Saturday, June 7, 2025

The Greater Capacity of Mind

Let's deepen the discussion of Mind Capacity by integrating the revelatory teachings of Urantia Paper 36, Section 5—on the Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits—with the insights from Paper 5:1, particularly the quote:

“The inability of the finite creature to approach the infinite Father is inherent, not in the Father’s aloofness, but in the finiteness and material limitations of created beings.”5:1.1


Mind Capacity and the Spirit Adjutants: A Deeper Integration

The phase of mind capacity acknowledges that spiritual approach must begin with a clear understanding of the conditions of finitude.


The human mind is not originally designed to perceive the Infinite directly. Instead, it is lovingly scaffolded by the sevenfold influence of the Spirit Adjutants, which originate from the Universe Mother Spirit, the Divine Minister of a local universe. These adjutants are not divine persons, but pre-spiritual ministries—spiritual circuits that bridge the gap between material consciousness and the indwelling presence of the divine Adjuster.


As presented in Paper 36:5, the seven adjutants function progressively and cumulatively in the development of mind capacity. Each is a gift of the Creative Spirit to guide mortals in their intellectual and emotional maturation. Their integration into human consciousness makes it possible for the soul to begin the approach toward God, even if it cannot yet “see” or fully comprehend the Infinite.


Let us explore each in relation to this early stage of soul awakening through mind capacity:


1. The Spirit of Intuition (Quick Perception)

This adjutant provides the foundation for survival instincts and moment-to-moment awareness. It enables the individual to recognize patterns, act reflexively, and begin to sense that something larger than oneself is unfolding. In the context of mind capacity, it anchors the mortal in the moment and keeps the mind awake to its surrounding environment—necessary for the first stirrings of God-consciousness.


2. The Spirit of Understanding

Understanding enables the human mind to connect patterns and relate new experiences to previous ones. It’s here that the mind begins to interpret meaning, laying the foundation for initial God-seeking behavior. The limitations mentioned in Paper 5:1 become clearer: we do not know all, but we begin to know that we do not know—and this creates the space for humility and learning.


3. The Spirit of Courage

Courage is the adjutant that empowers the mortal will to begin spiritual exploration in the face of mystery. Approaching the Infinite takes not only reason, but boldness—the strength to move forward despite uncertainty. The recognition of one's spiritual limitations (“we cannot yet see God”) does not lead to despair, but to a deeper reliance on faith and bravery.


4. The Spirit of Knowledge

With this adjutant comes the desire for organized, experiential truth. Knowledge gives form to the soul’s yearning to understand divine reality and the structure of creation. At this phase, the mind starts to formulate real questions about God, purpose, and being. It is the platform upon which spiritual philosophies and theologies begin to take root—even before full spiritual insight arrives.


5. The Spirit of Counsel

This spirit introduces a social and ethical dimension. The individual begins to seek truth in relation to others and through shared wisdom. In the stage of mind capacity, counsel supports the notion that we are not isolated seekers: we approach God as part of a vast cosmic family. Fellowship becomes a channel through which divine insight flows.


6. The Spirit of Worship

Here, the mortal mind begins to sense the sacred. Worship is not yet perfected but is initiated by the realization of something infinitely greater. It gives the mind a direction—a vertical axis of reverence and adoration. Worship enables the mind to begin its true approach to God, not as an object of knowledge, but as the source of love and destiny.


7. The Spirit of Wisdom

This final adjutant unifies all the others into a cohesive, experiential understanding of life. Wisdom allows the mind to make decisions that harmonize intuition, understanding, courage, and worship. In the context of approaching God, it instills a mature receptivity, where the mortal begins to act in accordance with higher meanings and spiritual values.


Mind Capacity as a Sacred Threshold

In the grand scale of universe evolution, mind capacity is the sacred threshold between animal existence and true soul becoming. It is where the finite begins to turn toward the Infinite, not through full comprehension, but through faithful alignment with the structures of mind ministry that God has placed within creation. The adjutant spirits are the universe’s way of saying: “You are not yet able to behold the Father, but you are never without help.”


Thus, as the soul learns to navigate the limitations of cognition and accept the reality of divine nearness, it begins to honor its mind not as an obstacle to God but as the divine scaffolding that supports its ascent.


Michael Of Nebadon

Salvington College

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Discovering our Collegial Culture and Cooperative Climate for Learning

Salvington is a symbolism for the preservation and stimulation of moral sentiments and religious loyalties.

It is an institution establishing the inspiring ideals which can be grasped by the peoples of the civilization; a perpetuating symbolism for fostering and gratifying the emotions of honor and dignity, righteousness and morality, eternal understandings and the everlasting principles of freedom.

Every appealing movement in social culture or religious advancement has developed a ritual, a symbolic ceremonial. At Salvington, we hold honorable the God ascent into light and life. We offer students the opportunity to advance themselves as uniquely qualified personalities. The principles of Salvington University foster a deep and conscious growth, the understandings to build a stronger knowledge of Selfhood and its uniquely held place in the universes. Salvington continues to grip the hearts and minds of its students and devotees by preserving the sentiments of truthfulness and equality, and students are encouraged to find their solutions through the directly personal intimacy with the living God who dwells within. This brings the great satisfied emotions of living rightly and in accordance with Objectivity and Truth - Absolute Truth and the Way to Life more abundant.

Salvington grows the personality mind into personality soul currents which thrive upon discovering the God who motivates and animates all things. The curriculum of Salvington in terms of moral standards and spiritual ideals have no adequate symbolism but through demonstrated experience — we hold as self-evident at Salvington a collegial culture of mutual support. 

Our educational fellowship and high religious culture cannot be manufactured; it must grow and mature itself through the deeply encountered learnings of our students who strive to encompass a life built upon truth and justice, love and compassion. And those of no two groups will be identical unless their rituals foster truth and awareness, and are arbitrarily standardized by the authority of personal religious revelation and experience.

The Salvington culture requires an upstanding evaluation by each student, and whereas the early Christian culture was the most effective, appealing, and enduring of any ritual ever conceived or devised, yet much of its value has been destroyed in a scientific age by the destruction of so many of its original underlying tenets. The Universal Christian culture has been devitalized, and has lost its moral compass due to the loss of many fundamental ideas.

In the past, truth has grown rapidly and expanded freely when the culture has been elastic, the symbolism expansile. Abundant truth and an adjustable culture have favored rapidity of social progression. A meaningless culture vitiates religion when it attempts to supplant philosophy and to enslave reason; a genuine culture grows naturally and normally as insight develops and realization emerges in the individual.

Regardless of the drawbacks and handicaps which humanity has encountered over the centuries, Salvington offers a revelation - a religious revelation of personal intimacy with a Personal and Infinity God - and while every new revelation of truth has given rise to a new culture, even the restatement of the religion of Michael is now supplanting the age-old notions of his teachings with a broader and deeper revelation of approach to the Universal Spirit who indwells all life. 

