• Legion (lee' juhn)

    (1) Twelve units of Seraphim (248,832 pairs or 497,664 individuals) (2) A division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers, (3) Very great in number.

  • Lessen (les' uhn)

    (1) To become less, (2) To make less; reduce, (3) Archaic

  • Levantine (lev' uhn tahyn)

    Inhabitant of the Levant, the former name for the area of the Eastern Mediterranean now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

  • Levi (lee' vahy)

    Original name of the Apostle Matthew.

  • Levites (lee' vahyts)

    Sons of Levi, a sacred caste in ancient Israel.

  • Levitical (li vit' i kuhl)

    (1) Of or pertaining to the Levites, (2) Of or pertaining to Levitical law, which relates to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance.

  • Leviticus (li vit' i kuhs)

    Third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance.

  • Liaison Stabilizers (lee ey' zawn stey' buh lahy zerz)

    Regulators of the morontia energy in association with the physical and spirit forces of the realm.

  • Life vehicle (lahyf vee' i kuhl)

    Type of body a mortal creature inhabits.

  • Light and life (lahyt and lahyf)

    (1) Final evolutionary attainment of status for an individual being or, collectively, for a world of time and space

  • Linear gravity (lin' ee er grav' i tee)

    The short-range cohesive force of the macrocosmos (also called local gravity).

  • Linear-gravity (lin' ee er grav' i tee)

    Linear-gravity response is a quantitative measure of nonspirit energy. Linear-gravity pull is inherent in material mass and the circular-gravity presence of the Isle of Paradise.

  • Livias (liv' ee uss)

    Small town in Perea, near Jericho.

  • Local System (loh' kuhl sis' tuhm)

    Basic unit of the supergovernment, consisting of about one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds.

  • Local Universe (loh' kuhl yoo' nuh vurs)

    A division of a superuniverse comprising one hundred constellations (about 10,000,000 inhabitable planets), and ruled by one of the co-ordinate Creator Sons of God of the order of Michael.

  • Local Universe Centers (loh' kuhl yoo' nuh vurs sen' ters)

    Power centers on the headquarters of each Local Universe that function to downstep and otherwise to modify the seven power circuits emanating from superuniverse headquarters.

  • Local Universe Creative Spirits (loh' kuhl yoo' nuh vurs kree ay' tiv spir' itz)

    A personal representation of the Infinite Spirit (also called the Local Universe Mother Spirit), these Divine Ministers accompany a Creator Son to the realms of space, there to be his companion, first, in physical organization and, later, in creation and ministry to the creatures of the newly projected universe.

  • Local Universe Susatia (loh' kuhl yoo' nuh vurs sue say shah)

    Beings who are the offspring of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit and that reside and function as permanent citizens on Salvington and are closely associated with Spirit-fused mortals.

  • Lord (lawrd)

    (1) God, (2) Jesus Christ, (3) The Supreme Being, (4) Lord God of Israel, (4) Gabriel, the Lord God of hosts, (5) Lanaforge, Lord of Satania.

  • Lot_ (lot)

    Nephew of Abraham.

  • Louisville (loo' ee vil)

    City in Kentucky, USA.

  • Loyalatia (loy al ay' shah)

    The seraphim who warned a human seer not to worship the angels, since they are simply fellow servants with the mortal races.

  • Lucifer (loo' suh fer)

    The deposed System Sovereign of Satania who led a rebellion against the Universal Father and Michael of Nebadon.

  • Luke (lewk)

    Gentile convert of Paul.

  • Lut (luht)

    One of the 100 corporeal members of Caligastia's staff, Lut headed the guardians of health and life council.

  • Lutentia (lew ten' chah)

    The rebellious and subsequently deposed System Sovereign of Palonia into whose position Michael of Nebadon was appointed as part of Michael's second bestowal experience in the form of a Lanonandek Son.

  • Luxor (luhk' sawr)

    Town in upper Egypt, on the Nile, near the ruins of ancient Thebes.

  • Lydda (lid' ah)

    Town that lay about 9 miles east of Joppa, on the road from the sea-port to Jerusalem.

  • Lysimachia (lye si ma' kee a)

    Hellenistic Greek town of ancient Thrace.

  • Macad (ma cahd')

    Town in Perea, ancient Palestine.

  • Maccabee (mak' uh bee)

    Judas Maccabee, a Judean priest who assumed command of Judean resistance to Greek forces in the second century BC. Maccabee restored Mosaic services at the Mt. Zion temple.

  • Macedonia (mas i doh' nee uh)

    Ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in southern Europe.

  • Machiventa (mak eh ven' ta)

    Melchizedek Son who incarnated on Urantia during the times of Abraham in approximately 2,000 B.C. At present, Machiventa is the planetary Prince of Urantia.

  • Madagascar (mad uh gas' ker)

    Island republic in the Indian Ocean, about 240 miles (385 km) off the SE coast of Africa.

  • Madon (ma dohn')

    Village in Galilee.

  • Magadan (mahg' ah duhn)

    A park near Bethsaida-Julias where Jesus held conferences, camped with his followers and ordained seventy teachers.

  • Magdala (mag' dah luh)

    (1) In this city's resorts of ill repute the women evangelists found and ministered to Mary Magdalene, (2) Where Jesus as a boy engaged in fishing with the uncle who made his headquarters near this city, (3) Jude, Jesus' brother, established his home here.

  • Magellanic Cloud (muh jel' uhn ik kloud)

    A gigantic luminous mass of blazing suns in the Milky Way galaxy.

  • Magi (mey' jahy)

    Three wise men who supposedly were drawn by the star of Bethlehem to the manger of the infant Jesus.

  • Magisterial Sons (maj uh steer' ee uhl suhns)

    Paradise Sons of God who are children of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit and who take part in judicial actions, magisterial missions and bestowal missions on the worlds of space.

  • Cro-Magnon (kroh mag' nuhn)

    Members of the post-Adamic blue race.

  • Mahayanists (mah' huh yah nuh)

    Followers of Gautama, who developed the ""Great Road"" religious philosophy casting them free from the social limitations inherent in traditional Buddhist philosophy.

  • Majeston (mah' jes ton)

    The 50th Reflective Spirit, of divine Trinity origin, he was created by the Supreme Being in functional liaison with the Deity Absolute. He is chief of reflectivity in the grand universe, with headquarters on Paradise.

  • Major Sector (mey' jer sek' ter)

    Comprises about one tenth of a superuniverse and consists of one hundred minor sectors, ten thousand local universes and about one hundred billion inhabitable worlds.

  • Malach (mah' lahk)

    Syrian believer of Beirut.

  • Malachi (mal uh kahy')

    Hebrew prophet.

  • Malavatia (mal a vay' shah)

    First name of a Melchizedek Son who is one of the authors of the Urantia Papers.

  • Malayan (muh ley' uhn)

    Native or inhabitant of a peninsula of southeast Asia comprising southwest Thailand, western Malaysia, and the island of Singapore.

  • Malchus (mahl' kuhs)

    Syrian bodyguard of the high priest Caiaphas.

  • Malta (mawl' tuh)

    An island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa.