The
Urantia Book
The latest in revelations from our alien creators is the Urantia
Book. It was given to us in 1935
allegedly by celestial beings. No book I
have read so far has lead me to more truth than this book. It is an in depth explanation of the meaning
of life, God, the beings of our universe, the other universes, the true
unaltered teachings of Jesus, and life after death. It is a complex study in spirituality and
truth. It is not a religion in itself,
but more of an explanation of the history and purpose of religion.
I could go on and on about it, but I will quote a few other peoples
description of the Urantia Book.
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“The Urantia
Book is a genuine revelation of truth for modern thinking people and
civilizations. It provides answers to the big questions: Who are we? Where do
we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? — answers that can be found
nowhere else. The Urantia Book claims to
be written by celestial beings. In addition to presenting startling new
information, the authors have woven in many existing human thoughts and
previously expressed concepts. Detailed information about these sources and
their relationship to the contents of The Urantia Book can be studied on this
and other websites. The origins of The Urantia Book are shrouded in mystery.
Nobody alive today knows for certain how the book came into existence, but
various traditions have been handed down and these can also be found in books
and on the Internet. There is no scientific way to prove that the book is what
it claims to be. Its authenticity can only be verified through personal
experience and the serious study of its contents. While some who are shown The
Urantia Book are indifferent or even hostile towards it, thousands of others
have found it a valuable source of spiritual instruction and inspiration and
have experienced profound life changes as a result of their studies. If you
have an open mind and are willing to invest some time and effort, it may be
just what you have been searching for. The only way to determine if The Urantia
Book has a place in your life is to examine it for yourself. The Urantia Book was first published in 1955.
Since then over 700,000 copies in English and various translations have been
distributed around the world. It is readily available in major bookstores and
via the Internet. It can also be downloaded and read at no cost on this and
other Urantia Book-related websites.”
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“The Urantia
Book was given to the peoples of our planet, by Michael's express direction, in
order that we might learn of God's relationship to man and man's relation to
the universe. Unlike the previous four, the fifth epochal revelation has been
given us in the form of a book, one which recapitulates the previous four
revelations and ties them together with additional truth illuminating man's
place in the universe of universes. We are here in accordance with the divine
plan, a plan of infinite scope which involves the perfection of the grand
universe, extending to near-infinity, and in which each of us is privileged to
play a unique and valuable part.”
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Here are some of the highlights of the teachings in the Urantia book.
The Afterlife
Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of
monotony--these traits inherent in evolving human nature--were not put there
just to aggravate and annoy you during your short sojourn on earth, but rather
to suggest to you that death is only the beginning of an endless career of
adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.
(14:5.10)
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. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are
yours for the striving!
(32:5.7)
On Urantia
(earth) you pass through a short and intense test during your initial life of
material existence. On the mansion worlds and up through your system,
constellation, and local universe, you traverse the morontia phases of
ascension. On the training worlds of the superuniverse you pass through the
true spirit stages of progression and are prepared for eventual transit to
Havona. On the seven circuits of Havona your attainment is intellectual,
spiritual, and experiential. And there is a definite task to be achieved on
each of the worlds of each of these circuits.
(14:5.1)
As the term
heaven has been used on Urantia, it has sometimes meant these seven mansion
worlds, the first mansion world being denominated the first heaven, and so on
to the seventh.
(15:7.5)
Sometimes
all training worlds of mortal residence are called universe
"mansions," and it was to such spheres that Jesus alluded when he
said: "In my Father's house are many mansions."
God
The Universal Father - Loving Spirit Father To
All
The
Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all
things and beings. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and
lastly as an infinite upholder.
The Urantia
Book, (1:0.1)
God is
primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind
spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created
intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the
First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor
machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite
reality, and father personality.
The Local Universe and Other Universes
(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.
A local
universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of Michael. It
comprises one hundred constellations, each embracing one hundred systems of
inhabited worlds. Each system will eventually contain approximately one
thousand inhabited spheres.
The progress
of civilization is hardly alike on any two planets. The details of the
unfoldment of mortal evolution are very different on numerous dissimilar
worlds. Notwithstanding these many diversifications of planetary development
along physical, intellectual, and social lines, all evolutionary spheres
progress in certain well-defined directions.
128.1)
12:0.1 THE immensity of the far-flung creation of the Universal Father is
utterly beyond the grasp of finite imagination; the enormousness of the master
universe staggers the concept of even my order of being. But the mortal mind
can be taught much about the plan and arrangement of the universes; you can
know something of their physical organization and marvelous administration; you
may learn much about the various groups of intelligent beings who inhabit the
seven superuniverses of time and the central universe of eternity.
(139.1)
12:7.12 It is a mystery that God is a highly personal self-conscious being with
residential headquarters, and at the same time personally present in such a
vast universe and personally in contact with such a well-nigh infinite number
of beings. That such a phenomenon is a mystery beyond human comprehension
should not in the least lessen your faith. Do not allow the magnitude of the
infinity, the immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the
matchless character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the
Father is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you, and in him do
we all literally move, actually live, and veritably have our being.
