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    Charting the Urantia Papers
 

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Compendium:
  Presenters, Annotations, and Acknowledgments
 
  Foreword
{At the end} 		ACKNOWLEDGMENT          
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.

          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.

          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.

[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.]
 
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{Start of Part One} Sponsored by a Uversa Corps of Superuniverse Personalities acting by authority of the Orvonton Ancients of Days
1. The Universal Father [Presented by a Divine Counselor, a member of a group of celestial personalities assigned by the Ancients of Days on Uversa, the headquarters of the seventh superuniverse, to supervise those portions of this forthcoming revelation which have to do with affairs beyond the borders of the local universe of Nebadon. I am commissioned to sponsor those papers portraying the nature and attributes of God because I represent the highest source of information available for such a purpose on any inhabited world. I have served as a Divine Counselor in all seven of the superuniverses and have long resided at the Paradise center of all things. Many times have I enjoyed the supreme pleasure of a sojourn in the immediate personal presence of the Universal Father. I portray the reality and truth of the Father's nature and attributes with unchallengeable authority; I know whereof I speak.]
2. The Nature of God [Presented by a Divine Counselor acting by authority of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
3. The Attributes of God [Being the Divine Counselor assigned to the presentation of the revelation of the Universal Father, I have continued with this statement of the attributes of Deity.]
4. God's Relation to the Universe [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
5. God's Relation to the Individual [This is the fifth and last of the series presenting the narrative of the Universal Father by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
6. The Eternal Son [Indited by a Divine Counselor assigned to formulate this statement depicting the Eternal Son of Paradise.]
7. Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe [Indited by a Divine Counselor assigned to formulate this statement depicting the Eternal Son of Paradise.]
8. The Infinite Spirit [Presented on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.]
9. Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe [Revealed on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa commissioned by the Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.]
10. The Paradise Trinity [Sponsored by a Universal Censor acting by authority from the Ancients of Days resident on Uversa.]
11. The Eternal Isle of Paradise [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
12. The Universe of Universes [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom acting by authority of the Ancients of Days.]
13. The Sacred Spheres of Paradise [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
14. The Central and Divine Universe [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom commissioned thus to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
15. The Seven Superuniverses [Presented by a Universal Censor hailing from Uversa.]
16. The Seven Master Spirits [Sponsored by a Universal Censor from Uversa.]
17. The Seven Supreme Spirit Groups [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
18. The Supreme Trinity Personalities [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
19. The Co-ordinate Trinity-Origin Beings [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
20. The Paradise Sons of God [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
21. The Paradise Creator Sons [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
22. The Trinitized Sons of God [Narrated by a Mighty Messenger of the revelatory corps of Orvonton.]
23. The Solitary Messengers [Presented by a Divine Counselor from Uversa.]
24. Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit [Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]
25. The Messenger Hosts of Space [Sponsored by One High in Authority from Uversa.]
26. Ministering Spirits of the Central Universe [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
27. Ministry of the Primary Supernaphim [Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
28. Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger of Uversa.]
29. The Universal Power Directors [Sponsored by a Universal Censor acting by authority of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
30. Personalities of the Grand Universe [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger from Uversa.]
31. The Corps of the Finality [Jointly sponsored by a Divine Counselor and One without Name and Number authorized so to function by the Ancients of Days on Uversa.]
{End of Part One} These thirty-one papers depicting the nature of Deity, the reality of Paradise, the organization and working of the central and superuniverses, the personalities of the grand universe, and the high destiny of evolutionary mortals, were sponsored, formulated, and put into English by a high commission consisting of twenty-four Orvonton administrators acting in accordance with a mandate issued by the Ancients of Days of Uversa directing that we should do this on Urantia, 606 of Satania, in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, in the year A.D. 1934.
 
