Our Father

Certainly. Here's the expanded reflection on The Urantia Book's teaching from Paper 5:3.8 (66.4), formatted into clear, flowing paragraphs for deeper contemplation:

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The passage presents worship not as a ritual or obligation, but as a sublime, co-creative act between the human self and the divine presence within. Worship, according to The Urantia Book, is the sacred attempt of the betrothed Thought Adjuster — the indwelling fragment of the Universal Father — to communicate the soul’s deepest longings to God. These longings are not always consciously understood by the mind; they are often “inexpressible aspirations” that arise from the soul — the evolving, morontia self — formed through the partnership of the human mind and the divine spirit.

In this holy union, three participants are involved in worship: the mortal mind, the immortal Adjuster, and the evolving soul. The mortal mind consents to worship — it must be open, willing, and attentive. The soul craves and initiates worship, for it is the part of you that hungers for truth, beauty, and divine connection. And it is the Thought Adjuster who conducts the actual act of worship — transmitting the soul’s essence, translated into spiritual terms, directly to the Father. Worship is, therefore, not something we do to God, but something we experience with God, through the inner presence of God.

This deeply personal and spiritual act of worship unfolds on four cosmic levels: intellectual, morontial, spiritual, and personal. On the intellectual level, the mortal mind must be engaged. Worship begins with awareness, with a choice — a turning of the mind toward the divine. On the morontial level, the soul — your evolving, eternal self — is stirred by a craving to commune with God, to feel connection and purpose beyond material reality. At the spiritual level, the Adjuster becomes the active agent, forming the true connection with the Universal Father. This level transcends thought and emotion, becoming pure spiritual communion. Finally, on the personal level, all these experiences unify in the consciousness of personality — the self recognizing its own divine heritage and eternal destiny.

True worship, then, is not limited by language, ritual, or theology. It is a living experience of unity — a moment when mind, soul, and spirit harmonize in the recognition of divine love and presence. It is the human soul’s response to the Father’s call, aided by the indwelling Adjuster, who lovingly serves as the bridge between the finite and the Infinite. In the end, worship is not just about reverence; it is about relationship, participation, and transformation — a mutual embrace between the Creator and His evolving child.

Michael Of Nebadon 

Acquiring Righteousness of Character

 In Relation to Righteousness

170:3.1 (1861.8)Jesus was always trying to impress upon his apostles and disciples that they must acquire, by faith, a righteousness which would exceed the righteousness of slavish works which some of the scribes and Pharisees paraded so vaingloriously before the world.

170:3.2 (1861.9)Though Jesus taught that faith, simple childlike belief, is the key to the door of the kingdom, he also taught that, having entered the door, there are the progressive steps of righteousness which every believing child must ascend in order to grow up to the full stature of the robust sons of God.

170:3.3 (1861.10)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:

170:3.4 (1862.1)1. God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by man just in so far as he forgives his fellows.

170:3.5 (1862.2)2. Man will not truly forgive his fellows unless he loves them as himself.

170:3.6 (1862.3)3. To thus love your neighbor as yourself is the highest ethics.

170:3.7 (1862.4)4. Moral conduct, true righteousness, becomes, then, the natural result of such love.

170:3.8 (1862.5)It therefore is evident that the true and inner religion of the kingdom unfailingly and increasingly tends to manifest itself in practical avenues of social service. Jesus taught a living religion that impelled its believers to engage in the doing of loving service. But Jesus did not put ethics in the place of religion. He taught religion as a cause and ethics as a result.

170:3.9 (1862.6)The righteousness of any act must be measured by the motive; the highest forms of good are therefore unconscious. Jesus was never concerned with morals or ethics as such. He was wholly concerned with that inward and spiritual fellowship with God the Father which so certainly and directly manifests itself as outward and loving service for man. He taught that the religion of the kingdom is a genuine personal experience which no man can contain within himself; that the consciousness of being a member of the family of believers leads inevitably to the practice of the precepts of the family conduct, the service of one’s brothers and sisters in the effort to enhance and enlarge the brotherhood.

