Glossary Archive

This broad group of celestial personalities includes the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit, the Messenger Hosts of Space, and the Ministering Spirits of Time. The ministering spirits include all groups of angels who attend to the evolutionary and ascending will creatures of space.

Personality is bestowed by the Universal Father, who is the Original Personality and the source of all personality. Personality is a level of deified reality: a changeless, unique identity characterized by subjective self-consciousness. It is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. There are levels of personality; divine personality is much more...

By means of his personality circuit, the Paradise Father is personally conscious of, and in personal touch with, all personalities of all levels of self-conscious existence. His personality consciousness of all creation exists independently of the mission of the Thought Adjusters. The personality circuit transmits the worship of all personalities to the Original and Eternal...

Thought Adjusters who have occupied the minds of incarnated Sons of God (such as Jesus on earth) are often personalized by fiat of the Universal Father. Other Adjusters may be personalized after repeated service in the minds of mortals who are not Adjuster-fusion candidates or who fail to survive. Personalized Adjusters are classified as ascending...

Pervaded and unpervaded space originate in Paradise. Pervaded space is comprised of forces, energies, powers, and presences. All things and beings in the master universe exist in pervaded space. Unpervaded space is devoid of these forces and energies, but it is the reservoir of all space. Pervaded and unpervaded space expand and contract in billion...

Simon Peter was the second apostle and brother of Andrew. He was a fluent speaker, an effective preacher, and an inspirational leader. But he could also be impulsive, thoughtless, and capricious. After Jesus' death, he helped to organize the church in Jerusalem. He was crucified in Rome in AD 67. For more on Peter, see...

The scribes and rabbis, taken together, were called Pharisees, as were some middle class tradesmen. The Pharisees and Sadducees were really religious parties, rather than sects.

Philip "the Curious" was the fifth apostle. He was already familiar with Jesus as he had lived in Bethsaida where Jesus often worked. Philip was the steward of the apostles and was responsible for the provision of food. After the death of Jesus, he preached mainly in Samaria and was later crucified at Hierapolis (in...

Philip the Tetrarch (26 BC to AD 33) was a son of Herod the Great (the Idumean) and a brother of Herod Antipas. He inherited the lands north and east of the Jordan River, a region called Batanea in Roman times. Philip allowed Jesus and the apostles to preach in his domains and they often...

Philip the Tetrarch (26 BC to AD 33) was a son of Herod the Great (the Idumean) and a brother of Herod Antipas. He inherited the lands north and east of the Jordan River, a region called Batanea in Roman times. Philip allowed Jesus and the apostles to preach in his domains and they often...