What on Earth is going on with the Fifth Epochal Revelation?
Modern man is confronted with the task of making more readjustments of human values in one generation than have been made in 2000 years. Source: Urantia Book 92:7.14
PREPARE FOR CHANGE! PREPARE FOR CHANGE! PREPARE FOR CHANGE!
The Interface
Introduction
This document assumes that the reader has an adequate understanding of the Urantia Book teachings about the Lucifer rebellion, Caligastia, his planetary staff, and Adam and Eve.
The iniquity of Caligastia was the by-passing of the time governor of progressive human liberation — the gratuitous destruction of restraining barriers, barriers which the mortal minds of those times had not experientially overridden. Source: Urantia Book 118:8.7
TBG publishes, without cost or obligation to the reader, an introductory 10 lesson course on planetary jurisdictions, at these links:
English version: https://tbgcommission.org/books/the-rules
French version: https://tbgcommission.org/books/les-reglements
TBG encourages everyone reading this document to carefully study these 10 lessons. They provide complementary foundational knowledge needed to fully comprehend the following disclosures. It is a subject that strongly challenges and corrects certain long held beliefs and misconceptions that are deeply rooted in rebellion lies and distortions. These 10 lessons expose the lies and make straight the distortions.
The struggle we face today as an advancing civilisation is that we must now re-pattern ourselves in a superior way that will allow the dominant forces of the past to be overshadowed by better methods and processes, all guided by, and responsive to, wisdom.
Lessons from geese
Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift for the birds that follow". By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.
Lesson: When people share a common direction and sense, the community can get where it is going quicker and easier because it is travelling on the t(h)rust of one another.
Fact 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.
Lesson: If we have as much sense as a goose we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.
Fact 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies to the point position.
Lesson: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing the leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each other's skills, capabilities and unique arrangements of gifts, talents or resources.
Fact 4: These geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up with their speed.
Lesson: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In groups where there is encouragement, production is much greater. Individual empowerment results from quality honking.
Fact 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.
Lesson: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.
Overview
| The Plan | To help Earth evolve systematically through a series of epochal revelations and uplifts. |
| The Goal | To guide Earth through the steps required to reach Light & Life status. |
| The Rules | Work the plan according to Earth's planetary jurisdictions and universe law. |
| The Process | An incremental release of appropriate epochal revelations and uplifts in accordance with the universal law of merit. |
| The Procedures | A series of epochal revelations that include the establishment and long term maintenance of an essential jurisdictional interface to allow the immortal realm to communicate with Earth's mortals, in accordance with universe law, and without trespassing on Earth's jurisdictional sovereignty. |
| The Risks | Rebellion and default that lead to a breakdown of the interface (refer to section 2.2) and offered only limited spiritual and biological uplifts. The breakdown of this interface was caused by the loss of the supermortal Caligastia 100 and Adam and Eve who were the essential living component of the interface. |
| The Roles |
Under normal conditions: Planetary Prince and his supermortal staff. Adam and Eve. Magisterial Son(s). Bestowal Son. Trinity Teacher Sons. Suitable mortal leaders.
Under rebellion conditions: Supermortal staff missing. Adam and Eve missing. Magisterial Son(s) missing. Emergency Melchizedek incarnation. Special Bestowal Son (Michael of Nebadon). Suitable mortal leaders are now very hard to come by. |
| The Requirements | A functioning interface and a tree of life to sustain it, or a suitable replacement. Respect of free will. An unbroken chain of authoritative custody from the immortal realm to the mortal realm. Suitable and reliable mortal leaders. |
| Summary |
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The published mandates of the Revelatory Commission under the leadership of a Melchizedek are clear.
- Train and prepare teachers and leaders.
- Translate the Urantia Book into many languages.
- Foster thousands upon thousands of study groups.
- Foster a religion.
- Foster a Philosophy.
- Foster a Cosmology.
Since 2015 when the Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission began, we have been monitoring the progress of these 6 mandates. To date we see no observable progress on mandates 1, 4, 5, 6, and only very limited progress on mandates 2, and 3, and even these two are mired in controversy, conflict and division.
To answer the question, "What on Earth is going on with the Fifth Epochal Revelation?"
It seems that a reasonable answer would be - not much, or, not enough.
Friendly voices
If you stand quite still in the heart of the woods
You will hear many wonderful things;
The snap of a twig, and the wind in the trees
And the whirr of invisible wings.If you stand quite still in the turmoil of life
And you wait for the voice from within,
You'll be led down the quiet ways of wisdom and peace
In a mad world of chaos and sin.If you stand very still and you hold to your faith
You will get all the help that you ask.
You will draw from the silence the things that you need
Hope and courage — and strength for your task.
1. The conundrum faced by the loyal Urantia midwayers.
The Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission would like to start by stating for the record that it holds these faithful midwayers in high esteem, and accords them all due respect as our immortal Urantian brothers and sisters.
TBG does not maintain an interactive working relationship with the loyal Urantia midwayers. All the understanding that TBG has about these midwayers (both primary and secondary orders) and their activities comes from the Urantia Book and various published sources such as, but not limited to the Correcting Time and Teaching Mission transcripts.
TBG endeavors to be transparent in its operations and has always allowed both orders of midwayers access to its work. TBG operates under the reasonable assumption that all midwayers are, or can, easily become aware of the work of TBG. And as such all midwayers should have, or can easily gain, the same understanding of planetary jurisdictional matters that TBG now holds. The same holds true for the order of Melchizedeks.
These sources, if they are to be believed, provide ample information to support the following claim being made by the Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission.
The loyal Urantia midwayers of the secondary order*, through no fault of their own have found themselves from the beginning of their lives until now, — regardless of their unwavering loyalty — living under the effects of the Lucifer rebellion, the Caligastia betrayal, the Adamic default**, and the distorted influences and realities that these situations imposed on the planet Urantia (Earth) — especially in matters of jurisdiction and sovereignty, which were the primary targets of the rebellion. As far as TBG can determine, these secondary midwayers have never experienced evolutionary life in a normal non rebellious environment, and that lack eventuates as an imbalance in their acquired experience.
* This document will not discuss the situation of the loyal midwayers of the primary order. TBG has insufficient facts and knowledge of their situation prior to the rebellion, therefore it will simply be pointed out that the Urantia Book states that they came into existence on Urantia long before the rebellion started. Given that fact they should have significant experience in a non rebellious environment. That places them in a different set of circumstances from the younger secondary order who have been conditioned by nothing other than rebellion on Urantia.
** The Adamic default caused a breach in the jurisdictional chain of custody from the immortal realm to the mortal realm. While TBG has no forensic evidence proving that the midwayers were used by the Revelatory Commission in an attempt to heal this breach, there is abundant circumstantial evidence indicating that this may have been the case.
Bud, the railroad crossing watchman, was testifying
on behalf of his railroad. He told the court, “The car
with five occupants came on and on. I was waving the
warning lantern. Ten times I swung it, and I jumped
aside as the car smashed into the train.”
In this suit for $100,000 against the railroad, the
jury found for the railroad, based on the sworn testi-
mony of the watchman. A friend asked Bud after the
trial was over, “Weren’t you nervous on the witness
stand?” Bud replied, “Yep, very nervous. First time
I’ve ever testified in court. But what made me most
nervous was this - I was afraid their lawyer was going
to ask me if the lantern was lit.”
2. The breach in jurisdictional sovereignty.
The Creator Deities employ patterns as a fundamental part of the creation process. For simplicity they can be thought of as templates. These are like architectural blueprints used for building the solid foundation required to support a structure. If the builder doesn't follow the blueprint, the foundation will be incorrect or incomplete in some way. Such a foundation will have critical weaknesses or missing components, and anything built on top of it will be exposed to serious risks, potential failure, and possibly total collapse.