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{Start of Part Two} Sponsored by a Nebadon Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.
32. The Evolution of Local Universes [Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the Supreme Council of Nebadon and assigned to this mission by Gabriel of Salvington.]
33. Administration of the Local Universe [Presented by the Chief of the Archangels of Nebadon.]
34. The Local Universe Mother Spirit [Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily assigned to service on Urantia.]
35. The Local Universe Sons of God [Sponsored by the Chief of Archangels acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.]
36. The Life Carriers [Indited by a Vorondadek Son stationed on Urantia as an observer and acting in this capacity by request of the Melchizedek Chief of the Supervising Revelatory Corps.]
37. Personalities of the Local Universe [Dictated by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon, Number 1,146 of the Created Corps.]
38. Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe [Presented by a Melchizedek acting by request of the Chief of the Seraphic Hosts of Nebadon.]
39. The Seraphic Hosts [Presented by a Melchizedek acting by request of the Chief of the Seraphic Hosts of Nebadon.]
40. The Ascending Sons of God [Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the staff of Gabriel of Salvington.]
41. Physical Aspects of the Local Universe [Presented by an Archangel in collaboration with the Chief of Nebadon Power Centers.]
42. Energy — Mind and Matter [Presented by a Mighty Messenger on duty in Nebadon and by the request of Gabriel.]
43. The Constellations [Sponsored by Malavatia Melchizedek.]
44. The Celestial Artisans [Indited by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
45. The Local System Administration [Presented by a Melchizedek of temporary assignment on Urantia.]
46. The Local System Headquarters [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
47. The Seven Mansion Worlds [Sponsored by a Brilliant Evening Star.]
48. The Morontia Life [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
49. The Inhabited Worlds [Presented by a Melchizedek of the Jerusem School of Planetary Administration.]
50. The Planetary Princes [Presented by a Secondary Lanonandek Son of the Reserve Corps.]
51. The Planetary Adams [Presented by a Secondary Lanonandek Son of the Reserve Corps.]
52. Planetary Mortal Epochs [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily attached to the staff of Gabriel.]
53. The Lucifer Rebellion [Presented by Manovandet Melchizedek, onetime attached to the receivership of Urantia.]
54. Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion [Presented by a Mighty Messenger of experiential survival in the first system rebellion in the universes of time now attached to the superuniverse government of Orvonton and acting in this matter by request of Gabriel of Salvington.]
55. The Spheres of Light and Life [Presented by a Mighty Messenger temporarily assigned to the Archangel Council on Urantia.]
56. Universal Unity [Presented by a Mighty Messenger visiting on Urantia, by request of the Nebadon Revelatory Corps and in collaboration with a certain Melchizedek, the vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia.]
{End of Part Two} This paper on Universal Unity is the twenty-fifth of a series of presentations by various authors, having been sponsored as a group by a commission of Nebadon personalities numbering twelve and acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek. We indited these narratives and put them in the English language, by a technique authorized by our superiors, in the year 1934 of Urantia time.
 
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{Start of Part Three} These papers were sponsored by a Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.
57. The Origin of Urantia [Presented by a Life Carrier, a member of the original Urantia Corps and now a resident observer.]
58. Life Establishment on Urantia [Presented by a member of the Urantia Life Carrier Corps now resident on the planet.]
59. The Marine-Life Era on Urantia [Presented by a Life Carrier of Nebadon, one of the original corps assigned to Urantia.]
60. Urantia During the Early Land-Life Era [Presented by a Life Carrier of Nebadon assigned to Satania and now functioning on Urantia.]
61. The Mammalian Era on Urantia [Sponsored by a Resident Life Carrier.]
62. The Dawn Races of Early Man [Sponsored by a Life Carrier of Nebadon resident on Urantia.]
63. The First Human Family [Presented by a Life Carrier resident on Urantia.]
64. The Evolutionary Races of Color [Presented by a Life Carrier resident on Urantia.]
65. The Overcontrol of Evolution [Sponsored by a Life Carrier of Nebadon resident on Urantia.]
66. The Planetary Prince of Urantia [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
67. The Planetary Rebellion [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
68. The Dawn of Civilization [Presented by a Melchizedek sometime stationed on Urantia.]
69. Primitive Human Institutions [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
70. The Evolution of Human Government [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
71. Development of the State [Sponsored by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
72. Government on a Neighboring Planet [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
73. The Garden of Eden [Presented by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
74. Adam and Eve [Narrated by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
75. The Default of Adam and Eve [Presented by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
76. The Second Garden [Presented by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
77. The Midway Creatures [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
78. The Violet Race after the Days of Adam [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
79. Andite Expansion in the Orient [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
80. Andite Expansion in the Occident [Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
81. Development of Modern Civilization [Sponsored by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
82. The Evolution of Marriage [Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
83. The Marriage Institution [Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
84. Marriage and Family Life [Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
85. The Origins of Worship [Presented by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon.]
86. Early Evolution of Religion [Presented by an Evening Star of Nebadon.]
87. The Ghost Cults [Presented by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon.]
88. Fetishes, Charms, and Magic [Presented by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon.]
89. Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement [Presented by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon.]
90. Shamanism — Medicine Men and Priests [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
91. The Evolution of Prayer [Presented by the Chief of the Urantia Midwayers.]
92. The Later Evolution of Religion [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
93. Machiventa Melchizedek [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
94. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
95. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
96. Yahweh — God of the Hebrews [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
97. Evolution of the God Concept among the Hebrews [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
98. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
99. The Social Problems of Religion [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
100. Religion in Human Experience [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
101. The Real Nature of Religion [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
102. The Foundations of Religious Faith [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
103. The Reality of Religious Experience [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
104. Growth of the Trinity Concept [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
105. Deity and Reality [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
106. Universe Levels of Reality [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
107. Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
108. Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
109. Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
110. Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
111. The Adjuster and the Soul [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
112. Personality Survival [Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
113. Seraphic Guardians of Destiny [Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
114. Seraphic Planetary Government [Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.]
115. The Supreme Being [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.]
116. The Almighty Supreme [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.]
117. God the Supreme [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.]
118. Supreme and Ultimate — Time and Space [Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on Urantia.]
119. The Bestowals of Christ Michael {At the start} Chief of the Evening Stars of Nebadon, I am assigned to Urantia by Gabriel on the mission of revealing the story of the seven bestowals of the Universe Sovereign, Michael of Nebadon, and my name is Gavalia. In making this presentation, I will adhere strictly to the limitations imposed by my commission.
{End of Part Three} [This paper, depicting the seven bestowals of Christ Michael, is the sixty-third of a series of presentations, sponsored by numerous personalities, narrating the history of Urantia down to the time of Michael's appearance on earth in the likeness of mortal flesh. These papers were authorized by a Nebadon commission of twelve acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek. We indited these narratives and put them in the English language, by a technique authorized by our superiors, in the year A.D. 1935 of Urantia time.]
 
