PART III - THE HISTORY OF URANTIA
Papers 57 - 119
These papers were sponsored by a Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.
119:8.9 This paper, depicting the seven bestowals of Christ Michael, is the sixty-third of a series of presentations, sponsored by numerous personalities, narrating the history of Urantia down to the time of Michael's appearance on earth in the likeness of mortal flesh. These papers were authorized by a Nebadon commission of twelve acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek. We indited these narratives and put them in the English language, by a technique authorized by our superiors, in the year A.D. 1935 of Urantia time.
57. The Origin of Urantia
57:0.1 IN PRESENTING excerpts from the archives of Jerusem for the records of Urantia respecting ...
58. Life Establishment on Urantia
58:0.1 IN ALL Satania there are only sixty-one worlds similar to Urantia, life-modification plane...
59. The Marine-Life Era on Urantia
59:0.1 WE RECKON the history of Urantia as beginning about one billion years ago and extending th...
60. Urantia During the Early Land-Life Era
60:0.1 THE era of exclusive marine life has ended. Land elevation, cooling crust and cooling ocea...
61. The Mammalian Era on Urantia
61:0.1 THE era of mammals extends from the times of the origin of placental mammals to the end of...
62. The Dawn Races of Early Man
62:0.1 ABOUT one million years ago the immediate ancestors of mankind made their appearance by th...
63. The First Human Family
63:0.1 URANTIA was registered as an inhabited world when the first two human beings — the twins —...
64. The Evolutionary Races of Color
64:0.1 THIS is the story of the evolutionary races of Urantia from the days of Andon and Fonta, a...
65. The Overcontrol of Evolution
65:0.1 BASIC evolutionary material life — premind life — is the formulation of the Master Physica...
66. The Planetary Prince of Urantia
66:0.1 THE advent of a Lanonandek Son on an average world signifies that will, the ability to cho...
67. The Planetary Rebellion
67:0.1 THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding wi...
68. The Dawn of Civilization
68:0.1 THIS is the beginning of the narrative of the long, long forward struggle of the human spe...
69. Primitive Human Institutions
69:0.1 EMOTIONALLY, man transcends his animal ancestors in his ability to appreciate humor, art, ...
70. The Evolution of Human Government
70:0.1 NO SOONER had man partially solved the problem of making a living than he was confronted w...
71. Development of the State
71:0.1 THE state is a useful evolution of civilization; it represents society’s net gain from the...
72. Government on a Neighboring Planet
72:0.1 BY PERMISSION of Lanaforge and with the approval of the Most Highs of Edentia, I am author...
73. The Garden of Eden
73:0.1 THE cultural decadence and spiritual poverty resulting from the Caligastia downfall and co...
74. Adam and Eve
74:0.1 ADAM AND EVE arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in mids...
75. The Default of Adam and Eve
75:0.1 AFTER more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam was able to see very little p...
76. The Second Garden
76:0.1 WHEN Adam elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed, he and his followers...
77. The Midway Creatures
77:0.1 MOST of the inhabited worlds of Nebadon harbor one or more groups of unique beings existin...
78. The Violet Race After the Days of Adam
78:0.1 THE second Eden was the cradle of civilization for almost thirty thousand years. Here in M...
79. Andite Expansion in the Orient
79:0.1 ASIA is the homeland of the human race. It was on a southern peninsula of this continent t...
80. Andite Expansion in the Occident
80:0.1 ALTHOUGH the European blue man did not of himself achieve a great cultural civilization, h...
81. Development of Modern Civilization
81:0.1 REGARDLESS of the ups and downs of the miscarriage of the plans for world betterment proje...
82. The Evolution of Marriage
82:0.1 MARRIAGE — mating — grows out of bisexuality. Marriage is man’s reactional adjustment to s...
83. The Marriage Institution
83:0.1 THIS is the recital of the early beginnings of the institution of marriage. It has progres...
84. Marriage and Family Life
84:0.1 MATERIAL necessity founded marriage, sex hunger embellished it, religion sanctioned and ex...
