These thirty one papers depict 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. They were sponsored,
formulated, and put into English by a commission of twenty four
spiritual administrators acting in accordance with a mandate issued
by high deity authorities (the Ancients of Days) directing that they
do this on Urantia in the year A.D. 1934.
A local universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise
order of Michael. It comprises one hundred constellations, each
embracing one hundred systems of inhabited worlds. Each system will
eventually contain approximately one thousand inhabited spheres. Our
world, Urantia, belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is
Michael, the Son of God and the Son of Man, known on this world as
Jesus of Nazareth. In the central universe the Universal Father
(God) is personally present; in the universes and planets of space
our Father is being represented by his Sovereign Sons, while he is
intimately present in the minds of his mortal children through his
indwelling spirit, The Thought Adjusters. The twenty five papers
comprising Part II tell the story of man's ascension career
following his initial life on the evolutionary planet.
Around 1,000,000,000 years ago Urantia had attained approximately
its present size. At this time it was placed upon the physical
registries of our local universe, Nebadon, and given its name,
Urantia. The sixty three papers comprising this section relate the
history of our planet, the geologic development, the establishment
of life, and the evolution and history of man, evolving
civilizations, human institutions and governments. Here also are
discussed the Trinity concept, the evolution of religion, the
indwelling spirit of God (the Thought Adjuster), personality
survival, the bestowals of Christ Michael. "Urantia is the
sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million
inhabited worlds, the mortal home of Christ Michael...And your
record tells the truth when it says that this same Jesus has
promised some time to return to the world of his terminal bestowal,
the World of the Cross."
PartIV
These seventy seven papers give a year by year account of the life
and teachings of the Son of Man, his childhood, youth, and early
travels, his personal and public ministry, the choosing and training
of the twelve apostles, his trial, death, and resurrection. This
biography of Jesus occupies the last third of The Urantia Book. The
first three sections of the Book constitute an informing
introduction, a universe backdrop, for the enthralling drama of this
human divine life of Jesus on our planet.
