talents of every kind to this extraordinary community
of candidates preparing for their own Eternal Embrace into the Immortal
octaves of life.
Salvington College is among a small group of the world’s greatest educational
communities throughout the world. Given that, we attract more students than we
can accept each year. We simply don’t have enough room in our class for all the
students we would like to admit. Our difficult - yet fascinating and rewarding
- job is to select those aspirants who have the heart and the readiness to go
further into the sublime teachings and divine ideal that we offer. How do we do
it?
An applicant’s moral character, respect and receptivity, and willingness
to learn and grow in leaps and bounds is a portion of their academic strength
that is our first consideration. We review each applicant on their own merits
independent of any external criteria such as grades, standardized test scores,
and evaluations by a counselor and other teachers to determine their academic
strength and ability to succeed with our curriculum. The admissions committee also
factors in student qualities such as motivation, curiosity, energy, leadership
ability, and distinctive talents and internal resources.
Ultimately, our goal is to build an extraordinary class of aspirants.
The excerpt below is offered to give students more of the overview of how you arrived at this place in your own personal development over eons of time.
The Universe Mother Spirit and Her ministry in the local universe according to the Urantia Book revelation
The seven adjutants: the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of worship, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of knowledge, the
spirit of courage, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of intuition
— of quick perception.
There are three distinct
spirit circuits in the local universe of Nebadon:
1. The bestowal spirit of the
Creator Son, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.
2. The spirit circuit of the Divine
Minister, the Holy Spirit.
3. The intelligence-ministry
circuit, including the more or less unified activities but diverse functioning
of the seven adjutant mind-spirits.
The Divine Minister co-operates
with the Creator Son in the formulation of life and the creation of new orders
of beings up to the time of his seventh bestowal and, subsequently, after his
elevation to the full sovereignty of the universe, continues to collaborate
with the Son and the Son’s bestowed spirit in the further work of world
ministry and planetary progression.
On the inhabited worlds the Spirit
begins the work of evolutionary progression, starting with the lifeless
material of the realm, first endowing vegetable life, then the animal
organisms, then the first orders of human existence; and each succeeding
impartation contributes to the further unfolding of the evolutionary potential
of planetary life from the initial and primitive stages to the appearance of
will creatures. This labor of the Spirit is largely effected through the seven
adjutants, the spirits of promise, the unifying and co-ordinating spirit-mind
of the evolving planets, ever and unitedly leading the races of men towards
higher ideas and spiritual ideals.
Mortal man first experiences the
ministry of the Spirit in conjunction with mind when the purely animal mind of
evolutionary creatures develops reception capacity for the adjutants of worship
and of wisdom. This ministry of the sixth and seventh adjutants indicates mind
evolution crossing the threshold of spiritual ministry. And immediately are
such minds of worship- and wisdom-function included in the spiritual circuits
of the Divine Minister.
When mind is thus endowed with the
ministry of the Holy Spirit, it possesses the capacity for (consciously or
unconsciously) choosing the spiritual presence of the Universal Father — the
Thought Adjuster. But it is not until a bestowal Son has liberated the Spirit
of Truth for planetary ministry to all mortals that all normal minds are
automatically prepared for the reception of the Thought Adjusters. The Spirit
of Truth works as one with the presence of the spirit of the Divine Minister.
This dual spirit liaison hovers over the worlds, seeking to teach truth and to
spiritually enlighten the minds of men, to inspire the souls of the creatures
of the ascending races, and to lead the peoples dwelling on the evolutionary
planets ever towards their Paradise goal of divine destiny.
Though the Spirit of Truth is
poured out upon all flesh, this spirit of the Son is almost wholly limited in
function and power by man’s personal reception of that which constitutes the
sum and substance of the mission of the bestowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partly
independent of human attitude and partially conditioned by the decisions and
co-operation of the will of man. Nevertheless, the ministry of the Holy Spirit
becomes increasingly effective in the sanctification and spiritualization of
the inner life of those mortals who the more fully obey the
divine leadings.
As individuals you do not
personally possess a segregated portion or entity of the spirit of the Creator
Father-Son or the Creative Mother Spirit; these ministries do not contact with,
nor indwell, the thinking centers of the individual’s mind as do the Mystery
Monitors. Thought Adjusters are definite individualizations of the prepersonal
reality of the Universal Father, actually indwelling the mortal mind as a very
part of that mind, and they ever work in perfect harmony with the combined
spirits of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit.
The presence of the Holy Spirit of
the Universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the
Universe Son of the Eternal Son, and of the Adjuster-spirit of the Paradise
Father in or with an evolutionary mortal, denotes symmetry of spiritual
endowment and ministry and qualifies such a mortal consciously to realize the
faith-fact of sonship with God.
With the advancing evolution of an
inhabited planet and the further spiritualization of its inhabitants,
additional spiritual influences may be received by such mature personalities.
