Monday, November 4, 2024

The Oversoul of Creation

The great Supreme is the cosmic oversoul of the grand universe. In him the qualities and quantities of the cosmos do find their deity reflection; his deity nature is the mosaic composite of the total vastness of all creature-Creator nature throughout the evolving universes. And the Supreme is also an actualizing Deity embodying a creative will which embraces an evolving universe purpose.

The intellectual, potentially personal selves of the finite emerge from the Third Source and Center and achieve finite time-space Deity synthesis in the Supreme. When the creature submits to the will of the Creator, he does not submerge or surrender his personality; the individual personality participants in the actualization of the finite God do not lose their volitional selfhood by so functioning. Rather are such personalities progressively augmented by participation in this great Deity adventure; by such union with divinity man exalts, enriches, spiritualizes, and unifies his evolving self to the very threshold of supremacy.

In the eternal future, God the Supreme will be actualized—creatively expressed and spiritually portrayed—in the spiritualized mind, the immortal soul, of ascendant man, even as the Universal Father was so revealed in the earth life of Jesus.

Man does not unite with the Supreme and submerge his personal identity, but the universe repercussions of the experience of all men do thus form a part of the divine experiencing of the Supreme. “The act is ours, the consequences God’s.”

The progressing personality leaves a trail of actualized reality as it passes through the ascending levels of the universes. Be they mind, spirit, or energy, the growing creations of time and space are modified by the progression of personality through their domains. When man acts, the Supreme reacts, and this transaction constitutes the fact of progression.

The great circuits of energy, mind, and spirit are never the permanent possessions of ascending personality; these ministries remain forever a part of Supremacy. In the mortal experience the human intellect resides in the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant mind-spirits and effects its decisions within the arena produced by encircuitment within this ministry. Upon mortal death the human self is everlastingly divorced from the adjutant circuit. While these adjutants never seem to transmit experience from one personality to another, they can and do transmit the impersonal repercussions of decision-action through God the Sevenfold to God the Supreme. (At least this is true of the adjutants of worship and wisdom.)

Urantia Communion

The Sovrnty Foundation 



Saturday, September 21, 2024

Sevenfold Truths of Character

The power of memory weaves and winds every impression up more closely so that the thought impressions might register within thine field of expression. The same thing is seen in the higher region of ideas and beliefs and emotions and feelings. Long established associations and opinions survive their rejection by reason. Convince a man of his life-long errors today, and he reasserts them tomorrow, so strong is the tendency of thought to move in its long accustomed cerebral tracks. A man's desire may be good but when habits are to be corrected, he too often finds the will dethroned and paralyzed in grooves of habit. Grooves like the indentations upon the material of a record which create deeply-held impressions of causes and effects. What affects our time and space experience are these impressions of thought imposed upon the very fabric of Life. And thee same thoughts affect our character. The human being in its persona nature shall express itself through form which is character. The sevenfold truths are the foundation upon which all expression shall become elevated and ennobled - truthfulness, temerity, tenderness, tenacity, transparency, totality, and trust. Truth is the first and indispensable condition of character growth, and genuine, lasting success grows and emerges from out of all character righteousness; the very motivations of every decision and moral choice is derived from character. There is nothing complicated in truth, neither is it susceptible of any limitation. The truth seeking mind goes forward with reservation, modest candor and developing dignity. Habit grows by compliance and adherence. When we lose the habit, we lose the ability. The chief means of improving our rational powers is the vigorous use of them in various ways. Men of universal memory are those who combine most happily the ready memory of facts with the tenacious memory of truths. Be thou temerously determined and tenaciously awake in thine choices; for these shall form the character by which all decisions are grown. Through mental attraction and appropriation the persona soul emerges and becomes individualized beyond the collective. Ye shall learn but little when you only read. The soul can recall no more than it can make its own as an ideal by which it lives, and this occurs through habitual living of a certain technique that brings spontaneousness, genuineness, and originality. To remember well and to become is the thing. Read and reflect and realize while holding the breath .. pause when it is finished .. and take another breath to review it; this practice, if observed, shall detain the mind long enough to receive a permanent impression upon its very fabric; for thine field of expression is alike unto the grooves of the olden records which played music. I sayeth unto thee .. concentrated repetition is the only specific for inattention. If a person's attention be wanting, then study mathematics, for in demonstration, if the attention is diverted ever so little, it will be necessary to begin again. A resolute will overcomes obstacles. Perseverance, sometimes, equals genius in its results. Michael Of Nebadon 21st Century Sevenfold Revelation

