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Welcome to Symmetry of Soul’s weekly 2-hour study of The Urantia Papers. We’re seeking to grasp the fifth epochal revelation in a synthetic wholeness. Tonight, Paper 123.

It's our arc: "Jesus of Nazareth"

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I'm Brad Garner, and we're so glad you've joined us live or in our archive.

With us tonight is Dr. Chris Halvorson, David Tucker, and Justin Armstrong

So won't you join us in our study? Please call up the text of The Urantia Book by paper or electronic means, and take a virtual seat with us as we seek new wineskins.

Quotables

  • And yet some of the less imaginative of your mortal mechanists insist on viewing material creation and human evolution as an accident. [58:2.3]
  • It is helpful to man’s cosmic orientation to attain all possible comprehension of Deity’s relation to the cosmos. [118:1.1] The finite of time contains within itself the seeds of eternity. [117:5.14]
  • The gods who ordained that mortal man should climb to higher levels of spiritual intelligence through long ages of evolutionary trials and tribulations, take note of his status and needs at every stage of the ascent
  • What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, the Son of Man should be recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be presented as the living Jesus...
  • What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof...
  • What a glorious destiny for the animal-origin children of time, the material sons of space!
  • It's an opportunity for you to lighten your burdens of soul by speedily acquiring a long-distance view of your destiny.
  • Boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life! The infinite treasures of such a matchless career are ours for the striving!
  • It's the supreme assurance that throughout all endless futurity an ascending personality will have before him the possibilities of personality development and Deity association which even eternity will neither exhaust nor terminate.
  • The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before us!
  • ...the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God, but God is much, much more than a Father.
  • God is much, much more than a Father. We must think in a mortal universe frame, but we can envision other and higher frames within which thought can take place.

Our authors declare, "All our efforts to enlarge the human concept of God would be well-nigh futile except for the fact that the mortal mind is indwelt by the bestowed Adjuster of the Universal Father and is pervaded by the Truth Spirit of the Creator Son."


  • We strive to engage these papers with patience, loyalty, humility, sincerity. And honesty.
  • Are you beginning to see how the experiential sits upon the foundations the existential? That you must do something as well as be something?
  • Join us as we stir up those preconceived opinions, settled ideas, and longstanding prejudices we've held.
  • "God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited."


  • God-knowing individuals are not discouraged by misfortune or downcast by disappointment.
  • spirit livers are not perturbed by the episodes of the material world.
  • Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable.


Old Quotables

  • Many human reactions are mechanical in nature; much of life is machinelike. But man, a mechanism, is much more than a machine; he is mind endowed and spirit indwelt... he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this physical-life machine to the directive wisdom of experience by the process of consecrating the human mind to the execution of the spiritual urges of the indwelling Thought Adjuster. [118:8.2]
  • The whole scheme of living existences on the worlds of space is centered in the divine purpose. [2:2.5] The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. [112:5.1]
  • The perfected grand universe...will be vastly different from what it is at present. ...The time universes will have achieved the fulfillment of finite destiny! And perhaps for a space there will be rest, relaxation from the agelong struggle for evolutionary perfection. But not for long!
  • If the gods designed merely to take you on one long and eternal joy excursion, they certainly would not so largely turn the whole universe into one vast and intricate practical training school.
  • Remember: While inherited urges cannot be fundamentally modified, emotional responses to such urges can be changed; therefore the moral nature can be modified, character can be improved.
  • The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on!
  • What a glorious universe, in that it is personal and progressive, not merely mechanical or even passively perfect!
  • No matter how much of God we may attain, there will always remain much more of him, the existence of which we will not even suspect... The quest for God is endless!
  • Primitive man only thought when he was hungry, but advanced mortals hunger for more than their daily bread.
  • Advanced mortals learn that love is the greatest thing in the universe—and they know that God is love. Love is the desire to do good to others.
  • The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival.
  • Every day a true believer lives, they find it easier to do the right thing.
  • Do we fully appreciate what has been done for us? Do we comprehend the grandeur of the heights of eternal achievement which are spread out before us?
  • What an adventure! What a romance!
  • These papers describe God, the Grand universe and its many inhabitants, the origin and history of our planet, the life and teachings of Jesus, and the glorious destiny God has planned for every creature throughout his vast domain.
  • Such a life on such a planet!
  • ...In every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, “This is the way.”