The Cosmic Citizen

This week we begin a new study of Urantia Paper 36 - The Life Carriers. This is the amazing and extraordinary story of the beings to initiate life on the inhabitable worlds of space.  Life Carriers are living catalytic presences which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the material order of existence. They bring life to the inhabitable worlds and are the offspring of the Creator Son, the Universe Mother Spirit, and one Ancient of Days. One hundred million Life Carriers live in our local universe. Though the chemical formulas of life differ in each planetary system, and the technique of living cell reproduction is slightly different in each local universe, still, the Life Carriers are always the living catalyzers who initiate the primordial reactions of material life; they are the instigators of the energy circuits of living matter. They agitate, organize, and vitalize otherwise inert material. 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. This will be another fascinating study from The Urantia Book. We hope you will join us!

So far in our study of Paper 35, The Local Universe Sons of God, we have covered the following sections: 1.            The Father Melchizedek 2.            The Melchizedek Sons 3.            The Melchizedek Worlds 4.            Special Work of the Melchizedeks 5.            The Vorondadek Sons 6.            The Constellation Fathers 7.            The Vorondadek Worlds 8.            The Lanonandek Sons This week, we'll review Section 9. The Lanonandek Rulers, and finish up with Section 10. The Lanonandek Worlds.  Last week we had a lively discussion about Lanonandeks and the unique way they can draw near to humanity, but also rebel against God. Afterall, Lucifer was a Lanonandek.  Consider:  9.6.Our local universe has been unfortunate in that over seven hundred Sons of the Lanonandek order have rebelled against the universe government, thus precipitating confusion in several systems and on numerous planets.  9.7.The large number of these Sons who have lapsed from integrity does not indicate any fault in creatorship. They could have been made divinely perfect, but they were so created that they might better understand, and draw near to, the evolutionary creatures dwelling on the worlds of time and space. 10.5.They are a noble, faithful, and loyal group, notwithstanding their tendency to fall into error through fallacies of personal liberty and fictions of self-determination. Join us!

Join us this week as we resume our study on Urantia Paper 35, The Local Universe Sons of God, where we will recap the Vorondadek Worlds then discuss The Lanonandek Sons and their rulership! The Lanonandeks are the continuous rulers of the planets and the rotating sovereigns of the systems. Such a Son now rules on Jerusem, the headquarters of your local system of inhabited worlds. The System Sovereigns rule in commissions of two or three on the headquarters of each system of inhabited worlds. The Constellation Father names one of these Lanonandeks as chief every dekamillennium. Sometimes no change in the head of the trio is made, the matter being entirely optional with the constellation rulers. System governments do not suddenly change in personnel unless a tragedy of some sort occurs. (393.1–2) 35:9.1–2 The System Sovereigns are ... well-nigh sovereign in the local affairs of the inhabited worlds. They are almost paternal in their direction of the Planetary Princes, the Material Sons, and the ministering spirits. ... These rulers are not supervised by Trinity observers from the central universe. They are the executive division of the local universe, and as custodians of the enforcement of legislative mandates and as executives for the application of judicial verdicts, they present the one place in all universe administration where personal disloyalty to the will of the Michael Son could most easily and readily intrench itself and seek to assert itself. Our local universe has been unfortunate in that over seven hundred Sons of the Lanonandek order have rebelled against the universe government, thus precipitating confusion in several systems and on numerous planets. ... only three were System Sovereigns; practically all ...belonged to the second and third orders, Planetary Princes and tertiary Lanonandeks. (393.5–6) 35:9.5–6  Come join us! http://tobtr.com/12123164

Join us this week as we resume our study on Urantia Paper 35, The Local Universe Sons of God, where we will discuss The Constellation Fathers! At least three Vorondadeks are assigned to the rulership of each of the one hundred constellations of a local universe. These Sons are selected by the Creator Son and are commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of the constellations for service during one dekamillennium — 10,000 standard years, about 50,000 years of Urantia time. The reigning Most High, the Constellation Father, has two associates, a senior and a junior. At each change of administration the senior associate becomes the head of the government, the junior assumes the duties of the senior, while the unassigned Vorondadeks resident on the Salvington worlds nominate one of their number as candidate for selection to assume the responsibilities of junior associate. Thus each of the Most High rulers, in accordance with present policy, has a period of service on the headquarters of a constellation of three dekamillenniums, about 150,000 Urantia years. The one hundred Constellation Fathers, the actual presiding heads of the constellation governments, constitute the supreme advisory cabinet of the Creator Son. This council is in frequent session at universe headquarters and is unlimited in the scope and range of its deliberations but is chiefly concerned with the welfare of the constellations and with the unification of the administration of the entire local universe. (390.5–6) 35:6.1-2 (391.5) 35:7.2 The ascending mortals have observed the legislative assemblies..., but here on these Vorondadek worlds they participate in the enactment of the actual general legislation of the local universe under the tutelage of the senior Vorondadeks. We hope you can join us for another great study from this splendid paper in The Urantia Book.  http://tobtr.com/12120567

This week we have a special episode highlighting a new project called The Jesus Metaverse. It is being designed and developed by Gabriel Rymberg, Gary Tonge, and others dedicated to illuminating the life and teachings of Jesus, as revealed in The Urantia Book. If you want to hear about how the “good news” of the life and teachings of Jesus as portrayed in the Urantia revelation, is being brilliantly illuminated by The Jesus Metaverse, you will want to tune in. Our guest, Gabriel Rymberg lives in Irael. He was the chief translator on the Hebrew Urantia Book and is a tireless toiler for the benefit of the Urantia Book and for Jesus. Our other guest, Gary Tonge, lives in British Columbia. He is the extraordinary and beloved artist whose images of the Urantia based cosmos are being used all over the Internet.  Gary and Gabriel are building the Jesus Metaverse to share Jesus with billions around the world. We will also have others who will join in the conversation that are also equally dedicated to this project. Please tune in to learn all about this amazing effort and also learn about the Jesus Museum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, that is being planned in conjunction with the Jesus Metaverse. Learn how you can be a part of this unprecedented effort and be instrumental in sharing Jesus with the world! Give now ❤️ to the Jesus Metaverse

Join us this week as we continue our study on Urantia Paper 35: The Local Universe Sons of God. The types of Sons about to be considered in this study are of local universe origin; they are the offspring of a Paradise Creator Son (Michael) in varied association with the complemental Divine Universe Mother Spirit. The following orders of local universe sonship are covered in this amazing paper: Melchizedek SonsVorondadek SonsLanonandek Sons(Life Carriers are studied in Paper 36.) (388.10) 35:4.1 A highly specialized branch of Melchizedek activities has to do with the supervision of the progressive morontia career of the ascending mortals. Much of this training is conducted by the patient and wise seraphic ministers, assisted by mortals who have ascended to relatively higher levels of universe attainment, but all of this educational work is under the general supervision of the Melchizedeks in association with the Trinity Teacher Sons. (389.1) 35:4.2 While the Melchizedek orders are chiefly devoted to the vast educational system and experiential training regime of the local universe, they also function in unique assignments and in unusual circumstances. In an evolving universe eventually embracing approximately ten million inhabited worlds, many things out of the ordinary are destined to happen, and it is in such emergencies that the Melchizedeks act. On Edentia, your constellation headquarters, they are known as emergency Sons. They are always ready to serve in all exigencies — physical, intellectual, or spiritual — whether on a planet, in a system, in a constellation, or in the universe. Whenever and wherever special help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Melchizedek Sons. We hope you can join us for another great study from this splendid paper in The Urantia Book.  http://tobtr.com/12115515

Join us this week as we continue our study on Urantia Paper 35: The Local Universe Sons of God. The types of Sons about to be considered in this study are of local universe origin; they are the offspring of a Paradise Creator Son (Michael) in varied association with the complemental Divine Universe Mother Spirit. The following orders of local universe sonship are covered in this amazing paper: Melchizedek SonsVorondadek SonsLanonandek SonsLife Carrier Sons We had such a fantastic study on the Melchizedeks last week, and this week we will be reading more about this firstborn order of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit. They are close enough to humans to minister directly to us. They will eternally be understanding friends, sympathetic teachers, and wise counselors to all forms of intelligent life.  This week we'll be reading Section 3. The Melchizedek Worlds and hopefully Section 4. Special Work of the Melchizedeks. Consider some samples from Section 3: 35:3.12.Ascending mortals maintain residence on the Melchizedek world while pursuing their training on the six encircling planets of specialized education. And this same method is adhered to throughout their sojourn on the seventy cultural worlds, the primary spheres of the Salvington circuit. 35:3.20.The schools of universe administration and spiritual wisdom are located on the Melchizedek home world, where also are to be found those schools devoted to a single line of research, such as energy, matter, organization, communication, records, ethics, and comparative creature existence. We hope you can join us for another great study from this splendid paper in The Urantia Book.  http://tobtr.com/12115164

