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A letter to Les Rogers:
June 17, 1997
Last week I sent a reply to Dan Massey as part of our dialogue in
which I suggested that he examine millennium references in The Urantia Papers.
I stated that they offer some surprising insights.
Then, before the weekend was out, I found your post in which you
listed some of those with brief comments.
I hope you don't mind if I add to your discussion.
In my examination I found that millennial periods are
administrative segments throughout the Universe, from the lowly evolutionary
worlds, to Paradise, and that all orders of beings seem to be subject to them,
except the Deities.
1. Paradise: Children of the Infinite Spirit serve for one
millennium, page 199.
2. Paradise: Seven Supreme Executives vacate their seats of
authority and go to Paradise once each millennium, page 199, 201.
3. Paradise: Primary supernaphim participate in the various
millennial gatherings, page 298.
4. Paradise: Defeated candidates for the Deity adventure are
remanded to the work of the realms of space for not less than one millennium,
page 294.
5. Havona: Mortal-finaliter companies are granted a recess every
millennium of Havona time, page 249.
6. Superuniverse: Star students are required to serve no less
than one millennium of Uversa time, page 338.
7. Superuniverse: Seconaphim great help in couresy colonies,
including millennial tourists, page 317.
8. Superuniverse: Celestial artisans are required to serve no
less than one millennium of superuniverse time, page 497.
9. Superuniverse: Periodic millennial roll calls, page 1313.
10. Sectors: Various order of divine Sons, including the Creator
Sons, gather every millennium of sector standard time, page 87.
11. Local Universe: Assigned Sentinels are usually changed every
millennium, page 269.
12. Local Universe: Seraphim spend their first millennium as
noncommissioned observers on Salvington, page 420. They gather for
reunions every millennium. After the second millennium they are organized
into groups, page 421.
13. Local Universe: The Melchizedeks of our universe were all
created within one millennial period of standard time, page 385.
14. Local Universe: Millennial registrations, page 515.
15. System: After the last world has attained light and life and
settledness for one millennium, the entire system enters stabilized status, page
632.
16. Worlds: Resurrections occur at least every millennium of
planetary time, page 568, 569, 596, 2024.
A scan through this list shows the range of personalities subject
to these millennial administrative periods.
I do not wish to enter into an investigation at this time, but
perhaps someone might want to examine why millennial periods are so important to
universe administration. What is the underlying common element to these
allocations?
To show that millennial periods are important to our world, and
that they are related to universe cycles, I shall now examine several references
that offer keen insight into our planetary episodes. The first, and most
important, shows how our world is related to Paradise schedules. I quote
the paragraph in full to help everyone see the significance.
Page 153: Besides Havona-circuit time, there is the
Paradise-Havona standard day and other time designations which are determined
on, and are sent out from, the seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit.
The Paradise-Havona standard day is based on the length of time required for the
planetary abodes of the first or inner Havona circuit to complete one revolution
around the Isle of Paradise; and though their velocity is enormous, owing to
their situation between the dark gravity bodies and gigantic Paradise, it
requires almost one thousand years for these spheres to complete their circuit.
You have unwittingly read the truth when your eyes rested on the statement "A
day is as a thousand years with God, as but a watch in the night." One
Paradise-Havona day is just seven minutes, three and one-eighth seconds less
than one thousand years of the present Urantia leap-year calendar.
(Note the difference in the biblical quote on page 35.)
Thus we can easily see that a millennium of Urantia time is
directly related to one Paradise-Havona day. If the cycles of the universe
are somehow regulated for periodic administrative affairs, then millennial
periods on our planet are synchronized to those administrative affairs, going
back to Paradise.
Note that one millennium of Urantia time is directly related to
the orbital period of the planetary abodes of the first or inner Havona circuit.
(Less seven minutes, three and one-eighth seconds.)
Furthermore, it appears that all Havona bodies require one
thousand years of Paradise-Havona time to complete their circuits. A
millennium of Paradise-Havona time would be almost exactly 1,000,000 years of
earth time. (Within less than 120 hours.)
