Lane - The Adventure of Being Human The Holy Spirit Speaks: More Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation

Love is essentially a power, a divine force in the cosmos bringing and holding personal beings together. As a dynamic power it cannot be held still, captured, or possessed. Love only exists in the very use of it. You can best realize Gods unfathomable love for you by feeling it and giving it away.

The religious goal of the ages is the consciousness of spirit. This goal is what you share with all those who have gone before and blazed the way. We assure you that, as these predecessors found their way, so too can you find one that is uniquely yours. For this is your most precious contribution to all those about you. Its what others could never create: you, in all your fullness.

When all is said and done, my children, you are a unique, creative personality. When all things are taken into considerationeven what you feel to be our answers to your prayersstill, it is you stepping off. It is you doing the deed. It is you who needs to stay open, bright-eyed, and open-minded to the results.

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Origin Press/Celestia

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www.Evolving-Souls.org

Copyright 2015

By Jerry Lane

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Interior book design by Carla Green

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ISBN: 978-1-579830-35-9

First printing January 2015

Printed in the United States of America

Note to the Reader

This book contains numerous references to specialized terms used in The Urantia Book. Such terms, when used in this book for the first time, are followed by an asterisk (*), and are defined in the glossary. To further aid the reader who is new to the Urantia Revelation, we provide introductory materials in the Preface and Prologue and especially in the Appendices. To readers of the first edition in this series: We have borrowed a few of our favorite epigrams and lessons from that book and reprinted these passages here as wellfor these words of our beloved Mother Spirit* do bear repeating. In we have also reproduced the important Magisterial Mission* section as well, which now includes three crucial lessons from Christ Michael.*

Acknowledgements

First, my thanks to Byron Belitsos for the final copyediting of the transmissions. My thanks once again to the original members of the Marin County Teaching Mission Group for allowing us to extract these materials from the large corpus of celestial interactions for which they provided the essential human counterpart. They include David Jacobs, Charlie Hicks, Rick Voss, Claire Miller, Vin Myers, Valerie Cantrell, and Byron Belitsos.

Part I:
Epigrams and Short Teachings

Part II:
Selected Lessons

Part III:
The Magisterial Mission

Part IV:
Appendices

Part I:
Epigrams and Short Teachings

Part II:
Selected Lessons

Part III.
On the Magisterial Mission

Part IV:
Appendices

We have two chief purposes for publishing The Adventure of Being Human series, this book being the second volume so far in print. The first is to amplify the core spiritual teachings of The Urantia Book, a challenging and unprecedented revelatory text first published in 1955. The second is to introduce the two central deity-personalities of the Urantia Revelation, affectionately known to us as Mother Spirit (or simply Mother) and Christ Michael (or Michael). The figure of Michael as he is depicted in the Urantia Revelation is known to history as the human Jesus Christ. The person of Mother has made her appearance to us as the divine Mother of almost every world religion, known by such names as Mother Mary (Christianity), Shakti (Hinduism) or Kuan Yin (Taoism). As taught in the Urantia text, Michael and Mother are our universe parentsin fact, Mother is the heavenly consort and the equal deity-partner of Michael. The Urantia Book reveals that the divine figure of Christ has a coequal feminine complementand we are the evolving children of this sublimely beautiful divine couple.

Technically speaking, this exalted pair are our local universe parents in that they are the creators of our local universe (i.e., the local section of our Milky Way galaxy) of several million inhabited worldsone of which is our planet, Urantia. (A more detailed discussion of this theology and cosmology is provided in .) Being the creators and upholders of their local universe and all of its living beings, Michael and Mother also maintain, by virtue of their divine omniscience, loving and intimate contact with their sons and daughtersyou and I. This love and watchcare is reflected in their directly transmitted teachings about soulful living as recorded in the first two volumes of The Adventure of Being Human series.

What, then, is the Urantia Revelation? Purported to be a modern revelation to humankind, The Urantia Book comes across at first glance as a two-thousand-page futuristic encyclopedia of spirituality, history, philosophy, science, and religion. Indeed, for thousands of people worldwide, it has become an indispensable philosophic and cosmic reference text. But most of us love the Urantia revelation for another reason: its profound teachings on spiritual living. Followers of Jesus are especially attracted by the books seven-hundred page narration of his life and its deeper and more philosophical presentation of his gospel. In addition, teachings spread out among the books 2,096 pages greatly augment our understanding of ethics, health, happiness, love, service, forgiveness, mercy, friendship, marriage, and spiritualitytopics that we believe Mother further discusses with elegance in this book.

Among many other teachings, the Urantia Revelation provides a greatly expanded understanding of our human adventure on this planet, and in fact provides a novel definition of what it means to be human against the backdrop of its vastly expanded cosmology. The Adventure of Being Human series is designed to be a friendly, warm, and interactive extension of this same quest for a better understanding of our humanity. After all, what better way to appreciate ourselves than from the standpoint of the very divine beings who created us? This book purports to provide teachings about being human, offered directly from their cosmic point of view, inclusive of Christ Michaels experience of living on Earth as one of us.