Marriage and Family (study arc)

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

• The Origins
  • Part 1 [Paper 82:0-2, p. 913]
  • Part 2 [Paper 82:3, p. 915]
  • Part 3 [Paper 82:3-4, p. 915]
  • Part 4 [Paper 82:5, p. 918]
  • Part 5 [Paper 82:6, p. 919]

• The Institutions
  • Part 1 [Paper 83:0-2, p. 922]
  • Part 2 [Paper 83:3-4, p. 923]
  • Part 3 [Paper 83:5-6, p. 925]
  • Part 4 [Paper 83:7-8, p. 928]

• The Ideals
  • Part 1 [Paper 84:0-2, p. 931]
  • Part 2 [Paper 84:3-4, p. 933]
  • Part 3 [Paper 84:5-6, p. 936]
  • Part 4 [Paper 84:7, p. 939]
  • Part 5 [Paper 84:7, p. 939] and [Paper 142:7, p. 1603]
  • Part 6 [Paper 84:8, p. 942] and [Paper 68:2, p. 764]