OF THE URANTIA PAPERS
ORIGIN
The
Origin of The Urantia Book.
from The Meredith J. Sprunger Archive. April 1979. Revised
December 1997.
Years of experience
reveal that the first thing people wish to know about The Urantia Book
is who wrote it. What are the circumstances of its origin? It does little
good to tell them the book should be judged by its content, not by claims
of authorship. Because of the conditioning of our culture, we are naturally
inclined to depend on sources and authority when evaluating publications.
Religious literature, in particular, is appraised in this way.
www.urantiabook.org/archive/sfj/historicity.htm
Meredith Sprunger's Notes on the Origin of The Urantia Book
This record has the headings:
The Historicity of The Urantia Book (From an article in The Spiritual Fellowship Journal, Fall 1994)
A Personal Account of Finding The Urantia Book (Circa 1960)
The
Origin of the Urantia Papers
A
Brief Account
By Ernest P. Moyer
This paper
looks at the difference between the so-called "Sleeping Prophet"
Edgar Cayce, and the Sleeping Subject described by
“Timing
– It’s all in the Timing – Rising Leaders, Lifting Spirits, and Raising
Money.” Part I.
by Carolyn Kendall.
This is a transcript of a speech given
in
It mentions the early days with
www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/carolyns_revelation_plan.htm
The
Plan for The Urantia Book Revelation
by Carolyn B. Kendall. April 1996.
The author
states: There was a master plan for The Urantia Book, and I believe
it is still in operation. Its features were specific. They guided the
content, the quality, the publishing, and the protection of the Fifth
Epochal Revelation. It decreed the establishment and the function of
Urantia Foundation and Urantia Brotherhood.
This list of quotations from the Urantia Papers tells of the mandate followed by the revelators in compiling and authoring the Urantia Papers.
The language handicap of revelation: Page 1, par. 2
The Foreword by an Orvonton Commission: Page 1, par. 4
Supplementation of planetary knowledge: Page 17, par. 1
Priority given to existing human concepts: Page 16, par. 8; Page 1343, par 1
Restrictions placed upon revelation of truth: Page 1109, par. 4
Spiritual wisdom versus genetic knowledge: Page 215, par. 2-9
The Midwayer's connection with the Urantia Papers: Page 865, par. 6, 7
The human subject transmitting the Urantia Papers: Pages 865, par. 2; 1208, par. 7; 1209, par. 1
How the Urantia Papers were put in English: Page 1258, par. 1
Concerning the inspiration of revelations: Page 1008, par. 3
The Divine Counselor knows whereof he speaks: Page 32, par. 2
www.urantia.org/pub/ahotum.html
A
History of the Urantia Movement
By Dr. William S. Sadler
Several members
of this group who participated in the preliminary "contacts" which
led up to the appearance of the Urantia Papers, had had considerable experience
in the investigation of psychic phenomena. This group early arrived at the
conclusion that the phenomena connected with the personality, who was later
associated with the Urantia Papers, was in no way similar to any other
well-known type of psychic performance - such as hypnosis, automatic writing,
clairvoyance, trances, spirit mediumship, telepathy,
or double personality.
The topics covered in this article:
Contact
Activities Preceding The Urantia Papers
How The Urantia Papers Started
How The Forum Started
Introduction Of The Forum To the "Contacts"
The Forum Begins
To Ask Questions
The Forum
Becomes a Closed Group
How We Got The Urantia Papers
How We Did Not
Get The Urantia Book
Psychic
Phenomena: Unusual Activities Of The Marginal
Consciousness
Reason For Silence Respecting Details Of The Origin Of The Urantia
Book
The First
Urantia Papers
Receiving The Completed Papers
The Delay In Receiving The Jesus Papers
Functioning Of The Contact Commissioners
The Seventy
The Publication
Mandate
urantiabook.org/mullins_book_promo.htm
A History of the Urantia Papers by Larry Mullins with Dr Meredith Sprunger.
In addition to providing new details and insights into the known stories about the origin of the Papers, the Mullins/Sprunger book also chronicles the development of the text through its various printings since 1955. The authors also examine in detail the apocryphal stories which have been used in the creation of proprietary entitlement attitudes toward control of the Urantia Papers.
urantiabook.org/mullinshistory/index.html
A collection of reference documents
corresponding to endnotes in the print media edition of A History of the Urantia Papers by Larry Mullins with Dr Meredith
Sprunger.
Compiled by
History
Archive of
This is a most
comprehensive listing of published material. In the oral tradition of The
Urantia Book readership there are many legends and stories about how the book
came to be published, virtually none of which can be documented beyond personal
stories. Various published accounts of these stories are listed here.
How The Urantia Book Came into Existence
by
The following is transcribed from a tape recording made in
the home of Berkeley Elliott on
The Urantia Book Historical Society
The purpose of this organization is to collect primary and secondary source materials and oral histories. The library went on-line to the public in July 2007. The Society continues to scan and add donated documents to the library. It also keeps up with current publications and organizational records of Urantia Book organizations.
www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/bkulieke_history.htm
A
History Of The Urantia Movement
This is a copy
of a never published history put together by members of the Publications
Committee. It was originally conceived as a slide-tape presentation but was
never developed beyond a prototype.
The
Compiled and Edited by
The first
volume of diaries and letters covers the years leading up to Harold
and Martha Sherman's move to
The
Compiled and Edited by
The second
volume records the
The
Compiled and Edited by
During
this year, the
The Sherman Diaries Volume Four – The Turning Point (1944-45)
Compiled and Edited by Saskia Praamsma and Matthew Block.
During this period the Forum hears the papers that became Part III of The Urantia Book, and the Shermans record their impressions of each paper as well as their discussions with Forum friends on these and other subjects.
The Sherman Diaries Volume Five - Moving On 1946-1955
Compiled and edited by Saskia Raevouri and Matthew Block.
This volume documents the years 1946 to 1955, spanning Harold and Martha Sherman’s last year and a half as Forumites and the period leading up to the long-awaited publication of The Urantia Book.
Volume Six (1948-1987) will also be published.
The following sites give commentaries
on The
www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/meredith_sherman.htm
A Response to What Appears to be a Commentary on the Urantia
Movement
in a Book Entitled "How to Know What to Believe",
pages 58-96.
By Meredith J. Sprunger, President URANTIA Brotherhood
September, 1976.
www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/clyde_sherman_long.htm
A
Response to a Thinly Disguised Attack on The
Urantia Book
Abridged from a talk made under the auspices of the First Urantia Society
of
by
www.squarecircles.com/books/SquareCirclesBooks/mullins.pdf
by Larry Mullins.
This is an editorial which appeared in The Spiritual Fellowship Journal, Volume 13 Number 2, published in the Fall-Winter of 2003 – 2004.
urantiabook.org/archive/history/sherman_rebellion.htm
What
was the "
A collection of related writings and correspondence
Special thanks to Ken Raveill for access to his archive of Sherman materials,
to C. Barrie Bedell for access to Clyde's materials,
and to Matthew Block for access to his personal archive.
Historic
Timeline of Events in the Urantia Community
Index to historic documents according
to date
Compiled from varied sources by
1875-1900 1901-1925
1926-1950
1951-1965
1966-1980
1981-1995
1996-Present
The author says: I would like to offer the view that what this history shows is a dynamic, growing, vital readership which has boldly experimented with multiple approaches to introducing The Urantia Book to a distracted world.
This document
is the work of the author and should not be mistaken for an "official"
history. Neither should any views expressed herein be mistaken for those
of any organization or individual other than the author.
