136:2.4 (1511.3)... Jesus, looking up to the near-by Adjuster, prayed... "Your will be done on earth

WILL is desire.

I don't think I agree with this. Desire is a feeling or emotion.

Will is power which is described in the Revelation as sovereignty. Will is the power of choice. Will is the sovereign power of the personality to create its own destiny.

(9.4) 0:6.2 ENERGY we use as an all-inclusive term applied to spiritual, mindal, and material realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is ordinarily limited to the designation of the electronic level of material or linear-gravity-responsive matter in the grand universe. Power is also employed to designate sovereignty. We cannot follow your generally accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must assign multiple meanings to these terms.

(71.3) 5:6.8 Having thus provided for the growth of the immortal soul and having liberated man's inner self from the fetters of absolute dependence on antecedent causation, the Father stands aside. Now, man having thus been liberated from the fetters of causation response, at least as pertains to eternal destiny, and provision having been made for the growth of the immortal self, the soul, it remains for man himself to will the creation or to inhibit the creation of this surviving and eternal self which is his for the choosing. No other being, force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny of the personality of the choosing mortal. As pertains to eternal survival, God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that decree is absolute.

(1233.1) 112:5.5 And it is this very power of choice, the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes man's greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. Upon the integrity of the human volition depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter; upon the sincerity of the mortal free will the divine Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal Father depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution.

I posted these definitions of mortal will in a different topic. I'll repost them again for continuity:

(1431.2) 130.2.7  Will is the deliberate choice of a self-conscious being which leads to decision-conduct based on intelligent reflection.

(1431.5) 130:2.10  It was on this same day that we first heard that momentous truth which, stated in modern terms, would signify: “Will is that manifestation of the human mind which enables the subjective consciousness to express itself objectively and to experience the phenomenon of aspiring to be Godlike.” And it is in this same sense that every reflective and spiritually minded human being can become creative.

Matt 25:14-26 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?"

How you call this, "how one may gain POWER, in the will". Again, I say that there is only one will, and that is the will of the Universal Father. The Universal Father lend his Gifts to the minds of souls of man, that is called the Fragment of the First Source, and when you read passages of the Creator Son, you have to think about Prudence and Obligation to One's Master.

When you forget that the Universal Father is also a Great Master of the Universe, you might forget "you ought to serve the Universal Father". Nay, you should learn to love the obligations that have been given unto your hand to fulfill. How you interpret this, the master gifting his servants many talents, implies "the Universal Father's love for the Son (who is the master), and the Universal Father's willingness to love the Son's servants (who is like myself, in a very poorly reflected and very distorted sinful fashion I suppose)", if you think about the talents: that is a gift, and the theory of the Universal Father's indwelling the minds of mortal men, as in the seedsowing of time in the likeness of mortal flesh, you have to think about the many many gifts, throughout the aged history of Nebadon, before that the work of the Life Carriers to provide vessels of life that are capable of housing actual individualised sentience, as a mortal of an inhabited world. Very difficult to see, in the confusion of financial consideration, how "Life" was actually financed but try to see this from an evolutionary or universe-history perspective, the endowment of every mind in the universe beyond the Third Source and Center, how each one must have been raised in the prudence of eternal post-ultimacy.

When you arrive at the approach of post-ultimate eternity, unity of life, wow you can see a sacred course of emergence within the journey of every specie every inhabited world, and expecially in the minds of souls from those inhabited worlds (on the worlds of light and life), then you can see that if a talent is indeed given into your hand, into your heart or head, well from the energy, or the love, or the wisdom, that you possess, you should incorporate that new pattern and employ your greater resources towards the building of God's kingdom, God's mansions. A talent is not something with eternal life, but it is something that can grow in the wisdom of the human individual's own interests, just as a seed does not have eternal life, but it can die into the new generation that the tree offers to the world. As souls, you have to use your talents because eventually you not offer your talents to this world but to the grand universe in the most greatest capacities of unceasing service to the Universal Father, who is the First Source and Center, as your power will allow.

