Mission

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Growing in Maturity According to The Urantia Book

Maturity—both spiritual and moral—is a process of increasing wisdom, self-mastery, and alignment with divine values. The Urantia Book emphasizes that maturity is not just about age or experience but about progress in truth, goodness, and love.

1. Emotional Maturity: Mastering Reactions

Recognize emotions but do not let them control actions.

Develop patience, tolerance, and self-control.

Handle disappointments with grace and resilience.

2. Intellectual Maturity: Seeking Wisdom

Be open to new truth and deeper understanding.

Learn from mistakes and experiences.

Use reason and discernment to make wise decisions.

3. Moral Maturity: Choosing the Higher Path

Move from self-centered desires to a service-oriented life.

Act out of conscience and responsibility rather than impulse.

Seek fairness, honesty, and integrity in all actions.

4. Spiritual Maturity: Aligning with God's Will

Develop faith in divine guidance (the Thought Adjuster).

Seek truth, beauty, and goodness in daily life.

Prioritize love, compassion, and forgiveness over selfish concerns.

5. Social Maturity: Growing in Relationships

Respect differences and seek unity in diversity.

Learn to cooperate rather than dominate.

Engage in selfless service to uplift others.

6. Cosmic Maturity: Understanding Universal Brotherhood

See yourself as a citizen of the universe, responsible for higher ideals.

Accept suffering and challenges as lessons for growth.

Work towards a life of purpose, meaning, and divine partnership.

Maturity is not instant; it is a lifelong process of growth, requiring experience, faith, and conscious effort. By embracing divine truth and love, one gradually transcends immaturity and aligns with higher spiritual realities.

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Holy City Of God

The Foundation of God's Glory

Practice the volitions of the way of giving even while your misqualified wheat is rising in you.

Practice the way of receiving back your misqualified wheat with the volitions of receiving.

Learn to receive your misqualified wheat as it's rising in you .. applying the volitions of reception.

By faith, the believer enters the kingdom now. In my various preachings of truth, I teach humanity that two things are essential to faith-entrance into the kingdom:

1. Faith, sincerity. 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 the narcissistic personality tendencies causing overt and extreme prejudice and preconception, protection and projection; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.

2. Truth hunger. The thirst for accomplishing the Rs of character righteousness growth and relationship reception, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God and to know God by the progressive consecration of personality faculties and the gradual mastery of the creative powers of authorship.

That faith, simple childlike belief, is the key to the door of the kingdom, and that, having entered the door, there are the progressive steps of righteousness (applying the volitions of reception and also the volitions of righteousness) which every believing child must ascend in order to grow up to the full stature of the robust sons of God.

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 the reception of forgiveness is the act of God and humankind which accepts your faith as the price of admission necessary to transmute mortal individual potentialities into immortal individual actuality at one with God within.

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 applying the volitions of the way of giving and receiving...

1. God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by human life just in so far as he and she forgive their fellows by authorship inquiry and its three phases and techniques of transfiguration.

2. Man will not truly forgive his fellows unless he loves them as himself by elevating the personality with the volitions of the way of giving and the volitions of the way of reception and relationship association receiving.

3. To thus love your neighbor as yourself is the highest ethics by applying the volitions of righteousness to grow character responsiveness, reception, and righteousness, towards a dignity of personal character.

This character dignity of responsiveness shall occur through the right application of the Rs of recognition, respect, reverence, reflection, realization, responsibility, responsiveness, relinquishment, renewal, relationship, and receptivity.

4. Moral conduct, true righteousness, becomes, then, the natural result of such love as you develop character righteousness, responsiveness, responsibility.

Adonai

Michael Of Nebadon

The Life of Universal Association with Me

Practice the volitions of the way of giving even while your misqualified wheat is rising in you.

Practice the way of receiving back your misqualified wheat with the volitions of receiving.

Learn to receive your misqualified wheat as it's rising in you .. applying the volitions of reception.

By faith, the believer enters the kingdom now. In my various preachings of truth, I teach humanity that two things are essential to faith-entrance into the kingdom:

1. Faith, sincerity. 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 the narcissistic personality tendencies causing overt and extreme prejudice and preconception, protection and projection; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.

2. Truth hunger. The thirst for accomplishing the Rs of character righteousness growth and relationship reception, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God and to know God by the progressive consecration of personality faculties and the gradual mastery of the creative powers of authorship.

That faith, simple childlike belief, is the key to the door of the kingdom, and that, having entered the door, there are the progressive steps of righteousness (applying the volitions of reception and also the volitions of righteousness) which every believing child must ascend in order to grow up to the full stature of the robust sons of God.

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 the reception of forgiveness is the act of God and humankind which accepts your faith as the price of admission necessary to transmute mortal individual potentialities into immortal individual actuality at one with God within.

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 applying the volitions of the way of giving and receiving...

1. God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by human life just in so far as he and she forgive their fellows by authorship inquiry and its three phases and techniques of transfiguration.

2. Man will not truly forgive his fellows unless he loves them as himself by elevating the personality with the volitions of the way of giving and the volitions of the way of reception and relationship association receiving.

3. To thus love your neighbor as yourself is the highest ethics by applying the volitions of righteousness to grow character responsiveness, reception, and righteousness, towards a dignity of personal character.

This character dignity of responsiveness shall occur through the right application of the Rs of recognition, respect, reverence, reflection, realization, responsibility, responsiveness, relinquishment, renewal, relationship, and receptivity.

4. Moral conduct, true righteousness, becomes, then, the natural result of such love as you develop character righteousness, responsiveness, responsibility.

Adonai

Michael Of Nebadon

God The Sevenfold

To compensate for the limitations of finite creatures and to help them overcome the inherent difficulties in grasping and approaching infinite Deity, the Universal Father has established a sevenfold way by which evolutionary beings may ascend to divine presence. This approach enables mortals in time and space to progressively encounter and know God. It is both an act of divine mercy and a structure of cosmic order, designed to reconcile the gulf between creature and Creator.

This sevenfold path includes: (1) the Paradise Creator Sons, who function in local universes as the first approachable divine figures for ascending beings; (2) the Ancients of Days, the Trinity-origin beings who rule and adjudicate within the superuniverses; (3) the Seven Master Spirits, who represent and coordinate the will of the Trinity across all creation; (4) the Supreme Being, the experiential and evolving Deity who synthesizes all finite reality; (5) God the Spirit, the Infinite Spirit, source of mind and ministry; (6) God the Son, the Eternal Son, the spiritual personality center; and (7) God the Father, the Universal Father, the original Source and destiny of all personal beings.

This structure of sevenfold Deity makes it possible for finite mortals to progressively experience and realize God. The journey begins with the recognition of the Creator Son in one's local universe, and continues through the administrative domain of the Ancients of Days in the superuniverse. From there, one advances via the spiritual agency of a Master Spirit toward eventual attainment of the Universal Father’s personality presence on Paradise. This is the path of experiential discovery and personal transformation, known as the Paradise ascension career.

The grand universe is governed by a triune Deity manifestation: the Trinity of Supremacy, God the Sevenfold, and the Supreme Being. The Supreme Being is latent in the Paradise Trinity, from whom he receives his personality and spiritual qualities. However, he is becoming actual through the Creator Sons, Ancients of Days, and the Master Spirits, from whom he derives power as the Almighty in the evolving universes. The Supreme unifies the evolving values of personality and power into a single Deity manifestation—the Supreme Being.

In this divine architecture, the Creator Sons play a central role. They are the means by which mortals are transformed into immortals, and the finite touches the infinite. The Supreme Being, in turn, provides the technique for integrating these complex transactions, creating a unified, divine synthesis of personal and power realities. The Creator Sons and their Divine Minister partners participate in this process of Supreme mobilization. Meanwhile, the Ancients of Days and the Seven Master Spirits remain fixed and permanent administrators, overseeing the order and function of the grand universe.

The function of God the Sevenfold began with the organization of the seven superuniverses, and it is expected to expand further as the universes of outer space come into being. These new creations—on primary, secondary, tertiary, and quartan levels—will likely usher in a new, transcendent, and absonite approach to Deity, suggesting the continuation of divine revelation and evolutionary adventure beyond the present universe age.

Michael Of Nebadon 

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Goodness Unimaginable

Urantia Book – Paper 1, Section 3: God Is a Universal Spirit

(The Urantia Book, Paper 1:3*)

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Overview

In Section 3 of Paper 1: The Universal Father, titled “God Is a Universal Spirit,” the essential nature of God is revealed: God is spirit—not just a spirit being, but universal spirit. This section refines our understanding of God beyond anthropomorphic interpretations, emphasizing that the Universal Father is not material, not confined by space or form, but rather limitless, eternal, and spiritual in nature. God is also a personality, meaning He is relational and knowable, even as He transcends finite understanding.

Let’s explore the key themes in this section and their implications for our spiritual growth and understanding.

