The Cosmic Citizen

We commence our study of Paper 114 and seraphic planetary government—our unseen government—overcontrol and loving overcare by our celestial sisters, brothers, and friends. Seraphim and their associated cherubim have much to do with the details of the superhuman government of a planet, especially of worlds which have been isolated by rebellion. The angels, ably assisted by the midwayers, function on Urantia as the actual supermaterial ministers who execute the mandates of the resident governor general and all his associates and subordinates. Seraphim as a class are occupied with many assignments other than those of personal and group guardianship. Urantia['s] ...planetary government is unlike that of any other world in the Satania system, even in all Nebadon. This uniqueness in your plan of supervision is due to a number of unusual circumstances: 1. The life modification status of Urantia. 2. The exigencies of the Lucifer rebellion. 3. The disruptions of the Adamic default. 4. The irregularities growing out of the fact that Urantia was one of the bestowal worlds of the Universe Sovereign. Michael of Nebadon is the Planetary Prince of Urantia. 5. The special function of the twenty-four planetary directors. 6. The location on the planet of an archangels’ circuit. 7. The more recent designation of the onetime incarnated Machiventa Melchizedek as vicegerent Planetary Prince. (1250.3–11) 114:0.3–11 http://tobtr.com/11926347

We conclude our study of the seraphic guardians of destiny—our "guardian angels"—with §7. Seraphim and the Ascendent Career.  We may reprise the last few paragraphs of §6. Guardian Angels after Death and begin our discussion there. The guardian seraphim is the custodial trustee of the survival values of mortal man’s slumbering soul as the absent Adjuster is the identity of such an immortal universe being. When these two collaborate in the resurrection halls of mansonia in conjunction with the newly fabricated morontia form, there occurs the reassembly of the constituent factors of the personality of the mortal ascender. The Adjuster will identify you; the guardian seraphim will repersonalize you and then re-present you to the faithful Monitor of your earth days. (1247.3,4) 113:6.5,6 It is indeed an epoch in the career of an ascending mortal, this first awakening on the shores of the mansion world; there, for the first time, actually to see your long-loved and ever-present angelic companions of earth days; there also to become truly conscious of the identity and presence of the divine Monitor who so long indwelt your mind on earth. Such an experience constitutes a glorious awakening, a real resurrection. (1248.1) 113:7.1 The human race was created just a little lower than the more simple types of the angelic orders. Therefore will your first assignment of the morontia life be as assistants to the seraphim in the immediate work awaiting at the time you attain personality consciousness subsequent to your liberation from the bonds of the flesh. (1248.3) 113:7.3 (1248.4) 113:7.4 Before leaving the mansion worlds, all mortals will have permanent seraphic associates or guardians. Please come and join us for a discussion of life with our angels hereafter! http://tobtr.com/11925915

We continue our study of the seraphic guardians of destiny—our "guardian angels."  We move on to §5. Seraphic Ministry to Mortals and continue with §6. Guardian Angels after Death. Angels do not invade the sanctity of the human mind; they do not manipulate the will of mortals; neither do they directly contact with the indwelling Adjusters. The guardian of destiny influences you in every possible manner consistent with the dignity of your personality; under no circumstances do these angels interfere with the free action of the human will. Neither angels nor any other order of universe personality have power or authority to curtail or abridge the prerogatives of human choosing. Angels are so near you and care so feelingly for you that they figuratively “weep because of your willful intolerance and stubbornness.” Seraphim do not shed physical tears; they do not have physical bodies; neither do they possess wings. But they do have spiritual emotions, and they do experience feelings and sentiments of a spiritual nature which are in certain ways comparable to human emotions. (1245.7, 1246.1) 113:5.1,2  Upon your death, your records, identity specifications, and the morontia entity of the human soul — conjointly evolved by the ministry of mortal mind and the divine Adjuster — are faithfully conserved by the destiny guardian together with all other values related to your future existence, everything that constitutes you, the real you, except the identity of continuing existence represented by the departing Adjuster and the actuality of personality. (1246.5) 113:6.1 (1247.4) 113:6.6 The Adjuster will identify you; the guardian seraphim will repersonalize you and then re-present you to the faithful Monitor of your earth days. Please join us for another fascinating study of our guardian seraphim! http://tobtr.com/11919165

Do you believe in Guardian Angels? If you have read the Urantia Book, you probably do. Urantia Paper 113 is the definitive resource on these marvelous spirit guides and helpers. The book tells us who they are and how they function in their work.   In the last two episodes we learned that guardian angels (seraphim) serve mortals who strive for spiritual advancement. Only the most experienced angels volunteer and are assigned to be Seraphic Guardians of Destiny. Seraphim only occasionally work singly but usually work in pairs. We learned about their profound affection for human beings and that they share most of our human emotions as well as some additional ones. However, the emotions that they find hardest to understand are fear, dread, and anxiety. In our study this week, we will learn that one of the most important things angelic guardians do for us is coordinate the spirit influences, which indwell and surround us. Being directly from the Creative Spirit, they are uniquely able to correlate other spirit influences, like the Infinite Spirit, the Indwelling Spirit, and the Spirit of Truth. They interpret spirit reality to the human mind and manipulate the physical environment through liaison with their spiritual counterparts. We will also cover Section 4. Seraphic Domains of Action to learn that seraphim work through our social, ethical, and moral environments and they labor independently of human appeals; they perform their tasks as they are directed by their superiors, regardless of the changing whims of their mortal charges. The seraphic mission is to guard rather than to influence. Human beings chart their own courses, and the seraphim act to make the best possible use of the chosen course. The urge to pray is often the result of seraphic influence. This is another great study on Angels. We hope you will listen in!

