The following links comprise a sampling of locations within the text of
the Urantia Book that touch on the notion of "End Times" as it has come to be referred to in
present-day religious lexicon.
The
So-Called "End Times"
"Can
you not advance in your concept of God's dealing with man to that level
where you recognize that the watchword of the universe is progress?
Through long ages the human race has struggled to reach its present
position. Throughout all these millenniums Providence has been working
out the plan of progressive evolution. The two thoughts are not opposed
in practice, only in man's mistaken concepts. Divine providence is
never arrayed in opposition to true human progress, either temporal or
spiritual. Providence is always consistent with the unchanging and
perfect nature of the supreme Lawmaker."
Paper 4 -
God's Relation to the Universe
"I am absolutely assured that the
entire universe is friendly to me — this all-powerful truth I insist on
believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the
contrary."
Paper
133 - The Return from Rome
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"The adherents of this cult
worshiped in caves and other secret places, chanting hymns, mumbling
magic, eating the flesh of the sacrificial animals, and drinking the
blood. Three times a day they worshiped, with special weekly
ceremonials on the day of the sun-god and with the most elaborate
observance of all on the annual festival of Mithras, December
twenty-fifth. It was believed that the partaking of the sacrament
ensured eternal life, the immediate passing, after death, to the bosom
of Mithras, there to tarry in bliss until the judgment day. On the
judgment day the Mithraic keys of heaven would unlock the gates of
Paradise for the reception of the faithful; whereupon all the
unbaptized of the living and the dead would be annihilated upon the
return of Mithras to earth. It was taught that, when a man died, he
went before Mithras for judgment, and that at the end of the world
Mithras would summon all the dead from their graves to face the last
judgment. The wicked would be destroyed by fire, and the righteous
would reign with Mithras forever.
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Paper 98;
Sec 5 - The Cult of Mithras
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"Zoroastrianism is the only Urantian creed that perpetuates the
Dalamatian and Edenic teachings about the Seven Master Spirits. While
failing to evolve the Trinity concept, it did in a certain way approach
that of God the Sevenfold. Original Zoroastrianism was not a pure
dualism; though the early teachings did picture evil as a time
co-ordinate of goodness, it was definitely eternity-submerged in the
ultimate reality of the good. Only in later times did the belief gain
credence that good and evil contended on equal terms."
"The Jewish traditions of heaven and hell and the doctrine of devils as
recorded in the Hebrew scriptures, while founded on the lingering
traditions of Lucifer and Caligastia, were principally derived from the
Zoroastrians during the times when the Jews were under the political
and cultural dominance of the Persians. Zoroaster, like the Egyptians,
taught the "day of judgment," but he connected this event with the end
of the world."
Paper 95;
Sec 6 - The Salem Doctrines in Iran
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"In order to understand John's message, account should be taken of the
status of the Jewish people at the time he appeared upon the stage of
action. For almost one hundred years all Israel had been in a quandary;
they were at a loss to explain their continuous subjugation to gentile
overlords. Had not Moses taught that righteousness was always rewarded
with prosperity and power? Were they not God's chosen people? Why was
the throne of David desolate and vacant? In the light of the Mosaic
doctrines and the precepts of the prophets the Jews found it difficult
to explain their long-continued national desolation.
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"About one hundred years before the days of Jesus and John a new school
of religious teachers arose in Palestine, the apocalyptists. These new
teachers evolved a system of belief that accounted for the sufferings
and humiliation of the Jews on the ground that they were paying the
penalty for the nation's sins. They fell back onto the well-known
reasons assigned to explain the Babylonian and other captivities of
former times. But, so taught the apocalyptists, Israel should take
heart; the days of their affliction were almost over; the discipline of
God's chosen people was about finished; God's patience with the gentile
foreigners was about exhausted. The end of Roman rule was synonymous
with the end of the age and, in a certain sense, with the end of the
world. These new teachers leaned heavily on the predictions of Daniel,
and they consistently taught that creation was about to pass into its
final stage; the kingdoms of this world were about to become the
kingdom of God. To the Jewish mind of that day this was the meaning of
that phrase — the kingdom of heaven — which runs throughout the
teachings of both John and Jesus. To the Jews of Palestine the phrase
"kingdom of heaven" had but one meaning: an absolutely righteous state
in which God (the Messiah) would rule the nations of earth in
perfection of power just as he ruled in heaven — "Your will be done on
earth as in heaven."
Paper
135; Secs 3-12 - John the Baptist - The Life of a Shepherd
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"Jesus paused while he looked down upon the city. The Master
realized that the rejection of the spiritual concept of the Messiah,
the determination to cling persistently and blindly to the material
mission of the expected deliverer, would presently bring the Jews in
direct conflict with the powerful Roman armies, and that such a contest
could only result in the final and complete overthrow of the Jewish
nation. When his people rejected his spiritual bestowal and refused to
receive the light of heaven as it so mercifully shone upon them, they
thereby sealed their doom as an independent people with a special
spiritual mission on earth. Even the Jewish leaders subsequently
recognized that it was this secular idea of the Messiah which directly
led to the turbulence which eventually brought about their
destruction."
