Ascendington
Ascendington is one of the seven sacred spheres of the Father circuiting Paradise. It is known as the bosom of the Father-Son-Spirit, and is the rendezvous of the ascendant creatures of space who are passing through the Havona universe on their way to Paradise. Its secret is the evolution of an immortal soul within the...
Assigned Sentinels
The Assigned Sentinels represent the Seven Supreme Executives to a local system of inhabited planets. Sentinels are subordinate to the Associate Inspector stationed at their local universe headquarters. The Sentinels keep the Inspectors fully informed concerning all matters relating to the welfare and state of the local systems.
Associate Inspectors
Associate Inspectors work under the direct supervision of the Seven Supreme Executives, being their personal and powerful representatives to the local universes. An inspector is stationed on the headquarters world of each local universe and is a close associate of the resident Union of Days. They receive reports only from their subordinates, the Assigned Sentinels...
Associative
Associative is used as (1) a relational association of beings, things or ideas, (2) a functional association of Deities, such as God the Sevenfold, and (3) as a mathematical expression, such as the seven possible combinations of the association of the divinity characteristics of the three Paradise Deities = (Father), (Son), (Spirit), (Father+Son), (Father+Spirit), (Son+Spirit),...
Atonement Doctrine
The Doctrine of Atonement is the belief that Christ died on the cross to appease an otherwise unforgiving God so that the sins of mankind would be forgiven. In other words, that Jesus was sacrificed in order to reconcile sinners to God and thereby ensure their salvation. The Urantia Book asserts that this idea is...
Avalon
Avalon is one our neighboring local universes (i.e. to Nebadon) and has helped in many ways. The first group of Nebadon seraphim were trained by a corps of one thousand seraphim from Avalon. Later, a commission from Avalon helped to create the Caligastia staff of 100 and, after the rebellion, a Brilliant Evening Star from...
Avonals
Magisterial Sons, also known as Avonals, are Paradise Sons of God. They are the high magistrates of the realms, and they work to uplift the mortals of time through both magisterial missions and bestowal missions (similar to the bestowal of Jesus). They also adjudicate planetary dispensations during transition periods. Magisterial Sons are personalized by the...
Badonan
The Badonan tribes were descendants of Andon and Fonta (Andonites) who lived in the highlands of what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan (64:3.1 and 79:0.1). (The Urantia Book was written before the partition of India.) They were the ancestors of the Neanderthal 850,000 years ago, and later, to the colored races 500,000 years ago (close...
Batanea
In the time of Jesus, Batanea was an administrative region bordering the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It went north to the Anti-Lebanon mountain range, and east to the ancient city of Kanatha (modern Qanawat). Until 34 AD, it was ruled by Herod Philip II (Philip the Tetrarch), a son of Herod I....
Bestowal mission
Bestowal missions are spiritual missions to inhabited planets. They are most often carried out by Magisterial Sons, although Creator Sons do it one time on one planet in their universe. In all bestowals, these Sons appear as new-born mortal individuals ("born of woman"), as Christ Michael did on Urantia. See also The Bestowals of Christ...