That briefly describes the situation that the Fifth Epochal Revelation has been confronting from the beginning. Urantia's jurisdictional foundation was long ago damaged by the loss of the Planetary Prince's supermortal staff. The fact that only 60 out of these 100 cast their lot with the rebellion is irrelevant, since all 100 were nonetheless lost to Urantia, with the exception of Van who remained behind to safeguard the tree of life until the arrival of Adam and Eve, and shortly thereafter Van also permanently departed from Urantia. Barely 100 years after Van's departure, the supermortal Adam and Eve defaulted. Consequently they became fully mortal and eventually both died from natural causes and are gone from Urantia. Likewise the tree of life was burned and destroyed by an angry mob and is also gone from Urantia. Thus the interface permitting Lawful conversion between the mortal and immortal realms, and its source of sustenance was finally and completely lost.
The tree of life was an integral part of the interface mechanism. It provided the necessary sustenance required by supermortal beings to sustain their immortality during their lengthy sojourn on Urantia, typically measured in many thousands of years.
2.1 What are the planetary jurisdictions?
The average Urantian mortal is familiar with, and can easily understand the four primary natural planetary jurisdictions of Urantia. They are the natural and physical top soil, the rocky land, the salty seas, and the gaseous air. Each one plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the planet as an inhabited sphere.
What is not as easily understood, and what most Urantians of this generation are unfamiliar with, are the four corresponding artificial and conceptual planetary jurisdictions patterned according to these four natural jurisdictions, and using the same names. They are the artificial and conceptual soil, land, sea and air jurisdictions that are used for many purposes, such as but not limited to; government services, business, trade, commerce, finance. And also for documents such as contracts, constitutions, treaties, records, charters, trademarks, copyrights, patents, trusts, loans, mortgages, passports, maps, flight paths, shipping lanes, regulations, and other things such as taxes, money, bitcoins, and much much more, and all are artificial man-made concepts. These artificial and conceptual planetary jurisdictions have no inherent authority of their own. They are all dependent on their natural counterparts for their source of authority, which they obtain through a system of inheritance.
The most fundamental difference between the natural and artificial versions of these four planetary jurisdictions are their different systems of law. These natural jurisdictions use Private Rights and Lawful Standing. While the artificial/conceptual jurisdictions use Public Privileges and Legal Status. Refer to LESSON 2: Natural & Artificial for additional details.
Ninety nine percent (99%) of all serious wars and conflicts on Urantia in modern times have been caused by a misunderstanding of, or by maladministration of these two fundamental law systems - Lawful Standing and Legal Status. The first applies to what is alive, the second applies only to what is not alive, or inanimate. And of the two, the first - Lawful Standing - has absolute sovereign authority over and above the second - Legal Status, except for a few rare exceptions that are beyond the scope of this document. Man's free will is found under Lawful Standing.
The vast majority of conflicts occur when Legal Status encroaches on Lawful Standing. This is known as trespass. It is of the utmost importance to understand this fundamental difference in these two systems of law, and the severe problems caused by jurisdictional trespass. It is the key to understanding the source of the problem being discussed in this document. For the purpose of this document, trespass is when a lower, delegated authority incorrectly assumes or claims power over a higher sovereign authority.
Jurisdictions have clear boundaries controlling or preventing access to their area of operations.
2.2 The Interface
The Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission can declare honestly and without prejudice that a jurisdictional sovereignty breach was caused by Urantia's missing Caligastia 100 supermortal staff, and the missing supermortal Adam and Eve pair.
There is no appropriate word or term in the English language to represent the jurisdictional function of the Caligastia 100 and the Adam and Eve pair. For the purpose of this document the term - interface mechanism - or just - interface - will be used interchangeably for referring to this function, which is in essence a method of authority inheritance and status conversion used for traversing the VEIL in a way that prevents a breach in jurisdictional sovereignty from occurring. Refer to: LESSON 7: The Interface for detailed explanations and charts. Those 10 lessons use the term BAR when referring to the interface, since they are limited to matters of mortal to corporation transactions. This document uses the term VEIL instead of BAR since it is dealing with mortal to immortal transactions. In essence the BAR and the VEIL are both barriers between jurisdictions, but in different contexts.
