Revelation is evolutionary but always progressive. Down through the ages of a world's history, the revelations of religion are ever expanding and successively more enlightening. It is the mission of revelation to sort and censor the successive religions of evolution. But if revelation is to exalt and upstep the religions of evolution, then must such divine visitations portray teachings that are not too far removed from the thought and reactions of the age in which they are presented. Thus must and does revelation always keep in touch with evolution. Always is the religion of revelation limited by man's capacity of receptivity.
But regardless of apparent connection or derivation, the religions of revelation are always characterized by a belief in some Deity of final value and in some concept of the survival of personality identity after death.
Evolutionary religion is sentimental, not logical. It is man's reaction to belief in a hypothetical ghost-spirit world -- the human belief-reflex, excited by the realization and fear of the unknown. Revelatory religion is propounded by the real spiritual world; it is the response of the super-intellectual cosmos to the mortal hunger to believe in and depend upon the universal Deities. Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous groping of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion is that very truth.
There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:
The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Earth by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia's staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam's arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.
Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the Sethite priests carried on the aborted teachings of Adam, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden.
This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Earth. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God's favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Earth at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.
Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Earth the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship that a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of and response to the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service that such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.
The Urantia Papers constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Earth. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Earth when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Earth.
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On the way back to the Gethsemane camp, Jesus talked with his apostles and made some astounding predictions.
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The Prince of Earth
Almost five hundred thousand years ago the Planetary Prince arrived on Earth, and so began the first epochal revelation.
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The Lucifer Rebellion
Lucifer, from such a magnificent beginning, through evil and error, embraced sin.
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The Planetary Rebellion
The problems associated with human existence on earth are impossible of understanding without a knowledge of certain great epochs of the past, notably the occurrence and consequences of the rebellion.
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Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
Of all the perplexing problems growing out of the Lucifer rebellion, none has occasioned more difficulty...
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The History of the Garden of Eden
And there came a time in the planetary history, almost forty thousand years ago...
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Adam and Eve
Adam And Eve arrived on Earth, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago.
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The Default of Adam and Eve
After more than one hundred years of effort on Earth, Adam was able to see very little progress outside the Garden...
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The Second Garden
When Adam elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed, the only way open was to the east, and so they journeyed eastward toward the then pleasant regions between the Tigris and Euphrate
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Machiventa Melchizedek
The Melchizedek order of universe sonship has been exceedingly active on Earth.
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The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient
Earth has never had more enthusiastic and aggressive missionaries of any religion than these noble men and women who carried the teachings of Melchizedek over the entire Eastern Hemisphere.
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The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
As India gave rise to many of the religions and philosophies of eastern Asia, so the Levant was the homeland of the faiths of the Occidental world.
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Yahweh -- God of the Hebrews
The Salem religion persisted among the Kenites in Palestine as their creed, and this religion as it was later adopted by the Hebrews was influenced by...
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Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews
-- they deanthropomorphized their God concept without converting it into an abstraction of Deity comprehensible only to philosophers.
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The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
The Melchizedek teachings entered Europe along many routes, but chiefly they came by way of Egypt and were embodied in Occidental philosophy after being thoroughly Hellenized and later Christianized.
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The Bestowals of Christ Michael
Chief of the Evening Stars of Nebadon, I am assigned to Earth by Gabriel on the mission of revealing the story of the seven bestowals of the Universe Sovereign, Michael of Nebadon.
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The Bestowal of Michael on Earth
...this was the setting of the momentous occasion when Immanuel presented the seventh bestowal commission to the universe ruler who subsequently became Jesus of Nazareth (Christ Michael) on Earth...
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The Times of Michael's Bestowal
I am authorized to place on record the narrative of the life transactions of Michael's bestowal as Jesus of Nazareth as they were observed by my order...
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Birth and Infancy of Jesus
It will hardly be possible fully to explain the many reasons which led to the selection of Palestine as the land for Michael's bestowal...
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The Early Childhood of Jesus
All through these early years of Jesus' helpless infancy, Mary maintained one long and constant vigil...
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The Later Childhood of Jesus
Although Jesus might have enjoyed a better opportunity for schooling at Alexandria than in Galilee...
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Jesus at Jerusalem
No Incident in all Jesus' eventful earth career was more engaging, more humanly thrilling, than this, his first remembered visit to Jerusalem.
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The Two Crucial Years
Of all Jesus' earth-life experiences, the fourteenth and fifteenth years were the most crucial.
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The Adolescent Years
As Jesus entered upon his adolescent years, he found himself the head and sole support of a large family.
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Jesus' Early Manhood
As Jesus of Nazareth entered upon the early years of his adult life...
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The Later Adult Life of Jesus
All the family had slowly awakened to the realization that Jesus was making ready to leave them.
