PART III.
The History of Urantia
- 1. The Andronover Nebula
- 2. The Primary Nebular Stage
- 3. The Secondary Nebular Stage
- 4. Tertiary and Quartan Stages
- Origin of the Sun
- 5. Origin of Monmatia — The Urantia Solar System
- Retrograde motion
- 6. The Solar System Stage
- The planet-forming era
Tidal friction
Gravity-tidal explosions
- 7. The Meteoric Era
- The Volcanic Age
The Primitive Planetary Atmosphere
- 8. Crustal Stabilization
- The Age of Earthquakes
The World Ocean and the First Continent
- 1. Physical-Life Prerequisites
- 2. The Urantia Atmosphere
- 3. Spatial Environment
- 4. The Life-Dawn Era
- 5. The Continental Drift
- 6. The Transition Period
- 7. The Geologic History Book
- 1. Early Marine Life in the Shallow Seas
- The Trilobite Age
- 2. The First Continental Flood Stage
- The Invertebrate-Animal Age
- 3. The Second Great Flood Stage
- The Coral Period
The Brachiopod Age
- 4. The Great Land-Emergence Stage
- The Vegetative Land-Life Period
The Age of Fishes
- 5. The Crustal-shifting Stage
- The Fern-Forest Carboniferous Period
The Age of Frogs
- 6. The Climatic Transition Stage
- The Seed-Plant Period
The Age of Biologic Tribulation
- 1. The Early Reptilian Age
- 2. The Later Reptilian Age
- 3. The Cretaceous Stage
- The Flowering-Plant Period
The Age of Birds
- 4. The End of the Chalk Period
- 1. The New Continental Land Stage
- The Age of Early Mammals
- 2. The Recent Flood Stage
- The Age of Advanced Mammals
- 3. The Modern Mountain Stage
- Age of the Elephant and the Horse
- 4. The Recent Continental-Elevation Stage
- The Last Great Mammalian Migration
- 5. The Early Ice Age
- 6. Primitive Man in the Ice Age
- 7. The Continuing Ice Age
- 1. The Early Lemur Types
- 2. The Dawn Mammals
- 3. The Mid-Mammals
- Origin of the Simian tribes
- 4. The Primates
- 5. The First Human Beings
- 6. Evolution of the Human Mind
- 7. Recognition as an Inhabited World
- 1. Andon and Fonta
- 2. The Flight of the Twins
- 3. Andon’s Family
- 4. The Andonic Clans
- 5. Dispersion of the Andonites
- 6. Onagar — The First Truth Teacher
- 7. The Survival of Andon and Fonta
- 1. The Andonic Aborigines
- 2. The Foxhall Peoples
- 3. The Badonan Tribes
- 4. The Neanderthal Races
- 5. Origin of the Colored Races
- 6. The Six Sangik Races of Urantia
- (1) The red man
(2) The orange man
(3) The yellow man
(4) The green man
(5) The blue man
(6) The indigo race
Purpose of the six races
- 7. Dispersion of the Colored Races
- 1. Life Carrier Functions
- (1) The physical level of electrochemistry
(2) The usual mid-phase of quasi-morontial existence
(3) The advanced semispiritual level
- 2. The Evolutionary Panorama
- 3. The Fostering of Evolution
- 4. The Urantia Adventure
- 5. Life-Evolution Vicissitudes
- 6. Evolutionary Techniques of Life
- 7. Evolutionary Mind Levels
- Mechanical-nonteachable mind
Nonmechanical experiencing mind
- 8. Evolution in Time and Space
- 1. Prince Caligastia
- 2. The Prince’s Staff
- 3. Dalamatia — The City of the Prince
- 4. Early Days of the One Hundred
- 5. Organization of the One Hundred
- (1) The council on food and material welfare
(2) The board of animal domestication and utilization
(3) The advisers regarding the conquest of predatory animals
(4) The faculty on dissemination and conservation of knowledge
(5) The commission on industry and trade
(6) The college of revealed religion
(7) The guardians of health and life
(8) The planetary council on art and science
(9) The governors of advanced tribal relations
(10) The supreme court of tribal co-ordination and racial co-operation
- 6. The Prince’s Reign
- 7. Life in Dalamatia
- 8. Misfortunes of Caligastia
- 1. The Caligastia Betrayal
- 2. The Outbreak of Rebellion
- 3. The Seven Crucial Years
- 4. The Caligastia One Hundred after Rebellion
- 5. Immediate Results of Rebellion
- 6. Van — The Steadfast
- 7. Remote Repercussions of Sin
- 8. The Human Hero of the Rebellion
