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The Cosmic Citizen

The Cosmic Citizen

By: Paula Thompson
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Are you ready to courageously follow your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth? Are you searching for religious teachings that make sense? Are you having a hard time accepting teachings which seem spiritually unholy and untruthful? Then, have we got a show for you! The Cosmic Citizen is a show for progressive religionists and spiritual people who are ready to find a spirituality worthy of an age of science and enlightenment. Our hosts, Paula Thompson, Andre Radatus , Chuck Thurston, Pamela Chaddock, and Marvin Gawryn are ministers, students and scholars of The Urantia Book, all with at least four decades of experience with it. We sometimes interview guests on topics related to modern and progressive spirituality, but most often we explore The Urantia Book together on air. We embrace diversity, civil and intelligent dialogue, and a willingness to serve a purpose that is true, beautiful and good. Please join us!Copyright Paula Thompson Spirituality
Episodes
  • Urantia Paper 22. The Trinitized Sons of God: Section 1. The Trinity-Embraced Sons

    Urantia Paper 22. The Trinitized Sons of God: Section 1. The Trinity-Embraced Sons
    Jun 30 2026
    This week on The Cosmic Citizen, we opened a brand‑new chapter in the universe story. It's one that reveals an astonishing third grouping of divine sonship. Beyond the descending Sons of God and the ascending Sons of God lies a mysterious and majestic order: the Trinitized Sons of God. We'll be reading the preamble and Section 1: The Trinity-Embraced Sons.

    If you’ve ever wondered what lies beyond Paradise attainment, beyond finaliter destiny, or beyond the known orders of sonship, Paper 22 opens that door. This is one of the most thrilling revelations in the entire book and we can’t wait to explore it with you.

    Paper 22 pulls back the curtain on these extraordinary beings whose very existence is shaped by the profound act of trinitization. While one group, the Deity‑trinitized Sons, remain unrevealed, we will dive deep into the two groups we can explore: the Trinity‑embraced Sons and the creature‑trinitized Sons. These mighty personalities are forged through divine union, perfected experience, and Paradise destiny.

    We met and discussed the seven remarkable orders of Trinity‑embraced sons, from the Mighty Messengers and Those High in Authority to the Celestial Guardians and High Son Assistants. We'll discover how mortals, midwayers, seraphim, and even Paradise‑Havona beings can be elevated into these astonishing roles. Their assignments span the vast superuniverses. Their loyalty is flawless and their service is woven into the very governance of time and space.

    Listen in as we explore how ascendant mortals become Trinitized Sons of Attainment. It’s a sweeping and awe‑inspiring look at the universe’s most unique corps of divine administrators. These are beings who never falter, never fail, and forever expand the family of God.
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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons: § 5. Relation of Master Sons to the Universe - § 6. Destiny of the Master Michaels

    Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons: § 5. Relation of Master Sons to the Universe - § 6. Destiny of the Master Michaels
    Jun 24 2026
    On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen we draw to a close our amazing exploration of Urantia Paper 21, "The Paradise Creator Sons," with a reading and discussion of Section 5, "Relation of Master Sons to the Universe," and Section 6, "Destiny of the Master Michaels."

    These are the final gorgeous sections of an awe-inspiring paper. They are dense, sweeping, and full of that cosmic majesty that makes the Creator Sons, the Michaels, so compelling to learn about.

    In these sections, Paper 21 unveils the breathtaking scope of a Master Michael’s sovereignty. It is a rulership earned through the lived experience of becoming one of us, and one with us. We learn that a Creator Son’s authority is supreme not because it is granted, but because it is experienced.
    They blend the perfect viewpoint of Paradise Deity with the intimate understanding of time‑space creatures. They bridge the perfect with the imperfect. Once a Michael completes his seven bestowals, he truly becomes the settled sovereign of his universe, guiding its destiny with wisdom, mercy, and unquestionable authority.

    The final section of this paper dares to look ahead to what the future may hold for these Master Sons! While their full destiny remains unrevealed, the text hints that their liberated, super-finite potentials may one day blaze new paths of meaning and value in the outer universes. Just as Jesus Christ Michael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life...” the final section suggests that in eternity the Michaels will literally be that way. They will lead all creation from the age of the Supreme to the age of the Ultimate and far beyond.


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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals

    Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals
    Jun 16 2026
    On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen we continued our reading and discussion of Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals.

    We explored one of the most astonishing revelations in the Urantia Papers: the seven bestowals of a Paradise Creator Son. Before a Michael can rule a universe in his own right, he must walk seven different paths of creature experience. It's a voluntary descent from divinity into the very lives of the beings he has created. Each bestowal reveals a new facet of the Father’s nature, a new depth of divine empathy, and a new dimension of experiential wisdom.

    Unlike the Avonals, who always incarnate as mortals, the Michaels traverse seven distinct levels of creature existence, culminating in the supreme adventure of bestowal into the mortal life. Only once in the history of any universe is a Creator Son become “born of woman.” In our universe, that moment unfolded on our world, Urantia. When the babe of Bethlehem entered the world, he arrived as a Creator Son who had already completed six previous bestowals, and his life and death here completed the seventh. No wonder he could say, with cosmic certainty, “It is finished.”

    After this final bestowal, a Creator Son is no longer a vicegerent of the Father but a sovereign in his own right, truly a Master Son, one who has earned authority through lived experience and someone who embodies the fullness of divine origin and the hard‑won understanding of creature life. As we discussed last week, their sovereignty is achieved.

    This section invites us to rethink our own evolutionary struggles. If even the Michaels must pass through the school of experience to become worthy rulers, then our own ascent, being slow, imperfect, and often painful, is part of the same cosmic pattern and plan. The universe is literally built on experiential growth, and the Gods themselves have walked the path that waits for us.

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
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