Mota
Morontia mota is morontia wisdom or insight. It is not something we can acquire or comprehend until we reach the mansion worlds after death. In the meantime, we must rely on philosophy and revelation. One of our prime tasks on the morontia worlds is to grasp the significance and meaning of mota.
Mount Gilboa
Mount Gilboa forms part of a mountain range between southern Galilee and northern Samaria, just southwest of the Greek city of Scythopolis. See Map. This is the site where, years ago, King Saul was defeated by the Philistines. Jesus made camp on the slopes of Gilboa for two months, taking time to teach the apostles...
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon forms part of a mountain cluster at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range. Jesus spent time on the mountain during his transition years and later during his transfiguration. The area of Mount Hermon that Jesus climbed is near Beit Jinn in the southern range where he ascended 6,000 ft (1,828 m). The...
Mount of Olives
The Mount of Olives, or Mount Olivet, is a low mountain ridge in East Jerusalem, adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City. In Jesus' time, the palace of Annas, the high priest, was situated here. Today, it is a major site of pilgrimage for Christians.
Mystery Monitors
The Thought Adjusters (or Mystery Monitors) are spirit fragments of God the Father that indwell the minds of mortals as spiritual guides. The immediate mission and ministry of these divine spirits is to spiritualize the human mind so as to evolve a morontia soul and, by doing so, ensure mortal survival after death. God adjusts...
Nathaniel
Nathaniel was the sixth and last of the apostles to be chosen by Jesus. When he joined, he was 25 and unmarried. He looked after the families of the apostles. His great virtue was that he was both honest and sincere. His weaknesses were his pride and personal prejudices. He was an odd genius, a...
Nazarite
A Nazarite was looked upon as a sanctified and holy personality distinguished by uncut hair, abstinence from wine, and avoidance of the dead. John the Baptist was one. The Jews regarded a Nazarite with almost the same respect and veneration accorded the high priests.
Neanderthal
The Neanderthals evolved 850,000 years ago from the Badonan tribes living in the northwest highlands of India (what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan 79:0.1). They migrated west to France, east to China, and down into northern Africa, dominating the world for almost half a million years until the times of the migrations of the evolutionary...
Nebadon
Nebadon is the name of our local universe. There are 100,000 local universes in each of the seven superuniverses and, eventually, each local universe will embrace 10 million inhabited planets. Local universes are the creation of a Michael Son (Creator Son) and a Mother Spirit (Creative Spirit). The ruler of Nebadon is the Creator Son,...
Nebula
In the 1930s, the term nebula was often used to describe any diffused astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way. For instance, The Urantia Book mentions the Andromeda nebula, which is now called the Andromeda galaxy. Nonetheless, nebulae are still recognized as star-forming regions. They begin as giant clouds of dust and gas (mostly...