54 posts · 9 participants · started Feb 1, 2015, 3:53 PM
Based on the whole quote, I ask, do you “recognize” what is the “brotherhood of man”, or was the abridgment, more interesting to your “Spiritual insight.”?
I do not need to look at any quote to know truth. You know not of MY spiritual insight but I can tell you that it takes but an ‘instant’ to realize God the Father. The brotherhood of man is realized in the same instant. Time is not a factor. Ask our Father if time factors into his Fatherhood.
I think there’s more to say about the capacity for receptivity. The UB mentions the fact that the celestials are sad to report that every generation shows fewer and fewer people capable of functioning with self-acting Adjusters. Adjusters become self-acting when a person enters the third psychic circle. That means that we have more and more of the lower circlers on this planet and many of those who do have self-acting Adjusters are not functioning safely. I wonder what that means. Do you think they go mad in some way? If it’s alarming to celestials, I think we should be alarmed by it too.
110:4.6 For many thousands of years, so the records of Jerusem show, in each generation there have lived fewer and fewer beings who could function safely with self–acting Adjusters. This is an alarming picture, and the supervising personalities of Satania look with favor upon the proposals of some of your more immediate planetary supervisors who advocate the inauguration of measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types of the Urantia races.
I think what the quote is telling us is that humans have varying capacities for receptivity. Some have great capacity, others very little, and the celestials are attempting to foster those with the potential for more capacity. I can’t imagine how they are doing that, but it probably is not mine to know.
I do think that regardless of what we are born with, there is always the potential to enlarge one’s capacity for receptivity. When Jesus told the twelve that some of them would witness the reign of God in great power, it’s possible he was referring to this enlargement of capacity of receptivity.
The removal of fear allows the mind to relax both literally and figuratively. A relaxation of the stiffness of beliefs about God instilled upon the minds of people can be liberating and thus powerful. A relaxed mind, one free from fear and prejudice, has the potential to increase its capacity of receptivity.
A person must experience truth-hunger.
132:7:2 “Ganid, the man was not hungry for truth. He was not dissatisfied with himself. He was not ready to ask for help, and the eyes of his mind were not open to receive light for the soul. That man was not ripe for the harvest of salvation; he must be allowed more time for the trials and difficulties of life to prepare him for the reception of wisdom and higher learning. Or, if we could have him live with us, we might by our lives show him the Father in heaven, and thus would he become so attracted by our lives as sons of God that he would be constrained to inquire about our Father. You cannot reveal God to those who do not seek for him; you cannot lead unwilling souls into the joys of salvation. Man must become hungry for truth as a result of the experiences of living, or he must desire to know God as the result of contact with the lives of those who are acquainted with the divine Father before another human being can act as the means of leading such a fellow mortal to the Father in heaven. If we know God, our real business on earth is so to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives, and thus will all God-seeking persons see the Father and ask for our help in finding out more about the God who in this manner finds expression in our lives.”
I think what the quote is telling us is that humans have varying capacities for receptivity.
Stop concerning yourselves with your status in the Universe. The apostles were very concerned so you are in good company.
Come to sit at the table and have no concern for the place settings and name cards.
Mara wrote: A person must experience truth-hunger.
144:4.2 The earnest and longing repetition of any petition, when such a prayer is the sincere expression of a child of God and is uttered in faith, no matter how ill-advised or impossible of direct answer, never fails to expand the soul’s capacity for spiritual receptivity.
I do not need to look at any quote to know truth. You know not of MY spiritual insight but I can tell you that it takes but an ‘instant’ to realize God the Father. The brotherhood of man is realized in the same instant. Time is not a factor. Ask our Father if time factors into his Fatherhood.
Me here: While it takes but a moment to “find” or “contact” God within, there is a long time to come before we “realize” Father according to his Divine plan – the journey of time barely has begun upon our fusion:
(63.7) 5:1.9 The fact that vast time is involved in the attainment of God makes the presence and personality of the Infinite none the less real. Your ascension is a part of the circuit of the seven superuniverses, and though you swing around it countless times, you may expect, in spirit and in status, to be ever swinging inward. You can depend upon being translated from sphere to sphere, from the outer circuits ever nearer the inner center, and some day, doubt not, you shall stand in the divine and central presence and see him, figuratively speaking, face to face. It is a question of the attainment of actual and literal spiritual levels; and these spiritual levels are attainable by any being who has been indwelt by a Mystery Monitor, and who has subsequently eternally fused with that Thought Adjuster.
(62.3) 5:1.1 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. The magnitude of the spiritual difference between the highest personality of universe existence and the lower groups of created intelligences is inconceivable. Were it possible for the lower orders of intelligence to be transported instantly into the presence of the Father himself, they would not know they were there. They would there be just as oblivious of the presence of the Universal Father as where they now are. There is a long, long road ahead of mortal man before he can consistently and within the realms of possibility ask for safe conduct into the Paradise presence of the Universal Father. Spiritually, man must be translated many times before he can attain a plane that will yield the spiritual vision which will enable him to see even any one of the Seven Master Spirits.