As the current clean up operations* on Urantia are demonstrating, many perversions, corruptions, breaches and abominations have been carried out or caused by the rebels, like mold, silently extending its colonies and contaminating everything it touches. Some of these problems are only now being uncovered by the clean up operations, as the deepest layers of the rebellion are finally being stripped away, thus exposing the foundational pattern of the planetary jurisdictions. The rebels have worked long and hard at attacking this foundational pattern, and hiding it from mankind through their lies and sophistries.
* These clean up operations are commonly referred to by many in the Urantia community as Christ Michael's Correcting Time.
It is now clear to TBG, through its extensive work with the planetary jurisdiction system, that a breach in the interface mechanism of the jurisdictional sovereign authority process was begun by the loss of the Caligastia 100 and subsequently completed by loss of Urantia's Adam and Eve pair.
There is no way to make this any clearer or more simple. The loss of the Caligastia 100 and the Adam and Eve pair (the missing interface) caused a clear break in the chain of custody in all matters requiring an unbroken flow of authority from the immortal spirit/morontia/midwayer realms - to - the mortal realm of Urantian mankind. This chain of custody must be maintained unbroken through a suitable interface mechanism. The Caligastia 100 and the Adam and Eve pair were, by universe design and mandate, an essential element of the interface mechanism, designed to serve as an authorized and Lawful method for crossing through the VEIL which separates mortal life from immortality.
It may help the reader to look at this situation like a bridge that has collapsed and is missing, as illustrated below.
Please note that this simple diagram does not fully explain the situation. 
2.3 How the VEIL works.
The term VEIL is used in this document to refer to an unavoidable obstacle between mortality and immortality. The interface is the solution required for piercing through the obstacle, and is used specifically for conversion between the mortal and immortal realms in accordance with the correct operation of the planetary jurisdictions. When the interface is used only within the mortal realm, between mortal man and incorporation, it is referred to as the BAR.
A lawful conversion of a mortal man from the land (Urantia) across the VEIL to the sea jurisdiction (the sea in this case referring to immortality status on a Mansion World) requires biological death, seraphic transport for the soul that travels through the VEIL to the other side, followed by a resurrection to complete the conversion to immortality.
A lawful conversion in the opposite direction, that is of a spirit/morontia/midwayer of the immortal realm, across the VEIL into the mortal realm (Urantia land jurisdiction) to lawfully interact with mortals and act as the interface between the immortal and mortal realms, requires the dematerialization of an immortal being from an architectural sphere, seraphic transport from said sphere to Urantia, and rematerialisation on Urantia as a supermortal material being compatible with Urantia's planetary jurisdictions, and is also dependent on a tree of life (gifted from Edentia) required for sustaining immortality during the sojourn on Urantia.
The following chart illustrates the fundamental characteristics and relationships of the four planetary jurisdictions and the location of the VEIL. It also shows the correct process flow (steps) for delivering the Fifth Epochal Revelation from the immortal realm of the Revelatory Commission to the mortal realm of mankind through an appropriate interface mechanism that can perform the required transactions through the VEIL. This approach would have created an unbroken chain of custody by placing the Urantia Foundation and Urantia Brotherhood in the land jurisdiction connected to 2nd degree sovereignty properly grounded in Adam and Eve.
What the above chart illustrates is that man acting in his personal capacity operates from the soil jurisdiction, and has first degree sovereignty over himself. Men acting collectively operate from the land jurisdiction, with second degree sovereignty through their connection to the soil jurisdiction. Immortal material beings such as the Caligastia 100 and Adam and Eve had sovereignty extending into the sea jurisdiction because they were sovereign on both sides of the VEIL and thus could make the required lawful connection to the immortal Revelatory Commission. Spirit operates from and has sovereignty in the air jurisdiction. This creates a complete and unbroken chain of custody.
