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The Way Ahead

Towards Religious Tolerance



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The Way Ahead


Rev. John Robert Thwaytes



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"What the son desires and the Father wills

is." I dedicate this book to your Father and

mine.

Motto: 1 Cor 1: 27 ff .





ContentsiPreface

1The Urantia Book

5Why we need TUB

29The Five Epochal Revelations

39From the Top Down65Our Future

73Family, Education, & Religion

87 A New Song

92Comparative Religion

105The Probability of God

137 Appendix A 148 Appendix B

156 Appendix C

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Preface As usual it was my friend Dan who lighted the spark for this book by putting a post on the forum atmonjoronson.com. That post tells you all you need toknow about what is happening right now. Here it is:

'A Simple Version/Timeline of Future Events

« on: October 11,2012,12:50:32 PM »

Not sure if this belongs here but it is relatively new.What I like the most about this transmission is itdoesn't require much discernment to understand. First

we have chaos which provides the incentive needed so

Monjoronson can do his job. Once Monjoronson haspeople on the same page we then have the secondcoming of Christ. Peace, Dan

Quote

Michigan, US of A, August 12,2012.Teacher Ophelius.

Subject: “The Fundamentals of Light and Life.”

Received by Chris.

Teacher Ophelius: “Today we will talk about how theearth is getting ready to move from its current stateof seeming chaos to one that is sober and ready toembrace the fundamentals of Light and Life. On more

normal worlds in the universe, where there has been norebellion, this shift is gradual and steady, but on your world, because of its confusion, it will come like a newmother who is in the pangs of child birth, where, aftergreat pain, will come the joy of holding the new lifethat has finally arrived. She will soon forget the pain of labor and make plans to nurture the fragile life that sheholds so dearly.



“The calamitous events, both natural and social, willfall like dominos and pick up speed, and finally, whenthey have all come to rest, then will you hear rumorsof the appearance of the magisterial son, Monjoronson.When he and his administration move into the publicarena, he will be working with the remnants of civilgovernments and progressive organizations to establishnew sustainable societies. When men and women hearthe wisdom from a paradisiacal viewpoint they willlisten and understand that it is in their best interest to

work with, and not against, his wise recommendations,for they will recognize that their very survival dependson the guided solutions that will be worked out tobenefit the many. The old corrupt model of scarcity,greed, and elitism will be swept from worldconsciousness as the pillars of their control will havebeen dismantled and looked upon in disdain by newgenerations.

“In the following years after the dust has settled, andthere is forward moving progress, events will againaccelerate as the opposition to Monjoronson’s plansfor the restructuring of societies fades and the fruitsof these new sustainable ideas begin to flourish. Thenations will work together like no other time in history

to cast aside their suspicions and hostilities and bringan end to all wars and terrorism – they shall, as it hasbeen foretold, ‘beat their spears into plow shears.’

“It may be at this time of peace that Christ Michaelshall solidify his plans to return to the earth andofficially usher in the age of Light and Life. It will bea time of great joy, a renaissance of advanced learning,

art, science, and technology that will culminate theconsciousness of humanity as they finally come to knowthe true meaning of the Fatherhood of God and thebrotherhood of man. Science and religion will havefinally come full circle as men and women more fully understand the ascension plan and no longer will they ask, ‘Is there really a God?’ The time of the agondonters(those who believe without seeing) will be over.

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“Make ready your hearts and minds, my friends, for you students on the path will be asked to participatein this brave new world that is at hand. You whohave faithfully believed in this divine plan for the birthof the age of Light and Life may be called on by the Magisterial Son and His staff to work with thegovernments of earth to bring about the changes inthinking necessary to make ready for Christ Michael’sreturn to the earth.

“Peace to all,“The Circle of Seven.” '

I also got this message from my friend MichelleDuchemin:

"If you could imagine how Father lives, not only in you,but through you, then you would know how important

your single, individual, life is to Him.Our Father literally lives your life with you, gaining all

your experiences, both good and bad.Our lives are actually His lives, in this way. And, inour living them, we are completing some part of Him,continuously adding ourselves to Him- so true we are apart of God's very being.

