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=[|Urantia Text]=

The Urantia Text refers to two Revelatory Commissions.

The First Revelatory Commissionis more commonly known as The Urantia Book.

The [|Second Revelatory Commission] consists of those participating in the co-creation of documents to enhance the [|text] known commonly as The Urantia Book. This project was announced by [|Gabriel], the [|Bright and Morning Star] and Chief Executive of [|Nebadon].

==Urantia Book [|Paper 0:] [|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].