The Urantia Book

PART I THE CENTRAL AND SUPERUNIVERSES Sponsored by a Uversa Corps of Superuniverse Personalitie...

PART I — THE CENTRAL AND SUPERUNIVERSES Foreword — Divine Counselor I. Deity and Divinity II...

0:0.1 IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia — that being the name of your world — there exists g...

1:0.1 THE Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all thing...

2:0.1 INASMUCH as man’s highest possible concept of God is embraced within the human idea and i...

3:0.1 GOD is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity. But he rules ...

4:0.1 THE Universal Father has an eternal purpose pertaining to the material, intellectual, and s...

5:0.1 IF THE finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the...

6:0.1 THE Eternal Son is the perfect and final expression of the “first” personal and absolute co...

7:0.1 THE Original Son is ever concerned with the execution of the spiritual aspects of the Fathe...

8:0.1 BACK in eternity, when the Universal Father’s “first” infinite and absolute thought finds i...

9:0.1 A STRANGE thing occurred when, in the presence of Paradise, the Universal Father and the Et...

10:0.1 THE Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father’s escape from personality a...

11:0.1 PARADISE is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the U...

12:0.1 THE immensity of the far-flung creation of the Universal Father is utterly beyond the gras...

13:0.1 BETWEEN the central Isle of Paradise and the innermost of the Havona planetary circuits th...

14:0.1 THE perfect and divine universe occupies the center of all creation; it is the eternal cor...

15:0.1 AS FAR as the Universal Father is concerned — as a Father — the universes are virtually no...

16:0.1 THE Seven Master Spirits of Paradise are the primary personalities of the Infinite Spirit....

17:0.1 THE seven Supreme Spirit groups are the universal co-ordinating directors of the seven-seg...

18:0.1 SUPREME Trinity Personalities are all created for specific service. They are designed by t...

19:0.1 THIS Paradise group, designated the Co-ordinate Trinity-origin Beings, embraces the Trinit...

20:0.1 AS THEY function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under th...

21:0.1 THE Creator Sons are the makers and rulers of the local universes of time and space. These...

22:0.1 THERE are three groups of beings who are called Sons of God. In addition to descending and...

23:0.1 SOLITARY Messengers are the personal and universal corps of the Conjoint Creator; they are...

24:0.1 ON UVERSA we divide all personalities and entities of the Conjoint Creator into three gran...

25:0.1 RANKING intermediately in the family of the Infinite Spirit are the Messenger Hosts of Spa...

26:0.1 SUPERNAPHIM are the ministering spirits of Paradise and the central universe; they are the...

27:0.1 PRIMARY supernaphim are the supernal servants of the Deities on the eternal Isle of Paradi...

28:0.1 AS THE supernaphim are the angelic hosts of the central universe and the seraphim of the l...

29:0.1 OF ALL the universe personalities concerned in the regulation of interplanetary and interu...

30:0.1 THE personalities and other-than-personal entities now functioning on Paradise and in the ...

31:0.1 THE Corps of Mortal Finaliters represents the present known destination of the ascending A...

32:0.1 A LOCAL universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of Michael. It co...

33:0.1 WHILE the Universal Father most certainly rules over his vast creation, he functions in a ...

34:0.1 WHEN a Creator Son is personalized by the Universal Father and the Eternal Son, then does ...

35:0.1 THE Sons of God previously introduced have had a Paradise origin. They are the offspring o...

36:0.1 LIFE does not originate spontaneously. Life is constructed according to plans formulated b...

37:0.1 AT THE head of all personality in Nebadon stands the Creator and Master Son, Michael, the ...

38:0.1 THERE are three distinct orders of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit. The impetuous...

39:0.1 AS FAR as we are cognizant, the Infinite Spirit, as personalized on the local universe hea...

40:0.1 AS IN many of the major groups of universe beings, seven general classes of the Ascending ...

41:0.1 THE characteristic space phenomenon which sets off each local creation from all others is ...

42:0.1 THE foundation of the universe is material in the sense that energy is the basis of all ex...

43:0.1 URANTIA is commonly referred to as 606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, meaning the s...

44:0.1 AMONG the courtesy colonies of the various divisional and universe headquarters worlds may...

45:0.1 THE administrative center of Satania consists of a cluster of architectural spheres, fifty...

46:0.1 JERUSEM, the headquarters of Satania, is an average capital of a local system, and aside f...

47:0.1 THE Creator Son, when on Urantia, spoke of the “many mansions in the Father’s universe.” I...

48:0.1 THE Gods cannot — at least they do not — transform a creature of gross animal nature into ...

49:0.1 ALL mortal-inhabited worlds are evolutionary in origin and nature. These spheres are the s...

50:0.1 WHILE belonging to the order of Lanonandek Sons, the Planetary Princes are so specialized ...