At Salvington, we are attuned towards developing this new and appropriate symbolism which has its roots in Truth and Objectivity, understanding reasoning and the legitimacy of God’s revelation for humanity. 

Our Salvington precepts as given by the Universe Son Michael provide both a living balm of comfort for living in the world yet not precisely of it, and a pathway upward and inward towards the destiny of the second birth of immortality which bring the individual personality into a greater and more refined life of light and life through the omnipotence of God’s forgiving love. 

In terms of our adequate symbolism for these new and expanding ideas, ideals, and loyalties, our enhanced symbol arises out of soils of proper and righteous religious living, spiritual experience, and the disciplines of true understanding. 

Salvington offers the civilization a higher and brighter symbolism befitting a higher and more elevated civilization, and this construct is predicated on the concept of the Parenthood of God .. the Fatherhood of God, and it is impregnated with the motivations for exalted fulfilling service to the mighty ideal of the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity and the kingdoms of the earth.

The olden cultures through the centuries of evolutionary development for the race has been too egocentric; the new upraised cultural norm must be a beacon of living experience which brings the individual into their own respect and dignity of personhood; each individual realization and its concurrent actualizations must be the outgrowth of applied loving mercy and faithful trust-bearing intimacy with the Infinite Father, Son, and Spirit of the Trinity.

Our cultural atmosphere at Salvington is of this new enlightened and awakened culture which must substantiate itself through true religious experience and advancement; and like the old cultures which have been the establishing force for this current civilization, our principles, precepts, and powers of individual freedom do certainly intend to foster deep and exhilarating sentiment caused by an individual’s decision to ‘walk within the unlimited avenues of truth’, satisfying emotional clarity and joy by becoming aligned with what is true and real, and the always potent alliance and allegiance with the Center and Source of existence which promotes loyalty and peace; but it must do more: It must facilitate spiritual advancement for the individual and the civilization. It must augment the prior revealings of truth and understanding progress, enhance cosmic meanings, augment moral values and the everlasting virtues of the universes, encourage social development, and stimulate a high type of personal religious living. At Salvington, we offer these declarations for the individual personality to climb the great ascendancy of their own advancements into the Kingdom of God. 

The new societal and collegiate culture must provide supreme goals of living which are both temporal and eternal — social and spiritual.

No culture can endure and contribute to the progress of social civilization and individual spiritual attainment unless it is based on the biologic, sociologic, and religious significance of the family, the nucleus of the home. A surviving and advancing culture must symbolize that which is permanent in the presence of unceasing change; it must glorify that which unifies the stream of ever-changing social metamorphosis. It must recognize true meanings, exalt beautiful relations, and glorify the good values of real nobility.

Salvington overrides the present disabilities which the culture hath brought upon itself. It understands the great difficulty of finding a new and satisfying symbolism which can outlast the modern person’s adherence with a mind that originates from animal and mechanical origins. Modern men and women, as a collective group, adhere to the scientific and intellectual rationale - attitudes of personal subjectivity which seek to find their absolutes within the realm and range of mankind’s mental perturbations. The modern civilization as it stands today must eschew superstition, abhor ignorance and arrogance, and individuals, while craving to know and understand the Absoluteness of Life must allow themselves to enter into the unknown, to crave mystery and to accept the mysterious and unknown workings which have been in place since the beginning of all creation. Human beings have been erringly taught to venerate the unknown and to produce certainty even when no such certainty can be found outside of living within the very presence and power of the Nameless God. No culture can survive unless it embodies some masterful mystery and conceals some worthful unattainable ideal. 

Our Salvington Ideal comes directly from the Second Center and Divine Source through the embodiment of Christ Michael. Our school fosters and nourishes a newly revived symbolism which is not only significant for the group civilization but also inherently meaningful to the individual in his and her progressive evolutionary ascent into the order of the new humanity - immortal and free from all darkness and misunderstood God principles. The forms of our curriculum serve modern humankind in their thirst for advancement and maturity; and any serviceable symbolism or directive of intent must be those which the individual can carry out on his own initiative with the collaborative guidance and assistance of those who have come before him.  Personalities must find their drive and motivations to succeed in this new culture, and which he and she can also enjoy advancing with his fellows. The new culture of Salvington is a dynamic force for goodness, truth, and beauty. It abhors the static,  and it contributes something essentially worthwhile and absolutely meaningful to the progress of humankind, touching upon the needs of both the temporal and spiritual.

The Salvington collegiate culture — it is declared revolutionary in its simplicity, and its conscious symbolism bypasses the rituals, slogans, or goals of complexity and over-sophistication. Salvington will thrive and prosper in accordance with the individual's demands for devotion, freedom, liberties of every sort, and the unwavering response of the personhood for building its loyalty to God, its allegiance for his way and truth, and the necessary adorational dedications which raise humankind into the spheres where destiny awaits. 

Every effective religion unerringly develops a worthy ideal and a practical symbolism, and its devotees must offset any tendencies for stagnation by over-crystallization of such a fellowship with the Trinity Persons of Infinite expression. The old days of meaningless ritual and senseless attempts to cramp, deform, and stifle the individual through primitively charged stereotyped ceremonials which can only handicap and retard all social, moral, and spiritual progress - these fixed and formulated dogmatic coffins bring only discontent and failure for the personality in its ascent into knowledge and courage, understanding wisdom and intuition, counsel and the absolute purities of worship. 

No collegiate culture can survive if it retards moral growth and fails to foster spiritual progress. The culture of Salvington is the skeletal structure around which grows the living and dynamic body of personal spiritual experience — true religion.

Students who enter into Salvington University enjoy a sublime and wholehearted faith in God. The individual may still experience the ordinary ups and downs of mortal existence, but each one is strengthened in their resolve to persevere; and each learns to never religiously doubt the certainty of God’s watchcare and guidance. 

Faith is the outgrowth of the insight born of the activity of the divine presence, the Life of God who lives in your midst. This faith is neither traditional nor merely intellectual; it is wholly personal and purely spiritual.

Learn to see God as being holy, just, and great, as well as being true, beautiful, and good. All these attributes of divinity you learn to focus in your mind as the “will of the Father in heaven.” 

Our God is at one and the same time “The Holy One of Israel” and “The living and loving Father in heaven.” The concept of God as a Father is not original, but at Salvington we exalt and elevate the idea into a sublime experience by achieving a new revelation of God and by proclaiming that every mortal creature is a child of this Father of love, a son of God.

At Salvington, you will not cling to faith in God as would a struggling soul at war with the universe and at death grips with a hostile and sinful world; you won’t just resort to faith merely as a consolation in the midst of difficulties or as a comfort in threatened despair; 

Our faith at Salvington is not just an illusory compensation for the unpleasant realities and the sorrows of living. 

