The Urantia Revelatory Process:
by Denver Pearson
December 2011
Whether we are a long time student or a new reader of the Urantia Book, the most often asked question and the most difficult to satisfactorily answer is, “Who wrote it and how?” We all eventually come up with some unsure and therefore uncomfortable answer we have rehearsed over and over again to make it sound intelligently authoritative. But the answer we have devised has been derived from what we’ve heard from others or have read in Urantia apocrypha and as soon as it leaves our lips we feel a little empty. It was because of this feeling I decided to go back to the small amount of information available about the early days and to the revelation itself to see if I could come away with a clearer idea about the origin of the papers.
I fully understand that even if we could know the exact process we would still not understand it because in the final analysis it was a spiritual and mental process on a celestial level that resulted in a material phenomenon. Much of what I am saying here is expressed elsewhere with some variations, but I have also introduced what I think are a few new angles and clarifications to the story. I am not claiming to be right in anything I suggest but what I have discovered has made it easier to visualise and understand how the Urantia Papers may have come into being. I satisfied that empty feeling for myself and decided to share my findings in hopes of satisfying the feelings of others.
Part l The Body
In writing this article I am assuming that the reader is fairly familiar with other records on the subject and with the Urantia Book itself. I am not so concerned with the details of the early history and the people involved although I will discuss them at times. I am more interested in the technique or the process of bringing the papers into physical existence. I have always been reluctant to talk much about the origins of the revelation because it seems to detract from the revelation itself. It is the problem of someone being more interested in the messenger than the message itself. There are those who refuse to accept the revelation because they cannot uncover the source of the information. Focusing on the messenger more than the message happened with the fourth epochal revelation as you know. It became the religion about Jesus rather than the religion of Jesus.
The first point I would like to make is that there are many written accounts concerning the early history and origin of the revelation. Some of the authors are Dr. Sadler himself, Larry Mullins, who wrote a history based on the memories of Meredith Sprunger and probably the more accurate and most thorough account, Harold Sherman, a so-called psychic and late-comer to the Forum, Martin Gardner, a science writer who wrote the best failed attempt to discredit the Urantia Book, Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, and the writings of Earnest Moyers. Except for the writings of Dr. Sadler, all accounts of the origin of the papers are second-hand at best and are therefore questionable for they may be factual or partly factual, or distorted, misunderstood, misinterpreted and invented. It is really impossible to say. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and use them if necessary, especially for a timeline of events. Although exact dates are in doubt, it really doesn’t matter for my purposes.
The first question that came to my mind decades ago when I realized the significance of this revelation was why was a human contact personality needed to bring this information into the English language in the form of a book? Why didn’t these authors just write the book themselves or “poof” it into existence? I actually spent many years pondering this subject without coming to any great conclusions. I was aware of the accounts that said his body was used to speak and write. I had difficulty with the possessed body idea because it seemed to contradict statements in the revelation itself.
If you remember the movie “Ghost” where the deceased guy possesses or enters the psychic and performs through her body you will have an idea of how the contact person was not used. In 1929, Dr. Sadler published a book called The Mind at Mischief. In his account of a strange case he was investigating involving a man in a deep, unusual sleep, he refers to the written and spoken words of the subject. I believe it is from this statement that all other references derive the idea that the subject’s tongue and hands were literally used to convey communications from beyond. But when we read in the UB about the functions of the Midwayers, there is a definite statement indicating that they do not possess people. It is my belief that even rebel Midwayers did not harass feeble mind souls in this manner before Pentecost. They could aggravate a weak mind but not affect them like the girl was tortured in the “Exorcist” when devilish voices came from her mouth and her head turned around. That’s Hollywood imagination at its best.
To support my claim we have only to read what Dr. Sadler said about the subject. When he was asked how the celestials did it his reply was always, think of a way and that’s not it. I remember reading a list he made of how it wasn’t done and automatic writing and automatic speaking were two on that list. Also, in response to the same question of how it was done his answer was “It’s in the book” and it is (more on this soon).
But yet in 1929 he wrote in the Mind at Mischief about the written and spoken messages of the subject. There is no account in any of the histories about these times which say Dr. Sadler claimed he saw the subject writing. Dr. Sadler’s son, Bill Jr., claimed that nobody ever saw information being written and no matter how hard they tried to discover the source of the material they could never do it. Some accounts say the first papers appeared all at once in response to questions Sadler compiled. The story goes that he thought the information was in the handwriting of the subject because the wife of the subject said it was. Sadler apparently checked the man for evidence of having written all night long but there was none. I think we can safely say that Sadler and everyone else did not know how the written information came about. Supposedly the handwriting was eventually analyzed and determined not to be that of the subject or anyone else involved. We do know that Midwayers can make contact with material things and would have no problem writing papers.
What about the spoken information? Did Midwayers get into the subject’s brain and make his tongue move and use his vocal cords? When we become familiar with the Midwayers and their abilities this seems like an inefficient and silly way to communicate higher concepts. But yet we know that somehow celestial beings were communicating with the contact commission, Dr. Sadler, his wife Lena and a few others. The written word came later so we know that there must have been verbal communications in the early stages. The story goes that during one of the earliest night sessions with the subject, the Sadlers noticed him wetting his lips as if wanting to speak. They asked him a question and he seemed to speak but it was not his voice.
This gives us the impression that his mouth was moving like in normal conversation. Remember that this is a story told by someone who claims that Sadler said this. There is no way of knowing whether it is accurate. Also, remember that a Midwayer would be able to speak and be audible and do it as if out of thin air. I imagine the loyal Midwayers are under a mandate to not frighten humans or give them heart attacks by speaking out of thin air.
As you are reading this just imagine a strange voice coming from behind you and no one is there. Your heart would stop. I would say in the early night sessions the Midwayers might have spoken near the subject or even opened his mouth to make it less frightening to have a sleeping man appear to talk. After the contact commission became used to the situation and accepted the fact that they were in communication with celestials, they could probably handle a voice in the corner of the room. Many years ago I met a man who said he met Dr. Sadler who told him the Midwayers had different accents in English depending on what part of the world they worked in.(another hearsay)
In this first part I am trying to get away from the idea that the physical body was used in anyway. Midwayers did not need to use the body because they are very capable of writing and speaking for themselves. So, that brings me back to my original question. Why was a human being necessary to manifest the papers that eventually came to be known as the Urantia Book?
Part ll The Mind
Before discussing why a human being was used and how, we might ask why our world was given an epochal revelation in book form and why at that time and place. Chicago in the early 1900s was one of the main commercial hubs of the world and remains so to this day. Ironically, with all the gangsterism and political corruption that has tainted that city, one might very well ask the same question that Nathaniel asked when referring to Jesus and his illustrious hometown, “What good could come out of Nazareth.” If, on the other hand, the revelators had picked Dr. Sadler to be their main contact person, then that is a more conclusive reason for the revelation to take place in that location. Even at that early date, the celestials knew English was going to be the language of world business and politics. The US would soon be taking its consumerism to the world and with it the English language and books in English. Even though there may have been more people who spoke French or Spanish, English was chosen because of its versatile nature, its width and depth of usage. The revelation would be conveying concepts that would need words that could be shaped to fit high spiritual concepts.
This brings up the question when did the celestials decide to give us a new revelation. It had been two thousand years since the last epochal revelation, Jesus of Nazareth. Christianity, the result of the last revelation, was losing its momentum and becoming stagnant. The industrial revolution was winding down and the world was soon to be transformed into a modern society of mass communication and technology. We would soon be a world of air travel, space exploration, TV and computers, life saving medicine and over population. The celestials could foresee the changes coming and that the religions and philosophies of the past would not satisfy the minds of the future. Future generations would be hungry for higher truth.
“Mortal man lacks the concept of morontia mind and material; and revelation is the only technique for atoning for this deficiency in the conceptual data which man so urgently needs in order to construct a logical philosophy of the universe and to arrive at a satisfying understanding of his sure and settled place in that universe.”
We can see there was a need for new revelation so what would be the method. All other epochal revelations were done by personalities but we live in an age that idolizes individuals which would detract from an epochal message. The day of the printed word was here and books were fast becoming the fastest mode of spreading information. The celestial mandate is given to put the revelation into the English language in the form of a book. There is a statement in the Urantia Book that gives us an idea of the process. When speaking of the Midwayers they say:
“Their chief work today is that of unperceived personal-liaison associates of those men and women who constitute the planetary reserve corps of destiny. It was the work of this secondary group, ably seconded by certain of the primary corps, that brought about the co-ordination of personalities and circumstances on Urantia which finally induced the planetary celestial supervisors to initiate those petitions that resulted in the granting of the mandates making possible the series of revelations of which this presentation is a part.”