There are other universe synchronicities. For example,
20,000 years of Urantia time is equated to 25,000 years of system time, page
619. We now know of numbers of orbital synchronicities in our solar
system, including those of Mercury, Venus, and planetary satellites. We do
not know the causes behind such synchronicities. (A recent Internet
posting shows the masses of measured black holes are exactly equal to seven
times the mass of our sun, with one double that. Years back I plotted the
location of the galaxies in our local group and found that they are structured
into mathematical patterns also.) Some astronomers have observed circular
structures in other nearby galactic groups, although their reports are annoying
to many godless astronomers. There certainly is intelligence at work in
the universe, at all physical levels, not merely the atomic, which can be
recognized by human minds working mathematically.
The millennial periodicity of administrative affairs on our world
can be recognized by the 2,000 years from Melchizedek to Jesus, and the two
thousand years from Jesus until now. Melchizedek was here invisibly about
1,000 years ago, page 1025.
That this point in planetary time, 2,000 years from Jesus, is
highly important can be seen from several statements made in our Great
Revelation. These remarks are related to the next thousand years in
Urantia time, and show how highly significant our planetary rehabilitation may
be.
Page 330: It is not possible to formulate comprehensive
and entirely consistent classifications of the personalities of the grand
universe because all of the groups are not revealed. It would require numerous
additional papers to cover the further revelation required to systematically
classify all groups. Such conceptual expansion would hardly be desirable as it
would deprive the thinking mortals of the next thousand years of that stimulus
to creative speculation which these partially revealed concepts supply. It is
best that man not have an overrevelation; it stifles imagination.
Something is highly important to the next thousand years.
Mankind will have incentive to engage in such creative speculations, an
environment which does not exist today.
Page 1109: Mankind should understand that we who
participate in the revelation of truth are very rigorously limited by the
instructions of our superiors. We are not at liberty to anticipate the
scientific discoveries of a thousand years.
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Is this merely an expansion of our current godless scientific
system, or will other, more astute, scientific insights come. Is it
possible that dramatic planetary changes are imminent which will cause mankind
to completely revamp his recognition of physical processes within the universe?
Whatever is going to happen, the next thousand years are highly important.
Could these revelations about millennial periods within The
Urantia Papers be designed to assist in the formulation of new concepts of
universe administration, inspired from great earth changes?
Page 1086: Mechanical inventions and the dissemination
of knowledge are modifying civilization; certain economic adjustments and social
changes are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided. This new and
oncoming social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium.
The human race must become reconciled to a procession of changes, adjustments,
and readjustments. Mankind is on the march toward a new and unrevealed
planetary destiny.
This was one of your quotes. This is a crucial statement
which should not escape anyone's attention. A new social order is coming.
It is new. It is not the current social order. This present social
order will not remain. The new order is oncoming. It is at our
doorstep. If the new social order is oncoming, imminent, and in a dynamic
process of appearing, this present social order must be destined to disappear
suddenly.
We must become accustomed to a procession of changes,
adjustments, and readjustments. The changes will be so profound they will
require a thousand years to settle down.
Obviously, great and dramatic changes are imminent for our world.
In order to arrive at some idea of the nature of the imminent
changes, two other passages are relevant.
Page 231: When the progress of events on an evolutionary world
indicates that the time is ripe to initiate a spiritual age, the Trinity Teacher
Sons always volunteer for this service. You are not familiar with this
order of sonship because Urantia has never experienced a spiritual age, a
millennium of cosmic enlightenment. But the Teacher Sons even now visit
your world for the purpose of formulating plans concerning their projected
sojourn on your sphere. They will be due to appear on Urantia after its
inhabitants have gained comparative deliverance from the shackles of animalism
and from the fetters of materialism.
Again, we see that administrative affairs of a world have
millennial clocks. In this case the millennium is a spiritual age.