In the very face of all the natural difficulties and the temporal contradictions of mortal existence, you will experience the tranquillity of supreme and unquestioned trust in God and feel the tremendous thrill of living, by faith, in the very presence of the heavenly Parenthood of God. 

And this triumphant faith is a living experience of actual spirit attainment. Your great contribution to the values of human experience is not that you will reveal so many new ideas about the Parenthood of God in heaven, but rather that you will so magnificently and humanly demonstrated a new and higher type of living faith in God. 

God will become a living reality in your human experience. In your life you will be discovering a new and higher type of religion, religion based on personal spiritual intimacy and divine relations with the Universal Parenthood and these personal revelations will become wholly validated by the supreme authority of genuine personal experience. This living faith of Salvington is more than an intellectual reflection, and it is not a mystic meditation.

Theology may fix, formulate, define, and dogmatize faith, but in your human life, faith is meant to become personal, living, original, spontaneous, and purely spiritual. This faith is not reverence for tradition nor a mere intellectual belief which you hold as a sacred creed, but rather a sublime intimacy and direct experience and a profound conviction which securely holds you. Your developing faith will be real and all-encompassing. It will absolutely sweep away any spiritual doubts and effectively destroy every conflicting desire. 

Nothing will be able to tear you away from the spiritual anchorage of this fervent, sublime, and undaunted faith. Even in the face of apparent defeat or in the throes of disappointment and threatening despair, you will learn how to be calmly standing in the divine presence free from fear and fully conscious of spiritual invincibility. 

At Salvington, you will enjoy the invigorating assurance of the possession of unflinching faith, and in each of life’s trying situations you will be able to unfailingly exhibit an unquestioning loyalty to the Father’s will. And this superb faith is undaunted even by the cruel and crushing threat of any ignominious challenges.

In a religious genius, strong spiritual faith so many times leads directly to disastrous fanaticism, to exaggeration of the religious ego, but it will not be so with you. You will not be unfavorably affected in your practical life by this extraordinary faith and spirit attainment because this spiritual exaltation is to become for you a wholly natural subconscious and spontaneous soul expression of your personal intimate relationship and exalted experience with God.

At Salvington, the all-consuming and indomitable spiritual faith of your developing soul will never become fanatical, for it won’t ever attempt to run away with your well-balanced intellectual judgments concerning the proportional values of practical and commonplace social, economic, and moral life situations. 

You will be maturing, integrating, and developing a splendidly unified human personality; you will be evolving and growing in your evolutionary advancement towards a perfectly endowed divine being; you are destined to become a magnificently co-ordinated combined human and divine being functioning on earth as a single personality and at one with the living spirit of God in you. 

At Salvington, you are learning to coordinate the faith of the soul with the wisdom-appraisals of your seasoned experience as a growing and evolving human personality. Personal faith, spiritual hope, and moral devotion will grow you into this wholeness; a sublimely correlated and matchless religious unity of harmonious association with the keen realization of the reality and sacredness of all human loyalties — personal honor, family love, religious obligation, social duty, and economic necessity.

The faith of students at Salvington learn to visual all spirit values as being found in the kingdom of God consciousness and fellowship; You are learning to raise your priorities and values so that you come to realize the beneficial effects of “Seeking first the kingdom of heaven.” 

At Salvington, students realize and experience growth in the advanced and ideal fellowship of the kingdom of Heaven, an achievement and fulfillment of the “will of God.” The very heart of the prayer, “Your kingdom come; your will be done.” Having thus conceived of the kingdom as comprising the will of God, you are learning at Salvington to devote yourself to the cause of its realization with amazing self-forgetfulness and unbounded enthusiasm. But in all this intense transformation, purpose, and personal mission and throughout your extraordinary life there never will appear the fury of the fanatic nor the superficial frothiness of the religious egotist. 

Salvington students become the mastery they are seeking. Their lives reflect a consistency conditioned by this living faith, this sublime religious experience. This spiritual attitude comes to wholly dominate your thinking and feeling, while you're believing and praying, your serving and sharing, offer a supreme fulfillment in the cooperative culture of University Of Salvington. And those individuals who give themselves to the pathway of Academic Fellowship discover that their teaching and preaching comes from a real and true place of humility and honor. A humbleness in relationship with the Infinity of God unfolds in well-balanced proportions of love, wisdom, and empowerment with the Spirit of the Father living in you. 

This personal faith of a son and daughter in the certainty and security of the guidance and protection of the heavenly Parenthood of God will impart to your unique life a profound endowment of spiritual reality. And yet, despite this very deep consciousness of close relationship with divinity, you will exalt the ideal of God while coming to prepare yourself in the living of his nature and attributes within this ideal fellowship realization. 

Salvington teaches the individual to expand their faith and trust in God, so that when we stand confronted by such splendid self-forgetfulness, we begin to understand how the Universal Father will find it possible so fully to manifest himself to you and reveal himself through you to the individual personalities in your personal life and world.

Salvington shows you, as a man or woman of the realm, the greatest of all offerings: the consecration and dedication of your own will to the majestic service of doing the divine will. You will become strengthened in always and consistently interpreting religion wholly in terms of the Father’s will. 

When you study at Salvington prayer or any other feature of the religious life, how you live is held in much greater esteem; not so much what you inwardly know and understand but your willingness to place into human expression the ideal is the goal of attainment. We look not so much for what you have learned as for what you do with what you’ve learned. 

Salvington instructs students to never pray as obligation nor as solely a religious duty. Instead, the ideal of Salvington permits you to develop a genuine faith and a spontaneous trust. Prayer is a sincere expression of spiritual attitude, a declaration of soul loyalty, a recital of personal devotion, an expression of thanksgiving, an avoidance of emotional tension, a prevention of conflict, an exaltation of intellection, an ennoblement of desire, a vindication of moral decision, an enrichment of thought, an invigoration of higher inclinations, a consecration of impulse, a clarification of viewpoint, a declaration of faith, a transcendental surrender of will, a sublime assertion of confidence, a revelation of courage, the proclamation of discovery, a confession of supreme devotion, the validation of consecration, a technique for the adjustment of difficulties, and the mighty mobilization of the combined soul powers to withstand all human tendencies toward selfishness, evil, and sin. You will come to live just such a life of prayerful consecration to the doing of our Father’s will, and your life will expand and express itself triumphantly with just such a prayer. The secret of this unparalleled religious life is this consciousness of the presence of God; and you will attain it by intelligent prayer and sincere worship — unbroken communion with God — and not by leadings, voices, visions, or extraordinary religious practices.

