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==CHAPTER 4==

==CHAPTER 4==

===THE TRANSITION YEARS===

===THE TRANSITION YEARS===

'''At the temple of religion on Lake Urmia Jesus delivered a series of lectures''':  

At the temple of religion on Lake Urmia Jesus delivered a series of lectures:  

The Urmia Lectures

The Urmia Lectures

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

*“The '''brotherhood''' of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. '''The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love'''. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.  

*<u>“The '''brotherhood''' of men is founded on the '''fatherhood''' of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is '''love'''.</u> God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.  

*"The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty -- God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual, it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.  

*<u>"The '''kingdom of heaven''', the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine '''sovereignty'''. God is spirit, and since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual, it is a '''spiritual''' relationship between God and man.</u>

*"If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.  

*"If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.  

*"The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty.  

*"The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty.  

*"'''God is spirit''', and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. '''Spiritually, all men are equal'''. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.  

*"God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.  

*"But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions. Then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, and even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.

*"But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions. Then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, and even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

*“'''War on earth will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty'''. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty: the spiritual free will of the individual human being and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total -- man and mankind.  

*<u>“'''War''' on earth will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative '''sovereignty''': the spiritual free will of the individual human being and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole.</u> Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total -- man and mankind.  

*"Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the '''Most Highs''' rule in the kingdoms of men.  

*"Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.  

*"This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any favored group of people. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the Most Highs, the over controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.  

*"This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any favored group of people. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the Most Highs, the over controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.  

*"Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever-larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.  

*"Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever-larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.  

*"'''This world will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men -- mankind government'''. Internationalism -- Leagues of Nations -- can never bring permanent peace to mankind. Worldwide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.

*<u>"This world will not enjoy lasting '''peace''' until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men -- mankind government.</u> Internationalism -- Leagues of Nations -- can never bring permanent peace to mankind. Worldwide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. <u>You cannot prevent nations going to '''war''' as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty.</u> Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.

*“As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of super national power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.  

*“As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of super national power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.  

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:

*“If one man craves freedom -- '''liberty''' -- he must remember that all other men long for the same '''freedom'''. Groups of such liberty-loving people cannot live together in peace without following such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all people. If one person is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. '''Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW'''.  

*<u>“If one man craves freedom -- '''liberty''' -- he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom.</u> Groups of such liberty-loving people cannot live together in peace without following such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all people. If one person is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. <u>'''Freedom''' is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of '''LAW'''.</u>

*"'''Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men''', but it will require '''mankind government''' to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of human happiness and efficiency.  

*"Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men, but it will require mankind government to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of human happiness and efficiency.  

*"'''There will be wars and rumors of wars''' -- nation will rise against nation -- just as long as the world's political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom.  

*<u>"There will be wars and rumors of '''wars''' -- nation will rise against nation -- just as long as the world's political '''sovereignty''' is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states.</u> England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom.  

*"Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. '''Global sovereignty will prevent global wars -- nothing else can'''.  

*"Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. Global sovereignty will prevent global wars -- nothing else can.  

*"The American states live together in peace. There are among the citizens of these states all of the various nationalities and races that live in the ever-warring nations of Europe. These Americans represent almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North America they live together in peace. And all this is made possible because these American states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination.

*"The American states live together in peace. There are among the citizens of these states all of the various nationalities and races that live in the ever-warring nations of Europe. These Americans represent almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North America they live together in peace. And all this is made possible because these American states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination.

*“It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining worldwide peace. If you take away every form of modern weaponry and all types of explosives from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty.  

*“It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining worldwide peace. If you take away every form of modern weaponry and all types of explosives from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty.  

*"War is not man's great and terrible disease. War is a symptom, a result. '''The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty'''.  

*"War is not man's great and terrible disease. War is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.  

*"Urantia nations have not possessed real sovereignty. They've never had a sovereignty that could protect them from the ravages and devastations of world wars. In the creation of the global government of mankind, the nations are not giving up sovereignty so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting '''world sovereignty''' which will be fully able to protect them from all war. Local governments will handle local affairs. National governments will handle national affairs. Global government will administer International affairs.  

*"Urantia nations have not possessed real sovereignty. They've never had a sovereignty that could protect them from the ravages and devastations of world wars. In the creation of the global government of mankind, the nations are not giving up sovereignty so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world sovereignty which will be fully able to protect them from all war. Local governments will handle local affairs. National governments will handle national affairs. Global government will administer International affairs.  

   

   

*“Treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism cannot maintain world peace. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government -- the '''sovereignty of all mankind'''.

*“Treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism cannot maintain world peace. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government -- the sovereignty of all mankind.

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions continued:

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions continued:

*"'''The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government'''. Today, the citizens of the great nations are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government.  

*<u>"The '''individual''' will enjoy far more liberty under world government.</u> Today, the citizens of the great nations are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government.  

*"Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended. With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of worldwide peace. Soon may a global language evolve, and there will be at least some hope of sometime having a global religion -- or religions with a global viewpoint.  

*"Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended. With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of worldwide peace. Soon may a global language evolve, and there will be at least some hope of sometime having a global religion -- or religions with a global viewpoint.  

*"Collective security will never afford peace until the collectivity includes all mankind.  

*"Collective security will never afford peace until the collectivity includes all mankind.  

*"The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all people. And there is no other way whereby '''peace on earth and good will among men''' can be realized.”

*"The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all people. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized.”

====The Sojourn on Mount Hermon====

====The Sojourn on Mount Hermon====

Near the end of the mountain sojourn Jesus asked his Father if he might be permitted to hold conference with his Satania enemies as the Son of Man, as Joshua ben Joseph. This request was granted. During the last week on Mount Hermon the '''great temptation''', the '''universe trial''', occurred. Satan (representing Lucifer) and the rebellious Planetary Prince, Caligastia, were present with Jesus and were made fully visible to him. This "temptation," this final trial of human loyalty in the face of the misrepresentations of rebel personalities, had not to do with food, temple pinnacles, or presumptuous acts. It had not to do with the kingdoms of this world but with the sovereignty of a mighty and glorious universe. The symbolism of your records was intended for the backward ages of the world's childlike thought.  

Near the end of the mountain sojourn Jesus asked his Father if he might be permitted to hold conference with his Satania enemies as the Son of Man, as Joshua ben Joseph. This request was granted. During the last week on Mount Hermon the great temptation, the universe trial, occurred. Satan (representing Lucifer) and the rebellious Planetary Prince, Caligastia, were present with Jesus and were made fully visible to him. This "temptation," this final trial of human loyalty in the face of the misrepresentations of rebel personalities, had not to do with food, temple pinnacles, or presumptuous acts. It had not to do with the kingdoms of this world but with the sovereignty of a mighty and glorious universe. The symbolism of your records was intended for the backward ages of the world's childlike thought.  

To the many proposals and counterproposals of the emissaries of Lucifer, Jesus said:

To the many proposals and counterproposals of the emissaries of Lucifer, Jesus said: