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Love

Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. (p. 2018) “Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world.” (p. 2047) “Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful.” (p. 2047) The Father’s love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man’s personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows. (p. 1289) The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust. (p. 2065)

Prayer

Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. (p. 1002) The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard. … (p. 1639) God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. (p. 1002) …Never forget that the sincere prayer of faith is a mighty force for the promotion of personal happiness, individual self-control, social harmony, moral progress, and spiritual attainment. (p. 999)

Suffering

There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. (p. 364) Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation. (p. 556)

Angels

The angels of all orders are distinct personalities and are highly individualized. (p. 285) Angels....are fully cognizant of your moral struggles and spiritual difficulties. They love human beings, and only good can result from your efforts to understand and love them. (p. 419)

Our Divine Destiny

If you are a willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual progress. (p. 381) …They who know that God is enthroned in the human heart are destined to become like him—immortal. (p. 1449) God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man’s eternal destination. (p. 67)

Family

Almost everything of lasting value in civilization has its roots in the family. (p. 765) The family is man’s greatest purely human achievement. ... (p. 939)

Faith

…Faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved. (p. 1766) “Now, mistake not, my Father will ever respond to the faintest flicker of faith.” (p. 1733)

History/Science

The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. (p. 731) 2,500,000,000 years ago… Urantia was a well developed sphere about one tenth its present mass. … (p. 658) 1,000,000,000 years ago is the date of the actual beginning of Urantia [Earth] history. (p. 660) 450,000,000 years ago the transition from vegetable to animal life occurred. (p. 669) From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two human beings is just 993,419 years. (p. 707) About five hundred thousand years ago…there were almost one-half billion primitive human beings on earth. … (p. 741) Adam and Eve arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. (p. 828)

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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…

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)

About the Author

The text of The Urantia Book was provided by one or more anonymous contributors working with a small staff which provided editorial and administrative support during the book's creation. The book bears no particular credentials (from a human viewpoint), relying instead on the power and beauty of the writing itself to persuade the reader of its authenticity.

Leather Bound: 2097 pages
Publisher: Urantia Foundation; Box Lea edition (August 25, 2015)

A History
of
The Urantia Papers

by Larry Mullins
with Dr. Meredith Justin Sprunger


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A Personal Note To Our Spanish-Speaking Brothers and Sisters


The conclusions that we drew in the Epilogue of the 2000 edition of A History of the Urantia Papers remain as stated in the Epilogue. No important material fact has been successfully challenged. There were no intrusive changes made by human beings in the 1955 printing of the Urantia Papers. As to some of the events that took place in the Forum, the publication of The Sherman Diaries provided new information that justified a rewrite of the material relating to "The Sherman Tempest" in the original edition. However, The Sherman Diaries did not provide any new evidence to support the claim that Dr. Sadler had altered the text of the Urantia Papers. There are those who continue to believe that he did, however. Challenges continue to the veracity of individual scientific facts and historical sections of the Papers, and readers will need to judge these issues for themselves.

What, then, is a Spanish-speaking reader of the Urantia Papers to conclude? Frankly, in my judgment, English-speaking readers confront the same questions. Which organization is to be believed, which truly serves the Revelation? Or, are we to shun organizations altogether? And, why is it that the Revelation has not attracted more attention in America? Is it possible that the Spanish-speaking world will be the primary torch-carriers for the Revelation? These questions will be answered in time. After close to forty years of studying the Papers and working with Urantia organizations of all kinds, my own perspective may be instructive.

It appears that each existing organization has its particular appeal, and attracts certain readers. In my judgment, there is also an invisible spiritual brotherhood and sisterhood that transcends all of these divisions and debates. If we divide all truth-seekers into vertical segments, the Foundation supporters in one segment, Fellowship supporters in another, and so on, the situation appears hopeless. However, is we divide all truth seekers horizontally into layers according to a reasonable judgment of their maturity and devotion to enlightened values, a different picture emerges. Those who would be our leaders may no longer occupy the higher levels, and many individuals who were perhaps previously unknown will surely be found at the top. These high-minded individuals are the servant-leaders who devote themselves to the task of the Revelation, whether they have heard of the Revelation or not. How do we recognize these people? Jesus gave us the perfect test: we will know them by their fruits. In other words, if they claim to be an apple tree, ask them to show you their apples.