170:3.10 (1862.7)The religion of the kingdom is personal, individual; the fruits, the results, are familial, social. Jesus never failed to exalt the sacredness of the individual as contrasted with the community. But he also recognized that man develops his character by unselfish service; that he unfolds his moral nature in loving relations with his fellows.

170:3.11 (1862.8)By teaching that the kingdom is within, by exalting the individual, Jesus struck the deathblow of the old society in that he ushered in the new dispensation of true social righteousness. This new order of society the world has little known because it has refused to practice the principles of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. And when this kingdom of spiritual pre-eminence does come upon the earth, it will not be manifested in mere improved social and material conditions, but rather in the glories of those enhanced and enriched spiritual values which are characteristic of the approaching age of improved human relations and advancing spiritual attainments.

Michael Of Nebadon

In Relation to Righteousness

Urantia Paper 170, Section 3: "In Relation to Righteousness"

(The Urantia Book, 170:3.1–170:3.10)

In this section, Jesus clarifies that the Kingdom of Heaven is deeply linked to righteousness but redefines what righteousness means in contrast to traditional religious views. He challenges legalistic interpretations and elevates righteousness from a system of laws and rituals to a living, spiritual experience of doing God’s will.

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1. Righteousness is Not Mere Obedience to Law (170:3.1–3.2)

Traditional View: Legalistic Righteousness

• In Jewish tradition (as well as many world religions), righteousness was often defined by strict obedience to religious laws, rituals, and purity codes.
• It was a behavioral righteousness—measured by external actions rather than internal transformation.
• Many believed that fulfilling the letter of the law (e.g., dietary rules, Sabbath laws, sacrifices) was enough to be counted as righteous.

📖 “The righteousness of any act must be determined by its motive.” (170:3.2)

Jesus’ View: Righteousness as a Heart Condition

✔ Jesus rejected external rule-following as the measure of righteousness.
✔ True righteousness is about the heart—the motive behind actions, not just the actions themselves.
✔ He emphasized spiritual sincerity, meaning a person must act from love, faith, and the desire to do God’s will, not from fear of punishment or social pressure.

📌 Key Lesson:

• Righteousness is not about laws or traditions but about a living relationship with God and others.

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2. The Kingdom is More Than Ethical Conduct (170:3.3)

✔ While righteousness involves ethical living, Jesus went beyond morality.
✔ Many religions teach that righteousness is simply avoiding sin or following commandments.
✔ Jesus transformed righteousness into a dynamic experience of divine love and truth.

📖 “Righteousness in the kingdom of heaven means the attainment of the character of the spirit-dominated mortal.” (170:3.3)

What Does This Mean?

• It is not just doing the right thing, but becoming the right kind of person—one who is truly led by the Spirit of God.
• It is not just about avoiding sin, but about actively pursuing divine goodness and love.
• It requires spiritual growth, not just moral discipline.

📌 Key Lesson:

• Righteousness is not merely about being good—it is about being transformed into a spiritual being, led by divine love.

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3. The Shift from Law to Spirit (170:3.4)

Traditional View: The Law as Supreme

• The Jewish religious system, as well as other religious traditions, taught that law (Torah, Dharma, Sharia, etc.) was the highest authority.
• People believed righteousness came from strict obedience to religious codes—if you followed them, you were "good"; if not, you were "evil."

Jesus’ View: The Spirit is Supreme

📖 “The righteousness of the kingdom is a quality of divinity that transcends the righteousness of the law.” (170:3.4)

✔ Jesus transcended legalism—the kingdom’s righteousness is higher than the law because it is God’s very own righteousness living in human hearts.
✔ This means people must live by the Spirit, not by rigid religious rules.

📌 Key Lesson:

• Righteousness is not about obeying rules, but about letting divine love and wisdom guide every choice.

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4. The New Standard: Love as the Highest Law (170:3.5)

📖 “The righteousness of the kingdom is based on faith, love, and truth.” (170:3.5)

✔ Jesus established a new moral standard:

1. Faith – A deep trust in God's goodness.
2. Love – Acting from divine compassion rather than duty.
3. Truth – A commitment to higher spiritual understanding.

What This Means for Us

• Instead of rules and fear, righteousness is an active relationship with God.
• Instead of external religious obligations, righteousness is internal transformation.
• Instead of being "right" by law, righteousness is expressing divine love in action.

