Nov. 8, 2023
The Seven Master Spirits
The Bible often speaks of the Seven Lamps of God and the Seven Spirits of God, but what does the Urantia Book say about them?
Let's explore their significance in Paper 16 and learn about their purpose and function as an expression of God the Father, The Son, and the Spirit.
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Welcome to another edition of
the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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I am your host, Jim Watkins, a
longtime Urantia book reader and
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student, and a host now for
almost four years producing
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these Urantia Book podcasts,
which are designed to help us
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all appreciate and understand
the 5th epical revelation.
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Stand by.
We're going to be talking about
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Paper 16 and the seven Masters
Spirits.
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Who are they?
What do they represent?
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What is their function?
Why do they so often appear
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throughout the Old and New
Testament, often referred to as
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the seven lamps of God or God's
seven spirits?
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Let's talk about that.
Coming up on the Urantia Radio
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Podcast.
I think this song is very
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appropriate for the times that
we are in.
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No question about that.
I also want to read something
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that I came across with the
Urancha Fellowship.
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I get their emails and they they
have great articles and and one
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in particular that I really
enjoyed which is called Hope for
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the Present crisis of
Civilization.
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I want to give credit to Sharon
Porter and Kay Cooper Urantia
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University Institute course in
the spring of 2024.
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They they write a short couple
of paragraphs and I just want to
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share with you because it
inspired me.
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So I think it might inspire you
especially since we're all going
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through some pretty tumultuous
times and then we'll get into
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the seven masters spirits.
So Sharon and Kay Wright.
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When the Urantia Book was given
to this planet about 100 years
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ago, the writers spoke of the
need for worldwide social
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reconstruction and economic
reorganization.
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That's no surprise considering
what the book reveals about the
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disastrous rebellion and
default.
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The crisis in Urantia
civilization has only become
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more obvious since the book
arrived.
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Our civilization is beginning to
change.
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It is beginning to be uplifted,
restructured and redirected.
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It feels like chaos and
uncertainty, but we need to see
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it in a different light.
This is the beginning of one of
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Urantia's quote, most amazing
and enthralling epics of social
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readjustment, moral quickening,
and spiritual enlightenment.
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End Quote You may recognize that
quote from The Urantia Book.
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It is a promise, the book said
in 1935.
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Urantia is on the brink of this
epic of change for the better.
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The 5th Epochal revelation is
initiating that enthralling
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epic.
We feel like we are living in
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chaos and change, but we who
have the Urancha book are called
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to a whole new way of seeing
ourselves.
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And how do we contribute to the
coming spiritual renaissance?
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Our book says only the real
religion of personal spiritual
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experience can function
helpfully and creatively in the
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present crisis of civilization.
They continue to write.
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In the midst of such change, we
all need the support of real
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religion, a genuine connection
with spirit, and a love for our
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sisters and our brothers on
earth.
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Real religion opens us to the
love of God.
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We are beloved children.
Experiencing God's love changes
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us inside.
We feel accepted, encouraged,
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strengthened and hopeful.
Loving and appreciating.
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God as a nurturing, supporting,
and caring parent causes us to
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want to be like Him, and we seek
the beautiful values we see in
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deity.
Those values draw us into
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growing.
Developing higher and higher
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values in ourselves is the very
definition of growing.
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Our love expands.
We see our brothers and sisters
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with new eyes.
Instead of judgment, we see
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their need for the loving parent
we have found.
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And when we open the door and
allow our love to flow to them,
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joy blooms and we love them
more.
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We become even more connected as
divine love flows to us and
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through us, to our human family
in service.
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Let's live our religion.
Let's share the real religion of
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personal spiritual experience
with everyone we can.
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Let's become the new teachers
who are exclusively devoted to
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the spiritual regeneration of
our sisters and brothers.
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We can give hope to the world in
this present crisis.
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And that, of course, comes from
Sisters and Spirits, Sharon
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Porter, Kay Cooper, Nancy Beaud
Train, and Cecilia Lamkeep.
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All right, so let's take a
little mental exercise, take a
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mental breath, find some nice
music here and then we'll come
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back and we'll delve into the
seven Master Spirits and some
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interesting stuff that I found
in Chapter 16 of the Urantia
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Book.
By the way, if you have a a
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topic or subject on the Urantia
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just let me know.
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com Yeah,
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it's hard to believe we're doing
this now four years and it's
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just amazing.