God, being perfect already, but having no experienceof the struggle of becoming perfect Himself (as he hasalways been perfect), is fully invested in heart with ourevery struggle through this life and the ascension whichfollows- even unto the moment we reach Him and standbefore Him having successfully become as perfect as He.Our joys are His joys, just as our sorrows are also Histo feel. So, imagine, imagine His love for us when that

moment finally comes wherein we stand to meet Himin His very presence. Our lives have been for His livingas well as our own! He knows us as He knows Himself!

And, there is no greater love than this oneness betweenman and God at this joyous moment.

(The name Harmony came to me at the end. It may be the name of the Celestial who passed this thought

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along.)

Hope this touches your hearts as it did mine :)Blessings, Michelle

Michelle Duchemin"

I have already written several books full of quotationsand references to dozens of other authors. But my

young students tell me they feel snowed under by that sort of book, and they just want to know what Ipersonally think. So, in this new book, I will try my bestto abandon any kind of academic approach and simply give you my own conclusions from a lifetime of researchinto a bewildering variety of spiritual literature. A lotof this material will be recognized as "old hat" by the average reader, and I may possibly be accused of plagiarism. As Jesus said, a Master in Israel shouldknow how to bring out of his stock both new thingsand old. As for plagiarism, we all plagiarize each others'concepts all the time, but, legally, it is not plagiarismto adopt ideas from others as your own when you areexpressing them in your own words as a result of yourown thought and conviction. That is what I am doinghere.

It is important to realize that almost all ordinary people want the same things, no matter where they are on the planet or in the universe -- to make adifference as an individual; to have purpose; to loveand be loved; to create something good or beautifuland feel the joy of success and accomplishment usingtheir will to create change -- but they are divided inopinion about how to attain these goals. We should,

therefore, come together by sharing our common goalsand discussing the validity of the various methodsproposed for attaining them. Among those commongoals I suggest the following points:

1. Most people hope for a time of unity, whenall peoples, races, religions, and nations willcome together and 'feel' that they are part

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of one human family. We will seek neither

to assimilate nor eradicate differences, but welcome them as a colorful contribution to therichness of social life.

2. We hope for a time when our mother earth will be loved as the mother and nursery of ourterrestrial home, and we will all treat her withcare and respect, and see that she is madea beautiful endowment for our children, thegenerations to come.

3. We hope for a time of full gender equality that will allow the feminine energies to bringharmony and balance into our lives.

4. We hope for a time when raising children will be considered the most valuable task inlife, and they will never again be treatedas inconveniences or distractions, but will becherished as future tenants of a world evolvinginto yet more beautiful, good, and true statesof growing perfection.

5. We hope for a time when corporations willbecome responsible and use philanthropy asthe cornerstone of their success to provide

jobs and to help solve world problems, whilerespecting the earth and building a sustainablefuture.

6. We hope for a time when governments willactually serve the many and care for thepopulace by making laws and policies thatpromote a realistic and sustainable future

where all will have access to equality of opportunity--true life, liberty, and happiness.

7. We hope for a time when wars will be nomore and military forces are used for good

-- to rescue people from unforeseen naturaldisasters or protect the virtues of equality of opportunity -- where a life of dignity isavailable to all men, women, and children.

It is much more important to join together toaccomplish such goals, rather than to insist on usingany one particular method. Any method can beimproved by the application of analysis and collective

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wisdom.

It is now the 150th

birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, and high time to remember his clarioncall to "awake and arise" – and serve the poor asdaridranarayan from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. AsJawaharlal Nehru said, "He came as a tonic to thedepressed and demoralized Hindu mind and gave itself-confidence and some roots in the past." In his

Chicago speech, he foresaw the dark forces that werethreatening the very existence of human civilization:religious intolerance, cultural exclusiveness, and blindfanaticism. I call on my young students to take up thetorch of courageous self-confidence and dedication tothe ideals of ancient Bharat: the Vedantic philosophy of true freedom of thought and belief in a truth search forGod without any hint of bigotry, intolerance, coercion,

or narrow-minded pusillanimity. This was demonstratedmost beautifully by the life of Adi Sankaracharya duringthe European Dark Ages. This is no different from thetrue teaching of Jesus given in TUB Part lV. Do this,and India will soon become a superpower. The MostHighs on Norlatiadek can guarantee that. Above all Godis Love, and the perfection of Love is compassion, andHis goodness and greatness are the same thing. Thereis nothing great except what is also good.