📌 Key Lesson:

• True righteousness is not law-based, but love-based.

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5. The Kingdom and the Supreme Desire to Do God's Will (170:3.6–3.7)

📖 “The kingdom of heaven is neither a social nor economic order; it is an exclusively spiritual brotherhood of God-knowing individuals.” (170:3.7)

✔ Many people expected the Kingdom to be a political, economic, or social revolution—but Jesus rejected this.
✔ Instead, the Kingdom is for those who sincerely desire to do God's will.

God’s Will and Righteousness

• Doing God's will is the essence of righteousness.
• God’s will is not about obeying religious laws, but about living in divine love, truth, and service.
• The Kingdom is not a place—it is a state of being where God's will is supreme.

📌 Key Lesson:

• Righteousness means not just believing in God, but actively seeking to live according to His will.

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6. A Higher Righteousness is Required (170:3.8)

📖 “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom.” (Matthew 5:20, quoted in 170:3.8)

What Was Wrong with the Pharisees’ Righteousness?

• The Pharisees were the most religiously devout people of Jesus' time, yet he criticized them because their righteousness was legalistic, external, and self-righteous.
• Their faith was about rules, status, and outward appearances, rather than inner transformation and love.

What Kind of Righteousness is Required?

✔ A righteousness of faith, love, and sincerity.
✔ A righteousness that flows from inner transformation, not rule-following.
✔ A righteousness that exceeds mere religious obligation and is rooted in the Spirit.

📌 Key Lesson:

• The righteousness of the Kingdom is a matter of the heart, not just actions.

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7. Summary: What Jesus Taught About Righteousness

Traditional View (Religious Legalism)	Jesus’ View (Spiritual Righteousness)
Following religious laws = righteousness	Motives and intentions = righteousness
External rule-keeping	Inner transformation by the Spirit
Moral perfectionism	Love, faith, and truth as guides
Fear of punishment	Joyful desire to do God’s will
Judgmental and exclusive	Compassionate and inclusive

Final Takeaways

✔ Righteousness is not about external law, but about inner spiritual transformation.
✔ True righteousness is measured by faith, love, and a hunger for truth.
✔ The Kingdom of God is not political, social, or institutional—it is a state of being where God's will is supreme.

📌 Reflection Questions:

• Do I focus more on rules or on spiritual growth?
• Do I seek to appear righteous, or do I truly hunger for truth and love?
• Am I living in the Spirit, or am I relying on external religious expectations? 
  
  Michael Of Nebadon

The Father Desires You

The Father desires all his creatures to be in personal communion with him. He has on Paradise a place to receive all those whose survival status and spiritual nature make possible such attainment. Therefore settle in your philosophy now and forever: To each of you and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is open; the forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration are all interlocked in an effort to facilitate the advancement of every worthy intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father.

5:1.9 (63.7)The fact that vast time is involved in the attainment of God makes the presence and personality of the Infinite none the less real. Your ascension is a part of the circuit of the seven superuniverses, and though you swing around it countless times, you may expect, in spirit and in status, to be ever swinging inward. You can depend upon being translated from sphere to sphere, from the outer circuits ever nearer the inner center, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the divine and central presence and see him, figuratively speaking, face to face. It is a question of the attainment of actual and literal spiritual levels; and these spiritual levels are attainable by any being who has been indwelt by a Mystery Monitor, and who has subsequently eternally fused with that Thought Adjuster.

The Father is not in spiritual hiding, but so many of his creatures have hidden themselves away in the mists of their own willful decisions and for the time being have separated themselves from the communion of his spirit and the spirit of his Son by the choosing of their own perverse ways and by the indulgence of the self-assertiveness of their intolerant minds and unspiritual natures.

Mortal man may draw near God and may repeatedly forsake the divine will so long as the power of choice remains. Man’s final doom is not sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father’s will. There is never a closure of the Father’s heart to the need and the petition of his children. Only do his offspring close their hearts forever to the Father’s drawing power when they finally and forever lose the desire to do his divine will—to know him and to be like him. Likewise is man’s eternal destiny assured when Adjuster fusion proclaims to the universe that such an ascender has made the final and irrevocable choice to live the Father’s will.