I I keep seeing and meeting more
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people from the Urania book
community and I'm always so
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impressed by the the quality of
the of the conversation and
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what's talked about and what's
discussed.
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And again, there's so many great
Zoom meetings now that are being
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put on by various organizations.
It's just very nice.
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It's flowering.
You know the Urania book
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revelation 100 years now and
things are starting to happen.
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So I still think, you know, I'm,
I'm motivated to want to share
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the book with people because I
know deep down it just really
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lessens the burden of life
knowing that this world is not
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in vain and that it's just hard
for me to fathom that so many
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people just don't, you know, if
they knew.
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You know if you imagine if you
were a 5 year old just about to
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start grade school and you knew
that you were going to be going
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to school for so many years and
then you would graduate.
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But you don't really have a a
great concept of what your adult
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life is going to be because you
just don't have enough
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knowledge.
You don't know anything right.
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So you're you're basically
limited by your own conceptions
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of of what reality is and but
the Oranga book attempts to pull
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back a curtain and show This is
why I was on a zoom call and you
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heard we were talking with Tong
the other day about his works
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his artistic works and it it
opens the door and it just shows
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you this wonderful Gary Tong.
Yep.
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And his artwork does the same
thing.
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It it opens the the IT shows you
a wonderful picture doesn't it.
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But it's not easy and and I know
a lot of people get stumbled by
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part one of the book because
it's it's explaining 2 things.
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One the history of God and his
immediate family back in the in
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the eons of time and one of the
family are the seven masters
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spirits.
And what got me interested in
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that was that I was reading, I
don't know why.
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I just decided, you know, right
now on social media there's a
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lot of, a lot of stuff about
what what age we're in, Is this
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the end times?
Are we in the end times?
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And and in Revelations, it
starts off with the very first
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paragraph.
It talks.
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Well, it's not the first
paragraph.
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It's actually Revelations 112
and 13 and 20.
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It says, And I turned to see the
voice that spake with me and
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being turned, I saw 7 golden
candlesticks.
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And in 13 Revelations 13113, it
says and in the midst of the
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seven candlesticks are one like
unto the Son of Man.
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So they're referring to Christ
Michael, in that reference cloth
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with a garment down to the foot,
and girt about the paps with a
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golden girdle.
That's how they describe the way
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that the Son of Man looks to
them.
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And then in in 20 Revelations, 1
to 20, The mystery of the seven
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stars, which thou sawest in my
right hand, and the seven golden
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candlesticks, the seven stars
are the angels of the seven
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churches, which is another
reference to the Urantia Book
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actually details who those the
angels of the churches, the
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angels of religion.
There's there's actually groups
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of angels that are assigned to
certain human activities.
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And then the seven candlesticks,
which thou sawest are the seven
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churches.
So it could be that they're
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referring to the churches that
were popping up in that period.
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And I, and believe me, I'm not a
theologian, but my
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interpretation is that they're
talking about the seven lamps.
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The seven lamps is referred to
in Zechariah 4/2, where it says,
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And he said to me, what do you
see?
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I said, I see.
And behold, a lamp stand all of
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gold with a bowl on top of it,
and seven lamps on it with seven
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lips on each of the lamps that
are on the top of it.
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Then it goes on to read in
Zechariah 4/2.
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He asked.
What do you see?
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I answered.
I see a solid gold lampstand.
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So again lampstand.
He's always talking about the
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lamps.
And then finally he says, what
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thou see I have looked, and
behold, A Candlestick, all of
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gold, with a bowl upon the top
of it, and his seven lamps
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thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps which are upon the
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top thereof.
Now interestingly from the
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Urantia Book, when it talks
about the seven spirits, think
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of a think of a tree trunk.
So what what grows out of a
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ground is the initial tree and
then that from that tree you get
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limbs.
And then from the limbs you get
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branches.
And then from the branches you
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get leaves.
And then from the leaves you get
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seeds.
And then those seeds kind of
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continue on the process.
But in God's immediate family,
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there was just God the Father,
God the Son, God the Spirit, the
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Trinity.
But it was in those What is the
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maximum relationship you could
have between those three in
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terms of producing
personalities?
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And remember these, these are
deities we're talking about.
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If you think of the fact that
the physical representation of
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of God the Father, the physical
representation of God the Father
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can can only be expressed by the
70 trillion burning Suns that
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that make up the entirety of
creation. 70 trillion burning
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orbs, it's just a number, right?