"Even after this explicit warning, many of Jesus' followers interpreted
these predictions as referring to the changes which would obviously
occur in Jerusalem when the reappearing of the Messiah would result in
the establishment of the New Jerusalem and in the enlargement of the
city to become the world's capital. In their minds these Jews were
determined to connect the destruction of the temple with the "end of
the world." They believed this New Jerusalem would fill all Palestine;
that the end of the world would be followed by the immediate appearance
of the "new heavens and the new earth." And so it was not strange that
Peter should say: "Master, we know that all things will pass away when
the new heavens and the new earth appear, but how shall we know when
you will return to bring all this about?"
"When Jesus heard this, he was thoughtful for some time and then said:
"You ever err since you always try to attach the new teaching to the
old; you are determined to misunderstand all my teaching; you insist on
interpreting the gospel in accordance with your established beliefs.
Nevertheless, I will try to enlighten you."
Paper
176 - Tuesday Evening on Mount Olivet
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"Many of you have dared to believe my
teachings and have already entered into the joy and liberty of the
consciousness of sonship with God. And you will bear me witness that I
have offered this same sonship with God to all the Jewish nation, even
to these very men who now seek my destruction. And even now would my
Father receive these blinded teachers and these hypocritical leaders if
they would only turn to him and accept his mercy. Even now it is not
too late for this people to receive the word of heaven and to welcome
the Son of Man."
"My Father has long dealt in mercy
with this people. Generation after generation have we sent our prophets
to teach and warn them, and generation after generation have they
killed these heaven-sent teachers. And now do your willful high priests
and stubborn rulers go right on doing this same thing. As Herod brought
about the death of John, you likewise now make ready to destroy the Son
of Man."
"As long as there is a chance that the
Jews will turn to my Father and seek salvation, the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob will keep his hands of mercy outstretched toward you;
but when you have once filled up your cup of impenitence, and when once
you have finally rejected my Father's mercy, this nation will be left
to its own counsels, and it shall speedily come to an inglorious end.
This people was called to become the light of the world, to show forth
the spiritual glory of a God-knowing race, but you have so far departed
from the fulfillment of your divine privileges that your leaders are
about to commit the supreme folly of all the ages in that they are on
the verge of finally rejecting the gift of God to all men and for all
ages — the revelation of the love of the Father in heaven for all his
creatures on earth."
"And when you do once reject this
revelation of God to man, the kingdom of heaven shall be given to other
peoples, to those who will receive it with joy and gladness. In the
name of the Father who sent me, I solemnly warn you that you are about
to lose your position in the world as the standard-bearers of eternal
truth and the custodians of the divine law. I am just now offering you
your last chance to come forward and repent, to signify your intention
to seek God with all your hearts and to enter, like little children and
by sincere faith, into the security and salvation of the kingdom of
heaven."
"My Father has long worked for your
salvation, and I came down to live among you and personally show you
the way. Many of both the Jews and the Samaritans, and even the
gentiles, have believed the gospel of the kingdom, but those who should
be first to come forward and accept the light of heaven have
steadfastly refused to believe the revelation of the truth of God — God
revealed in man and man uplifted to God."
Paper
175 - The Last Temple Discourse
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From Paper 170; Sec 5 - Later Ideas of the Kingdom:
"Having summarized the teachings of
Jesus about the kingdom of heaven, we are permitted to narrate certain
later ideas which became attached to the concept of the kingdom and to
engage in a prophetic forecast of the kingdom as it may evolve in the
age to come."
"Throughout the first centuries of the Christian propaganda, the idea
of the kingdom of heaven was tremendously influenced by the then
rapidly spreading notions of Greek idealism, the idea of the natural as
the shadow of the spiritual — the temporal as the time shadow of the
eternal."
"But the great step which marked the transplantation of the teachings
of Jesus from a Jewish to a gentile soil was taken when the Messiah of
the kingdom became the Redeemer of the church, a religious and social
organization growing out of the activities of Paul and his successors
and based on the teachings of Jesus as they were supplemented by the
ideas of Philo and the Persian doctrines of good and evil."
"The ideas and ideals of Jesus, embodied in the teaching of the gospel
of the kingdom, nearly failed of realization as his followers
progressively distorted his pronouncements. The Master's concept of the
kingdom was notably modified by two great tendencies:
1) "The Jewish believers persisted in regarding him as the
Messiah. They believed that Jesus would very soon return actually to
establish the world-wide and more or less material kingdom."