- 1. Protective Socialization
- 2. Factors in Social Progression
- 3. Socializing Influence of Ghost Fear
- 4. Evolution of the Mores
- 5. Land Techniques — Maintenance Arts
- (1) The collection stage
(2) The hunting stage
(3) The pastoral stage
(4) The agricultural stage
- 6. Evolution of Culture
- The land-man ratio
- 1. Basic Human Institutions
- (1) Institutions of self-maintenance
(2) Institutions of self-perpetuation
(3) Institutions of self-gratification
- 2. The Dawn of Industry
- 3. The Specialization of Labor
- 4. The Beginnings of Trade
- 5. The Beginnings of Capital
- 6. Fire in Relation to Civilization
- 7. The Utilization of Animals
- 8. Slavery as a Factor in Civilization
- 9. Private Property
- 1. The Genesis of War
- 2. The Social Value of War
- Modern industrialism versus militarism
- 3. Early Human Associations
- 4. Clans and Tribes
- 5. The Beginnings of Government
- 6. Monarchial Government
- 7. Primitive Clubs and Secret Societies
- 8. Social Classes
- 9. Human Rights
- 10. Evolution of Justice
- 11. Laws and Courts
- 12. Allocation of Civil Authority
- 1. The Embryonic State
- 2. The Evolution of Representative Government
- 3. The Ideals of Statehood
- 4. Progressive Civilization
- 5. The Evolution of Competition
- 6. The Profit Motive
- 7. Education
- 8. The Character of Statehood
- 1. The Continental Nation
- 2. Political Organization
- 3. The Home Life
- 4. The Educational System
- 5. Industrial Organization
- 6. Old-Age Insurance
- 7. Taxation
- 8. The Special Colleges
- 9. The Plan of Universal Suffrage
- 10. Dealing with Crime
- 11. Military Preparedness
- 12. The Other Nations
- Tabamantia’s inspection
- 1. The Nodites and the Amadonites
- 2. Planning for the Garden
- 3. The Garden Site
- 4. Establishing the Garden
- 5. The Garden Home
- 6. The Tree of Life
- 7. The Fate of Eden
- 1. Adam and Eve on Jerusem
- 2. Arrival of Adam and Eve
- 3. Adam and Eve Learn about the Planet
- 4. The First Upheaval
- 5. Adam’s Administration
- 6. Home Life of Adam and Eve
- 7. Life in the Garden
- 8. The Legend of Creation
- 1. The Urantia Problem
- 2. Caligastia’s Plot
- 3. The Temptation of Eve
- 4. The Realization of Default
- 5. Repercussions of Default
- 6. Adam and Eve Leave the Garden
- 7. Degradation of Adam and Eve
- 8. The So-Called Fall of Man
- 1. The Edenites Enter Mesopotamia
- 2. Cain and Abel
- 3. Life in Mesopotamia
- The Sethite priesthood
- 4. The Violet Race
- 5. Death of Adam and Eve
- Michael’s message
- 6. Survival of Adam and Eve
- 1. The Primary Midwayers
- 2. The Nodite Race
- 3. The Tower of Babel
- 4. Nodite Centers of Civilization
- 5. Adamson and Ratta
- 6. The Secondary Midwayers
- 7. The Rebel Midwayers
- 8. The United Midwayers
- 9. The Permanent Citizens of Urantia
- 1. Racial and Cultural Distribution
- 2. The Adamites in the Second Garden
- 3. Early Expansions of the Adamites
- 4. The Andites
- 5. The Andite Migrations
- 6. The Last Andite Dispersions
- 7. The Floods in Mesopotamia
- Story of Noah
- 8. The Sumerians — Last of the Andites
- 1. The Andites of Turkestan
- 2. The Andite Conquest of India
- 3. Dravidian India
- 4. The Aryan Invasion of India
- 5. Red Man and Yellow Man
- 6. Dawn of Chinese Civilization
- 7. The Andites Enter China
- 8. Later Chinese Civilization
- 1. The Adamites Enter Europe
- 2. Climatic and Geologic Changes
- Flooding of the Mediterranean
- 3. The Cro-Magnoid Blue Man
- 4. The Andite Invasions of Europe
- 5. The Andite Conquest of Northern Europe
- 6. The Andites along the Nile
- 7. Andites of the Mediterranean Isles
- 8. The Danubian Andonites
- 9. The Three White Races
- 1. The Cradle of Civilization
- 2. The Tools of Civilization
- (1) The taming of fire
(2) The domestication of animals
(3) The enslavement of captives
(4) Private property
- 3. Cities, Manufacture, and Commerce
- 4. The Mixed Races
- (1) The Caucasoid races
(2) The Mongoloid races