What choice is measurable, is first attenuated by your own lack of enthusiasm, zeal. If you look at the intellectual possibilities of time, and not the life of every moment, then you are basing your choices in the measurable outcomes of mathematics and rational possibility. If you find the Source of Life, you can develop greater wisdom, but first you would have to dedicated your own actions towards the garnering of wisdom. How a person develops power is the same as how a banker develops wealth, except this applies within a metaphysical context, of "the opening of one's heart to the total experience", that the fragment of the universal father attempts to eschew to the mind of the soul of mortal man. Indeed, this involves not only discipline, but the eventual identification of other souls, as God's Children, just as one may identify Christ Michael as one's own brother. Oh but other souls are like talents and truly given into your hand, how much more should you look at the dedication of one's mind to the doing of the Universal Father's will, if they are "given unto your hand", before even born into the womb of a mother, incredible. But just as an investor is called to increase the talents that his master has given to him, people should grow up with the notice of responsibility, in one way or the other, "to bring in souls to Urantia", to provide universal experience to children, and to raise children in the way that suggests, well I have known you all along haven't I?

It's a synonym.

But will is never infantile or immature.

This can be, in my interpretation, also translated into the human individual's quest to gain wisdom

Right, Brooklyn because the will of the Supreme is the Emergence of the same will as of the First Source and Center, and such will is recognised as creature-mind by the existential God-fragment, who is said to inhabit the soul. The will of the Supreme, is manifest because of all Deities conspiring for the progress of the universe, this is in the idea of existentially created Beings, whose very nature the 100% continuous votive of service in order to gift a planet the tabernacle of animal life capable of housing sentience. If you are mortal creature, seeking to have the undiscoverable existential attribute of the First Source and Center, you will have to become "like an existential being", wherein the prepersonality affirms the eschewance or affirmation that the will be done: through His Creatures. Will is a gift of sentient life, and the fact that the creature has will, implies the exalted status of Urantia. Of course, this can be seen in the idea that this will shared, it is given, and the personality of the creature through will can be joined (it sounds almost impossible) to the true personality of that individual, the post-ultimate status of the God-man of Ascendington. It's the goal: that's the reason why ANYONE in Urantia has will, and to me all wills imply a grand cosmic cycle between existing actuality and existential reality.

Yes, but it's a synonym for the word "will" in a narrow set of circumstances. If you check the definition of "free will" or "volition" in the dictionary, the word "desire" doesn't show up. I'm curious if you think animals are capable of desiring something? If an animal desires food, sex, or sleep is that animal exercising its will? Isn't their desire a function of the urges of their adjutant minds? I think we can all agree that animals do not have personality and therefore do not have will even though they have desires.

If I were writing an essay on the subject I would avoid using the word "desire" because it has so many other unrelated connotations. For instance, I might have an amorous desire for another person and attempt to inflict my will upon that person, which could be a felony. It reminds me of the six levels of the golden rule, the first level being rather animalistic and selfish. Under those circumstances I think the word "desire" would best define immature ego-will.

Then again, I'm not sure what your intentions are for this discussion, so perhaps you want "will" to mean desire. Do you mean to use the word "desire" as having a preference between options? Even so, the best and wisest option is not always the one a person desires, so again I find use of the word problematic.

My own preference is to define "will" as the power to choose. One's reason for choosing is another subject which will naturally differ for every person under every situation. In my opinion desire functions as part of the formula only when the self is at the center of the decision. I see the word "desire" as somewhat self-centered and not all will is self-centered. In fact, the goal is to become self-forgetful, in which case desire becomes something else. We could call it truth hunger or God-hunger.

If you look up the word "desire" in the dictionary it mostly has to do with wish fulfillment and sex, so I don't like it. I don't find "desire" to be a satisfactory definition of the word "will" unless we're talking about will at an infantile or immature level.