Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book

Q: Since the Adam and Eve failure why not simply scrap the project and do it over? And as to the Calagastia upheaval why not simply send a new resident planetary prince in the old one's stead?

A: It's hard to answer for the decisions of the administrators of life development on this world; we have limited and short sighted vision while they understand the outworkings of events far beyond our understanding. So I'll have to guess.

By scrapping the project and doing it over I'm assuming you mean send Adam and Eve back to clean up after themselves. That does seem to be a possibility, although an unlikely one. It may be that more good will come from allowing us to work our own way through this predicament by ourselves, if possible. Also, having a highly advanced culture imposed on us from the outside now presents its own set of problems. I don't expect the vast majority of humanity would take kindly to being invaded by aliens and having their will imposed upon us. UB readers like the prospects... most everyone else would resist I imagine.

As for the Planetary Prince -- I believe Jesus fills that function for now and he some day will return, whether invisible or in person we don't know. It just doesn't look like we're in line for outside help beyond whatever's already being provided. It would be great if the plan had been carried out, if we had a visible and invisible 500,000 year old seat of planetary administration and a 38,000 year old Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve running worldly affairs but it looks like the life on this experimental world will continue to unfold along the lines of the predominantly material driven promptings of our own doing, leaving it up to ourselves to discover the spiritual underpinnings of reality.

Thank you for your question. Hope the answer was of some help.

Labels: Adam and Eve, Caligastia, Jesus, planetary prince, The Urantia Book

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

I don't have anything against the Urantia Book but how do the authors know certain things that are not even mentioned in the Bible ...?

Q: I don't have anything against the Urantia Book but how do the authors know certain things that are not even mentioned in the Bible - such as Adam and Eve were not the first ones who lived in Earth, the presence of Prince Caligastia,etc..?

A: How the authors know these things is no mystery -- the authors live in a reality different from ours and information such as you've mentioned is readily available to them, much like someone living near the Library of Congress and having ready access to its more than 18 million books compared with someone having no internet or library connection living in a rural area. They know more because they have access to more. A large part of The Urantia Book is its revelatory nature - the authors reveal things that have been heretofore either unknown, or forgotten, or misunderstood. The subjects that you mentioned are part of that revealed knowledge. The stories of Adam and Eve, and the Planetary Prince put our history into a new, understandable, and Divine perspective - they help us to gain a new worldview of ourselves - our origins and our destiny.

Maybe the question you really wanted to ask is, why should I believe this information since it's not found elsewhere?

First, you shouldn't believe anything just because someone says you should believe it. You're in possession of a rational mind that can provide you with reality and truth responses and you're the only one responsible for your own beliefs. If something doesn't seem rational, doesn't seem real, doesn't seem true to you then either you should do more investigation or you should reject it. Second, perhaps 90% of what's contained within the pages of The Urantia Book is found at least in part in other published works; they may not be well known but then that's part of the purpose of The Urantia Book, to make them known, for them to be identified and to be studied. Furthemore, you are in possession of the Spirit of Truth - the literal representation of Jesus, who he promised he would leave with us when he left our earth. This is our sure and ever-present guide into all truth.

There's only one way to know if The Urantia Book is real and if it is true and that is to read it for yourself and to decide for yourself. Is it logical? Does it make sense? Does it exhibit truth, goodness, beauty? Does it give you hope and enhance your thinking and your living? Most importantly, does its teachings help you to become closer to God, and improve your relationship with him? If you find the answers to these questions being yes, then why be confused by anything less?

May I also recommend that if you're not already signed up that you consider subscribing to the Quote of the Day. It's a free service from our site that offers a daily quote from the incomparable teachings of this marvelous book with an audio clip and a beautiful and inspiring image, a great way to start one's day as well as to begin to understand the teachings of the book.

Labels: Adam and Eve, belief, Caligastia, quote of the day, revelation, Spirit of Truth, The Urantia Book

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

How can you know whether you are just human or if you are a divinely bestowed personality?

