Urantia

=[|Urantia]=



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

0:0.1 In the [|minds] of the [|mortals] of [|Urantia]—that being the [|name] of your world—there exists great [|confusion] respecting the [|meaning] of such terms as [|God], [|divinity], and [|deity]. [|Human beings] are still more confused and uncertain about the [|relationships] of the [|divine] [|personalities] designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this [|conceptual] poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain [|word] [|symbols] as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the [|Orvonton] corps of [|truth] revealers have been authorized to [|translate] into the [|English] [|language] of [|Urantia].

0:0.2 It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged [|concepts] and advanced [|truth], in our endeavor to expand [|cosmic consciousness] and enhance [|spiritual] [|perception], when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed [|language] of the realm. But our [|mandate] admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the [|English] tongue. We have been instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less [|distortion] of [|meaning].

0:0.3 In the [|hope] of facilitating comprehension and of preventing [|confusion] on the part of every [|mortal] who may peruse these papers, we deem it wise to present in this initial statement an [|outline] of the meanings to be attached to numerous English [|words] which are to be employed in designation of [|Deity] and certain associated [|concepts] of the [|things], [|meanings], and [|values] of [|universal] [|reality].

0:0.4 But in order to formulate [|this Foreword] of definitions and limitations of terminology, it is [|necessary] to anticipate the usage of these terms in the subsequent presentations. [|This Foreword] is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall [|read] the [|accompanying papers] dealing with [|Deity] and the [|universe of universes] which have been formulated by an Orvonton commission sent to Urantia for this [|purpose].

==Urantia Book [|Paper 114]:[|1. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF URANTIA] ==

114:1.1 The [|original] [|sovereignty] of [|Urantia] was held in [|trust] by the [|sovereign] of the [|Satania] system. It was first delegated by him to a joint commission of [|Melchizedeks] and [|Life Carriers], and this [|group] functioned on [|Urantia] until the arrival of a regularly constituted [|Planetary Prince]. Subsequent to the [|downfall of Prince Caligastia], at the time of the [|Lucifer rebellion], [|Urantia] had no sure and settled [|relationship] with the [|local universe] and its [|administrative divisions] until the completion of [|Michael's bestowal in the flesh], when he was proclaimed, by the [|Union of Days], [|Planetary Prince] of [|Urantia]. Such a [|proclamation] in surety and in principle forever settled the [|status] of your world, but in [|practice] the [|Sovereign Creator Son] made no [|gesture] of [|personal] [|administration] of the [|planet] aside from the [|establishment] of the [|Jerusem] commission of twenty-four former Urantians with [|authority] to [|represent] him in the [|government] of [|Urantia] and all other [|quarantined] [|planets] in [|the system]. One of this [|council] is now always resident on [|Urantia] as [|resident governor general].