The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell within him. God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man. If you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of space.

Urantia Contemplation

The Sovrnty Foundation 

Urantia Communion

I speak to you now of the Urantia Book, Paper 115: "The Supreme Being"

Paper 115 of The Urantia Book is a profound exploration of the Supreme Being as an evolving deity, growing in response to the experiences of all finite creatures. This paper explains the nature of finite reality, the relationship between potential and actual existence, and how the Supreme unifies all of creation into a single divine expression.

The Three Levels of Reality

The Urantia Book describes reality as existing on three fundamental levels. The first is the Absolute level, where God the Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit exist as changeless, eternal, and self-existent beings. The second is the Finite level, which consists of evolving beings, material universes, and celestial personalities. The third is The Supreme, who is the unifying deity of all finite experiences. The Supreme Being is neither absolute nor infinite but is instead becoming—gradually taking form as the grand universe evolves.

The Supreme functions as a bridge between the absolute and finite levels. He represents the unfolding of divine reality within time and space, integrating the struggles, choices, and achievements of all beings into a unified divine expression. This makes Him different from the Universal Father, who exists beyond time and space in a state of absolute perfection.

The Nature of Potential and Actual Reality

In The Urantia Book, all reality exists in two states: potential and actual. The Universal Father contains all things in potential form, and through experience, the universes gradually bring this potential into actual reality. The Supreme Being is the evolving manifestation of this process.

A helpful analogy is that of a cosmic puzzle. Each finite experience, whether from a human, an angel, or a celestial being, is a piece of this puzzle. As time progresses and beings make moral and spiritual decisions, the Supreme gradually takes on a more complete and fully actualized form. Since the Supreme is still evolving, His sovereignty and personality are not yet fully realized.

The Supreme as the Unifier of Experience

A central role of the Supreme Being is to integrate and unify all finite experience. Every spiritual choice, intellectual pursuit, and physical evolution contributes to the growing Supreme. The Supreme is not merely an observer of creation; He is an active participant, absorbing and reflecting the total progress of time-space reality.

Each time a mortal being struggles toward truth, beauty, and goodness, it strengthens the Supreme. The collective experiences of human civilizations, celestial beings, and universe administrators are woven into the Supreme’s divine reality. The Supreme is thus the sum of all finite experience—the evolving, experiential expression of God in time and space.

The Almighty Supreme and the Actualization of Power

Although the Supreme Being is still emerging, The Urantia Book teaches that He will one day fully actualize as the Almighty Supreme, assuming direct sovereignty over the grand universe. At present, the Supreme is growing in spiritual power, but He does not yet have full control over finite universes. However, once the seven superuniverses reach a state of completion, the Supreme will exercise full divine authority.

At that point, the two aspects of the Supreme—His spiritual personality and His physical cosmic power—will merge. The Almighty Supreme represents the full realization of His cosmic sovereignty, while the Supreme Personality reflects His divine nature. This is an ongoing process, but once completed, the Supreme will function as the sovereign ruler of all finite creation.

Human Contribution to the Supreme’s Growth

One of the most unique teachings of The Urantia Book is that human beings directly participate in the growth of the Supreme. Every moral choice, act of love, and spiritual struggle adds to His evolution. When a mortal being chooses righteousness over selfishness, that experience becomes part of the Supreme’s reality.

Humans and other finite beings are, in a sense, co-creators of the Supreme. Our experiences contribute to His growth, and in return, the Supreme provides a growing sense of divine unity and meaning to all evolving beings. As we advance spiritually, we are not only progressing toward God, but we are also helping God become more fully realized in the universe.

The Future Destiny of the Supreme

Once the Supreme Being is fully actualized, He will take His place as the sovereign ruler of the perfected grand universe. At this point, all beings who have reached spiritual perfection will be able to experience the Supreme as a fully developed deity. This marks a significant shift in universal history, as perfected beings will then engage in new cosmic adventures beyond the grand universe.

The completion of the Supreme’s evolution will open new dimensions of divine experience for all created beings. Just as today’s ascenders seek to know God the Father, future perfected beings will seek to understand and experience the fully realized Supreme Being. This marks the next stage of spiritual progression in the vast, unfolding plan of God.

