The Cosmic Citizen

This week, Paula and Chuck will interview author Chris Lepine on his important book on prayer, Profound Prayer: Taking Your Inner Experience to the Ultimate Level. This episode will be especially valuable if you are looking to have deeper inner spiritual experiences and get more power to transform yourself. So join us for this week’s show to unlock the secrets of profound prayer, the gateway to all growth. Our guest, Chris Lepine, will lead a discussion into the nature or prayer and the ideal process for the inner journey and beyond. You will learn: How to turn off the noise to go deepHow to find inner peace, security, and powerThe ideal way to pray and get answersHow to commune with GodHow to transform yourself each day Chris has been studying and exploring this subject since 1980 and is releasing a new book in December: Profound Prayer: A Modern Prayer Guide for Peace, Power, and Personal Transformation. This will be a great discussion and a practical mini-workshop that will help improve the effectiveness of your prayer and inner life. You’ll also get the inside track on a discount with the new book. You can learn more at Chris' website http://findmynewlife.com/pprayer. https://urantiabook.org/Cosmic-Citizen-Radio Please join us this Saturday!

We continue our study of various local universe orders facilitating the mortal ascension career, Paper 37, including some high orders who function within the local universe but are not created there, and about certain "stationary" permanent citizens of the local universe and others. (412.1) 37:6.1 The Nebadon educational system is jointly administered by the Trinity Teacher Sons and the Melchizedek teaching corps, but much of the work designed to effect its maintenance and upbuilding is carried on by the Celestial Overseers. These beings are a recruited corps embracing all types of individuals connected with the scheme of educating and training the ascending mortals. There are upward of three million of them in Nebadon, and they are all volunteers who have qualified by experience to serve as educational advisers to the entire realm. ... (412.2) 37:6.2 This training of mind and education of spirit is carried on from the worlds of human origin up through the system mansion worlds and the other spheres of progress associated with Jerusem, on the seventy socializing realms attached to Edentia, and on the four hundred and ninety spheres of spirit progress encircling Salvington. On the universe headquarters itself are numerous Melchizedek schools, the colleges of the Universe Sons, the seraphic universities, and the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Union of Days.... The entire universe is one vast school. (412.3) 37:6.3 ...this is the keynote of the whole educational system: character acquired by enlightened experience. ... (412.4) 37:6.4  ...You are given a definite task to perform, and at the same time you are provided with teachers who are qualified to instruct you in the best method of executing your assignment. ... Please join us! http://tobtr.com/12161733

We continue our study of various local universe orders facilitating the mortal ascension career, Paper 37, including some high orders who function within the local universe but are not created there, and about certain "stationary" permanent citizens of the local universe, like our Spirit-fused brethren. (409.6) 37:4.1 The Most High Assistants are a group of volunteering beings, of origin outside the local universe, who are temporarily assigned as central and superuniverse representatives to, or observers of, the local creations. Their number varies constantly but is always far up in the millions. (409.7) 37:4.2 From time to time we thus benefit from the ministry and assistance of such Paradise-origin beings as Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors, Universal Censors, Inspired Trinity Spirits, Trinitized Sons, Solitary Messengers, supernaphim, seconaphim, tertiaphim, and other gracious ministers, who sojourn with us for the purpose of helping our native personalities in the effort to bring all Nebadon into fuller harmony with the ideas of Orvonton and the ideals of Paradise. (410.4) 37:5.1 The High Commissioners are Spirit-fused ascendant mortals; they are not Adjuster fused. ... Such mortals are never permanently joined in union with a Mystery Monitor of Paradise bestowal; nevertheless, the Adjusters do transiently indwell them, serving as guides and patterns for the duration of the life in the flesh. During this temporary sojourn they foster the evolution of an immortal soul just as in those beings with whom they hope to fuse, but when the mortal race is run, they take eternal leave of the creatures of temporary association. (411.1) 37:5.3 ...they never become finaliters, but they...become enrolled in the local universe Corps of Perfection...[they've]obeyed the Father’s command, “Be you perfect.” Please join us! http://tobtr.com/12159229