But it's it represents the mass
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of energy of God the Father.
Imagine the spiritual energy.
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Imagine the intellectual energy.
And these are all in the domains
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of the three deities of.
What's the first source and
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center is the origin of.
So if you were to start to
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develop a family outward, then
you would understand that the
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first thing you would have is an
immediate family.
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And that immediate family, if
you're following me, would
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represent the relationship of
each deity to itself.
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So what are the seven
likenesses?
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It says in paper 1602 the seven
masters spirits thus have their
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origin in and derive their
individual characteristics from
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the following seven likenesses.
The universal Father, the
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eternal Son, the infinite
Spirit, the Father and the Son,
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the Father and the Spirit, the
Son and the Spirit, and then the
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Father, the Son and the Spirit.
So those are the seven maximum
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personality expressions you
could have of the Trinity.
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So they represent the seven
lamps of reality, the seven
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super universes from
Revelations.
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And I turned to see the voice
that spoke with me.
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And being turned, I saw 7 golden
candlesticks.
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And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks, one like unto the
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Son of Man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and
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girt about the paps with a
golden girdle.
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The mystery of the seven Stars,
which thou sawest in my right
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hand and the Angel is, is
telling this to John the
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Revelator, and then again back
to the Zachariah 4/2.
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And he said, what do you see?
Lampstands.
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All of gold.
So they're they're looking and
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trying to express these seven
master spirits that are so
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bright in their luminosity that
looking at them from afar they
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would look like lampstands.
But what they're actually seeing
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is the entirety of the seven
universes of Paradise.
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So from 16 paragraph 11, the
seven Master spirits of Paradise
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are the primary personalities of
the Infinite Spirit, so they're
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derived from the infinite
Spirit.
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In this sevenfold sevenfold
creative act of self
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duplication, the infinite Spirit
exhausted the associative
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possibilities mathematically
inherent in the factual
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existence of the three persons
of Deity.
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Had it been possible to produce
a large number of master
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spirits, they would have been
created.
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But there are just 7 associative
person possibilities and only 7
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inherent in the three deities.
And this explains why the
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universe is operates in seven
grand divisions and why the
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number seven is basically
fundamental in its organization
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and its administration.
And again, what are these 7
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universes run by?
But Master Spirits?
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Each one has one Master Spirit
that it is of its spiritual
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domain.
Now there's another thing that's
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interesting about this.
Now when the Urantia Book talks
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about the Seven Master Spirits,
it explains their their purpose.
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But there's another comment that
they make in the very beginning
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that says because the universe
was intended to be inhabited by
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living mind, old spirit beings,
spirits with mind people, us
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says the the the only reason
that these 7 masters spirits
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exist is because they're
anticipating that there's a
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universe in creation.
So I don't know if if that is as
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profound to you as it is for me,
but I just find it interesting
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that they said that the energies
represent the fact that the
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universe will eventually be
inhabited by intelligent and
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spiritual beings who are also
expressive of the Father, the
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Son and the Spirit.
And that's why these 7 masters
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spirits came into existence in
the 1st place.
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And it's a diminutive down
stepping of deity, so that
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eventually you get to the point
where you have the sons of God
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and the spirits of the infinite
spirit.
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It's why we have a creative
daughter spirit, which is where
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we get the Holy Spirit from, but
we also have the creator son
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Michael, who we know as Jesus of
Nazareth.
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So.
So from the UB paper 1625 I'll
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conclude with this All of
everything which has been told
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you concerning the divinity and
personality of the conjoined
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actor, which is the third person
of Deity.
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The infinite Spirit applies
equally and fully to the seven
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master spirits who so
effectively distribute the
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infinite spirit to the seven
segments of the grand universe,
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in accordance with their divine
endowment, and in the manner of
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their offering of their
differing and individually
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unique natures.
It would therefore be proper to
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apply to the collective group of
seven any or all of the names of
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the infinite spirits.
Collectively they are one with a
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conjoined actor and on all sub
absolute levels and from the
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Urantia Book 1641 it says it is
literally true that these seven
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spirits are the personalized
physical power, cosmic mind and
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spiritual presence of the Triune
deity.
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Quote the seven spirits of God
sent forth to all the universe
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from 1643.
The Seven Master Spirits are the
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Creators, creators of the
Universe, Power Directors and
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their Associates, entities who
are indispensable to the
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organization, control, and
regulation of the physical
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energies of the Grand Universe.
