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 First of all the user name Yahweh is the name I chose to relay to interested people what is described in http://www.wikipedia.com as a spriritual and philosophical book that discusses God, science, religion, history, philosophy and destiny. I did this to give proper credit for what is sometimes called the Fifth Epochal Revelation. According to a quote from wikipedia The Urantia Book (Earth Book) "authorship is a mystery".
The name Urantia is an ancient name for Earth. What I have done in these articles is to substitute the name Earth in lieu of Urantia because the name is foreign to most modern day readers. I believe that alone causes confusion for many people. This first article or paper is from Paper No. 1 titled "The Universal Father". Yahweh is also a name that religious scholars convey to laymen as being the proper name to call God. I invite you to read this first paper and to comment on what you think of Paper No. 1 and I invite you to also read the original version of at http://www.wikipedia.com by using the search term Urantia Book. Thank you for your time and attention and I hope you might gain some insight on Yahweh or God as you may understand him to be.
1:0.1 THE Universal Father is the Yahweh of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. First think of Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of Yahweh and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. "Yahweh 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 Yahweh the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal Yahweh to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. Yahweh-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 Earth. 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 Yahweh of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man's eternal spiritual progress. 1:0.5 Earth mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite Yahweh has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as Yahweh himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and Yahweh-consciousness. 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 Yahweh of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space. [edit] The Father's Name 1:1.1 Of all the names by which Yahweh 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 Yahweh; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In Yahweh, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to Yahweh 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 Yahweh-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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh 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, Yahweh is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion. On your constellation headquarters Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, Earth, 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 Yahweh" and referred to him as the one who "inhabits eternity." [edit] The Reality of Yahweh 1:2.1 Yahweh is primal reality in the spirit world; Yahweh is the source of truth in the mind spheres; Yahweh overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences Yahweh is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. Yahweh is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality. 1:2.2 The eternal Yahweh is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. Yahweh is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is Yahweh merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. Yahweh is a transcendent reality, not merely man's traditional concept of supreme values. Yahweh is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he "the noblest work of man." Yahweh may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death. 1:2.3 The actuality of the existence of Yahweh is demonstrated in human experience by the indwelling of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soul of eternal survival. The presence of this divine Adjuster in the human mind is disclosed by three experiential phenomena: The intellectual capacity for knowing Yahweh -- Yahweh-consciousness. The spiritual urge to find Yahweh -- Yahweh-seeking. The personality craving to be like Yahweh -- the wholehearted desire to do the Father's will. 1:2.4 The existence of Yahweh can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. Yahweh can be realized only in the realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of Yahweh is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personality survival. 1:2.5 Those who know Yahweh have experienced the fact of his presence; such Yahweh-knowing mortals hold in their personal experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living Yahweh which one human being can offer to another. The existence of Yahweh is utterly beyond all possibility of demonstration except for the contact between the Yahweh-consciousness of the human mind and the Yahweh-presence of the Thought Adjuster that indwells the mortal intellect and is bestowed upon man as the free gift of the Universal Father. 1:2.6 In theory you may think of Yahweh as the Creator, and he is the personal creator of Paradise and the central universe of perfection, but the universes of time and space are all created and organized by the Paradise corps of the Creator Sons. The Universal Father is not the personal creator of the local universe of Nebadon; the universe in which you live is the creation of his Son Michael (Jesus). Though the Father does not personally create the evolutionary universes, he does control them in many of their universal relationships and in certain of their manifestations of physical, mindal, and spiritual energies. Yahweh the Father is the personal creator of the Paradise universe and, in association with the Eternal Son, the creator of all other personal universe Creators. 