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THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS,

ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE URANTIA
BOOK.
By Jaime Daz Page
(Mexico)
A Melquisedek of Nebadon teaches us There must be perfection hunger in mans
heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment.
(Paper 102, page 1118:4)
This is an essential precondition to become an Urantia Book teacher or study group
host. These teachers and hosts should know as much as possible the UBook teachings
and train spiritually themselves as taught by Jesus and the revelators, as a condition to
disseminate successfully the teachings and attain the acceptance of the revelation in
our world.
The Master outlined the principles that should guide and impel those who teach the
divine truth. An instructor of the revelation must be trained through the
spiritualization of the soul, the enlightenment of the mind, the acquirement of wisdom
and spiritual discernment. It is not enough to study the revelation to attain these
goals; it is necessary the spiritual preparation as the ideal support for the revelation
knowledge. The regular preparation in the intimate and spiritual worshipful
communion with God, with all our heart, gradually brings us spiritual insight and
everything we need to serve God and his revelation. The service to the humanity will
be enhanced by the ennobling association of the human mind and the indwelling
spirit, the Thought Adjuster. (Paper 178, page 1931:4) This is the religion of the spirit,
in which the man communes with God, receiving both the water and bread of the
divine life.
The Book must be brought to the truth-seekers through the example of appropriately
qualified persons who show in their lives the spiritual fruits described in the
revelation, so when the truth-seekers hear them, they trust and believe them,
consequently dedicating themselves to the study and practice of the spiritual teachings
designed to attain the soul development and survival.
Jesus endeavored to make clear that he desired his disciples, having tasted of the
good spirit realities of the kingdom, so to live in the world that men, by seeing their
lives, would become kingdom conscious and hence be led to inquire of believers
concerning the ways of the kingdom. All such sincere seekers for the truth are always
glad to hear the glad tidings of the faith gift which insures admission to
the kingdom with its eternal and divine spirit realities. (Paper 141, page 1593:4)
Jesus teaches us that the hunger and thirst for rectitude of the souls who discern the
truth drives them to do the Fathers will, to find God and to become like him. Regular
and sincere communion with God will produce human beings adequately qualified,
trained and coordinated with God the Father. Those who aspire to take their fellows
by the hand, to teach them the truths of the spirit, must be guide by their own
indwelling Spirit. They must seek to experience the divinity within themselves and be
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inspired by their Thought Adjusters, gradually incorporating the teachings of Jesus
and the revelators, so this Spirit can manifest himself through their human personality,
yielding the fruits of the spirit in their lives.
The service to the people who search God must be the result of the sublime and
superior transformation that occurs in the hearts of the spirit-born men, with the help
of the Spirit of Truth and the living faith, through the communion with God. To the
successful of this truth-seeking ministry to humankind, this service must be anchored
on God and must be carried out in his name and for the welfare and happiness of His
creatures. The potential instructors who want engage themselves in the spread of the
divine truth should be filled with loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous
loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful
ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. (2054.3)
193:2.2 They must be sincere, always humble; their spirit fruits and their example
must inspire and motivate those who seek the divine truth.
Let us consider this teaching: The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant
interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually
leads to pessimism and human despair. (Paper 195, page 2076:8) The potential
instructor of the truth should live the religion of Jesus in his daily life, because it
demands living and spiritual experience, not mere traditional beliefs, emotional
feelings or philosophic concepts, the true religion of the spirit requires that men attain
actual levels of real spirit progression. (Paper 160, page 1782:3)
It is valid to say that the religion of Jesus and doing the will of God is the same
thing. The worship of God and the service of man is the sum and substance of the
religion of Jesus. We are taught that the highest levels of self-realization are attained
by worship and service, that true religion is the act of an individual soul in its selfconscious relations with the Creator. Jesus exhorted his followers to exercise
experiential faith and admonished them not to depend on mere intellectual assent and
credulity.
Our world discovers in the Master life a new and higher type of religion, a religion
based on personal spiritual relations with the Universal Father and wholly validated
by the supreme authority of genuine personal experience. (Paper 196, page 2087:4)
Jesus said that The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God
in the face of any potential alternative. To do the will of God, therefore, is the
progressive experience of becoming more and more like God. (Paper 130, page
1431:2) And the revelators tell us that to do the will of God is mans willingness to
share his inner life with God, the indwelling Adjuster. Meditation makes the
contact of mind with spirit; relaxation determines the capacity for spiritual
receptivity. (Paper 160, page 1772:2) He who is full of faith worships truly when his
inner self is intent upon God. (Paper 131, page 1448:4)
Jesus founded the religion of personal experience in doing the will of God and serving
the human brotherhood. Worship, taught Jesus, makes one increasingly like the being
who is worshiped. Worship is a transforming experience whereby the finite gradually
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1641:1) Conclusion: if we worship God, we will become like him through the divine
qualities that arise in our soul.
Jesus said: By daily living the will of the Father in heaven, we can reveal him to our
fellow men We cannot do spiritual work in the absence of spiritual power. And you
can do neither of these, even when their potential is present, without the existence of
that third and essential human factor, the personal experience of the possession of
living faith. (Paper 158, page 1758:5)
Jesus teaches us that if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the pit; that if
you would guide others into kingdom of the Father, the guide himself must walk in the
clear light of living truth. This implies knowing and living the divine truth,
associating ourselves with the indwelling Adjuster. Jesus taught us that we should let
our light so shine that our fellows will be guided into new and godly paths of
enhanced life. Our light should not shine to draw attention to self. Jesus tells us that
we can use our vocation as an effective reflector for the dissemination of this light
of life.
We are told that religion does need new leaders, spiritual men and women who will
dare to depend solely on Jesus and his incomparable teachings, that these new
instructors will be exclusively devoted to the spiritual regeneration of man. We can do
this applying wholeheartedly the teachings of Jesus in ourselves, finding God, being
born from the spirit and being led by the inner Spirit, through our own effort, in union
with God. These instructors are forged walking the spiritual path shown by Jesus of
Nazareth.
Those who feel the call in their heart, trust in the Lord, and he will do the work with
them.