And these same Master Spirits
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very materially assist the
Creator Sons in the work of
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shaping and organizing the local
universes.
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And if we go back to the Old
Testament, there's a statement
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that's made in the book of
Isaiah.
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In Chapter 11, verse two, we
will find what those seven
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spirits of God are.
According to Isaiah, the seven
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spirits mentioned are the Spirit
of the Lord, the spirit of
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Wisdom, the spirit of
understanding, the spirit of
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counsel, the spirit of Strength,
the spirit of knowledge, and the
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Spirit of the fear of the Lord.
Interesting.
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In Paper 17, the Urancha Book
describes the seven master
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spirits as having a hand in the
organization, which eventually
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leads to the appearance of the
seven adjutant spirits that work
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to improve the thinking level of
material animals such as
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ourselves.
And what are those seven
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adjutant spirits?
They're very similar to how
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Isaiah described the seven
spirits, the spirit of
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Intuition, the spirit of
understanding, the spirit of
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Courage, the spirit of
knowledge, the spirit of
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counsel, the spirit of worship,
and the spirit of wisdom, the
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inherent tendency of all mortal
creatures toward orderly and
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progressively evolutionary
advancement.
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These adjusters are from the
Divine Spirit who is the
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daughter of the infinite spirit.
And it is this same third person
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of deity who not only sponsors
the seven masters spirits as
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described as the lamps of God,
but are also reflective of what
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Isaiah believed were the seven
lamps of God or the seven
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masters spirits.
So it would be easy to connect
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the sevenfold expression of
deity with the emerging spirit
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in the mind of man.
And to all of this you can
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imagine, as I said, the trunk of
a tree.
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Then comes the long arching
limbs, followed by the long
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tender branches which spawn
leaves themselves possessing of
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seedlings that start the whole
process again and again.
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And so that's the take away from
the seven masters, spirits and
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their overriding influence on
all of us.
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It's a it's a direction of
energies coming through.
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The from the deities through the
seven Masters spirits
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distributed in seven grand
divisions which make up the
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present universe.
So I hope that that meant
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something to you as it did me.
I always enjoy pontificating on
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these great truths that emerge
from the urantial revelation,
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and we have not delved into part
one of the book in quite some
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time.
And until next time.
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Podcast.
And also thanks to David Dinger
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for providing such great music.
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Welcome to another edition of
the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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I am your host, Jim Watkins, a
longtime Urantia book reader and
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student, and a host now for
almost four years producing
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these Urantia Book podcasts,
which are designed to help us
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all appreciate and understand
the 5th epical revelation.
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Stand by.
We're going to be talking about
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Paper 16 and the seven Masters
Spirits.
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Who are they?
What do they represent?
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What is their function?
Why do they so often appear
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throughout the Old and New
Testament, often referred to as
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the seven lamps of God or God's
seven spirits?
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Let's talk about that.
Coming up on the Urantia Radio
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Podcast.
I think this song is very
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appropriate for the times that
we are in.
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No question about that.
I also want to read something
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that I came across with the
Urancha Fellowship.
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I get their emails and they they
have great articles and and one
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in particular that I really
enjoyed which is called Hope for
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the Present crisis of
Civilization.
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I want to give credit to Sharon
Porter and Kay Cooper Urantia
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University Institute course in
the spring of 2024.
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They they write a short couple
of paragraphs and I just want to
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share with you because it
inspired me.
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So I think it might inspire you
especially since we're all going
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through some pretty tumultuous
times and then we'll get into
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the seven masters spirits.
So Sharon and Kay Wright.
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When the Urantia Book was given
to this planet about 100 years
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ago, the writers spoke of the
need for worldwide social
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reconstruction and economic
reorganization.
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That's no surprise considering
what the book reveals about the
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disastrous rebellion and
default.
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The crisis in Urantia
civilization has only become
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more obvious since the book
arrived.
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Our civilization is beginning to
change.
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It is beginning to be uplifted,
restructured and redirected.
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It feels like chaos and
uncertainty, but we need to see
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it in a different light.
This is the beginning of one of
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Urantia's quote, most amazing
and enthralling epics of social
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readjustment, moral quickening,
and spiritual enlightenment.
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End Quote You may recognize that
quote from The Urantia Book.
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It is a promise, the book said
in 1935.
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Urantia is on the brink of this
epic of change for the better.
