PART III
The History of Urantia
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- The Origin of Urantia651
- The Andronover Nebula651
- The Primary Nebular Stage652
- The Secondary Nebular Stage653
- Tertiary and Quartan Stages654
- Origin of Monmatia—The Urantia Solar System655
- The Solar System Stage—The Planet-Forming Era657
- The Meteoric Era—The Volcanic Age
The Primitive Planetary Atmosphere658 - Crustal Stabilization
The Age of Earthquakes
The World Ocean and the First Continent660 - Life Establishment on Urantia664
- Physical-Life Prerequisites664
- The Urantia Atmosphere665
- Spatial Environment666
- The Life-Dawn Era667
- The Continental Drift668
- The Transition Period669
- The Geologic History Book670
- The Marine-Life Era on Urantia672
- Early Marine Life in the Shallow Seas
The Trilobite Age673 - The First Continental Flood Stage
The Invertebrate-Animal Age674 - The Second Great Flood Stage
The Coral Period—The Brachiopod Age676 - The Great Land-Emergence Stage
The Vegetative Land-Life Period
The Age of Fishes678 - The Crustal-Shifting Stage
The Fern-Forest Carboniferous Period
The Age of Frogs680 - The Climatic Transition Stage
The Seed-Plant Period
The Age of Biologic Tribulation682 - Urantia During the Early Land-Life Era685
- The Early Reptilian Age685
- The Later Reptilian Age687
- The Cretaceous Stage
The Flowering-Plant Period
The Age of Birds688 - The End of the Chalk Period691
- The Mammalian Era on Urantia693
- The New Continental Land Stage
The Age of Early Mammals693 - The Recent Flood Stage
The Age of Advanced Mammals694 - The Modern Mountain Stage
Age of the Elephant and the Horse696 - The Recent Continental-Elevation Stage
The Last Great Mammalian Migration698 - The Early Ice Age699
- Primitive Man in the Ice Age700
- The Continuing Ice Age700
- The Dawn Races of Early Man703
- The Early Lemur Types703
- The Dawn Mammals703
- The Mid-Mammals704
- The Primates706
- The First Human Beings707
- Evolution of the Human Mind709
- Recognition as an Inhabited World709
- The First Human Family711
- Andon and Fonta711
- The Flight of the Twins712
- Andon’s Family713
- The Andonic Clans713
- Dispersion of the Andonites715
- Onagar—The First Truth Teacher715
- The Survival of Andon and Fonta717
- The Evolutionary Races of Color718
- The Andonic Aborigines718
- The Foxhall Peoples719
- The Badonan Tribes720
- The Neanderthal Races720
- Origin of the Colored Races722
- The Six Sangik Races of Urantia722
- Dispersion of the Colored Races726
- The Overcontrol of Evolution730
- Life Carrier Functions730
- The Evolutionary Panorama731
- The Fostering of Evolution733
- The Urantia Adventure734
- Life-Evolution Vicissitudes736
- Evolutionary Techniques of Life737
- Evolutionary Mind Levels738
- Evolution in Time and Space739
- The Planetary Prince of Urantia741
- Prince Caligastia741
- The Prince’s Staff742
- Dalamatia—The City of the Prince743
- Early Days of the One Hundred743
- Organization of the One Hundred745
- The Prince’s Reign749
- Life in Dalamatia750
- Misfortunes of Caligastia752
- The Planetary Rebellion754
- The Caligastia Betrayal754
- The Outbreak of Rebellion755
- The Seven Crucial Years756
- The Caligastia One Hundred After Rebellion757
- Immediate Results of Rebellion758
- Van—The Steadfast759
- Remote Repercussions of Sin760
- The Human Hero of the Rebellion761
- The Dawn of Civilization763
- Protective Socialization763
- Factors in Social Progression764
- Socializing Influence of Ghost Fear766
- Evolution of the Mores767
- Land Techniques—Maintenance Arts768
- Evolution of Culture769
- Primitive Human Institutions772
- Basic Human Institutions772
- The Dawn of Industry773
- The Specialization of Labor773
- The Beginnings of Trade775
- The Beginnings of Capital775
- Fire in Relation to Civilization777
- The Utilization of Animals778
- Slavery as a Factor in Civilization778
- Private Property780
- The Evolution of Human Government783
- The Genesis of War783
- The Social Value of War785
- Early Human Associations787
- Clans and Tribes788
- The Beginnings of Government788
- Monarchial Government789
- Primitive Clubs and Secret Societies790
- Social Classes792
- Human Rights793
- Evolution of Justice794
- Laws and Courts796
- Allocation of Civil Authority797
- Development of the State800
- The Embryonic State800
- The Evolution of Representative Government801
- The Ideals of Statehood803
- Progressive Civilization804
- The Evolution of Competition805
- The Profit Motive805
- Education806
- The Character of Statehood806
- Government on a Neighboring Planet808
