The Urantia Book

[Michael60]

Hello Members,
I am new to this board but have read much of the stuff that is discussed here. I am 61 years old and hail from Tasmania, the small Island situated at the bottom of Australia.

I noticed several questions were asked of the Zeta R about the Urantia Book, each time it was ignored. Taom1234 wanted know if they wrote it. Being a student of the book myself I wonder how many of you have read it. The UB was a (claimed) communication from celestials, chock full of information about everything the normal earthling needed to know on a need to to know basis. The UB was first printed in book form in 1955 as a huge tome of 2097 pages eclipsing the book "War and Peace" at least three times.
It was never advertised or promoted commercially simply because the revelators wanted the book to become known by a slow and natural dissemination from readers to friends and neighbors. Even today the book is not very well known and has few readers; I believe not yet reaching a million throughout the whole world.
The book is very well presented and seems to scan harmoniously all the way through from beginning to end. It claims to be the fifth epochal revelation to mankind and warns against sordid spiritual practices such as clairvoyance, channelings and voices from spirits as being the uprisings of the subconscious mind. It also promotes the practice of using what it calls the Super-conscious mind. There is much about what happens to mortals at death of the body and how we go from sphere to sphere schools in new bodies towards a destiny not yet fully defined. The culmination of all this education over many thousands of years is to graduate into the Corps of Finality. This group of ascended earthlings and personalities from other planets are believed to be the future explorers of Gods vast new creations in the far reaches of space.
I recommend this book as a good read and an insight into the universe government administration of our universe. The descriptions of angels and deities, their activites and duties are astonishing. This, our local sector of the universe, is said to be under the jurisdiction of Michael who was once embodied as Jesus on Earth. There is a great deal of information about him in the Jesus papers at the end of the book including much of his life that was never mentioned in the Bible.
The messages on this board purported to have come from Michael the archangel seem to be eroneous when compared to the ones in the UB.
However it remains for students to form their opinions of it just as I have and I do not want to state them here at this time. There are many Urantia Book forums on the internet and I myself am a moderator on Charlie Fox's Urantia Book readers board. We are discussing exopolitics as well as visitors from other worlds and the teaching mission of the Melchizedeks. As I have not seen much in the way of Urantia on this board I would like to know if any of you have read it through and what you think of it. It could become a great topic of discussion under communications. I was directed to re-post this here and was surprised to find that an overview of the Urantia Book was already here but I will add one more link:
http://www.forum.wisdomdudes.net/public_html/forums/index.php

Mick

[kiauma]

Do as I say, not as I do...   [xx(]

[Arie]

I have been a reader for a few years...I do not know anywhere in the Urantia Book where it even uses the term "channeling,"  though there is a teaching that states in substance 'all too often what men regard as the voice of God are really emanations of their own intellect.'  As to the origin of the book...the teachings manifested in the physical somehow...I don't know specifically...but should it really matter?  What's more important is the substance and the actual teachings contained in the book.

[Arie]

You can read it for free on various websites.  This is an overview I found on one particular site which is www.urantiabook.org , you could read it there...or also truthbook.com and there is also ubook.org.

Part I: The Central and Superuniverses (31 Papers)
How the cosmos is structured and managed: An organized personal universe, evolving in time-space relative to the perfection of the Paradise center of all things is described. This creation includes millions of inhabited worlds in various stages of biological, intellectual, social and spiritual evolution. The nature of God and his relationship to the evolving creation is explored in great detail.

Understanding God and his activities in the universe 1-15
Exploring the personal universe 16-31

Part II: The Local Universe (25 Papers)
The evolutionary plan for fostering the evolving social structures of the universes is detailed. Personality survival is determined by our free will decisions related to our personal relationship with God and the values with which we choose to organize and conduct our personal lives. Growth toward perfection should be our fundamental orientation to life. This growth is evolutionary, cumulative, and virtually endless. It is achieved through the love of God and unselfish service to our fellow beings.

About our local universe 32-42
About the constellation in which our world exists 43-44
The local system of evolutionary worlds 45-48
Inhabited worlds of mortal life 49-55
Cosmological implications of preceeding papers 56


Part III: The History of Urantia (63 Papers)
A geophysical history of our planet, Urantia, sets the stage for an overview of the development of civilization, culture, government, religion, the family, and other social institutions is described from the viewpoint of superhuman observers. The meanings and values contained within human religious civilization are revitalized, strengthening the foundations upon which further cultural development may take place. A description of human destiny is provided including a description of the worlds we will inhabit immediately following mortal death.

Geophysical and biological evolution of our world 57-65
A history of superhuman efforts to foster a progressive civilization on our world 66-77
The evolution of human culture and institutions 78-92
Recent epochal revelations and the development of present-day systems of religious belief 93-103
Conceptual foundations for further spiritual exploration and discovery 104-118
Cosmic antecedents to the life of Jesus 119


Part IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus (77 Papers)
Seven hundred pages devoted to the life of Jesus make up the most spiritually compelling biography of Jesus anywhere in print. The Urantia Book relates over 16 times as much information about Jesus' life and teachings than does the Bible. The literary depth of The Urantia Book clearly reveals and touchingly portrays his combined humanity and divinity.

The mortal career of Jesus of Nazareth 120-134
The public work of Jesus, Son of Man 135-158
The public work and personal experience of Jesus, Son of God 159-188
The post-resurrection activities of Jesus 189-195
Philosophic reflections on the life of Jesus 196