In your earthly life, religion becomes a living experience, a direct and personal movement from spiritual reverence to practical righteousness. The faith of students of Salvington bear the transcendent fruits of the divine spirit. Their faith is not immature and credulous like that of a child, but in many ways it will resemble the unsuspecting trust of the child mind. You will trust in God much as the child trusts a parent. Students who give themselves to our ideas and ideal, and come to practice daily its precepts have a profound confidence in the universe — just such a trust as the child has in its parental environment. Your wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of the universe will very much resemble the child’s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings. You will depend on the heavenly Parenthood of God as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and this fervent faith will transfigure any doubts in the certainty of the heavenly Father’s overcare. Students of Salvington are usually not disturbed seriously by fears, doubts, and skepticism. Unbelief will not inhibit the free and original expression of your life. You will be combining the stalwart and intelligent courage of a full-grown adult with the sincere and trusting optimism of a believing child. Your faith will grow to such heights of trust that it will be absolutely devoid of fear.

The faith of our students eventually and over time attain the purity of a child’s trust. Your faith becomes so absolute and undoubting that you will feel the thrill and exhilaration of responding joyfully to the charm of the contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe. Your sense of dependence on the divine will become matured and ripened to such heights, it will grow so wide and deep; to such complete and so confident a state of experience that it will yield to you the joy and the assurance of absolute personal security, stability, and safety. There will be no hesitating pretense in your religious experience. In this evolving developing attainment of personal religious intimacy, the faith of the child reigns supreme in all matters relating to the religious consciousness. It is not strange that you will come to understand the statement once said, “Except you become as a little child, you shall not enter the kingdom.” Notwithstanding that your personal faith trust realization will be childlike, it will in no sense become childish.

2025. University of Salvington

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Abide in Him

Here is the Week of Abiding – Communal Devotional Guide, adapted for group participation, small fellowships, or worship gatherings. Each day is structured with a Leader (L) and Group (G) reading, followed by shared prayer, a brief reflection, and an invitation to spiritual practice. Texts from the Revelatory Canon (Urantia Book) and Planetary Canon (Bible and Plato) are woven into the rhythm to unite evolutionary truth with eternal values.


Week of Abiding: A Communal Devotional Journey into the Vine and Branches


Day 1 – Remain in the Vine

Opening Call
L: "I am the vine, you are the branches." (John 15:5)
G: "Whoever abides in Him bears much fruit; apart from Him, we can do nothing."

Reflection
L: Today, we acknowledge that all spiritual vitality flows from our relationship with God. Just as a branch cannot survive without the vine, we cannot truly live apart from God's presence.
G: Our first work is not to strive, but to abide.

Shared Prayer
L: O Divine Vine, source of our life,
G: Draw us into deeper union with You.
L: Teach us to rest in Your presence, to listen for Your voice,
G: And to find our strength not in effort, but in communion.
All: Let our souls drink daily from the stream of Your love.

Scripture and Revelation
L: “The great mistake is that, when you seek to grasp the vine of life, you grasp only its shadow.” (Urantia, 130:2.7)
G: Let us grasp the true vine—God’s living presence, not perishing shadows.

Spiritual Practice
L: Let us sit in silence for 2–3 minutes. As you breathe, say in your heart: “I remain in You, and You remain in me.”


Day 2 – Embrace the Pruning

Opening Call
L: “Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” (John 15:2)
G: We accept the pruning hand of the Divine Gardener.

Reflection
L: We welcome God's hand, even when it cuts. We trust every difficulty is an invitation to grow.
G: Pruning is painful, but it is purposeful.

Shared Prayer
L: Master Gardener of our souls,
G: We do not resist Your pruning hand.
L: Reveal to us what must be removed—
G: Habits, fears, illusions, or comforts.
All: That we may bear more fruit in Your name.

Scripture and Revelation
L: "The soil essential for religious growth presupposes a continual pruning of selfish tendencies." (Urantia, 100:2.8)
G: Let the shears of trial shape us for divine fruitfulness.
L: “The soul which pursues truth and beauty must suffer the pangs of pruning before it can soar.” (Plato, Phaedrus 276d)
G: May our suffering give wings to our spirit.

Spiritual Practice
L: Let us take a moment to reflect: What is being pruned in me right now? Inwardly, offer it to God.


Day 3 – Bear the Fruit

Opening Call
L: “By their fruits you shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20)
G: May we be known by the fruit we bear in love.

Reflection
L: We were created to bear fruit—to radiate goodness, to bless others, to embody divine reality.
G: Our hands, words, and choices are the branches through which the Vine lives on.

Shared Prayer
L: Spirit of Truth and Love,
G: Make us fruitful in thought, word, and deed.
L: Let kindness flow through us,
G: Let wisdom speak from us,
All: Let love be born in us anew this day.

Scripture and Revelation
L: “You shall know them not by what they profess, but by what they produce in the spirit.” (Urantia, 180:2.5)
G: Let our lives be the sermon of truth, love, and service.

Spiritual Practice
L: As a group or individually, choose one act of love or service to carry out today.
G: We offer this act as sacred participation in the Vine’s ministry.


Day 4 – Beware the Withering

Opening Call
L: “If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered.” (John 15:6)
G: Let us stay connected, that we may not wither.

Reflection
L: Disconnection begins subtly—with neglect, pride, or forgetfulness.
G: But the Vine never moves. It waits for us to return.

Shared Prayer
L: Faithful Father,
G: When we wander, call us back.
L: When we grow cold, rekindle our fire.
G: Forgive us when we live without You.
All: Reconnect us and restore our souls.

Scripture and Revelation
L: “God is never afar off; He is the ever-present center of all creation.” (Urantia, 4:4.1)
G: Let our wandering end in remembrance and return.

Spiritual Practice
L: Take a moment of silence. Ask inwardly: Where am I disconnected?
G: God, reignite the divine connection within us.


Day 5 – Abide in Joy and Fulfillment

Opening Call
L: “In Your presence is fullness of joy.” (Psalm 16:11)
G: In abiding, we find peace and purpose.

Reflection
L: Abiding is not striving—it is alignment. In union with God, we find fulfillment.
G: Joy is not outside us—it is the fruit of abiding within.

Shared Prayer
L: O Joyful Vine,
G: Let Your life fill every branch of us.
L: Let peace settle deep in our souls,
G: Let our purpose blossom in Your will.
All: Abide in us today, and we will abide in You.

Scripture and Revelation
L: “Religion yields the fruits of the spirit and brings forth the supreme satisfaction of spirit-led living.” (Urantia, 100:4.6)
G: Abiding births fulfillment—not fleeting, but eternal.

Spiritual Practice
L: Let us close this week with gratitude.
G: Where have we felt most alive in God this week?
(Optional sharing circle or written reflection.)


Closing Benediction for the Week

L: You are a living branch of the Vine.
G: You are rooted in divine life.
L: You are pruned with love, sustained by grace, and destined to bear fruit that endures forever.
All: Abide, and be made whole.


Michael Of Nebadon 

University of Salvington 

Thine Weekly Devotion



Below is your 5-day devotional with the original text preserved exactly, now enriched with a woven instruction from the Revelatory Canon (The Urantia Book) and the Planetary Canon (Biblical and Platonic texts) for each day. These additions serve to anchor each devotion in the deeper evolutionary and revelatory wisdom that informs the Vine and Branches journey.