- The Continental Nation808
- Political Organization809
- The Home Life811
- The Educational System812
- Industrial Organization813
- Old-Age Insurance814
- Taxation815
- The Special Colleges816
- The Plan of Universal Suffrage817
- Dealing with Crime818
- Military Preparedness818
- The Other Nations819
- The Garden of Eden821
- The Nodites and the Amadonites821
- Planning for the Garden822
- The Garden Site823
- Establishing the Garden823
- The Garden Home824
- The Tree of Life825
- The Fate of Eden826
- Adam and Eve828
- Adam and Eve on Jerusem828
- Arrival of Adam and Eve829
- Adam and Eve Learn About the Planet830
- The First Upheaval832
- Adam’s Administration833
- Home Life of Adam and Eve834
- Life in the Garden835
- The Legend of Creation836
- The Default of Adam and Eve839
- The Urantia Problem839
- Caligastia’s Plot840
- The Temptation of Eve841
- The Realization of Default842
- Repercussions of Default843
- Adam and Eve Leave the Garden844
- Degradation of Adam and Eve845
- The So-Called Fall of Man845
- The Second Garden847
- The Edenites Enter Mesopotamia847
- Cain and Abel848
- Life in Mesopotamia849
- The Violet Race850
- Death of Adam and Eve851
- Survival of Adam and Eve853
- The Midway Creatures855
- The Primary Midwayers855
- The Nodite Race856
- The Tower of Babel858
- Nodite Centers of Civilization859
- Adamson and Ratta861
- The Secondary Midwayers862
- The Rebel Midwayers863
- The United Midwayers864
- The Permanent Citizens of Urantia865
- The Violet Race After the Days of Adam868
- Racial and Cultural Distribution868
- The Adamites in the Second Garden869
- Early Expansions of the Adamites870
- The Andites871
- The Andite Migrations872
- The Last Andite Dispersions873
- The Floods in Mesopotamia874
- The Sumerians—Last of the Andites875
- Andite Expansion in the Orient878
- The Andites of Turkestan878
- The Andite Conquest of India879
- Dravidian India881
- The Aryan Invasion of India882
- Red Man and Yellow Man883
- Dawn of Chinese Civilization884
- The Andites Enter China886
- Later Chinese Civilization887
- Andite Expansion in the Occident889
- The Adamites Enter Europe889
- Climatic and Geologic Changes890
- The Cro-Magnoid Blue Man891
- The Andite Invasions of Europe892
- The Andite Conquest of Northern Europe893
- The Andites Along the Nile894
- Andites of the Mediterranean Isles895
- The Danubian Andonites896
- The Three White Races897
- Development of Modern Civilization900
- The Cradle of Civilization900
- The Tools of Civilization901
- Cities, Manufacture, and Commerce903
- The Mixed Races904
- Cultural Society905
- The Maintenance of Civilization906
- The Evolution of Marriage913
- The Mating Instinct913
- The Restrictive Taboos914
- Early Marriage Mores915
- Marriage Under the Property Mores917
- Endogamy and Exogamy918
- Racial Mixtures919
- The Marriage Institution922
- Marriage as a Societal Institution922
- Courtship and Betrothal923
- Purchase and Dowry923
- The Wedding Ceremony924
- Plural Marriages925
- True Monogamy—Pair Marriage927
- The Dissolution of Wedlock928
- The Idealization of Marriage929
- Marriage and Family Life931
- Primitive Pair Associations931
- The Early Mother-Family932
- The Family Under Father Dominance933
- Woman’s Status in Early Society935
- Woman Under the Developing Mores936
- The Partnership of Man and Woman938
- The Ideals of Family Life939
- Dangers of Self-Gratification942
- The Origins of Worship944
- Worship of Stones and Hills944
- Worship of Plants and Trees945
- The Worship of Animals946
- Worship of the Elements946
- Worship of the Heavenly Bodies947
- Worship of Man948
- The Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom948
- Early Evolution of Religion950
- Chance: Good Luck and Bad Luck950
- The Personification of Chance951
- Death—The Inexplicable952
- The Death-Survival Concept952
- The Ghost-Soul Concept953
- The Ghost-Spirit Environment955
- The Function of Primitive Religion956
- The Ghost Cults958
- Ghost Fear958
- Ghost Placation959
- Ancestor Worship960
- Good and Bad Spirit Ghosts961
- The Advancing Ghost Cult962
- Coercion and Exorcism963
- Nature of Cultism965
- Fetishes, Charms, and Magic967
- Belief in Fetishes967
- Evolution of the Fetish968
- Totemism970
- Magic970
- Magical Charms971
- The Practice of Magic972
- Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement974
- The Taboo974
- The Concept of Sin975
- Renunciation and Humiliation976
- Origins of Sacrifice977
- Sacrifices and Cannibalism978
- Evolution of Human Sacrifice980