We might interpret it this way. Conditions were becoming ripe for a revelation and the Midwayers petitioned the celestial supervisors for their approval. The Midwayers were told that once they had the personalities and circumstances in place the petitions would be initiated that would result in the mandates being granted. The personalities and circumstances were the bringing together of Dr. Sadler, his wife and the man who would be used for the communication process. This is where things become interesting.
The divine personalities who would be narrating the revelation, particularly part I and part II, are not able to make contact with material things, not able to write a book. The spiritual world is not real to us who live in a material world. The reverse is also true. The Midwayers and lower angelic orders who work on evolutionary worlds are able to see us as we are and how we live, but this is not true of higher celestial personalities like a Divine Counselor, Perfector of Wisdom or Universal Censor. There is a statement in the paper on Celestial Artisans that reveals this fact. The Archangel who narrates this paper says:
“All these activities of the morontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit beings the spirit world is a reality. To us the material world is the more unreal. The higher forms of spirits freely pass through ordinary matter. High spirits are reactive to nothing material excepting certain of the basic energies. To material beings the spirit world is more or less unreal; to spirit beings the material world is almost entirely unreal, being merely a shadow of the substance of spirit realities.”
He goes on to explain what he perceives and says that the Divine Counselor with him perceives even less:
“I cannot, with exclusive spirit vision, perceive the building in which this narrative is being translated and recorded. A Divine Counselor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side perceives still less of these purely material creations. We discern how these material structures appear to you by viewing a spirit counterpart presented to our minds by one of our attending energy transformers. This material building is not exactly real to me, a spirit being, but it is, of course, very real and very serviceable to material mortals.”
So, if the celestial personalities had a mandate to reveal truth to Urantia in English in book form and they are not able to make contact with material things, then how were they to accomplish their task? How was the gap between the spiritual realm and the material level to be bridged? We already know that the Secondary Midwayers are able to make contact with things material but are they able to speak directly with higher personalities? The answer is no. There would need to be a process in place for a Divine Counselor to communicate with a Secondary Midwayer. One way might be to have a chain of personalities who could communicate with a being higher up or lower down to transmit information back and forth. There are quotes that suggest this idea.
“The gap between the material and spiritual worlds is perfectly bridged by the serial association of mortal man, secondary midwayer, primary midwayer, morontia cherubim, mid-phase cherubim, and seraphim. In the personal experience of an individual mortal these diverse levels are undoubtedly more or less unified and made personally meaningful by the unobserved and mysterious operations of the divine Thought Adjuster.”
“Primary midwayers resemble angels more than mortals; the secondary orders are much more like human beings. Each renders invaluable assistance to the other in the execution of their manifold planetary assignments. The primary ministers can achieve liaison co-operation with both morontia- and spirit-energy controllers and mind circuiters. The secondary group can establish working connections only with the physical controllers and the material-circuit manipulators. But since each order of midwayer can establish perfect synchrony of contact with the other, either group is thereby able to achieve practical utilization of the entire energy gamut extending from the gross physical power of the material worlds up through the transition phases of universe energies to the higher spirit-reality forces of the celestial realms”
The key information above is this. “The primary ministers can achieve liaison co-operation with both morontia- and spirit-energy controllers and mind circuiters. The secondary group can establish working connections only with the physical controllers and the material-circuit manipulators.”
A Divine Counselor from Paradise would speak the language of Paradise and most definitely the language of the superuniverse in which he is assigned, but he probably would not have a need to know the languages of the local universes of that superuniverse. At the other end of the equation a Secondary Midwayer would be fluent in English and the tongue of Satania and perhaps the local universe language but definitely not the superuniverse language because they don’t work on that level. But the Primary Midwayers work with higher spiritual beings and would most certainly know the language of Uversa. There may be more entities involved in the process such as morontia- and spirit-energy controllers and mind circuiters as well as physical controllers and the material-circuit manipulators. In a quote above we find this phrase, “this narrative is being translated and recorded.” Translated from what language to what language and how many translations before being recorded in English?
You might ask why they didn’t just sit around a table and translate back and forth. In a sense they did but the table used was not what we might think. As I have pointed out, it wasn’t the contact personality’s hands and tongue that were used or even attributes of his brain such as his vocabulary. There is a statement in the revelation which gives us our best insight into how the contact personality was used.
“On many worlds the better adapted secondary midway creatures are able to attain varying degrees of contact with the Thought Adjusters of certain favorably constituted mortals through the skillful penetration of the minds of the latters’ indwelling. (And it was by just such a fortuitous combination of cosmic adjustments that these revelations were materialized in the English language on Urantia.)”
Some Midwayers are able to make some sort of contact with Thought Adjuster by penetrating the mind of the human indwelt by the Adjuster. They make the profound statement that it was by this process the revelations were materialized in the English language on Urantia. There are two distinct ideas here. One is making contact with the Thought Adjuster and the other is skillfully penetrating the mind of the human subject. If the Thought Adjuster was part of the revelatory process, then we must assume that Personalized Adjusters were engaged somehow because the communication was between personal beings and Thought Adjusters are not personal. Personalized Adjusters have been known to act in the affairs of a local universe, but there is nothing in the revelation itself that indicates that this was the case in bridging the gap between high and low beings.
The following quote explains how the Thought Adjuster may have been involved or not involved as you may see it. In much the same way a rebel Midwayer could affect the feeble minded before the Thought Adjusters readily came to indwell mortals after the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, loyal Midwayers, when working with the Reserve Corps of Destiny, can work through the mind of a Reservist when the Thought Adjuster is detached for some reason. In both situations the Adjuster is absent from the personality leaving the mind vulnerable to mischievous acts or ready for planetary duty.
“On no world can evil spirits possess any mortal mind subsequent to the life of a Paradise bestowal Son. But before the days of Christ Michael on Urantia—before the universal coming of the Thought Adjusters and the pouring out of the Master’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel midwayers were actually able to influence the minds of certain inferior mortals and somewhat to control their actions. This was accomplished in much the same way as the loyal midway creatures function when they serve as efficient contact guardians of the human minds of the Urantia reserve corps of destiny at those times when the Adjuster is, in effect, detached from the personality during a season of contact with superhuman intelligences.”
That leaves the penetrating of the mind, not the brain, of the subject. The brain is the instrument that connects with the mind circuits, or rather the mind rest gently on the brain, at which point the Thought Adjuster might reside. It was in the arena of the mind circuits that the revelation took place. It is a crude illustration, but if we think of the subject as a telephone or a switchboard and the Thought Adjuster as the operator allowing the connection to take place and the phone line as the mind circuit where the communications are made, we can see how a Divine Counselor could speak to a Primary Midwayer who then speaks to a Secondary Midwayer. This is surely oversimplified because the true mechanics of the transaction transpires in the spiritual realm in the arena of cosmic mind. It would be impossible for us to fully discover and understand the process.
So, we might say the contact personality was an involuntary apparatus, but you might ask why the mind of a sleeping man and not the mind of a Midwayer? It is because the mind of the Midwayer is always active with an actively engaged personality. I might add here that the human mind would be very compatible to the Midwayer mind as they share the two highest adjutant mind spirits, wisdom and worship.
But what about the free will of the human subject? Has the sanctity of the human mind been invaded? No, not really because the Midwayers are not accessing the physical brain and its memory, the soul or the personality. They are only accessing an unimpeded mind circuit. We can be certain that if the subject had been disturbed by the process he would have been exchanged for one more cooperative. The following quote reveals perfectly the nature of the situation.
“The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human’s almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster’s inner presence; it is indeed fortunate that he remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He holds one of the highly experienced Adjusters of his day and generation, and yet his passive reaction to, and inactive concern toward, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind of this versatile Adjuster is pronounced by the guardian of destiny to be a rare and fortuitous reaction. And all this constitutes a favorable co-ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquillity.”
Part lll The Timeline
While doing research on the revelatory process, I noticed something in the timeline that I had not considered before. We know that Dr. Sadler informed us that the first encounter with the contact personality was in 1911. It has also been recorded that the forum was organized in 1923. That was a twelve year period. The dates we have for the completion of the first three parts of the Urantia Book are 1934 and 1935, another twelve year period. Why are these two twelve year periods important? They are significant because what took place in each was different.