(3) The Negroid races
- 5. Cultural Society
- Might and right
- 6. The Maintenance of Civilization
- (1) Natural circumstances
(2) Capital goods
(3) Scientific knowledge
(4) Human resources
(5) Effectiveness of material resources
(6) Effectiveness of language
(7) Effectiveness of mechanical devices
(8) Character of torchbearers
(9) The racial ideals
(10) Co-ordination of specialists
(11) Place-finding devices
(12) The willingness to co-operate
(13) Effective and wise leadership
(14) Social changes
(15) The prevention of transitional breakdown
- 1. The Mating Instinct
- 2. The Restrictive Taboos
- 3. Early Marriage Mores
- 4. Marriage under the Property Mores
- 5. Endogamy and Exogamy
- 6. Racial Mixtures
- 1. Marriage as a Societal Institution
- 2. Courtship and Betrothal
- 3. Purchase and Dowry
- 4. The Wedding Ceremony
- 5. Plural Marriages
- 6. True Monogamy — Pair Marriage
- 7. The Dissolution of Wedlock
- 8. The Idealization of Marriage
- 1. Primitive Pair Associations
- 2. The Early Mother-Family
- 3. The Family under Father Dominance
- 4. Woman’s Status in Early Society
- 5. Woman under the Developing Mores
- 6. The Partnership of Man and Woman
- 7. The Ideals of Family Life
- 8. Dangers of Self-Gratification
- 1. Worship of Stones and Hills
- 2. Worship of Plants and Trees
- 3. The Worship of Animals
- 4. Worship of the Elements
- 5. Worship of the Heavenly Bodies
- 6. Worship of Man
- 7. The Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom
- 1. Chance: Good Luck and Bad Luck
- 2. The Personification of Chance
- 3. Death — The Inexplicable
- 4. The Death-Survival Concept
- 5. The Ghost-Soul Concept
- 6. The Ghost-Spirit Environment
- 7. The Function of Primitive Religion
- 1. Ghost Fear
- 2. Ghost Placation
- 3. Ancestor Worship
- 4. Good and Bad Spirit Ghosts
- 5. The Advancing Ghost Cult
- 6. Coercion and Exorcism
- 7. Nature of Cultism
- 1. Belief in Fetishes
- 2. Evolution of the Fetish
- Images and idols
“Sacred Books”
- 3. Totemism
- 4. Magic
- 5. Magical Charms
- 6. The Practice of Magic
- 1. The Taboo
- 2. The Concept of Sin
- 3. Renunciation and Humiliation
- The continence cult
- 4. Origins of Sacrifice
- 5. Sacrifices and Cannibalism
- 6. Evolution of Human Sacrifice
- 7. Modifications of Human Sacrifice
- Temple harlotry
- 8. Redemption and Covenants
- 9. Sacrifices and Sacraments
- 10. Forgiveness of Sin
- 1. The First Shamans — The Medicine Men
- 2. Shamanistic Practices
- 3. The Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death
- 4. Medicine under the Shamans
- 5. Priests and Rituals
- 1. Primitive Prayer
- 2. Evolving Prayer
- Prayer versus magic
- 3. Prayer and the Alter Ego
- 4. Ethical Praying
- 5. Social Repercussions of Prayer
- 6. The Province of Prayer
- 7. Mysticism, Ecstasy, and Inspiration
- 8. Praying as a Personal Experience
- 9. Conditions of Effective Prayer
- 1. The Evolutionary Nature of Religion
- 2. Religion and the Mores
- 3. The Nature of Evolutionary Religion
- 4. The Gift of Revelation
- (1) The Dalamatian teachings
(2) The Edenic teachings
(3) The Melchizedek of Salem
(4) Jesus of Nazareth
(5) The Urantia Papers
- 5. The Great Religious Leaders
- 6. The Composite Religions
- Eleven living religions
- 7. The Further Evolution of Religion
- 1. The Machiventa Incarnation
- 2. The Sage of Salem
- 3. Melchizedek’s Teachings
- 4. The Salem Religion
- The creed
The seven commandments
- 5. The Selection of Abraham
- 6. Melchizedek’s Covenant with Abraham
- 7. The Melchizedek Missionaries
- 8. Departure of Melchizedek
- 9. After Melchizedek’s Departure
- 10. Present Status of Machiventa Melchizedek
- 1. The Salem Teachings in Vedic India
- The Rig-Veda
- 2. Brahmanism
- Doctrine of reincarnation
- 3. Brahmanic Philosophy
- 4. The Hindu Religion
- 5. The Struggle for Truth in China
- 6. Lao-Tse and Confucius
- 7. Gautama Siddhartha
- 8. The Buddhist Faith
- The gospel of Gautama