- Modifications of Human Sacrifice981
- Redemption and Covenants982
- Sacrifices and Sacraments983
- Forgiveness of Sin984
- Shamanism—Medicine Men and Priests986
- The First Shamans—The Medicine Men986
- Shamanistic Practices987
- The Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death989
- Medicine Under the Shamans990
- Priests and Rituals992
- The Evolution of Prayer994
- Primitive Prayer994
- Evolving Prayer995
- Prayer and the Alter Ego996
- Ethical Praying997
- Social Repercussions of Prayer998
- The Province of Prayer999
- Mysticism, Ecstasy, and Inspiration1000
- Praying as a Personal Experience1001
- Conditions of Effective Prayer1002
- The Later Evolution of Religion1003
- The Evolutionary Nature of Religion1003
- Religion and the Mores1004
- The Nature of Evolutionary Religion1005
- The Gift of Revelation1007
- The Great Religious Leaders1008
- The Composite Religions1010
- The Further Evolution of Religion1012
- Machiventa Melchizedek1014
- The Machiventa Incarnation1014
- The Sage of Salem1015
- Melchizedek’s Teachings1016
- The Salem Religion1017
- The Selection of Abraham1018
- Melchizedek’s Covenant with Abraham1020
- The Melchizedek Missionaries1021
- Departure of Melchizedek1022
- After Melchizedek’s Departure1022
- Present Status of Machiventa Melchizedek1024
- The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient1027
- The Salem Teachings in Vedic India1027
- Brahmanism1028
- Brahmanic Philosophy1030
- The Hindu Religion1031
- The Struggle for Truth in China1032
- Lao-Tse and Confucius1033
- Gautama Siddhartha1035
- The Buddhist Faith1036
- The Spread of Buddhism1037
- Religion in Tibet1038
- Buddhist Philosophy1038
- The God Concept of Buddhism1040
- The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant1042
- The Salem Religion in Mesopotamia1042
- Early Egyptian Religion1043
- Evolution of Moral Concepts1045
- The Teachings of Amenemope1046
- The Remarkable Ikhnaton1047
- The Salem Doctrines in Iran1049
- The Salem Teachings in Arabia1050
- Yahweh—God of the Hebrews1052
- Deity Concepts Among the Semites1052
- The Semitic Peoples1054
- The Matchless Moses1055
- The Proclamation of Yahweh1056
- The Teachings of Moses1057
- The God Concept After Moses’ Death1059
- Psalms and the Book of Job1060
- Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews1062
- Samuel—First of the Hebrew Prophets1062
- Elijah and Elisha1064
- Yahweh and Baal1064
- Amos and Hosea1065
- The First Isaiah1066
- Jeremiah the Fearless1067
- The Second Isaiah1068
- Sacred and Profane History1070
- Hebrew History1071
- The Hebrew Religion1075
- The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident1077
- The Salem Religion Among the Greeks1077
- Greek Philosophic Thought1078
- The Melchizedek Teachings in Rome1080
- The Mystery Cults1081
- The Cult of Mithras1082
- Mithraism and Christianity1083
- The Christian Religion1083
- The Social Problems of Religion1086
- Religion and Social Reconstruction1086
- Weakness of Institutional Religion1087
- Religion and the Religionist1088
- Transition Difficulties1089
- Social Aspects of Religion1090
- Institutional Religion1092
- Religion’s Contribution1092
- Religion in Human Experience1094
- Religious Growth1094
- Spiritual Growth1095
- Concepts of Supreme Value1096
- Problems of Growth1097
- Conversion and Mysticism1098
- Marks of Religious Living1100
- The Acme of Religious Living1101
- The Real Nature of Religion1104
- True Religion1104
- The Fact of Religion1105
- The Characteristics of Religion1107
- The Limitations of Revelation1109
- Religion Expanded by Revelation1110
- Progressive Religious Experience1111
- A Personal Philosophy of Religion1113
- Faith and Belief1114
- Religion and Morality1115
- Religion as Man’s Liberator1116
- The Foundations of Religious Faith1118
- Assurances of Faith1118
- Religion and Reality1119
- Knowledge, Wisdom, and Insight1121
- The Fact of Experience1123
- The Supremacy of Purposive Potential1123
- The Certainty of Religious Faith1124
- The Certitude of the Divine1126
- The Evidences of Religion1127
- The Reality of Religious Experience1129
- Philosophy of Religion1129
- Religion and the Individual1130
- Religion and the Human Race1132
- Spiritual Communion1133
- The Origin of Ideals1133
- Philosophic Co-ordination1135
- Science and Religion1137
- Philosophy and Religion1140
- The Essence of Religion1140
- Growth of the Trinity Concept1143
- Urantian Trinity Concepts1143
- Trinity Unity and Deity Plurality1145
- Trinities and Triunities1146
- The Seven Triunities1147
- Triodities1151
