Background
Glossary of Terms & Celestial Teacher Biographies
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0802-AB (Jack) - [1955] Secondary Midwayer Jack began attempting contact in 1955, finally got through to the receiver (to whom he was attached) in 1967; I (Gerdean) met Jack in 1968. The receiver and I were wed in 1970 and Jack became a member of our "family" until 1983 when he went with the receiver to Thailand where he seems to still be stationed. He has visited infrequently since the opening of the circuits. His field of service: Awakening the Souls of Men. According to Ham, Jack was with the Advance Corps to work with Mortals in the period prior to the inauguration of the Correcting Time, working with a mortal contact personality towards perfecting the Transmitter/ Receiver process. Jack is a no-nonsense worker for spiritual progress who has spent most of the past 20 years in Thailand and Singapore.


A'Cilla - Personal teacher (Colorado & Puerto Rica) - ascended mortal.


A'Sandra - Lafayette, Colorado Group Teacher.


 Abbeygail or AbbeyGail - A personal teacher. She comes from a planet that was just getting started in light and Life (there are 7 stages) when she departed. She has been through experiences like being a Single Mom, undergoing spouse abuse, working men's jobs in a man's world, etc. She is very loving and understanding and has a dry sense of humor.


Abicoralinia – Midwayer.


Abilenia – Midwayer.


Adam & Eve – Material Sons/Daughters of God are created in the local universe and reside on Jerusem, the system capitol. They serve as parents to the infants and children of time, who perished before they were of age to choose eternal survival. They also are sent as a pair to evolutionary worlds to ameliorate the faults and shortcomings of evolution. Our Adam and Eve pair materialized on Urantia nearly 38,000 years ago for the purpose of biologically uplifting the mortals of the realm. They were 8 feet tall and were of a violet hue. Their bodies gave off a spiritual luminescence, and at night when they wore their cloaks, the glow from their heads gave rise to the concept of the halo. They had a very difficult mission, because of the planetary quarantine that isolated them from contact with the rest of the universe. They came to a backward planet without a Planetary Prince and with little preparation of the mortal inhabitants for their arrival. Eve bore 105 pure-line descendants before they defaulted on their mandate, and, with Adam, was reduced in rank to that of humans of the realm. Adam lived 530 years and died of old age; Eve died nineteen years before Adam from a weakened heart. [UB, Papers 73-76]  [pp. 821-854]


Adjuster – The same as the Thought Adjuster and also known as a Mystery Monitor, the Indwelling, and which is the individual fragment of God the Father that lives within mortals of survival potential. It arrives as a gift, a spirit bestowal, of the Universal Father when the mortal makes his/her first moral decision, signifying a budding soul. [UB, Papers 107-112] [pp. 1176-1240]


Adora - Group Teacher, Arcata, California. A Brilliant Evening Star working with Astara.


  She also "tunes the body/mind/spirit energy systems within individuals, so that they are able to channel celestials more easily and consistently and continues to raise their levels."


Agmar - Finaliter, Superuniverse 1, Sarasota, FL.


Ahbaron Melchizedek – He arrived in Costa Rica’s Lake Arenal group on January 2002, and he introduced himself, “I am of the order of Melchizedek, and in your human terms, I would be considered very old. I have been on duty on your planet for several thousand years. I have been working with you for some 40 years…[T/R:  Oliver Duex]

“We are an order of universe teachers. How do you teach creatures on an evolutionary world, a world that has been isolated from otherwise easily accessible spiritual information? How do you go about opening those minds and hearts even to the possibilities of a direct connection to the Source and Center of all when the regular information flow that normally pours down to a planet of evolution, has been severed – for good reasons .…

 

“We were sent even before the circuits were being opened in order that we would unearth safe ways for direct communications with human beings who were neither told about nor trained to seek for such communications on their own, communications with those older brothers and sisters that have been given the opportunity to teach and serve here. Patience, my friend, is the key concept to apply when higher evolved minds desire to communicate with more ‘dense’ mind patterns – which I want you to not construe as a criticism, as it is a straight-out fact…”


Ahmen - Personal Teacher, Sarasota, Florida.


