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[|What is The Urantia Book?]
//The Urantia Book// was sponsored by the First Revelatory Commission and first published by [|Urantia Foundation] in 1955, claims to have been presented by celestial beings as the fifth in a series of [|epochal] [|revelations] to our planet, [|Urantia].

It outlines the [|genesis], [|history], and [|destiny] of [|humanity] and its relationship with [|God] while presenting a unique portrait of the life and teachings of [|Jesus]. Additionally, the Urantia Book offers an [|integral] view of the functions of [|science], [|philosophy], and [|religion].

The Urantia Book presents an extensive [|cosmology], [|history], and [|philosophy] comprised of expressions from over 1,000 individuals whose writing in the fields of science, philosophy, religion, history, sociology and theology was published and widely available at the time of c.1934 when these Papers were 'written'.



What's In It?
Part I: The Universe of Universes - How the cosmos is structured and managed: A universe, evolving in time and space toward a transcendent destiny is described. This creation includes millions of inhabited worlds in various stages of biological, [|intellectual], social and [|spiritual] evolution. The nature of God and his relationship to the evolving creation is explored in great detail.

Part II: The Local Universe - The evolutionary plan for fostering the evolving social structures of the universes is detailed. Personality survival is determined by our free will decisions related to our personal relationship with God. Most important are the values which we choose to organize and conduct our personal lives. Growth toward perfection is our finite orientation. This growth is evolutionary, cumulative, and virtually endless. It is achieved through the love of God and unselfish service to our fellow beings.

Part III: The History of [|Urantia] -- A geophysical and cultural history of our planet. An overview of the development of civilization, culture, government, religion, the family, and other social institutions is described from the viewpoint of superhuman observers. The meanings and values contained within human religious civilization are revitalized, strengthening the foundations upon which further cultural development may take place. A description of human destiny is provided including a description of the worlds we will inhabit immediately following mortal death.

Part IV: The Life and Teachings of [|Jesus] -- Seven hundred pages devoted to the life of Jesus make up the most spiritually compelling biography of Jesus anywhere in print. The Urantia Book relates over 16 times as much information about Jesus' life and teachings than does the Bible. The literary depth of The Urantia Book clearly reveals and touchingly portrays his combined [|humanity] and [|divinity].



[|Who Wrote It?]
The Urantia Book is an anthology of 196 "papers" written mostly between 1928 and 1935 by [|celestial] personalities whose titles but generally not their personal names are appended to the essays.

The humans with whom these celestial beings worked to write this document are now deceased, and the means by which the papers were written is not understood even by the few persons working directly with the "subject through whom these communications were transmitted"[|[1]]. Nonetheless, current [|research] is beginning to identify the apparent [|human] sources used in this undertaking.

[|ACKNOWLEDGMENT]
0:12.10 In formulating the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the [|character] of the [|Universal Father] and the [|nature] of his [|Paradise] associates, together with an attempted description of the [|perfect central universe] and the encircling [|seven superuniverses], we are to be guided by the [|mandate] of the [|superuniverse rulers] which directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal [|truth] and co-ordinate essential [|knowledge], give preference to the highest existing [|human] [|concepts] pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort to pure [|revelation] only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous [|expression] by the human mind.

0:12.11 [|Successive planetary revelations] of [|divine] [|truth] invariably [|embrace] the highest existing concepts of spiritual [|values] as a part of the new and enhanced co-ordination of [|planetary] [|knowledge]. Accordingly, in making these presentations about God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these papers more than [|one thousand human concepts] representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual [|values] and universe [|meanings]. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing [|mortals] of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this [|purpose] drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the [|reality] and [|divinity] of the Paradise Deities and their [|transcendent] [|residential universe].

0:12.12 We are fully cognizant of the [|difficulties] of our assignment; we recognize the impossibility of fully [|translating] the language of the concepts of divinity and eternity into the [|symbols] of the [|language] of the finite [|concepts] of the [|mortal] [|mind]. But we know that there dwells within the human mind a [|fragment of God], and that there sojourns with the human soul the [|Spirit of Truth]; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable [|material] man to grasp the [|reality] of spiritual values and to comprehend the [|philosophy] of universe [|meanings]. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the [|Divine Presence] are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of [|personal] religious [|experience]—[|God-consciousness].

0:12.13 Indited by an [|Orvonton] [|Divine Counselor], Chief of the Corps of [|Superuniverse] Personalities assigned to portray on [|Urantia] the [|truth] concerning the [|Paradise] Deities and the [|universe of universes].

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**The Urantia Text** refers to what is more commonly known as //The Urantia Book//, but since the announcement of the [|Second Revelatory Commission], is understood to include any such writing as may ensue from this more recent initiative as well. Nevertheless, //The Urantia Book//, first published by [|Urantia Foundation] in 1955, claims to have been presented by celestial beings as the fifth in a series of [|epochal] [|revelations] to our planet, [|Urantia]. It outlines the [|genesis], [|history], and [|destiny] of [|humanity] and its relationship with [|God] while presenting a unique portrait of the life and teachings of [|Jesus]. Additionally, [|The Urantia Book] offers an [|integral] view of the functions of [|science], [|philosophy], and [|religion].