2018-03-12-The Home Life

Session

Lesson

Prolotheos: “The home, the cradle of civilization, appeared on Urantia, shortly after the first human beings, Andon and Fonta received the Father’s gift of personality. Their first human decision was to leave their primate tribe and live for each other. That decision was the beginning of family life and the home itself. Home is not only a place to share residence; it is a place to share life. It is an environment exquisitely fitted for carrying out personal relationships of the highest level of human meaningfulness.

• 1. The Couple Relationship.

“Although the original relationship of the first couple was hetero-monogamous and notwithstanding that so was the relationship of the Adam and Eve, the racially-upstepping couple sent to Urantia, the evolutionary races created polygamous and homosexual couples’ relationships that also may produce functional, but different and alternative home and family life. Indeed, the couple joins each other to function better in life. Procreation was clearly intended in the male-female human design of the Life Carriers and is primordial. However, other needs, as companionship and sex life, are also supplied by the couple’s relationship. The home life, with its conflicts and inherent challenges, is for the couple an experiential laboratory to improve human relations that from the home will spread to society and the world, even to the universes. To function acceptably as a couple in the home life, each partner must unselfishly seek the benefit of the other and together find a balanced satisfaction for them both.

• 2. The Parentage Relationship.

“The parentage relationship is an additional function for the couple blessed with children. Even though a couple functions acceptably in a home life without offspring, the experience they bring is also primordial – so much so that in the Mansonia career ascendants must improve it or acquire it, if in earthly life it was either ineffectual or nonexistent. Parentage is to raise children providing them with sustenance, education, and direction. Sustenance besides providing food is also sharing love, and a stable, welcoming and comfortable home environment. Education is not primarily a societal and state responsibility. Parents start it by providing the first human and spiritual values. A parental direction is the overall result of effective sustenance and education translated into spiritual values, moral standing and responsible direction for each child in life. Parentage is a wholesome ministry from parents, much similar to the Father’s parentage to His universe children.

• 3. The Sibling Relationship.

“Parental relationship with children is loftier and authoritative in home life. But the relationship between siblings is educative for individuals of equal position, teaching fraternity, solidarity, and reciprocal respect that extend even to the world and universes. The sibling relationship may feature some early competition, which is instrumental for each child in discovering identity and place in family life but should not continue into adulthood, often being replaced by loving and respectful friendship, as a direct result of a balanced distribution of loving parental attention among all their siblings. The sibling relationship allows many learning opportunities, both for children and parents. That should be taken into consideration by the couple on their deciding how big their family will be. After your life on Urantia your reproductive function will be over and with it your possibility to initiate new human parentage roles, but your role as brother or sister to all God’s universe children will never cease for all eternity.

Closing

“Therefore, my pupil, the importance of your home life cannot be ignored or minimized. Home is where life starts and where it is nurtured, and should be the one place where the individual is always welcomed to return. Home and even home life can exist without a biological family, but its ideal representation is where parents share or have shared life with their offspring. Multiple relationships may happen in the home life context, but they are best functioning when humanly centered on the originating couple and spiritually drawn to God, as our Universal Father.”