Before doing my research I, like many others, thought that over all those years up until 1935 the celestials were dictating information through the sleeping subject while someone was writing it down. Nothing could be further from the truth. The period between 1911 and 1923 seems to have been a time of testing the process, expanding the minds of the contact commission, and a period for the celestials to research human records, formulate, compile, and even write the first three parts of the revelation before ever involving the forum members in 1923.
Even before 1911 there was activity and preparations being made. Remember that the Midwayers needed to bring about the co-ordination of personalities and circumstances which induced the initiation of the petitions that resulted in the granting of the mandates making possible the series of revelations we now have as the Urantia Papers. It is impossible to say how long that process took. My feeling is that Dr Sadler was the key person in the equation. He had the experience and background needed as well as an objective, investigative mind. He was probably guided to move to Chicago because of its strategic location or perhaps because the chosen contact personality lived there. It is hard to say, but somehow they were brought together.
Another thing we don’t know is how long the Midwayers worked to perfect the communication technique. As far as we know, this was the first and only time on Urantia the approved processes was attempted. How many links to the higher personalities were made before Dr. Sadler was called to the scene? We do know from personal accounts that the earliest sessions had no communications at all.
In 1929 Dr. Sadler wrote that there were about 250 of the night sessions. Over an eighteen year period that averages out to around one per month. We are also told that a stenographer made voluminous notes. Were these notes part of the revelation? No. We already know that the Midwayers can write and produce entire first draft versions of the papers. The human notes have since disappeared. What were they? Perhaps they were a result of an exercise to expand the minds of the contact commission and others who may have been called in to witness and evaluate the strange happenings. We have to remember that the state of the most advanced minds on the planet at that time did not have clear concepts in astronomy and the other sciences and were almost totally void of any high concepts of God, divinity, and the structure and administration of the spiritual realms. The enlightenment of an entire world would have to start with a few well rehearsed individuals. Even at that, Dr. Sadler was in doubt for many years until he read the paper on the twelve apostles, so we are told. I don’t find this too surprising because Dr. Sadler, in 1929, didn’t seem to have a good grasp some simple concepts because he said he was dealing with extra-planetary personalities from other planets. This makes it sound like he was communicating with extra-terrestrials. Furthermore, the revelation never refers to architectural worlds as planets. Planets are always evolutionary worlds.
Another reason we might conclude that the early communications, verbal and written, were not the proto-papers, the first drafts, is because Dr. Sadler says that it was student visitors who were coming and going. None of the authors of the final papers were student visitors.
One more thing that was probably taking place during the first twelve years was research and compilation of the more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. We learn this in the acknowledgment at the end of the Forward. We know how beautifully the human concepts were uplifted and woven into the pure revelation. We can rest assured that a project of this magnitude takes a great deal of planning and preparation. It is only after reading it for many years that I have come to appreciate the artistry of these wordsmiths.
I have no doubt that before the Forum was involved around 1923-1924, the first three parts were completed in a first draft form. There are some accounts that say complete papers appeared in response to questions the contact commission provided. It could be that a simple question such as where does God live could have produced the Isle of Paradise paper. The mandates for the revelation contained guidelines for what could or could not be revealed so we know that the information to be included was known from the beginning. The forum was perhaps necessary to stimulate a paper, but the basic information was probably completed before 1923. I will go out on a limb and suggest that the Jesus papers were also completed long before they were given to the contact commission in 1935 according to some accounts. I personally knew two forum members who said the forth part of the book came all at once. I have heard it said over the years that there was some question among the revelators as to whether or not to include the life and teachings of Jesus, but reference is made to him as early as the first paper. It would be impossible to imagine the book without his life’s story even if you took all references of him out. Urantia is his hometown, we are a part of his creation, and the first three sections of the book are a fantastic backdrop for the play.
So, what other purpose did the forum serve? What happened between 1923 and 1935 and even into the forties by some accounts? These are much simpler questions to answer. We don’t know how many, if any, proto-papers were in the possession of the contact commission before the forum was formed. We do know that new papers were brought forth as questions were asked by the forum during these years. The questions were not the reason a paper was written, and we know this because there were pre-existing mandates stating what and what not to reveal, but rather signals indicating which paper to bring out. As papers were read before the members more questions were raised for clarification and then refinements were made. These years seem to have been a time of fine tuning the revelation to make it understandable to the human mind. The process was continued until the day came when the revelators said the mandates were fulfilled.
We were left with an amazing collection of information that deeply affects the transformation of the minds and souls of those who dare to engage it while the revelatory commission from Uversa moved on to perhaps repeat the process on another isolated world.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Accelerated Time – Instantaneous Dissolution
Accelerated Time – Instantaneous Dissolution:
What really happened to the physical body of Christ inside the tomb….
“None of these watchers suspected that the object of their vigil had risen to a new and higher form of existence, and that the body which they were guarding was now a discarded outer covering which had no further connection with the delivered and resurrected morontia personality of Jesus…His material or physical body was not a part of the resurrected personality. When Jesus came forth from the tomb, his body of flesh remained undisturbed in the sepulchre…” Urantia Book – Paper 189 – The Resurrection
Knowing full well Jesus had already risen into the morontial order of existence the angels could not bear to watch the slow decaying process of their beloved rulers left behind discarded outer shell of flesh The physical body of Christ was missing from the tomb because the process of accelerated time phenomenon was employed by celestial forces…which really means time was fast forwarded or manipulated in such a way as to make the entire decaying process of the body instantaneous, to an outside observer of such a phenomenon the body would simply disappear…
THE MATERIAL BODY OF JESUS The Resurrection Urantia Book Paper 189
The tomb of Joseph was empty, not because the body of Jesus had been rehabilitated or resurrected, but because the celestial hosts had been granted their request to afford it a special and unique dissolution, a return of the “dust to dust,” without the intervention of the delays of time and without the operation of the ordinary and visible processes of mortal decay and material corruption.
The mortal remains of Jesus underwent the same natural process of elemental disintegration as characterizes all human bodies on earth except that, in point of time, this natural mode of dissolution was greatly accelerated, hastened to that point where it became well-nigh instantaneous.
… but we would have his mortal remains put in our custody for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time.
It is enough that we have seen the Sovereign live and die on Urantia; the hosts of heaven would be spared the memory of enduring the sight of the slow decay of the human form of the Creator and Upholder of a universe. In the name of the celestial intelligences of all Nebadon, I ask for a mandate giving me the custody of the mortal body of Jesus of Nazareth and empowering us to proceed with its immediate dissolution.”
What really happened to the physical body of Christ inside the tomb….
“None of these watchers suspected that the object of their vigil had risen to a new and higher form of existence, and that the body which they were guarding was now a discarded outer covering which had no further connection with the delivered and resurrected morontia personality of Jesus…His material or physical body was not a part of the resurrected personality. When Jesus came forth from the tomb, his body of flesh remained undisturbed in the sepulchre…” Urantia Book – Paper 189 – The Resurrection
Knowing full well Jesus had already risen into the morontial order of existence the angels could not bear to watch the slow decaying process of their beloved rulers left behind discarded outer shell of flesh The physical body of Christ was missing from the tomb because the process of accelerated time phenomenon was employed by celestial forces…which really means time was fast forwarded or manipulated in such a way as to make the entire decaying process of the body instantaneous, to an outside observer of such a phenomenon the body would simply disappear…
THE MATERIAL BODY OF JESUS The Resurrection Urantia Book Paper 189
The tomb of Joseph was empty, not because the body of Jesus had been rehabilitated or resurrected, but because the celestial hosts had been granted their request to afford it a special and unique dissolution, a return of the “dust to dust,” without the intervention of the delays of time and without the operation of the ordinary and visible processes of mortal decay and material corruption.
The mortal remains of Jesus underwent the same natural process of elemental disintegration as characterizes all human bodies on earth except that, in point of time, this natural mode of dissolution was greatly accelerated, hastened to that point where it became well-nigh instantaneous.
… but we would have his mortal remains put in our custody for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time.
It is enough that we have seen the Sovereign live and die on Urantia; the hosts of heaven would be spared the memory of enduring the sight of the slow decay of the human form of the Creator and Upholder of a universe. In the name of the celestial intelligences of all Nebadon, I ask for a mandate giving me the custody of the mortal body of Jesus of Nazareth and empowering us to proceed with its immediate dissolution.”