Friday, July 26, 2024

The Eye of Faith

When the eye of thine faith be single, thine entire field of expression shall become of Light.

Michael Of Nebadon

Proclamations of God's Grace

Sunday, June 16, 2024

My Triune Gospel is Life

My Triune Gospel for Humanity 

The Way of Acknowledgement of Authority 
The twelve volitional virtues

The Truth of Autonomous Personality Authorship 
The right of existence, the faculties of expression, and the powers of experience

The Life of Universal Association in the Progressive Ascendancy of Service
The Crcuits of the Great Adonai Source and Center of the Infinite Personas of Deity

Grow into the Kingdom of Righteousness by living the Will of the Heavenly One Creator. One sacred choice at a time. One step at a time. One holy decision at a time shall elevate all understanding meanings .. shall ennoble all character motivations .. and shall enliven all spirit-led decisions to create a new trajectory momentum leading to Order, Justice, Harmony, and Love.

Ask the Mother's Adjutant extensions to help you further develop your mind capacities and urges. This is to mature your intentions and inclinations .. to have the courage to choose moral choices and make growth-producing decisions in your life.

It is in the consideration of the technique of receiving God’s forgiveness that the attainment of the righteousness of the kingdom is revealed. 

Faith is the price you pay for entrance into the family of God; but forgiveness is the act of God which accepts your faith as the price of admission. 

And the reception of the forgiveness of God by a kingdom believer involves a definite and actual experience and consists in the following four steps, the kingdom steps of inner righteousness:

1. God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by man just in so far as he forgives his fellows.

2. Man will not truly forgive his fellows unless he loves them as himself.

3. To thus love your neighbor as yourself is the highest ethics.

4. Moral conduct, true righteousness, becomes, then, the natural result of such love.

Faith unites moral insight with conscientious discriminations of values, and the pre-existent evolutionary sense of duty completes the ancestry of true religion. The experience of religion eventually results in the certain consciousness of God and in the undoubted assurance of the survival of the believing personality.

Thus it may be seen that religious longings and spiritual urges are not of such a nature as would merely lead men to want to believe in God, but rather are they of such nature and power that men are profoundly impressed with the conviction that they ought to believe in God. 

The sense of evolutionary duty and the obligations consequent upon the illumination of revelation make such a profound impression upon man’s moral nature that he finally reaches that position of mind and that attitude of soul where he concludes that he has no right not to believe in God. 

The higher and superphilosophic wisdom of such enlightened and disciplined individuals ultimately instructs them that to doubt God or distrust his goodness would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the human mind and soul—the divine Adjuster.

Religion lives and prospers, then, not by sight and feeling, but rather by faith and insight. It consists not in the discovery of new facts or in the finding of a unique experience, but rather in the discovery of new and spiritual meanings in facts already well known to mankind. 

The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and purely mystical emotions. It is, rather, a profoundly deep and actual experience of spiritual communion with the spirit influences resident within the human mind, and as far as such an experience is definable in terms of psychology, it is simply the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God as the reality of such a purely personal experience.

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.

By the old way you seek to suppress, obey, and conform to the rules of living; by the new way you are first transformed by the Spirit of Truth and thereby strengthened in your inner soul by the constant spiritual renewing of your mind, and so are you endowed with the power of the certain and joyous performance of the gracious, acceptable, and perfect will of God. 

Forget not—it is your personal faith in the exceedingly great and precious promises of God that ensures your becoming partakers of the divine nature. 

