Visions
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Heed the indwelling Adjuster's call to your soul, allowing it to constantly bring forth visions of eternal purpose amidst the uphill struggle of life's challenges. 111:7.2-3
Regarding visions as divine communications, one should postulate a superconscious level of ascending intellectual activity as the zone of immediate contact with the indwelling spirit entity. 100:5.6
The shamanesses threw themselves into trances to communicate with the ghosts of the dead and become powerful prophets and mediums through their cataleptic fits. 90:1.3
Avoid cultivating a trancelike state of visionary consciousness as a religious practice to prevent reality avoidance and potential danger. 100:5.8
Human beings sometimes glimpse seraphic transporters, which have been influential in shaping the traditional idea of angels possessing wings. 39:5.12
Jesus brought to God the greatest of all offerings: the consecration of his own will to doing the divine will, always interpreting religion in terms of the Father's will and living a life of prayerful consecration, not relying on visions or extraordinary religious practices. 196:0.10
Kirmeth of Bagdad, the trance prophet, arrived at Bethsaida and caused a disturbance with his peculiar visions and dreams before Jesus allowed him to preach freely, ultimately leading only a few unstable souls back to Bagdad. 148:8.3
In the Urantia Book
Particular visions
- Abraham
- Following Abraham's surrender to the larger plans of Melchizedek, three celestial beings appeared to him at Mamre, despite subsequent fabricated narratives about Sodom and Gomorrah, revealing the morals and ethics of the time. 93:6.7
- Mary the mother of Jesus
- Mary saw Gabriel announce the conception of her son Joshua, the future inaugurator of the kingdom of heaven. 122:3.1
- Elizabeth, kinswoman of Mary
- Elizabeth saw Gabriel, who announced that she would bear a son, the forerunner of a divine teacher, named John. 122:2.2-4
- Jesus
- Jesus’ vision at his baptism revealed his true identity as the Son of God in the presence of the Personalized Adjuster. 136:2.3-5
- Jesus, on the third day of his conference, saw celestial hosts awaiting his will for his public work on Urantia. 136:5.1
- John the Revelator
- The twenty-four counselors on Jerusem serve as the personal agents of Christ Michael, representing him in matters of mortal ascension in Satania and beyond. 45:4.1
- The vision of the ascendant-citizen corps on Jerusem includes the seats of the four and twenty elders, as seen by Paul and John the Revelator. 34:4.11 47:10.2-3
- One third of the planetary angelic helpers assigned to the Material Sons were deceived in the Lucifer rebellion, as almost ten percent of transition ministers were ensnared, fulfilling John's vision of the great red dragon casting down a third of the stars of heaven. 53:7.7
- John's vision in the post-Teacher Son era foretold a new heaven and earth, and the new Jerusalem descending from God. 52:7.11
- Salvington, the universe broadcasts from the throne, are directed by the directional control creatures and assisted by the adjutant mind-spirits, including the spirit of “quick understanding.” 34:4.11-12
- Paul
- The apostle's experience of being “caught up to the third heaven” refers to the vision of the 3rd mansion world in the greater heaven of heavens. 48:6.23
- Paul also had a view of the ascendant-citizen corps of perfecting mortals on Jerusem, for he wrote: “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the grand assembly of Michael, and to the spirits of just men being made perfect.” 47:10.2-3
- Some wise men
- Wise men after John have seen visions of the heaven of heavens, a realm beyond the sevenfold mansion worlds described in ancient teachings. 48:6.23
Dangers
- True prophetic vision is a superpsychologic presentiment, not a trancelike ecstasy or pseudo hallucination. 91:7.3
- about the dangers of visions see more in mysticism link | mysticism
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Angel wings 39:5.12 — Ex 25:20; Is 6:2; Ezk 10:5.
- Friction shields 39:5.12 — Ezk 1:6,11,23; Ezk 10:21.
- Jesus did His Father's will 196:0.10 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.
- Three celestials 93:6.7 — Gn 18:1-16.
- Fact and myth 93:6.7 — Gn 18:16-33; Gn 19:1-29.
- Gabriel appears to Mary 122:3.1 — Lk 1:26-27.
- The Annunciation 122:3.1 — Lk 1:28-37.
- The name of Jesus 122:3.1 — Mt 1:21,25; Lk 1:31.
- Gabriel's appearance 122:2.2 — Lk 1:11-12.
- Personalized Adjuster 136:2.3 — Mt 3:16-17; Mk 1:10-11; Lk 3:22; Jn 1:32-33.
- This is my beloved son 136:2.3 — Mt 3:17; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22.
- Twelve legions of angels & others 136:5.1 — Mt 26:53.
- Judgment seat 45:4.1 — Rev 4:2.
- Four & twenty elders 45:4.1 — Rev 4:4.
- Seven spirits of God — like lamps 34:4.11 — Rev 4:5.
- 24 sentinels / elders 34:4.11 — Rev 4:4,10.
- Sea of glass & fire 47:10.2 — Rev 4:6; Rev 15:2-3.
- Harp of God 47:10.2 — Rev 5:8; Rev 14:2; Rev 15:2.
- A third part of the stars 53:7.7 — Rev 12:3-4.
- New heaven & new earth 52:7.11 — Is 65:17; Is 66:22; 2 P 3:13; Rev 21:1-2.
- Heaven, heaven of heavens 48:6.23 — 1 Ki 8:27; 2 Ch 2:6; 2 Ch 6:18; Neh 9:6; Ps 148:4; Dt 10:14.
- Caught up in third heaven 48:6.23 — 2 Co 12:2.
Where it appears
Visions is linked in 9 paragraphs of the text.