What may very well be the truth or merely an exercise in expanding the mind of fellow mystics...we are given this, from the "Urantia Book"
Be prepared to unfasten your seatbelt..no longer allowing Earth's gravitational pull to govern your reasoning.
enjoy,
in humility, Brother Jules
5. The Acme of Material Development
55:5.1 (629.10) Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Urantia (Earth), can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development which characterize these advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless sphere.
55:5.2 (629.11) The advanced stages of a world settled in light and life represent the acme of evolutionary material development. On these cultured worlds, gone are the idleness and friction of the earlier primitive ages. Poverty and social inequality have all but vanished, degeneracy has disappeared, and delinquency is rarely observed. Insanity has practically ceased to exist, and feeble-mindedness is a rarity.
55:5.3 (629.12) The economic, social, and administrative status of these worlds is of a high and perfected order. Science, art, and industry flourish, and society is a smoothly working mechanism of high material, intellectual, and cultural achievement. Industry has been largely diverted to serving the higher aims of such a superb civilization. The economic life of such a world has become ethical.
55:5.4 (630.1) War has become a matter of history, and there are no more armies or police forces. Government is gradually disappearing. Self-control is slowly rendering laws of human enactment obsolete. The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship.
55:5.5 (630.2) Schools are vastly improved and are devoted to the training of mind and the expansion of soul. The art centers are exquisite and the musical organizations superb. The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment.
55:5.6 (630.3) The provisions for competitive play, humor, and other phases of personal and group achievement are ample and appropriate. A special feature of the competitive activities on such a highly cultured world concerns the efforts of individuals and groups to excel in the sciences and philosophies of cosmology. Literature and oratory flourish, and language is so improved as to be symbolic of concepts as well as to be expressive of ideas. Life is refreshingly simple; man has at last co-ordinated a high state of mechanical development with an inspiring intellectual attainment and has overshadowed both with an exquisite spiritual achievement. The pursuit of happiness is an experience of joy and satisfaction.
55:6.1 (630.4) As worlds advance in the settled status of light and life, society becomes increasingly peaceful. The individual, while no less independent and devoted to his family, has become more altruistic and fraternal.
55:6.2 (630.5) On Urantia, and as you are, you can have little appreciation of the advanced status and progressive nature of the enlightened races of these perfected worlds. These people are the flowering of the evolutionary races. But such beings are still mortal; they continue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This great evolution is not heaven, but it is a sublime foreshadowing of the divine worlds of the Paradise ascent.
55:6.3 (630.6) On a normal world the biologic fitness of the mortal race was long since brought up to a high level during the post-Adamic epochs; and now, from age to age throughout the settled eras the physical evolution of man continues. Both vision and hearing are extended. By now the population has become stationary in numbers. Reproduction is regulated in accordance with planetary requirements and innate hereditary endowments: The mortals on a planet during this age are divided into from five to ten groups, and the lower groups are permitted to produce only one half as many children as the higher. The continued improvement of such a magnificent race throughout the era of light and life is largely a matter of the selective reproduction of those racial strains which exhibit superior qualities of a social, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature.
55:6.4 (630.7) The Adjusters continue to come as in former evolutionary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mortals are increasingly able to commune with the indwelling Father fragment. During the embryonic and prespiritual stages of development the adjutant mind-spirits are still functioning. The Holy Spirit and the ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive epochs of settled life are experienced. In the fourth stage of light and life the advanced mortals seem to experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, while the philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme. More than one half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living. Even so, “old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”
55:6.5 (631.1) We conceive that physical evolution will have attained its full development by the end of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We observe that the upper limits of spiritual development associated with evolving human mind are determined by the Adjuster-fusion level of conjoint morontia values and cosmic meanings. But concerning wisdom: While we do not really know, we conjecture that there can never be a limit to intellectual evolution and the attainment of wisdom. On a seventh-stage world, wisdom can exhaust the material potentials, enter upon mota insight, and eventually even taste of absonite grandeur.
55:6.6 (631.2) We observe that on these highly evolved and long seventh-stage worlds human beings fully learn the local universe language before they are translated; and I have visited a few very old planets where abandonters were teaching the older mortals the tongue of the superuniverse. And on these worlds I have observed the technique whereby the absonite personalities reveal the presence of the finaliters in the morontia temple.