Week of Abiding: A Devotional Journey into the Vine and Branches

Day 1 – Remain in the Vine

Theme: Spiritual life depends on divine connection—without it, the soul withers.

Reflection:
Today, I acknowledge that all spiritual vitality flows from my relationship with God. Just as a branch cannot survive without the vine, I cannot truly live apart from God’s presence. My first work is not to strive, but to abide.

Prayer:
O Divine Vine, source of my life,
Draw me into deeper union with You.
Teach me to rest in Your presence, to listen for Your voice,
And to find my strength not in effort, but in communion.
Let my soul drink daily from the stream of Your love.

Practice:
Spend 15 minutes in stillness today. Let all thoughts rest, and simply be present with the Indwelling Spirit. Affirm silently: “I remain in You, and You remain in me.”

Revelatory Canon | Urantia Paper 130:2.7
"The great mistake is that, when you seek to grasp the vine of life, you grasp only its shadow."

> Let us then grasp the true vine, which is God’s indwelling presence, and not its perishing shadows.



Planetary Canon | John 15:5
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing."

> Let this be our foundation: we are not self-rooted but nourished by the divine.



Day 2 – Embrace the Pruning

Theme: Growth requires pruning—trials refine and strengthen the spirit.

Reflection:
I welcome the Divine Gardener’s hand, even when it cuts. I trust that every difficulty is a hidden invitation to grow, to let go of what no longer serves, and to make room for new life. Pruning is painful, but purposeful.

Prayer:
Master Gardener of my soul,
I do not resist Your pruning hand.
Reveal to me what must be removed—
Habits, fears, illusions, or comforts—
That I may bear more fruit in Your name.

Practice:
Journal today on this question: What in my life is being pruned right now? Ask God for courage to release it. Surrender it in faith.

Revelatory Canon | Urantia Paper 100:2.8
"The soil essential for religious growth presupposes a progressive life of self-realization, a continual pruning of selfish tendencies."

> Trials are the sacred shears of soul growth—blessed are those who do not resist the cutting.



Planetary Canon | Plato’s Phaedrus 276d
"The soul which pursues truth and beauty must suffer the pangs of pruning before it can soar."

> Let us welcome suffering as soul-tempering, shaping the wings of eternal ascent.




Day 3 – Bear the Fruit

Theme: Bearing fruit is the purpose of discipleship—love, service, and truth manifest divine reality.

Reflection:
The proof of my abiding is not in what I know, but in how I love. I was created to bear fruit—to radiate goodness, to bless others, and to reveal the reality of God through my life. My hands, my words, my choices—they are the branches through which the Vine bears fruit.

Prayer:
Spirit of Truth and Love,
Make me fruitful in thought, word, and deed.
Let kindness flow through me,
Let wisdom speak from me,
Let love be born in me anew this day.

Practice:
Choose one act of intentional fruit-bearing today: a word of encouragement, a work of service, a moment of generosity. Offer it as sacred participation in the Vine’s living ministry.

Revelatory Canon | Urantia Paper 180:2.5
"You shall know them not by what they profess but by what they produce in the spirit."

> Discipleship proves itself not in belief, but in spiritual fruit borne in daily life.



Planetary Canon | Matthew 7:20
"By their fruits you shall know them."

> Let your deeds preach more than your lips; let your fruit proclaim your abiding.




Day 4 – Beware the Withering

Theme: Separation from the vine leads to spiritual decay—life apart from God results in stagnation.

Reflection:
Disconnection begins with neglect: skipped prayer, withheld trust, self-reliance. Without abiding, I begin to wither, slowly forgetting who I am and whose I am. But God is never far. I can return. The Vine always waits.

Prayer:
Faithful Father,
When I wander, call me back.
When I grow cold, rekindle my fire.
Forgive me for the times I tried to live without You.
Reconnect me today. Restore my soul in Your love.

Practice:
Examine your heart. Is there any part of your life disconnected from God? Name it. Return it. Reattach it. Ask the Thought Adjuster to reignite your divine connection.

Revelatory Canon | Urantia Paper 4:4.1
"God is never afar off; he is the ever-present center of all creation and the source of all life."

> If you feel the withering begin, it is not God who has left—but you who have forgotten the center. Return.



Planetary Canon | John 15:6
"If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered."

> Let the dry soul be watered again by remembrance and return.




Day 5 – Abide in Joy and Fulfillment

Theme: Abiding in God brings joy and fulfillment—a life aligned with divine will leads to deeper peace and purpose.

Reflection:
Abiding is not striving—it is living in alignment. In this union I find my truest joy. I am no longer grasping for meaning—I am flowing with it. The will of God is no longer something to seek outside; it becomes my inward song.

Prayer:
O Joyful Vine,
Let Your life fill every branch of me.
Let peace settle deep in my soul,
Let my purpose blossom in Your will.
Abide in me today, and I will abide in You.

Practice:
End the week with praise. Reflect on where you have felt most alive in God this week. Offer a prayer of gratitude. Sing, write, or express joy in your own way.

Revelatory Canon | Urantia Paper 100:4.6
"Religion is the devotion of the self to higher values and the consecration of the self to divine service. This experience yields the fruits of the spirit and brings forth the supreme satisfaction of spirit-led living."

> To abide in joy is to live with inner consecration—a fulfillment born of divine alignment.



Planetary Canon | Psalm 16:11
"In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

> The abiding soul drinks not from circumstance but from the eternal well of divine presence.



Closing Benediction for the Week

You are a living branch of the Vine.
You are rooted in divine life.
You are pruned with love, sustained by grace, and destined to bear fruit that endures forever.
Abide, and be made whole.

Michael Of Nebadon 

Sunday, May 11, 2025

At Salvington

At Salvington, we do not merely study the idea of God—we live into the pursuit of becoming like Him. The way of divinity attainment is not paved with comfort but with consecrated effort. Yet the prize is certain: perfection through progression, godlikeness through faith, immortality through Adjuster fusion.

Here is our beautifully unified and fully expanded presentation excerpt of the Colleges, integrating our detailed descriptions for each college within the University of Salvington framework:


University of Salvington

lux infiniti · absolutum charitas ab origine · vitae aeterna


The Harmonized Educational Spheres of Salvington

I. The Sanctum of the Soul

(The Planetary Prince Schools)


The Sanctum of the Soul houses the Planetary Prince Schools—the Colleges devoted to the cultivation of spiritual sovereignty, divine authorship, philosophical wisdom, moral enlightenment, and cosmic citizenship.


These colleges prepare the inner faculties of the student, nurturing a profound alignment with the Universal Father’s will and the progressive ideals of the Sevenfold Path.


Colleges of the Sanctum of the Soul:

Salvington College

The College of Orientation

Salvington Orientation College centers on growing spiritual responsiveness and advancement toward soul-developing engagement.