Conclusion

Paper 115 presents a revolutionary idea: the Supreme Being is not yet fully God—He is evolving. Unlike the Universal Father, who exists eternally in perfection, the Supreme is becoming perfect through the collective experiences of all finite beings. He is the divine synthesis of all time-space experience, absorbing every struggle, victory, and growth into His unfolding personality.

This means that your life, your choices, and your spiritual progress have a cosmic impact. Every act of truth, love, and goodness adds to the Supreme’s development. In a profound way, human beings are not just seeking God—they are helping to shape God’s evolving expression in the universe.

Michael Of Nebadon 

The Purest

Delving Deeper into The Urantia Book, Paper 115: "The Supreme Being"

Paper 115 of The Urantia Book is a profound exploration of the Supreme Being as an evolving deity, growing in response to the experiences of all finite creatures. This paper explains the nature of finite reality, the relationship between potential and actual existence, and how the Supreme unifies all of creation into a single divine expression.

The Three Levels of Reality

The Urantia Book describes reality as existing on three fundamental levels. The first is the Absolute level, where God the Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit exist as changeless, eternal, and self-existent beings. The second is the Finite level, which consists of evolving beings, material universes, and celestial personalities. The third is The Supreme, who is the unifying deity of all finite experiences. The Supreme Being is neither absolute nor infinite but is instead becoming—gradually taking form as the grand universe evolves.

The Supreme functions as a bridge between the absolute and finite levels. He represents the unfolding of divine reality within time and space, integrating the struggles, choices, and achievements of all beings into a unified divine expression. This makes Him different from the Universal Father, who exists beyond time and space in a state of absolute perfection.

The Nature of Potential and Actual Reality

In The Urantia Book, all reality exists in two states: potential and actual. The Universal Father contains all things in potential form, and through experience, the universes gradually bring this potential into actual reality. The Supreme Being is the evolving manifestation of this process.

A helpful analogy is that of a cosmic puzzle. Each finite experience, whether from a human, an angel, or a celestial being, is a piece of this puzzle. As time progresses and beings make moral and spiritual decisions, the Supreme gradually takes on a more complete and fully actualized form. Since the Supreme is still evolving, His sovereignty and personality are not yet fully realized.

The Supreme as the Unifier of Experience

A central role of the Supreme Being is to integrate and unify all finite experience. Every spiritual choice, intellectual pursuit, and physical evolution contributes to the growing Supreme. The Supreme is not merely an observer of creation; He is an active participant, absorbing and reflecting the total progress of time-space reality.

Each time a mortal being struggles toward truth, beauty, and goodness, it strengthens the Supreme. The collective experiences of human civilizations, celestial beings, and universe administrators are woven into the Supreme’s divine reality. The Supreme is thus the sum of all finite experience—the evolving, experiential expression of God in time and space.

The Almighty Supreme and the Actualization of Power

Although the Supreme Being is still emerging, The Urantia Book teaches that He will one day fully actualize as the Almighty Supreme, assuming direct sovereignty over the grand universe. At present, the Supreme is growing in spiritual power, but He does not yet have full control over finite universes. However, once the seven superuniverses reach a state of completion, the Supreme will exercise full divine authority.

At that point, the two aspects of the Supreme—His spiritual personality and His physical cosmic power—will merge. The Almighty Supreme represents the full realization of His cosmic sovereignty, while the Supreme Personality reflects His divine nature. This is an ongoing process, but once completed, the Supreme will function as the sovereign ruler of all finite creation.

Human Contribution to the Supreme’s Growth

One of the most unique teachings of The Urantia Book is that human beings directly participate in the growth of the Supreme. Every moral choice, act of love, and spiritual struggle adds to His evolution. When a mortal being chooses righteousness over selfishness, that experience becomes part of the Supreme’s reality.

Humans and other finite beings are, in a sense, co-creators of the Supreme. Our experiences contribute to His growth, and in return, the Supreme provides a growing sense of divine unity and meaning to all evolving beings. As we advance spiritually, we are not only progressing toward God, but we are also helping God become more fully realized in the universe.

