Glossary Archive

Thomas Didymus was the 8th apostle, chosen by Philip. He was 29 and married with four children. His job was to arrange and manage the itinerary. His weaknesses were a quarrelsome disposition, pessimism, faultfinding, and suspicious doubting. His great strengths were his analytical mind and his unflinching courage. He was honest, sincere, loyal, and truthful....

Those High in Authority are Adjuster-fused mortals who have attained Paradise and the Corps of the Finality. They are perfected mortals who have exhibited superior administrative ability and have shown extraordinary executive genius throughout their long ascending careers. They are the cream of governing ability derived from the surviving mortals of space. They are the...

Those without Name and Number are Adjuster-fused mortals who have attained Paradise and the Corps of the Finality. They have developed the ability to worship beyond the skill of all mortals from the worlds of time and space. They are the superior spiritual minds who are especially qualified to sit in judgment and to render...

The Thought Adjusters (or Mystery Monitors) are spirit fragments of God the Father that indwell the minds of mortals as spiritual guides (there are also non-Adjuster Father fragments). 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...

The Three Absolutes of potentiality include God the Absolute (or Deity Absolute), the Unqualified Absolute, and the Universal Absolute. There are Seven Absolutes in all, but these three are often mentioned as a singular group because they are the infinite reservoirs of all energy reality—spiritual, mindal, or cosmic. All potential reality resides in these three...

Transcendental can mean superior or supernatural, but the word is often used in The Urantia Book to refer to the absonite level of reality, one that transcends time and space. This reality is associated with the evolution of God the Ultimate. Transcendental beings, such as the Architects of the Master Universe were not created, they...

Transcendentalers are neither creators nor creatures; they are the "eventuated" children of divinity, ultimacy, and eternity. These “eventuators” are neither finite nor infinite—they are absonite; and absonity is neither infinity nor absoluteness. There are more than one thousand groups of these transcendental supercitizens in Paradise.

All groups of angels have a transport corps dedicated to transporting personalities who are otherwise unable to journey from one world to another. Transporters range from the seraphim of the local systems to the primary supernaphim who travel from Havona to Paradise. Until they reach Paradise, all ascenders must rely on seraphic transport. Transporters cannot...

Universe tribunals adjudicate differences of opinion. They also decree the survival of ascending mortals. All levels of universe administration have tribunals, from inhabited planets to superuniverses, each with its own jurisdiction. The highest tribunals are those of the Ancients of Days. All tribunals can decree mortal survival, but only the Ancients have final authority in...

Trinitization is the technique whereby the Universal Father achieves freewill liberation through the creation of the three Persons of the Trinity (0:7.8). Trinitization also refers to a creation technique whereby creatures are brought into existence by mortal finaliters or Paradise-Havona natives. See The Technique of Trinitization.