51:0.1 DURING the dispensation of a Planetary Prince, primitive man reaches the limit of natural ...

52:0.1 FROM the inception of life on an evolutionary planet to the time of its final flowering in...

53:0.1 LUCIFER was a brilliant primary Lanonandek Son of Nebadon. He had experienced service in m...

54:0.1 EVOLUTIONARY man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the ...

55:0.1 THE age of light and life is the final evolutionary attainment of a world of time and spac...

56:0.1 GOD is unity. Deity is universally co-ordinated. The universe of universes is one vast int...

57:0.1 IN PRESENTING excerpts from the archives of Jerusem for the records of Urantia respecting ...

58:0.1 IN ALL Satania there are only sixty-one worlds similar to Urantia, life-modification plane...

59:0.1 WE RECKON the history of Urantia as beginning about one billion years ago and extending th...

60:0.1 THE era of exclusive marine life has ended. Land elevation, cooling crust and cooling ocea...

61:0.1 THE era of mammals extends from the times of the origin of placental mammals to the end of...

62:0.1 ABOUT one million years ago the immediate ancestors of mankind made their appearance by th...

63:0.1 URANTIA was registered as an inhabited world when the first two human beings — the twins —...

64:0.1 THIS is the story of the evolutionary races of Urantia from the days of Andon and Fonta, a...

65:0.1 BASIC evolutionary material life — premind life — is the formulation of the Master Physica...

66:0.1 THE advent of a Lanonandek Son on an average world signifies that will, the ability to cho...

67:0.1 THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding wi...

68:0.1 THIS is the beginning of the narrative of the long, long forward struggle of the human spe...

69:0.1 EMOTIONALLY, man transcends his animal ancestors in his ability to appreciate humor, art, ...

70:0.1 NO SOONER had man partially solved the problem of making a living than he was confronted w...

71:0.1 THE state is a useful evolution of civilization; it represents society’s net gain from the...

72:0.1 BY PERMISSION of Lanaforge and with the approval of the Most Highs of Edentia, I am author...

73:0.1 THE cultural decadence and spiritual poverty resulting from the Caligastia downfall and co...

74:0.1 ADAM AND EVE arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in mids...

75:0.1 AFTER more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam was able to see very little p...

76:0.1 WHEN Adam elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed, he and his followers...

77:0.1 MOST of the inhabited worlds of Nebadon harbor one or more groups of unique beings existin...

78:0.1 THE second Eden was the cradle of civilization for almost thirty thousand years. Here in M...

79:0.1 ASIA is the homeland of the human race. It was on a southern peninsula of this continent t...

80:0.1 ALTHOUGH the European blue man did not of himself achieve a great cultural civilization, h...

81:0.1 REGARDLESS of the ups and downs of the miscarriage of the plans for world betterment proje...

82:0.1 MARRIAGE — mating — grows out of bisexuality. Marriage is man’s reactional adjustment to s...

83:0.1 THIS is the recital of the early beginnings of the institution of marriage. It has progres...

84:0.1 MATERIAL necessity founded marriage, sex hunger embellished it, religion sanctioned and ex...

85:0.1 PRIMITIVE religion had a biologic origin, a natural evolutionary development, aside from m...

86:0.1 THE evolution of religion from the preceding and primitive worship urge is not dependent o...

87:0.1 THE ghost cult evolved as an offset to the hazards of bad luck; its primitive religious ob...

88:0.1 THE concept of a spirit’s entering into an inanimate object, an animal, or a human being, ...

89:0.1 PRIMITIVE man regarded himself as being in debt to the spirits, as standing in need of red...

90:0.1 THE evolution of religious observances progressed from placation, avoidance, exorcism, coe...

91:0.1 PRAYER, as an agency of religion, evolved from previous nonreligious monologue and dialogu...

92:0.1 MAN possessed a religion of natural origin as a part of his evolutionary experience long b...

93:0.1 THE Melchizedeks are widely known as emergency Sons, for they engage in an amazing range o...

94:0.1 THE early teachers of the Salem religion penetrated to the remotest tribes of Africa and E...

95:0.1 AS INDIA gave rise to many of the religions and philosophies of eastern Asia, so the Levan...

96:0.1 IN CONCEIVING of Deity, man first includes all gods, then subordinates all foreign gods to...

97:0.1 THE spiritual leaders of the Hebrews did what no others before them had ever succeeded in ...

98:0.1 THE Melchizedek teachings entered Europe along many routes, but chiefly they came by way o...

99:0.1 RELIGION achieves its highest social ministry when it has least connection with the secula...

100:0.1 THE experience of dynamic religious living transforms the mediocre individual into a pers...

101:0.1 RELIGION, as a human experience, ranges from the primitive fear slavery of the evolving s...

