The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves
2097
The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves
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You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Book harmonizes history, science, and religion into a philosophy of living that brings new meaning and hope into your life. If you are searching for answers, read The Urantia Book!
The world needs new spiritual truth that provides modern men and women with an intellectual pathway into a personal relationship with God. Building on the world's religious heritage, The Urantia Book describes an endless destiny for humankind, teaching that living faith is the key to personal spiritual progress and eternal survival. These teachings provide new truths powerful enough to uplift and advance human thinking and believing for the next 1000 years.
A third of The Urantia Book is the inspiring story of Jesus’ entire life and a revelation of his original teachings. This panoramic narrative includes his birth, childhood, teenage years, adult travels and adventures, public ministry, crucifixion, and 19 resurrection appearances. This inspiring story recasts Jesus from the leading figure of Christianity into the guide for seekers of all faiths and all walks of life.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780911560060 |
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| Publisher: | Urantia Foundation |
| Publication date: | 06/28/2008 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 2097 |
| Sales rank: | 274,092 |
| File size: | 7 MB |
| Age Range: | 15 - 18 Years |
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The Universal Father1:0.1 (21.1) 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 truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: “You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with light as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain.” Only the concept of the Universal Father—one God in the place of many gods—enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as divine creator and infinite controller.
1:0.2 (21.2) The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. “God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited.”
1:0.3 (21.3) The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia.
1:0.4 (22.1) This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.
1:0.5 (22.2) Urantia mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness.
1:0.6 (22.3) This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space.1. The Father’s Name1:1.1 (22.4) Of all the names by which God the Father is known throughout the universes, those which designate him as the First Source and the Universe Center are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in different universes and in different sectors of the same universe. The names which the creature assigns to the Creator are much dependent on the creature’s concept of the Creator. The First Source and Universe Center has never revealed himself by name, only by nature. If we believe that we are the children of this Creator, it is only natural that we should eventually call him Father. But this is the name of our own choosing, and it grows out of the recognition of our personal relationship with the First Source and Center.
1:1.2 (22.5) The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves—in their own hearts—recognize, love, and voluntarily worship him. The Creator refuses to coerce or compel the submission of the spiritual free wills of his material creatures. The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father’s will is man’s choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man’s only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. In God, man lives, moves, and has his being; there is nothing which man can give to God except this choosing to abide by the Father’s will, and such decisions, effected by the intelligent will creatures of the universes, constitute the reality of that true worship which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father.
1:1.3 (22.6) When you have once become truly God-conscious, after you really discover the majestic Creator and begin to experience the realization of the indwelling presence of the divine controller, then, in accordance with your enlightenment and in accordance with the manner and method by which the divine Sons reveal God, you will find a name for the Universal Father which will be adequately expressive of your concept of the First Great Source and Center. And so, on different worlds and in various universes, the Creator becomes known by numerous appellations, in spirit of relationship all meaning the same but, in words and symbols, each name standing for the degree, the depth, of his enthronement in the hearts of his creatures of any given realm.
1:1.4 (23.1) Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One.
1:1.5 (23.2) On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion. On your constellation headquarters God is referred to as the Universal Father, and on different planets in your local system of inhabited worlds he is variously known as the Father of Fathers, the Paradise Father, the Havona Father, and the Spirit Father. Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching relationship of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as “our Father.”
1:1.6 (23.3) On a planet of sex creatures, in a world where the impulses of parental emotion are inherent in the hearts of its intelligent beings, the term Father becomes a very expressive and appropriate name for the eternal God. He is best known, most universally acknowledged, on your planet, Urantia, by the name God. The name he is given is of little importance; the significant thing is that you should know him and aspire to be like him. Your prophets of old truly called him “the everlasting God” and referred to him as the one who “inhabits eternity.”
