Moving On From Christianity and Other Lower Religious Belief Systems
by Gabriel of Urantia
Not only was I a born-again Christian, but I was an ordained Christian minister and a prison chaplain. I did all the things Christians do with an evangelical spirit. I tried to get everyone else born again by throwing certain bible scriptures in their faces. I'd tell them they've got to be washed in the blood of Christ. I'd tell them to follow all of the man-made rules that would stamp them a bona fide, born again, saved Christian. It wasn't until my Christian wife left me for another man—even though I didn't commit adultery—that I began to wake up in my consciousness. According to my fundamentalist understanding of the New Testament, because I didn't commit adultery, after leaving me she was supposed to be miserable, feel separated from God, and so on. But every time I saw her she seemed to be at peace and happy, and she still had a wonderful relationship with God!
It was because I respected and loved my ex-wife and knew she was a godly woman that I began to realize it was the interpretation of the scriptures that was wrong. I knew that I couldn't quote many of those scripture lines anymore because a lot of them were taught wrong in many Christian denominations and churches. So I began to pray and ask Jesus to show me a higher way because I knew He was real and my relationship with Him would not change. But in many ways it did change—I grew closer to Him and broader and deeper in my perceptions as I began to understand more who He was in our vast celestial family.
I believe it is true that Jesus (the Son of Man and Son of God) is the highest representative of the Universal Father to humanity, but, there are many of His created beings that He would like us to know about, like guardian angels (who actually are of an order called seraphim) and other orders of nonmaterial sons and daughters of God. A guardian angel of enlightenment is available when we reach what The URANTIA Book calls the third psychic circle, of which there are seven. As a Christian I thought that everyone had a guardian angel, but in actuality, most human beings share a guardian angel with 999 other human beings until they reach the third psychic circle. Without a higher consciousness, the angel can't get through to them anyway. Why should an angel waste his or her time trying get through to persons whose minds are on lower or nonspiritual things and aren’t receptive?
Then there's the concept of the virgin birth. Jesus doesn't have to be born of a virgin for me to believe He is a Son of God—a Son of God in the sense that He is not the Eternal Son of the Trinity, but one of 700,000 Michael Sons who are also called Creator Sons. He is the Creator Son of our local universe called Nebadon. Each local universe has the goal of 10 million inhabited worlds. As a Christian I was taught to believe what many fundamentalist Christian churches teach, that the earth is the center of all the universe, while in truth, the earth is at the outer level of the superuniverse of Orvonton, and there are seven superuniverses. Our local universe, Nebadon, is a young universe, so we only have around 3.8 million worlds that are inhabited by evolutionary mortals. At the time of the Lucifer Rebellion not only did our planet fall but so did 36 others in our system called Satania.
As I began to realize this information was true, not only did my consciousness begin to expand, but my cosmic family also began to expand. I also began to realize I had past lives and that the concept of reincarnation might not be so far off. Because I started to see cosmic reality in a higher way, some of my memory circuits began to come back. When I was called to become the vessel for Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation, I learned this concept of past lives was actually called repersonalization (you can read all about it in The Cosmic Family, Volume I).
As I learned more, I began to manifest more into my life, and, I was able to bless others, as that is the principle of God's kingdom—the more you grow, the more He can bless you, and the more you can bless others. That only comes with understanding of higher cosmic truth. Too many Christians leave it up to their pastors when God indeed calls all of His children to a higher walk with Him. Many pastors themselves are stuck in antiquated dogmas and actually keep their parishioners at a lower level of consciousness. And this is true for millions upon millions of Christians.
Moving On to Epochal Revelations
There have been five epochal revelations to the planet. First there was the planetary prince Caligastia who came to this planet 500,000 thousand years ago with 100 supermortals (50 males, 50 females—complementary pairs). There are many references from many sources of beings coming from other planets and interacting with earth humans, and The URANTIA Book is the revelation that factualizes and clarifies this hodgepodge of information. 200,000 years ago Caligastia and 60 of his staff fell in the Lucifer Rebellion, and for all practical purposes he is what Christians call Satan. But Satan was actually another type of being, a primary Lanondadek Son, who was an aide to Lucifer and who also fell in the rebellion. Caligastia, the fallen prince, is still on this planet working out his nefarious schemes.
The next epochal revelation was Adam and Eve, Material Son and Daughter, who came from the capital of the administrative system of which our planet is part. Early in their mission they too defaulted. The third epochal revelation was Machiventa Melchizedek who is mentioned in the book of Genesis. He was a contemporary with Abraham and was Abraham's teacher. The fourth epochal revelation was Jesus Himself, and part of the fourth epochal revelation was written in the New Testament, but most of the pure teachings of Jesus were misinterpreted—even by His apostles. That is why Christianity hasn't been able to change the world totally and why it has become a religion that is not fully representative of Jesus' teachings.
And so I had to move on to a new revelation—the Fifth Epochal Revelation—which thousands of others have also moved on to. The first one-tenth of Fifth Epochal Revelation is published in The URANTIA Book, initially in 1955. The Cosmic Family volumes are the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (CFER); Volume I of The Cosmic Family was first published in 1993 and Volume II is soon to be published. The Cosmic Family volumes brought many new concepts to Urantia—point-of-soul origin, the acceleration of the earth changes, ascension science, and the physics of rebellion.
Jesus did not come to die on the cross or shed His blood for humanity; He chose not to go against the will of the fallen mind, and for that what greater love can the Creator have for His creatures to whom He gave freewill? If all of humankind followed the Father's will, our planet would be in first stages of light and life, but men and women are stuck in evolutionary religions that are engulfed in superstitions and false teachings, though there are degrees of truth also found in most of these relgions. Even Christianity is becoming more worldly in its dogma with more than 33,000 different sects, all having different interpretations of the trinity, church government, and salvation.
The Fifth Epochal Revelation is the language of the Hopis' Fifth World. We are in the times of the purification. I say all of this in the hopes that before you have to become truly purified by earth upheavals that will befall all of America and the rest of world, you can be enlightened and your consciousness raised by humbling yourself to the fact that there is a higher revelation that is called the Fifth Epochal Revelation which has been given to all humankind by Jesus Christ Michael.
Jesus Christ Michael is reaching out to all peoples of the planet. He wants all to know Him by His cosmic name, Michael. Many believe Michael is an archangel, but hundreds of thousands of angels are called Michael, for they want to be named after their Creator Son.
This year is the fifteenth anniversary of Aquarian Concepts Community/Divine Administration, which is comprised of souls who have lived together in past incarnations and served to bring a new renaissance to the planet each time we were together. Before becoming a part of Divine Administration, each individual had come to a place in his or her life where they asked this question: “Are my talents and abilities serving humanity in the highest way?” Then they had to act on the answer, moving on.
* The URANTIA Book is the Fifth Epochal Revelation and reveals cosmology (the relation of our planet to the grand universe), the genesis and destiny of humans in relation to God, and the life and true teachings of Jesus the Christ.
* The Cosmic Family volumes, using The URANTIA Book teachings as a fulcrum, expand upon the destiny of this world and its inhabitants during and after the adjudiction of the Bright and Morning Star versus Lucifer.