102:0.1 TO THE unbelieving materialist, man is simply an evolutionary accident. His hopes of surv...

103:0.1 ALL of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutan...

104:0.1 THE Trinity concept of revealed religion must not be confused with the triad beliefs of e...

105:0.1 TO EVEN high orders of universe intelligences infinity is only partially comprehensible, ...

106:0.1 IT IS not enough that the ascending mortal should know something of the relations of Deit...

107:0.1 ALTHOUGH the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of t...

108:0.1 THE mission of the Thought Adjusters to the human races is to represent, to be, the Unive...

109:0.1 THE Thought Adjusters are the children of the universe career, and indeed the virgin Adju...

110:0.1 THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the ...

111:0.1 THE presence of the divine Adjuster in the human mind makes it forever impossible for eit...

112:0.1 THE evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascen...

113:0.1 HAVING presented the narratives of the Ministering Spirits of Time and the Messenger Host...

114:0.1 THE Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but...

115:0.1 WITH God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement...

116:0.1 IF MAN recognized that his Creators — his immediate supervisors — while being divine were...

117:0.1 TO THE extent that we do the will of God in whatever universe station we may have our exi...

118:0.1 CONCERNING the several natures of Deity, it may be said: 118:0.2 1. The Father is self-e...

119:0.1 CHIEF of the Evening Stars of Nebadon, I am assigned to Urantia by Gabriel on the mission...

120:0.1 ASSIGNED by Gabriel to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia a...

121:0.1 ACTING under the supervision of a commission of twelve members of the United Brotherhood ...

122:0.1 IT WILL hardly be possible fully to explain the many reasons which led to the selection o...

123:0.1 OWING to the uncertainties and anxieties of their sojourn in Bethlehem, Mary did not wean...

124:0.1 ALTHOUGH Jesus might have enjoyed a better opportunity for schooling at Alexandria than i...

125:0.1 NO INCIDENT in all Jesus’ eventful earth career was more engaging, more humanly thrilling...

126:0.1 OF ALL Jesus’ earth-life experiences, the fourteenth and fifteenth years were the most cr...

127:0.1 AS JESUS entered upon his adolescent years, he found himself the head and sole support of...

128:0.1 AS JESUS of Nazareth entered upon the early years of his adult life, he had lived, and co...

129:0.1 JESUS had fully and finally separated himself from the management of the domestic affairs...

130:0.1 THE tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-nint...

131:0.1 DURING the Alexandrian sojourn of Jesus, Gonod, and Ganid, the young man spent much of hi...

132:0.1 SINCE Gonod carried greetings from the princes of India to Tiberius, the Roman ruler, on ...

133:0.1 WHEN preparing to leave Rome, Jesus said good-bye to none of his friends. The scribe of D...

134:0.1 DURING the Mediterranean journey Jesus had carefully studied the people he met and the co...

135:0.1 JOHN the Baptist was born March 25, 7 B.C., in accordance with the promise that Gabriel m...

136:0.1 JESUS began his public work at the height of the popular interest in John’s preaching and...

137:0.1 EARLY on Saturday morning, February 23, A.D. 26, Jesus came down from the hills to rejoin...

138:0.1 AFTER preaching the sermon on “The Kingdom,” Jesus called the six apostles together that ...

139:0.1 IT IS an eloquent testimony to the charm and righteousness of Jesus’ earth life that, alt...

140:0.1 JUST before noon on Sunday, January 12, A.D. 27, Jesus called the apostles together for t...

141:0.1 ON THE first day of the week, January 19, A.D. 27, Jesus and the twelve apostles made rea...

142:0.1 THE month of April Jesus and the apostles worked in Jerusalem, going out of the city each...

143:0.1 AT THE end of June, A.D. 27, because of the increasing opposition of the Jewish religious...

144:0.1 SEPTEMBER and October were spent in retirement at a secluded camp upon the slopes of Moun...

145:0.1 JESUS and the apostles arrived in Capernaum the evening of Tuesday, January 13. As usual,...

146:0.1 THE first public preaching tour of Galilee began on Sunday, January 18, A.D. 28, and cont...

147:0.1 JESUS and the apostles arrived in Capernaum on Wednesday, March 17, and spent two weeks a...

148:0.1 FROM May 3 to October 3, A.D. 28, Jesus and the apostolic party were in residence at the ...

149:0.1 THE second public preaching tour of Galilee began on Sunday, October 3, A.D. 28, and cont...

150:0.1 ON SUNDAY evening, January 16, A.D. 29, Abner, with the apostles of John, reached Bethsai...

151:0.1 BY MARCH 10 all of the preaching and teaching groups had forgathered at Bethsaida. Thursd...

152:0.1 THE story of the cure of Amos, the Kheresa lunatic, had already reached Bethsaida and Cap...

