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This week on the Cosmic Citizen we continue our study of Urantia Paper 8, The Infinite Spirit. This paper explores the origin, nature, and attributes of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity and the Conjoint Creator of all things. We will be covering Section 4. The Spirit of Divine Ministry and, who knows, maybe we'll get to Section 5. The Presence of God. Everlasting ministry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s divine character. And all the spirit offspring of the Conjoint Actor partake of this desire to minister, this divine urge to service. God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is ministry — the ministry of divine love and endless mercy to all intelligent creation. The Spirit is the personification of the Father’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eternally united for universal service. The Spirit is love applied to the creature creation, the combined love of the Father and the Son. 8:4.1–2 (94.3–4) When a Creator Son of God accepts the creatorship charge of responsibility for a projected local universe, the personalities of the Infinite Spirit pledge themselves as the tireless ministers of this Michael Son ...all this work of creature ministry is done in perfect harmony with the purposes, and in close association with the personalities, of the Creator Sons of these local universes. 8:4.4 (94.6) As man learns more of the loving and tireless ministry of the lower orders of the creature family of this Infinite Spirit, he will all the more admire and adore the transcendent nature and matchless character of this combined Action of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. Indeed is this Spirit “the eyes of the Lord which are ever over the righteous” and “the divine ears which are ever open to their prayers.” 8:4.8 (95.3) Join us for this Third Person study! http://tobtr.com/12309347

This week on the Cosmic Citizen we continue our study of Urantia Paper 8, The Infinite Spirit. This paper explores the origin, nature, and attributes of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity and the Conjoint Creator of all things. We will be covering Section 3. Relation of the Spirit to the Father and the Son. and who knows, maybe we'll get to Section 4. The Spirit of Divine Ministry. Paralleling the physical universe wherein Paradise gravity holds all things together is the spiritual universe wherein the word of the Son interprets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demonstrates the loving mercy of the combined nature of the associated Creators. But in and through all this material and spiritual creation there is a vast stage whereon the Infinite Spirit and his spirit offspring show forth the combined mercy, patience, and everlasting affection of the divine parents towards the intelligent children of their co-operative devising and making. Everlasting ministry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s divine character. And all the spirit offspring of the Conjoint Actor partake of this desire to minister, this divine urge to service. God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is ministry — the ministry of divine love and endless mercy to all intelligent creation. The Spirit is the personification of the Father’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eternally united for universal service. The Spirit is love applied to the creature creation, the combined love of the Father and the Son.  (94.3–4) 8:4.1–2 Indeed is this Spirit “the eyes of the Lord which are ever over the righteous” and “the divine ears which are ever open to their prayers. (95.3) 8:4.8 Please come join us!  http://tobtr.com/12307520

This week on the Cosmic Citizen we continue our study of Urantia Paper 8, The Infinite Spirit. This paper explores the origin, nature, and attributes of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity and the Conjoint Creator of all things. We will be covering Section 2. Nature of the Infinite Spirit and who knows, maybe we'll get to Section 3. Relation of the Spirit to the Father and the Son. Section 2 focuses on the nature of the Infinite Spirit, who is from eternity and is wholly and without qualification one with the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Infinite Spirit reflects in perfection not only the nature of the Paradise Father but also the nature of the Original Son. The Infinite Spirit is the personal expression of the Father's thought and the Son's word in action. The Infinite Spirit is the source of mind, the bestower of personality, and the minister of mercy. The Infinite Spirit is the universal manipulator, the perfect coordinator, and the divine administrator of the interrelated activities of both Deities and creatures in the grand universe. In general, the existence of the Infinite Spirit sets the stage of space for the drama of creation. In the instant of the Infinite Spirit's creation, one billion perfect spheres materialized. The central universe of Havona was then embraced by physical and spiritual gravities, and the soil of life prepared for consciousness of mind manifest in the intelligence circuits of the God of Action. Upon these seeds of potential, creature personality appeared, and the presences of the Paradise Deities filled organized space and began to draw all things Paradiseward. We hope you will join us for a deep dive into the marvelous God of Action, the Third Person of the Trinity, The Infinite Spirit!