Monday, August 1, 2011
Urantia Book Timeline - Ribuan Tanggal dan Peristiwa
Urantia Book Timeline - Dates + Events
Mencakup peristiwa dari 1 trilyun tahun yang lalu hingga ke ramalan masa depan. Mencakup sejarah tatasurya, bumi, manusia pertama, Adam-Hawa, ras manusia, pemberontakan planet Bumi, perkembangan hingga Isa lahir, riwayat hidupnya detil hingga kebangkitan dan kenaikan, dan beberapa perkembangan para murid Yesus setelah itu. Klik links di atas, mohon sabar kalau koneksi Anda lambat karena akan membuka daftar Timeline, yang terdiri dari RIBUAN waktu dan tanggal sejarah alam semesta bumi dan manusia secara detil. Buku Urantia menurut para kritikus terkenal karena konsistensinya dari depan sampai belakang ribuan data dan informasi baru itu. Silahkan kalau Anda penasaran dengan segudang data itu.
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=2314 Urantia Book Timeline
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What is The Urantia Book?
The Urantia Book is a synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy unlike anything else in publication. It is a book for believers in things unseen, for those who will only believe what they can see, and for who can believe both.
The existence of God and the spiritual component to creation cannot be proven scientifically. For believers this is not an obstacle; for literalists and the wholly material minded scientist it usually means that a belief in God and religion are both dispensed with. The Urantia Book makes it clear that true science and true religion are not at odds but that they can and do complement one another. Scientists can believe in God and believers can value scientific inquiry.
According to astronomers and physicists, the instant of creation, the moment of the Big Bang, occurred about 13.73 billion years ago (Wikipedia article). Anyone viewing this Urantia Book Timeline immediately notices that the first date entered, 987 billion years ago, is about 70 times greater than the scientific dating for the inception of creation. This is the oldest date recorded in The Urantia Book, but it is by no means the date for the beginning of creation, which The Urantia Book indicates has essentially existed forever, having no recorded beginning date.
Science uses theories and hypotheses to understand material reality, like the Big Bang theory, which, some will acknowledge, is already beginning to wane in the scientific community as new theories and concepts are considered and tested. The spiritual component to reality, which The Urantia Book declares exists and is even more real than material reality, cannot be scientifically verified and is therefore not responsive to the kind of tests science is capable of performing to prove or disprove; that proves to be a stumbling block for those who categorically reject belief in a Creator God.
The Urantia Book declares itself to be a revelatory gift of truth conferred upon our world, Urantia, in the year 1934 A.D., and as such that it renders dates and other concepts otherwise humanly impossible to uncover; that this book is an interjection of the hand of divinity, reaching down into the commonplace evolutionary flow of time to provide humanity with new knowledge. Whether you can believe this or not is up to you; The Urantia Book has to be read to be believed.
This timeline highlights some of the dates from the book and for other significant Urantia related events.
Mencakup peristiwa dari 1 trilyun tahun yang lalu hingga ke ramalan masa depan. Mencakup sejarah tatasurya, bumi, manusia pertama, Adam-Hawa, ras manusia, pemberontakan planet Bumi, perkembangan hingga Isa lahir, riwayat hidupnya detil hingga kebangkitan dan kenaikan, dan beberapa perkembangan para murid Yesus setelah itu. Klik links di atas, mohon sabar kalau koneksi Anda lambat karena akan membuka daftar Timeline, yang terdiri dari RIBUAN waktu dan tanggal sejarah alam semesta bumi dan manusia secara detil. Buku Urantia menurut para kritikus terkenal karena konsistensinya dari depan sampai belakang ribuan data dan informasi baru itu. Silahkan kalau Anda penasaran dengan segudang data itu.
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=2314 Urantia Book Timeline
Pengantar dari truthbook.com
What is The Urantia Book?
The Urantia Book is a synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy unlike anything else in publication. It is a book for believers in things unseen, for those who will only believe what they can see, and for who can believe both.
The existence of God and the spiritual component to creation cannot be proven scientifically. For believers this is not an obstacle; for literalists and the wholly material minded scientist it usually means that a belief in God and religion are both dispensed with. The Urantia Book makes it clear that true science and true religion are not at odds but that they can and do complement one another. Scientists can believe in God and believers can value scientific inquiry.
According to astronomers and physicists, the instant of creation, the moment of the Big Bang, occurred about 13.73 billion years ago (Wikipedia article). Anyone viewing this Urantia Book Timeline immediately notices that the first date entered, 987 billion years ago, is about 70 times greater than the scientific dating for the inception of creation. This is the oldest date recorded in The Urantia Book, but it is by no means the date for the beginning of creation, which The Urantia Book indicates has essentially existed forever, having no recorded beginning date.
Science uses theories and hypotheses to understand material reality, like the Big Bang theory, which, some will acknowledge, is already beginning to wane in the scientific community as new theories and concepts are considered and tested. The spiritual component to reality, which The Urantia Book declares exists and is even more real than material reality, cannot be scientifically verified and is therefore not responsive to the kind of tests science is capable of performing to prove or disprove; that proves to be a stumbling block for those who categorically reject belief in a Creator God.
The Urantia Book declares itself to be a revelatory gift of truth conferred upon our world, Urantia, in the year 1934 A.D., and as such that it renders dates and other concepts otherwise humanly impossible to uncover; that this book is an interjection of the hand of divinity, reaching down into the commonplace evolutionary flow of time to provide humanity with new knowledge. Whether you can believe this or not is up to you; The Urantia Book has to be read to be believed.
This timeline highlights some of the dates from the book and for other significant Urantia related events.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Peta-peta Perjalanan Yesus
In His Steps - Maps of Jesus' Travels.
Mencakup 38 peta, dimana dan kapan terjadinya.
http://www.urantia.org/en/in-his-steps
Mencakup 38 peta, dimana dan kapan terjadinya.
http://www.urantia.org/en/in-his-steps
Galery of Pictures
Jesus Pictures. Images of Jesus Christ & Angels: Paintings
Buku Urantia memuat gambaran-gambaran alam semesta secara rinci sehingga banyak artis bisa memvisualisasikan sistem dan tempat-tempat di alam atas sana. Berikut adalah Galeri berbagai bahan Buku Urantia dalam bentuk gambar, diagram, dan foto, mencakup antara lain mengenai malaikat, Isa, kosmologi, astronomi, evolusi, dan berbagai diagram lain yang memudahkan orang memvisualisasikan Buku Urantia.
http://www.truthbook.com/gallery/index.cfm?thegallery
Buku Urantia memuat gambaran-gambaran alam semesta secara rinci sehingga banyak artis bisa memvisualisasikan sistem dan tempat-tempat di alam atas sana. Berikut adalah Galeri berbagai bahan Buku Urantia dalam bentuk gambar, diagram, dan foto, mencakup antara lain mengenai malaikat, Isa, kosmologi, astronomi, evolusi, dan berbagai diagram lain yang memudahkan orang memvisualisasikan Buku Urantia.
http://www.truthbook.com/gallery/index.cfm?thegallery
Flowchart THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND DESTINY OF UNIVERSAL REALITY
Peta dan flowchart lengkap mengenai kosmologi dan realitas alam semesta menurut Buku Urantia, bisa di download. Kunjungi http://harmonicresolution.com/UrantiaBookFlowChartIntro.htm
Peta flowchart ini berukuran sangat besar, tetapi dengan mempelajarinya kita akan mendapatkan konsistensi dan cakupan Buku Urantia yang luar biasa
Peta flowchart ini berukuran sangat besar, tetapi dengan mempelajarinya kita akan mendapatkan konsistensi dan cakupan Buku Urantia yang luar biasa
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Kekuatan dan Kelemahan Buku Urantia
Apa kekuatan dan kelemahan Buku Urantia? Berikut adalah kekuatan dan kelemahannya. Banyak situs membahas Buku Urantia, tetapi mereka tidak membacanya sendiri, padahal saya membaca seluruh isi buku ini 2 (dua) tahun baru mengerti garis besarnya dan sebagian besar konsepnya, lalu masih mempelajarinya lagi selama 10 tahun hingga saya berani menyampaikan isinya dalam bahasa yang lebih sederhana.
KEKUATAN BUKU URANTIA
Beberapa pokok kekuatan buku ini adalah:
- Buku ini tema sentralnya tentang Tuhan, konsepnya tentang Tuhan bagus. Beberapa paper pertama khusus bicara tentang Tuhan, dan itu tidak ada bandingannya. Jelas, lengkap dan luar biasa komprehensif. Konsepsinya tentang Tuhan atau teologianya bagus dan unggul.
