The Cosmic Citizen

This week we'll finish our study of Paper 112, Personality Survival. We'll be covering Section 7. Adjuster Fusion. The Urantia Book teaches that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and further that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the phil...

This week we move on to §6. The Morontia Self with a brief reprise of ¶ 15-22 of § 5, Survival of the Human Self. And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of Jerusem, you will be so changed, the spiritual transformation will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Adjuster and the destiny guardian, who so fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first...

This week we're back to study Section 5 of Urantia Paper 112, SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SELF. In our previous studies, we discovered that after physical death, two nonmaterial pieces of a surviving personality persist: memory transcripts and the immortal soul.  The indwelling presence of God, the Thought Adjuster, carries the mortal's memory transcripts to Divinington, while the soul is remanded to th...

We continue our study of Paper 112 Personality Survival, with §4. Adjusters after Death and §5. Survival of the Human Self. We study what the Thought Adjusters do after death followed by just how and what of the human "self" survives. In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster’s duplicate tra...

We continue our study of Paper 112 Personality Survival, §2. The Phenomenon of Death. Here we learn something about the different ways in which a human person can die. 1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such...

We continue or study of Paper 112 Personality Survival, §2. The Self. Here we learn something about the association of disparate realities which compose the human self; enabling its potential survival beyond this life. It would be helpful in the study of selfhood to remember:    1. That physical systems are subordinate.    2. That intellectual systems are co-ordinate.    3. That personality is sup...

We continue or study of Paper 112 Personality Survival, moving on to §1. Personality and Reality, and §2. The Self. Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional performance. The dimensions of finite personality are three, and they are roughly functional as follows: 1. Length represents direction and nature of progression — movement through space and according to time — evolution. 2. Ver...

This week we segué from our serial study of the Mystery Monitors to Paper 112 Personality Survival.  We'll start with the introductory section with its 14 points known about personality; then move to §1. Personality and Reality, and §2. The Self. 3. It [the personality] is not wholly subject to the fetters of antecedent causation. It is relatively creative or cocreative. 7. Personality is changele...

We concluded a study of Urantia Papers 119—The Bestowals of Christ Michael and 120—The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia. We continue to the nativity story of Jesus of Nazareth, Joshua ben Joseph, born in 7 BCE and the life and times of the peoples of his native land just in time for the Christmas season. Jesus did not come to this world during an age of spiritual decadence; at the time of his birth...

Three weeks ago we began a study of Urantia Paper 120—The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia. This segués from Paper 119—The Bestowals of Christ Michael. Jesus came to this world to experience his final bestowal, life as a mortal being—the lowest of his personal creatures. The 6 previous bestowals were as various higher spiritual creatures in this universe.  As ruler of this creation, Michael (Jesus)...

Two weeks ago we began the first part of a study of Urantia Paper 120—The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia. We previously completed Paper 119—The Bestowals of Christ Michael. It seemed only right that we should read this account of the 7th and final adventure that our Universal Sovereign made here on our world. This Paper introduces the time immediately before the beginning of His life and work on E...

This week begins the first week of a new study, Paper 120—The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia—following on after our four week series on Paper 119—The Bestowals of Christ Michael.  Jesus of Nazareth came to our planet to experience the seventh of a series of creature bestowals; all of them celestial before he came to our world.  As ruler of this creation, he stated succinctly that he came to live l...

This week, we’ll finish our study of Paper 119, The Bestowals of Christ Michael, from The Urantia Book. We've followed the bestowals of our own Creator Son as he descended in his universe to achieve supremacy.  The ability for bestowal is an inherent gift of the Creator Sons. Divine Sons learn to become sympathetic, merciful, and understanding sovereigns by incarnating as lower beings. The Paradis...

This week, we’ll be continuing our third episode of study of Paper 119, The Bestowals of Christ Michael, from The Urantia Book. We've been learning these past two weeks that Michael, our local universe Creator Son, has "..acquired the viewpoint of his own creatures by actual experience in the environment of their existence and as these very creatures themselves. In this way such Sons become intell...

This week, we’ll be continuing our study of Paper 119, The Bestowals of Christ Michael, from The Urantia Book. Last week we learned that Michael, our local universe Creator Son, has "..acquired the viewpoint of his own creatures by actual experience in the environment of their existence and as these very creatures themselves. In this way such Sons become intelligent and understanding rulers; they...

We begin a several week study of Paper 119—The Bestowals of Christ Michael.  The Urantia Book reveals, for the first time, that Jesus of Nazareth is Michael of Nebadon—a Creator Son of God whose divine parents are the Universal Father and the Eternal Mother-Son.  The local universe of his and the Creative Mother Spirit's creation could only be ruled with unqualified sovereignty after Michael compl...

This week we continue our study with our final episode on the fifth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors. We'll be reading Paper 111, The Adjuster and The Soul, §7. The Adjuster's Problem. (1223.3) 111:7.1 Uncertainty with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure — uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent; security in spirit an...

This week we continue our study with our third episode on the fifth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors. We'll be reading Paper 111, The Adjuster and The Soul, §5. The Consecration of Choice, §6. The Human Paradox, and, time allowing, §7. The Adjuster's Problem. The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival. (1...

This week we continue our study with our third episode on the fifth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors. We'll be reading Paper 111, The Adjuster and The Soul, §4. The Inner Life and §5. The Consecration of Choice. The advances of true civilization are all born in this inner world of mankind. It is only the inner life that is truly creative. Civilization can hardly progress when the major...

This week we continue our study in our second installment on the fifth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors. We'll be reading Paper 111, The Adjuster and The Soul, §2. Nature of the Soul and §3. The Evolving Soul. Throughout the mind functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the parts of intellectual function. Mind, in its essence, is functional unity; therefo...

This week we resume our study by beginning the fifth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors, we'll be reading Paper 111, The Adjuster and The Soul, Introductory section and §1. The Mind Arena of Choice. THE presence of the divine Adjuster in the human mind makes it forever impossible for either science or philosophy to attain a satisfactory comprehension of the evolving soul of the human per...

This week we resume our study with the fourth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors, we'll be reading Paper 110, Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals, §7. The Attainment of Immortality.  This last section is the study of our attainment of eternal union with our Thought Adjuster and its implications. When a human being has completed the circles of cosmic achievement, and further, when...

This week author Chris Lepine will join us to discuss his new book, How to Super Charge Your Soul In A Digital Age. If you’re feeling exhausted, uninspired, and depleted, you’re not alone. Today’s digital world is remarkably complex, ceaselessly changing, and unrelenting. If you feel that the old foundations of traditional religion can’t help you, read this book: How to Supercharge Your Soul in a...

This week we resume our study with the fourth paper in this series on the Mystery Monitors, we'll be reading Paper 110, Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals, §6. The Seven Psychic Circles, ¶12–22.  This is really the study of our ascent to true happiness and real success in life. The third circle. The Adjuster’s work is much more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle a...

Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday Jesus! Come join us for a Cosmic Christmas, Cosmic Citizens!  Jesus of Nazareth, Joshua ben Joseph, was born 2026 years ago according to The Urantia Book.   (1346.4) 122:3.1 One evening about sundown, before Joseph had returned home, Gabriel appeared to Mary by the side of a low stone table and, after she had recovered her composure, said: “I come at the bidding of...