First+Revelatory+Commission

=[|First Revelatory Commission]=

=Urantia Book [|Paper 0 - The Foreword]=

0:0.5 Your world, [|Urantia], is one of many similar inhabited [|planets] which comprise the local universe of Nebadon. This universe, together with similar [|creations], makes up the [|superuniverse] of [|Orvonton], from whose capital, [|Uversa], our commission hails. Orvonton is one of the seven evolutionary superuniverses of [|time and space] which circle the never-beginning, never-ending [|creation] of [|divine] [|perfection]—the central universe of [|Havona]. At the [|heart] of this eternal and central universe is the stationary Isle of Paradise, the geographic [|center] of [|infinity] and the [|dwelling place] of the eternal [|God].

0:0.6 The seven [|evolving] [|superuniverses] in association with the central and divine universe, we commonly refer to as the grand universe; these are the now organized and inhabited creations. They are all a part of the [|master universe], which also embraces the uninhabited but mobilizing universes of [|outer space].

[|Part I - The Central & Superuniverses]

 * THE CENTRAL AND SUPERUNIVERSES was sponsored by a [|Uversa] Corps of [|Superuniverse] Personalities acting by authority of the [|Orvonton] [|Ancients of Days].



[|Part II - The Local Universe]

 * THE LOCAL UNIVERSE was sponsored by a [|Nebadon] Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of [|Gabriel] of [|Salvington].



[|Part III - The History of Urantia]

 * THE HISTORY OF URANTIA was sponsored by a Corps of [|Local Universe] Personalities acting by authority of [|Gabriel] of [|Salvington].



[|Part IV - The Life & Teachings of Jesus]

 * THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS was sponsored by a commission of twelve [|Urantia] [|Midwayers] acting under the supervision of a [|Melchizedek] [|revelatory] director. The basis of this [|narrative] was supplied by a [|secondary midwayer] who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the [|Andrew, the Apostle].