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The universe is a gigantic bureaucracy with offices everywhere and hierarchies of every kind and plans and purposes and conspiracy and danger, and destiny, and failure, and success and reward. Planet Earth, whose real name is Urantia, is a life-experiment station on which higher nonhuman beings are developing newer forms of life-expression.
Coexistent with the differentiation between Father and Son was the appearance of the Infinite Spirit and the Central Universe of Havona, which spins around Paradise (see Figure 1, frontispiece).
The soul is neither material (as the body) nor spiritual (as the Thought Adjuster), but lives in an intermediate realm that The Urantia Book calls the morontial level.
The Urantia Book calls the Creator Son who made our own Local Universe Michael because he belongs to the Order of Michaels, another name for the Paradise Corps of Creator Sons. (By a false etymology, the name Michael is said to be Hebrew for “Who is like God?” that is, no one.) The Michael of this Local Universe, registered under the name of Nebadon, was the very being who through an exceptional process incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth in Palestine in 7 BC, for complex reasons that we will later discuss.
The Gospel of John begins with the famous words “In the beginning was the Word [= Greek logos, something ordered, with shape] and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” That is true of the Eternal Son. The Universal Father never functions personally as a creator except in conjunction with the Eternal Son.
As the Father is love, the Son is mercy. Mercy is love in action.
Although omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent the Eternal Son does not function personally in the physical domains, nor in the realm of mind. The Eternal Son derives personality from the Father but does not bestow personality, the prerogative of the Universal Father.
Nor can the Eternal Son fragmentize himself, as does the Father in the issuing of the Thought Adjusters.
Spiritual gravity, of which the Eternal Son is the center, operates outside of time and space, hence is undiminished in transmission. Spiritual gravity is real, and not a figure of speech; and it pulls harder in response to spiritual achievement. As a mortal becomes a spiritual being, it becomes possible by submitting to this gravity to know the Son.
The spirit-gravity circuit is how genuine prayer from the human heart goes to God. The circuit is rather like the human nervous system, a network directing an impulse to the right office. There are no reception centers for selfish prayer for material profit, however, which is a waste of time. Nor are fancy words of any use in effective prayer—it’s the thought that counts.
AI Summary
The Urantia Revelation by Malcolm Locke presents key insights from the Christian Mysticism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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