Because of our missing Adam and Eve, a breach occurred in this process, as illustrated in the following chart by the broken link in the land jurisdiction. This is how the delivery of the Fifth Epochal Revelation was attempted, without a viable sovereign land jurisdiction replacement for the missing Adam and Eve. Instead the Revelatory Commission instructed the Trustees to incorporate the Foundation and Brotherhood in their jurisdiction, the Sea jurisdiction. While this jurisdiction may be sovereign to immortal beings, it is NOT sovereign to mortal man, and therein lies the problem! Man does not live in the sea. Man lives on the soil and land which is the seat of his sovereignty. This approach completely lacks the sovereign land connection required for maintaining an unbroken chain of custody.
It is the lack of mandatory sovereign authority in the mortal realm that prevents the disagreements and disunity of the Foundation and Brotherhood from being adequately and authoritatively resolved by man in the land jurisdiction, thus resulting in their default. The three items shown in red are where the chain of custody was broken and misdirected into the Legal sea jurisdiction which is NOT sovereign to man. An unbroken chain of custody in the sovereign land jurisdiction is absolutely required and would have had the requisite sovereign authority to prevent the Foundation and Brotherhood defaults.
- The outworking of the Fifth Epochal Revelation by the Revelatory Commission to the Urantian mortal participants did not use an appropriate replacement for the missing interface mechanism needed to maintain an unbroken chain of custody. If they had, there would be evidence of it, but none has been found by TBG in five years of research. What TBG did find is an abundance of proof suggesting that the interface is indeed missing, and that any attempts to replace it have failed.
TBG in no way assigns blame for this breach to anyone other than the rebels. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence to show that this problem remains an active one to this day despite all good intentions, and continues to afflict the Fifth Epochal Revelation in significant ways. But there are potential remedies which will be presented in section 4: Potential remedies for the missing interface.
- All mortal efforts currently known to TBG, that are attempting to fix the problems of the Fifth Epochal Revelation are failing to recognize this breach in the system - the missing interface mechanism - and as such are merely perpetuating the problem by continuing to work through a broken chain of custody. This leaves all such efforts lacking the proper sovereign authority* to properly resolve certain types of conflicts.
At the time of this writing TBG has no knowledge of any active spirit/morontia/midwayer efforts attempting to fix this jurisdiction problem of the missing interface.
* Refer to: LESSON 4: Sovereignty & Delegation for an expanded explanation of planetary jurisdiction sovereignty.
** Should new information come to light, TBG will update this document accordingly.
A man lost in the great Sahara Desert for days,
which seemed like months, struggled through the
burning sands hoping against hope for rescue or a
life-saving oasis.
Suddenly, he espied an oasis. With renewed strength
and vitality born of hope, he ran the hundreds of
yards praying that it was an oasis and not a mirage.
With joy he came into the clump of palm trees and,
over at the water hole, he saw a glittering reflection.
Rushing to what he believed to be sparkling water,
he fell down in despair at the dried up water hole.
Yes, there was a fortune in sparkling and glinting
gems, but he uttered words of hopelessness, “Only
jewels, only jewels.”
3. The inadequacy of a 501(c)(3) charter and declaration of trust.
As the above story illustrates, we can sometimes be distracted by shiny things, which of course is a metaphor meaning that we can become involved in the pursuit of incorrect goals. We can misjudge, misinterpret, miscalculate, and misalign ourselves with incorrect strategies, improper processes, and faulty methods, as we attempt to realize our efforts with myopic vision (incorrect goals).
There is a simple litmus test (a decisive basis for judgement) to easily and quickly determine with absolute certainty if a mortal effort attempting to correct the problems of the Fifth Epochal Revelation is incorrect. Any effort, organisation, group, business, venture or initiative of any kind that has chartered itself to any one of the numerous 501 Legal Statuses, such as but not limited to 501(c)(3) in an attempt to solve the problems of the Fifth Epochal Revelation is committing unlawful trespass against the land jurisdiction and therefore is automatically non-viable as a solution to the missing interface!