Ironically, the original objective of the Revelators seems to have been achieved. The validity of the Revelation must stand upon its content, not upon any supposed miraculous origin or upon any human authority or organization. It is clear that the Revelation disclaims its own infallibility and limitations [See page 1008]. Also, it is clear that we have been given a Revelation so that we can do something with it [See pages 2017-2018]. What then, are we to do? How shall we know the truth? How shall we bring the truths of the Revelation to the people of the world?

The Papers tell us the only way to reveal truth is by living it. Jesus lived it. It seems clear that we are called to reveal the Revelation by how we live our lives. We are called, all of us, no less than those of the clergy. In essence, the Urantia Papers are a call to evolutionary mortals to follow the Master and live the truth. This task is far from complete. It was set into motion 400 billion years ago, when raw matter and the dead vaults of space began to stir in augmentation of a mighty creative enterprise. It is a task that was carried forward by the Creator Son himself on the dusty roads of Israel 2,000 years ago, and it was turned over to human hands to complete.

In the final analysis, what we claim to "believe" is of little importance. People long believed the world is flat. If the new Revelation of the religion of Jesus is simply a finished set of propositions to be believed, this is not so costly a requirement for entering the kingdom. If Jesus of Nazareth is the greatest man who ever lived, then there is peace and comfort in his gospel, but no urgency. But, we should recall the words of C. S. Lewis, who said: "If you seek peace, you will find neither peace nor truth. If you seek truth, you will find peace and truth." If we dare to imagine that it is true that a pre-existent being came from Paradise and created the local universe, and then, disguised as an ordinary man, came back to a dangerous, strife-torn evolutionary planet, and that he suffered on the cross of human existence for nearly 35 years, and that his task of enlightening evolutionary minds is yet to be completed, and that he has entrusted it to human beings to finish, then the religion of Jesus is not so easy.

If it is true that God has need of us and that Jesus still lives, we find ourselves gazing into the Master’s loving, passionate eyes. Do we not avoid the issue when we, like Nalda at the well, point in every direction but our own hearts? If we point to the distant hills and talk about this statement or that in the Papers, or about community and distributing books, or about teaching missions, and who owns The Urantia Book, and what we believe, do we not miss the point? If we do not avoid the inquiring eyes of the Master, we will be brought around full circle. The question of whether or not we will take up our own crosses and follow Jesus confronts us with greater and greater urgency. The Master ceaselessly asks us to look again into our own hearts, and says that if any man or woman would follow him, they must disregard self, and take up their responsibilities daily, and follow him. If this is indeed the task before us, the new and everlasting religion of Jesus as revealed in the Urantia Papers is not quite so easy. It is no wonder that the Papers claim that, much like Nalda,

"Modern men and women of intelligence evade the religion of Jesus because of their fears of what it will do to them —and with them. And all such fears are well founded. The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood of man.

"Selfish men and women simply will not pay such a price for even the greatest spiritual treasure ever offered mortal man. Only when man has become sufficiently disillusioned by the sorrowful disappointments attendant upon the foolish and deceptive pursuits of selfishness, and subsequent to the discovery of the barrenness of formalized religion, will he be disposed to turn wholeheartedly to the gospel of the kingdom, the religion of Jesus of Nazareth." [2083]




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Disclaimer

Disclaimer:
Some material presented will contain links, quotes, ideologies, etc., the contents of which should be understood to first, in their whole, reflect the views or opinions of their editors, and second, are used in my personal research as "fair use" sources only, and not espousement one way or the other. Researching for 'truth' leads one all over the place...a piece here, a piece there. As a researcher, I hunt, gather and disassemble resources, trying to put all the pieces into a coherent and logical whole. I encourage you to do the same. And please remember, these pages are only my effort to collect all the pieces I can find and see if they properly fit into the 'reality aggregate'.

Personal Position

Personal Position:
I've come to realize that 'truth' boils down to what we 'believe' the facts we've gathered point to. We only 'know' what we've 'experienced' firsthand. Everything else - what we read, what we watch, what we hear - is what someone else's gathered facts point to and 'they' 'believe' is 'truth', so that 'truth' seems to change in direct proportion to newly gathered facts divided by applied plausibility. Though I believe there is 'truth', until someone representing the celestial realm visibly appears and presents the heavenly records of Facts And Lies In The Order They Happened, I can't know for sure exactly what "the whole truth' on any given subject is, and what applies to me applies to everyone. Until then I'll continue to ask, "what does The Urantia Book say on the subject?"
~Gail Bird Allen

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