- Buku ini sistematik. 2000 halaman disusun secara tematik dan sistematik, urut, mulai dari Tuhan, alam semesta pusat, pribadi-pribadi alam semesta pusat dan struktur alam raya, ke pemerintahan alam semesta lokal dan berbagai sejarah yang terjadi termasuk pemberontakan Lucifer, berbagai aspek fisik, evolusi, dan manajemen alam semesta, terus berlanjut ke asal-usul Bumi dan seluruh sejarah geologi, kehidupan pertama, evolusi binatang hingga manusia pertama, kedatangan Adam Hawa, evolusi peradaban manusia, asal usul semua agama manusia, apa itu agama, berbagai asal-usul praktek dan tatacara agama, berujung pada puncak agama yaitu Roh yang ada didalam manusia, dan diakhiri oleh 700 halaman paparan cerita contoh teladan nyata manusia bernama Yesus atau Isa, yang agamanya adalah agama rohani atau mengikuti petuinjuk Roh yang didalam dia, dengan detil cerita yang melebihi sumber manapun. Sangat urut dan kemprehensif, mencakup segala sesuatu mulai dari yang sangat abstrak hingga yang terapan, dari konsep hingga praktek, dari Tuhan hingga alam semesta dan manusia. Semua ada, diurutkan dalam bahasan satu persatu, membahas tema menyeluruh. Buku ini terbuka untuk cross-checking, studi tematik, studi teologia, studi kritis ilmu pengetahuan, dengan bantuan komputer software yang sudah ada.
Misalnya, yang mudah saja, buku ini memuat begitu banyak data tanggal dan tempat. Cobalah kunjungi http://urantiaindonesia.blogspot.com/2011/06/tanggal-waktu-timeline-dan-tempat-dalam.html
- Buku ini ditulis tidak untuk orang yang sudah puas dengan pengetahuannya, melainkan yang ingin maju melebihi yang diajarkan. Tujuannya tidak untuk mengganti agama Anda atau membuat Anda pindah agama atau sejenisnya, tetapi untuk memperluas pemahaman alam semesta dan spiritualitas untuk diterapkan dan dikembangkan dalam agama yang Anda ikuti sekarang.
- Buku ini bisa menjadi sumber referensi yang baik Saya akan tunjukkan melalui "apa kata urantia book tentang tema ini?" Kita akan terkejut betapa universal dan luasnya pemahaman buku ini, disajikan dalam bahasa modern, bukan dalam bentuk puisi atau prosa untuk ditafsir-tafsir. Buku ini bukan untuk banyak ditafsirkan. Seringkali bahasa yang dipakai panjang, selengkapnya, dengan tujuan supaya tidak banyak ditafsir-tafsirkan. Penafsiran itu dianjurkan, karena para pewahyunya menulis bahwa disengaja ada berbagai detil yang tidak disampaikan, dan dipersilahkan manusia menganalisis sendiri, tetapi secara umum buku ini to the point, populer ilmiah, tidak dalam bentuk kiasan.
- Buku ini ditulis oleh penulis non-manusia. Tidak ada manusia mengaku menulis 2000 halaman buku yang begitu rumit tetapi sistematis ini. Tidak pernah ditemukan siapa penulisnya, kecuali yang mengaku dalam paper-paper itu, dan nama mereka aneh-aneh, pribadi-pribadi bukan-manusia. Jadi buku ini adalah pemahaman makhluk ekstra-manusia, ekstra-planet, supranatural, atau supramanusia. Maka kalau buku ini sulit dipahami, jangan salahkan penulisnya, karena mungkin kita yang terlalu berprasangka tentang jagad raya setrilyun bintang sementara kita ingin memahaminya dengan otak kita yang hanya segenggam. Gunakan otak dan nurani yang tertinggi, jangan prasangka yang terlanjur diindoktrinasikan oleh masyarakat kita sekarang.
- Detilnya sangat aneka ragam, tetapi intinya sangat sederhana. Bayangkan bahwa inti Urantia Book bisa disimpulkan dalam beberapa kalimat berikut: Tuhan itu Bapak yang pengasih dan penyayang, baik, indah, adil, kekal, tanpa batas, mahatahu, dan mahakuasa. Tuhan lebih besar dari semua yang bisa dibayangkan manusia. Alam semesta ini karya Tuhan. Tuhan itu hidup. Ia mencipta, mengelola dan mengendalikan segala sesuatu. Rohnya menyelimuti dan memberi kehidupan di alam semesta. Manusia bisa mencapai kehidupan abadi jika ia bersatu dengan Roh Tuhan.Untuk mewahyukan dirinya menjangkau yang terendah di alam semesta ini, Tuhan menyatakan diri melalui para Puteranya, dari yang tertinggi hingga yang terendah. Manusia yang mengenal Tuhan disebut anak-anak Tuhan dalam keluarga alam semesta. Mereka diminta untuk hidup sesuai kehendak Tuhan, yang Rohnya ada dalam dirinya.
- Buku ini ditulis sesuai pendapat oknum-oknum supranatural, yang meskipun lebih tahu dibanding kita, tetapi mereka bukan Tuhan, jadi ada kemungkinan mereka keliru atau kurang tepat. Kita yang lebih bodoh belajar menambah pengetahuan tidak ada salahnya bukan? Berbagi pengetahuan dengan oknum-oknum supranatural. Anggap saja buku ini buku pengetahuan, jangan dianggap kitab suci atau wahyu! Kalau ada isinya berguna, pakai, kalau tidak, abaikan!
- Buku ini disampaikan dalam konteks manusia tahun 1940-an. Bayangkan jika ada istilah iptek yang tidak cocok dengan sekarang. Harus dipahami. Bukan berarti salah. Memang begitulah kondisi pengetahuan abad 20. Urantia Book memuat banyak sekali DATA waktu dan sejarah. Mungkin saja ada data ilmu pengetahuan dinilai tidak tepat karena kurang dipahami penerimanya pada tahun 1940, atau mungkin penemuan manusia yang belum sampai kesana.
Kemudian orang mencari-cari kelemahan buku ini ... kecil-kecil ... Seperti mencari setitik noda di lukisan agung yang lebar. Orang tidak menikmati keindahan karya besar itu karena setitik noda di lukisan itu ...
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Salah satu yang diungkap adalah nama local system perbintangan kita yang bernama SATANIA. Itu nama sebuah sistem perbintangan dimana planet ini ada, bukan nama orang. Dikaitkan dengan asistennya Lucifer yang bernama SATAN, lalu dicurigai bahwa buku ini dari Satan atau Iblis. Nah, Buku Urantia terang-terangan menuduh Iblis, Satan dan Lucifer itu pemberontak sesat terkutuk dan akan dihakimi dan dimusnahkan karena mereka melakukan kejahatan dan menolak pengampunan. Kesalahan Satan dibuka semua di buku ini, lebih jelas dari kitab suci manapun. Bagaimana mungkin buku ini dari Satan?? Alasan ini mengada-ada dan jelas dibuat orang yang tidak membaca buku ini dengan baik, melainkan main kutip kesana kemari.
Alasan berikutnya, konsep mengenai Ketuhanan dianggap sangat tidak pantas. Darimana tidak pantasnya? Yang mana tidak pantas? Bukannya buku ini mengemukakan konsep Tuhan yang lebih baik dari semua konsep yang lain?
Alasan lain, buku ini menyanggah konsep penebusan Yesus untuk memuaskan Tuhan atau Yahweh. Memang Yahweh itu minta penebusan seperti halnya dewa-dewi kuno yang menyeramkan. Sampai hari ini ada dewi kegelapan seperti Cali di India minta kurban nyawa dan darah. Apa pantas konsep ketuhanan serendah itu? Coba pikir ulang ajaran ini. Tatacara potong kambing domba Paskah itu ditentang oleh Yesus, sampai-sampai Yesus memperkenalkan sakramen perjamuan kudus demi untuk mengganti tatacara sadis semacam itu. Lalu apakah Tuhan yang pengasih, penyayang dan pengampun itu perlu kurban dan penderitaan binatang yang tidak bersalah apa-apa itu? Doktrinnya yang salah. Teori buatan manusia itu bisa salah. Yesus tidak salah. .
Buku Urantia dituduh hendak menyebarkan agama baru. Bukan agama baru, tetapi agama yang pernah dijalani sendiri oleh Yesus, dan yang sekarang tidak dijalankan lagi oleh agama yang memegang namanya. Apakah salah kembali pada agamanya Isa yang semula, bukan agama yang didefinisikan muridnya dan orang lain?
