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The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves Kindle Edition
You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Book harmonizes history, science, and religion into a philosophy of living that brings new meaning and hope into your life. If you are searching for answers, read The Urantia Book!
The world needs new spiritual truth that provides modern men and women with an intellectual pathway into a personal relationship with God. Building on the world's religious heritage, The Urantia Book describes an endless destiny for humankind, teaching that living faith is the key to personal spiritual progress and eternal survival. These teachings provide new truths powerful enough to uplift and advance human thinking and believing for the next 1000 years.
A third of The Urantia Book is the inspiring story of Jesus’ entire life and a revelation of his original teachings. This panoramic narrative includes his birth, childhood, teenage years, adult travels and adventures, public ministry, crucifixion, and 19 resurrection appearances. This inspiring story recasts Jesus from the leading figure of Christianity into the guide for seekers of all faiths and all walks of life.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUrantia Foundation
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2008
- File size9505 KB
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What’s Inside?
Parts I and II God, the inhabited universes, life after death, angels and other beings, the war in heaven.
Part III The history of the world, science and evolution, Adam and Eve, development of civilization, marriage and family, personal spiritual growth.
Part IV The life and teachings of Jesus including the missing years. AND MUCH MORE...
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God , ...God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true. (p. 1431) If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. (p. 1440) When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen. (p. 1467)
The Origin of Human Life , The universe is not an accident... (p. 53) The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. (p. 21) The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin...Urantia [Earth] is your starting point. ... (p. 1225) In God, man lives, moves, and has his being. (p. 22)
The Purpose of Life , There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. (p. 365) This new gospel of the kingdom... presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose. (p. 1778)
Jesus , The religion of Jesus is the most dynamic influence ever to activate the human race. (p. 1091) What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! (p. 2083)
Science , Science, guided by wisdom, may become man’s great social liberator. (p. 909) Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. (p. 560)
Life after Death , God’s love is universal... He is “not willing that any should perish.” (p. 39) Your short sojourn on Urantia [Earth]...is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. (p. 435) ...Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. (p. 159)
From the Inside Flap
Parts I and II
God, the inhabited universes, life after death, angels and other beings, the war in heaven.
Part III
The history of the world, science and evolution, Adam and Eve, development of civilization, marriage and family, personal spiritual growth.
Part IV
The life and teachings of Jesus including the missing years. AND MUCH MORE...
Excerpts
God , ...God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true. (p. 1431) If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. (p. 1440) When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen. (p. 1467)
The Origin of Human Life , The universe is not an accident... (p. 53) The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. (p. 21) The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin...Urantia [Earth] is your starting point. ... (p. 1225) In God, man lives, moves, and has his being. (p. 22)
The Purpose of Life , There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. (p. 365) This new gospel of the kingdom... presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose. (p. 1778)
Jesus , The religion of Jesus is the most dynamic influence ever to activate the human race. (p. 1091) What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! (p. 2083)
Science , Science, guided by wisdom, may become man&;s great social liberator. (p. 909) Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. (p. 560)
Life after Death , God&;s love is universal... He is &;not willing that any should perish.&; (p. 39) Your short sojourn on Urantia [Earth]...is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. (p. 435) ...Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. (p. 159)
From the Back Cover
Parts I and II
God, the inhabited universes, life after death, angels and other beings, the war in heaven.
Part III
The history of the world, science and evolution, Adam and Eve, development of civilization, marriage and family, personal spiritual growth.
Part IV
The life and teachings of Jesus including the missing years. AND MUCH MORE...
Excerpts
God , ...God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true. (p. 1431) If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. (p. 1440) When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen. (p. 1467)
The Origin of Human Life , The universe is not an accident... (p. 53) The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. (p. 21) The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin...Urantia [Earth] is your starting point. ... (p. 1225) In God, man lives, moves, and has his being. (p. 22)
The Purpose of Life , There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. (p. 365) This new gospel of the kingdom... presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose. (p. 1778)
Jesus , The religion of Jesus is the most dynamic influence ever to activate the human race. (p. 1091) What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! (p. 2083)
Science , Science, guided by wisdom, may become man’s great social liberator. (p. 909) Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. (p. 560)
Life after Death , God’s love is universal... He is “not willing that any should perish.” (p. 39) Your short sojourn on Urantia [Earth]...is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. (p. 435) ...Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. (p. 159)
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The Universal Father
1:0.1 (21.1) THE Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an infinite upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: “You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain.” Only the concept of the Universal Father―one God in the place of many gods―enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite controller.1:0.2 (21.2) The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. “God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited.”