We continue our study of various local universe orders facilitating the mortal ascension career, Paper 37, including some high orders who function within the local universe but are not created there, and about certain "stationary" permanent citizens of the local universe. Archangels are one of the few groups of local universe personalities who are not normally under the jurisdiction of Gabriel. They are not in any manner concerned with the routine administration of the universe, being dedicated to the work of creature survival and to the furtherance of the ascending career of the mortals of time and space. (408.5) 37:3.2 The archangel corps of Nebadon is directed by the first-born of this order, and in more recent times a divisional headquarters of the archangels has been maintained on Urantia. It is this unusual fact that soon arrests the attention of extra-Nebadon student visitors. Among their early observations of intrauniverse transactions is the discovery that many ascendant activities of the Brilliant Evening Stars are directed from the capital of a local system, Satania. On further examination they discover that certain archangel activities are directed from a small and apparently insignificant inhabited world called Urantia...then ensues the revelation of Michael’s bestowal on Urantia and their immediately quickened interest in you... Do you grasp the significance of the fact that your lowly and confused planet has become a divisional headquarters for the universe administration and direction of certain archangel activities having to do with the Paradise ascension scheme? This undoubtedly presages the future concentration of other ascendant activities on the bestowal world of Michael and lends a tremendous and solemn import to the Master’s personal promise, “I will come again.”  (408.6–409:1) 37:3.3,4 Please join us! http://tobtr.com/12156157

We continue our study of various local universe orders facilitating the mortal ascension career, Paper 37, including some high orders who function within the local universe but are not created there, and about certain "stationary" permanent citizens of the local universe. Of the first order of Universe Aids, the Bright and Morning Stars, there is just one in each local universe, and he is the first-born of all creatures native to a local universe. The Bright and Morning Star of our universe is known as Gabriel of Salvington. He is the chief executive of all Nebadon, functioning as the personal representative of the Sovereign Son and as spokesman for his creative consort. (406.11) 37:1.9 2. The Brilliant Evening Stars These brilliant creatures were planned by the Melchizedeks and were then brought into being by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. They serve in many capacities but chiefly as liaison officers of Gabriel, the local universe chief executive. One or more of these beings function as his representatives at the capital of every constellation and system in Nebadon. As chief executive of Nebadon, Gabriel is ex officio chairman of, or observer at, most of the Salvington conclaves, and as many as one thousand of these are often in session simultaneously. The Brilliant Evening Stars represent Gabriel on these occasions; ... (407.0–2) 37:2.0–2  The Brilliant Evening Stars are a unique twofold order, embracing some of created dignity and others of attained service. The Nebadon corps of these superangels now numbers 13,641. There are 4,832 of created dignity, while 8,809 are ascendant spirits who have attained this goal of exalted service. Many of these ascendant Evening Stars started their universe careers as seraphim; others have ascended from unrevealed levels of creature life. (407.4) 37:2.4 Please join us! http://tobtr.com/12154841

Both Merritt Horn and Duane Faw are experts in The Bible and The Urantia Book. This week, Merritt will help guide our exploration of both, using Duane's amazing Urantia/Bible cross reference tool, The Paramony. If you are interested in how The Bible compares with The Urantia Book you will want to listen in. This study was the idea of our dear friend, and repeat guest, Diane Labrecque from Montreal. Diane feels, and we agree, that many current and future students of The Urantia Book will benefit from knowing and using Duane's amazing Urantia/Bible study aid. Duane Faw was a remarkable man and his splendid resource book, The Paramony, is a gift to anyone who will ever read and enjoy both books. For the purposes of this study you can find the online version of The Paramony here: https://urantiabook.org/additional-resources Duane was born in Texas in 1920. He entered the armed services after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was commissioned as a Marine Corps second lieutenant in 1942 after completing Naval Aviator training. He retired as a U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General in 1971, having served valiantly in three wars. Duane was not only an American lay worker, a law educator, and decorated combat veteran, he was also a scholar of both The Bible and The Urantia Book. He authored The Paramony, which contains over 60,000 cross-references paralleling and harmonizing both books. Duane loved to say, "The Urantia Book makes my Bible come alive!" Duane died in 2008, but his Paramony will serve us long into the future. Merritt Horn has been reading The Urantia Book since 1968. He recorded the first ever audio version the book. He is currently working on a book that will harmonize Urantia's Part IV, The Life and Teachings of Jesus, with the Bible's New Testament. Merritt is a beloved Urantian scholar and we are delighted to have him on the show.