Ada lagi yang membantah mengenai Roh Percikan Illahi yang tinggal dalam diri manusia. Padahal ini fakta yang ditemukan para praktisi dalam bidang spiritual. Buku Urantia menyebutkan ada tiga Roh ilahi yang bekerja bersama di Bumi.
1. Roh Kehidupan yang memberi nyawa pada semua makhluk hidup. Roh ini dikontrol oleh pasangan Michael, yaitu Mother Spirit, dan terdiri dari sirkuit tujuh roh inteligensi yang memberi kecerdasan pada semua mahkluk hidup. Kalau Roh ini menarik diri, makhluk akan mati. Mulai dari refleks, pengetahuan, keberanian, hingga yang kecerdasan tinggi seperti roh ibadah (worship) dan roh hikmat, yang hanya dimiliki manusia. Roh ini memberi hidup pada semuanya: tumbuhan, hewan, hingga manusia.
2. Roh Kebenaran, itu adalah Rohnya Isa, Rohulqudus, Roh Kudus, yang bekerja mewakili dan membantu Yesus atau Isa menyebarkan pesan-pesan kebenaran (Injil = kabar baik) di alam semesta. Roh pemberi pengetahuan dan kebenaran. Bekerjanya dari luar manusia dan harus dibukakan pintu hati agar ia bisa masuk dan mengajar manusia. Roh ini menyelimuti seluruh Bumi dan alam semesta kita.
3. Roh Percikan Illahi yang di dalam manusia. Itu asalnya dari fragmen atau pecahan dari roh Bapa Semesta. Ia datang pada waktu seorang anak bisa mulai membedakan moral atau memilih antara yang baik atau jahat. Tiap orang diberi satu roh percikan illahi ini. Ia sekarang ada di dalam kita semua, dan tugasnya adalah menjadi pembimbing atau penuntun kita. Lebih jauh lagi, Roh ini adalah pemberi kehidupan kita setelah mati, karena jiwa manusia tidak akan bisa hidup dengan sendirinya setelah tidak punya badan fisik lagi.
Ketiganya bekerjasama dengan tugas dan fungsinya masing-masing.
Terakhir, ada yang menganggap buku ini terlalu sulit. Benar, saya perlu dua tahun, tetapi saya hanya ingin berbagi pengetahuan ini secara gratis pada Anda sekalian. Siapa tahu Anda mengerti lebih banyak tentang buku ini dan mengenai spiritualitas yang diajarkan buku ini. Mari kita berbagi.
KEKUATAN BUKU URANTIA
Beberapa pokok kekuatan buku ini adalah:
- Buku ini tema sentralnya tentang Tuhan, konsepnya tentang Tuhan bagus. Beberapa paper pertama khusus bicara tentang Tuhan, dan itu tidak ada bandingannya. Jelas, lengkap dan luar biasa komprehensif. Konsepsinya tentang Tuhan atau teologianya bagus dan unggul.
- Buku ini sistematik. 2000 halaman disusun secara tematik dan sistematik, urut, mulai dari Tuhan, alam semesta pusat, pribadi-pribadi alam semesta pusat dan struktur alam raya, ke pemerintahan alam semesta lokal dan berbagai sejarah yang terjadi termasuk pemberontakan Lucifer, berbagai aspek fisik, evolusi, dan manajemen alam semesta, terus berlanjut ke asal-usul Bumi dan seluruh sejarah geologi, kehidupan pertama, evolusi binatang hingga manusia pertama, kedatangan Adam Hawa, evolusi peradaban manusia, asal usul semua agama manusia, apa itu agama, berbagai asal-usul praktek dan tatacara agama, berujung pada puncak agama yaitu Roh yang ada didalam manusia, dan diakhiri oleh 700 halaman paparan cerita contoh teladan nyata manusia bernama Yesus atau Isa, yang agamanya adalah agama rohani atau mengikuti petuinjuk Roh yang didalam dia, dengan detil cerita yang melebihi sumber manapun. Sangat urut dan kemprehensif, mencakup segala sesuatu mulai dari yang sangat abstrak hingga yang terapan, dari konsep hingga praktek, dari Tuhan hingga alam semesta dan manusia. Semua ada, diurutkan dalam bahasan satu persatu, membahas tema menyeluruh. Buku ini terbuka untuk cross-checking, studi tematik, studi teologia, studi kritis ilmu pengetahuan, dengan bantuan komputer software yang sudah ada.
Misalnya, yang mudah saja, buku ini memuat begitu banyak data tanggal dan tempat. Cobalah kunjungi http://urantiaindonesia.blogspot.com/2011/06/tanggal-waktu-timeline-dan-tempat-dalam.html
- Buku ini ditulis tidak untuk orang yang sudah puas dengan pengetahuannya, melainkan yang ingin maju melebihi yang diajarkan. Tujuannya tidak untuk mengganti agama Anda atau membuat Anda pindah agama atau sejenisnya, tetapi untuk memperluas pemahaman alam semesta dan spiritualitas untuk diterapkan dan dikembangkan dalam agama yang Anda ikuti sekarang.
- Buku ini bisa menjadi sumber referensi yang baik Saya akan tunjukkan melalui "apa kata urantia book tentang tema ini?" Kita akan terkejut betapa universal dan luasnya pemahaman buku ini, disajikan dalam bahasa modern, bukan dalam bentuk puisi atau prosa untuk ditafsir-tafsir. Buku ini bukan untuk banyak ditafsirkan. Seringkali bahasa yang dipakai panjang, selengkapnya, dengan tujuan supaya tidak banyak ditafsir-tafsirkan. Penafsiran itu dianjurkan, karena para pewahyunya menulis bahwa disengaja ada berbagai detil yang tidak disampaikan, dan dipersilahkan manusia menganalisis sendiri, tetapi secara umum buku ini to the point, populer ilmiah, tidak dalam bentuk kiasan.
- Buku ini ditulis oleh penulis non-manusia. Tidak ada manusia mengaku menulis 2000 halaman buku yang begitu rumit tetapi sistematis ini. Tidak pernah ditemukan siapa penulisnya, kecuali yang mengaku dalam paper-paper itu, dan nama mereka aneh-aneh, pribadi-pribadi bukan-manusia. Jadi buku ini adalah pemahaman makhluk ekstra-manusia, ekstra-planet, supranatural, atau supramanusia. Maka kalau buku ini sulit dipahami, jangan salahkan penulisnya, karena mungkin kita yang terlalu berprasangka tentang jagad raya setrilyun bintang sementara kita ingin memahaminya dengan otak kita yang hanya segenggam. Gunakan otak dan nurani yang tertinggi, jangan prasangka yang terlanjur diindoktrinasikan oleh masyarakat kita sekarang.
- Detilnya sangat aneka ragam, tetapi intinya sangat sederhana. Bayangkan bahwa inti Urantia Book bisa disimpulkan dalam beberapa kalimat berikut: Tuhan itu Bapak yang pengasih dan penyayang, baik, indah, adil, kekal, tanpa batas, mahatahu, dan mahakuasa. Tuhan lebih besar dari semua yang bisa dibayangkan manusia. Alam semesta ini karya Tuhan. Tuhan itu hidup. Ia mencipta, mengelola dan mengendalikan segala sesuatu. Rohnya menyelimuti dan memberi kehidupan di alam semesta. Manusia bisa mencapai kehidupan abadi jika ia bersatu dengan Roh Tuhan.Untuk mewahyukan dirinya menjangkau yang terendah di alam semesta ini, Tuhan menyatakan diri melalui para Puteranya, dari yang tertinggi hingga yang terendah. Manusia yang mengenal Tuhan disebut anak-anak Tuhan dalam keluarga alam semesta. Mereka diminta untuk hidup sesuai kehendak Tuhan, yang Rohnya ada dalam dirinya.
- Buku ini ditulis sesuai pendapat oknum-oknum supranatural, yang meskipun lebih tahu dibanding kita, tetapi mereka bukan Tuhan, jadi ada kemungkinan mereka keliru atau kurang tepat. Kita yang lebih bodoh belajar menambah pengetahuan tidak ada salahnya bukan? Berbagi pengetahuan dengan oknum-oknum supranatural. Anggap saja buku ini buku pengetahuan, jangan dianggap kitab suci atau wahyu! Kalau ada isinya berguna, pakai, kalau tidak, abaikan!