1:0.3 (21.3) The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia.
1:0.4 (22.1) This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.
1:0.5 (22.2) Urantia mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness.
1:0.6 (22.3) This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space.
1. The Father’s Name
1:1.1 (22.4) Of all the names by which God the Father is known throughout the universes, those which designate him as the First Source and the Universe Center are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in different universes and in different sectors of the same universe. The names which the creature assigns to the Creator are much dependent on the creature’s concept of the Creator. The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by nature. If we believe that we are the children of this Creator, it is only natural that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our personal relationship with the First Source and Center.1:1.2 (22.5) The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves―in their own hearts―recognize, love, and voluntarily worship him. The Creator refuses to coerce or compel the submission of the spiritual free wills of his material creatures. The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father’s will is man’s choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man’s only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father’s will, and such decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father.
1:1.3 (22.6) When you have once become truly God-conscious, after you really discover the majestic Creator and begin to experience the realization of the indwelling presence of the divine controller, then, in accordance with your enlightenment and in accordance with the manner and method by which the divine Sons reveal God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately expressive of your concept of the First Great Source and Center. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in spirit of relationship all meaning the same but, in words and symbols, each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his enthronement in the hearts of his creatures of any given realm.
1:1.4 (23.1) Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One.
1:1.5 (23.2) On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion. On your constellation headquarters God is referred to as the Universal Father, and on different planets in your local system of inhabited worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the Paradise Father, the Havona Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching relationship of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as “our Father.”
1:1.6 (23.3) On a planet of sex creatures, in a world where the impulses of parental emotion are inherent in the hearts of its intelligent beings, the term Father becomes a very expressive and appropriate name for the eternal God. He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, Urantia, by the name God. The name he is given is of little importance; the significant thing is that you should know him and aspire to be like him. Your prophets of old truly called him “the everlasting God” and referred to him as the one who “inhabits eternity.”
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Urantia Foundation is a non-profit religious educational organization, established in 1950 as the custodian of the text of The Urantia Book. Our mission is to ensure that the book and its teachings are seeded globally. To achieve that task we work in partnership with many readers and fraternal organizations dedicated to the book worldwide.
Urantia Foundation has printed The Urantia Book in English since 1955. In recent years we have translated the book into many other languages, with more on the way.
The beautiful building which is the home of Urantia Foundation, 533 W Diversey Parkway, Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1908. It contains of offices, a basement for storage and shipping operations, and rooms for meetings and study groups, plus bedrooms for guests.
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I feel so manipulated by worldly religions I remind myself that they will be a part of the solution when young people start taking the Urantia Book along with them to church. Its the dogma of ignorance that forbids Christians to even read 'The Gospel of Thomas'. Which may be the most important gospel, and certainly a life saving Gospel in these times for any mortal human being.
What the book says, and I'm going to get it to you right now, that there are parts and components inside you that you do not know about. Here it is again: THERE ARE ADDITIONAL PARTS INSIDE YOU THAT ARE NOT EXPLAINED IN OUR MODERN ERA, THEY ARE BASIC ACTUAL PARTS OF OUR SPIRITUAL ANATOMY THAT ARE REVEALED IN THIS BOOK. IT IS CREATOR BASED EXPLANATION OF HOW OUR WORLD WAS CREATED LOOKING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION. LOOKING AT IT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE HEAVENLY HOSTS . THE MELCHIZEDEKS, THE MOST POWERFUL FIRST CREATED 'CREATURES' ARE 'SONS OF GOD'. You learn who is who in the framework of the organization of personalities throughout this Super Universe and then we are introduced to them. Because the end is that close. And there it is for you in a nut shell. .
Jesus had his 7th bestowal as an incarnated creature of his realm here on Earth. That is when he completed the prerequisite requirements to take position as Sovereign of this Super Universe. If you are a Muslim or a Hindu, this book will not offend or change your religion. It will only add to you whatever good that you are. You will not find anyone shoving religion on you here. BUT THERE IS ONE THING YOU MUST DO, YOU MUST DECIDE IF YOU WANT AN ETERNAL CAREER OR NOT. IT IS NOT BY BLIND FAITH THAT YOU WOULD CHOOSE AN ETERNAL CAREER....THIS BOOK IS THE PLANTING OF SEED. The authors of the papers are very alive. And I feel that I have truly met them. It enriched my Bible life, it probably saved my life.