Q: With such a focus on bestowal missions in TUB, how can you know whether you are just human or if you are a divinely bestowed personality?

A: Are you thinking that maybe because of the focus more people will be claiming to be divine? That's possible -- because of TUB more people are claiming to have special connections to spirit beings since any time that attention is given to something out of the ordinary people with unstable tendencies rush to use it to their advantage. We all like to think we're special -- and we are, but not in a worldly fashion and it's the worldly that exerts such a strong pull on the ego.

Divinely bestowed personalities know who they are -- Caligastia, Adam and Eve, Melchizedek, Jesus. They understood where they'd come from and what it was they intended to do while here so there was no doubt in their minds. Jesus, as a child, faced some confusion, but as he grew up and matured the knowledge came back to him. So, if you're a divinely bestowed personality you know your past and your future. If you're a self-deluding person you'll make yourself believe there's something divine and extra special about you, but deep down you'll know it's a deception.

It's my guess that there are no divinely bestowed personalities in human form on the planet at this time and that there won't be any for some time to come. We're pretty much left to our own devices by deity since it's important that we evolve naturally and solve our own problems. But at some point we'll have evolved to the point where we're ready for a new teacher and one will come. However, TUB has been here for 50 years and is still unknown -- it's going to take a while for it to have its intended effect and we'll need to absorb the fifth in order to be ready for something additional.

Labels: Adam and Eve, bestowal, Caligastia, ego, Jesus, Melchizedek, personality, The Urantia Book

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

What Did Eve Have To Do With The "Fall Of Man?"

Q: I recently read the papers concerning the default of Eve, and I am at a loss at how I am to interpret the situation. Was Eve supposed to eventually spread her genes like Adam did with the 1,682 superior women, or did she cheat on her husband?

A: Eve was, indeed, meant to share her genes with the evolving races; however, this process was not to be performed by her and Adam personally, but by their offspring.

You may remember this passage from The Urantia Book:

Usually the violet peoples do not begin to amalgamate with the planetary natives until their own group numbers over one million. But in the meantime the staff of the Planetary Prince proclaims that the children of the Gods have come down, as it were, to be one with the races of men; and the people eagerly look forward to the day when announcement will be made that those who have qualified as belonging to the superior racial strains may proceed to the Garden of Eden and be there chosen by the sons and daughters of Adam as the evolutionary fathers and mothers of the new and blended order of mankind.

On normal worlds the Planetary Adam and Eve never mate with the evolutionary races. This work of biologic betterment is a function of the Adamic progeny. But these Adamites do not go out among the races; the prince's staff bring to the Garden of Eden the superior men and women for voluntary mating with the Adamic offspring. And on most worlds it is considered the highest honor to be selected as a candidate for mating with the sons and daughters of the garden.
p585:6 (51:5.2)

So, the plan was that Adam and Eve would produce one million offspring, after which these offspring would then mate with the superior indigenous races of earth. The purpose of all this was to upstep and improve the racial stocks of earth, and to improve the races in all ways by this infusion of the blood of the Violet race

But, as you will remember, our planet was still suffering the effects of the Lucifer Rebellion, and was in isolation - cut off from the celestial broadcasts, and from all other spiritual circuits that are enjoyed by normal planets. Even though they had been warned, Adam and Eve were not fully prepared for the isolation they would feel, and they were not accustomed to the slowness of the realization of their mission. After about 100 years on Earth, they became discouraged.

Through the underhanded plans of Prince Caligastia, the disgraced leader of the rebellion on Urantia, Eve was tempted to make a shortcut in the mission. She was influenced to mate with Cano, the leader of the Nodites, in order to provide a leader from Violet stock to help the advancing races in the short term. This was not a case of her "cheating" on Adam. She was not doing this out of an adulterous motive. She really thought that what she was doing was a good thing, and a way to jump-start the mission. But her transgression had terrible repercussions, as the entire mission of Adam and Eve was then in default, and we eventually lost our Material Son and Daughter, when they should have been here still. It was one more instance when Urantia was dealt a hard blow in its upward advancement, and it is one more reason that we find ourselves in such sad shape here on this dark planet.