The moral commandments
- 9. The Spread of Buddhism
- 10. Religion in Tibet
- 11. Buddhist Philosophy
- 12. The God Concept of Buddhism
- 1. The Salem Religion in Mesopotamia
- 2. Early Egyptian Religion
- 3. Evolution of Moral Concepts
- 4. The Teachings of Amenemope *
- 5. The Remarkable Ikhnaton
- 6. The Salem Doctrines in Iran
- 7. The Salem Teachings in Arabia
- 1. Deity Concepts among the Semites
- 2. The Semitic Peoples
- 3. The Matchless Moses
- 4. The Proclamation of Yahweh
- 5. The Teachings of Moses
- Materialistic Providence
- 6. The God Concept after Moses’ Death
- 7. Psalms and the Book of Job
- 1. Samuel — First of the Hebrew Prophets
- 2. Elijah and Elisha
- 3. Yahweh and Baal
- 4. Amos and Hosea
- 5. The First Isaiah
- Micah and Obadiah
- 6. Jeremiah the Fearless
- 7. The Second Isaiah
- 8. Sacred and Profane History
- 9. Hebrew History
- Ephraim and Judah *
Saul and David
Solomon and taxation
Israel and Judah
Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel
End of the Kingdom of Judah
The Babylonian captivity
- 10. The Hebrew Religion
- 1. The Salem Religion among the Greeks
- 2. Greek Philosophic Thought
- 3. The Melchizedek Teachings in Rome
- 4. The Mystery Cults
- The Phrygian cult of Cybele and Attis
The Egyptian cult of Osiris and Isis
The Iranian cult of Mithras
- 5. The Cult of Mithras
- 6. Mithraism and Christianity
- 7. The Christian Religion
- 1. Religion and Social Reconstruction
- 2. Weakness of Institutional Religion
- 3. Religion and the Religionist
- 4. Transition Difficulties
- 5. Social Aspects of Religion
- 6. Institutional Religion
- 7. Religion’s Contribution
- 1. Religious Growth
- 2. Spiritual Growth
- 3. Concepts of Supreme Value
- 4. Problems of Growth
- 5. Conversion and Mysticism
- 6. Marks of Religious Living
- 7. The Acme of Religious Living
- 1. True Religion
- 2. The Fact of Religion
- 3. The Characteristics of Religion
- Twelve illustrations of spiritual faith
- 4. The Limitations of Revelation
- 5. Religion Expanded by Revelation
- 6. Progressive Religious Experience
- Seven aspects of salvation
- 7. A Personal Philosophy of Religion
- 8. Faith and Belief
- 9. Religion and Morality
- 10. Religion as Man’s Liberator
- 1. Assurances of Faith
- 2. Religion and Reality
- 3. Knowledge, Wisdom, and Insight
- 4. The Fact of Experience
- 5. The Supremacy of Purposive Potential
- 6. The Certainty of Religious Faith
- 7. The Certitude of the Divine
- 8. The Evidences of Religion
- 1. Philosophy of Religion
- 2. Religion and the Individual
- 3. Religion and the Human Race
- 4. Spiritual Communion
- 5. The Origin of Ideals
- 6. Philosophic Co-ordination
- 7. Science and Religion
- 8. Philosophy and Religion
- 9. The Essence of Religion
- 1. Urantian Trinity Concepts
- 2. Trinity Unity and Deity Plurality
- 3. Trinities and Triunities
- 4. The Seven Triunities
- 5. Triodities
- 1. The Philosophic Concept of the I AM
- 2. The I AM as Triune and as Sevenfold
- 3. The Seven Absolutes of Infinity
- 4. Unity, Duality, and Triunity
- 5. Promulgation of Finite Reality
- 6. Repercussions of Finite Reality
- 7. Eventuation of Transcendentals
- 1. Primary Association of Finite Functionals
- God the Sevenfold
- 2. Secondary Supreme Finite Integration
- The Supreme Being
- 3. Transcendental Tertiary Reality Association
- The Trinity Ultimate
- 4. Ultimate Quartan Integration
- Ultimate Deity
- 5. Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association
- The Trinity Absolute
- 6. Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration
- The cosmos infinite
- 7. Finality of Destiny
- 8. The Trinity of Trinities
- (1) The level of three Trinities
(2) The level of experiential Deity
(3) The level of the I AM
- 9. Existential Infinite Unification
- 1. Origin of Thought Adjusters
- 2. Classification of Adjusters
- 3. The Divinington Home of Adjusters
- 4. Nature and Presence of Adjusters
