Preface to Increate Love

I have made this blog from the revised Preface to my new book

Increate Love by John Thwaytes.

Preface

            Although I have read the Urantia Book ( hereinafter referred to as the UB) right through several times, I realize that many people find it difficult. It has coined a lot of new English vocabulary in order to express concepts for which our earthly English provides no words. The introduction in Paper 0 of the UB gives definitions and explanations of these new words that can scarcely be understood unless you read the whole of the UB to find out all the contexts in which they are used, and then read them again. Thirdly, the UB is almost 2,000 pages.

            For these reasons, many people have felt the need for a brief summary of the UB, and this has been supplied by Michelle Klimesh, helped by a group of her friends, in a book called Story of Everything, published by Square Circles Publishing, Inc. of www.squarecircles.com  . My friend Dan sent me a pdf copy of this book recently, and I found it very helpful. It filled in a lot of gaps in my mind: things I had either forgotten or not understood or glossed over. I recommend it to anyone who feels intimidated by the UB.

            I have never tried to summarize the whole UB myself. My approach has been more topical and polemical: I take a particular topic and compare it with the teachings of other religions or belief systems. Since I believe that the UB is the Fifth Epochal Revelation for us from God, I am trying to make it known to anyone I can reach. It is foundational for the transition to the new age of light and life that will come after we have gone through a period of correction.

            These are the five revelations we have had so far.

UB Paper 92 Section 4:

          (1) The Dalamatian teachings

            (2) The Edenic teachings

            (3) The Melchizedek of Salem

            (4) Jesus of Nazareth

            (5) The Urantia Papers

            I can also add this qualification: 92.6.17 The Hebrew religion encompasses the philosophic transition from polytheism to monotheism; it is an evolutionary link between the religions of evolution and the religions of revelation. The Hebrews were the only western people to follow their early evolutionary gods straight through to the God of revelation. But this truth never became widely accepted until the days of Isaiah, who once again taught the blended idea of a racial deity combined with a Universal Creator: “O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, you are God, even you alone; you have made heaven and earth.” At one time the hope of the survival of Occidental civilization lay in the sublime Hebraic concepts of goodness and the advanced Hellenic concepts of beauty.

            I am not saying that anyone is obliged to believe in the UB. The teachings of Jesus given in Part lV show that he is not at all concerned with belief systems as such, which are mindal rather than spiritual. His concern is with true Faith, which is a spiritual awareness of the indwelling Fragment of the Father, and includes love and trust in His guidance, and the recognition of His equal love for all created persons. That is what makes you realize that all people are your brothers and sisters: because God loves each and all of them in the same way as He loves you. That is the core of Jesus' teaching: the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.

            Another reason why God is not much bothered about our belief systems is that it is impossible for mortal humans to construct or understand an infallible belief system. As the UB says, mortals creatures may aspire to infallibility, but only the Creators can attain it. We are not saved by our belief systems, but by our 'Faith' in the true sense of the word: and, in the true sense, Faith includes both Hope and Love; and the greatest of these is Love.

            All our religions are fallible and incomplete. We are not ready for a final and complete revelation. Even the UB is not final and complete. It is in the genre of an encyclopedia. Like the 1935 Britannica, it is comprised of papers on various subjects, not in alphabetical order. The UB is only the first volume, and I hope that, over the next ten thousand years, many more volumes will come along.

            The UB is the Fifth Epochal Revelation, but it is not a religion in the traditional sense of the word. Rather is it a mine of information for each and every human being to dig into and use for building up his individual, personal relationship with God. It does not claim to be complete and perfect, but to have the validity of relative truth in regard to its content. It is also approved by the highest authorities of the Trinity Government of our Superuniverse of Orvonton. And it sparkles with the brilliance of the many celestial persons who composed it.

            In this book my main source is the UB. When I use other sources I check up that they are not contradicting the UB, even though I allow that they may be adding some new ideas. One of those sources is the teachings of Jeshua, which I found in two books of Glenda Green sent to me by my good friend and mentor, Marylise Morand. The UB gives Jesus' name as Joshua, but it is possible that the Aramaic dialect of Galilee used a different pronunciation. It seems that, in his family home, Jesus was called Jeshua, with the emphasis on the "oo". Anyhow, as far as I am concerned it must be Jesus, because it would be impossible for anyone at less than his subabsolute level to write like that. Whenever I have given Jeshua's ideas I put them in reported speech, not quotations. It would not be fair to plagiarize the brilliance of the original books, to which the reader can refer. They are Love Without End and The Keys of Jeshua by Glenda Green, published by Spiritis, P.O.Box 239, Sedona, AZ 86339. You can also contact them at www.lovewithoutend.com  .

            But the real reason I started writing this book was a post by my friend Michelle Duchemin in the forum on her website, www.obcmj.org  where she quoted this item from the UB:

            "(1289.3) 117:6.10 All true love is from God, and man receives the divine affection as he himself bestows this love upon his fellows. Love is dynamic. It can never be captured; it is alive, free, thrilling, and always moving. Man can never take the love of the Father and imprison it within his heart. The Father’s love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man’s personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows. The great circuit of love is from the Father, through sons to brothers, and hence to the Supreme. The love of the Father appears in the mortal personality by the ministry of the indwelling Adjuster. Such a God-knowing son reveals this love to his universe brethren, and this fraternal affection is the essence of the love of the Supreme."