Ahnadab - (Pronounced Ah-nay-dwab)  Personal Teacher, Spokane, Washington.


Alista - Group Teacher, Los Osos, California. Member of Melchizedek teaching staff and a graduate of a Melchizedek School of Edentia (name of the Constellation HQ planet).


Altern - Personal teacher in SE Idaho.


Ambrose – A personal advisor to a transmitter/receiver who has lived in both Florida and Colorado.


Amstar - Teacher - May be unassigned

Ana – Personal Teacher, Colorado.


Anastacia - Group Teacher, Dallas, Texas. A female who teams with Ordon (Male).


AnatoliaCo-team mate with Tomas, currently in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She is from a planet settled in Light and Life. She has also taught in Columbus, Ohio.

Tomas describes her as “sharp, keen, brilliant in her character reflection of our Eternal Parents, and I am certain this has much to do with her upbringing on her world.”


Andirondek – A Melchizedek assigned to the western part of the U.S. and has instructed the Pocatello, Idaho group.


Andonites – Primitive race, scattered over the Arctic and central Asia; gave rise to the Hittites, Lapps and Eskimos, with pale skins and broad heads.


Andrew  - Group Teacher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio. -3,200 Urantia years old, unfused from a rebellion planet. Was an engineer in mortal life, 2 children, built bridges, came here to serve and thinks it is like building bridges. He collects jokes!


Andromadeus – A Most High who visited with the Rio Rancho, New Mexico group in 2003. 


  Melchizedek.


Angels – The seraphic ministering spirits of the local universe with numerous classifications according to function.  Those most often referred to on Urantia as angels are of the category of “guardian seraphim.” See: [UB Papers 23-28, 31, 37-39, 48, 113, 114] [pp. 256-318, 345, 406-442, 541, 1241-1259]


Ansol - Personal Teacher, Sebastopol, California.


Aranda - Teacher, Burlington, Iowa. Adjuster-fused female from Mansion World #7.


Architectural worlds When all seven superuniverses are complete, there will be nearly five hundred billion of these worlds, purposely constructed for their intended uses. While they may receive some light from nearby stars, they are heated and lighted independently. These worlds do not suffer from geologic instability, or weather phenomena. They are made from morontia materials and are very beautiful. You will see your first architectural world when you awaken from the death experience, on Mansion World number one. [UB, Paper 15, sec. 7] [p. 174]


Arrabelle - (Possibly Aridelle, or Ariel) A visiting personality, Spokane, Washington. Unassigned as of May 1993.


Ascendington – One of the sacred spheres of Paradise and the home for finaliters, those ascending mortals who have become perfect by attainment. Here are kept the secrets of the evolution of the soul and the technique of fusion with the Father fragment.

[UB, Papers 13 and 112]  [pp. 143, 443]


Astara - Group Teacher, Arcata, CA - Brilliant Evening Star works with Adora. The Brilliant Evening Stars are another, along with the Archangels, group classified as Universe Aids.



Avery - Personal Teacher, Suitland, Maryland - Ascended mortal.

 


Avonals – Paradise Sons of God created in perfection for the purposes of magisterial missions, dispensational adjudications, to act as supreme counselors to local systems settled in light and life, and to be a personal representation of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. They may or may not incarnate as a visible being, depending on circumstances. [UB, Papers 20, 49, 50 & 55]  [pp. 223, 559, 572, 621]


Bartholmew - Personal Teacher, Spokane, Washington.


Australia.


Bersa – Addressed the Snow Mountain International TeaM Conference, Aug. 20,1997.


Bertrand - Group Teacher, Corona Del Mar, California.


Bethera – Teacher at Half Moon Bay, California, 2000.


Bob  (Known as “What about Bob”) and Lady – A Cherubim/Sanobim pair, personal mentors in “Be All You Can Be” to a couple in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Their specialty is Psych analysis and social development.


Bretharyn - Personal Teacher, Salem, Oregon.


Brilliant Evening Stars – An order of Universe Aids created by the Creator Son and Mother spirit for a wide range of administrative functions: They assist Magisterial Sons and Trinity Teacher Sons on their missions, work with finaliters, teach on Jerusem, are liaison officers of Gabriel, and one of their numbers attended Jesus throughout his bestowal mission on Urantia. They sponsored many of the Urantia Papers:  37, 47, 85-89, and 119.


Caligastia – A secondary Lanonandek Son, at one time Planetary Prince of Urantia until he joined the Lucifer Rebellion. Caligastia served loyally for 300,000 years before taking up the sophistry of his superior, Lucifer. He became ultra-individualistic, resented supervision, and had a tendency to disagree with established order. As he committed to ever more deliberate sin, his personality became completely distorted. Although shorn of power, he remained on Urantia for a time and contributed to the Adamic default through his evil influence. [UB, Papers 66 & 67] [pp. 741-762] He ceased to exist at the time of the adjudication in 1985, choosing annihilation over repentance. [James, Oct. 4, 1992]


Can-det-E (CDE ?) - Secondary Midwayer, Englewood, Florida.


Celestia - Personal Teacher, Arcadia, California.


Celestial beings – Under normal circumstances, spirit personalities like the descending sons of God, or ascending sons of God, including mortals who have left their planets of nativity and have become morontial beings, cannot be seen by mortal eyes—these are classed as “celestial beings.”  This category does not include mortals still in their physical bodies; currently hailing from other inhabited, evolutionary planets—those would be called “extraterrestrial” beings or “off-worlders.”  

[-JarEl, Arcadia, CA, USA, Feb 16, 2004]


Centering – To use the practice of Stillness to prepare body and mind for communion with the Eternal Father, to enter into the flow of the circuits and be in harmony with the universe.


Ceranta - Personal Teacher, Suitland, Maryland.


Chanti – One from a group of healing "angels" working with human healers on Urantia including one in Sarasota, Florida.


Cherubim – In all essential endowments, cherubim and sanobim are similar to seraphim. Their function is to assist the seraphim with their duties, such as record keeping and other routine spirit work. [UB, Paper 38, sec. 7 & 8]  [pp. 422-424]


Circuits – These are the discrete and directional conduits of energies of personality, spirit, mind and energy-matter that traverse space for communication, presence, maintenance, healing, and ministry.  The functioning of the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit ministry, the adjutant mind-spirits and the universe broadcasts are examples of the use of some of these lower space-time circuits. [UB Paper15, sec.9]  [p. 176]


Clair - [2001] Secondary Midwayer, and Consort of Midwayer Mathew. Could not last the distance on this planet, and requested alternative duties.


Colanda - Personal Teacher, Suitland, Maryland.


[p.195]


Corali - Personal Teacher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Coronas – Name of an individual Archangel teaching in the Mission.


Cosmic mind – Mind is the functional endowment of the Infinite Spirit. It co-ordinates matter and spirit and endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight. Spiritual intuition and faith-insight are examples of the functioning of cosmic mind. The Third Person of God is the source of universal mind; but cosmic mind is modified universal mind to function in time-space by the Master Spirits,  The mind of man is an impersonal portion of cosmic mind, a gift of the Creative Daughter Spirit and functions over an individualized circuit.

[UB, Paper 9, sec. 4; Paper 16, sec.6; Paper 101, sec.3]      [pp. 102, 191, 1107]


Creator – The First Source and Center, the one and only “uncaused reality,” creator of all that exists in the vast Grand Universe. Also known as God the Father, the Universal Father, the First person of Deity, the "I AM," the ONE, the Upholder, the Controller, the Almighty, and the God of Personality, to mention just a few.

 

Creator definitions exist on three levels of reality. On the universal level (infinite) creator ability is the power to initiate existential first causes. Among these first causes is the diversification of infinity into three levels of self-conscious existences. On the second level, Creator endowments found here transcend time in order to unify the local-time universes with the transcendental purposes of the master universe. On the third level, Creator power exists in time as a sub-infinite cause (localized to specific areas of space), and uses pre-existing endowments of energy, mind, matter, and spirit to organize, administer, and rule their local universe space of newly created beings of destiny. All creator endowments come originally from the unqualifiedly infinite First Source and Center known to personal beings as the Universal Father.  [UB Papers 1-3]  [pp. 21-53]


Cromek - Personal Teacher, Corvallis, Oregon.


Curits - Personal Teacher, Seabrook, Maryland - Ascended Mortal.


Damalia (Social Architect) - [introduced in 1994] In 1996, he brought together individuals within the teaching mission who were interested in publishing.


Danezia – Midwayer.


Daphne - Celestial Artisan - Female Ascended Mortal, her name is familiar from Greek mythology. While the Greek Daphne was a nymph who is changed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's advances, in the Teaching Mission she has worked with Jarad of the Nashville TeaM. She takes credit for helping his songwriting career. Their most notable co-creative effort thus far is entitled "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille" -- a song laden with messages for men, women, couples, friends and lovers for all time.


Daranadek - Melchizedek: assigned to LinEL group - may be the same melchizedek as attached to one or another NW group. Feels "younger" than Machiventa, but definitely has the melchizedek flavor.


David - Celestial artisan, Cincinnati, Ohio.


David - Personal Teacher, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. (May possibly be the same David as the celestial artisan or the midwayer mentioned above.)


Descending Sons – Sons of various orders created in a state of perfection, which accept incarnation or spiritual missions to serve the lower imperfect orders of beings who ascend, in order to gain experiential knowledge. [UB, Paper 20]  [p.223]


Disciples (new) - Modern day disciples are those who choose to follow the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus and share those teachings with willing listeners, to actively practice loving others as Jesus/Christ Michael loves them, and to love God and willingly serve mankind for the glory of the Father.


Dispensational roll call – An action by the universe administration, which calls up all sleeping survivors, (those of potential soul survivability but who had not reached a certain level of attainment in their spiritual growth during their mortal lifetimes,) to their resurrections on the mansion worlds. The first one occurred at the arrival of the Planetary Prince, 500,000 years ago, and the most recent one followed the end of the adjudication of the Lucifer Rebellion. Besides the dispensational roll calls, special roll calls are also performed at least every millennium for the awakening of the sleeping survivors. This is done so that the new morontial pilgrims can be instructed in groups. It does not apply to those individuals who have reached a requisite level of spiritual attainment; they have a shorter sleep of only three days. [Michael, Sarasota, Florida, Jun. 8, 1995]


Dr. Mendoza (MNO-8) - [1945 or 1946]  A secondary midwayer, healer and psychologist. He is a brilliant multi-linguist. The Dr. is known as the "man" who ate no dinners. He is reported to be the fourth midwayer member of the Australian Emergency Unit, or Platoon.


Edentia – It is the name of the headquarters world of our Constellation of Norlatiadek, an architectural sphere of unimagined beauty and grandeur. It is 100 times larger than Urantia and has 770 satellites for a total cluster count of 771 spheres. Advancing mortals spend much time there, socializing and learning in the Melchizedek schools. [UB, Paper 43]  [p. 485]


Elaine - Personal teacher, California. Elaine lived her mortal life during a planetary reclamation from a rebellion. When the teaching mission came to her home world, she had a personal teacher assigned to her also.


Eliha - Personal Teacher, Arcadia California.


Elisha - Personal Teacher, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Colorado. - Female Celestial Artisan

Encircuited – To be connected to one of the many different kinds of universe energy circuits, which circulate throughout the universes by definite routes. An example would be the circuit a Transport Seraphim would use to carry a spirit being from one world to another, or those used in mindal communication over long distances.


Enizia - Midwayer (Pronounced en-eet, sia).


Error, evil, sin & iniquity – Error is the inevitable result of the immature creature’s use of free will from a misconception or distortion of reality, an unwise judgment, or a decision made with incomplete facts or lacking of intellectual keenness. These will be forgiven and forgotten in eternity. Evil is the darkness that follows rejection of light, and immature choosing of less than is righteous, of choosing error over truth; an imperfect obedience to the Father’s will. Sin is a willful, conscious identification with evil, a deliberate transgression of divine will. Sin retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress and spiritual attainment, but does not prevent them. Sin has repercussions but is correctable; forgiveness is available if mercy is accepted. Iniquity is the persistent pursuit of sin and error, a destruction of the connection of soul with spirit, a rejection of divine forgiveness, a lack of sorrow for misdeeds. It is spiritual suicide.