Let me tell you a little secret...the rapture already took place last year, I have pictures. It's been determined that we all have eternal life. No one is damned....yes we need corrections......Hey ,here is another benefit, you can heal yourself once you get it all together with the information in this book. Well not by yourself, but you know how to do it. You know what you can ask for. Here is how they teach. They do it for you many times, then one day you say, I'll do this myself, and then you heal yourself, and then you're a grown up.
BEFORE 'THE URANTIA BOOK' ,IF YOU WANTED SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT YOU HAD TO DO WHAT IS REFERRED TO FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AS 'THE GREAT WORK' WHICH TAKES 20 YEARS OF SUBMISSION TO AN ARCHAIC SYSTEM OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING. GRUELING MEDITATIONS, KABBALAH, FASTING ALONG WITH NUMEROUS SUBMISSIONS AND SURRENDERING OF SELF. IN THE END YOU SURRENDER TO YOUR OWN PROGRAMMING AND SELF JUDGEMENT WHERE YOU STAND BEFORE GOD, YOUR OWN PRE-PROGRAMMED ANTHROPOMORPHIC YAH VEY. WHO PUNISHES YOU. AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS YOU LEARN HOW TO CONTROL YOUR OWN SELF PERSECUTIONS TO KEEP FROM DESTROYING YOURSELF.
You must choose if you want an 'Eternal Career' or not. . And unless you know your options about an 'Eternal Career' how can you intelligently choose? If you had an opportunity to meet with creator personalities would you be interested? The truth is that unless you meet beings up front and personal how could you ever know for sure? So what would be the conversation if you met one? That is what the Urantia Book is about, it is the conversation....The book is not teaching us for the sake of knowing what is in the book for a later time. The contents of this book is very relevant for today's world. And for you to have a dialogue with them you must learn the language of the book. The angels of God are now speaking into both of the ears of 'The Son of Man'.
UNLESS YOU MEET BEINGS AND PERSONALITIES OF TRUE SUPERNAL STATURE HOW CAN YOU KNOW IF IT'S REAL. And I'm saying the key to the information to unlock you own knowledge of what is already inside you life will always be a stumbling block and the the gift it truly is. The kingdom is here now...everyone has been tricked. The demons you fight are intruders who you call devils. Is there something there, yes there is, it is real and you have every right to command anyone to leave your presence and not interfere with your space, but until you learn that most oft he pressures you feel are self inflicted through outside manipulation of your spiritual knowledge you are a prisoner. I THINK THAT THIS BOOK IS THE LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY THEY WANT TO SHARE WITH US. . IT IS 'THE PLACE THAT JESUS WENT TO MAKE FOR'., 'I GO TO MAKE A PLACE FOR YOU'. HERE IT IS. AND IT IS VERY POWERFUL. AND THEY ARE REAL. No body dies ...and the light down the tunnel is only a trick to erase your mind so you don't know who you are when you find yourself in a new body reincarnated. THAT SYSTEM HAS BEEN ALL BUT EXTINGUISHED. There's not enough space for me to get into the language and transliterations of Bible diction on this and you may have been programmed by religion to scream 'reincarnation' does not exist. You know you are right.....the only reason it does not is because death does not exist. It is a fabrication of the divide. 'I am from before the divide.' remember he said that? The whole thing is over, the last acts are being played out right now. Read this book, and things will go much better for you in the times to come. It gives the reader power and engenders him with compassion for his fellow humans. This third dimension is so small a part of us compared to the multi-dimensional beings that we are.
This book may easily be considered the book of the Melchizedeks, who Jesus is a Priest forever after. The Melchizedeks are a creature species who live on their own planet. And they are the first 'creature' ever brought into being. So that means they are inherently the first creatures brought into being in the time and space dimensions. They are wonderful, amazing creatures. A Melchizedek is so powerful that just one of them can change the direction of an entire planet. They are absolutely free creatures, and I hope you are lucky enough to meet one some day. Anyway you read the book and have your own experiences .