Adam, when he discovered what Eve had done, sought out a mortal woman with whom he also mated, just so he would then share Eve's fate, and she would not be alone in disgrace. But this was far from simple infidelity between husband and wife - this default of Adam and Eve delivered a mortal wound to the success of the Adamic mission to our planet. Even though a portion of the genetic material of Adam and Eve was delivered to the planet, the mission fell far short of its original intent.

You can read the whole story HERE, through Urantia Book passages.

Labels: Adam and Eve, Caligastia, default, genetics, Lucifer Rebellion

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Has the human race been visited by extraterrestrials?

Q: What is the UFO phenomenon all about? What about the possibilities that ETs from other worlds seeded some of our races?

A: That's an interesting question with no conclusive answer to the first part, even from a Urantia Book perspective. The Urantia Book makes it clear that there are trillions of inhabited worlds but under normal circumstances there is no contact on a material level between any of them until long after they've achieved a very high level of civilization called light and life -- that lets us out, and not only that, our world is still laboring under a quarantine from the celestial worlds. So, what are UFO's?

One possibility is that they're transport vehicles used by the Urantia midway creatures (midwayers), the permanent and usually invisible residents of earth. If you'll do a search on our site you can read what The Urantia Book has to say about midwayers, beings midway between spirit and material reality, as opposed to human beings existing solidly in material reality.

Another conjecture is that since this is not a normal inhabited world that these are vehicles belonging to beings from a nearby world who have been invited here as assistants to the midwayers.

On a personal note, I used to be highly intrigued by UFO sightings and tales. After discovering The Urantia Book that interest dwindled to where now I'd be interested in seeing one but other than that I pay the phenomenon little attention. You'll find numerous other interpretations of what UFOs are among other students of the book, but those two are my personal favorites.

About the possibility that ETs seeded some of our races ... The Urantia Book relates two historical instances of that being the case, normal procedures on all inhabited worlds and part of the normal evolutionary plan. Five hundred thousand years ago an ET administration was established in the Mid-East that flourished for several hundred thousand years. It was comprised of a spiritual ruler of the planet and his staff of 100. All of these were beings of the spirit order and invisible to humans. Their purpose was to establish training schools in agriculture, animal husbandry, social sciences, physical sciences, language and religion -- to improve the social climate of the primitive evolutionary races through these schools and through selective mating. You can read about the Planetary Prince of Urantia and of the Caligastia 100 on our site.

The second instance of ET intervention is that of Adam and Eve which occurred about 38,000 years ago. They were physical beings sent here on a mission similar to Caligastia's but directed more toward the biological uplift of the races. The story of Adam and Eve given in The Urantia Book is plausible, logical, insightful, and tragic and can be read in the book or on our site, Truthbook.com

Labels: Adam and Eve, Caligastia, Extra-terrestrials, midwayers, spirit beings, The Urantia Book

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Caligastia's Website?

Q: Are you aware that a website for Caligastia exists?

A: Thank you for your note. Yes, I've seen Caligastia's website and had some correspondence with him a number of years ago.

Is it for real? Yes, it's real enough.

Is it Caligastia? No, Caligastia doesn't have a website; it's Robert Burgess, as indicated on the home page of the site.

His material is a good example of what can occur if one lets one's speculation and unconscious mind override logic and rationality -- as you see there's a mix of distorted philosophy, conspiracy theories and UFOs all scrambled together along with UB material.

Why anyone would be interested in investing time to try to follow the twisting trail of distorted thinking is hard to imagine. However, he's intelligent and capable of influencing someone unsure of their own thought processes so in that regard his material can be dangerous; I don't recommend spending time giving his material any consideration; the cosmology he produces is not revelatory, it's the product of a perverted human mind.

Best wishes,

Larry Watkins
Truthbook.com

Labels: Caligastia, Larry Watkins, Robert Burgess

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