- Deity and Reality1152
- The Philosophic Concept of the I AM1152
- The I AM as Triune and as Sevenfold1153
- The Seven Absolutes of Infinity1155
- Unity, Duality, and Triunity1157
- Promulgation of Finite Reality1158
- Repercussions of Finite Reality1159
- Eventuation of Transcendentals1159
- Universe Levels of Reality1162
- Primary Association of Finite Functionals1163
- Secondary Supreme Finite Integration1164
- Transcendental Tertiary Reality Association1165
- Ultimate Quartan Integration1166
- Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association1167
- Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration1167
- Finality of Destiny1168
- The Trinity of Trinities1170
- Existential Infinite Unification1173
- Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters1176
- Origin of Thought Adjusters1177
- Classification of Adjusters1178
- The Divinington Home of Adjusters1179
- Nature and Presence of Adjusters1180
- Adjuster Mindedness1181
- Adjusters as Pure Spirits1182
- Adjusters and Personality1183
- Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters1185
- Selection and Assignment1185
- Prerequisites of Adjuster Indwelling1186
- Organization and Administration1188
- Relation to Other Spiritual Influences1190
- The Adjuster’s Mission1191
- God in Man1192
- Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures1195
- Development of Adjusters1195
- Self-Acting Adjusters1196
- Relation of Adjusters to Mortal Types1197
- Adjusters and Human Personality1198
- Material Handicaps to Adjuster Indwelling1199
- The Persistence of True Values1200
- Destiny of Personalized Adjusters1201
- Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals1203
- Indwelling the Mortal Mind1203
- Adjusters and Human Will1204
- Co-operation with the Adjuster1205
- The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind1207
- Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance1207
- The Seven Psychic Circles1209
- The Attainment of Immortality1212
- The Adjuster and the Soul1215
- The Mind Arena of Choice1216
- Nature of the Soul1217
- The Evolving Soul1218
- The Inner Life1219
- The Consecration of Choice1221
- The Human Paradox1221
- The Adjuster’s Problem1223
- Personality Survival1225
- Personality and Reality1226
- The Self1227
- The Phenomenon of Death1229
- Adjusters After Death1231
- Survival of the Human Self1232
- The Morontia Self1235
- Adjuster Fusion1237
- Seraphic Guardians of Destiny1241
- The Guardian Angels1241
- The Destiny Guardians1242
- Relation to Other Spirit Influences1244
- Seraphic Domains of Action1245
- Seraphic Ministry to Mortals1245
- Guardian Angels After Death1246
- Seraphim and the Ascendant Career1248
- Seraphic Planetary Government1250
- The Sovereignty of Urantia1250
- The Board of Planetary Supervisors1251
- The Resident Governor General1252
- The Most High Observer1253
- The Planetary Government1254
- The Master Seraphim of Planetary Supervision1254
- The Reserve Corps of Destiny1257
- The Supreme Being1260
- Relativity of Concept Frames1260
- The Absolute Basis for Supremacy1261
- Original, Actual, and Potential1261
- Sources of Supreme Reality1263
- Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity1264
- Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities1265
- The Nature of the Supreme1266
- The Almighty Supreme1268
- The Supreme Mind1268
- The Almighty and God the Sevenfold1269
- The Almighty and Paradise Deity1270
- The Almighty and the Supreme Creators1271
- The Almighty and the Sevenfold Controllers1273
- Spirit Dominance1275
- The Living Organism of the Grand Universe1276
- God the Supreme1278
- Nature of the Supreme Being1278
- The Source of Evolutionary Growth1280
- Significance of the Supreme to Universe Creatures1281
- The Finite God1283
- The Oversoul of Creation1285
- The Quest for the Supreme1287
- The Future of the Supreme1291
- Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space1294
- Time and Eternity1295
- Omnipresence and Ubiquity1296
- Time-Space Relationships1297
- Primary and Secondary Causation1298
- Omnipotence and Compossibility1299
- Omnipotence and Omnificence1299
- Omniscience and Predestination1300
- Control and Overcontrol1301
- Universe Mechanisms1303
- Functions of Providence1304
- The Bestowals of Christ Michael1308
- The First Bestowal1309
- The Second Bestowal1310
- The Third Bestowal1312
- The Fourth Bestowal1313
- The Fifth Bestowal1314
- The Sixth Bestowal1315
- The Seventh and Final Bestowal1316
- Michael’s Postbestowal Status1317
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