The Exegeses Bible is the translation I use. It is a true transliteration along with corrected proper names . Grammar is corrected and all 'added text' has been removed. I find the other Bibles are not accurate and misrepresent the true meaning sometimes to the point to being opposite to the original script. It was not until I got this Exegeses Bible that I realized the difference. So read the Urantia Book, make a commitment to do a little every day. And once they see your commitment to meet every day with your book before you know it you will sense guides coming to tutor you while you read it. Eventually speaking to you in 'full sentences' and 'full explanations'. They communicate a lot 'pictorially'. Read it at the same time every day. The Urantia Book can never take the place of the Word of God.I find that I need both..
I have done the great work and maybe I did alright, I know I did because I met everyone. I'M TELLING YOU THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO 'THE GREAT WORK', YOU CAN READ THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE.
If you want to really open your mind to something different, something inspiring, something unique, and something deep and meaningful, than allow me to suggest these four original works. Get your hands on The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran), 1923; The Urantia Book, 1955; A Course In Miracles, 1975; and Conversations With God, Book One (Neale Donald Walsh), 1996.
These are the core spiritual books of our last century and of these four, two are most unique, The Urantia Book and A Course In Miracles. It is the Authorship of these books that make them what they are. That "what" is not something I can describe..not without becoming like the authors who continue to barf out enlightenment crap of highly substandard quality. Own the originals!
Of the four, The Urantia Book covers the widest range of subjects and is the most comprehensive. Each of the four cover a different aspect of spirituality, but The Urantia Book can be said to be more of a revelation (reveals more facts), as opposed to the other three (particularly A Course In Miracles) which are more enlightenment (show me the way) based. Yet, that is not to say that The Urantia Book cannot or may not be enlightening. It can be, and for many readers these facts help show the way more than mere idea based writings.
I am particularly fond of The Urantia Book due to its scope. In five years I have read it two and three quarter times and I can safely say that I have only scratched the surface. The Urantia Book is both otherworldly and down to earth, both simple and sophisticated, both soothing and shaking, all the while as ever-changing as it is timeless. I can describe it using a thousand words and still not begin to describe it. There is nothing like it in print, that's for sure. It is great for readers who are searchers, who are looking for the next level of spirituality..and I might add that the next level is for those who want to get rid of their fear based ideas of their maker. One cannot hang on to their old ideas and appreciate this book. With that said, I would like to mention that this book requires both tremendous interest and patience. I found The Urantia Book to be one of the most rewarding books I have ever read, and I keep coming back to it again and again.
I am forty five now and even though I am fairly young, for some reason I most appreciate the wisdom in this book, both in quantity and quality, I have not read anything that even comes close. I hope this review helps you save time trying to find valuable spiritual text and I think you will appreciate the originality of all four of the mentioned books. Enjoy!
2013 Update:
As mentioned above the Urantia Book is and remains my all time favorite spiritual text. This is the only book in my collection of literature that since I first purchased it (around 1996) I have been coming back to it non stop, year after year.
Pause to consider that this book is 2097 pages of small condensed print. For people who need a larger typeset, get the electronic edition where you can increase the font size to you liking.
With so much information at hand, the Urantia Book takes a lot of time to read initially. It takes even more time (literally years) to peruse. It takes a lifetime to absorb to the extent one could state they possessed a comprehensive knowledge of a fair amount of the book. The Urantia Book is no trivial undertaking, it requires the utmost dedication to absorb. For the Urantia community of readers, I can safely say that for the majority of us, such dedication leads to a sincere humility for the unparalleled wisdom found within the papers of this unique book.
I find it most disingenuous that numerous negative reviews will indicate a severe lack of thoroughness in absorption of the material in the Urantia Book.
To give an honest review, one needs to familiarize themselves with at least some of the contents of the book. At the very least the reviewer should have read over a few times Part Four: The Life And Teachings Of Jesus
There is a reason for this discrepancy. This book contains a very large amount of information that is unapologetic, politically incorrect, seemingly offensive, harsh, blatant, and brutally honest. The papers of the Urantia Book show only an importance for accuracy of transformation of knowledge without sympathy for the readers perspective, bias, bend, or educational upbringing. This for me is evidence of its authenticity and not the other way around.
Another problem within the Urantia papers are the scientific claims, many of which cannot or will not be proven until some time in the future when our planetary science catches up, so to speak.