Why? Because all of the 501 Legal Statuses lack the required jurisdictional Lawful Standing to implement a replacement for the missing interface. Further, any attempts - that are beholden to a 501 charter - to provide a replacement for the missing interface constitutes an act of trespass by a delegated authority into a sovereign jurisdiction. Refer to: LESSON 6: Encroachment for an expanded explanation.
Jesus said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21
What are the things of Caesar in relation to the subject matter of this document? Taxes, and charters such as 501(c)(3) under Legal Status.
What are the things of God in relation to the subject matter of this document? Planetary jurisdictions and interface mechanisms under Lawful Standing.
There are very few absolutes to be found on an imperfect evolutionary planet such as Urantia, yet this is one of them. It is non debatable, non negotiable, non changeable, for the pattern of this jurisdictional system is rooted in Paradise Deity, and the designs of the Paradise Master Architects. There is nothing and no one in the universes of time and space that can change or successfully ignore this fundamental pattern. The way forward is simple and clear: comply with the pattern or meet failure. Such is the nature of an absolute, it is law itself.
All efforts beholden to a 501(c)(3) charter of Legal Status, are lacking Lawful Standing and are pursuing a faulty approach.
In order to have Lawful Standing an organisation must be properly anchored to the sovereign land jurisdiction through a living man/woman inhabiting a flesh and blood body. In other words an individual who can truthfully say "I am a living man/woman, in who the blood flows and the flesh lives, and I am a sovereign". When that primary requirement is met in compliance with all applicable laws, only then can an organisation stemming from such an individual appropriately connect to the correct authority to act as the interface mechanism. Furthermore, when Lawful Standing exists, there is no need for any 501 Legal Status since the sovereign individual and his/her organisation is automatically tax exempt through laws that existed long before 501 Legal Status was invented.
TBG acknowledges that there are many sincere people with good intentions working diligently on initiatives to correct the problems of the Fifth Epochal Revelation, but mountains of good intentions and sincerity cannot change these fundamental and well established laws, much less change the underlying pattern of creation itself. Only compliance with the pattern can lead to success, and only a sufficient understanding of the pattern can lead to compliance.
501(c)(3) is not the solution, it is in fact a major part of the problem!
By failing to adequately address the issue of the jurisdictional breach caused by the missing immortal staff needed to maintain a working interface, the door remains open for the perpetuation of the 501(c)(3) problem.
Make no mistake, it is imperative to understand that 501(c)(3) Legal Status is incompatible with, and cannot be used to replace the missing interface. Because everything with Legal Status applies only to what is non living - inanimate! 501(c)(3) Legal Status does not apply to living people. Therefore it cannot be used to resolve problems that develop between living people.
As the Urantia Book tells us in hundreds of references, the interface is a living system, such as the supermortal beings once provided to Urantia according to established universe law. A replacement interface must have Lawful Standing on Urantia's land jurisdiction vested in one or more living beings, in order to have a correct relationship with the non mortal Revelatory Commission.
Things not done before
The things that haven’t been done beforeThose are the things to try.Columbus dreamed of an unknown shoreAt the rim of the far-flung sky.And his heart was bold and his faith was strongAs he ventured in dangers newAnd he paid no heed to the jeering throngsOr the fears of the doubting crew.The things that haven’t been done beforeAre the tasks worth while today.Are you one of the flock that follows, orAre you one of the timid souls that quailAt the jeers of the doubting crewOr dare you, whether you win or failStrike out for the goal that’s new?
4. Potential remedies for the missing interface.
Stakeholder buy-in
For a group of well motivated members of the Urantia community to choose to act in secrecy, or independently without adequate disclosure and without stakeholder buy-in, sets up a situation that will make it exceedingly difficult to secure stakeholder buy-in further down the road.