The Teacher Sons even now visit our world to formulate plans for this coming
millennium. Can we deduce that this spiritual age is imminent? Why
would they be preparing now if their visitation is in the far future? If
their visitation is imminent, how will we gain comparative deliverance from the
shackles of animalism and from the fetters of materialism? If the new and
oncoming social order will completely revamp our dependence on the secular
materialism of this age, is it possible that the Teacher Sons will appear during
the next unique millennial period? Is it possible that a new order of
material affairs on this planet is due for the next millennial age? How
would such dramatic changes be effected?
I hope you do not mind that I engage in such creative
speculation.
Page 232: The Teacher Sons usually remain on their
visitation planets for one thousand years of planetary time. One Teacher Son
presides over the planetary millennial reign and is assisted by seventy
associates of his order. The Daynals do not incarnate or otherwise so
materialize themselves as to be visible to mortal beings; therefore is contact
with the world of visitation maintained through the activities of the Brilliant
Evening Stars, local universe personalities who are associated with the Trinity
Teacher Sons.
Again, we find a reference which suggests that the Teacher Sons
will remain here for one millennium. IF this millennial period is the
imminent one which will not settle down for a thousand years, there may be a
relationship between the new world order, comparative deliverance from the
shackles of materialism, and other events to unfold during the next thousand
years. We are about to experience a great new spiritual age.
You may be interested to know that revelation of the Teacher Sons
may be found in the book of Isaiah. I suggest you use RSV or another
reliable version.
Isa 30:19-26
19 Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will
surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will
answer you.
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of
affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall
see your Teacher.
21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in
it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
22 Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated
molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them,
"Begone!" 23 And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground,
and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that
day your cattle will graze in large pastures; 24 and the oxen and the asses that
till the ground will eat salted provender, which has been winnowed with shovel
and fork.
25 And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks
running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light
of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the
LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his
blow.
You will note that the Teacher Sons prepare for the beginning of
the era of light and life. See pages 567, 589, 599, 600, and so on.
The last planetary episode of war will take place at the end of the Millennium,
"when the towers fall." The planet will then enter into a new mode when
physical light will be greatly expanded, along with the spiritual light which
will now also come. Furthermore, the physical realms will also be greatly
expanded in life. Thus the Melchizedek revelations confirm my suggestion
that the Teacher Sons will appear here during the next thousand years. (I
do not wish to expand here on this discussion, but see below.)
More perceptive and astute students will recognize a connection
between our Great Revelation, and those revelations given us by Melchizedek in
ancient times. Only through integration of these several revelatory
episodes can we come to a proper understanding of the role of The Urantia
Papers.
As you well know, John's Apocalypse was once a great revelation,
page 1555. We now have it in greatly abridged and distorted form.
Large portions were lost, other portions removed. It is preserved only in
fragmentary and adulterated form. In spite of this history, it still
retains many important revelations. You quoted one of those.
From this discussion, we can now appreciate why a reference to a
thousand years in that corrupted great revelation is not so mysterious, nor
mystical, nor unbelievable. Could it be related to the episodes of the
next thousand years as described in The Urantia Papers?
First, John's Revelation would indicate a new order of
administrative affairs for our world. It would imply that former residents
of our world are asked to become part of that administration. I will not
enter here into a discussion of the four and twenty counselors, all of whom are
from this planet, and all of whom are asked to adjudicate the affairs of other
worlds, certainly a prominent and important role in this administrative system.
Refer to other of my documents.
One of the difficulties with this adulterated revelation is its
choice of words. "Saints" does not leave us with a realistic impression of
the membership of that governing body. But we who are fortunate enough to
have The Urantia Papers should be able to recognize important revelations
even if cast is antique language.
Another significant part of John's Revelation is that Caligastia
will be interned for a thousand years, and then loosed for a little while.
This is an invaluable revelation, for it tells us considerable about the coming
millennium, how affairs will unfold, and the fate of our apostate Planetary
Prince. I am sure our children will treasure such revelations, which so
many Urantians now despise.
May God be with all of us.
Ernest
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