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The 5th Epochal revelation is
initiating that enthralling
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epic.
We feel like we are living in
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chaos and change, but we who
have the Urancha book are called
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to a whole new way of seeing
ourselves.
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And how do we contribute to the
coming spiritual renaissance?
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Our book says only the real
religion of personal spiritual
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experience can function
helpfully and creatively in the
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present crisis of civilization.
They continue to write.
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In the midst of such change, we
all need the support of real
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religion, a genuine connection
with spirit, and a love for our
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sisters and our brothers on
earth.
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Real religion opens us to the
love of God.
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We are beloved children.
Experiencing God's love changes
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us inside.
We feel accepted, encouraged,
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strengthened and hopeful.
Loving and appreciating.
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God as a nurturing, supporting,
and caring parent causes us to
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want to be like Him, and we seek
the beautiful values we see in
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deity.
Those values draw us into
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growing.
Developing higher and higher
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values in ourselves is the very
definition of growing.
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Our love expands.
We see our brothers and sisters
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with new eyes.
Instead of judgment, we see
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their need for the loving parent
we have found.
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And when we open the door and
allow our love to flow to them,
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joy blooms and we love them
more.
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We become even more connected as
divine love flows to us and
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through us, to our human family
in service.
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Let's live our religion.
Let's share the real religion of
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personal spiritual experience
with everyone we can.
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Let's become the new teachers
who are exclusively devoted to
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the spiritual regeneration of
our sisters and brothers.
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We can give hope to the world in
this present crisis.
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And that, of course, comes from
Sisters and Spirits, Sharon
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Porter, Kay Cooper, Nancy Beaud
Train, and Cecilia Lamkeep.
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All right, so let's take a
little mental exercise, take a
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mental breath, find some nice
music here and then we'll come
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back and we'll delve into the
seven Master Spirits and some
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interesting stuff that I found
in Chapter 16 of the Urantia
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Book.
By the way, if you have a a
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topic or subject on the Urantia
Book Radio podcast you want,
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just let me know.
It's easy to get a hold of us.
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com Yeah,
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it's hard to believe we're doing
this now four years and it's
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just amazing.
I I keep seeing and meeting more
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people from the Urania book
community and I'm always so
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impressed by the the quality of
the of the conversation and
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what's talked about and what's
discussed.
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And again, there's so many great
Zoom meetings now that are being
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put on by various organizations.
It's just very nice.
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It's flowering.
You know the Urania book
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revelation 100 years now and
things are starting to happen.
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So I still think, you know, I'm,
I'm motivated to want to share
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the book with people because I
know deep down it just really
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lessens the burden of life
knowing that this world is not
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in vain and that it's just hard
for me to fathom that so many
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people just don't, you know, if
they knew.
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You know if you imagine if you
were a 5 year old just about to
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start grade school and you knew
that you were going to be going
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to school for so many years and
then you would graduate.
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But you don't really have a a
great concept of what your adult
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life is going to be because you
just don't have enough
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knowledge.
You don't know anything right.
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So you're you're basically
limited by your own conceptions
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of of what reality is and but
the Oranga book attempts to pull
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back a curtain and show This is
why I was on a zoom call and you
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heard we were talking with Tong
the other day about his works
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his artistic works and it it
opens the door and it just shows
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you this wonderful Gary Tong.
Yep.
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And his artwork does the same
thing.
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It it opens the the IT shows you
a wonderful picture doesn't it.
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But it's not easy and and I know
a lot of people get stumbled by
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part one of the book because
it's it's explaining 2 things.
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One the history of God and his
immediate family back in the in
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the eons of time and one of the
family are the seven masters
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spirits.
And what got me interested in
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that was that I was reading, I
don't know why.
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I just decided, you know, right
now on social media there's a
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lot of, a lot of stuff about
what what age we're in, Is this
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the end times?
Are we in the end times?
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And and in Revelations, it
starts off with the very first
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paragraph.
It talks.
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Well, it's not the first
paragraph.
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It's actually Revelations 112
and 13 and 20.
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It says, And I turned to see the
voice that spake with me and
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being turned, I saw 7 golden
candlesticks.
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And in 13 Revelations 13113, it
says and in the midst of the
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seven candlesticks are one like
unto the Son of Man.
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So they're referring to Christ
Michael, in that reference cloth
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with a garment down to the foot,
and girt about the paps with a
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golden girdle.
That's how they describe the way
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that the Son of Man looks to
them.