Join us this week as we begin a new study on Urantia Paper 35: The Local Universe Sons of God. The types of Sons about to be considered in this study are of local universe origin; they are the offspring of a Paradise Creator Son (Michael) in varied association with the complemental Divine Universe Mother Spirit. The following orders of local universe sonship find mention in this amazing paper: Melchizedek SonsVorondadek SonsLanonandek SonsLife Carrier Sons Here is some of what we will learn: The firstborn of the Melchizedek order, the Father Melchizedek, collaborates with the Creator Son and Creative Spirit in the creation of the rest of the Melchizedek group. The Father Melchizedek is the first executive associate of Gabriel. Melchizedeks are a self-governing order. They are the first order of divine Sons that are close enough to humans to minister directly to them. They are understanding friends, sympathetic teachers, and wise counselors to all forms of intelligent life.  Vorondadek Sons are commissioned by Gabriel to rule in the constellations. They do not possess the versatility of the Melchizedeks, but are more efficient as rulers and administrators. Vorondadeks serve as ambassadors, legislators, historians, and consuls.  Lanonandek Sons serve as Universe Coordinators, Constellation Counselors, System Sovereigns, Planetary Princes, Messenger Corps, Custodians, Recorders, and Reserves. Lanonandeks are able and versatile local universe administrators. Because they are a lower order of sonship, they are of greater service to the lower creatures than either Melchizedeks or Vorondadeks. This week we'll focus on Section 1 - THE FATHER MELCHIZEDEK and Secition 2 - THE MELCHIZEDEK SONS. We hope you can join for another study of another splendid paper from The Urantia Book.

This week we will feature our co-host, Marvin Gawryn, who will inform us all of an exciting new vision and methodology for online worship known as: Homecoming - A Spiritual Family Gathering.  Members of the Homecoming Vision Team (Elisabeth Callahan, Marvin Gawryn, Will Rucker, Paula Thompson, Angie Thurston and Alice Wood) have worked extensively on this concept and are excited to be launching it in collaboration with Urantia University Institute (UUI). We'll be providing lots of great information about current Urantia University programs too!  The kick-off event for The Homecoming worship service will be on Sunday morning, June 12th. So this interview will be timely for anyone who is interested in online worship and might be hoping to attend.  You can read the fuller presentation on “Homecoming” at https://urantiauniversity.org/Homecoming-A-Spiritual-Family-Gathering Homecoming will be done in a way that is attractive and spiritually nourishing for sincere Urantia students, and also for a growing audience of those who know little or nothing about The Urantia Book. The hope is that it will attract progressive religionists from other traditions, people in the interfaith movement, seekers who are "spiritual but not religious," and even spiritually hungry folks in the recovery movements! We hope you will join this informative Cosmic Citizen episode and learn all about the Homecoming Spiritual Family Gatherings. Also, please join us for the worship on Sunday!

We continue our seventh show studying the Divine Mother Spirit in our universe, the eternal companion of our Universe Sovereign, Michael, AKA Jesus of Nazareth.  This week we will explore §7. The Spirit and The Flesh. Evolutionary mortals inhabiting normal worlds of spiritual progress do not experience the acute conflicts between the spirit and the flesh which characterize the present-day Urantia races. But even on the most ideal planets, pre-Adamic man must put forth positive efforts to ascend from the purely animalistic plane of existence up through successive levels of increasingly intellectual meanings and higher spiritual values. The mortals of a normal world do not experience constant warfare between their physical and spiritual natures. They are confronted with the necessity of climbing up from the animal levels of existence to the higher planes of spiritual living, but this ascent is more like undergoing an educational training when compared with the intense conflicts of Urantia mortals in this realm of the divergent material and spiritual natures.  (382.2–3) 34:7.2–3 Those God-knowing men and women who have been born of the Spirit experience no more conflict with their mortal natures than do the inhabitants of the most normal of worlds, planets which have never been tainted with sin nor touched by rebellion. Faith sons work on intellectual levels and live on spiritual planes far above the conflicts produced by unrestrained or unnatural physical desires. The normal urges of animal beings and the natural appetites and impulses of the physical nature are not in conflict with even the highest spiritual attainment except in the minds of ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious persons. (383.1) 34:7.7 Please join us next week! http://tobtr.com/12105169