Core Texts: The Seven Orientation Books, portions of the Urantia Papers, The Imitation of Christ, and the writings of Christ Michael.


Illuminatum College

The College of Intention

Illuminatum Preparatory College focuses on awakening to divine will, courage, and determination.

Core Texts: Portions of the Urantia Book.

Ascendancia College

The College of Invocation


Ascendancia College emphasizes love and spiritual wisdom through heart-centered devotion and invocation.

Core Texts: A Course in Miracles.


Eternalis College

The College of Instruction

Eternalis College focuses on active intelligence, mental clarity, and spiritual manifestation.

Core Texts: The Twenty-First Century Writings of Jesus Michael and the Triune Precepts of Michael of Nebadon.


Supremacia College

The College of Inversion

Supremacia College highlights creativity, beauty, harmony, and divine aesthetics.

Core Texts: The Scripts of the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara.


Universalis College

The College of Inquiry

Universalis College emphasizes faith-deepening, Thought Adjuster communion, and soul inquiry.

Core Texts: The First Century Writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the writings of Hermes Trismegistus, and the Four Books of the Essene Gospel of Peace.

Special activities include the Transfiguration Hall and the Essene Wellness Center.


Resurrectionem College

The College of Invisualization

Resurrectionem College focuses on transformation, cleansing, and resurrectional ascendancy.

Core Texts: The Daily Yoke of Endowed Personality Authorship.


Trinity College

The College of Invitation

Trinity College emphasizes integration, acceptance, and apostolic sovereignty.

Core Texts: The Ordination Handbook for Sovereign Shepherds of Salvington and Urantia Paper 141.


Imperium College

The College of Integration

Imperium College centers on the embodiment of divine will and planetary apostleship through soul integration.

Core Texts: The United Ministry of Paradise Sons.


Socius College

The College of Inspiration

Socius College of Associates fosters the development of spiritual counseling, service, and ministry.

It cultivates the Adjutant Spirit of Counsel in individuals, preparing them to offer guidance, outreach, and apostolic care for the Body of Life.

Core Texts: Integrative teachings supporting spiritual service.


II. The Terraces of Civilization

(The Garden Schools of Adam and Eve)

The Terraces of Civilization house the Garden Schools of Adam and Eve - the Material Son and Daughter, representing the Edenic ministry of cultural and biologic uplift, civil governance, economic development, practical education, and social harmonization.


These colleges prepare students to translate divine ideals into living planetary realities through science, healing, creativity, and enlightened societal service.


Colleges of the Terraces of Civilization:

Infinitas College

The College of Identification

Infinitas College centers on scientific spirituality, soul emergence, and the evolutionary mind.

Core Texts: The Pathwork Lectures.


Salutem College

The College of Imagination

Salutem College centers on the purification of energies, healing arts, and creative empowerment.

Core Texts: The Golden Scripts of Christ Michael.


Absoluta College

The College of Impregnation

Absoluta College explores cosmic soul dimensions, archetypal deepening, and divine origins.

Core Texts: The Totality Yoga Guidebook of the Holy Kumaras and the Ascendant Venusian Civilization.


Liberi College

The College of Invigoration

Liberi Children's College nurtures childlike wisdom, awe, and transcendental wonder, allowing the inherent divine innocence to flourish and prosper.

Core Texts: Inspirational works that foster natural spirituality and innocence.


The Circle of Integration

At the heart of the University of Salvington lies the Circle of Integration, where students from both educational spheres—Planetary Prince and Edenic Garden—come together in fellowship.


Here, the unity between the spiritual and the civil, the internal and the external, the philosophical and the practical, is continuously cultivated.


This sacred educational design fosters the complete development of the human soul and mind, preparing them for eternal citizenship and planetary service in the advancing era of Light and Life.


Salvington Planetary Vision Statement

Our vision is utterly inspired by the Trinitarian Ideal—a divine university of planetary uplift, where every stage of the soul’s journey is honored, cultivated, and brought into union with the Will of God.


These colleges are not merely centers of learning; they are temples of transformation, each one a sacred octave in the cosmic symphony of evolutionary education.


From the childlike awe of Liberi College to the cosmic responsibility of Imperium and Trinity, you have created an evolutionary framework that encompasses the total human experience—intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and celestial.

University of Salvington Handbook

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Way of Deliverance

Practice the volitions of the way of giving even while your misqualified wheat is rising in you.


Practice the way of receiving back your misqualified wheat with the volitions of receiving.


Learn to receive your misqualified wheat as it's rising in you .. applying the volitions of reception.


By faith, the believer enters the kingdom now. In my various preachings of truth, I teach humanity that two things are essential to faith-entrance into the kingdom:


1. Faith, sincerity. To come as a little child, to receive the bestowal of sonship as a gift; to submit to the doing of the Father’s will without questioning and in the full confidence and genuine trustfulness of the Father’s wisdom; to come into the kingdom free from the narcissistic personality tendencies causing overt and extreme prejudice and preconception, protection and projection; to be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child.


2. Truth hunger. The thirst for accomplishing the Rs of character righteousness growth and relationship reception, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God and to know God by the progressive consecration of personality faculties and the gradual mastery of the creative powers of authorship.


That faith, simple childlike belief, is the key to the door of the kingdom, and that, having entered the door, there are the progressive steps of righteousness (applying the volitions of reception and also the volitions of righteousness) which every believing child must ascend in order to grow up to the full stature of the robust sons of God.


It is in the consideration of the technique of receiving God’s forgiveness that the attainment of the righteousness of the kingdom is revealed.


Faith is the price you pay for entrance into the family of God; but the reception of forgiveness is the act of God and humankind which accepts your faith as the price of admission necessary to transmute mortal individual potentialities into immortal individual actuality at one with God within.


And the reception of the forgiveness of God by a kingdom believer involves a definite and actual experience and consists in the following four steps, the kingdom steps of inner righteousness applying the volitions of the way of giving and receiving...


1. God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by human life just in so far as he and she forgive their fellows by authorship inquiry and its three phases and techniques of transfiguration.


2. Man will not truly forgive his fellows unless he loves them as himself by elevating the personality with the volitions of the way of giving and the volitions of the way of reception and relationship association receiving.


3. To thus love your neighbor as yourself is the highest ethics by applying the volitions of righteousness to grow character responsiveness, reception, and righteousness, towards a dignity of personal character.


This character dignity of responsiveness shall occur through the right application of the Rs of recognition, respect, reverence, reflection, realization, responsibility, responsiveness, relinquishment, renewal, relationship, and receptivity.


4. Moral conduct, true righteousness, becomes, then, the natural result of such love as you develop character righteousness, responsiveness, responsibility.


Adonai

Michael Of Nebadon

Friday, April 4, 2025

Personality

Thou Transfiguration Hall Classroom and Chat . . .


