Increate Love
By John Thwaytes
Dedication
"The earth is the Lord's, and the goodness thereof,
and He renders it unto the brave."
Contents
Preface
Chapter One – Life After Death
Chapter Two – More about Life after death
Chapter Three – The Council of 24
Chapter Four – Sex Education
Chapter Five – Human life without death
Chapter Six – The nature of Faith
Chapter Seven – The Seven Psychic Circles
Chapter Eight – The Presence of God
Chapter Nine – Our Soul
Chapter Ten -- GOD
Chapter Eleven – The Eternal Son
Chapter Twelve -- Marriage
Chapter Thirteen – Personality Survival
Chapter Fourteen – Nuggets of Gold
Chapter Fifteen – God the Supreme
Chapter Sixteen – Romantic Love in Paradise
Chapter Seventeen – How Self-Existence Works
Chapter Eighteen – Human Sacrifice
Chapter Nineteen – Captain to the bridge
Chapter Twenty – Materialism and Secularism
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.
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
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 Will, is 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 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. ***
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 transcends all these historical intuitional yearnings.