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And then in in 20 Revelations, 1
to 20, The mystery of the seven
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stars, which thou sawest in my
right hand, and the seven golden
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candlesticks, the seven stars
are the angels of the seven
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churches, which is another
reference to the Urantia Book
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actually details who those the
angels of the churches, the
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angels of religion.
There's there's actually groups
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of angels that are assigned to
certain human activities.
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And then the seven candlesticks,
which thou sawest are the seven
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churches.
So it could be that they're
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referring to the churches that
were popping up in that period.
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And I, and believe me, I'm not a
theologian, but my
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interpretation is that they're
talking about the seven lamps.
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The seven lamps is referred to
in Zechariah 4/2, where it says,
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And he said to me, what do you
see?
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I said, I see.
And behold, a lamp stand all of
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gold with a bowl on top of it,
and seven lamps on it with seven
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lips on each of the lamps that
are on the top of it.
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Then it goes on to read in
Zechariah 4/2.
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He asked.
What do you see?
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I answered.
I see a solid gold lampstand.
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So again lampstand.
He's always talking about the
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lamps.
And then finally he says, what
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thou see I have looked, and
behold, A Candlestick, all of
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gold, with a bowl upon the top
of it, and his seven lamps
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thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps which are upon the
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top thereof.
Now interestingly from the
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Urantia Book, when it talks
about the seven spirits, think
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of a think of a tree trunk.
So what what grows out of a
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ground is the initial tree and
then that from that tree you get
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limbs.
And then from the limbs you get
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branches.
And then from the branches you
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get leaves.
And then from the leaves you get
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seeds.
And then those seeds kind of
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continue on the process.
But in God's immediate family,
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there was just God the Father,
God the Son, God the Spirit, the
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Trinity.
But it was in those What is the
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maximum relationship you could
have between those three in
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terms of producing
personalities?
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And remember these, these are
deities we're talking about.
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If you think of the fact that
the physical representation of
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of God the Father, the physical
representation of God the Father
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can can only be expressed by the
70 trillion burning Suns that
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that make up the entirety of
creation. 70 trillion burning
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orbs, it's just a number, right?
But it's it represents the mass
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of energy of God the Father.
Imagine the spiritual energy.
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Imagine the intellectual energy.
And these are all in the domains
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of the three deities of.
What's the first source and
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center is the origin of.
So if you were to start to
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develop a family outward, then
you would understand that the
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first thing you would have is an
immediate family.
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And that immediate family, if
you're following me, would
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represent the relationship of
each deity to itself.
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So what are the seven
likenesses?
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It says in paper 1602 the seven
masters spirits thus have their
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origin in and derive their
individual characteristics from
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the following seven likenesses.
The universal Father, the
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eternal Son, the infinite
Spirit, the Father and the Son,
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the Father and the Spirit, the
Son and the Spirit, and then the
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Father, the Son and the Spirit.
So those are the seven maximum
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personality expressions you
could have of the Trinity.
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So they represent the seven
lamps of reality, the seven
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super universes from
Revelations.
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And I turned to see the voice
that spoke with me.
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And being turned, I saw 7 golden
candlesticks.
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And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks, one like unto the
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Son of Man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and
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girt about the paps with a
golden girdle.
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The mystery of the seven Stars,
which thou sawest in my right
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hand and the Angel is, is
telling this to John the
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Revelator, and then again back
to the Zachariah 4/2.
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And he said, what do you see?
Lampstands.
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All of gold.
So they're they're looking and
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trying to express these seven
master spirits that are so
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bright in their luminosity that
looking at them from afar they
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would look like lampstands.
But what they're actually seeing
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is the entirety of the seven
universes of Paradise.
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So from 16 paragraph 11, the
seven Master spirits of Paradise
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are the primary personalities of
the Infinite Spirit, so they're
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derived from the infinite
Spirit.
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In this sevenfold sevenfold
creative act of self
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duplication, the infinite Spirit
exhausted the associative
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possibilities mathematically
inherent in the factual
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existence of the three persons
of Deity.
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Had it been possible to produce
a large number of master
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spirits, they would have been
created.
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But there are just 7 associative
person possibilities and only 7
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inherent in the three deities.
And this explains why the
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universe is operates in seven
grand divisions and why the
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number seven is basically
fundamental in its organization
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and its administration.
And again, what are these 7
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universes run by?
But Master Spirits?
