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===Topic: ''The Meaning of Morontia''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael: Welcome, dear spiritual parents.
Here in Northern California it is a beautiful Spring evening.
Outside my patio doors is a big sprawling tree all decked out in
the purest white. It calls to mind a poem by E. E. Cummings -
"Oh sweet Spontaneous Earth.” Let me tease everyone to look it
up. It is a beautiful poem.
Michael, in your lesson last month, you gave us the most
wonderfully detailed lesson on what our great Urantia Book has
said about all the hundreds of ever-more-spiritual phases we go
through after we have died. As we too--in a way--go to sleep like
the earth goes into Winter and is re-born in Spring, we too go to
sleep and are reborn on consecutively more spiritual worlds.
It seems we could make up our own poem about ”Oh Sweet
Spontaneous Universe” because our own Local Universe promises
us an unending series of personal resurrections, each ever more
spiritual.
Another further parallel is coming this Sunday--Easter Sunday.
Michael, in your resurrection after crucifixion--as Jesus--you
assured us that there is a similar resurrection promised for all of
us. This great possibility is a wealth for all of us. So, Thank You.
Thank You so much. We look forward to meeting you face-to-face
someday.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening. This is your Mother Spirit, Nebadonia.
Michael and I are delighted to be with you as you realize the
parallels that exist between both you and us as God’s children.
Together we can more fully appreciate God’s handywork, not only
on your own world where Michael--your Creator Son--had his
human life, but also on all the worlds of our Local Universe.
They’ve been created and set up—and peopled--to support you in
your coming life. This is your coming Morontia transformation
from material to spiritual life, which your quasi-spiritual human
souls have already begun. You have already begun the wonderful
spiritualization of the material realms for yourself.
(The meaning of “Morontia”)
Onward, the Morontia worlds will be your steppingstones to being
a more purely spiritual person, even, someday, leaving our Local
Universe and heading out into the galaxy. Let us pause for a
moment and appreciate the glory of these worlds. Use your
imagination to realize that, as you are sitting here listening to me
tonight, these physical worlds exist out there. This is true, even
though your wonderful, new, space-born telescope—revealing
hundreds of millions of galaxies--can’t pick out these
Mansion/Morontia transition worlds of our Local Universe. They
are neither radiant nor luminous.
It takes your creative imagination to realize even somewhat that
these worlds are real. They are right now waiting for you, while of
course they’ve been busy for a long time housing and training
human pilgrims who were headed for Paradise in the initial
phases in their Morontia life.
(The Local Universe Morontia worlds)
Just imagine them for a while, my children--these hundreds of
uniquely constituted and populated worlds where one of their
main purposes is to be a steppingstone for your spiritual
transformation. Yet too, they also exist for their own populations.
Think of the hundreds of thousands of Local Universes with these
permanent real worlds with all their inhabitants--all their regular
spiritual folks, you might say.
They form a great glory of God’s creation within all the Local
Universes--these worlds sustaining and celebrating the whole
Morontia spectrum, all the way up from the material which is the
world you live on now. Each has its own increasing spiritual
degree of plants and animals by the millions.
We tease you to think of your own thousands of species of
spiders, on just one evolutionary planet. The Local Universe
Transition Worlds have every single phase from the most material
to the purely spiritual as a permanent, ongoing reality. This is one
enormous wealth of a Local Universe, times the hundreds of
thousands of other Local Universes within the seven Super
Universes.
We celebrate your human ingenuity that gave you your new
Webb telescope with its ever broader, deeper, and more profound
grasp of the Grand Universe. It adds to your worship of our
mutual Father’s works and the kind of mind that God must have
to have conceived of these things, brought them into existence,
and then so profusely peopled them. Add these millions of
transition worlds to your appreciation.
(The cosmic hierarchy of spiritual beings)
As for their vast spiritual communities, your wonderful Urantia
Book talks about the hierarchy of cosmic spiritual beings, starting
with the different grades of your own soul growth plus your own
“mystery monitors”—the presence of God right within you. They
will carry you clear across the universe, all the way to Paradise
and the Trinity.
This is my lesson for tonight--the enormity of God’s creation and
how so much of it is for your kind of personal being, with your
personality right from him. So much is devoted to you and your
spiritual growth. Think of God creating his enormous physical
universe not only for his own experience, but for all the personal
beings within it. They extend from the Trinity and the Master
Spirits of Paradise, down through to the heads of the Super
Universes, the Major and Minor Sectors, down to the 700,000
Local Universes. This is an enormous hierarchy of personal beings
with their different abilities, spanning all the way up from you and
your present lives.
