Appendices

Appendix VI - Glossary
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Appendix IX - Urantia Book Flowchart
Appendix X - The Color of Deity
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Absolute

The absolute level had no beginning.  It is endless, timeless, and contains no space.  The absolute transcends time, space, infinity, eternity, and the Ultimate.

 

Absoluta

Space potency; a phase of force-energy which is a prereality, considered to be the free space presence of the Unqualified Absolute, and is responsive only to the grasp of the Universal Father.

 

Absolutum

Absolutum is the matter composing Paradise.  It is not found anywhere else in creation.

 

Absonite 

Absonite is a level of existence midway between absolute and finite. Things and beings without beginning or ending that characterize the absonite level of reality.  It transcends time and space. Absoniters are not created.  They are eventuated.  They simply are.  Absonite things and beings are sub-infinite since they do have limitations.

 

Incarnation

Incarnation is the unrevealed process by which the spirit of man or god inhabits mortal flesh.

 

Infinite

Infinite things have no limits.  Unlimited distance or number is called infinity.  Unlimited time is called eternity.  Mortals are finite beings who cannot really begin to comprehend infinity or eternity.  Like God, who is infinite and eternal, mortals must accept unlimited realities on faith.

Eugenics

Eugenics is the study of improving the human race by selective reproduction, that is, encouraging the multiplication of the higher strains of all races, while limiting the reproduction of the lower types.  It comes from the Greek eu, meaning good, and genos, meaning race.

 

Eventuate

Eventuate means to be - not created, not evolving, but simply being.  Creatures can hardly comprehend the existence of intelligent beings that are neither creators nor creatures.  Some things and beings were never created nor do they create.  They eventuate.

 

Evolutionary

Evolutionary things grow and develop. The Supreme Being is evolutionary and experiential, as distinguished from the Universal Father who is existential. Mankind's religions are evolutionary, as distinguished from the Urantia Book, which is revelatory. The development of higher animals and man from simple one-celled creatures was an evolutionary process.

 

Existential

Existential things simply are.  The Unqualified Absolute is existential.  The Ultimate eventuates.  The Supreme evolves experientially.

 

Experiential

Experiential means having experience.  This implies existing in time and space rather than infinity and eternity.  The Supreme Being is the experiential aspect of Deity.

 

Finite

Finite things have limits.  For example, seven hundred trillion (the number of potential worlds in the Grand Universe) is a finite number.

 

Jesusonian

Jesusonian is a personal religion.  It is distinguished from the Christian religion since it emphasizes the teachings of Jesus, rather than the teachings about Jesus.  Unfortunately, the religion about Jesus has largely replaced the religion of Jesus, the simple gospel of faith and love, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

Midwayers

Midwayers are creatures who appear on most inhabited worlds, and always on life-experiment decimal worlds such as Earth. They exist and function in the realm "midway" between human and angel.  Midwayers appear in two types.  Primary midwayers resemble angels more than mortals.  They were produced by the corporeal staff of the Planetary Prince.  Secondary midwayers are much more like human beings and have Nodite and Adamic ancestry.

Midwayers are the permanent inhabitants of a world until released for the ascendant experience upon the spiritual and cultural maturation of life on their planet.

Midwayers exist just outside the range of mortal vision.  They perform many important services on the planet, and have powers over material things including animals. 

 

Morontia

Morontia is the transitional state of being between the physical and the spiritual.  Jesus was in his morontial bodies during his nineteen resurrection appearances to his apostles and other believers.  Mortals will become morontia beings when they arrive on the Mansion worlds after resurrection from mortal death.  The morontia body will be up stepped 570 times before the ascendant being departs from the local universe as a first-stage spirit being on the ascension journey to Paradise.  Morontia refers to material, mind, soul, and spiritual realities.

 

Personality

While personality cannot be defined, some attributes of personality may be stated.  Personality is that quality in reality which is bestowed by the Universal Father himself or by the Conjoint Actor, acting for the Father.

Personality may be bestowed upon any living energy system that includes mind or spirit.  It is relatively creative or co-creative.

Personality in evolutionary material creatures causes spirit to strive for the mastery of energy-matter through the mediation of mind.

While devoid of identity, personality can unify the identity of any living energy system.

Personality discloses only qualitative response to the personality circuit.

Personality is changeless in the presence of change.

Personality can make a gift to God by dedicating the human free will to the doing of the will of God.

Personality is characterized by morality  (awareness of relativity of relationship with other persons). It discerns conduct levels and makes choices between them.

Personality is unique in time and space, in eternity and on Paradise.  There are no duplicates.

Personality responds directly to the presence of other personalities.

Personality is one thing that can be added to spirit. (Mind does not have to be added to spirit.)

Personality may survive mortal death with identity in the surviving soul. The Adjuster and the personality are changeless.  The relationship between them (in the soul) is nothing but change, continuing evolution.  If this change (growth) ceased, the soul would cease.

Personality is uniquely conscious of time.  This is different from the time perception of mind or spirit.

 

 

Ultimate 

God the Ultimate entails the attained realization of the synthesized absonite-super personal, time-space-transcended, and eventuated-experiential values, coordinated on final creative levels of Deity reality." Ultimate means final - the final level of reality just before Absolute.

 

Ultimaton 

An energy particle that is the primary unit of material existence, 100 of which combine to form a single electron. Ultimatons are not responsive to linear gravity, but are subject to Paradise gravity.  Ultimatons are fragments of the Unqualified Absolute dispersed into Space from the nether side of Paradise.

“Universe”

The Urantia Book uses the term "universe" in several different ways.  It speaks of local universes and super universes, of the central universe, the grand universe, and the master universe.

 

Havona is the name of the central universe. This is the creation that immediately surrounds Paradise. (The Isle of Paradise is not a part of any universe; it is the motionless and absolute center of all material things.)

 

Havona is encircled by the seven super universes.  Orvonton is the name of the seventh super universe in which Earth (Urantia) is located. Each super universe is designed to embrace 100,000 local universes.  Nebadon is the name of Earth’s local universe.

 

In speaking about the central universe plus the seven super universes, The Urantia Book uses the name "grand universe." This is the presently organized and inhabited creation in contrast to the unorganized and uninhabited space regions (the four outer space levels) beyond the grand universe.

 

When referring to the grand universe plus the four outer space levels, The Urantia Book  uses the term, "master universe."

 

Unqualified Reality

Unqualified reality is beyond all description.  Nothing can be said about it because once described, it is qualified.  The infinite I AM freed himself from unqualified infinity energy through the exercise of absolute free will.

 

Urantia Book

The 196 papers of The Urantia Book constitute the fifth epochal revelation to planet Earth.  Authored by super humans, it was completed in 1936 and published in 1955 by Urantia Foundation. Its 2,097 pages are divided into four parts: The Central and Super universes, the Local Universe, the History of Urantia (Earth), and the Life and Teachings of Jesus.  The book has been republished many times and translated into many languages.  The book will receive no official publicity pending the formation of thousands of study groups.