Table of Contents
Index
Definition of Terms
Pronunciation Guide
Adopted Corrections to the 1955 Text
Foreword
Paper 1 - The Universal Father
Paper 2 - The Nature of God
Paper 3 - The Attributes of God
Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe
Paper 5 - God's Relation to the Individual
Paper 6 - The Eternal Son
Paper 7 - Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe
Paper 8 - The Infinite Spirit
Paper 9 - Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe
Paper 10 - The Paradise Trinity
Paper 11 - The Eternal Isle of Paradise
Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes
Paper 13 - The Sacred Spheres of Paradise
Paper 14 - The Central and Divine Universe
Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses
Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits
Paper 17 - The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups
Paper 18 - The Supreme Trinity Personalities
Paper 19 - The Co-Ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings
Paper 20 - The Paradise Sons of God
Paper 21 - The Paradise Creator Sons
Paper 22 - The Trinitized Sons of God
Paper 23 - The Solitary Messengers
Paper 24 - Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit
Paper 25 - The Messenger Hosts of Space
Paper 26 - Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe
Paper 27 - Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim
Paper 28 - Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses
Paper 29 - The Universe Power Directors
Paper 30 - Personalities of the Grand Universe
Paper 31 - The Corps of the Finality
Paper 32 - The Evolution of Local Universes
Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe
Paper 34 - The Local Universe Mother Spirit
Paper 35 - The Local Universe Sons of God
Paper 36 - The Life Carriers
Paper 37 - Personalities of the Local Universe
Paper 38 - Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe
Paper 39 - The Seraphic Hosts
Paper 40 - The Ascending Sons of God
Paper 41 - Physical Aspects of the Local Universe
Paper 42 - Energy- Mind and Matter
Paper 43 - The Constellations
Paper 44 - The Celestial Artisans
Paper 45 - The Local System Administration
Paper 46 - The Local System Headquarters
Paper 47 - The Seven Mansion Worlds
Paper 48 - The Morontia Life
Paper 49 - The Inhabited Worlds
Paper 50 - The Planetary Princes
Paper 51 - The Planetary Adams
Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs
Paper 53 - The Lucifer Rebellion
Paper 54 - Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
Paper 55 - The Spheres of Light and Life
Paper 56 - Universal Unity
Paper 57 - The Origin of Urantia
Paper 58 - Life Establishment on Urantia
Paper 59 - The Marine-Life Era on Urantia
Paper 60 - Urantia During the Early Land-Life Era
Paper 61 - The Mammalian Era on Urantia
Paper 62 - The Dawn Races of Early Man
Paper 63 - The First Human Family
Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races of Color
Paper 65 - The Overcontrol of Evolution
Paper 66 - The Planetary Prince of Urantia
Paper 67 - The Planetary Rebellion
Paper 68 - The Dawn of Civilization
Paper 69 - Primitive Human Institutions
Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government
Paper 71 - Development of the State
Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet
Paper 73 - The Garden of Eden
Paper 74 - Adam and Eve
Paper 75 - The Default of Adam and Eve
Paper 76 - The Second Garden
Paper 77 - The Midway Creatures
Paper 78 - The Violet Race After the Days of Adam
Paper 79 - Andite Expansion in the Orient
Paper 80 - Andite Expansion in the Occident
Paper 81 - Development of Modern Civilization
Paper 82 - The Evolution of Marriage
Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
Paper 84 - Marriage and Family Life
Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion
Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults
Paper 88 - Fetishes, Charms, and Magic
Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice and Atonement
Paper 90 - Shamanism- Medicine Men and Priests
Paper 91 - The Evolution of Prayer
Paper 92 - The Later Evolution of Religion
Paper 93 - Machiventa Melchizedek
Paper 94 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient
Paper 95 - The Melchizedek Teaching in the Levant