2) "The gentile Christians began very early to accept the
doctrines of Paul, which led increasingly to the general belief that
Jesus was the Redeemer of the children of the church, the new and
institutional successor of the earlier concept of the purely spiritual
brotherhood of the kingdom."
"The church, as a social outgrowth of the kingdom, would have been
wholly natural and even desirable. The evil of the church was not its
existence, but rather that it almost completely supplanted the Jesus
concept of the kingdom. Paul's institutionalized church became a
virtual substitute for the kingdom of heaven which Jesus had
proclaimed."
"But doubt not, this same kingdom of heaven which the Master taught
exists within the heart of the believer, will yet be proclaimed to this
Christian church, even as to all other religions, races, and nations on
earth — even to every individual."
"The kingdom of Jesus' teaching, the spiritual ideal of individual
righteousness and the concept of man's divine fellowship with God,
became gradually submerged into the mystic conception of the person of
Jesus as the Redeemer-Creator and spiritual head of a socialized
religious community. In this way a formal and institutional church
became the substitute for the individually spirit-led brotherhood of
the kingdom."
"The church was an inevitable and useful social result of Jesus' life
and teachings; the tragedy consisted in the fact that this social
reaction to the teachings of the kingdom so fully displaced the
spiritual concept of the real kingdom as Jesus taught and lived it."
"The kingdom, to the Jews, was the Israelite community; to the gentiles
it became the Christian church. To Jesus the kingdom was the sum of
those individuals who had confessed their faith in the fatherhood of
God, thereby declaring their wholehearted dedication to the doing of
the will of God, thus becoming members of the spiritual brotherhood of
man."
"The Master fully realized that certain social results would appear in
the world as a consequence of the spread of the gospel of the kingdom;
but he intended that all such desirable social manifestations should
appear as unconscious and inevitable outgrowths, or natural fruits, of
this inner personal experience of individual believers, this purely
spiritual fellowship and communion with the divine spirit which
indwells and activates all such believers."
"Jesus foresaw that a social organization, or church, would follow the
progress of the true spiritual kingdom, and that is why he never
opposed the apostles' practicing the rite of John's baptism. He taught
that the truth-loving soul, the one who hungers and thirsts for
righteousness, for God, is admitted by faith to the spiritual kingdom;
at the same time the apostles taught that such a believer is admitted
to the social organization of disciples by the outward rite of baptism."
"When Jesus' immediate followers recognized their partial failure to
realize his ideal of the establishment of the kingdom in the hearts of
men by the spirit's domination and guidance of the individual believer,
they set about to save his teaching from being wholly lost by
substituting for the Master's ideal of the kingdom the gradual creation
of a visible social organization, the Christian church. And when they
had accomplished this program of substitution, in order to maintain
consistency and to provide for the recognition of the Master's teaching
regarding the fact of the kingdom, they proceeded to set the kingdom
off into the future. The church, just as soon as it was well
established, began to teach that the kingdom was in reality to appear
at the culmination of the Christian age, at the second coming of
Christ."
"In this manner the kingdom became the concept of an age, the idea of a
future visitation, and the ideal of the final redemption of the saints
of the Most High. The early Christians (and all too many of the later
ones) generally lost sight of the Father-and-son idea embodied in
Jesus' teaching of the kingdom, while they substituted therefor the
well-organized social fellowship of the church. The church thus became
in the main a social brotherhood which effectively displaced Jesus'
concept and ideal of a spiritual brotherhood."
"Jesus' ideal concept largely failed, but upon the foundation of the
Master's personal life and teachings, supplemented by the Greek and
Persian concepts of eternal life and augmented by Philo's doctrine of
the temporal contrasted with the spiritual, Paul went forth to build up
one of the most progressive human societies which has ever existed on
Urantia."
"The concept of Jesus is still alive in the advanced religions of the
world. Paul's Christian church is the socialized and humanized shadow
of what Jesus intended the kingdom of heaven to be — and what it most
certainly will yet become. Paul and his successors partly transferred
the issues of eternal life from the individual to the church. Christ
thus became the head of the church rather than the elder brother of
each individual believer in the Father's family of the kingdom. Paul
and his contemporaries applied all of Jesus' spiritual implications
regarding himself and the individual believer to the church as a group
of believers; and in doing this, they struck a deathblow to Jesus'
concept of the divine kingdom in the heart of the individual believer."
"And so, for centuries, the Christian church has labored under great
embarrassment because it dared to lay claim to those mysterious powers
and privileges of the kingdom, powers and privileges which can be
exercised and experienced only between Jesus and his spiritual believer
brothers. And thus it becomes apparent that membership in the church
does not necessarily mean fellowship in the kingdom; one is spiritual,
the other mainly social."
"Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise
proclaiming "the kingdom of God is at hand" — meaning a return to the
high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the
will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of
the believer — and doing all this without in any way referring either
to the visible church on earth or to the anticipated second coming of
Christ. There must come a revival of the actual teachings of Jesus,
such a restatement as will undo the work of his early followers who
went about to create a sociophilosophical system of belief regarding
the fact of Michael's sojourn on earth. In a short time the teaching of
this story about Jesus nearly supplanted the preaching of Jesus' gospel
of the kingdom. In this way a historical religion displaced that
teaching in which Jesus had blended man's highest moral ideas and
spiritual ideals with man's most sublime hope for the future — eternal
life. And that was the gospel of the kingdom."
"It is just because the gospel of Jesus was so many-sided that within a
few centuries students of the records of his teachings became divided
up into so many cults and sects. This pitiful subdivision of Christian
believers results from failure to discern in the Master's manifold
teachings the divine oneness of his matchless life. But someday the
true believers in Jesus will not be thus spiritually divided in their
attitude before unbelievers. Always we may have diversity of
intellectual comprehension and interpretation, even varying degrees of
socialization, but lack of spiritual brotherhood is both inexcusable
and reprehensible."
"Mistake not! there is in the teachings of Jesus an eternal nature
which will not permit them forever to remain unfruitful in the hearts
of thinking men. The kingdom as Jesus conceived it has to a large
extent failed on earth; for the time being, an outward church has taken
its place; but you should comprehend that this church is only the
larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom, which will carry it
through this material age and over into a more spiritual dispensation
where the Master's teachings may enjoy a fuller opportunity for
development. Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon
in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers. The kingdom of the
divine brotherhood is still alive and will eventually and certainly
come forth from this long submergence, just as surely as the butterfly
eventually emerges as the beautiful unfolding of its less attractive
creature of metamorphic development."
Paper
170 - The Kingdom of Heaven
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"Very plainly Jesus explained that the kingdom of heaven was an
evolutionary experience, beginning here on earth and progressing up
through successive life stations to Paradise. In the course of the
evening he definitely stated that at some future stage of kingdom
development he would revisit this world in spiritual power and divine
glory."
"He next explained that the "kingdom idea" was not the best way to
illustrate man's relation to God; that he employed such figures of
speech because the Jewish people were expecting the kingdom, and
because John had preached in terms of the coming kingdom. Jesus said:
"The people of another age will better understand the gospel of the
kingdom when it is presented in terms expressive of the family
relationship — when man understands religion as the teaching of the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, sonship with God." Then
the Master discoursed at some length on the earthly family as an
illustration of the heavenly family, restating the two fundamental laws
of living: the first commandment of love for the father, the head of
the family, and the second commandment of mutual love among the
children, to love your brother as yourself. And then he explained that
such a quality of brotherly affection would invariably manifest itself
in unselfish and loving social service."
Paper
142 - The Passover at Jerusalem
The following links comprise a
sampling of locations within the text of the Urantia Book that
highlight the contrast between spiritual revelation and religious
tradition.
Religious Tradition vs. Spiritual Revelation
Paper 95 -
The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant -- The diffusion of
Melchizedek's spiritual teachings
Paper
142; Sec 2 - God's Wrath
Paper
140; Sec 6 - The Evening of the Ordination
Paper
149; Sec 2 - Attitude of the People
Paper
196; Sec 1 - Jesus--The Man
"Jesus endeavored to make clear to his
apostles the difference between his teachings and his life among them
and the teachings which might subsequently spring up about him. Said
Jesus: "My kingdom and the gospel related thereto shall be the burden
of your message. Be not sidetracked into preaching about me and about
my teachings. Proclaim the gospel of the kingdom and portray my
revelation of the Father in heaven but do not be misled into the
bypaths of creating legends and building up a cult having to do with
beliefs and teachings about my beliefs and teachings." But again they
did not understand why he thus spoke, and no man dared to ask why he so
taught them."
"In these early teachings Jesus sought to avoid controversies with his
apostles as far as possible excepting those involving wrong concepts of
his Father in heaven. In all such matters he never hesitated to correct
erroneous beliefs. There was just one motive in Jesus' postbaptismal
life on Urantia, and that was a better and truer revelation of his
Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God,
the way of faith and love. Ever his exhortation to the apostles was:
"Go seek for the sinners; find the downhearted and comfort the anxious."
Paper
138; Sec 6 - The Week of Intensive Training
Although the Large Hadron Collider is slated as the greatest
scientific experiment in human history, and while its cost is
astronomical, it unfortunately is designed specifically to hunt for a
non-existent particle. The source of the various mass of electrons is not
their interaction with a hypothetical uncharged particle in a
hypothetical field in
universal space, but rather the interassociative
functioning of the 100 particles that actually
constitute the electron, the "ULTIMATONS."
Since its publication on October 12, 1955, the Urantia
Book has publicly revealed the existence of the primal
components of all material reality, the "Ultimatons," whose
varying axial revolutionary velocities within an electron determine its
properties.