(Your own personal expansion)
Let me tease you to imagine your own expansion as you will
come to grow your personal abilities and perceptions, not only of
the greater-dimension physical universe coming into view, but of
all the spirit friends you will meet and share your lives with. Their
friendship will continue along with the friends you have already
made, taking this journey with you. You may separate for a while,
but then curiously meet again, and again--forever.
This is our promise, my dear ones. It is a joy to contemplate and
meditate on. Think about these worlds specifically designed for
your kind of personal being and how the universe is peopled with
different orders of spiritual beings for you to meet and enjoy as
you expand to encompass their greater reality.
My dears, this is also a big tease--in a way--for you to keep going
within your earthly human lives. We know it is not always easy for
you when you wake up in the morning and sometimes need to sit
on the edge of the bed for a while to gather yourself together.
But you do get up, even if those first few steps may be rather
shaky and you need to hold on to nearby furniture for a time.
(Have faith it’s God’s adventure set before you)
No matter the difficulty, know and have faith that this journey you
have already started is just a beginning step. Even as your health
and strength come and go for so many personal reasons in your
life--but universally finally go in death--you too will know a
reincarnation like the one you celebrate this coming Easter
Sunday. That was the physical human life your Creator Son of
God was so privileged, and thankful, and worshipful to his Father
to have. What a glory that rebirth was for him--and for you, as
you study his life and appreciate your own to come.
His life is wonderfully detailed for you in your Urantia Book,
especially these parallels I have been talking about tonight, about
going to sleep and then re-awakening. This will be a great step
further on, like you already do when you get up in the morning
and take those first few steps. It does help to realize this is all
part of God’s plan.
There are no limitations on him and his creation that you are part
of, including all your trials, and aches, and pains. Everything of
spiritual value adds to your wonderful soul. You can appreciate
this glory you earn by living, resurrected every day and then
given your blissful sleep again and again. You reconstitute
yourselves to gather your strength and your determination to
carry on.
(The advanced beings you will meet and acquire their reality)
There is laid out before you an eternal path. Your Urantia Book
talks about meeting beings beyond your present comprehension.
You can be truly, wonderfully humble enough to feel your own
current limitations, imagining what it must be for a human being
to traverse the spiritually peopled physical universe your new
telescope gives you. Beyond are the billion worlds of the Central
Universe, on your way to Paradise. Eventually you may become a
Mighty Messenger, a kind of fulfilled one-time-human-being with
all the power his or her clear-across-creation experiences give.
It’s the Never-Ending Adventure--always something and someone
more to meet, to encompass and make your own. These are your
eternal possessions my dears, already a God-held part of your
souls. So this Easter, my dears, accept the glory of the kind of
beings you were created to be, with this potential. Join Michael
and I in praising our Father.
Now if you have any questions or comments from your own dear
human hearts, we’ll be giving some time for them.
===Dialogue===
Student: I would have the comment. Wow!--Happy Easter.
(A kind of ultimate glory)
Nebadonia: My dear, if you do feel a bit overwhelmed, that was
definitely my purpose this Easter season. Think of all that is
bound up in resurrection--that coming back to life again one more
time, as it will be yours forever. It’s a kind of ultimate glory laid
out before you. God does have an ultimate dimension, does he
not--that he would love to share with you?
===Closing===
Student #1: Well, thank you! And as I said, Happy Easter to us
all.
Student #2: To us all. I love the resurrection story. Thank you. I
never tire of it.
Nebadonia: One of God’s great ideas.
Laughter—all.
Nebadonia: Good night, dear ones. Michael certainly bids you to
be in his peace. Be in my love. Good night.
===Note===
[O sweet spontaneous earth] BY E. E. CUMMINGS
:O sweet spontaneous
:earth how often have
:the
:doting
::fingers of
:prurient philosophers pinched
:and
:poked
:thee
:,has the naughty thumb
:of science prodded
:thy beauty
:how
:often have religions taken
:thee upon their scraggy knees
:squeezing and
:buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
:gods
::(but
:true
:to the incomparable
:couch of death thy
:rhythmic
:lover
:thou answerest
:them only with
::spring)
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2024]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''The Meaning of Morontia''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael: Welcome, dear spiritual parents.
