If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia mortal.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0062:01
The personality making this eloquent statement is a Divine Counselor: “These Trinity-origin beings are the counsel of Deity to the realms of the seven superuniverses. They are not reflective of the divine counsel of the Trinity; they are that counsel. There are twenty-one billion Counselors in service, and three billion are assigned to each superuniverse” (0216:05).
Remember there will be one trillion! inhabited worlds in a superuniverse. This lets you know how rare are the Divine Counselors. Dividing three billion into a trillion, gives us just three Divine Counselors for every 1,000 inhabited worlds. We should listen.
When the Divine Counselor informs us that “every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia mortal” is in possession of this “actual fragment of the living God,” our Thought Adjuster, just look around. You are submerged in a veritable ocean of mortals, all of whom, like yourself, are destined for Paradise.
Do we have grounds for judgment? Can we castigate our fellow mortals for this, or that, failing or error? Do we have the Universal Father’s permission to try to correct our fellow mortals as they make what we might think are mistakes; to correct them if they fail to tread the narrow paths of righteousness we conceive for ourselves? Do we possess the omniscience of the Universal Father when we fail to see the divinity our fellows possess?
We condemn ourselves when we fail to love our fellow brothers and sisters, wholeheartedly and completely. Loving our fellow mortal ascenders is how we see the divinity within ourselves. The Universal Father does not love me more than you because of my “righteousness.”
We are equal in the eyes of the Universal Father. Everything, literally the whole of the universes, is my inheritance, individually, but it is also yours! And to achieve our inheritance, to act with all the power residing in the Universal Father’s Son, we must do this together.
We should not confuse ourselves. We are not God the Son, the Eternal Son—one of the three persons of Deity—the second Deity of the Paradise Trinity. The Eternal Son is infinite and coeternal with the Universal Father (God the Father) and the Infinite Spirit (God the Spirit) and has always been. There was never a “time” when the three Deities did not exist.
We are creations with beginnings. As His creation, we are the Universal Father’s Son—not to be confused with the Eternal Son, who has no beginning. As His creation, the Universal Father has only one Son. And as His creation, to act with all the power—the unlimited power—residing in the Universal Father’s Son, we must do this together, only together. We do not exist without one another. I am in you, and you are in me. We are not alone.
As creations with a beginning, we have an eternal future. The ascent to eternity was decreed in the Heavens before our journey was begun. This mercy and this beneficence is the Universal Father’s Will and cannot be undone. We rest easy.
Ernest Clement
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This is a stunning change of perspective
for most of us.
Exposing us to deep spiritual truth is a feature of:
THE NEW DISPENSATION
Nurturing our higher ground in unity is:
THE MASTER PROJECT
Begin to look at how the courageous people of Urantia have met the immense challenges of the rebellion. Click on Cluster 5, Heroism and Confusion, which opens the first essay: “Part 17—The Lucifer Rebellion.” Or you may return to the >> Table of Essays.