What better way to introduce ourselves to you than to share some of our most favorite passages from The URANTIA Book? Here they are.
STEPHEN
If man recognized that his Creators--his immediate
supervisors while being devine were also finite, then would the inconsistencies
of temporal inequalities cease to be profound religious paradoxes. No
longer would religious faith be prostituted to the promotion of social
smugness in the fortunate while serving only to encourage stoical resignation
in the unfortunate victims of social deprivation. pg 1268:1
HOLLY
The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man,
not by feelings or emotions, but in the realm of the highest and most
spiritualized thinking. It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead
you Godward. The divine nature may be perceived only with the eyes of
the mind. But the mind that really discerns God, hears the indwelling
Adjuster, is the pure mind. "Without holiness no man may see the
Lord." All such inner and spiritual communion is termed spiritual
insight. Such religious experiences result from the impress made upon
the mind of man by the combined operations of the Adjuster and the Spirit
of Truth as they function amid and upon the ideas, ideals, insights, and
spirit strivings of the evolving sons of God. pg. 1104:6
GREGG
L ove of adventure, curiosity,
and dread of monotony--these traits inherent in evolving human nature--were
not put there just to aggravate and annoy you during your short sojourn
on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is only the beginning
of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation,
an eternal voyage of discovery. pg.159:6
ISTAFAN
S ocial maturity is equivalent to the degree
to which man is willing to surrender the gratification of mere transient
and present desires for the entertainment of those superior longings the
striving for whose attainment affords the more abundant satisfactions
of progressive advancement toward permanent goals. But the true badge
of social maturity is the willingness of a people to surrender the right
to live peaceably and contentedly under the ease-promoting standards of
the lure of established beliefs and conventional ideas for the disquieting
and energy-requiring lure of the pursuit of the unexplored possibilities
of the attainment of undiscovered goals of idealistic spiritual realities.
pg.1773:1
DOUG
T he unity of religious experience among a social
or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment
indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin
to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality
is unique--no two mortals being alike--it inevitably follows that no two
human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit
of divinity which lives within their minds. A group of mortals can experience
spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity. And
this diversity of the interpretation of religious thought and experience
is shown by the fact that twentieth-century theologians and philosophers
have formulated upward of five hundred different definitions of religion.
In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own
experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the
God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation
be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other
human beings. pg.1129:8
SCOTT
A ll mortal concepts of reality are based on the
assumption of the actuality of human personality; all concepts of superhuman
realities are based on the experience of the human personality with and
in the cosmic realities of certain associated spiritual entities and divine
personalities. Everything nonspiritual in human experience, excepting
personality, is a means to an end. Every true relationship of mortal man
with other persons--human or divine--is an end in itself. And such fellowship
with the personality of Deity is the eternal goal of universe ascension.
pg.1228:3
ARTHUR
But it is sad to record that so few persons on Urantia
take delight in cultivating these qualities of courageous and independent
cosmic thinking. pg.192:5
"The failure of the individual to make use of these inherent insights, of the Cosmic mind , which is in all of us, prevents or inhibits the growth of the soul."
JEFF
To material, evolutionary, finite creatures, a life
predicated on the living of the Father's will leads directly to the attainment
of spirit supremacy in the personality arena and brings such creatures
one step nearer the comprehension of the Father-Infinite. Such a Father
life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by
goodness. Such a God-knowing person is inwardly illuminated by worship
and outwardly devoted to the wholehearted service of the universal brotherhood
of all personalities, a service ministry which is filled with mercy and
motivated by love, while all these life qualities are unified in the evolving
personality on ever-ascending levels of cosmic wisdom, self-realization,
God-finding, and Father worship. pg. 1175:1