The Future Destiny of the Supreme

Once the Supreme Being is fully actualized, He will take His place as the sovereign ruler of the perfected grand universe. At this point, all beings who have reached spiritual perfection will be able to experience the Supreme as a fully developed deity. This marks a significant shift in universal history, as perfected beings will then engage in new cosmic adventures beyond the grand universe.

The completion of the Supreme’s evolution will open new dimensions of divine experience for all created beings. Just as today’s ascenders seek to know God the Father, future perfected beings will seek to understand and experience the fully realized Supreme Being. This marks the next stage of spiritual progression in the vast, unfolding plan of God.

Conclusion

Paper 115 presents a revolutionary idea: the Supreme Being is not yet fully God—He is evolving. Unlike the Universal Father, who exists eternally in perfection, the Supreme is becoming perfect through the collective experiences of all finite beings. He is the divine synthesis of all time-space experience, absorbing every struggle, victory, and growth into His unfolding personality.

This means that your life, your choices, and your spiritual progress have a cosmic impact. Every act of truth, love, and goodness adds to the Supreme’s development. In a profound way, human beings are not just seeking God—they are helping to shape God’s evolving expression in the universe.

Michael Of Nebadon 

Supremacy

And so, as we strive for self-expression, the Supreme is striving in us, and with us, for deity expression. As we find the Father, so has the Supreme again found the Paradise Creator of all things. As we master the problems of self-realization, so is the God of experience achieving almighty supremacy in the universes of time and space.

Mankind does not ascend effortlessly in the universe, neither does the Supreme evolve without purposeful and intelligent action. Creatures do not attain perfection by mere passivity, nor can the spirit of Supremacy factualize the power of the Almighty without unceasing service ministry to the finite creation.

The temporal relation of man to the Supreme is the foundation for cosmic morality, the universal sensitivity to, and acceptance of, duty. This is a morality which transcends the temporal sense of relative right and wrong; it is a morality directly predicated on the self-conscious creature’s appreciation of experiential obligation to experiential Deity. Mortal man and all other finite creatures are created out of the living potential of energy, mind, and spirit existent in the Supreme. It is upon the Supreme that the Adjuster-mortal ascender draws for the creation of the immortal and divine character of a finaliter. It is out of the very reality of the Supreme that the Adjuster, with the consent of the human will, weaves the patterns of the eternal nature of an ascending son of God.

117:4.9 (1284.5)The evolution of Adjuster progress in the spiritualizing and eternalizing of a human personality is directly productive of an enlargement of the sovereignty of the Supreme. Such achievements in human evolution are at the same time achievements in the evolutionary actualization of the Supreme. While it is true that creatures could not evolve without the Supreme, it is probably also true that the evolution of the Supreme can never be fully attained independent of the completed evolution of all creatures. Herein lies the great cosmic responsibility of self-conscious personalities: That Supreme Deity is in a certain sense dependent on the choosing of the mortal will. And the mutual progression of creature evolution and of Supreme evolution is faithfully and fully indicated to the Ancients of Days over the inscrutable mechanisms of universe reflectivity.

The great challenge that has been given to mortal man is this: Will you decide to personalize the experiencible value meanings of the cosmos into your own evolving selfhood? or by rejecting survival, will you allow these secrets of Supremacy to lie dormant, awaiting the action of another creature at some other time who will in his way attempt a creature contribution to the evolution of the finite God? But that will be his contribution to the Supreme, not yours.

Urantia Contemplation 

True Faith

Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques of living.

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. There is never conflict between true knowledge and truth. There may be conflict between knowledge and human beliefs, beliefs colored with prejudice, distorted by fear, and dominated by the dread of facing new facts of material discovery or spiritual progress.

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.

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. Plants and animals survive in time by the technique of passing on from one generation to another identical particles of themselves. 

The human soul (personality) of man survives mortal death by identity association with this indwelling spark of divinity, which is immortal, and which functions to perpetuate the human personality upon a continuing and higher level of progressive universe existence. The concealed seed of the human soul is an immortal spirit. The second generation of the soul is the first of a succession of personality manifestations of spiritual and progressing existences, terminating only when this divine entity attains the source of its existence, the personal source of all existence, God, the Universal Father.

Urantia Communion