Much of Indian spirituality has anticipated therevelations of the Urantia Book, so India will surely become a fertile field for the propagation of thissupplement to her already rich traditions.

I have found it particularly interesting to find outabout the spiritual growth of Netaji Subhas Chandra

Bose. As the founder of the Indian National Army who got help from both Hitler and Tojo to fight theBritish, Netaji is not usually associated in the publicmind with spirituality. But I came across an excellentarticle in The Statesman of Kolkata (23 January 2013)by Argha Banerjee, Dean of Arts on the Faculty of the Department of English, St.Xaviers College, Kolkata,

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which opened my eyes to this important dimension of

Netaji's character.

He was born into a family which followed the belief system of the Brahmo Samaj, as well as Shaktism, the

worship of the Supreme Godhead as Devi Mahatmya,the divine Mother of Cosmos, in the form of Durgaor Kali or Jagaddhatri.. The Brahmo faith advocatedthe worship of the formless 'Absolute Param Brahma';the 'One Supreme Spirit' alone, the Absolute,Ekamevaditiyam . In fact, the Brahmo faith only

worshipped the Supreme Spirit of Existence.

Netaji went to a Baptist Mission school which gave daily lessons in the Bible. This developed in him a liberaloutlook, as well as the ability to commune spiritually

with nature. However, from the age of 15 he cameunder the influence of the ideas of both Ramakrishnaand Vivekananda. This influence, especially that of

Vivekananda, brought about a synthesis of religion andnationalism which he fulfilled in his future politicalcareer. "There followed a revolution within andeverything was turned upside down, " he wrote.

Vivekananda served as "an ideal" for which he wasready to sacrifice his "whole being". Individual salvationbecame inextricably linked with service to the people.

He was also greatly influenced by Sri AurobindoGhosh's spirituality, particularly by the final statementin his book, The Human Cycle , where he wrote: "A spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future… it means the growing realization that there is asecret Spirit, a divine Reality, in which we are all one… By its growth within us, oneness with our fellow

men will become the leading principle of all our life,not merely a principle of co-operation, but a deep-seated brotherhood, a real and an inner sense of unity,equality and a common life."

In this statement we can find a precognitive intuition of the revelation of the Guide Spirit of the Father, whichis the central revelation in the Urantia Book.

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I have added some appendices at the end for the benefitof those readers who would enjoy having some samplesof the Urantia Book writings on relevant topics withouthaving to take the trouble of searching that 2000 pagebook.

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The Urantia Book

Without reading the Urantia Book, hereinafter referredto as TUB, I think you will not only be missingsomething valuable, but you may be at a greatdisadvantage in future. TUB in pdf format is freely

available on several internet websites. My suggestionis to download the free pdf version first. Using AdobeReader you can do an edit/search for any single wordin the book and turn up every reference to that wordin a matter of seconds. Although I have read TUB rightthrough several times, I usually use search to dig outparticular topics. Now I offer you the idea of TUB as anopportunity, not an obligation. There is no obligation.

TUB is the first volume of an encyclopedia composedby superhuman beings under the authority of the three

Ancients of Days who rule our super-universe of Orvonton from its capital Uversa. Their immediate bossis Master Spirit Aya of Orvonton, who works fromParadise. He reports directly to the Holy Trinity.

There are seven Master Spirits, and they stand on theborderline between the Infinite and the finite. They canoperate freely in both these zones. They were the firstseven beings created directly by the Infinite Spirit atthe beginning of creation. But we should bear in mindthat the Infinite Spirit, who constitutes the Infinite Mindof God, also includes the Spirit of the Father and theSpirit of the Son. This is the Breath of God or Ruah inHebrew referred to in the Old Testament.

So when the three Ancients of Days on Uversasanctioned TUB, they cleared it with Aya of Orvonton,and he cleared it with the Holy Trinity. That isnecessary, because the whole Government of Creationis the Trinity Government.



But whose idea was it? It was the idea of Jesus/Christ

Michael. Before Jesus of Nazareth was born he wascalled Michael of Nebadon. Millions of years ago he was born of the Eternal Father and the Eternal Son asa Paradise Creator Son. There are almost one millionof these Sons, and they are all called Michael Sons.In Hebrew, Michael means 'like unto God', and eachand every Michael Son is a perfect manifestation of thepersonality of God the Father, even though each one isdifferent and unique. That is because God the Fatheris the Original Infinity, and that includes both infiniteunity and infinite variety.