- Buku ini disampaikan dalam konteks manusia tahun 1940-an. Bayangkan jika ada istilah iptek yang tidak cocok dengan sekarang. Harus dipahami. Bukan berarti salah. Memang begitulah kondisi pengetahuan abad 20. Urantia Book memuat banyak sekali DATA waktu dan sejarah. Mungkin saja ada data ilmu pengetahuan dinilai tidak tepat karena kurang dipahami penerimanya pada tahun 1940, atau mungkin penemuan manusia yang belum sampai kesana.
Kemudian orang mencari-cari kelemahan buku ini ... kecil-kecil ... Seperti mencari setitik noda di lukisan agung yang lebar. Orang tidak menikmati keindahan karya besar itu karena setitik noda di lukisan itu ...
.
Salah satu yang diungkap adalah nama local system perbintangan kita yang bernama SATANIA. Itu nama sebuah sistem perbintangan dimana planet ini ada, bukan nama orang. Dikaitkan dengan asistennya Lucifer yang bernama SATAN, lalu dicurigai bahwa buku ini dari Satan atau Iblis. Nah, Buku Urantia terang-terangan menuduh Iblis, Satan dan Lucifer itu pemberontak sesat terkutuk dan akan dihakimi dan dimusnahkan karena mereka melakukan kejahatan dan menolak pengampunan. Kesalahan Satan dibuka semua di buku ini, lebih jelas dari kitab suci manapun. Bagaimana mungkin buku ini dari Satan?? Alasan ini mengada-ada dan jelas dibuat orang yang tidak membaca buku ini dengan baik, melainkan main kutip kesana kemari.
Alasan berikutnya, konsep mengenai Ketuhanan dianggap sangat tidak pantas. Darimana tidak pantasnya? Yang mana tidak pantas? Bukannya buku ini mengemukakan konsep Tuhan yang lebih baik dari semua konsep yang lain?
Alasan lain, buku ini menyanggah konsep penebusan Yesus untuk memuaskan Tuhan atau Yahweh. Memang Yahweh itu minta penebusan seperti halnya dewa-dewi kuno yang menyeramkan. Sampai hari ini ada dewi kegelapan seperti Cali di India minta kurban nyawa dan darah. Apa pantas konsep ketuhanan serendah itu? Coba pikir ulang ajaran ini. Tatacara potong kambing domba Paskah itu ditentang oleh Yesus, sampai-sampai Yesus memperkenalkan sakramen perjamuan kudus demi untuk mengganti tatacara sadis semacam itu. Lalu apakah Tuhan yang pengasih, penyayang dan pengampun itu perlu kurban dan penderitaan binatang yang tidak bersalah apa-apa itu? Doktrinnya yang salah. Teori buatan manusia itu bisa salah. Yesus tidak salah. .
Buku Urantia dituduh hendak menyebarkan agama baru. Bukan agama baru, tetapi agama yang pernah dijalani sendiri oleh Yesus, dan yang sekarang tidak dijalankan lagi oleh agama yang memegang namanya. Apakah salah kembali pada agamanya Isa yang semula, bukan agama yang didefinisikan muridnya dan orang lain?
Ada lagi yang membantah mengenai Roh Percikan Illahi yang tinggal dalam diri manusia. Padahal ini fakta yang ditemukan para praktisi dalam bidang spiritual. Buku Urantia menyebutkan ada tiga Roh ilahi yang bekerja bersama di Bumi.
1. Roh Kehidupan yang memberi nyawa pada semua makhluk hidup. Roh ini dikontrol oleh pasangan Michael, yaitu Mother Spirit, dan terdiri dari sirkuit tujuh roh inteligensi yang memberi kecerdasan pada semua mahkluk hidup. Kalau Roh ini menarik diri, makhluk akan mati. Mulai dari refleks, pengetahuan, keberanian, hingga yang kecerdasan tinggi seperti roh ibadah (worship) dan roh hikmat, yang hanya dimiliki manusia. Roh ini memberi hidup pada semuanya: tumbuhan, hewan, hingga manusia.
2. Roh Kebenaran, itu adalah Rohnya Isa, Rohulqudus, Roh Kudus, yang bekerja mewakili dan membantu Yesus atau Isa menyebarkan pesan-pesan kebenaran (Injil = kabar baik) di alam semesta. Roh pemberi pengetahuan dan kebenaran. Bekerjanya dari luar manusia dan harus dibukakan pintu hati agar ia bisa masuk dan mengajar manusia. Roh ini menyelimuti seluruh Bumi dan alam semesta kita.
3. Roh Percikan Illahi yang di dalam manusia. Itu asalnya dari fragmen atau pecahan dari roh Bapa Semesta. Ia datang pada waktu seorang anak bisa mulai membedakan moral atau memilih antara yang baik atau jahat. Tiap orang diberi satu roh percikan illahi ini. Ia sekarang ada di dalam kita semua, dan tugasnya adalah menjadi pembimbing atau penuntun kita. Lebih jauh lagi, Roh ini adalah pemberi kehidupan kita setelah mati, karena jiwa manusia tidak akan bisa hidup dengan sendirinya setelah tidak punya badan fisik lagi.
Ketiganya bekerjasama dengan tugas dan fungsinya masing-masing.
Terakhir, ada yang menganggap buku ini terlalu sulit. Benar, saya perlu dua tahun, tetapi saya hanya ingin berbagi pengetahuan ini secara gratis pada Anda sekalian. Siapa tahu Anda mengerti lebih banyak tentang buku ini dan mengenai spiritualitas yang diajarkan buku ini. Mari kita berbagi.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tour of Universe dan koleksi video lainnya
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Buku Urantia on Youtube
Banyak sekali video yang ada di Youtube mengenai Buku Urantia. Para seniman menggambarkan ringkasan dan detil isi dalam bentuk animasi dan gambar. Berikut adalah beberapa hasil search menggunakan kata Urantia:
Journey Through the Universe - Urantia Book
A Tour of the Universe as depicted in The Urantia Book: www.urantia.org Music is Claire de Lune part of the Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy ...
Urantia Book and UBtheNEWS Introduction
This video explains the basic content of the Urantia Book and provides a little bit of information about its history and cultural aspects. The ...
Urantia Book paper 1 pt 1
Urantia Book paper 1 pt 1 in a series that will bring the entirer book to people that want to hear this.
What is URANTIA?
Planet Earth. The Urantia Book was published by Urantia Foundation in 1955. Urantia Book Forum, discussions at www.urantia-uai.org
Urantia Book Diagrams - Paper 106.08 - Trinity of Trinities
This is a diagram for "THE FIRST LEVEL" of the Trinity of Trinities. I apologize for the fuzzy smaller text. To see a clear diagram go to UBRON ...
Urantia Book on Strange Universe
What is The Urantia Book?
Urantia Book History
www.ubhistory.org, Urantia Book Historical Society, Emma L Christensen, Emilia and Harry Rathbun, Hamid Bey, Max Freedom Long, Harry Rowley, Bill ...
Urantia Broadcast
Paper 120 Part 3 of 3: The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia 
The Urantia Book's Quotes with art - El Libro de Urantia
Richard 2 of 2, Urantia Foundation trustee
Don Ricardo /democratizing the Urantia movement /translations of The Urantia Book /the greatest book on the planet, ever
Rafael de J. Henríquez - Libro de Urantia 1 de 3
Entrevista a Rafael de J. Henríquez acerca del Libro de Urantia. Carmiña de Henríquez. Presentadora: Rubiela Silva Cámara: Álvaro Gómez
Urantia.wmv
Spirit of 76 album featuring the song Urantia
Jesus in The Urantia Book, the whole story.
Urantia Book describe why these teachings stand unique, packed with new Jesus stories, his lost years, and fresh insights. This detailed portrayal ...
What The Urantia Book means to me.
Urantia Book readers telling about what The Urantia Book means in their lives. Youll hear from spiritual searchers on how these new teachings made ...
History of the Urantia Book Community
Samples from the Urantia Book Historical Society Archive: Music: Father's Day, "Each Moment With Me" Composer and performer: Mark Turnbull The ...
Urantia Book on Life after death
Hear Urantia Book readers describe how these teachings gave them hope for eternal life. The detailed descriptions of the afterlife helped these ...
Urantia Bill Sadler 1958 1of 7
Bill Sadler lectures from the Urantia Book.
Urantia Unity
This is a video announcing an effort to bring all Urantia organizations together, under a new UNITY. It highlights the goals of some 21st. Century ...
What The Urantia Book means to me
Main benefits of The Urantia Book: A personal perspective in no particular order... by James
Masa Depan menurut Buku Urantia
Berikut adalah beberapa peristiwa di masa depan yang ditulis di Buku Urantia.