(The following are excerpts
from various sections in the Urantia
Book. Section hyperlinks lead to those respective sections and
also navigate to the corresponding audio file in the left frame.)
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
1.
PARADISE FORCES AND ENERGIES
"The foundation of the universe is material, but the essence of life is
spirit. The Father of spirits is also the ancestor of universes; the
eternal Father of the Original Son is also the eternity-source of the
original pattern, the Isle of Paradise. Matter--energy--for they are
but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality, as a universe
phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. "In him all things
consist." Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to exhibit
self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the
energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from,
and are dependent on, Paradise. The ultimaton, the first measurable
form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus."
"There is innate in matter and present in universal space a form of
energy not known on Urantia. When this discovery is finally made, then
will physicists feel that they have solved, almost at least, the
mystery of matter. And so will they have approached one step nearer the
Creator; so will they have mastered one more phase of the divine
technique; but in no sense will they have found God, neither will they
have established the existence of matter or the operation of natural
laws apart from the cosmic technique of Paradise and the motivating
purpose of the Universal Father."
"Subsequent to even still greater progress and further discoveries,
after Urantia has advanced immeasurably in comparison with present
knowledge, though you should gain control of the energy revolutions of
the electrical units of matter to the extent of modifying their
physical manifestations--even after all such possible progress, forever
will scientists be powerless to create one atom of matter or to
originate one flash of energy or ever to add to matter that which we
call life ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
6.
ULTIMATONS, ELECTRONS, AND ATOMS
"While the space charge of universal force is homogeneous and
undifferentiated, the organization of evolved energy into matter
entails the concentration of energy into discrete masses of definite
dimensions and established weight--precise gravity reaction."
"Local or linear gravity becomes fully operative with the appearance of
the atomic organization of matter. Preatomic matter becomes slightly
gravity responsive when activated by X ray and other similar energies,
but no measurable linear-gravity pull is exerted on free, unattached,
and uncharged electronic-energy particles or on unassociated
ultimatons."
"Ultimatons function by mutual attraction, responding only to the
circular Paradise-gravity pull. Without linear-gravity response they
are thus held in the universal space drift. Ultimatons are capable of
accelerating revolutionary velocity to the point of partial antigravity
behavior, but they cannot, independent of force organizers or power
directors, attain the critical escape velocity of deindividuation,
return to the puissant-energy stage. In nature, ultimatons escape the
status of physical existence only when participating in the terminal
disruption of a cooled-off and dying sun."
"The ultimatons, unknown on Urantia, slow down through many phases of
physical activity before they attain the revolutionary-energy
prerequisites to electronic organization. Ultimatons have three
varieties of motion: mutual resistance to cosmic force, individual
revolutions of antigravity potential, and the intraelectronic positions
of the one hundred mutually interassociated ultimatons."
"Mutual attraction holds one hundred ultimatons together in the
constitution of the electron; and there are never more nor less than
one hundred ultimatons in a typical electron. The loss of one or more
ultimatons destroys typical electronic identity, thus bringing into
existence one of the ten modified forms of the electron."
"Ultimatons do not describe orbits or whirl about in circuits within
the electrons, but they do spread or cluster in accordance with their
axial revolutionary velocities, thus determining the differential
electronic dimensions. This same ultimatonic velocity of axial
revolution also determines the negative or positive reactions of the
several types of electronic units. The entire segregation and grouping
of electronic matter, together with the electric differentiation of
negative and positive bodies of energy-matter, result from these
various functions of the component ultimatonic interassociation ..."
PAPER 41 - PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE
LOCAL UNIVERSE
7.
SOURCES OF SOLAR ENERGY
"There exists a regulating blanket of hot gases (sometimes millions of
degrees in temperature) which envelops the suns, and which acts to
stabilize heat loss and otherwise prevent hazardous fluctuations of
heat dissipation. During the active life of a sun the internal
temperature of 35,000,000 degrees remains about the same quite
regardless of the progressive fall of the external temperature."
"You might try to visualize 35,000,000 degrees of heat, in association
with certain gravity pressures, as the electronic boiling point. Under
such pressure and at such temperature all atoms are degraded and broken
up into their electronic and other ancestral components; even the
electrons and other associations of ultimatons may be broken up, but
the suns are not able to degrade the ultimatons ..."
PAPER 41 - PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE
LOCAL UNIVERSE
9.
SUN STABILITY
"The larger suns maintain such a gravity control over their electrons
that light escapes only with the aid of the powerful X rays. These
helper rays penetrate all space and are concerned in the maintenance of
the basic ultimatonic associations of energy. The great energy losses
in the early days of a sun, subsequent to its attainment of maximum
temperature--upwards of 35,000,000 degrees--are not so much due to
light escape as to ultimatonic leakage. These ultimaton energies escape
out into space, to engage in the adventure of electronic association
and energy materialization, as a veritable energy blast during
adolescent solar times."