John was right to say: "He came unto his own, and hisown received him not, but, to as many as received him,he gave them power to become sons of God." Our localuniverse of Nebadon, which now has approximately four million inhabited worlds, was all created by Jesus/

Christ Michael of Nebadon. With his wife or consort,Nebadonia, he created us also, except that ourpersonality was created directly by the Eternal Father.So Jesus/Christ Michael calls himself our father/brother, because His Father is also Our Father: theFather of our personality. And personality is the mostmysterious, sublime, and transcendental part of us, farexceeding the soul itself. The soul you will not keep

forever, because a time will come when it is no longernecessary. That is when you become pure spirit. But,even after that, you will keep your own personality forever and ever. Amen! It is the personality thatprecedes the soul, contains the seed of soul, and is aptto receive spirit, mind, body, and soul. So you are nota three part being. You are a five part being.

After Jesus died on the cross and was buried, he roseagain at approximately 3 a.m. on Sunday morning,36 hours after he died. It took time because he firsthad to go to the mansion worlds, which are someof the satellites of our system capital Jerusem. Oursystem of Satania has more then 600 inhabited worlds.Jesus/Christ Michael passed through all seven mansion

worlds very quickly, because he was already perfect. He

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wanted to follow the same ascension route that we all

have to follow, so that he could understand our lifeexperiences perfectly. So he had already completed hisresurrection on mansonia in "morontia" form before herose on earth. Morontia form means 'soul' form, whichis half physical and half spiritual in its first stages, butit evolves towards complete spirituality in due course.So Jesus did not take up his dead body at all. It wasdisposed of by the Archangels quickly through timecompression and totally dissolved. Jesus entered thecave in the morontia body he brought with him frommansonia. Then the midwayers (half man, half angel)rolled the stone aside and the soldiers, both Roman andJewish, fled in terror. Midwayers are powerfully built.

After that he appeared to his apostles and disciples.He could make himself visible or invisible at will, justlike the midwayers can. He never appeared to anyone

who had no faith. But he was seen by hundreds of people because they had faith in him. After he ascendedinto heaven he visited the Eternal Father personally onParadise and then returned to Salvington, the capitalof Nebadon, to take back the ruling power he haddelegated to Immanuel, who is the resident ambassadorof the Trinity Government. After taking control of thelocal universe government, one of the first acts of

Christ Michael was to petition the Ancients of Days onUversa to authorize the composition of TUB as the FifthEpochal Revelation. This is the guiding revelation of the Sixth Epochal Dispensation. The Ancients of Daysagreed to do so, and they appointed a Commission forthis purpose. The Head of the commission is the DivineCounselor who composed the Foreword of TUB as wellas Paper Number One and a few others. Although only

the Eternal Father, the Eternal Son, and the InfiniteSpirit are Infinite in all respects, other beings, likeDivine Counselors, can be infinite in some respects,relating to their special purpose. They are SPECIALISTS.

Now I know that when I talk about the Fifth EpochalRevelation people are going to ask about the other four,

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so I am giving you a check list. You can look up the

details in TUB whenever you feel like it:

1.) Revelation given by the Planetary Prince Caligastia;

2.) Revelation given by Adam and Eve;

3.) Revelation given by Machiventa Melchizedek;

4.) Revelation given by Jesus of Nazareth;

5.) TUB.

As regards the timing of each—

1) About half a million years ago;

2) About 37,000 years ago;



5) 1934.

Notice that dispensations vary in length according tospiritual factors. They are not governed by astronomy.

There was no revelation during the First EpochalDispensation. That's why the Fifth Epochal Revelationis for the Sixth Epochal Dispensation. There are otherminor dispensations occasionally as well as minorrevelations.

We should also note that Adam and Eve were notour first parents. Our first parents, Anton and Fonda,

evolved from lemur monkeys almost a million yearsago. But the Jews who were released from Egypt by Moses were descendants of Adam and Eve. That's why they emphasized them in their traditions. They wereof the violet race. However, by that time, there wasprobably no such thing as a pure racial strain. All theraces were mixed in various ways.

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