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A DESCRIPTION OF THE URANTIA PAPERS
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 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.
This section gives a brief account of the contents of each of the four sections of the Urantia Book.
This link gives a listing of the titles of the Urantia Papers.
This link also gives the titles of the sub sections of each of the Papers.
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
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 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. 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. www.urantiabook.org/newbook/index.html 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. www.dualmoments.com/ubmp3/reader/index3.htm Read and Search - A research tool for the Urantia Papers. Jesus of Urantia This website offers the explorer the opportunity to choose to freely and easily listen to recorded readings of the Urantia Book while reading along. Visitors can choose to listen to an entire paper, or to any section(s) within a paper, while exercising full control over interruptions.
TRANSLATIONS AND DOWNLOADS
Translation Portal. A complete translation source. Also see: www.urantia.info/DownloadCenter.htm This site exists to foster the dissemination of The Urantia Book Highlights include: Translations in print at this time are the Spanish, French, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Korean, Lithuanian, German, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. The translations next in the production line are the Swedish, Bulgarian, Estonian, Polish, Greek and the Hungarian. The Chinese (Mandarin) is in the final stages. When all these translations are completed and published, approximately two thirds of the people of the world will have The Urantia Book available in their idiom Related links: JAPANESE TRANSLATION PROGRESS ~ Urantia Foundation's News Online, March 2008 PORTUGUESE PREMIERE in BRAZIL ~ UF News Online, March 2008 PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION ~ UF News Online, Sept. 2007 COMMITTEE ON TRANSLATIONS ~ UF News Online, Sept 2007, Trustees' Meeting. THE GERMAN TRANSLATION ~ UF News Online, Dec. 2007 STATUS OF THE CHINESE TRANSLATION ~ Neal Waldrop, Urantia Foundation Liaison KOREAN TRANSLATION PUBLISHED ~ Urantian News, April 2000 DISTRIBUTION OF EL LIBRO ~ UF News Online, Sept. 2007 RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE ~ UF News Online, Sept. 2007. Trustees' Meeting ITALIAN and LITHUANIAN COMPLETED ~ Urantian News, Aug. 2004 LE LIVRE D'URANTIA IN QUEBEC ~ Urantian News, April 2003 URANTIA FOUNDATION TRANSLATIONS REPORT ~ Urantian News, Dec. 2005 EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ~ UF News Online, Dec. 2007. Trustees' Meeting
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:
AUDIO VERSION
www.urantiabook.org/audio/uversa_press_dvd/toc_p1.html The Audio Urantia Book in MP3 Format Papers: Fwd-15 16-31 32-42 43-56 57-65 66-77 78-92 93-103 104-119 120-134 135-158 159-188 189-196
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