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=2314
The Future - Before the inception of life, Urantia was designated a decimal, life-experiment world. (See 900,000,000 B.C. - The Urantia Book, 36:2.8, 40:5.5, 57:8.8, 58:0.1, 62:7.1, 119:8.8)
Although its ultimate destiny is secure, Urantia is a "wild card world." The path to that future destiny will provide many unforseen turns and branches, similar to the circuitous path in the spiritual evolution of the planet that has resulted in the world we know today. Urantia has already been the stage for unanticipated events conforming it to the unique niche in the cosmos that it will forever occupy:
• the loss of a spiritual steward through rebellion, (See 200,000 B.C.),
• the default and loss of the planetary mother and father, (See 35,797 B.C.),
• the emergency Melchizedek revelation (See 1,980 - 1,886 B.C.) to reinforce the concept of monotheism and to pave the way for the incarnation of the Creator Son, (See 7 B.C.), and
• culminating with the reception of the Urantia revelation (See 1934).
What we can predict of the future, along with the usual evolutionary course of events, is that it will continue to provide surprises.
The Future +1 - The midwayers relate that "the worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already beginning to dawn." (The Urantia Book, 195:6.4) and Jesus stated that "when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near." (The Urantia Book, 176:2.6) The visitation of a Magisterial Son and the inauguration of a new dispensation is approaching.
The Future +2 - The revelators indicate that Machiventa Melchizedek will return to assume the position of Planetary Prince at the beginning of the next dispensation; but others think that he could come even sooner--"any day or hour." (The Urantia Book, 114:1.3)
The Future +3 - Michael will return sometime (as he promised) to finish his bestowal Son tasks as the spiritual uplifter, a job that he couldn't complete because he came before the mindal uplift of the Magisterial Son (or Sons). Michael may also wait for further biologic uplift, which some of the revelators speculate may be fostered by Machiventa in the additional role as Material Son. (The Urantia Book, 93:10.6-7)
The Future +4 - Wars and rumors of wars will fade away as the teachings of Jesus, the Gospel of the Kingdom, permeate the hearts of mankind. "...peace on earth will not come until all are willing to believe and enter into their glorious inheritance of sonship with God." (The Urantia Book, 165:6.3)
The Future +5 - The races will have blended, resulting in a skin tone of an olive hue. (The Urantia Book, 52:3.7)
The Future +6 - The first stage of light and life will manifest. The world is administered by three celestial beings: the Planetary Sovereign, the chief of the planetary corps of finaliters, and Adam and Eve. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.4)
The Future +7 - The beginning of the second stage of light and life. A Life Carrier becomes the adviser of the planetary rulers regarding the further efforts to purify and stabilize the mortal race. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.8)
The Future +8 - The beginning of the third stage of light and life. Representatives of the superuniverses enter into new relationships with the planetary administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.10)
The Future +9 - The fourth stage of light and life. Trinity Teacher Sons become advisors to the world administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.14)
The Future +10 - The fifth stage of light and life pertains almost entirely on stabilizing the planetary environment. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.17)
The Future +11 - The sixth stage of light and life produces enhanced mindal function among the people of the world. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.18)
The Future +12 - The world is settled in the seventh stage of light and life. The physical forces of the planet and the sun are stabilized so that they can continue on into eternity. (The Urantia Book, 32:3.2, 55:4.18)
The Future +13 - The local universe of Nebadon becomes settled in light and life. (The Urantia Book, 15:9.15)
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=2314
The Future - Before the inception of life, Urantia was designated a decimal, life-experiment world. (See 900,000,000 B.C. - The Urantia Book, 36:2.8, 40:5.5, 57:8.8, 58:0.1, 62:7.1, 119:8.8)
Although its ultimate destiny is secure, Urantia is a "wild card world." The path to that future destiny will provide many unforseen turns and branches, similar to the circuitous path in the spiritual evolution of the planet that has resulted in the world we know today. Urantia has already been the stage for unanticipated events conforming it to the unique niche in the cosmos that it will forever occupy:
• the loss of a spiritual steward through rebellion, (See 200,000 B.C.),
• the default and loss of the planetary mother and father, (See 35,797 B.C.),
• the emergency Melchizedek revelation (See 1,980 - 1,886 B.C.) to reinforce the concept of monotheism and to pave the way for the incarnation of the Creator Son, (See 7 B.C.), and
• culminating with the reception of the Urantia revelation (See 1934).
What we can predict of the future, along with the usual evolutionary course of events, is that it will continue to provide surprises.
The Future +1 - The midwayers relate that "the worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already beginning to dawn." (The Urantia Book, 195:6.4) and Jesus stated that "when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near." (The Urantia Book, 176:2.6) The visitation of a Magisterial Son and the inauguration of a new dispensation is approaching.
The Future +2 - The revelators indicate that Machiventa Melchizedek will return to assume the position of Planetary Prince at the beginning of the next dispensation; but others think that he could come even sooner--"any day or hour." (The Urantia Book, 114:1.3)
The Future +3 - Michael will return sometime (as he promised) to finish his bestowal Son tasks as the spiritual uplifter, a job that he couldn't complete because he came before the mindal uplift of the Magisterial Son (or Sons). Michael may also wait for further biologic uplift, which some of the revelators speculate may be fostered by Machiventa in the additional role as Material Son. (The Urantia Book, 93:10.6-7)
The Future +4 - Wars and rumors of wars will fade away as the teachings of Jesus, the Gospel of the Kingdom, permeate the hearts of mankind. "...peace on earth will not come until all are willing to believe and enter into their glorious inheritance of sonship with God." (The Urantia Book, 165:6.3)
The Future +5 - The races will have blended, resulting in a skin tone of an olive hue. (The Urantia Book, 52:3.7)
The Future +6 - The first stage of light and life will manifest. The world is administered by three celestial beings: the Planetary Sovereign, the chief of the planetary corps of finaliters, and Adam and Eve. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.4)
The Future +7 - The beginning of the second stage of light and life. A Life Carrier becomes the adviser of the planetary rulers regarding the further efforts to purify and stabilize the mortal race. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.8)
The Future +8 - The beginning of the third stage of light and life. Representatives of the superuniverses enter into new relationships with the planetary administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.10)
The Future +9 - The fourth stage of light and life. Trinity Teacher Sons become advisors to the world administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.14)
The Future +10 - The fifth stage of light and life pertains almost entirely on stabilizing the planetary environment. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.17)
The Future +11 - The sixth stage of light and life produces enhanced mindal function among the people of the world. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.18)
The Future +12 - The world is settled in the seventh stage of light and life. The physical forces of the planet and the sun are stabilized so that they can continue on into eternity. (The Urantia Book, 32:3.2, 55:4.18)
The Future +13 - The local universe of Nebadon becomes settled in light and life. (The Urantia Book, 15:9.15)
Istilah-istilah berkaitan dengan Tuhan dalam Buku Urantia
Mengenai Tuhan, Buku Urantia menjelaskan gamblang dan bahwa Tuhan itu ESA, Satu, Aku Ada, I Am. tidak bisa dipahami dan tidak bisa didefinisikan sama sekali. Namun demikian Tuhan yang satu itu mewahyukan diriNya pada segala makhluk dengan wujud dan metode yang disesuaikan kondisi si makhluk. Alam semesta yang ada saat ini terdiri dari empat wujud dasar: personality, spirit, mind, dan materi. Setiap wujud itu juga merupakan manifestasi Tuhan yang satu tadi, dan Tuhan menjadi pusat dari keempat wujud-dasar itu.
Berikut ada word cloud istilah-istilah yang berkaitan dengan Tuhan dalam Buku Urantia.
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1003
Berikut ada word cloud istilah-istilah yang berkaitan dengan Tuhan dalam Buku Urantia.
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1003
Sunday, June 26, 2011
PERJALANAN KE SURGA
Buku Urantia menceritakan sebuah plot perjalanan ke Paradise/Surga, sebuah lokasi riil di pusat alam raya. Para artis mencoba menggambarkannya sbb:
Journey to Paradise
Dari http://www.truthbook.com/newsletter/dsp_viewNewsletter.cfm?newsletterID=59
Untuk versi lebih besar lihat:
http://urantiabook.org/downloads/Journey_resized_a.jpg
Journey to Paradise
Dari http://www.truthbook.com/newsletter/dsp_viewNewsletter.cfm?newsletterID=59
http://urantiabook.org/downloads/Journey_resized_a.jpg
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