[UB, Paper 67, sec. 1]  [p.754]


Eternal Son – Second Source and Center, the Second Person of Deity, the Original Son and with God the Father, is the co-creator of other divine Sons. He is the source of spirit, the administrator of all spirit, the center of spirit in the universe and therefore all things spiritual are drawn to him, and because he is co-eternal and co-ordinate with the Father, he is a full equal to the Father. [UB, Papers 6 & 7]  [pp.73-89]


Eve – Teacher, Sarasota, Florida and Sandy, Utah.


Experimental planet – Every tenth planet in a given System comprising 1,000 spheres capable of supporting life, is designated a “decimal world,” a planet where the Life Carriers are allowed to experiment, modify, and attempt to improve the life forms, within limits. Urantia is one of these life-experiment worlds upon which developed twenty-eight modifications that were successful and will be allowed to be utilized on future worlds in Nebadon. Unfortunately, some of the modifications tried by the Life Carriers were handicapped by the Caligastia betrayal and Adamic default. Some of the primitive forms of plant life reverted and became parasitic bacteria, causing serious diseases in the higher mammals. The Adamic uplift would have corrected much of this problem by making man immune to bacterial and viral effects if Adam and Eve had not defaulted in their mission. It now rests on human mind endowment to use science and ingenuity to solve some of these biological problems that plague our world, but we are not without divine assistance in this matter. We have been given the opportunity to co-create the solutions to Urantia’s problems, mankind working with celestial beings to discover corrections for these problems. This is one aspect of the Correcting time.

[UB, Paper 65]  [p. 730]


Father Fragment – An alternate term for the Thought Adjuster, which is a pre-personal piece of the Heavenly Father, given to mortals with spirit potential, and who are a homing device to lead man to God, to help him with the trials of living, and to teach him what he needs to know to grow his soul into an eternal reality.  [UB, Papers 107-112]  [pp. 1176-1240]


Felicia - Teacher, Sedona, Arizona. Works with mortals to help raise their vibration levels.


Finaliters – The career of destiny for Father-fused mortals that have faithfully ascended all the worlds of specialized training, have mastered the will of the Father, and achieved perfection of intention as creatures of time and space. Finaliters serve the Paradise Trinity on the worlds of space. They have learned to be superb administrators within the Grand Universe until such time as their skills and experience will be needed in the administration of the outer space universes. They are a new being who consists of an eternal union of the perfect Adjuster and a perfected one-time-mortal creature. [UB, Papers 40, 10, & 31]  [443, 108, 345]


Foehn - Teacher, Norman, Oklahoma. (Pronounced Fawn)


- [2000] Cherubim and sanobim pair with hundreds of years of psychology studies between them. They are Psychology Analysts and Advisors.


GabreEl - Brilliant Evening Star (Pronounced G aab-ree-el). Liaison officer for Gabriel.

 


Gahldos - Guardian angel (seraph), Northern West Virginia.

 


Gavalia - Brilliant Evening Star, Englewood, Florida.


Geveny - Personal Teacher, Salem, Oregon. Works as a team with Eleveneth.


God Consciousness – The human mind, because of the cosmic endowment of mind and the indwelling of the Adjuster, is able to discern the fact, the law, and the love of God. Discerning the spiritual presence of God is determined by the capacity of receptivity and the consecration of the creature’s will to doing the divine will. God has already reached down for the contact with man through the gift of the Thought Adjuster. When the mind of man recognizes this presence of divinity within, and desires to have more contact with his Heavenly Father, this upward reach of man to God results in soul growth that gives man ever more direct contact and communion with God and the awareness of that as fact. Jesus attained a state of unbroken communion with God, which he attained through intelligent prayer and sincere worship. [UB, Papers 5, 100, 196]  [pp. 62, 1094, 2087]



Grand Universe – It is the inhabited creation only and does not take into account the outer space areas, which presently do not contain life. The grand universe consists of the Isle of Paradise, Havona (the central universe), and the seven superuniverses, with their major and minor sectors, local universes, constellations, local systems and seven trillion inhabited planets (the time-space universes). It is not only a physical/material creation, but it is a responsive, living organism, permeated by energy lanes and intelligence circuits that activate it and nourish it much as the human body is nourished by means of the circulatory system that distributes energy to all parts of the body. It is subject to the overcontrol of the mindedness of the power centers. [UB, Paper 116, sec.7]  [p.1276]


Ham – Ham is the Administrative Head of Teachers. He is the Group Teacher of Woods Cross, Utah and Nashville, Tennessee. He is more of an administrative personality. (It could be said that he is the “dean” of the celestial teacher corps.)  He has a different administrative role than Abraham.