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On the Way to Rome
The tour of the Roman world consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-ninth year of Jesus' life on earth.
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The World's Religions
During the Alexandrian sojourn of Jesus, Gonod, and Ganid, the young man spent much of his time and no small sum of his father's money making a collection of the teachings of the world's religions...
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The Sojourn at Rome
Since Gonod carried greetings from the princes of India to Tiberius, the Roman ruler, on the third day after their arrival in Rome the two Indians and Jesus appeared before him.
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The Return from Rome
When preparing to leave Rome, Jesus said good-bye to none of his friends.
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The Transition Years
He began to lay plans for a public career in the land of his father Joseph’s people...
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John the Baptist
John the Baptist was born March 25, 7 B.C., in accordance with the promise that Gabriel made to Elizabeth in June of the previous year.
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Baptism and the Forty Days
Jesus began his public work at the height of the popular interest in John’s preaching...
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Tarrying Time in Galilee
All that day Jesus mingled with the multitude.
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Training the Kingdom's Messengers
After preaching the sermon on “The Kingdom,” Jesus called the six apostles together that afternoon and began to disclose his plans for visiting the cities around and about the Sea of Galilee.
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The Twelve Apostles
Do not make the mistake of regarding the apostles as being altogether ignorant and unlearned.
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The Ordination of the Twelve
Just before noon on Sunday, January 12, A.D. 27, Jesus called the apostles together for their ordination as public preachers of the gospel of the kingdom.
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Beginning the Puplic Work
On the first day of the week, January 19, A.D. 27, Jesus and the twelve apostles made ready to depart from their headquarters in Bethsaida.
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The Passover at Jerusalem
The month of April Jesus and the apostles worked in Jerusalem, going out of the city each evening to spend the night at Bethany.
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Going Through Samaria
Going north into Samaria, they tarried over the Sabbath at Bethel.
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At Gilboa and in the Decapolis
SEPTEMBER and October were spent in retirement at a secluded camp upon the slopes of Mount Gilboa.
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Four Eventful Days at Capernaum
JESUS and the apostles arrived in Capernaum the evening of Tuesday, January 13.
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First Preaching Tour of Galilee
THE first public preaching tour of Galilee began on Sunday, January 18, A.D. 28, and continued for about two months, ending with the return to Capernaum on March 17.
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The Interlude visit to Jerusalem
JESUS and the apostles arrived in Capernaum on Wednesday, March 17, and spent two weeks at the Bethsaida headquarters before they departed for Jerusalem.
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The Second Preaching Tour
THE second public preaching tour of Galilee began on Sunday, October 3, A.D. 28, and continued for almost three months, ending on December 30.
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The Third Preaching Tour
On Tuesday, January 18, the twenty-four were joined by the tested evangelists, about seventy-five in number, at the Zebedee house in Bethsaida preparatory to being sent forth on the third preaching...
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Tarrying and Teaching by the Seaside
BY MARCH 10 all of the preaching and teaching groups had forgathered at Bethsaida.
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After Pentacost
The results of Peter's preaching on the day of Pentecost were such as to decide the future...
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Foreword
This Foreword is not, therefore, a finished statement within itself; it is only a definitive guide designed to assist those who shall read the accompanying papers dealing with Deity and the universe..
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The Universal Father
The Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings.
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The Nature of God
I cheerfully undertake the execution of my mandate to attempt the further portrayal of the nature of God to the mind of man.
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The Attributes of God
GOD is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity.
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God's Relation to the Universe
The Universal Father has an eternal purpose pertaining to the material, intellectual, and spiritual phenomena of the universe of universes, which he is executing throughout all time.
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God's Relation to the Individual
Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him.
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The Eternal Son
The Eternal Son is the perfect and final expression of the "first" personal and absolute concept of the Universal Father.
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Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe
The Original Son is ever concerned with the execution of the spiritual aspects of the Father's eternal purpose...
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The Infinite Spirit
We are now face to face with the eternity origin of the Infinite Spirit, the Third Person of Deity.
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Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe
The Infinite Spirit pervades all space; he indwells the circle of eternity; and the Spirit, like the Father and the Son, is perfect and changeless -- absolute.
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The Paradise Trinity
The Paradise Trinity effectively provides for the full expression and perfect revelation of the eternal nature of Deity.
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The Paradise Sons of God
AS THEY function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads:
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Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe
THERE are three distinct orders of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
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The Seraphic Hosts
AS FAR as we are cognizant, the Infinite Spirit, as personalized on the local universe headquarters, intends to produce uniformly perfect seraphim, but for some unknown reason...
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The Social Problems of religion
RELIGION achieves its highest social ministry when it has least connection with the secular institutions of society.
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Personality Survival
The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career.
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