1:2.7 As a physical controller in the material universe of universes, the First Source and Center functions in the patterns of the eternal Isle of Paradise, and through this absolute gravity center the eternal Yahweh exercises cosmic overcontrol of the physical level equally in the central universe and throughout the universe of universes. As mind, Yahweh functions in the Deity of the Infinite Spirit; as spirit, Yahweh is manifest in the person of the Eternal Son and in the persons of the divine children of the Eternal Son. This interrelation of the First Source and Center with the co-ordinate Persons and Absolutes of Paradise does not in the least preclude the direct personal action of the Universal Father throughout all creation and on all levels thereof. Through the presence of his fragmentized spirit the Creator Father maintains immediate contact with his creature children and his created universes. [edit] Yahweh is a Universal Spirit 1:3.1 "Yahweh is spirit." He is a universal spiritual presence. The Universal Father is an infinite spiritual reality; he is "the sovereign, eternal, immortal, invisible, and only true Yahweh." Even though you are "the offspring of Yahweh," you ought not to think that the Father is like yourselves in form and physique because you are said to be created "in his image" -- indwelt by Mystery Monitors dispatched from the central abode of his eternal presence. Spirit beings are real, notwithstanding they are invisible to human eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood. 1:3.2 Said the seer of old: "Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not." We may constantly observe the works of Yahweh, we may be highly conscious of the material evidences of his majestic conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible manifestation of his divinity, not even to behold the presence of his delegated spirit of human indwelling. 1:3.3 The Universal Father is not invisible because he is hiding himself away from the lowly creatures of materialistic handicaps and limited spiritual endowments. The situation rather is: "You cannot see my face, for no mortal can see me and live." No material man could behold the spirit Yahweh and preserve his mortal existence. The glory and the spiritual brilliance of the divine personality presence is impossible of approach by the lower groups of spirit beings or by any order of material personalities. The spiritual luminosity of the Father's personal presence is a "light which no mortal man can approach; which no material creature has seen or can see." But it is not necessary to see Yahweh with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the spiritualized mind. 1:3.4 The spirit nature of the Universal Father is shared fully with his coexistent self, the Eternal Son of Paradise. Both the Father and the Son in like manner share the universal and eternal spirit fully and unreservedly with their conjoint personality co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit. Yahweh's spirit is, in and of himself, absolute; in the Son it is unqualified, in the Spirit, universal, and in and by all of them, infinite. 1:3.5 Yahweh is a universal spirit; Yahweh is the universal person. The supreme personal reality of the finite creation is spirit; the ultimate reality of the personal cosmos is absonite spirit. Only the levels of infinity are absolute, and only on such levels is there finality of oneness between matter, mind, and spirit. 1:3.6 In the universes Yahweh the Father is, in potential, the overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung personality circuit does Yahweh deal directly with the personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of Yahweh abroad in the universes. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and there fosters the evolution of the immortal soul of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinity of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the local universes and must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential transformations of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature's choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven. 1:3.7 In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a Yahweh-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia (transition from material to spiritual) realities of the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. 1:3.8 I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great Yahweh is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: "Yahweh is spirit" and "Yahweh is love," and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the Eternal Son.
Part II ...coming soon
Thank you for reading and please comment.
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Posted by Yahweh on 2007-08-11 19:51:33 | Rating: | Views: 151
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Hello - I just actually joined this site, and i stumbled across your entry. It is wonderful that you do identify your God as there are so many gods in this world. I would just like to add some comments :) - oh - and you are right YAHWEH is the Hebrew name, otherwise in english he is known as Jehovah - but you probalby knew that! ;)
A lot of people custom fit their religion to fit their needs, but if God has created all things isn’t it sensible that we find out what God wants of us? And how he want us to follow him? I can see that you are really sincere and really wanting to search for the true God and how to follow Him in order to please Him well. That is very commendable!
A few pointers (just incase you are interested...)– if you CANNOT find a clear answer in the Bible, then most likely something you wanted to know originated somewhere else. Only the TRUE and Correct answers can be found in the Bible.
Second – In order to get to know someone – the first thing you want to find out their name. In the model prayer that Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 – and he prayed to make God’s name sanctified or glorified and how can we do that if we don’t use God’s personal name? So, to draw close to God and get to know him, would you not agree that to know his own personal name (that He identified himself) would be a great place to start?
I don’t want you to listen and take my word for it, but I would like to point out a few scriptures for You to look up in your own Bible and you can decide from there.
In the King James version of the Bible here are four Scriptures you can look up: Exodus 6:3, Psalms 83:18, Isaiah 12:2 & Isaiah26:4
After all – This means everlasting life taking in knowledge – John 17:3
Now that I most likely overwhelmed you…, I will end this comment. Carrie :)
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Posted by Only_Carrie
on 2007-08-21 14:16:21
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