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1. God’s Nature as Pure Spirit

“‘God is spirit’; he is a spiritual presence and a personal reality.”
(1:3.1)

This profound statement establishes that God's fundamental essence is spirit. While God initiates and sustains all material reality, He is not material Himself. He is invisible to material senses, not because He is hiding, but because finite, mortal minds and material eyes cannot perceive spiritual absoluteness. To behold God in His true form requires a spiritual capacity—a soul attuned to divine realities.

The idea that “God is spirit” is not symbolic—it is literal. Spirit is the most real form of existence in The Urantia Book. It is above matter and mind in the hierarchy of universal values. God’s spirit pervades all things, and His spirit indwells every willing soul through the Thought Adjuster, a direct fragment of His divine presence.

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2. The Limitations of Material Perception

“The Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself, but rather because you cannot see my face and live.”
(1:3.1)

This reference to God’s unseeable nature is not meant to imply distance or disinterest. Rather, it reflects the intensity and purity of God’s being, which is beyond the comprehension of unspiritualized minds. God’s invisibility is due to the limitations of our sensory and spiritual capacity, not due to God’s unwillingness to be known.

Yet, God is knowable—not through sight, but through faith, love, truth-recognition, and spiritual experience. As Jesus later teaches in the Urantia Papers, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” God reveals Himself indirectly through divine personalities and directly through the spirit within.

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3. God’s Presence in All Creation

“The Father’s presence is not discernible in the natural world, as is the presence of a Creator Son, or a Creative Spirit; God is not physically manifest as are his Creator Sons.”
(1:3.2)

Although God is the source of all creation, He is not directly visible or physically manifest in nature or through natural law in the way that Creator Sons (like Michael of Nebadon) are. God’s interaction with the universe is spiritual and personal—through His divine fragments (Thought Adjusters), through His Eternal Son, and via the Infinite Spirit.

The Father’s presence is spiritually discernible—within your heart, mind, and soul—not materially. His presence is known through:

• Inner conviction
• Moral guidance
• Love-response
• Faith-consciousness

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4. The Universal Spirit and Individual Connection

“The indwelling Thought Adjuster is a fragment of God and ever draws the mortal soul upward toward the divine Father.”
(1:3.6)

God’s spirit nature is not remote. He is personally involved with every soul through the Thought Adjuster, a pre-personal, divine spirit fragment indwelling each human. This is one of The Urantia Book’s most unique and powerful teachings: that God gives a part of Himself to live within each person, to guide, inspire, correct, and transform.

This indwelling presence is:

• Constantly urging you toward truth and righteousness
• Empowering your spiritual decisions
• Helping you to understand the Father
• Preparing your soul for eternal fusion with God

Thus, the Universal Spirit is not just “out there” in the cosmos—it is within you, personal and active.

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5. The Transcendent and Immanent God

God is both transcendent (beyond all creation) and immanent (within all creation). As universal spirit, He is:

• Present everywhere
• Aware of all things
• Accessible to all beings

His transcendence affirms His infinity, while His immanence confirms His accessibility and intimacy. The spirit of God lives within you, and yet He simultaneously rules over a billion inhabited worlds and countless celestial realms.

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6. Personality of the Father in a Spiritual Universe

“God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man’s eternal Father.”
(1:3.5)

While the Father is spirit, He is also a person—not a human, but a divine personality. This means He:

• Has will and intention
• Knows and understands
• Loves and responds
• Engages in relationship with other personalities

This divine personality aspect allows finite beings to worship Him, to know Him, and to strive to be like Him. This is why Jesus emphasized the “Father” concept—because relationship with God is not rooted in doctrine but in personal spiritual experience.

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7. Worshiping the Universal Spirit

Worship is the natural response of a personality recognizing the greatness, goodness, and intimacy of the Universal Father. Since God is spirit, true worship is also spiritual in nature—a communion of will and purpose, not just a ritual or emotional expression.

Worship is how we:

• Acknowledge our dependence on God
• Celebrate our kinship with the Father
• Align our will with divine will
• Grow in likeness to the spirit ideal

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Conclusion: The Living Reality of the Universal Spirit

In Urantia Paper 1:3, we are given a vision of God not as a remote force or an abstract principle, but as universal spirit, eternal truth, and personal Father. He cannot be seen with the eyes, but He can be felt in the soul, known in worship, understood through truth, and lived out through love and service.

This section calls us to recognize that God’s spirit is real, near, and lovingly involved in our lives—and that through this relationship, we begin the eternal adventure of spiritual ascent, guided by His indwelling spirit, supported by His divine personality, and embraced by His fatherly love.

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