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Each one has one Master Spirit
that it is of its spiritual
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domain.
Now there's another thing that's
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interesting about this.
Now when the Urantia Book talks
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about the Seven Master Spirits,
it explains their their purpose.
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But there's another comment that
they make in the very beginning
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that says because the universe
was intended to be inhabited by
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living mind, old spirit beings,
spirits with mind people, us
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says the the the only reason
that these 7 masters spirits
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exist is because they're
anticipating that there's a
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universe in creation.
So I don't know if if that is as
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profound to you as it is for me,
but I just find it interesting
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that they said that the energies
represent the fact that the
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universe will eventually be
inhabited by intelligent and
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spiritual beings who are also
expressive of the Father, the
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Son and the Spirit.
And that's why these 7 masters
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spirits came into existence in
the 1st place.
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And it's a diminutive down
stepping of deity, so that
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eventually you get to the point
where you have the sons of God
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and the spirits of the infinite
spirit.
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It's why we have a creative
daughter spirit, which is where
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we get the Holy Spirit from, but
we also have the creator son
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Michael, who we know as Jesus of
Nazareth.
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So.
So from the UB paper 1625 I'll
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conclude with this All of
everything which has been told
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you concerning the divinity and
personality of the conjoined
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actor, which is the third person
of Deity.
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The infinite Spirit applies
equally and fully to the seven
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master spirits who so
effectively distribute the
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infinite spirit to the seven
segments of the grand universe,
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in accordance with their divine
endowment, and in the manner of
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their offering of their
differing and individually
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unique natures.
It would therefore be proper to
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apply to the collective group of
seven any or all of the names of
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the infinite spirits.
Collectively they are one with a
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conjoined actor and on all sub
absolute levels and from the
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Urantia Book 1641 it says it is
literally true that these seven
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spirits are the personalized
physical power, cosmic mind and
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spiritual presence of the Triune
deity.
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Quote the seven spirits of God
sent forth to all the universe
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from 1643.
The Seven Master Spirits are the
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Creators, creators of the
Universe, Power Directors and
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their Associates, entities who
are indispensable to the
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organization, control, and
regulation of the physical
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energies of the Grand Universe.
And these same Master Spirits
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very materially assist the
Creator Sons in the work of
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shaping and organizing the local
universes.
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And if we go back to the Old
Testament, there's a statement
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that's made in the book of
Isaiah.
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In Chapter 11, verse two, we
will find what those seven
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spirits of God are.
According to Isaiah, the seven
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spirits mentioned are the Spirit
of the Lord, the spirit of
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Wisdom, the spirit of
understanding, the spirit of
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counsel, the spirit of Strength,
the spirit of knowledge, and the
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Spirit of the fear of the Lord.
Interesting.
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In Paper 17, the Urancha Book
describes the seven master
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spirits as having a hand in the
organization, which eventually
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leads to the appearance of the
seven adjutant spirits that work
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to improve the thinking level of
material animals such as
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ourselves.
And what are those seven
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adjutant spirits?
They're very similar to how
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Isaiah described the seven
spirits, the spirit of
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Intuition, the spirit of
understanding, the spirit of
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Courage, the spirit of
knowledge, the spirit of
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counsel, the spirit of worship,
and the spirit of wisdom, the
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inherent tendency of all mortal
creatures toward orderly and
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progressively evolutionary
advancement.
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These adjusters are from the
Divine Spirit who is the
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daughter of the infinite spirit.
And it is this same third person
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of deity who not only sponsors
the seven masters spirits as
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described as the lamps of God,
but are also reflective of what
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Isaiah believed were the seven
lamps of God or the seven
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masters spirits.
So it would be easy to connect
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the sevenfold expression of
deity with the emerging spirit
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in the mind of man.
And to all of this you can
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imagine, as I said, the trunk of
a tree.
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Then comes the long arching
limbs, followed by the long
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tender branches which spawn
leaves themselves possessing of
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seedlings that start the whole
process again and again.
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And so that's the take away from
the seven masters, spirits and
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their overriding influence on
all of us.
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It's a it's a direction of
energies coming through.
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The from the deities through the
seven Masters spirits
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distributed in seven grand
divisions which make up the
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present universe.
So I hope that that meant
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something to you as it did me.
I always enjoy pontificating on
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these great truths that emerge
from the urantial revelation,
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and we have not delved into part
one of the book in quite some
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time.
And until next time.
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