Experience and wisdom show conclusively that stakeholder buy-in is best obtained during the early planning stages of a project, not after the completion of a project.
Who are the stakeholders of the preliminary phase of the Fifth Epochal Revelation and the Urantia Book?
The Owner: Creator Son #611,121, commonly known as Christ Michael of Nebadon.
The Sponsor: The Revelatory Commission consisting of 12 midwayers and a Melchizedek.
The Project Manager: The Urantia Foundation and Urantia Brotherhood. Now in default.
The Stakeholders: The greater Urantia community of serious Urantia Book students, trained leaders and teachers, promoters, supporters, and service providers, according to the original and unedited mandate.
At this point TBG can only speculate on what solution will be actualized to resolve the problem of the missing interface, and ultimately the decision rests with our Creator Son Michael, the sovereign Planetary Prince of Urantia. TBG offers the following four possibilities merely as food for thought.
Potential #1
A supermortal replacement for our missing supermortal staff.
This option would offer the highest degree of functionality and provide a permanent and full featured solution.
Potential #2
A special bestowal or incarnation replacement for our missing supermortal staff.
This option would offer a high degree of functionality, but would be limited by the length (in years) of the bestowal or incarnation mission. There could be a possibility of linking together consecutive missions to form a relatively unbroken chain of custody across a long period of time.
Potential #3
A suitable mortal replacement for our missing supermortal staff.
Large scale projects such as The Correcting Time, and the Teaching Mission to name but a couple, as well as a growing number of Urantian mortals now capable of reasonable direct communication with the other side of the VEIL could raise up one or more mortals capable of acting as temporary solutions to the missing interface. This approach would not be entirely stable as it would be limited to the mortal lifespan and the real possibility of mortal error. Current digital archival technology could play a useful role in this approach by providing a stable documentation platform to compensate for lapses in mortal memory and the so called "brain drain" or knowledge/wisdom loss that happens when the baton is passed from one mortal generation to the next.
Potential #4
A conceptual, or non living replacement for our missing supermortal staff.
The recent rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence could open the door to a purely technological solution, through the implementation of an adequately programmed and well secured AI. It would have to be well insulated from malicious intrusion, and be securely funded on a long term basis. It goes without saying that such an approach would be experimental, as no such successful use of AI on Urantia has been implemented to date.
It is unknown whether such an approach would be tolerated by man, or whether the immortal side of the VEIL would be able to interact with such a technology.
In closing, the Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission extends this prayer and admonition to the entire Urantia community and our brethren of the Revelatory Commission.
The Fifth Epochal Revelation, has been battered and scarred, and played out of tune, yet even at this late hour, the necessary changes can be wrought by the touch of the Master's hand! The truth is knocking at the door. May wisdom prevail.
By the touch of the Master's hand
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But he held it up with a smile."What am I biddin, good folk?" he cried,
"Who'll start the bidding for me?"
"A dollar — a dollar — then two, only two"
"Going for three" — but no
From the room far back, a grayhaired man
came forward and picked the bow,
Then wiping the dust from the old violin,
And tightening the loosened strings,
He played a melody pure and sweet
As the voice of an angel sings.The music ceased and the auctioneer,
With a voice that was quiet and low,
Said,"Now, what am I bid for the old violin?"
And he held it up with the bow."A thousand and who'll make it two?"
"Two thousand and who'll make it three?"
"Three thousand once — three thousand twice"
"And going — and gone," cried he.
The people cheered, but some of them cried,
"We do not understand"
"What changed its worth?"
Quick came the reply,
"The touch of the Master's hand."And many a man with life out of tune,
And battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheep to a thoughtless crowd,
Much like the old violin.A mess of pottage — a glass of wine,
A game and he travels on;
He is going once — and going twice
He's going — and going — gone.But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd
Never can quite understand
The worth of a man, and the change that's wrought
By the touch of the Master's hand!
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