As mortals progress in mind control and spirit perception, these multiple
spirit ministries become more and more co-ordinate in function; they become
increasingly blended with the overministry of the Paradise Trinity.
Although Divinity may be plural in
manifestation, in human experience Deity is singular, always one.Neither
is spiritual ministry plural in human experience. Regardless of plurality of
origin, all spirit influences are one in function. Indeed they are one, being
the spirit ministry of God the Sevenfold in and to the creatures of the grand
universe; and as creatures grow in appreciation of, and receptivity for, this
unifying ministry of the spirit, it becomes in their experience the ministry of
God the Supreme.
From the heights of eternal glory
the divine Spirit descends, by a long series of steps, to meet you as you are
and where you are and then, in the partnership of faith, lovingly to embrace
the soul of mortal origin and to embark on the sure and certain retracement of
those steps of condescension, never stopping until the evolutionary soul is
safely exalted to the very heights of bliss from which the divine Spirit
originally sallied forth on this mission of mercy and ministry.
Spiritual forces unerringly seek
and attain their own original levels. Having gone out from the Eternal, they
are certain to return thereto, bringing with them all those children of time
and space who have espoused the leading and teaching of the indwelling
Adjuster, those who have been truly “born of the Spirit,” the faith sons of
God.
The divine Spirit is the source of
continual ministry and encouragement to the children of men. Your power and
achievement is “according to his mercy, through the renewing of the Spirit.”
Spiritual life, like physical energy, is consumed. Spiritual effort results in
relative spiritual exhaustion. The whole ascendant experience is real as well
as spiritual; therefore, it is truly written, “It is the Spirit that quickens.”
“The Spirit gives life.”
The dead theory of even the highest
religious doctrines is powerless to transform human character or to control
mortal behavior. What the world of today needs is the truth which your teacher
of old declared: “Not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit.”
The seed of theoretical truth is dead, the highest moral concepts without
effect, unless and until the divine Spirit breathes upon the forms of truth and
quickens the formulas of righteousness.
Those who have received and
recognized the indwelling of God have been born of the Spirit. “You are the
temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you.” It is not enough that this
spirit be poured out upon you; the divine Spirit must dominate and control
every phase of human experience.
It is the presence of the divine
Spirit, the water of life, that prevents the consuming thirst of mortal
discontent and that indescribable hunger of the unspiritualized human mind. Spirit-motivated
beings “never thirst, for this spiritual water shall be in them a well of
satisfaction springing up into life everlasting.” Such divinely watered souls
are all but independent of material environment as regards the joys of living
and the satisfactions of earthly existence. They are spiritually illuminated
and refreshed, morally strengthened and endowed.
In every mortal there exists a dual
nature: the inheritance of animal tendencies and the high urge of spirit
endowment. During the short life you live on Urantia, these two diverse and
opposing urges can seldom be fully reconciled; they can hardly be harmonized
and unified; but throughout your lifetime the combined Spirit ever ministers to
assist you in subjecting the flesh more and more to the leading of the Spirit.
Even though you must live your material life through, even though you cannot
escape the body and its necessities, nonetheless, in purpose and ideals you are
empowered increasingly to subject the animal nature to the mastery of the
Spirit. There truly exists within you a conspiracy of spiritual forces, a
confederation of divine powers, whose exclusive purpose is to effect your final
deliverance from material bondage and finite handicaps.
The purpose of all this
ministration is, “That you may be strengthened with power through His spirit in
the inner man.” And all this represents but the preliminary steps to the final
attainment of the perfection of faith and service, that experience wherein you
shall be “filled with all the fullness of God,” “for all those who are led by
the spirit of God are the sons of God.”
The Spirit never drives, only
leads. If you are a willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and
reach divine heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then
the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of
sonship and spiritual progress. Every step you take must be one of willingness,
intelligent and cheerful co-operation. The domination of the Spirit is never
tainted with coercion nor compromised by compulsion.
And when such a life of spirit
guidance is freely and intelligently accepted, there gradually develops within
the human mind a positive consciousness of divine contact and assurance of
spirit communion; sooner or later “the Spirit bears witness with your spirit
(the Adjuster) that you are a child of God.” Already has your own Thought
Adjuster told you of your kinship to God so that the record testifies that the
Spirit bears witness “with your spirit,” not to your
spirit.
The consciousness of the spirit
domination of a human life is presently attended by an increasing exhibition of
the characteristics of the Spirit in the life reactions of such a spirit-led
mortal, “for the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.” Such spirit-guided and
divinely illuminated mortals, while they yet tread the lowly paths of toil and
in human faithfulness perform the duties of their earthly assignments, have
already begun to discern the lights of eternal life as they glimmer on the
faraway shores of another world; already have they begun to comprehend the
reality of that inspiring and comforting truth, “The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.” And throughout
every trial and in the presence of every hardship, spirit-born souls are
sustained by that hope which transcends all fear because the love of God is
shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit.
Courtesy of the Urantia Book
Sovrnty Society