Paper 96 - Yahweh- God of the Hebrews
Paper 97 - Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews
Paper 98 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
Paper 99 - The Social Problems of Religion
Paper 100 - Religion in Human Experience
Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion
Paper 102 - The Foundations of Religious Faith
Paper 103 - The Reality of Religious Experience
Paper 104 - Growth of the Trinity Concept
Paper 105 - Deity and Reality
Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality
Paper 107 - Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters
Paper 108 - Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters
Paper 109 - Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures
Paper 110 - Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals
Paper 111 - The Adjuster and The Soul
Paper 112 - Personality Survival
Paper 113 - Seraphic Guardians of Destiny
Paper 114 - Seraphic Planetary Government
Paper 115 - The Supreme Being
Paper 116 - The Almighty Supreme
Paper 117 - God the Supreme
Paper 118 - Supreme and Ultimate - Time and Space
Paper 119 - The Bestowals of Christ Michael
Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia
Paper 121 - The Times of Michael's Bestowal
Paper 122 - Birth and Infancy of Jesus
Paper 123 - The Early Childhood of Jesus
Paper 124 - The Later Childhood of Jesus
Paper 125 - Jesus at Jerusalem
Paper 126 - The Two Crucial Years
Paper 127 - The Adolescent Years
Paper 128 - Jesus' Early Manhood
Paper 129 - The Later Adult Life of Jesus
Paper 130 - On the Way to Rome
Paper 131 - The World's Religions
Paper 132 - The Sojourn at Rome
Paper 133 - The Return from Rome
Paper 134 - The Transition Years
Paper 135 - John the Baptist
Paper 136 - Baptism and The Forty Days
Paper 137 - Tarrying Time in Galilee
Paper 138 - Training the Kingdom's Messengers
Paper 139 - The Twelve Apostles
Paper 140 - The Ordination of the Twelve
Paper 141 - Beginning the Public Work
Paper 142 - The Passover at Jerusalem
Paper 143 - Going Through Samaria
Paper 144 - At Gilboa and in the Decapolis
Paper 145 - Four Eventful Days at Capernaum
Paper 146 - First Preaching Tour of Galilee
Paper 147 - The Interlude Visit to Jerusalem
Paper 148 - Training Evangelists at Bethsaida
Paper 149 - The Second Preaching Tour
Paper 150 - The Third Preaching Tour
Paper 151 - Tarrying and Teaching by the Seaside
Paper 152 - Events Leading up to the Capernaum Crisis
Paper 153 - The Crisis at Capernaum
Paper 154 - Last Days at Capernaum
Paper 155 - Fleeing Through Northern Galilee
Paper 156 - The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon
Paper 157 - At Caesarea-Philippi
Paper 158 - The Mount of Transfiguration
Paper 159 - The Decapolis Tour
Paper 160 - Rodan of Alexandria
Paper 161 - Further Discussions with Rodan
Paper 162 - At the Feast of Tabernacles
Paper 163 - Ordination of the Seventy at Magadan
Paper 164 - At the Feast of Dedication
Paper 165 - The Perean Mission Begins
Paper 166 - Last Visit to Northern Perea
Paper 167 - The Visit to Philadelphia
Paper 168 - The Resurrection of Lazarus
Paper 169 - Last Teaching at Pella
Paper 170 - The Kingdom of Heaven
Paper 171 - On the way to Jerusalem
Paper 172 - Going into Jerusalem
Paper 173 - Monday in Jerusalem
Paper 174 - Tuesday Morning in the Temple
Paper 175 - The Last Temple Discourse
Paper 176 - Tuesday Evening on Mount Olivet
Paper 177 - Wednesday, the Rest Day
Paper 178 - Last Day at the Camp
Paper 179 - The Last Supper
Paper 180 - The Farewell Discourse
Paper 181 - Final Admonitions and Warnings
Paper 182 - In Gethsemane
Paper 183 - The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
Paper 184 - Before the Sanhedrin Court
Paper 185 - The Trial Before Pilate
Paper 186 - Just Before the Crucifixion
Paper 187 - The Crucifixion
Paper 188 - The Time of the Tomb
Paper 189 - The Resurrection
Paper 190 - Morontia Appearances of Jesus
Paper 191 - Appearances to the Apostles and Other Leaders
Paper 192 - Appearances in Galilee
Paper 193 - Final Appearances and Ascension
Paper 194 - Bestowal of the Spirit of Truth
Paper 195 - After Pentecost
Paper 196 - The Faith of Jesus
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