55:6.7 (631.3) This is the story of the magnificent goal of mortal striving on the evolutionary worlds; and it all takes place even before human beings enter upon their morontia careers; all of this splendid development is attainable by material mortals on the inhabited worlds, the very first stage of that endless and incomprehensible career of Paradise ascension and divinity attainment.
55:6.8 (631.4) But can you possibly imagine what sort of evolutionary mortals are now coming up from worlds long existing in the seventh epoch of settled light and life? It is such as these who go on to the morontia worlds of the local universe capital to begin their ascension careers.
55:6.9 (631.5) If the mortals of distraught Urantia could only view one of these more advanced worlds long settled in light and life, they would nevermore question the wisdom of the evolutionary scheme of creation. Were there no future of eternal creature progression, still the superb evolutionary attainments of the mortal races on such settled worlds of perfected achievement would amply justify man’s creation on the worlds of time and space.
55:6.10 (631.6) We often ponder: If the grand universe should be settled in light and life, would the ascending exquisite mortals still be destined to the Corps of the Finality? But we do not know.
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Indeed, Soror Anne...while our inboard GPS has been working perfectly, we still manage to veer of course from time to time.
Chasing the light, instead of being that light.
in humility, Jules
Anne Cuenod-Bruhjell said:
Frater Jules, this is the ultimate ride of Humanity's Life!
Fr. Michael...you'd make a great Martinist!
...Jules..
Michael Jon Kell said:
Following your thoughts on this one, I do. Thank you Fr. Raymond.
An example comes to mind (of people not having the ability to believe something unless hard core physical evidence is presented)
The Apostles in the New Testament pretty much all agreed that Jesus returned to visit them after the crucifiction, save for one...that being Thomas (doubting Thomas) who required proof. The ratio here, representing something like 10 to 1 (believers over skeptics).
Today, I heard some surprising numbers on the subject of Climate Change...whereby it turned out that 97 out of 100 renouned scientists believed in it and also how modern mankind is contributing to this problem.
The non-believers (skeptics) again, representing a very small minority.
So it is, some people, even within our ranks of mystical thinkers, will expound upon their virtue of unbridled Faith...yet choose to dis-believe in other areas and various topics.
Jokingly, we used to say " You must be from Missouri....the way you insist on "show me"
I love the quote from Dr. Wayne Dyer which seems to sum up our discussion::
" You'll see it when you believe it"
wishing yo a great weekend, as ever, Brother Jules
Dr. Raymond DuRussel said:
I have met many intelligent entities during my journeys in the Oneirion Worlds. But, none have vouchsafed a physical world source. I am not contesting intelligent life in the Oneirion Worlds, I am protesting equating this to the physical worlds. As to Kabbalah, the only things in Creation are the Creator and Adam Ha Rishon which is the source of the 600,000 soul fragments given to mankind.
The only proofs worthwhile are using scientific methodology.
Love, Michael
I understand your position Fr. Michael....nothing wrong with requiring more proof!
Always good to hear from you, it is!
in humility
Jules
Michael Jon Kell said:
The presence of intelligent life in other parts of the physical universe has not been established and so is merely a conjecture--magnitude unknown at this time and the Drake Equation is foolishness at its best. Information of the physical gathered during our astral adventures does not provide independent validation of physical life in our universe outside of us. So the statement must be given as speculation and conjecture so to be truthful.
Personally, I do not know the answer. All I can speak too are my experiences in the physical and the astral, understanding that much of my knowledge may still be imaginary outside of my mind.
Have a nice weekend. Michael
I too prefer #1 .... Fr. Raymond!
your comment, spot on:
"1. God gives them over to their life style to live with other abusers, sequestered in their special place (call it Hell, if you wish.)"
thank you, Br. Jules
Dr. Raymond DuRussel said:
Call it what you like...I remember George Carlins theory on God....paraphrased, but I know Fr. Michael will get the drift.
"If you disobey God, disrespect his laws, commit sin...God will banish you, submit you to fires of Hell, where there, you will burn and suffer, for ever and ever and ever.....Now why would God do this, you might ask? Because He loves you!"
While Swedenborg makes his point,.... so do the Prophets and Messengers of The Divine through the revealed word of Moses, Abraham and Mohammed and others.
....and so ends, the Gospel according to Jules, stepping down from my soap box for another day. LOL
Have fun my Brother!
Happy August!
Br. Jules
Michael Jon Kell said: