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Fifth Epochal Revelation of God to Man   - a gift from God THE UNIVERSAL FATHER to all Mankind. THE UNIVERSAL FATHER Presented by a Divine Counselor, a member of a group of celestial personalities assigned by the Ancients of Days on Uversa, the headquarters of the seventh superuniverse, to supervise those portions of this forthcoming revelation which have to do with affairs beyond the borders of the local universe of Nebadon. I am commissioned to sponsor those papers portraying the nature and attributes of God because I represent the highest source of information available for such a purpose on any inhabited world. I have served as a Divine Counselor in all seven of the superuniverses and have long resided at the Paradise center of all things. Many times have I enjoyed the supreme pleasure of a sojourn in the immediate personal presence of the Universal Father. I portray the reality and truth of the Father's nature and attributes with unchallengeable authority; I know whereof I speak.1:0.1 THE Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain." Only the concept of the Universal Father -- one God in the place of many gods -- enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite controller.  1:0.2 The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. "God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited."1:0.3 The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect." In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia.  1:0.4 This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man's eternal spiritual progress.  1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect," which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space. 1. THE FATHER'S NAME 1:1.1 Of all the names by which God the Father is known throughout the universes, those which designate him as the First Source and the Universe Center are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in different universes and in different sectors of the same universe. The names which the creature assigns to the Creator are much dependent on the creature's concept of the Creator. The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by nature. If we believe that we are the children of this Creator, it is only natural that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our personal relationship with the First Source and Center.1:1.2 The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves -- in their own hearts -- recognize, love, and voluntarily worship him. The Creator refuses to coerce or compel the submission of the spiritual free wills of his material creatures. The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father's will, and such decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father.  1:1.3 When you have once become truly God-conscious, after you really discover the majestic Creator and begin to experience the realization of the indwelling presence of the divine controller, then, in accordance with your enlightenment and in accordance with the manner and method by which the divine Sons reveal God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately expressive of your concept of the First Great Source and Center. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in spirit of relationship all meaning the same but, in words and symbols, each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his enthronement in the hearts of his creatures of any given realm.   1:1.4 Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One.  1:1.5 On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion. On your constellation headquarters God is referred to as the Universal Father, and on different planets in your local system of inhabited worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the Paradise Father, the Havona Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching relationship of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as "our Father."  1:1.6 On a planet of sex creatures, in a world where the impulses of parental emotion are inherent in the hearts of its intelligent beings, the term Father becomes a very expressive and appropriate name for the eternal God. He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, Urantia, by the name God. The name he is given is of little importance; the significant thing is that you should know him and aspire to be like him. Your prophets of old truly called him "the everlasting God" and referred to him as the one who "inhabits eternity."
 
 

 

  
 

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The Urantia Papers

  
     
 
 
 
.   Forward
 
.   Paper 1 The Universal Father
 
    Paper 2 The Nature of God
 
.   Paper 3 The Attributes of God
 
.   Paper 4 Gods Relation to the Universe
 
.   Paper 5 God's Relation to the Individual
 
.   Paper 6 The Eternal Son
 
.   Paper 7 Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe
 
 .  Paper 8 The Infinite Spirit
 
 .  Paper 9 Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe
 
 .  Paper 10 The Paradise Trinity
 
    Paper 11 The Eternal Isle of Paradise
 
    Paper 12 The Universe of Universes 
 
    Paper 13 The Sacred Spheres of Paradise
 
    Paper 14 The Central and Divine Universe
 
    Paper 15 The Seven Superuniverses
 
    Paper 16 The Seven Master Spirits
 
    Paper 17 The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups
 
    Paper 18 The Supreme Trinity Personalities
 
    Paper 19 The Co-ordinate Trinity Origin Beings
 
    Paper 20 The Paradise Sons of GOD
 
    Paper 21 The Paradise Creator Sons
 
    Paper 22 The Trinitized Sons of GOD
 
    Paper 23 The Solitary Messengers
 
    Paper 24 Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit
 
    Paper 25 The Messenger Hosts of Space
 
    Paper 26 The Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe
 
    Paper 27 Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim
 
    Paper 28 Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses
 
    Paper 29 The Universe Power Directors
 
    Paper 30 Personalities of the Grand Universe
 
    Paper 31 The Corps of the Finality
 
    Paper 32 The Evolution of Local Universes
 
    Paper 33 The Administration of Local Universes
 
    Paper 34 The Local Universe Mother Spirit
 
    Paper 35 The Local Universe Sons of GOD
 
    Paper 36  The Life Carriers
 
    Paper 37  Personalities of the Local Universe
 
    Paper 38 Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe
 
    Paper 39 The Seraphic Hosts
 
    Paper 40 The Ascending Sons of GOD
 
    Paper 41 Physical Aspects of the Local Universe
 
    Paper 42 Energy - Mind - and - Matter
 
    Paper 43 The Constellations
 
    Paper 44 The Celestial Artisans
 
    Paper 45 The Local System Administration
 
    Paper 46 The Local System Headquarters
 
   Paper 47 The Seven Mansion Worlds
 
    Paper 48 The Morontia Life
 
    Paper 49 The Inhabited Worlds
 
    Paper 50 The Planetary Princes
 
    Paper 51 The Planetary Adams
 
    Paper 52 Planetary Mortal Epochs
 
    Paper 53 The Lucifer Rebellion
 
    Paper 54 Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
 
    Paper 55 The Spheres of Light and Life
 
    Paper 56 Universal Unity
 
    Paper 57 The Origin of Urantia (Earth)
 
    Paper 58 Life Establishment on Urantia (Earth)
 
    Paper 59 The Marine Life Era on Urantia (Earth)
 
    Paper 60 Urantia During the Early Land Life Era
 
    Paper 61 The Mammalian Era on Urantia (Earth)
 
    Paper 62 The Dawn Races of Early Man
 
    Paper 63 The First Human Family
 
    Paper 64 The Evolutionary Races of Color
 
    Paper 65 The Overcontrol of Evolution
 
    Paper 66 The Planetary Prince of Urantia
 
    Paper 67 The Planetary Rebellion
 
   Paper 68 The Dawn of Civilization
 
    Paper 69 Primitive Human Institutions
 
    Paper 70  The Evolution of Human Government
 
    Paper 71 Development of the State