(62.4) 5:1.2 Our Father is not in hiding; he is not in arbitrary seclusion. He has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to reveal himself to the children of his universal domains. There is an infinite grandeur and an inexpressible generosity connected with the majesty of his love which causes him to yearn for the association of every created being who can comprehend, love, or approach him; and it is, therefore, the limitations inherent in you, inseparable from your finite personality and material existence, that determine the time and place and circumstances in which you may achieve the goal of the journey of mortal ascension and stand in the presence of the Father at the center of all things.
(63.1) 5:1.3 Although the approach to the Paradise presence of the Father must await your attainment of the highest finite levels of spirit progression, you should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present possibility of immediate communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self.
We have much education and experience to come to even graduate from our current tadpole status, perfection attainment requires much perfecting in time and space prior to our pure spirit experiences to come in our unique form as finaliters. Or so we are told. Some, in mortal form, do have a near instant moment of clarity and resolve while, we are told, others move far more slowly toward realization of the spirit within but progress is measured as much by direction as it is by distance. Or so I think.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Me here: While it takes but a moment to “find” or “contact” God within, there is a long time to come before we “realize” Father according to his Divine plan – the journey of time barely has begun upon our fusion:
It takes eternity, Bradly. An instant is the eternal now. The journey is the establishment of constant contact with the eternal NOW. This is possible for any of us it we desire it more than time. The Divine plan is for those in time to accomplish what Jesus did in an instant at his baptism. Eternity is available to us NOW. What Jesus did we can do also.
Sell everything you have. Read what Bonita said about this in “parables”
Some, in mortal form, do have a near instant moment of clarity and resolve while, we are told, others move far more slowly toward realization of the spirit within but progress is measured as much by direction as it is by distance. Or so I think.
Moments of instant clarity do not equal perfection. I agree that no matter how many instant moments a person has of clarity, perfection takes time, and for most of us it takes an enormous amount of time. It took Jesus, a being who descended from perfection, thirty-one and one-half years to attain this level of perfection. (136:2.8)
Moments of instant clarity do not equal perfection. I agree that no matter how many instant moments a person has of clarity, perfection takes time, and for most of us it takes an enormous amount of time. It took Jesus, a being who descended from perfection, thirty-one and one-half years to attain this level of perfection. (136:2.8)
I agree, but Jesus ‘realized’ that perfection at the ‘instant’ of baptism.
Human perfection, on a scale that humans are capable of, is a function of the seven psychic circles. It is a gradual REALIZATION of personality. As we climb the psychic circles, are personalities become more REAL. Jesus went through all seven circles before his baptism. Even after attaining the first psychic circle he had more work to do, which is why he went off to spend six weeks on Mount Hermon with his Adjuster in order to finish the work of mastering his human mind. It took five weeks for him to become assured of his divine nature and its ascendency over his human nature (transfer of dominance). Even then, the final phase of his personality realization waited to be consummated at his baptism about four and a half months later. But Jesus had realized his divinity months before his baptism. He realized it on Mount Hermon.
134:7.6 The indwelling Thought Adjuster now led Jesus to forsake the dwelling places of men and betake himself up to Mount Hermon that he might finish his work of mastering his human mind and complete the task of effecting his full consecration to the remainder of his lifework on earth.
134:8.4 Jesus spent the last three weeks of August and the first three weeks of September on Mount Hermon. During these weeks he finished the mortal task of achieving the circles of mind-understanding and personality-control. Throughout this period of communion with his heavenly Father the indwelling Adjuster also completed the assigned services. The mortal goal of this earth creature was there attained. Only the final phase of mind and Adjuster attunement remained to be consummated.
134:8.5 After more than five weeks of unbroken communion with his Paradise Father, Jesus became absolutely assured of his nature and of the certainty of his triumph over the material levels of time-space personality manifestation. He fully believed in, and did not hesitate to assert, the ascendancy of his divine nature over his human nature.
Jesus went through all seven circles before his baptism. Even after attaining the first psychic circle he had more work to do, which is why he went off to spend six weeks on Mount Hermon with his Adjuster in order to finish the work of mastering his human mind.
A person can be God-knowing, yet be a seventh or sixth circler. 
110:6:16 These circle attainments are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be almost as truly God-knowing — sonship conscious — as a second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme Being, universe citizenship.
134:8.5 After more than five weeks of unbroken communion with his Paradise Father, Jesus became absolutely assured of his nature and of the certainty of his triumph over the material levels of time-space personality manifestation. He fully believed in, and did not hesitate to assert, the ascendancy of his divine nature over his human nature.
I see the point you are making. The import of the INSTANT is that by definition, it is not a ‘happening’ because it resides outside of time itself.
God resides outside of time and can only be realized in the instant. The thing to remember is that time is a succession of instants. God is realized in between time, not in time.
Five weeks may have gone by for the Midwayer but no time elapsed for Jesus because in communion with the Father, he stood outside of time.