This week we will complete our study of Urantia Paper 36, The Life Carriers, by recapping the Seven Adjutant Mind-spirits, and then completing with Living Forces. This has been another wonderful study of The Urantia Book. So far, in our study of Paper 36, we've covered the following sections: 1.Origin and Nature of Life Carriers, 2.The Life Carrier Worlds, 3.Life Transplantation, 4.Melchizedek Life Carriers, and 5.The Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits This week we finish with Section 6.Living Forces. Things material may enjoy an independent existence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be derived only from pre-existent mind. Spirit takes origin only from spirit ancestors. The creature may produce the forms of life, but only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living spark. (36:6.2.) We will also briefly recap the last part of Section 5 -The Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits, since we didn't have time to adequately discuss that. The first five adjutant mind-spirits are intuition, understanding, courage, knowledge, and counsel. These function in the animal orders. The adjutants' experience in relationship to animals makes them more effective in their ministry to human beings. The final two mind‑spirits, worship and wisdom, function only in mortal candidates for spiritual ascension.  The survival of mortal creatures is wholly dependent on the evolution of an immortal soul within the mortal mind. The life bestowed on plants and animals possesses neither identity nor personality; it survives only as a part of the cosmic forces of the universe. Life is neither energy nor force; it is the animation of material, mindal, and spiritual systems of energy. Life flows from the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit. Please join us for another fascinating study of evolutionary mind capacity that bridges us toward increasingly spiritualizable mind!

We resume our study of the Life Carriers by next studying the evolutionary capacity for mind provided for by the seven adjutant mind-spirits. (401.5) 36:5.1 It is the presence of the seven adjutant mind-spirits on the primitive worlds that conditions the course of organic evolution; that explains why evolution is purposeful and not accidental. ... Wherever and whenever such [material] mind is manifest, these spirits are variously functioning. (401.6) 36:5.2 The seven adjutant mind-spirits are called by names which are the equivalents of the following designations: intuition, understanding, courage, knowledge, counsel, worship, and wisdom. These mind-spirits send forth their influence into all the inhabited worlds as a differential urge, each seeking receptivity capacity for manifestation quite apart from the degree to which its fellows may find reception and opportunity for function. (403.3) 36:5.15 Living mind, prior to the appearance of capacity to learn from experience, is the ministry domain of the Master Physical Controllers. Creature mind, before acquiring the ability to recognize divinity and worship Deity, is the exclusive domain of the adjutant spirits. With the appearance of the spiritual response of the creature intellect, such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the spirit cycles of the local universe Mother Spirit. (403.5) 36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival. Please join us for this fascinating study of evolutionary mind capacity that bridges us toward increasingly spiritualizable mind! http://tobtr.com/12145790

This week we continue our study of Urantia Paper 36 — The Life Carriers. This is the amazing and extraordinary story of the beings who initiate life on the inhabitable worlds of space.  LIFE does not originate spontaneously. Life is constructed according to plans formulated by the (unrevealed) Architects of Being and appears on the inhabited planets either by direct importation or as a result of the operations of the Life Carriers of the local universes. These carriers of life are among the most interesting and versatile of the diverse family of universe Sons. They are intrusted with designing and carrying creature life to the planetary spheres. And after planting this life on such new worlds, they remain there for long periods to foster its development. (36:0.1) The Life Carriers are devoted to the study of universe life and are involved in new life design, life preservation, evolution of creature life, life associated with mind, the correlation of mind with spirit in living organisms, and in unrevealed domains of evolutionary creature life. So far, we've covered these sections: 1.Origin and Nature of Life Carriers 2.The Life Carrier Worlds 3.Life Transplantation This week were are on Section 4.Melchizedek Life Carriers Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia. (36:3.1) Join us for another fascinating study from The Urantia Book!

This week we continue our study of Urantia Paper 36 — The Life Carriers. This is the amazing and extraordinary story of the beings who initiate life on the inhabitable worlds of space.  The Life Carriers are devoted to the study of universe life and are involved in new life design, life preservation, evolution of creature life, life associated with mind, the correlation of mind with spirit in living organisms, and in unrevealed domains of evolutionary creature life.  Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia. (399.3) 36:3.1 When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided, then do the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark; and forthwith do the inert patterns become living matter. The vital spark — the mystery of life — is bestowed through the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions, they formulate the life plasm itself, but it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the essential factor of the living plasm. From the Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit comes that energy spark which enlivens the body and presages the mind. (399.5,6) 36:3.3,4 The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given ...approximately one-half million years of the time of that planet... [after which] they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add anything new or supplemental to the life of that planet. (400.1) 36:3.6 This will be another fascinating study from The Urantia Book. Join us! http://tobtr.com/12138235