Urantia21: A Restatement of The Urantia Book for the 21st Century

“Jesus did not come to this world during an age of spiritual decadence; at the time of Jesus’ birth Urantia was experiencing a revival of spiritual thinking and religious living as it had not known in all its previous post-Edenic history nor has experienced in any era since. When Michael incarnated on Urantia, the world presented the most favorable conditions for the Local Universe Creator’s besto...

“Before the events about to be delineated, Michael of Nebadon had been bestowed six times as six differing orders of diverse intelligent beings. Then Michael prepared to descend on Urantia in the likeness of a mortal, the lowest order of intelligent will creatures, and, as a human of the material realm, to execute the final act in the drama of the acquirement of universe sovereignty...”  “...it sh...

“The attribute of bestowal is inherent in the Paradise Children of the Universal Source. In their desire to come close to the life experiences of their subordinate living creatures, the various orders of the Paradise Beings are reflecting the divine nature of their Paradise parents.” Our Local Universe Creator assumed the responsibility for successfully completing seven creature bestowals, each on...

Beyond the level of the finite grand universe lie the levels of outer space, which are designated in The Urantia Book as the domains of the Ultimate. When the grand universe is finally completed and settled in light and life, the next step in the development of universal reality will be the emergence of the Ultimate. “If the Supreme ever assumes direct control of the universes of time and space, w...

The culmination of evolution is the status of “light and life.” “If all residents of the grand universe should ever relatively achieve the full living of the will of the Creator, then the time-space creations would be settled in light and life, and then the Almighty, the deity potential of Supremacy, would become factual in the emergence of the divine personality of the Supreme.” “The parts and in...

“If mortals recognized that their Creators — their immediate supervisors — while being divine were also finite, and that the Deity of time and space was an evolving and nonabsolute Deity, then the inconsistencies of temporal inequalities would cease to be profound religious paradoxes.” The Deity of time and space is the Supreme. “The Almighty Supreme is a living and evolving Deity of power and per...

There is a Deity presence that is limited to the finite level of reality, and which encompasses the entire grand universe. Since that universe is incomplete and evolving, its Deity presence is also evolving. The Urantia Book calls this Deity the Supreme. Evolution implies action and change, and the Supreme is the repository of all of the evolutionary activity within the grand universe. “Humans mus...

Each inhabited planet has a spiritual government that guides that planet’s evolution. “Seraphim and their associated cherubim have much to do with the details of the superhuman government of a planet, especially of worlds which have been isolated by rebellion. The angels, ably assisted by the midwayers, function on Urantia as the actual supermaterial ministers who execute the mandates of the resid...

“Seraphim are the traditional angels; they are the ministering spirits who live so near you and do so much for you. They have ministered on Urantia since the earliest times of human intelligence.” “The angels develop an abiding affection for their human associates; and you would, if you could only visualize the seraphim, develop a warm affection for them. Divested of material bodies, given spirit...

“The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia is your starting point; here you and your divine Thought Adjuster are joined in temporary union. You have been endowed with a perfect guide; therefore, if you will sincerely run the race of time and gain the final goal of faith, the reward of the ages will be yours; you will be ete...

“The concept of a soul and of an indwelling spirit is not new to Urantia; it has frequently appeared in the various systems of planetary beliefs. Many of the Eastern as well as some of the Western faiths have perceived that mortals are divine in heritage as well as human in inheritance. The feeling of the inner presence in addition to the external omnipresence of Deity has formed a part of many Ur...

The Adjuster lives within our mind and communicates with us through our thoughts but does not interfere with them. The mind must be open to the leading of the Adjuster. When we allow the Adjuster to lead us, we make the decision to take the spiritual path over the material in any given situation. Adjusters “are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence...

The human race on an evolutionary planet needs to progress to the point where Adjusters can function. “In many of the early evolutionary peoples of Urantia, three groups of beings existed. There were those who were so animalistic that they were utterly lacking in Adjuster capacity. There were those who exhibited undoubted capacity for Adjusters and promptly received them when the age of moral resp...

“The mission of the Thought Adjusters to the human races is to represent, to be, the Universal Creator to the mortal creatures of time and space...” “Their mission is also that of elevating the mortal minds and of translating the immortal souls of humans up to the divine heights and spiritual levels of Paradise perfection.” The Thought Adjusters would like to change our feelings of fear to convict...

“Thought Adjuster” is the term used in The Urantia Book for the spirit of the Creator resident in the human mind. “The Universal Source is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, but is also actually present on the worlds of space in the minds of the countless children of time, indwelling them as the Thought Adjusters. The eternal Source is at one and the same time fa...

The Urantia Book presents previously unknown information about the complexity of universal reality. This paper attempts to relate some of that complexity in language and concepts that might be comprehendible by the human mind. The presentation is limited by several factors, including the limitations of mortal language, the limitations of the mortal mind, and the impossibility of depicting cosmic e...

“To even high orders of universe intelligences infinity is only partially comprehensible, and the finality of reality is only relatively understandable. The human mind, as it seeks to penetrate the eternity-mystery of the origin and destiny of all that is called  real,  may helpfully approach the problem by conceiving eternity-infinity as an almost limitless ellipse which is produced by one absolu...

The Trinity concept pervades human history. Groupings of three are common in human experience. In religion, “Monotheism arose as a philosophic protest against the inconsistency of polytheism.” “Trinitarianism grows out of the experiential protest against the impossibility of conceiving the oneness of a de-anthropomorphized solitary Deity of unrelated universe significance.” Through revelation we l...

“There is a reality in religious experience that is proportional to the spiritual content,and such a reality is transcendent to reason, science, philosophy, wisdom, and all other human achievements. The convictions of this experience are unassailable...” “Religion has to do with the spiritual viewpoint, the awareness of the  insideness  of human experience. A person’s spiritual nature affords them...

“The reason of science is based on the observable facts of time; the faith of religion speaks from the spirit program of eternity. What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation.” “No material sign of proof or no demonstration of so-called miracle may be offered in testimony of the reality of...

“Religion is the experiencing of divinity in the consciousness of a moral being of evolutionary origin; it represents true experience with eternal realities in time, the realization of spiritual satisfactions while still in material form.” “The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and...

“The goal of human self-realization should be spiritual, not material. The only realities worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal. Mortals are entitled to the enjoyment of physical pleasures and to the satisfaction of human affections; they are benefited by loyalty to human associations and temporal institutions; but these are not the eternal foundations on which to build the immorta...

“While religion is exclusively a personal spiritual experience — knowing the Creator as a parent — the corollary of this experience — knowing others as siblings — entails the adjustment of the self to other selves, and that involves the social or group aspect of religious life.” “Just as certainly as people share their religious beliefs, they create a religious group of some sort which eventually...

“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. The ideals of the Western world were basically Socratic, and its later religious philosophy became that of Jesus as it was modified and compromised through contact with evolving Occidental philosophy...

“The spiritual leaders of the Hebrews did what no others before them had ever succeeded in doing — they de-anthropomorphized their Deity concept without converting it into an abstraction comprehensible only to philosophers. Even common people were able to regard the matured concept of Yahweh as a Creator Parent, if not of the individual, at least of the race.” “The successive teachers of Israel ac...