Here in Northern California it is a beautiful Spring evening.
Outside my patio doors is a big sprawling tree all decked out in
the purest white. It calls to mind a poem by E. E. Cummings -
"Oh sweet Spontaneous Earth.” Let me tease everyone to look it
up. It is a beautiful poem.
Michael, in your lesson last month, you gave us the most
wonderfully detailed lesson on what our great Urantia Book has
said about all the hundreds of ever-more-spiritual phases we go
through after we have died. As we too--in a way--go to sleep like
the earth goes into Winter and is re-born in Spring, we too go to
sleep and are reborn on consecutively more spiritual worlds.
It seems we could make up our own poem about ”Oh Sweet
Spontaneous Universe” because our own Local Universe promises
us an unending series of personal resurrections, each ever more
spiritual.
Another further parallel is coming this Sunday--Easter Sunday.
Michael, in your resurrection after crucifixion--as Jesus--you
assured us that there is a similar resurrection promised for all of
us. This great possibility is a wealth for all of us. So, Thank You.
Thank You so much. We look forward to meeting you face-to-face
someday.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening. This is your Mother Spirit, Nebadonia.
Michael and I are delighted to be with you as you realize the
parallels that exist between both you and us as God’s children.
Together we can more fully appreciate God’s handywork, not only
on your own world where Michael--your Creator Son--had his
human life, but also on all the worlds of our Local Universe.
They’ve been created and set up—and peopled--to support you in
your coming life. This is your coming Morontia transformation
from material to spiritual life, which your quasi-spiritual human
souls have already begun. You have already begun the wonderful
spiritualization of the material realms for yourself.
(The meaning of “Morontia”)
Onward, the Morontia worlds will be your steppingstones to being
a more purely spiritual person, even, someday, leaving our Local
Universe and heading out into the galaxy. Let us pause for a
moment and appreciate the glory of these worlds. Use your
imagination to realize that, as you are sitting here listening to me
tonight, these physical worlds exist out there. This is true, even
though your wonderful, new, space-born telescope—revealing
hundreds of millions of galaxies--can’t pick out these
Mansion/Morontia transition worlds of our Local Universe. They
are neither radiant nor luminous.
It takes your creative imagination to realize even somewhat that
these worlds are real. They are right now waiting for you, while of
course they’ve been busy for a long time housing and training
human pilgrims who were headed for Paradise in the initial
phases in their Morontia life.
(The Local Universe Morontia worlds)
Just imagine them for a while, my children--these hundreds of
uniquely constituted and populated worlds where one of their
main purposes is to be a steppingstone for your spiritual
transformation. Yet too, they also exist for their own populations.
Think of the hundreds of thousands of Local Universes with these
permanent real worlds with all their inhabitants--all their regular
spiritual folks, you might say.
They form a great glory of God’s creation within all the Local
Universes--these worlds sustaining and celebrating the whole
Morontia spectrum, all the way up from the material which is the
world you live on now. Each has its own increasing spiritual
degree of plants and animals by the millions.
We tease you to think of your own thousands of species of
spiders, on just one evolutionary planet. The Local Universe
Transition Worlds have every single phase from the most material
to the purely spiritual as a permanent, ongoing reality. This is one
enormous wealth of a Local Universe, times the hundreds of
thousands of other Local Universes within the seven Super
Universes.
We celebrate your human ingenuity that gave you your new
Webb telescope with its ever broader, deeper, and more profound
grasp of the Grand Universe. It adds to your worship of our
mutual Father’s works and the kind of mind that God must have
to have conceived of these things, brought them into existence,
and then so profusely peopled them. Add these millions of
transition worlds to your appreciation.
(The cosmic hierarchy of spiritual beings)
As for their vast spiritual communities, your wonderful Urantia
Book talks about the hierarchy of cosmic spiritual beings, starting
with the different grades of your own soul growth plus your own
“mystery monitors”—the presence of God right within you. They
will carry you clear across the universe, all the way to Paradise
and the Trinity.
This is my lesson for tonight--the enormity of God’s creation and
how so much of it is for your kind of personal being, with your
personality right from him. So much is devoted to you and your
spiritual growth. Think of God creating his enormous physical
universe not only for his own experience, but for all the personal
beings within it. They extend from the Trinity and the Master
Spirits of Paradise, down through to the heads of the Super
Universes, the Major and Minor Sectors, down to the 700,000
Local Universes. This is an enormous hierarchy of personal beings
with their different abilities, spanning all the way up from you and
your present lives.