We continue our study of the seraphic guardians of destiny or "guardian angels."  We intensively discussed §1. The Guardian Angels and continue with §2. The Destiny Guardians. All angelic assignments are made from a group of volunteering seraphim, and these appointments are always in accordance with human needs and with regard to the status of the angelic pair — in the light of seraphic experience, skill, and wisdom. Only seraphim of long service, the more experienced and tested types, are assigned as destiny guards. (1242.6) 113:2.3 The angels develop an abiding affection for their human associates; and you would, if you could only visualize the seraphim, develop a warm affection for them. Divested of material bodies, given spirit forms, you would be very near the angels in many attributes of personality. They share most of your emotions and experience some additional ones. The only emotion actuating you which is somewhat difficult for them to comprehend is the legacy of animal fear that bulks so large in the mental life of the average inhabitant of Urantia. The angels really find it hard to understand why you will so persistently allow your higher intellectual powers, even your religious faith, to be so dominated by fear, so thoroughly demoralized by the thoughtless panic of dread and anxiety. (1243.2) 113:2.5 One of the most important things a destiny guardian does for her mortal subject is to effect a personal co-ordination of the numerous impersonal spirit influences which indwell, surround, and impinge upon the mind and soul of the evolving material creature. Human beings are personalities, and it is exceedingly difficult for nonpersonal spirits and prepersonal entities to make direct contact with such highly material and discretely personal minds. (1244.2) 113:3.1 Come join us!  http://tobtr.com/11912481

We begin a new study of our outward spiritual helpers—the seraphic guardians of destiny or "guardian angels."  This is a fitting segué from our more than half-year study of the Thought Adjuster papers in The Urantia Book. Some coming attractions: The teaching about guardian angels is not a myth; certain groups of human beings do actually have personal angels. It was in recognition of this that Jesus, in speaking of the children of the heavenly kingdom, said: “Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, their angels do always behold the presence of the spirit of my Father.” (1241.3) 113:1.1 When a mortal mind breaks through the inertia of animal legacy and attains the third circle of human intellectuality and acquired spirituality, a personal angel (in reality two) will henceforth be wholly and exclusively devoted to this ascending mortal. And thus these human souls, in addition to the ever-present and increasingly efficient indwelling Thought Adjusters, receive the undivided assistance of these personal guardians of destiny in all their efforts to finish the third circle, traverse the second, and attain the first. (1242.3) 113:1.8 All angelic assignments are made from a group of volunteering seraphim, and these appointments are always in accordance with human needs and with regard to the status of the angelic pair — in the light of seraphic experience, skill, and wisdom. Only seraphim of long service, the more experienced and tested types, are assigned as destiny guards. (1242.6) 113:2.3  http://tobtr.com/11908104

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 philosophy of universe meanings. This week's show is about how we come to fuse with the fragment of God that dwells within our minds. Consider these reference quotes: (1:4.1) The infinity of the perfection of God is such that it eternally constitutes him mystery. And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the mystery of mysteries. (109:3.4) On worlds such as Urantia (the series three group) there is a real betrothal with the divine gifts, a life and death engagement. If you survive, there is to be an eternal union, an everlasting fusion, the making of man and Adjuster one being. (112:7.2) When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a better world, and eventually you will be united with your faithful Adjuster in an eternal embrace. And this fusion constitutes the mystery of making God and man one, the mystery of finite creature evolution, but it is eternally true. Upon fusion, mortal beings become members of a unique order of ascending personalities who are ever serviceable, faithful, and efficient; never ceasing to ascend until they stand in the presence of the Father on Paradise. Please join us this week as we take another deep dive into the ever thought provoking teachings of The Urantia Book!

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 world, you would at first have difficulty in connecting the new morontia consciousness with the reviving memory of your previous identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal selfhood, much of the mortal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many mortal associations. (1235.3) 112:5.21  ... personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on Urantia.  (1235.4) 112:5.22 Just as a butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage, so will the true personalities of human beings emerge on the mansion worlds, for the first time revealed apart from their onetime enshroudment in the material flesh. The morontia career in the local universe has to do with the continued elevation of the personality mechanism from the beginning morontia level of soul existence up to the final morontia level of progressive spirituality. (1235.5) 112:6.1  (1235.6) 112:6.2 It is difficult to instruct you regarding your morontia personality forms for the local universe career. You will be endowed with morontia patterns of personality manifestability, and these are investments which, in the last analysis, are beyond your comprehension. Join us for The Cosmic Citizen!

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 the care of the seraphim. Temporarily after death, the Thought Adjuster loses personality and the mortal loses identity until they can be reunited in a new manifestation on the mansion worlds. A mortal is repersonalized on the mansion worlds either at the end of a dispensation or within three "periods." Reassembly of the parts of a onetime material being involves the fabrication of a suitable form, the return of the Adjuster, and the bestowal of the soul into the awaiting morontia form by the seraphic custodian. This week we look at how the self persists in spite of a continuous change in all of the factors of self. Human life is endless change unified by the stability of the unchanging personality. The universe always manifests patience, tolerance, and mercy. If there is ever any doubt as to the advisability of allowing a mortal to advance, our universe overseers invariably rule in favor of the individual. Will creatures must be given one true opportunity to make their final choice about eternal life; the soul of each person is allowed to fully reveal its true intent and purpose. 112:5.22 ... personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on Urantia. We hope you'll join us for The Cosmic Citizen!

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 transcription of the spiritual values and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster’s version of the deceased human’s survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation. (1231.2) 112:4.2  Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material, morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the personal is the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of himself or through his manifold universe agencies. To say that a being is personal is to recognize the relative individuation of such a being within the cosmic organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But those that are personal have been endowed with the actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny rejection. http://tobtr.com/11884088