- 5. Adjuster Mindedness
- 6. Adjusters as Pure Spirits
- 7. Adjusters and Personality
- 1. Selection and Assignment
- 2. Prerequisites of Adjuster Indwelling
- On Urantia
On other worlds
- 3. Organization and Administration
- Tabamantia’s tribute
- 4. Relation to Other Spiritual Influences
- 5. The Adjuster’s Mission
- 6. God in Man
- 1. Development of Adjusters
- 2. Self-Acting Adjusters
- 3. Relation of Adjusters to Mortal Types
- 4. Adjusters and Human Personality
- 5. Material Handicaps to Adjuster Indwelling
- 6. The Persistence of True Values
- The Adjuster that indwelt Jesus
- 7. Destiny of Personalized Adjusters
- Omnipersonal beings
- 1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind
- 2. Adjusters and Human Will
- 3. Co-operation with the Adjuster
- 4. The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind
- 5. Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance
- 6. The Seven Psychic Circles
- 7. The Attainment of Immortality
- The Adjuster’s plea to the soul
- 1. The Mind Arena of Choice
- 2. Nature of the Soul
- 3. The Evolving Soul
- 4. The Inner Life
- 5. The Consecration of Choice
- 6. The Human Paradox
- 7. The Adjuster’s Problem
- A guardian of destiny’s statement
- Fourteen aspects of personality
- 1. Personality and Reality
- 2. The Self
- 3. The Phenomenon of Death
- 4. Adjusters after Death
- 5. Survival of the Human Self
- 6. The Morontia Self
- 7. Adjuster Fusion
- 1. The Guardian Angels
- 2. The Destiny Guardians
- 3. Relation to Other Spirit Influences
- 4. Seraphic Domains of Action
- 5. Seraphic Ministry to Mortals
- 6. Guardian Angels after Death
- 7. Seraphim and the Ascendant Career
- 1. The Sovereignty of Urantia
- 2. The Board of Planetary Supervisors
- 3. The Resident Governor General
- 4. The Most High Observer
- Most High regencies
- 5. The Planetary Government
- 6. The Master Seraphim of Planetary Supervision
- (1) The epochal angels
(2) The progress angels
(3) The religious guardians
(4) The angels of national life
(5) The angels of the races
(6) The angels of the future
(7) The angels of enlightenment
(8) The angels of health
(9) The home seraphim
(10) The angels of industry
(11) The angels of diversion
(12) The angels of superhuman ministry
- 7. The Reserve Corps of Destiny
- 1. Relativity of Concept Frames
- 2. The Absolute Basis for Supremacy
- 3. Original, Actual, and Potential
- 4. Sources of Supreme Reality
- 5. Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity
- 6. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities
- 7. The Nature of the Supreme
- 1. The Supreme Mind
- The cosmic mind
- 2. The Almighty and God the Sevenfold
- 3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity
- 4. The Almighty and the Supreme Creators
- 5. The Almighty and the Sevenfold Controllers
- The problem of equilibrium
- 6. Spirit Dominance
- 7. The Living Organism of the Grand Universe
- 1. Nature of the Supreme Being
- 2. The Source of Evolutionary Growth
- Creature-trinitized sons and growth
- 3. Significance of the Supreme to Universe Creatures
- 4. The Finite God
- Cosmic morality — supreme duty
- 5. The Oversoul of Creation
- Finaliter transcendation
- Repercussions of human growth
- 6. The Quest for the Supreme
- 7. The Future of the Supreme
- 1. Time and Eternity
- Experiential (subjective) time units
- 2. Omnipresence and Ubiquity
- 3. Time-Space Relationships
- Truth and fact
Space and pattern
- 4. Primary and Secondary Causation
- 5. Omnipotence and Compossibility
- 6. Omnipotence and Omnificence
- 7. Omniscience and Predestination
- 8. Control and Overcontrol
- The time governor of progress
- 9. Universe Mechanisms
- 10. Functions of Providence
- 1. The First Bestowal
- 2. The Second Bestowal
- 3. The Third Bestowal
- 4. The Fourth Bestowal
- 5. The Fifth Bestowal
- 6. The Sixth Bestowal
- 7. The Seventh and Final Bestowal
- 8. Michael’s Postbestowal Status
