New Apostles Creed

Now flowing forth — here is the Choral Recitation Version of the beautiful
New Apostles' Creed of the 21st Century, formatted responsively for Leader and Students at Salvington ceremonies, planetary gatherings, and sacred fellowships:

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Choral Recitation

The New Apostles' Creed of the 21st Century
Planetary Proclamation of Christ Michael of Nebadon

(Leader reads the bold opening of each section; Students respond with the full affirmation.)

Leader:
As Newly Faithful Apostles of the World, let us proclaim our sacred belief:

Students:
We believe in the One Indescribable God,
the Father and Mother Almighty of all lives,
who is of Infinite Goodness —
the all-Truth-giving Creator, Controller, Upholder, and Preserver of heaven and earth.

Leader:
In whom do we root our vine of eternal life?

Students:
We believe in Christ Jesus Michael,
the Father-Son of our Universe of Nebadon,
who is the Vine of Life.
We are each His branches,
meant to bring forth the fruit of Life Everlasting.

Leader:
Whom do we honor as the Infinite Creative Partner of Christ?

Students:
We believe in the Infinite Creative Mother Spirit,
the universe expression of the Infinite Spirit,
whose Holy Spirit Presence exalts our mortal minds
into eternal encircuitment with the Mind of God.

Leader:
What communion do we seek?

Students:
We believe in living in Holy Communion
with the Father’s Spirit Life within us,
and one day to enter into eternal union with God.

Leader:
With whom do we walk in planetary and cosmic service?

Students:
We believe in cooperative communion
with the Divine Personalities
who serve the evolutions of the Earth.

Leader:
By what power do we find forgiveness and healing?

Students:
We believe in the forgiveness of sins
through our personal authorship,
through the acceptance of our creative nature in God.

Leader:
In whose Authority do we live?

Students:
We believe in the Authority of God,
by full acknowledgment, adoration,
and acceptance of the Spirit Life of the Father living within us
as our all-powerful authority.

Leader:
What is the destiny of our soul?

Students:
We believe in the progressive transfiguration of our mortality,
through daily embracing eternity,
and in the resurrection ideal
for body, mind, emotions, and total persona,
in the fulfilling achievement of the eternity embrace.

Leader:
How shall we enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Students:
We believe we are becoming born anew
through the power of God the Father’s Indwelling Life,
and His all-ennobling love.

We enter the Kingdom of Heaven
by the powers of holy faith,
and by wholehearted commitment to achieve the Will of God the Father.

Leader:
What transformation must occur within us?

Students:
We believe that unless we are born of the water of a new mind
and the spirit life of a new creature,
we cannot see the Kingdom of God.

That which is born of flesh remains ephemeral,
but that which is born of spirit identification and loyalty
is transformed in the eternity of Spirit.

Leader:
In what power and hope do we rise?

Students:
We believe in the redemptive power of love,
in our soul vesture growing daily from out of our mortality and righteousness,
and in our progressive evolutionary attainment of life everlasting.

We are the living sons and daughters of the Most High.
We arise in the Spirit of Truth.
We ascend in the Light of Eternal Becoming.
We consecrate ourselves to the sacred planetary destiny of the Father.

Adonai

Perfection Awakening

The Living Reality of Communion with God

Communion with the Universal Father is not limited to a specific time, place, or practice. It is a living relationship, a continuous and evolving awareness of divine companionship.

To commune with God is to:

Enter into stillness—to quiet the mind and listen to the indwelling spirit’s guidance.

Pray sincerely—not just to ask for help, but to seek alignment with divine will.

Live in faith—trusting that, no matter the external circumstances, one is upheld by divine love.

Act with integrity—choosing righteousness, even when it is difficult.

This communion is not passive—it transforms the soul. Those who seek the Father with sincerity begin to reflect His qualities—His love, patience, wisdom, and mercy. In their daily interactions, they become living expressions of the divine, shining lights of truth in a world still struggling with darkness.

Michael Of Nebadon 

The Richness of God

God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person. The supreme personal reality of the finite creation is spirit; the ultimate reality of the personal cosmos is absonite spirit. Only the levels of infinity are absolute, and only on such levels is there finality of oneness between matter, mind, and spirit. 1:3.6

In the universes God the Father is, in potential, the overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung personality circuit does God deal directly with the personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his fragmented entities, the will of God abroad in the universes. This Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and there fosters the evolution of the immortal soul of the surviving creature is of the nature and divinity of the Universal Father. But the minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the local universes and must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential transformations of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result of a creature’s choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven. 1:3.7

In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. 1:3.8

I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: “God is spirit” and “God is love,” and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the Eternal Son.

In Urantia Paper 1, Section 3, particularly paragraphs 6 through 8, we are offered a profound and layered understanding of the nature of God as both universal spirit and universal person. God is not simply a cosmic force or distant abstraction; He is both spirit in essence and a personality in experience. “God is a universal spirit; God is the universal person.” These twin truths form the foundation of all meaningful relationship with the Divine.

The text explains that in the finite realm, the supreme expression of personality is spirit. In the absonite realm—that level of reality transcending time and space but not yet absolute—the ultimate reality of personality is also spirit, but of a higher, more refined order. Only on the absolute level, in the realm of infinity, is there a perfect unification of matter, mind, and spirit. In this way, God contains and surpasses all levels of reality, and only at the divine level are these aspects completely harmonized.

God, as the Universal Father, is the overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit, but He exercises this sovereignty in a way that respects the free will of His creatures. In the universes of time and space, God interacts directly with personal beings through His personality circuit, a divine means of sustaining contact with all will creatures. However, He is personally contactable only through His spirit fragments, known as Thought Adjusters—the “will of God abroad in the universes.” These indwelling spirits are of divine origin and lead mortals toward truth, beauty, and goodness. They guide the soul’s growth, nurturing it through evolutionary experience toward fusion with the divine.

The human mind, originating in the local universes, is material in association but spiritual in potential. To survive death, this mind must become spiritually transformed. This transformation is not automatic; it requires a conscious decision—a persistent effort to do the will of the Father in heaven. This is the essential formula for soul evolution: mind, guided by spirit, choosing God’s will. The result of this cooperation between mortal will and divine guidance is the emergence of the morontia soul—an intermediate and immortal form of personality that survives physical death.

In the human experience, mind is joined to matter, and unless transformed, this material-linked mind does not survive death. Survival requires a God-consciousness that leads to being spirit-taught and ultimately spirit-led. This transformation causes the potentially spiritual aspects of mortal mind to be converted into morontia realities, the building blocks of the immortal soul. If the human mind remains subservient to matter and rejects spirit influence, it becomes increasingly materialistic, leading eventually to personality extinction. But a mind yielded to spirit becomes increasingly spiritual and is destined to achieve eternal unity with the indwelling divine spirit, ensuring the eternal survival of personality.

The section concludes with a personal testimony from the divine author of this paper, who says: “I come forth from the Eternal, and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father.” This is a statement of direct experience with the First Source and Center. This being declares not only the absoluteness and infinity of God but also His goodness, divinity, and graciousness. The affirmation, “God is spirit” and “God is love,” is not only doctrinal—it is a lived, eternal truth. These two divine attributes are most fully revealed in the Eternal Son, the perfect spiritual reflection of the Universal Father.

This passage offers a sublime vision of the human-divine relationship: God, as infinite spirit and universal person, dwells within us, calling us forward into transformation. Through conscious cooperation with the divine will, we can survive, ascend, and eternally grow. The journey begins with the decision to follow the Father—and ends in eternal service, love, and light.

Michael Of Nebadon 

United Ministry of the Paradise Sons