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A DESCRIPTION OF THE URANTIA PAPERS

The Urantia Papers were first published as The Urantia Book in 1955 by the Urantia Foundation. It has 2,097 pages with 196 individual and inter-related papers. It is divided into four parts:

Part I - THE CENTRAL AND SUPERUNIVERSES

Sponsored by a Uversa Corps of Superuniverse Personalities acting by authority of the Orvonton Ancients of Days.

Part II - THE LOCAL UNIVERSE

Sponsored by a Nebadon Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.

Part III - THE HISTORY OF URANTIA

These papers were sponsored by a Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.

Part IV - THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS

This group of papers was sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia Midwayers acting under the supervision of a Melchizedek revelatory director.
The basis of this narrative was supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.

Descriptions given by the Urantia Foundation:

http://www.urantia.org/about.html#Description

The book's message is that all human beings are one family, the sons and daughters of one God, the Universal Father. It instructs on the genesis, history, and destiny of mankind and on our relationship with God.

http://www.urantia.org/detail.html

This section gives a brief account of the contents of each of the four sections of the Urantia Book.

http://www.urantia.org/detail.html#Titles

This link gives a listing of the titles of the Urantia Papers.

http://www.urantia.org/papers/LongContents.html

This link also gives the titles of the sub sections of each of the Papers.

http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/readers/intro_ub.htm

Introduction to The Urantia Book

By Harry McMullan III

In October, 1955, The Urantia Book was published by a non-profit foundation in Chicago. It purported to be a revelation by celestial personalities to the peoples of the earth. In the intervening years its story has inspired tens of thousands with answers to the questions of who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. Since each person must judge such matters on their own merits, this paper attempts to set forth a brief synopsis of its incomparable contents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urantia

Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link.

Contents include: Overview of The Urantia Book, Teachings, Comparison to Christianity, Comparisons to other world religions, Mystery of origin, Criticisms.

THE TEXT OF THE URANTIA PAPERS ON LINE

http://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html

Urantia Foundation.

This version is on the Urantia Foundation web site. It provides an index, the titles of the papers, the parts of the book, the contents, and a search facility.

http://www.ascenderpublishing.com/urantiabookexplorer/

Urantia Book Explorer

This site features online access to the information in the Urantia Papers through:

Dual Text (Urantia Foundation and Uversa Press); four selectable numbering systems; Universal Citation Locator (in 4 numbering system formats); collapsible table of contents; clickable access to The Urantia Book at the part, paper, section and paragraph level; search capability (highlights all occurrences and scrolls to first occurrence); bookmarks (with text preview of each); threaded highlighting; constantly viewable navigation panel; and inter-session resume function.

It is an aid to browsing through The Urantia Book, following an article about The Urantia Book, researching to write an essay, or marking passages for later revisiting.

http://www.urantiabook.org/newbook/index.html

The Urantia Book Fellowship.

This site provides an additional referencing method and Discussion Questions for a study of The Urantia Book. The index listing for each paper contains a link to study questions for the related paper. These questions were developed to stimulate discussion in groups but they are useful for individual study as well.

TRANSLATIONS AND DOWNLOADS

http://www.urantia.info/index.htm.gz

Translation Portal. A complete translation source.

Also see:

http://www.urantia.info/DownloadCenter.htm

This site exists to foster the dissemination of The Urantia Book
and to be a useful resource to those seeking information
about this important work in a particular language.

Highlights include:

...The complete ENGLISH text of The Urantia Book
...FREE and convenient DOWNLOAD of selected versions
...Links to sites where you can purchase The Urantia Book
...The complete RUSSIAN, CROATIAN, and KOREAN translations
...Instructions to install a powerful and FREE polylingual Desktop Search Engine
...Links where to find ALL AVAILABLE Translations.

http://urantiabook.org/polygloss/

The Multiligual Urantia Book.

This new online tool is POLYGLOSS, which enables cross-referencing any two available translations. It is an amazing resource, particularly for linguists.

Cross-referencing is available in the following languages:

English

Español

Française

Italiano

한국어

Nederlands

Русский

Suomi

Lietuviškai

http://urantiabook.org/newbook/palm/index.html

Papers in Palm Pilot Format for Downloading

Download Entire Text as .zip File (3.3 megs)

It is also possible to download Individual Papers from this site.

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