The Urantia Book contains 196 papers all of which boast NO human authorship. This book is written from the perspective of a higher universe intelligence. That, in and of itself, will have skeptics trashing it right and left. However, upon reading the text with an open mind AND after reading it for several years (required for a simple somewhat worthy absorption) one may be inclined to wonder/ponder where this information originated. Those who disclaim it out of hand are doing a major disservice to their intellect and trashing any hope of gleaning wisdom from the jewels found within.
The Urantia Book covers the most vast array of subject matter of any book I have read, spiritual or otherwise. Religion, Science, Philosophy, History, Geology, Evolution, Ethics, Morality, Culture are all covered and more, not to mention many aspects of each of these mentioned fields of study. Regarding Religion alone are covered, Prayer, Angels, The Afterlife, Universe Government, Religious Leadership, Morality, Duty, Devotion, Faith, Will, Justice, Salvation, Jesus, The Apostles, World Religions, Past Religious Leaders, Religious Philosophy, and much, much more.
This is THE book for seekers. If you have a spiritual/religious question, you stand a good chance of finding a Direct answer to that question somewhere in these papers.
I have not been able to stop reading it since I started years ago and I cannot recommend it enough. The Urantia book works well for those with a mind for something very, very different--for those who are not satisfied with what this world has left us, spiritually, philosophically, and scientifically.
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I've read many many many books, including divine/spiritual books (also called spiritual channelings), and other human books on spiritual growth, psychology, philosophy, ethics etc. None, none at all whatsoever, is like this divine revelation in book format. Urantia is our own world's name!
‘The Urantia Papers’ (its own formal name) aka ‘The Urantia Book’ is the self-proclaimed fifth epochal divine and spiritual revelation to and for us Humanity (there are other mortal, evolutionary humanities in other inhabited planets, according to this book authored by invisible (to us) celestial, spiritual and divine beings/personalities), and currently there are five epochal revelations so far.
The book is all about GOD, Love, Divinity, Spirituality, our Universe of universes, our own World’s general History, JESUS, and Ourselves…
It has new and so very many Revelations of the Truth, Reality, Values, Meanings, and Facts etc.
It’s about the revelation of GOD our Universal Father, their nature, attributes, their relationship with the Universe and Ourselves, the COSMIC TRINITY, and GOD and their Creatures being a cosmic universal real FAMILY…
The nature and relationships of the Trinity and PARADISE… The genesis and nature of Reality… Introduction of several new words and concepts.
The relative origin, nature, history, and destiny of the Universe of universes, and the same for many entities/beings/creatures/personalities, the Universe being personal mainly…
The family, administration, government, functions, agency, and personnel of our Universe.
The nature and partial history of the central and eternal Universe named Havona (like in Heaven).
The Rebellion of Lucifer in our local system and the planetary Rebellion of the Devil (named Caligastia, according to the book), their history and consequences for our wayward and relatively dark planet.
Of course the origin, history, nature, and destiny of Humanity. The partial origin and properties of our solar system… A general revelation of the inhabited planets and their features.
It reveals so very much and deeply about our afterlife, the places and persons we will meet in the high, celestial spheres of the Universe (we will meet our loved ones and friends). The nature of our creature life and our living features and functions…
It reveals so much about energy, mind, and spirit realities; also why we cannot see directly personal beings such as angels etc. It reveals who the angels are, also. Something about archangels, Melchizedeks, and so forth.
It affirms and reveals who JESUS is: his origin, nature, and the Part IV (of 4 Parts in total of the Urantia Revelation) is about the Life and Teachings of JESUS, Son of GOD and Son of Man. In fact it's a year-by-year account of His life and character and destiny!!!!!
Urantia's revelators say this about itself, among other things in other passages of the book (pages 1007-1008)!:
‘ 92:4.4 (1007.4) There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:
92:4.5 (1007.5) 1. The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia’s staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam’s arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.
92:4.6 (1007.6) 2. The Edenic teachings. Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 b.c. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden.
92:4.7 (1007.7) 3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God’s favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.
92:4.8 (1008.1) 4. Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.
92:4.9 (1008.2) 5. The Urantia Papers. The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia. ‘
Reviewed in Brazil on March 16, 2024