This week we begin Paper 8 of The Urantia Book—The Infinite Spirit—with the Intro section and  §1. The God of Action.  BACK in eternity, when the Universal Father’s “first” infinite and absolute thought finds in the Eternal Son such a perfect and adequate word for its divine expression, there ensues the supreme desire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a universal and infinite agent of mutual expression and combined action. In the dawn of eternity both the Father and the Son become infinitely cognizant of their mutual interdependence, their eternal and absolute oneness; and therefore do they enter into an infinite and everlasting covenant of divine partnership. This never-ending compact is made for the execution of their united concepts throughout all of the circle of eternity; and ever since this eternity event the Father and the Son continue in this divine union. ... In thus reciting the order of the origin of the Deities, I do so merely to enable you to think of their relationship. In reality they are all three existent from eternity; they are existential. They are without beginning or ending of days; they are co-ordinate, supreme, ultimate, absolute, and infinite. They are and always have been and ever shall be. And they are three distinctly individualized but eternally associated persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. (90.1,2,4) 8:0.1,2,4  In the eternity of the past, upon the personalization of the Infinite Spirit the divine personality cycle becomes perfect and complete. The God of Action is existent, and the vast stage of space is set for the stupendous drama of creation — the universal adventure — the divine panorama of the eternal ages. (90.5) 8:1.1  Please join us for this exciting discussion and expansion of understanding of God the Spirit. http://tobtr.com/12303395

This week we attempt to conclude Urantia Paper 7—Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe—with §6. The Paradise Sons of God & §7. The Supreme Revelation of the Father.   The lack of a knowledge of the multiple Sons of God is a source of great confusion on Urantia. And this ignorance persists in the face of such statements as the record of a conclave of these divine personalities: “When the Sons of God proclaimed joy, and all of the Morning Stars sang together.” Every millennium of sector standard time the various orders of the divine Sons forgather for their periodic conclaves. The Eternal Son is the personal source of the adorable attributes of mercy and service which so abundantly characterize all orders of the descending Sons of God as they function throughout creation. All the divine nature, if not all the infinity of attributes, the Eternal Son unfailingly transmits to the Paradise Sons who go out from the eternal Isle to reveal his divine character to the universe of universes. (87.6–7) 7:6.1–2 The Eternal Son not only has at all times perfect knowledge concerning the status, thoughts, and manifold activities of all orders of Paradise sonship, but he also has perfection of knowledge at all times regarding everything of spiritual value which exists in the hearts of all creatures in the primary central creation of eternity and in the secondary time creations of the co-ordinate Creator Sons. (88.6) 7:6.8 Please come and join us! http://tobtr.com/12298895

OUR Saturday, December 30th, 2023 Cosmic Citizen webcast is POSTPONED to Saturday, January 7, 2024. HAPPY NEW YEAR!  See you then! ***** This webcast was only a test to see if the BTR engineers have resolved last week's problem. ***** The host and cohost were able to call in at 3:47 p.m. MST. √ The show launched normally at 4:00 p.m. MST — YES! AR:ct

This week we continue Urantia Paper 7—Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe, with § 5. The Spirit of Bestowal.  (86.2) 7:5.1 The Eternal Son without reservation joined with the Universal Father in broadcasting that tremendous injunction to all creation: “Be you perfect, even as your Father in Havona is perfect.” And ever since, that invitation-command has motivated all the survival plans and the bestowal projects of the Eternal Son and his vast family of co-ordinate and associated Sons. And in these very bestowals the Sons of God have become to all evolutionary creatures “the way, the truth, and the life.” (86.6) 7:5.5 Long, long ago the Eternal Son bestowed himself upon each of the circuits of the central creation for the enlightenment and advancement of all the inhabitants and pilgrims of Havona, including the ascending pilgrims of time. On none of these seven bestowals did he function as either an ascender or a Havoner. He existed as himself. His experience was unique; it was not with or as a human or other pilgrim but in some way associative in the superpersonal sense. (87.2) 7:5.8 ... [The original Michael, the first-born Creator Son] literally passed through the circuits of the central universe and actually shared those experiences which constitute an ascender’s preparation for Deity attainment. ...he passed through the life experiences of the ascending pilgrims from circuit to circuit, personally journeying a stage of each circle with them in the days of Grandfanda, the first of all mortals to attain Havona. (87.5) 7:5.11 In spirit and nature, if not in all attributes, each Paradise Son is a divinely perfect portraiture of the Original Son. It is literally true, whosoever has seen a Paradise Son has seen the Eternal Son of God.  Join us! http://tobtr.com/12292787

This week we continue Urantia Paper 7—Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe, with § 4. The Divine Perfection Plans! Last time we were able to cover both Sections 2. The Administration of the Eternal Son and 3. Relation of the Eternal Son to the Individual. The ascension plan for material beings is a joint creation of the Father and the Son. The universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures embraces three correlated undertakings. The Universal Father bestows Thought Adjusters on material will creatures and endows them with personality. The Eternal Son bestows his Creator Sons upon the evolutionary universes to manifest the love of the Father and the mercy of the Son to all creatures. The Infinite Spirit operates a tremendous enterprise of mercy ministry to all mortals. The Father, Son, and Spirit cooperate in the work of creation, control, evolution, revelation, administration, and if necessary, restoration and rehabilitation of the ascending creatures of the universes. This divine plan of perfection attainment embraces three unique, though marvelously correlated, enterprises of universal adventure: 1. The Plan of Progressive Attainment. This is the Universal Father's plan of evolutionary ascension, a program unreservedly accepted by the Eternal Son when he concurred in the Father's proposal, "Let us make mortal creatures in our own image." 2. The Bestowal Plan. The next universal plan is the great Father-revelation enterprise of the Eternal Son and his co-ordinate Sons. 3. The Plan of Mercy Ministry. When the attainment plan and the bestowal plan had been formulated the Infinite Spirit projected and put in operation the tremendous and universal enterprise of mercy ministry. Join in for great cross-references and another deep dive into The Urantia Book!

This week we continue Urantia Paper 7—Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe, with § 2. The Administration of the Eternal Son.  As we pass outward from Paradise through Havona and into the realms of the seven superuniverses, we detect less and less of the personal activity of the Eternal Son. In the post-Havona universes the presence of the Eternal Son is personalized in the Paradise Sons... On Paradise the presence and personal activity of the Original Son is profound, absolute in the spiritual sense.  In the central universe the personal activity of the Original Son is discernible in the exquisite spiritual harmony of the eternal creation. Havona is so marvelously perfect that the spiritual status and the energy states of this pattern universe are in perfect and perpetual balance. In the superuniverses the Son is not personally present or resident; in these creations he maintains only a superpersonal representation. These spirit manifestations of the Son are not personal; they are not in the personality circuit of the Universal Father. We know of no better term to use than to designate them superpersonalities; and they are finite beings; they are neither absonite nor absolute. The administration of the Eternal Son in the superuniverses, being exclusively spiritual and superpersonal, is not discernible by creature personalities. Nonetheless, the all-pervading spiritual urge of the Son’s personal influence is encountered in every phase of the activities of all sectors of the domains of the Ancients of Days. In the local universes, however, we observe the Eternal Son personally present in the persons of the Paradise Sons. Here the infinite Son spiritually and creatively functions in the persons of the majestic corps of the co-ordinate Creator  Sons. (83.4–7) 7:2.1–4 Come join us for an enlightening study! http://tobtr.com/12286969

This week we begin Urantia Paper 7—Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe, with Section 1. The Spirit-Gravity Circuit. Among other things, we will learn that the Eternal Son upholds the vast creation of spiritual beings and realities. He is the sovereign of the spiritual universe because he controls the spiritual gravity circuit. Spiritual gravity functions independently of time and space; it is unreduced by time delays or space diminution. Nothing can suspend the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. The spirit-gravity circuit creates cohesion within the universe as a whole, as well as between individuals and groups. The spiritual-gravity circuit is the secret of the Paradise ascension of surviving mortals. As time passes, ascenders become progressively less subject to material gravity and more responsive to spirit gravity. The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the mortal soul toward Paradise, the great central hub of creation. This circuit also channels prayers from the human mind to the consciousness of Deity. Consider: 7:0.3. As the upholder of spirit realities, the Second Source and Center is the eternal counterpoise of the Isle of Paradise, which so magnificently upholds all things material. Thus is the First Source and Center forever revealed in the material beauty of the exquisite patterns of the central Isle and in the spiritual values of the supernal personality of the Eternal Son. 7:1.3. Spirit realities respond to the drawing power of the center of spiritual gravity in accordance with their qualitative value, their actual degree of spirit nature. Spirit substance (quality) is just as responsive to spirit gravity as the organized energy of physical matter (quantity) is responsive to physical gravity. Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body. Please join us!