"Atoms and electrons are subject to gravity. The ultimatons are not
subject to local gravity, the interplay of material attraction, but
they are fully obedient to absolute or Paradise gravity, to the trend,
the swing, of the universal and eternal circle of the universe of
universes. Ultimatonic energy does not obey the linear or direct
gravity attraction of near-by or remote material masses, but it does
ever swing true to the circuit of the great ellipse of the far-flung
creation ..."
PAPER 15 - THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES
4.
NEBULAE--THE ANCESTORS OF UNIVERSES
" ... the whole phenomenon proceeds in accordance with an ordained
technique and in conformity to the gravity laws of force, energy, and
matter. But there is something of mystery associated with the universal
force-charge of space; we quite understand the organization of the
material creations from the ultimatonic stage forward, but we do not
fully comprehend the cosmic ancestry of the ultimatons. We are
confident that these ancestral forces have a Paradise origin because
they forever swing through pervaded space in the exact gigantic
outlines of Paradise. Though nonresponsive to Paradise gravity, this
force-charge of space, the ancestor of all materialization, does always
respond to the presence of nether Paradise, being apparently circuited
in and out of the nether Paradise center ..."
PAPER 29 - THE UNIVERSE POWER
DIRECTORS
4.
THE MASTER PHYSICAL CONTROLLERS
"Primary Associators: These interesting and invaluable entities are
masterly energy conservators and custodians. Somewhat as a plant stores
solar light, so do these living organisms store energy during times of
plus manifestations. They work on a gigantic scale, converting the
energies of space into a physical state not known on Urantia. They are
also able to carry forward these transformations to the point of
producing some of the primitive units of material existence. These
beings simply act by their presence. They are in no way exhausted or
depleted by this function; they act like living catalytic agents."
"During seasons of minus manifestations they are empowered to release
these accumulated energies. But your knowledge of energy and matter is
not sufficiently advanced to make it possible to explain the technique
of this phase of their work. They always labor in compliance with
universal law, handling and manipulating atoms, electrons, and
ultimatons much as you maneuver adjustable type to make the same
alphabetical symbols tell vastly different stories ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
4.
ENERGY AND MATTER TRANSMUTATIONS
"The power centers and their associates are much concerned in the work
of transmuting the ultimaton into the circuits and revolutions of the
electron. These unique beings control and compound power by their
skillful manipulation of the basic units of materialized energy, the
ultimatons. They are masters of energy as it circulates in this
primitive state. In liaison with the physical controllers they are able
to effectively control and direct energy even after it has transmuted
to the electrical level, the so-called electronic stage. But their
range of action is enormously curtailed when electronically organized
energy swings into the whirls of the atomic systems. Upon such
materialization, these energies fall under the complete grasp of the
drawing power of linear gravity."
"Throughout all space, cold and other influences are at work creatively
organizing ultimatons into electrons. Heat is the measurement of
electronic activity, while cold merely signifies absence of
heat--comparative energy rest--the status of the universal force-charge
of space, provided neither emergent energy nor organized matter were
present and responding to gravity."
"Gravity presence and action is what prevents the appearance of the
theoretical absolute zero, for interstellar space does not have the
temperature of absolute zero. Throughout all organized space there are
gravity-responding energy currents, power circuits, and ultimatonic
activities, as well as organizing electronic energies. Practically
speaking, space is not empty. Even the atmosphere of Urantia thins out
increasingly until at about three thousand miles it begins to shade off
into the average space matter in this section of the universe. The most
nearly empty space known in Nebadon would yield about one hundred
ultimatons--the equivalent of one electron--in each cubic inch. Such
scarcity of matter is regarded as practically empty space."
"Temperature--heat and cold--is secondary only to gravity in the realms
of energy and matter evolution. Ultimatons are humbly obedient to
temperature extremes. Low temperatures favor certain forms of
electronic construction and atomic assembly, while high temperatures
facilitate all sorts of atomic breakup and material disintegration."
"When subjected to the heat and pressure of certain internal solar
states, all but the most primitive associations of matter may be broken
up. Heat can thus largely overcome gravity stability. But no known
solar heat or pressure can convert ultimatons back into puissant
energy."
"The blazing suns can transform matter into various forms of energy,
but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down electronic and
ultimatonic activity to the point of converting these energies into the
matter of the realms. Certain electronic associations of a close
nature, as well as many of the basic associations of nuclear matter,
are formed in the exceedingly low temperatures of open space, being
later augmented by association with larger accretions of materializing
energy."
"Throughout all of this never-ending metamorphosis of energy and matter
we must reckon with the influence of gravity pressure and with the
antigravity behavior of the ultimatonic energies under certain
conditions of temperature, velocity, and revolution. Temperature,
energy currents, distance, and the presence of the living force
organizers and the power directors also have a bearing on all
transmutation phenomena of energy and matter ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
3.
CLASSIFICATION OF MATTER
"Matter in all universes, excepting in the central universe, is
identical. Matter in its physical properties depends on the
revolutionary rates of its component members, the number and size of
the revolving members, their distance from the nuclear body or the
space content of matter, as well as on the presence of certain forces
as yet undiscovered on Urantia."
"In the varied suns, planets, and space bodies there are ten grand
divisions of matter:
1. Ultimatonic matter--the
prime physical units of material existence, the energy particles which
go to make up electrons.
2. Subelectronic matter--the
explosive and repellent stage of the solar supergases.
3. Electronic matter--the
electrical stage of material differentiation--electrons, protons, and
various other units entering into the varied constitution of the
electronic groups.
4. Subatomic matter--matter
existing extensively in the interior of the hot suns.
5. Shattered atoms--found
in the cooling suns and throughout space.
6. Ionized matter--individual
atoms stripped of their outer (chemically active) electrons by
electrical, thermal, or X-ray activities and by solvents.
7. Atomic matter--the
chemical stage of elemental organization, the component units of
molecular or visible matter.
8. The molecular stage of
matter--matter as it exists on Urantia in a state of relatively
stable materialization under ordinary conditions.
9. Radioactive matter--the
disorganizing tendency and activity of the heavier elements under
conditions of moderate heat and diminished gravity pressure.
10. Collapsed matter--the
relatively stationary matter found in the interior of the cold or dead
suns. This form of matter is not really stationary; there is still some
ultimatonic even electronic activity, but these units are in very close
proximity, and their rates of revolution are greatly diminished.
The foregoing classification of matter pertains to its organization
rather than to the forms of its appearance to created beings ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
7.
ATOMIC MATTER
"While atoms may contain from one to one hundred orbital electrons,
only the outer ten electrons of the larger atoms revolve about the
central nucleus as distinct and discrete bodies, intactly and compactly
swinging around on precise and definite orbits. The thirty electrons
nearest the center are difficult of observation or detection as
separate and organized bodies. This same comparative ratio of
electronic behavior in relation to nuclear proximity obtains in all
atoms regardless of the number of electrons embraced. The nearer the
nucleus, the less there is of electronic individuality. The wavelike
energy extension of an electron may so spread out as to occupy the
whole of the lesser atomic orbits; especially is this true of the
electrons nearest the atomic nucleus."
"The thirty innermost orbital electrons have individuality, but their
energy systems tend to intermingle, extending from electron to electron
and well-nigh from orbit to orbit. The next thirty electrons constitute
the second family, or energy zone, and are of advancing individuality,
bodies of matter exerting a more complete control over their attendant
energy systems. The next thirty electrons, the third energy zone, are
still more individualized and circulate in more distinct and definite
orbits. The last ten electrons, present in only the ten heaviest
elements, are possessed of the dignity of independence and are,
therefore, able to escape more or less freely from the control of the
mother nucleus. With a minimum variation in temperature and pressure,
the members of this fourth and outermost group of electrons will escape
from the grasp of the central nucleus, as is illustrated by the
spontaneous disruption of uranium and kindred elements."
"The first twenty-seven atoms, those containing from one to
twenty-seven orbital electrons, are more easy of comprehension than the
rest. From twenty-eight upward we encounter more and more of the
unpredictability of the supposed presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
But some of this electronic unpredictability is due to differential
ultimatonic axial revolutionary velocities and to the unexplained
"huddling" proclivity of ultimatons. Other influences--physical,
electrical, magnetic, and gravitational--also operate to produce
variable electronic behavior. Atoms therefore are similar to persons as
to predictability. Statisticians may announce laws governing a large
number of either atoms or persons but not for a single individual atom
or person ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
8.
ATOMIC COHESION
"While gravity is one of several factors concerned in holding together
a tiny atomic energy system, there is also present in and among these
basic physical units a powerful and unknown energy, the secret of their
basic constitution and ultimate behavior, a force which remains to be
discovered on Urantia. This universal influence permeates all the space
embraced within this tiny energy organization."
"The interelectronic space of an atom is not empty. Throughout an atom
this interelectronic space is activated by wavelike manifestations
which are perfectly synchronized with electronic velocity and
ultimatonic revolutions. This force is not wholly dominated by your
recognized laws of positive and negative attraction; its behavior is
therefore sometimes unpredictable. This unnamed influence seems to be a
space-force reaction of the Unqualified Absolute."
"The charged protons and the uncharged neutrons of the nucleus of the
atom are held together by the reciprocating function of the mesotron, a
particle of matter 180 times as heavy as the electron. Without this
arrangement the electric charge carried by the protons would be
disruptive of the atomic nucleus."
"As atoms are constituted, neither electric nor gravitational forces
could hold the nucleus together. The integrity of the nucleus is
maintained by the reciprocal cohering function of the mesotron, which
is able to hold charged and uncharged particles together because of
superior force-mass power and by the further function of causing
protons and neutrons constantly to change places. The mesotron causes
the electric charge of the nuclear particles to be incessantly tossed
back and forth between protons and neutrons. At one infinitesimal part
of a second a given nuclear particle is a charged proton and the next
an uncharged neutron. And these alternations of energy status are so
unbelievably rapid that the electric charge is deprived of all
opportunity to function as a disruptive influence. Thus does the
mesotron function as an "energy-carrier" particle which mightily
contributes to the nuclear stability of the atom."
"The presence and function of the mesotron also explains another atomic
riddle. When atoms perform radioactively, they emit far more energy
than would be expected. This excess of radiation is derived from the
breaking up of the mesotron "energy carrier," which thereby becomes a
mere electron. The mesotronic disintegration is also accompanied by the
emission of certain small uncharged particles."
"The mesotron explains certain cohesive properties of the atomic
nucleus, but it does not account for the cohesion of proton to proton
nor for the adhesion of neutron to neutron. The paradoxical and
powerful force of atomic cohesive integrity is a form of energy as yet
undiscovered on Urantia."
"These mesotrons are found abundantly in the space rays which so
incessantly impinge upon your planet ..."
PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER
5.
WAVE-ENERGY MANIFESTATIONS
"In the superuniverse of Orvonton there are one hundred octaves of wave
energy. Of these one hundred groups of energy manifestations,
sixty-four are wholly or partially recognized on Urantia. The sun's
rays constitute four octaves in the superuniverse scale, the visible
rays embracing a single octave, number forty-six in this series. The
ultraviolet group comes next, while ten octaves up are the X rays,
followed by the gamma rays of radium. Thirty-two octaves above the
visible light of the sun are the outer-space energy rays so frequently
commingled with their associated highly energized minute particles of
matter. Next downward from visible sunlight appear the infrared rays,
and thirty octaves below are the radio transmission group."
"Wavelike energy manifestations--from the standpoint of
twentieth-century Urantia scientific enlightenment--may be classified
into the following ten groups:
1. Infraultimatonic rays - The borderland revolutions of
ultimatons as they begin to assume definite form. This is the first
stage of emergent energy in which wavelike phenomena can be detected
and measured.
2. Ultimatonic rays - The assembly of energy into the minute
spheres of the ultimatons occasions vibrations in the content of space
which are discernible and measurable.
And long before physicists ever discover the ultimaton, they will
undoubtedly detect the phenomena of these rays as they shower in upon
Urantia. These short and powerful rays represent the initial activity
of the ultimatons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer
towards the electronic organization of matter. As the ultimatons
aggregate into electrons, condensation occurs with a consequent storage
of energy ..."
" ... The so-called ether is merely a collective name to designate a
group of force and energy activities occurring in space. Ultimatons,
electrons, and other mass aggregations of energy are uniform particles
of matter, and in their transit through space they really proceed in
direct lines. Light and all other forms of recognizable energy
manifestations consist of a succession of definite energy particles
which proceed in direct lines except as modified by gravity and other
intervening forces. That these processions of energy particles appear
as wave phenomena when subjected to certain observations is due to the
resistance of the undifferentiated force blanket of all space, the
hypothetical ether, and to the intergravity tension of the associated
aggregations of matter. The spacing of the particle-intervals of
matter, together with the initial velocity of the energy beams,
establishes the undulatory appearance of many forms of energy-matter."
"The excitation of the content of space produces a wavelike reaction to
the passage of rapidly moving particles of matter, just as the passage
of a ship through water initiates waves of varying amplitude and
interval."
"Primordial-force behavior does give rise to phenomena which are in
many ways analogous to your postulated ether. Space is not empty; the
spheres of all space whirl and plunge on through a vast ocean of
outspread force-energy; neither is the space content of an atom empty.
Nevertheless there is no ether, and the very absence of this
hypothetical ether enables the inhabited planet to escape falling into
the sun and the encircling electron to resist falling into the nucleus
..."
PAPER 105 - DEITY AND REALITY
2.
THE I AM AS TRIUNE AND AS SEVENFOLD
"The Universal One of Infinity. I AM as I AM. This is the stasis or
self-relationship of Infinity, the eternal fact of infinity-reality and
the universal truth of reality-infinity. In so far as this relationship
is discernible as personality, it is revealed to the universes in the
divine Father of all personality--even of absolute personality. In so
far as this relationship is impersonally expressible, it is contacted
by the universe as the absolute coherence of pure energy and of pure
spirit in the presence of the Universal Father. In so far as this
relationship is conceivable as an absolute, it is revealed in the
primacy of the First Source and Center; in him we all live and move and
have our being, from the creatures of space to the citizens of
Paradise; and this is just as true of the master universe as of the
infinitesimal ultimaton, just as true of what is to be as of that which
is and of what has been."