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{Start of Part Four} This group of papers was sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia midwayers acting under the supervision of a Melchizedek revelatory director. The basis of this narrative was supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.
120. The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia
{At the start}		 ASSIGNED by Gabriel to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia and in the likeness of mortal flesh, I, the Melchizedek director of the revelatory commission intrusted with this task, am authorized to present this narrative of certain events which immediately preceded the Creator Son's arrival on Urantia to embark upon the terminal phase of his universe bestowal experience. To live such identical lives as he imposes upon the intelligent beings of his own creation, thus to bestow himself in the likeness of his various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme sovereignty of his self-made universe of things and beings.
121. The Times of Michael’s Bestowal {At the end} [Acknowledgment: In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of Jesus of Nazareth, I have drawn freely upon all sources of record and planetary information. My ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all future generations. From the vast store of information made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this purpose. As far as possible I have derived my information from purely human sources. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are superhuman. When ideas and concepts of Jesus' life and teachings have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave preference to such apparently human thought patterns. Although I have sought to adjust the verbal expression the better to conform to our concept of the real meaning and the true import of the Master's life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the actual human concept and thought pattern in all my narratives. I well know that those concepts which have had origin in the human mind will prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human expressions, I have next resorted to the memory resources of my own order of earth creatures, the midwayers. And when that secondary source of information proved inadequate, I have unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of information.

          The memoranda which I have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus--aside from the memory of the record of the Apostle Andrew--embrace thought gems and superior concepts of Jesus' teachings assembled from more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly restatements. The revelatory permission has been utilized only when the human record and human concepts failed to supply an adequate thought pattern. My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources.

         While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking. In many ways I have served more as a collector and editor than as an original narrator. I have unhesitatingly appropriated those ideas and concepts, preferably human, which would enable me to create the most effective portraiture of Jesus' life, and which would qualify me to restate his matchless teachings in the most strikingly helpful and universally uplifting phraseology. In behalf of the Brotherhood of the United Midwayers of Urantia, I most gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all sources of record and concept which have been hereinafter utilized in the further elaboration of our restatement of Jesus' life on earth.]
134. The Transition Years {Bracketed at the end of Section 3: The Urmia Lectures} [When we, the midwayers, first prepared the summary of Jesus’ teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the seraphim of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the wisdom of including these teachings in the Urantia Revelation. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus’ day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master’s teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master’s teachings which was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master’s Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus’ teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.]
  {Bracketed at the
end of Section 5:
Political Sovereignty}		 [While the Master’s teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth — only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world’s religions — his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers — the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East — and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master’s teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.]
136. Baptism and the Forty Days
{Parenthetical at the
end of Section 2:
The Baptism of Jesus}		 (Jesus was almost thirty-one and one-half years old when he was baptized. While Luke says that Jesus was baptized in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which would be A.D. 29 since Augustus died in A.D. 14, it should be recalled that Tiberius was coemperor with Augustus for two and one-half years before the death of Augustus, having had coins struck in his honor in October, A.D. 11. The fifteenth year of his actual rule was, therefore, this very year of A.D. 26, that of Jesus' baptism. And this was also the year that Pontius Pilate began his rule as governor of Judea.)
     
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