153:0.1 ON FRIDAY evening, the day of their arrival at Bethsaida, and on Sabbath morning, the apo...

154:0.1 ON THE eventful Saturday night of April 30, as Jesus was speaking words of comfort and co...

155:0.1 SOON after landing near Kheresa on this eventful Sunday, Jesus and the twenty-four went a...

156:0.1 ON FRIDAY afternoon, June 10, Jesus and his associates arrived in the environs of Sidon, ...

157:0.1 BEFORE Jesus took the twelve for a short sojourn in the vicinity of Caesarea-Philippi, he...

158:0.1 IT WAS near sundown on Friday afternoon, August 12, A.D. 29, when Jesus and his associate...

159:0.1 WHEN Jesus and the twelve arrived at Magadan Park, they found awaiting them a group of al...

160:0.1 ON SUNDAY morning, September 18, Andrew announced that no work would be planned for the c...

161:0.1 ON SUNDAY, September 25, A.D. 29, the apostles and the evangelists assembled at Magadan. ...

162:0.1 WHEN Jesus started up to Jerusalem with the ten apostles, he planned to go through Samari...

163:0.1 A FEW days after the return of Jesus and the twelve to Magadan from Jerusalem, Abner and ...

164:0.1 AS THE camp at Pella was being established, Jesus, taking with him Nathaniel and Thomas, ...

165:0.1 ON TUESDAY, January 3, A.D. 30, Abner, the former chief of the twelve apostles of John th...

166:0.1 FROM February 11 to 20, Jesus and the twelve made a tour of all the cities and villages o...

167:0.1 THROUGHOUT this period of the Perean ministry, when mention is made of Jesus and the apos...

168:0.1 IT WAS shortly after noon when Martha started out to meet Jesus as he came over the brow ...

169:0.1 LATE on Monday evening, March 6, Jesus and the ten apostles arrived at the Pella camp. Th...

170:0.1 SATURDAY afternoon, March 11, Jesus preached his last sermon at Pella. This was among the...

171:0.1 THE day after the memorable sermon on “The Kingdom of Heaven,” Jesus announced that on th...

172:0.1 JESUS and the apostles arrived at Bethany shortly after four o’clock on Friday afternoon,...

173:0.1 EARLY on this Monday morning, by prearrangement, Jesus and the apostles assembled at the ...

174:0.1 ABOUT seven o’clock on this Tuesday morning Jesus met the apostles, the women’s corps, an...

175:0.1 SHORTLY after two o’clock on this Tuesday afternoon, Jesus, accompanied by eleven apostle...

176:0.1 THIS Tuesday afternoon, as Jesus and the apostles passed out of the temple on their way t...

177:0.1 WHEN the work of teaching the people did not press them, it was the custom of Jesus and h...

178:0.1 JESUS planned to spend this Thursday, his last free day on earth as a divine Son incarnat...

179:0.1 DURING the afternoon of this Thursday, when Philip reminded the Master about the approach...

180:0.1 AFTER singing the Psalm at the conclusion of the Last Supper, the apostles thought that J...

181:0.1 AFTER the conclusion of the farewell discourse to the eleven, Jesus visited informally wi...

182:0.1 IT WAS about ten o’clock this Thursday night when Jesus led the eleven apostles from the ...

183:0.1 AFTER Jesus had finally awakened Peter, James, and John, he suggested that they go to the...

184:0.1 REPRESENTATIVES of Annas had secretly instructed the captain of the Roman soldiers to bri...

185:0.1 SHORTLY after six o’clock on this Friday morning, April 7, A.D. 30, Jesus was brought bef...

186:0.1 AS JESUS and his accusers started off to see Herod, the Master turned to the Apostle John...

187:0.1 AFTER the two brigands had been made ready, the soldiers, under the direction of a centur...

188:0.1 THE day and a half that Jesus’ mortal body lay in the tomb of Joseph, the period between ...

189:0.1 SOON after the burial of Jesus on Friday afternoon, the chief of the archangels of Nebado...

190:0.1 THE resurrected Jesus now prepares to spend a short period on Urantia for the purpose of ...

191:0.1 RESURRECTION Sunday was a terrible day in the lives of the apostles; ten of them spent th...

192:0.1 BY THE time the apostles left Jerusalem for Galilee, the Jewish leaders had quieted down ...

193:0.1 THE sixteenth morontia manifestation of Jesus occurred on Friday, May 5, in the courtyard...

194:0.1 ABOUT one o’clock, as the one hundred and twenty believers were engaged in prayer, they a...

195:0.1 THE results of Peter’s preaching on the day of Pentecost were such as to decide the futur...

196:0.1 JESUS enjoyed a sublime and wholehearted faith in God. He experienced the ordinary ups an...