(Your own personal expansion)
Let me tease you to imagine your own expansion as you will
come to grow your personal abilities and perceptions, not only of
the greater-dimension physical universe coming into view, but of
all the spirit friends you will meet and share your lives with. Their
friendship will continue along with the friends you have already
made, taking this journey with you. You may separate for a while,
but then curiously meet again, and again--forever.
This is our promise, my dear ones. It is a joy to contemplate and
meditate on. Think about these worlds specifically designed for
your kind of personal being and how the universe is peopled with
different orders of spiritual beings for you to meet and enjoy as
you expand to encompass their greater reality.
My dears, this is also a big tease--in a way--for you to keep going
within your earthly human lives. We know it is not always easy for
you when you wake up in the morning and sometimes need to sit
on the edge of the bed for a while to gather yourself together.
But you do get up, even if those first few steps may be rather
shaky and you need to hold on to nearby furniture for a time.
(Have faith it’s God’s adventure set before you)
No matter the difficulty, know and have faith that this journey you
have already started is just a beginning step. Even as your health
and strength come and go for so many personal reasons in your
life--but universally finally go in death--you too will know a
reincarnation like the one you celebrate this coming Easter
Sunday. That was the physical human life your Creator Son of
God was so privileged, and thankful, and worshipful to his Father
to have. What a glory that rebirth was for him--and for you, as
you study his life and appreciate your own to come.
His life is wonderfully detailed for you in your Urantia Book,
especially these parallels I have been talking about tonight, about
going to sleep and then re-awakening. This will be a great step
further on, like you already do when you get up in the morning
and take those first few steps. It does help to realize this is all
part of God’s plan.
There are no limitations on him and his creation that you are part
of, including all your trials, and aches, and pains. Everything of
spiritual value adds to your wonderful soul. You can appreciate
this glory you earn by living, resurrected every day and then
given your blissful sleep again and again. You reconstitute
yourselves to gather your strength and your determination to
carry on.
(The advanced beings you will meet and acquire their reality)
There is laid out before you an eternal path. Your Urantia Book
talks about meeting beings beyond your present comprehension.
You can be truly, wonderfully humble enough to feel your own
current limitations, imagining what it must be for a human being
to traverse the spiritually peopled physical universe your new
telescope gives you. Beyond are the billion worlds of the Central
Universe, on your way to Paradise. Eventually you may become a
Mighty Messenger, a kind of fulfilled one-time-human-being with
all the power his or her clear-across-creation experiences give.
It’s the Never-Ending Adventure--always something and someone
more to meet, to encompass and make your own. These are your
eternal possessions my dears, already a God-held part of your
souls. So this Easter, my dears, accept the glory of the kind of
beings you were created to be, with this potential. Join Michael
and I in praising our Father.
Now if you have any questions or comments from your own dear
human hearts, we’ll be giving some time for them.
===Dialogue===
Student: I would have the comment. Wow!--Happy Easter.
(A kind of ultimate glory)
Nebadonia: My dear, if you do feel a bit overwhelmed, that was
definitely my purpose this Easter season. Think of all that is
bound up in resurrection--that coming back to life again one more
time, as it will be yours forever. It’s a kind of ultimate glory laid
out before you. God does have an ultimate dimension, does he
not--that he would love to share with you?
===Closing===
Student #1: Well, thank you! And as I said, Happy Easter to us
all.
Student #2: To us all. I love the resurrection story. Thank you. I
never tire of it.
Nebadonia: One of God’s great ideas.
Laughter—all.
Nebadonia: Good night, dear ones. Michael certainly bids you to
be in his peace. Be in my love. Good night.
===Note===
[O sweet spontaneous earth] BY E. E. CUMMINGS
:O sweet spontaneous
:earth how often have
:the
:doting
::fingers of
:prurient philosophers pinched
:and
:poked
:thee
:,has the naughty thumb
:of science prodded
:thy beauty
:how
:often have religions taken
:thee upon their scraggy knees
:squeezing and
:buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
:gods
::(but
:true
:to the incomparable
:couch of death thy
:rhythmic
:lover
:thou answerest
:them only with
::spring)
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2024]]