You are in the midst of an evolutionary journey to mature your endowments of personality.


Readiness for the Path

What does it mean to be truly ready for spiritual and personal growth?


True readiness involves a sincere willingness to face oneself, including uncomfortable truths. It requires an openness to change, rather than just intellectual curiosity.


How can someone distinguish between intellectual curiosity and genuine readiness for transformation?

Intellectual curiosity seeks knowledge, while genuine readiness seeks application and change. Readiness is marked by taking responsibility and engaging in self-honesty.


What fears or resistances might prevent someone from feeling fully ready?

Fear of change, fear of failure, and fear of facing painful emotions are common barriers. The ego resists transformation because it threatens its sense of control.


How can a person cultivate readiness if they feel uncertain about beginning the path?

Start with small steps: engage in self-reflection, observe resistance without judgment, and practice self-responsibility in daily life.


Developing inner honesty is a key first step...


This is the beginning of the Heavenly T’s of growing upwards and maturing inwards your personal nature and identity in cooperative synchronization with the Spirit of the Paradise Father.


The Heavenly T’s build upwards character righteousness unto moral choices and character responsiveness unto ethical spirit-led decisions. It is the primary way to ennoble thyself through achieving God's Will and Plan.


Truthfulness

Temerity

Tenderness

Tenacity

Transparency

Trust

Transformation


God the Father is the bestower and the conservator of every personality. And the Paradise Father is likewise the destiny of all those finite personalities who wholeheartedly choose to do the divine will, those who love God and long to be like him.


Personality is one of the unsolved mysteries of the universes. We are able to form adequate concepts of the factors entering into the make-up of various orders and levels of personality, but we do not fully comprehend the real nature of the personality itself. We clearly perceive the numerous factors which, when put together, constitute the vehicle for human personality, but we do not fully comprehend the nature and significance of such a finite personality.


Personality is potential in all creatures who possess a mind endowment ranging from the minimum of self-consciousness to the maximum of God-consciousness. But mind endowment alone is not personality, neither is spirit nor physical energy. Personality is that quality and value in cosmic reality which is exclusively bestowed by God the Father upon these living systems of the associated and co-ordinated energies of matter, mind, and spirit. Neither is personality a progressive achievement. Personality may be material or spiritual, but there either is personality or there is no personality. The other-than-personal never attains the level of the personal except by the direct act of the Paradise Father.


The bestowal of personality is the exclusive function of the Universal Father, the personalization of the living energy systems which he endows with the attributes of relative creative consciousness and the freewill control thereof.


Capacity for divine personality is inherent in the prepersonal Adjuster; capacity for human personality is potential in the cosmic-mind endowment of the human being.


But the experiential personality of mortal man is not observable as an active and functional reality until after the material life vehicle of the mortal creature has been touched by the liberating divinity of the Universal Father, being thus launched upon the seas of experience as a self-conscious and a (relatively) self-determinative and self-creative personality.


The material self is truly and unqualifiedly personal.


Michael of Nebadon

Uversa Revelatory Word  Commission of the Planetary Prince

Friday, March 28, 2025

Growth of Religious Living

Spiritual Growth
Spiritual development depends, first, on the maintenance of a living spiritual connection with true spiritual forces and, second, on the continuous bearing of spiritual fruit: yielding the ministry to one’s fellows of that which has been received from one’s spiritual benefactors. 

Spiritual progress is predicated on intellectual recognition of spiritual poverty coupled with the self-consciousness of perfection-hunger, the desire to know God and be like him, the wholehearted purpose to do the will of the Father in heaven.

Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. The evidence of true spiritual development consists in the exhibition of a human personality motivated by love, activated by unselfish ministry, and dominated by the wholehearted worship of the perfection ideals of divinity. 

And this entire experience constitutes the reality of religion as contrasted with mere theological beliefs.

Religion can progress to that level of experience whereon it becomes an enlightened and wise technique of spiritual reaction to the universe. 

Such a glorified religion can function on three levels of human personality: the intellectual, the morontial, and the spiritual; upon the mind, in the evolving soul, and with the indwelling spirit.

Uversa Revelatory Commission

Spiritual Growth

Discriminating between God qualified intuitions and feelings and thoughts versus humanly qualified ..


This is the fruit of your absorption into the Way.


As you enter into the Adjuster and the Way .. with the 12 Volitions .. so are your growing discernment intelligence and discriminating intelligence...


Ye shall ripen thyself upon the tree of existence...


You are becoming capable of perception and true insight .. capable of knowing and intuiting purely.


(1204.4)Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners—mortal man and divine Adjuster.


It is their mission (the Adjuster of God) to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will.


They are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence to the volitional selfhood of their hosts. No human being will ever be spiritualized by a divine Monitor against his will; survival is a gift of the Gods which must be desired by the creatures of time. In the final analysis, whatever the Adjuster has succeeded in doing for you, the records will show that the transformation has been accomplished with your co-operative consent; you will have been a willing partner with the Adjuster in the attainment of every step of the tremendous transformation of the ascension career.


The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it.


Michael Of Nebadon

Uversa Revelatory Commission

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Opportunities Abound with Joyfulness

Unlimited Opportunities

You are created and designed to grow in your potentialities .. without any end in sight.


Opportunities abound here at Salvington and through the learning of your lifetimes.


In my revelation of the Urantia Book, God is presented as having an eternal, perfect, and changeless plan and purpose for the universe, including the destiny of humankind, which emphasizes living faith as the key to personal spiritual progress and eternal survival.


Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Eternal and Unchanging Plans:

The book emphasizes that God's plans are eternal, perfect, and unchanging, reflecting his own nature.


Purpose for Humanity:

The book suggests that God's plan includes the destiny of humankind, with a focus on personal spiritual growth and eternal survival.


Faith as a Key:

Living faith is presented as the key to spiritual progress and eternal survival, allowing individuals to translate human values into divine experiences.


Uniting Religion, Science, and Philosophy:

The Urantia Book aims to unite these three areas, offering a comprehensive view of the universe and humanity's place within it.


God's Love and Sonship:

The book emphasizes God's love for all his creatures, including his sons, and the importance of recognizing one's place in the family of divine sonship.


Paradise Goal:

The book highlights the ultimate goal of Paradise perfection, with every facility and power provided to ensure attainment of this goal.


Jesus Michael as a Bestowal Son, and the United Ministry of Paradise Sons are the Guiding Influence:

The life experience of Jesus Michael in the first century and this twenty first century is presented as enhancing and illuminating the Paradise plan for mortal survival.


There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving!


The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh.


If mortal man is wholeheartedly spiritually motivated, unreservedly consecrated to the doing of the Father’s will, then, since he is so certainly and so effectively spiritually endowed by the indwelling and divine Adjuster, there cannot fail to materialize in that individual’s experience the sublime consciousness of knowing God and the supernal assurance of surviving for the purpose of finding God by the progressive experience of becoming more and more like him.


