Marriage and Family (study arc)
From Symmetry of Soul
 |
DRAFT: This page is in a tentative draft status. It may contain problems ranging from typographical errors to philosophic inconsistency. Nevertheless, it is offered under the be bold wiki publication model. |
Marriage and Family was a 15-episode arc covered in 2015 by Symmetry of Soul. It comprises 3 series covering 3 papers of The Urantia Book: Papers 82, 83, and 84.
Some things to keep in mind
- These papers reveal the evolution of men and women's relationships
- It's one evolutionary system.
- Seeing the evolutionary history ought to help serious student better contextualize the times he or she now lives in.
- The institutions evolve over time to realize higher and higher ideas as they are recognized by evolving mankind.
- Marriage AND family must be understood together to properly understand either one.
- Family is the foundation of all human institutions.
- Marriage gave us the home, and the home is the "crowning glory" of the struggles of evolution.
- The home is nucleus upon which all civilization is based on.
- If the family is in jeopardy as an institution, then civilization also is in jeopardy--in danger of collapse.
- These papers are in the 5th ER because of their direct implications for civilization.
- They aren't merely here to help us understand how men and women can understand each other better (though that's a decent side effect)
- We have a duty to civilization by way of these institutions.
List of Series and Their Parts
| Series name | Episode page | Associated reading | Date of episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Origins | Part 1 | [82:0-2, p. 913] | February 17, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [82:3, p. 915] | February 24, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [82:3-4, p. 915] | March 3, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [82:5, p. 918] | March 10, 2015 | |
| Part 5 | [82:6, p. 919] | March 17, 2015 | |
| The Institutions | Part 1 | [83:0-2, p. 922] | March 24, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [83:3-4, p. 923] | March 31, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [83:5-6, p. 925] | April 7, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [83:7-8, p. 928] | April 14, 2015 | |
| The Ideals | Part 1 | [84:0-2, p. 931] | April 21, 2015 |
| Part 2 | [84:3-4, p. 933] | April 28, 2015 | |
| Part 3 | [84:5-6, p. 936] | May 5, 2015 | |
| Part 4 | [84:7, p. 939] | May 19, 2015 | |
| Part 5 | [84:7, p. 939] and [142:7, p. 1603] | May 26, 2015 | |
| Part 6 | [84:8, p. 942] and [68:2, p. 764] | June 2, 2015 |