Thus by your faith and the spirit’s transformation, you become in reality the temples of God, and his spirit actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bondslaves of the flesh but free and liberated sons of the spirit. The new law of the spirit endows you with the liberty of self-mastery in place of the old law of the fear of self-bondage and the slavery of self-denial.
Awaken to the possibilities afforded to you for growth and actualization with the sure guidance of the Spirit of Truth. Having started out on the way of life everlasting, having accepted the assignment and received your orders to advance, do not fear the dangers of human forgetfulness and mortal inconstancy, do not be troubled with doubts of failure or by perplexing confusion, do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, ‘This is the way.

The Master distinctly taught a new concept of the double nature of the kingdom in that he portrayed the following two phases:

First. The kingdom of God in this world, the supreme desire to do the will of God, the unselfish love of man which yields the good fruits of improved ethical and moral conduct.

Second. The kingdom of God in heaven, the goal of mortal believers, the estate wherein the love for God is perfected, and wherein the will of God is done more divinely.”

Jesus Michael taught that, by faith, the believer enters the kingdom  In the various discourses he taught that two things are essential to faith-entrance into the kingdom:

1.  To come as a little child, to receive the bestowal of sonship as a gift; to submit to the doing of the Father’s will without questioning and in the full confidence and genuine trustfulness of the Father’s wisdom; to come into the kingdom free from prejudice and preconception; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.

2.  The thirst for righteousness, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God.

Jesus Michael never gave a precise definition of the kingdom. At one time in the first century, he would discourse on one phase of the kingdom, and at another time he would discuss a different aspect of the brotherhood of God’s reign in the hearts of men. In the course of this Sabbath afternoon’s sermon Jesus noted no less than five phases, or epochs, of the kingdom, and they were:

1. The personal and inward experience of the spiritual life of the fellowship of the individual believer with God the Father.

2. The enlarging brotherhood of gospel believers, the social aspects of the enhanced morals and quickened ethics resulting from the reign of God’s spirit in the hearts of individual believers.

3. The supermortal brotherhood of invisible spiritual beings which prevails on earth and in heaven, the superhuman kingdom of God.

4. The prospect of the more perfect fulfillment of the will of God, the advance toward the dawn of a new social order in connection with improved spiritual living—the next age of man.

5. The kingdom in its fullness, the future spiritual age of light and life on earth.

Wherefore must we always examine the Master’s teaching to ascertain which of these five phases he may have reference to when he makes use of the term kingdom of heaven. By this process of gradually changing man’s will and thus affecting human decisions, Michael and his associates are likewise gradually but certainly changing the entire course of human evolution, social and otherwise.

170:4.8 (1863.6) The Master on this occasion placed emphasis on the following five points as representing the cardinal features of the gospel of the kingdom:

1. The pre-eminence of the individual.

2. The will as the determining factor in man’s experience.

3. Spiritual fellowship with God the Father.

4. The supreme satisfactions of the loving service of man.

5. The transcendency of the spiritual over the material in human personality.

Michael Of Nebadon
The Urantia Papers

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Exhilarating Consciousness of Possibilities

Thou children of the One Eternity . . . 

I speak to you of the Plan of Evolutionary Attainment.. the Purpose of these Lifetimes .. the Ennobling Priority bringing forth righteousness and significant meaning for your individual life .. a great Proximity of thine Heart emerges .. and a transcendent Purity is destined to blossom and emerge in its overflowing Joy.

This religiousness of truth and order and harmony hath a precise approach to be lived by you .. a true spiritual religious state of existence which brings forth new meanings to everyday challenges .. and with new meanings arrive an exhilarating consciousness of unconditional acceptance and cosmic understanding .. tolerance and real loving develop for you.

I am come into physicality of form .. and I have established my School of Salvington .. of personal illumination and the progressive ascendancy ..  giving purpose to every personality to embrace ..  that there is a plan to unfold .. a priority to cultivate .. that the possibilities for living a tremendously fulfilling existence are present in the here and now.

Michael Sananda Maitreya 
aka Michael Of Nebadon