            Here I have given quotation marks and the full original reference number in the UB. But in the rest of this book I will leave out quotation marks for UB quotations, and I will abbreviate the reference numbers in this manner: 117.6.10, where the Paper Number is 117, the Section Number is 6, and the Item Number is 10. That is all you need to find it in the UB easily.

            The real point about Michelle's post is that, no matter how often I read the UB, I always find something new. I might have read it before, but never appreciated it until that moment when I read it again. It was that moment that inspired me to explore the love of God, which is His own Essence and Nature, and, in combination with Truth, Life, and Will, constitutes the Principle of Self-Existence.

            Another reason why I could not do a summary of the UB without quoting it is that I can no more write about the UB without quoting it than I can write about the Bible without quoting the exact words. That is where the electricity comes from.

            The main question people ask about this life is, "why are we here?". The UB answers this question precisely. We are here to build our character. After death we go on from one world to another, from one life to another. But, so long as we choose to continue, although our body and mind change from life to life many times over, what we take with us is the same God-given personality, plus our memories, and the character that we have built, at least partly, by our own efforts. That is what becomes immortal forever.

            117.5.13 What man himself takes with him as a personality possession are the character consequences of the experience of having used the mind and spirit circuits of the grand universe in his Paradise ascent. When man decides, and when he consummates this decision in action, man experiences, and the meanings and the values of this experience are forever a part of his eternal character on all levels, from the finite to the final. Cosmically moral and divinely spiritual character represents the creature’s capital accumulation of personal decisions which have been illuminated by sincere worship, glorified by intelligent love, and consummated in brotherly service. ***

            117.6.5 The morontia soul of an evolving mortal is really the son of the Adjuster action of the Universal Father and the child of the cosmic reaction of the Supreme Being, the Universal Mother. The mother influence dominates the human personality throughout the local universe childhood of the growing soul. The influence of the Deity parents becomes more equal after the Adjuster fusion and during the superuniverse career, but when the creatures of time begin the traversal of the central universe of eternity, the Father nature becomes increasingly manifest, attaining its height of finite manifestation upon the recognition of the Universal Father and the admission into the Corps of the Finality. ***

            (JRT) The instinctive realization of this mother influence manifests itself in the worship of the Mother goddess by various names, and the cult of the Mother of God in Christianity. An intuition of divine motherhood is a dominant feature of many historical religions. Judaism and Islam are the exceptions. But the UB idea of God the Mother, being a Fact, transcends all these historical intuitional yearnings.

            196.3.33 Be not discouraged; human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail.

            109.3.2 On certain primitive worlds (the series one group) the Adjuster indwells the mind of the creature as an experiential training, chiefly for self-culture and progressive development. Virgin Adjusters are usually sent to such worlds during the earlier times when primitive men are arriving in the valley of decision, but when comparatively few will elect to ascend the moral heights beyond the hills of self-mastery and character acquirement to attain the higher levels of emerging spirituality. (Many, however, who fail of Adjuster fusion do survive as Spirit-fused ascenders.) The Adjusters receive valuable training and acquire wonderful experience in transient association with primitive minds, and they are able subsequently to utilize this experience for the benefit of superior beings on other worlds. Nothing of survival value is ever lost in all the wide universe.

            (JRT) He says "NOTHING OF SURVIVAL VALUE IS EVER LOST IN ALL THE WIDE UNIVERSE."  And that includes whales, dolphins, elephants, dogs, cats, pigs, birds, pets of all kinds – everything that can love. Main written de diya!

5.5.13 Eternal survival of personality is wholly dependent on the choosing of the mortal mind, whose decisions determine the survival potential of the immortal soul. When the mind believes God and the soul knows God, and when, with the fostering Adjuster, they all desire God, then is survival assured. Limitations of intellect, curtailment of education, deprivation of culture, impoverishment of social status, even inferiority of the human standards of morality resulting from the unfortunate lack of educational, cultural, and social advantages, cannot invalidate the presence of the divine spirit in such unfortunate and humanly handicapped but believing individuals. The indwelling of the Mystery Monitor constitutes the inception and insures the possibility of the potential of growth and survival of the immortal soul.

            5.5.14 The ability of mortal parents to procreate is not predicated on their educational, cultural, social, or economic status. The union of the parental factors under natural conditions is quite sufficient to initiate offspring. A human mind discerning right and wrong and possessing the capacity to worship God, in union with a divine Adjuster, is all that is required in that mortal to initiate and foster the production of his immortal soul of survival qualities if such a spirit-endowed individual seeks God and sincerely desires to become like him, honestly elects to do the will of the Father in heaven.

            1.2.7 The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. God can be realized only in the realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of God is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personality survival.

            We all know that God is love. But what kind of love? Jeshua says that charity (the quality of God's love) is a generous heart, a grateful spirit, a forgiving soul, a courageous life, an expansive vision, an exploratory mind, caring hands, persistent dedication, and creative ideas. That kind of love is your spiritual wealth. He adds that as you express your spiritual wealth, material abundance will follow. That is what this book is about.

Signed at Malbazar on May 19,2012 – John Robert Thwaytes