85. The Origins of Worship
85:0.1 PRIMITIVE religion had a biologic origin, a natural evolutionary development, aside from m...
86. Early Evolution of Religion
86:0.1 THE evolution of religion from the preceding and primitive worship urge is not dependent o...
87. The Ghost Cults
87:0.1 THE ghost cult evolved as an offset to the hazards of bad luck; its primitive religious ob...
88. Fetishes, Charms, and Magic
88:0.1 THE concept of a spirit’s entering into an inanimate object, an animal, or a human being, ...
89. Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
89:0.1 PRIMITIVE man regarded himself as being in debt to the spirits, as standing in need of red...
90. Shamanism — Medicine Men and Priests
90:0.1 THE evolution of religious observances progressed from placation, avoidance, exorcism, coe...
91. The Evolution of Prayer
91:0.1 PRAYER, as an agency of religion, evolved from previous nonreligious monologue and dialogu...
92. The Later Evolution of Religion
92:0.1 MAN possessed a religion of natural origin as a part of his evolutionary experience long b...
93. Machiventa Melchizedek
93:0.1 THE Melchizedeks are widely known as emergency Sons, for they engage in an amazing range o...
94. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient
94:0.1 THE early teachers of the Salem religion penetrated to the remotest tribes of Africa and E...
95. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
95:0.1 AS INDIA gave rise to many of the religions and philosophies of eastern Asia, so the Levan...
96. Yahweh — God of the Hebrews
96:0.1 IN CONCEIVING of Deity, man first includes all gods, then subordinates all foreign gods to...
97. Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews
97:0.1 THE spiritual leaders of the Hebrews did what no others before them had ever succeeded in ...
98. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
98:0.1 THE Melchizedek teachings entered Europe along many routes, but chiefly they came by way o...
99. The Social Problems of Religion
99:0.1 RELIGION achieves its highest social ministry when it has least connection with the secula...
100. Religion in Human Experience
100:0.1 THE experience of dynamic religious living transforms the mediocre individual into a pers...
101. The Real Nature of Religion
101:0.1 RELIGION, as a human experience, ranges from the primitive fear slavery of the evolving s...
102. The Foundations of Religious Faith
102:0.1 TO THE unbelieving materialist, man is simply an evolutionary accident. His hopes of surv...
103. The Reality of Religious Experience
103:0.1 ALL of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutan...
104. Growth of the Trinity Concept
104:0.1 THE Trinity concept of revealed religion must not be confused with the triad beliefs of e...
105. Deity and Reality
105:0.1 TO EVEN high orders of universe intelligences infinity is only partially comprehensible, ...
106. Universe Levels of Reality
106:0.1 IT IS not enough that the ascending mortal should know something of the relations of Deit...
107. Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters
107:0.1 ALTHOUGH the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of t...
108. Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters
108:0.1 THE mission of the Thought Adjusters to the human races is to represent, to be, the Unive...
109. Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures
109:0.1 THE Thought Adjusters are the children of the universe career, and indeed the virgin Adju...
110. Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals
110:0.1 THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the ...
111. The Adjuster and the Soul
111:0.1 THE presence of the divine Adjuster in the human mind makes it forever impossible for eit...
112. Personality Survival
112:0.1 THE evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascen...
113. Seraphic Guardians of Destiny
113:0.1 HAVING presented the narratives of the Ministering Spirits of Time and the Messenger Host...
114. Seraphic Planetary Government
114:0.1 THE Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but...
115. The Supreme Being
115:0.1 WITH God the Father, sonship is the great relationship. With God the Supreme, achievement...
116. The Almighty Supreme
116:0.1 IF MAN recognized that his Creators — his immediate supervisors — while being divine were...
117. God the Supreme
117:0.1 TO THE extent that we do the will of God in whatever universe station we may have our exi...
118. Supreme and Ultimate — Time and Space
118:0.1 CONCERNING the several natures of Deity, it may be said: 118:0.2 1. The Father is self-e...
119. The Bestowals of Christ Michael
119:0.1 CHIEF of the Evening Stars of Nebadon, I am assigned to Urantia by Gabriel on the mission...