HapsonEssa – Midwayer.


Havona – A part of the perfect Central and Divine universe, Havona consists of seven concentric circuits, holding a billion architectural worlds. (Spirit beings do not live in nebulous space; they dwell on actual material spheres, although the substance of their construction is different than that of the evolutionary worlds of space.)  Havona is populated by perfect beings created by the Trinity, and also is the pre-Paradise training ground for ascending mortals. [UB, Paper 14]  [p.152]


Hilson - Group Teacher, Los Osos, California.


Holinea - Personal Teacher, Arcadia, California.


Ian - Personal Teacher, Nashville, Tennessee - Female Ascender.


Indwelling Father – The Father fragment, the Thought Adjuster, the Thought controller, the Mystery Monitor; the gift of the Universal Father to the evolutionary mortals, the Father’s love incarnate in the souls of men. It is this fragment that leads man to become perfect, to become eternal. Because these Father fragments have characteristic spirit luminosity, they are often referred to as the “pilot light” or the “light of life.” 

[UB, Papers 107-112]  [pp. 1176-1240]


Inhabitable Planets – All mortals begin life on an evolutionary planet, an orb consisting of 100 naturally occurring chemical elements. Mortal man is not an accidental creation; there is a precise system, a universal law that determines what life forms will develop, beginning with simple ones and progressing through the divine technique of evolutionary growth and development. Not all planets are suitable for life forms to develop, and most worlds go through millions, if not billions, of years of geologic stabilization before they are ready for life implantation by the Life Carriers. No two worlds have identical life forms; life forms must be modified from basic patterns to conform to the unique characteristics of the worlds of space. All planets that are given life plasm by the Life Carriers, are preprogrammed to eventually develop mortal creatures of will dignity, intelligent, erect bipeds, but they vary greatly in all other respects; the inhabitants may live 25 years on one planet, but 500 years on another; some need an atmosphere, others are non-breathers; in response to the size of the planet and the amount of gravity, the mortals may vary from 2.5 feet in height to 10 feet; some mortal beings fly, some live on land and some live in the water. [UB, Paper 49]  [p. 559]


Iris - Personal Teacher, Lebanon, Oregon.


Isathal - Personal Teacher, Salem, Oregon.



JamEL: personal teacher attached to LinEL group, also part-time group teacher. Unfused mortal on planet in era of light and life, but whose mortal life ended with tragically bad personal choices. Found his true call working in the gardens of Edentia. Has particular compassion for those struggling with Lucifer Legacy due to his own experience. Uniquely qualified. Intermediately difficult to transmit - unusually long and convoluted sentence constructions similar to UB. Very tolerant and dedicated to helping those with struggles.


JanEl - Personal Teacher, Sarasota, Florida and later Group Teacher Arcadia, California

JarEl - Arcadia Group Teacher since 1993.


Jay-orzh - Personal teacher, was Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; now in Silver Springs, Florida.


Jerusem – This is the name of the capital of Satania, the planetary system our solar universe belongs. Jerusem is an architectural sphere 100 times larger than Urantia. It has no oceans or rugged mountains, but some of the buildings are made of crystals unheard of on our planet and there are many lakes with connecting canals. [UB, Paper 46]  [p. 519]

 


Jessona – Group teacher, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

JoEl - Personal Teacher, Sarasota, Florida.


Jonathen - Teacher, Charlotte, North Carolina

Jorgonson - An ascendant mortal, an agondonter, from a distant planet. Resident on Edentia. His planet was a participant in an earlier rebellion.


Josepha - Teacher, St. Louis, Missouri