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Part 3 of The Urantia Book

Urantia is the name of our Earth on the Local Universe registry of inhabited worlds

Composite image of our world -- Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

This detailed history of our world includes the geological and biological evolution, a new perspective on evolution and creationism, and a history of human cultural, religious, and spiritual development. It revitalizes the archetypal stories of Judeo-Christian religion including the rebellion of Lucifer, Adam and Eve, the visit of Melchizedek and Abraham, and much more.

Paper 57:
The Origin of Urantia

1. The Andronover Nebula
2. The Primary Nebular Stage
3. The Secondary Nebular Stage
4. Tertiary and Quartan Stages
5. Origin of Monmatia - The Urantia Solar System
6. The Solar System Stage
7. The Meteoric Era
8. Crustal Stabilization

Paper 58:
Life Establishment on Urantia

1. Physical-Life Prerequisites
2. The Urantia Atmosphere
3. Spatial Environment
4. The Life-Dawn Era
5. The Continental Drift
6. The Transition Period
7. The Geologic History Book

Paper 59:
The Marine-Life Era on Urantia

1. Early Marine Life in the Shallow Seas
2. The First Continental Flood Stage
3. The Second Great Flood Stage
4. The Great Land-Emergence Stage
5. The Crustal-shifting Stage
6. The Climatic Transition Stage

Paper 60:
Urantia During the Early Land-Life Era

1. The Early Reptilian Age
2. The Later Reptilian Age
3. The Cretaceous Stage
4. The End of the Chalk Period

Paper 61:
The Mammalian Era on Urantia

1. The New Continental Land Stage
2. The Recent Flood Stage
3. The Modern Mountain Stage
4. The Recent Continental-Elevation Stage
5. The Early Ice Age
6. Primitive Man in the Ice Age
7. The Continuing Ice Age

Paper 62:
The Dawn Races of Early Man

1. The Early Lemur Types
2. The Dawn Mammals
3. The Mid-Mammals
4. The Primates
5. The First Human Beings
6. Evolution of the Human Mind
7. Recognition as an Inhabited World

Paper 63:
The First Human Family

1. Andon and Fonta
2. The Flight of the Twins
3. Andon's Family
4. The Andonic Clans
5. Dispersion of the Andonites
6. Onagar - The First Truth Teacher
7. The Survival of Andon and Fonta

Paper 64:
The Evolutionary Races of Color

1. The Andonic Aborigines
2. The Foxhall Peoples
3. The Badonan Tribes
4. The Neanderthal Races
5. Origin of the Colored Races
6. The Six Sangik Races of Urantia
7. Dispersion of the Colored Races

Paper 65:
The Overcontrol of Evolution

1. Life Carrier Functions
2. The Evolutionary Panorama
3. The Fostering of Evolution
4. The Urantia Adventure
5. Life-Evolution Vicissitudes
6. Evolutionary Techniques of Life
7. Evolutionary Mind Levels
8. Evolution in Time and Space

Paper 66:
The Planetary Prince of Urantia

1. Prince Caligastia
2. The Prince's Staff
3. Dalamatia - The City of the Prince
4. Early Days of the One Hundred
5. Organization of the One Hundred
6. The Prince's Reign
7. Life in Dalamatia
8. Misfortunes of Caligastia

Paper 67:
The Planetary Rebellion

1. The Caligastia Betrayal
2. The Outbreak of Rebellion
3. The Seven Crucial Years
4. The Caligastia One Hundred after the Rebellion
5. Immediate Results of Rebellion
6. Van - The Steadfast
7. Remote Repercussions of Sin
8. The Human Hero of the Rebellion

Paper 68:
The Dawn of Civilization

1. Protective Socialization
2. Factors in Social Progression
3. Socializing Influence of Ghost Fear
4. Evolution of the Mores
5. Land Techniques - Maintenance Arts
6. Evolution of Culture

Paper 69:
Primitive Human Institutions

1. Basic Human Institutions
2. The Dawn of Industry
3. The Specialization of Labor
4. The Beginnings of Trade
5. The Beginnings of Capital
6. Fire in Relation to Civilization
7. The Utilization of Animals
8. Slavery as a Factor in Civilization
9. Private Property

Paper 70:
The Evolution of Human Government

1. The Genesis of War
2. The Social Value of War
3. Early Human Associations
4. Clans and Tribes
5. The Beginnings of Government
6. Monarchial Government
7. Primitive Clubs and Secret Societies
8. Social Classes
9. Human Rights
10. Evolution of Justice
11. Laws and Courts
12. Allocation of Civil Authority

Paper 71:
Development of the State

1. The Embryonic State
2. The Evolution of Representative Government
3. The Ideals of Statehood
4. Progressive Civilization
5. The Evolution of Competition
6. The Profit Motive
7. Education
8. The Character of Statehood

Paper 72:
Government on a Neighboring Planet

1. The Continental Nation
2. Political Organization
3. The Home Life
4. The Educational System
5. Industrial Organization
6. Old-Age Insurance
7. Taxation
8. The Special Colleges
9. The Plan of Universal Suffrage
10. Dealing with Crime
11. Military Preparedness
12. The Other Nations

Paper 73:
The Garden of Eden

1. The Nodites and the Amadonites
2. Planning for the Garden
3. The Garden Site
4. Establishing the Garden
5. The Garden Home
6. The Tree of Life
7. The Fate of Eden

