Souls, Space and Bestowal –

Glimpses and Speculations from The Urantia Book

(Presented at the ANZURA Conference Melbourne, 2024)

The Urantia Book presents a cosmology that stirs the soul: a central perfect universe, fringed by spacetime shallows in which Finaliters are born. Finaliters, destined to launch from this cosmic continental shelf into oceanic depths, seeding the light and life of personality throughout nested levels of outer space.

Now as we know, in The Urantia Book, “cosmology” means literally the study of beauty, of pattern and harmony. But as we also know, the beauty and harmony in this cosmology are simply “too deep for words”. But we’re not left to flounder: a glimpse of these wonders, however faint, is even now made accessible by three innate and cosmic intuitions. From Paper 16:6.10,

And it is these three cosmic intuitions that give objective validity, reality, to man’s experience in and with things, meanings, and values. 16:6.10 (192.6)

It is the purpose of education to develop and sharpen these innate endowments of the human mind; of civilization to express them; of life experience to realize them; of religion to ennoble them; and of personality to unify them. 16:6.11 (192.7) emphasis added

Paper 16 section 6 reveals that our human adjutant minds have an inbuilt “reality response” to these (quote) “scientific, moral, and spiritual insights” (16:6.9). Paper 196 section 3 adds a little more. Concerning these insights, from Paper 196:3.10 (2094.9),

“…all that the human mind can do is to discover, recognize, interpret, and choose.” So in the spirit of discovering and interpreting, I’d like simply to share a few thoughts about three aspects of this cosmology, this fresh universe frame in which to think. First, on the salvaging of premature baby souls. Next, on a pair of outer space levels astronomers have found. And finally, on the bestowal of space by Paradise.

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