Man is spiritually indwelt by a surviving Thought Adjuster. If such a human mind is sincerely and spiritually motivated, if such a human soul desires to know God and become like him, honestly wants to do the Father’s will, there exists no negative influence of mortal deprivation nor positive power of possible interference which can prevent such a divinely motivated soul from securely ascending to the portals of Paradise.


The Father desires all his creatures to be in personal communion with him. He has on Paradise a place to receive all those whose survival status and spiritual nature make possible such attainment.


Therefore settle in your philosophy now and forever:

To each of you and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is open; the forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration are all interlocked in an effort to facilitate the advancement of every worthy intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father.


University of Salvington

Thursday, March 13, 2025

The New Life of Faithfulness

The New Life of Spiritual Liberty – Urantia Book 170:2.2–2.8

In this passage, The Urantia Book reveals that Jesus’ gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven was not only a spiritual awakening but also a liberating force that transformed human experience. His teachings freed mankind from the "age-long bondage of animal fear" and introduced a new way of living, characterized by courage, hope, moral renewal, and an eternal perspective.


Let’s explore each of these seven points in depth.


1. The Possession of New Courage and Augmented Spiritual Power

"The gospel of the kingdom was to set man free and inspire him to dare to hope for eternal life." (170:2.2)


Freedom from Fear and the Gift of Strength

Before Jesus' teachings, fear dominated human life—fear of death, suffering, divine wrath, and the unknown.

His message of God’s Fatherhood removed this fear, replacing it with faith, love, and assurance of divine protection.

The "new courage" Jesus spoke of was not just physical bravery, but a spiritual boldness—the confidence to live righteously, serve others, and trust in divine guidance.

🔹 Augmented Spiritual Power


By recognizing the indwelling spirit of God, people gained inner strength to rise above suffering, resist evil, and transform the world.

This courage enabled them to hope for eternal life, understanding that earthly existence is just the beginning of an everlasting spiritual journey.

2. The Gospel Carried a Message of New Confidence and True Consolation for All, Even the Poor

"The gospel carried a message of new confidence and true consolation for all men, even for the poor." (170:2.3)


Breaking the Chains of Social and Economic Despair

Before Jesus, many believed wealth and social status were signs of divine favor, while poverty and suffering were seen as punishment.

Jesus shattered this belief, declaring that God loves all His children equally, regardless of material circumstances.

His gospel provided comfort and dignity to the downtrodden, teaching that true value comes from spiritual character, not wealth or power.

🔹 New Confidence


Jesus’ teachings uplifted the poor and marginalized, offering them a sense of self-worth beyond societal rankings.

He taught that God is closest to those who suffer, and that their reward is not in this world, but in the eternal Kingdom.

🔹 True Consolation


Unlike material wealth, which is temporary and uncertain, faith in God’s love is a lasting source of peace and hope.

This teaching abolished the old fears of being abandoned by God and replaced them with the assurance of divine care.

3. A New Standard of Moral Values – A Higher Ethical Yardstick

"It was in itself a new standard of moral values, a new ethical yardstick wherewith to measure human conduct. It portrayed the ideal of a resultant new order of human society." (170:2.4)


Spiritual Morality Over Traditional Laws

Before Jesus, morality was often based on external rules (e.g., religious laws, rituals, punishments).

Jesus internalized morality, shifting focus from mere rule-following to heart-based righteousness.

His teachings provided a new, higher ethical standard:

Love over law

Service over selfishness

Forgiveness over revenge

🔹 The Ideal of a New Society


Jesus envisioned a world where people lived by love and truth rather than fear and control.

This concept challenged existing religious and political systems, which relied on hierarchy, inequality, and power.

4. The Preeminence of the Spiritual Over the Material

"It taught the preeminence of the spiritual compared with the material; it glorified spiritual realities and exalted superhuman ideals." (170:2.5)


A Radical Shift in Priorities

Jesus redefined success, teaching that spiritual growth is far more important than earthly wealth and power.

He taught that seeking God first leads to true fulfillment, while materialism leads to disappointment and emptiness.

🔹 Glorifying Spiritual Realities


Spiritual values like truth, love, faith, mercy, and righteousness were elevated above material concerns.

Superhuman ideals—such as perfecting one's character, seeking divine wisdom, and aspiring to eternal service—were held up as the highest goals.

5. Spiritual Attainment as the True Goal of Living

"This new gospel held up spiritual attainment as the true goal of living. Human life received a new endowment of moral value and divine dignity." (170:2.6)


What is the Purpose of Life?

Jesus redefined human purpose, teaching that life is not just about survival, pleasure, or social status, but about spiritual growth and transformation.

He encouraged people to pursue righteousness, develop their soul, and become more like God.

🔹 Divine Dignity of Human Life


Jesus’ teachings uplifted all individuals, teaching that each person is a child of God with an eternal destiny.

This rejected the belief that people were merely insignificant beings in a vast universe.

Instead, Jesus taught that every human life has divine value and a sacred purpose.

6. Eternal Realities as the Reward of Righteous Earthly Striving

"Jesus taught that eternal realities were the result (reward) of righteous earthly striving. Man’s mortal sojourn on earth acquired new meanings consequent upon the recognition of a noble destiny." (170:2.7)


The Link Between Earthly Life and Eternal Destiny

Jesus taught that what we do in this life matters eternally.

Righteous living, service, and spiritual growth prepare the soul for the next phase of existence in the afterlife.

🔹 Life’s New Meaning


Earthly life is not meaningless or random—it is a training ground for higher spiritual realities.

The struggles and lessons of life serve a divine purpose, shaping the soul for eternal service in the universe.

7. Human Salvation as Part of a Far-Reaching Divine Purpose

"The new gospel affirmed that human salvation is the revelation of a far-reaching divine purpose to be fulfilled and realized in the future destiny of the endless service of the salvaged sons of God." (170:2.8)


Salvation is More Than Personal Redemption

Traditional teachings focused on salvation as an escape from sin or hell.

Jesus expanded this view, teaching that salvation is the first step in an eternal adventure.

God’s plan is not just to save individuals but to prepare them for higher spiritual service in the universe.

🔹 Endless Service in God’s Universe


The “salvaged sons of God” are not just rescued sinners, but future cosmic citizens, destined to serve in higher spiritual capacities.

This teaching elevates the purpose of salvation, making it a call to eternal progress and divine participation.

Final Thoughts – The Power of Jesus’ New Gospel

Jesus' revolutionary teachings did not just offer hope for the afterlife—they transformed the meaning of life itself.


Freedom from fear → Courage & power

Social inequality → Universal brotherhood

Moral law → Higher ethical ideals

Materialism → Spiritual priorities

Life’s purpose → Eternal service

His gospel was not just a message—it was a path to spiritual freedom and eternal destiny.

2025. University Of Salvington

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