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

Episode Summary: The headquarters planet, Jerusem, is a physical body of extraordinary beauty. It provides a foretaste of the wonders of Paradise. Information coming from higher realms comes to the system capital and can be accessed by all residents. “Considerable portions of Jerusem are assigned as residential areas, while other portions of the system capital are given over to the necessary admin...

Episode Summary: The administrative structure of the local system of Satania is described in this paper. At the center of each system is a cluster of architectural worlds, spheres especially created to house the activities of morontia progression. In charge of these architectural worlds and the evolutionary planets that compose the system is a chief executive, the System Sovereign, with a supporti...

Episode Summary: The celestial arts are an integral part of morontia life. The celestial artisans are the master artists and artisans of the morontia and lower spirit realms. Any morontia personality or spirit entity is eligible for admission to this corps, including ascending children of the Creator from the evolutionary worlds. The concept of beauty at the morontia level is quite different from...

Episode Summary: Our planet is part of the local system of Satania, one of the one thousand systems in the constellation of Norlatiadek. There are one hundred constellations in a local universe. Since our local universe is still in formation, these numbers at present are somewhat less. At every level of a local universe, there is a governance structure. “The constellations are the autonomous units...

Episode Summary: Far from being an accident, material reality stems from the same Source as spiritual reality. “The foundation of the universe is material, but the essence of life is spirit.” The Creator of spirits is also the ancestor of universes; the eternal Parent is also the eternity source of the original material pattern, the Isle of Paradise. The material universes all stem from that origi...

Episode Summary: Local universes are actually defined by the presence of a Local Universe Creative Spirit, who pervades its space and sets its borders. Otherwise there are almost no clear physical characteristics that are a recognizable cohesive whole. Instead, local universes are composed of one or more nebulae. The immensity of the local universe is illustrated by the fact that our own subdivisi...

Episode Summary: Earlier papers talked about the descending children of the Creator, those who come from the center of reality and travel to the outer reaches in order to provide their services to the evolutionary universes. This paper moves to our own level of those evolutionary universes to describe the different kinds of ascending beings, including mortals like ourselves, who “represent the las...

Episode Summary: Because the angels are so close to humans and are so directly involved in human spiritual evolution, this paper provides more detail about the angelic orders and their functions within the local universe. “The ministering work of angels becomes of increasing interest as it nears the inhabited worlds, as it nears the actual challenges faced by the people of time who are preparing t...

Episode Summary: Earlier papers described the personalities created by the Infinite Mind as being primarily responsible for assisting with the evolution of material reality. In The Urantia Book they are designated as “angels.” As the supernaphim in the central universe and the seconaphim in a superuniverse are the angels of those realms, the seraphim, with the associated cherubim and sanobim, cons...

Episode Summary: A local universe is populated with an immense number of diverse types of beings. “Preceding papers have dealt with the created orders of beings; succeeding narratives will portray the ministering spirits and the ascending orders of beings. This paper is chiefly concerned with an intervening group, the Universe Aids, but it will also give brief consideration to certain of the highe...

Episode Summary: “Life does not originate spontaneously.” There is an order of being The Urantia Book calls Life Carriers who are responsible for implanting life on an evolutionary planet when that body has evolved physically to the point where life can be sustained. The Life Carriers “are entrusted with designing and carrying creature life to the planetary spheres, and after planting this life on...

Episode Summary: Earlier papers talked about the descending orders of personality as having a Paradise origin. This paper describes those having a local universe origin – the offspring creators of the local universe. There are four key orders with local universe educational and administrative responsibilities treated here. They play a highly significant role in the scheme of mortal spiritual progr...

Episode Summary: Co-ordinate with a Local Universe Creator is a Creative Spirit. They have complementary characteristics and roles within the creation. The Creative Spirit’s nature, function, and relationship to the Local Universe Creator are explained in this paper, which also delves into the relationship between spirit and the material nature in mortals. This is an important distinction that wil...

Episode Summary: “The Universal Source most certainly rules over a vast creation, but functions in a local universe administration through the person of the Local Universe Creator.” The name for our local universe in The Urantia Book is Nebadon, and our local universe creator is called Michael. As stated earlier in the book, these names have been chosen by the authors to represent a logical system...

Episode Summary: A local universe is the handiwork of a Local Universe Creator. “It comprises one hundred constellations, each embracing one hundred systems of inhabited worlds. Each system will eventually contain approximately one thousand inhabited spheres.” This paper begins with the physical origins of the local universes and goes on to describe their organizational structure. Local universes...

Episode Summary: The final destination of ascending mortals is the Corps of the Finality, an achievement which is shared with other types of beings who are described in this paper. In summary, “Evolutionary mortals are born on the planets of space, pass through the morontia worlds, ascend the spirit universes, traverse the Havona spheres, find the Universal Source, attain Paradise, and are mustere...

Episode Summary: The seven evolving superuniverses, in association with the central universe, are called the grand universe. These are the organized and inhabited creations that provide the environment for human spiritual progression. The grand universe is populated with a vast host of personalities, many of whom are responsible for assisting with the ascendant careers of mortals. This paper provi...

Episode Summary: These are the controllers of the physical domain who regulate energy throughout the material creations. They are stationed on the periphery of Paradise and their control extends outward to the borders of the physical creation. There “is no provision in the universal scheme for the interruption of the physical lines of energy; never for a fraction of a second can these beings relin...

Episode Summary: Part I of The Urantia Book is organized to provide a continuum from the center to the periphery of reality. It starts from the center to give the reader the greatest possible perspective before moving to the lower levels. From the central universe, the next step outward is the seven superuniverses. The angels of the superuniverses are organized differently from those of the centra...

Episode Summary: The primary supernaphim are the angels most closely associated with the Deities on Paradise and do not generally function outside of Paradise, although they sometimes serve in a supervisory capacity as far away as the planets of human habitation. The various orders and duties of the primary supernaphim are described in this paper. What is The Urantia Book? The Urantia Book is a co...

Episode Summary: “Angels are the ministering-spirit associates of the evolutionary and ascending will creatures of all space; they are also the colleagues and working associates of the higher hosts of the divine personalities of the spheres. The angels of all orders are distinct personalities and are highly individualized.” “Such ministering spirits are to be encountered from the Isle of Paradise...

Episode Summary: These personalities in the family of the Third Source and Center have very specific functions as described in this paper. Of greatest interest to progressing mortals is perhaps the category of “Morontia Companions,” who “are the friends and associates of all who live the ascending morontia life.” The morontia life is a significant step in human spiritual evolution, and is explaine...

Episode Summary: This paper describes additional personalities created by the Third Source and Center, adding to our understanding of the incredible diversity of beings and their functions throughout the universes. These particular beings “are concerned with teaching and ministering to the will creatures of the ascendant scheme of mortal progression.” For the personalities of mortal origin who ele...

Episode Summary: Solitary Messengers are created by the Third Source and Center as descending beings who start from the center of reality and are assigned to remote creations, even to the material planets of human inhabitation. They are the carriers of important and urgent messages throughout the universes. They also “contribute much to the development, in all spiritual beings, of a consciousness...

Episode Summary: Trinitization is a technique that is somewhat beyond the ability of material creatures to grasp. Trinitized beings are the product of the joint decision of two personalities “to spiritualize, idealize, and actualize a selected and original concept which has not previously been trinitized,” resulting in the emergence of a new being who epitomizes that concept. This paper elaborates...