Science and Religion
(12:9.5)
Your
religion is becoming real because it is emerging from the slavery of fear and
the bondage of superstition. Your philosophy struggles for emancipation from
dogma and tradition. Your science is engaged in the agelong contest between
truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of
abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of
mechanistic materialism.
Science
deals with facts; religion is concerned only with values. Through enlightened
philosophy the mind endeavors to unite the meanings of both facts and values,
thereby arriving at a concept of complete reality. Remember that science is the
domain of knowledge, philosophy the realm of wisdom, and religion the sphere of
the faith experience.
Thought Adjusters
(1185.1)
108:0.1 THE mission of the Thought Adjusters to the human races is to
represent, to be, the Universal Father to the mortal creatures of time and
space; that is the fundamental work of the divine gifts. Their mission is also
that of elevating the mortal minds and of translating the immortal souls of men
up to the divine heights and spiritual levels of Paradise perfection. And in
the experience of thus transforming the human nature of the temporal creature
into the divine nature of the eternal finaliter, the Adjusters bring into
existence a unique type of being, a being consisting in the eternal union of
the perfect Adjuster and the perfected creature which it would be impossible to
duplicate by any other universe technique.
(1191.2)
108:5.1 The Adjusters accept a difficult assignment when they volunteer to
indwell such composite beings as live on Urantia. But they have assumed the
task of existing in your minds, there to receive the admonitions of the
spiritual intelligences of the realms and then to undertake to redictate or
translate these spiritual messages to the material mind; they are indispensable
to the Paradise ascension.
(1191.3)
108:5.2 What the Thought Adjuster cannot utilize in your present life, those
truths which he cannot successfully transmit to the man of his betrothal, he
will faithfully preserve for use in the next stage of existence, just as he now
carries over from circle to circle those items which he fails to register in
the experience of the human subject, owing to the creature’s inability, or
failure, to give a sufficient degree of co-operation.
Future
(1251.2)
114:1.3 There is little likelihood that any marked change will be made in the
government of Urantia during the present dispensation unless the vicegerent
Planetary Prince should arrive to assume his titular responsibilities. It
appears to certain of our associates that at some time in the near future the
plan of sending one of the twenty-four counselors to Urantia to act as governor
general will be superseded by the formal arrival of Machiventa Melchizedek with
the vicegerent mandate of the sovereignty of Urantia. As acting Planetary
Prince he would undoubtedly continue in charge of the planet until the final
adjudication of the Lucifer rebellion and probably on into the distant future
of planetary settlement in light and life.
(1251.3)
114:1.4 Some believe that Machiventa will not come to take personal direction
of Urantian affairs until the end of the current dispensation. Others hold that
the vicegerent Prince may not come, as such, until Michael sometime returns to
Urantia as he promised when still in the flesh. Still others, including this
narrator, look for Melchizedek’s appearance any day or hour.
(1932.2)
178:1.17 Throughout the vicissitudes of life, remember always to love one
another. Do not strive with men, even with unbelievers. Show mercy even to
those who despitefully abuse you. Show yourselves to be loyal citizens, upright
artisans, praiseworthy neighbors, devoted kinsmen, understanding parents, and
sincere believers in the brotherhood of the Father’s kingdom. And my spirit
shall be upon you, now and even to the end of the world.
(2044.4)
191:6.3 “As the Father sent me into this world, even so now send I you. You are
all called to carry the good news to those who sit in darkness. This gospel of
the kingdom belongs to all who believe it; it shall not be committed to the
custody of mere priests. Soon will the Spirit of Truth come upon you, and he
shall lead you into all truth. Go you, therefore, into all the world preaching
this gospel, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the ages.”
(226.1)
20:3.1 The Avonals are known as Magisterial Sons because they are the high
magistrates of the realms, the adjudicators of the successive dispensations of
the worlds of time. They preside over the awakening of the sleeping survivors,
sit in judgment on the realm, bring to an end a dispensation of suspended
justice, execute the mandates of an age of probationary mercy, reassign the
space creatures of planetary ministry to the tasks of the new dispensation, and
return to the headquarters of their local universe upon the completion of their
mission.
(227.3)
20:4.5 Urantia may yet be visited by an Avonal commissioned to incarnate on a
magisterial mission, but regarding the future appearance of Paradise Sons, not
even “the angels in heaven know the time or manner of such visitations,” for a
Michael-bestowal world becomes the individual and personal ward of a Master Son
and, as such, is wholly subject to his own plans and rulings. And with your
world, this is further complicated by Michael’s promise to return. Regardless
of the misunderstandings about the Urantian sojourn of Michael of Nebadon, one
thing is certainly authentic — his promise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time can
reveal the future order of the visitations of the Paradise Sons of God on
Urantia.
It is a very long read, but I encourage you to at least look it
over. It will open your mind and spirit
to the meaning of life.
If you wish for a more study version with notes and topical studies,
then try this one.