Paper 74:
Adam and Eve

1. Adam and Eve on Jerusem
2. Arrival of Adam and Eve
3. Adam and Eve Learn about the Planet
4. The First Upheaval
5. Adam's Administration
6. Home Life of Adam and Eve
7. Life in the Garden
8. The Legend of Creation

Paper 75:
The Default of Adam and Eve

1. The Urantia Problem
2. Caligastia's Plot
3. The Temptation of Eve
4. The Realization of Default
5. Repercussions of Default
6. Adam and Eve Leave the Garden
7. Degradation of Adam and Eve
8. The So-Called Fall of Man

Paper 76:
The Second Garden

1. The Edenites Enter Mesopotamia
2. Cain and Abel
3. Life in Mesopotamia
4. The Violet Race
5. Death of Adam and Eve
6. Survival of Adam and Eve

Paper 77:
The Midway Creatures

1. The Primary Midwayers
2. The Nodite Race
3. The Tower of Babel
4. Nodite Centers of Civilization
5. Adamson and Ratta
6. The Secondary Midwayers
7. The Rebel Midwayers
8. The United Midwayers
9. The Permanent Citizens of Urantia

Paper 78:
The Violet Race after the Days of Adam

1. Racial and Cultural Distribution
2. The Adamites in the Second Garden
3. Early Expansions of the Adamites
4. The Andites
5. The Andite Migrations
6. The Last Andite Dispersions
7. The Floods in Mesopotamia
8. The Sumerians - Last of the Andites

Paper 79:
Andite Expansion in the Orient

1. The Andites of Turkestan
2. The Andite Conquest of India
3. Dravidian India
4. The Aryan Invasion of India
5. Red Man and Yellow Man
6. Dawn of Chinese Civilization
7. The Andites Enter China
8. Later Chinese Civilization

Paper 80:
Andite Expansion in the Occident

1. The Adamites Enter Europe
2. Climatic and Geologic Changes
3. The Cro-Magnoid Blue Man
4. The Andite Invasions of Europe
5. The Andite Conquest of Northern Europe
6. The Andites along the Nile
7. Andites of the Mediterranean Isles
8. The Danubian Andonites
9. The Three White Races

Paper 81:
Development of Modern Civilization

1. The Cradle of Civilization
2. The Tools of Civilization
3. Cities, Manufacture, and Commerce
4. The Mixed Races
5. Cultural Society
6. The Maintenance of Civilization

Paper 82:
The Evolution of Marriage

1. The Mating Instinct
2. The Restrictive Taboos
3. Early Marriage Mores
4. Marriage under the Property Mores
5. Endogamy and Exogamy 6. Racial Mixtures

Paper 83:
The Marriage Institution

1. Marriage as a Societal Institution
2. Courtship and Betrothal
3. Purchase and Dowry
4. The Wedding Ceremony
5. Plural Marriages
6. True Monogamy - Pair Marriage
7. The Dissolution of Wedlock
8. The Idealization of Marriage

Paper 84:
Marriage and Family Life

1. Primitive Pair Associations
2. The Early Mother-Family
3. The Family under Father Dominance
4. Woman's Status in Early Society
5. Woman under the Developing Mores
6. The Partnership of Man and Woman
7. The Ideals of Family Life
8. Dangers of Self-Gratification

Paper 85:
The Origins of Worship

1. Worship of Stones and Hills
2. Worship of Plants and Trees
3. The Worship of Animals
4. Worship of the Elements
5. Worship of the Heavenly Bodies
6. Worship of Man
7. The Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom

Paper 86:
Early Evolution of Religion

1. Chance: Good Luck and Bad Luck
2. The Personification of Chance
3. Death - The Inexplicable
4. The Death-Survival Concept
5. The Ghost-Soul Concept
6. The Ghost-Spirit Environment
7. The Function of Primitive Religion

Paper 87:
The Ghost Cults

1. Ghost Fear
2. Ghost Placation
3. Ancestor Worship
4. Good and Bad Spirit Ghosts
5. The Advancing Ghost Cult
6. Coercion and Exorcism
7. Nature of Cultism

Paper 88:
Fetishes, Charms and Magic

1. Belief in Fetishes
2. Evolution of the Fetish
3. Totemism
4. Magic
5. Magical Charms
6. The Practice of Magic

Paper 89:
Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement

1. The Taboo
2. The Concept of Sin
3. Renunciation and Humiliation
4. Origins of Sacrifice
5. Sacrifices and Cannibalism
6. Evolution of Human Sacrifice
7. Modifications of Human Sacrifice
8. Redemption and Covenants
9. Sacrifices and Sacraments
10. Forgiveness of Sin

Paper 90:
Shamanism— Medicine Men and Priests

1. The First Shamans - The Medicine Men
2. Shamanistic Practices
3. The Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death
4. Medicine under the Shamans
5. Priests and Rituals

Paper 91:
The Evolution of Prayer

1. Primitive Prayer
2. Evolving Prayer
3. Prayer and the Alter Ego
4. Ethical Praying
5. Social Repercussions of Prayer
6. The Province of Prayer
7. Mysticism, Ecstasy, and Inspiration
8. Praying as a Personal Experience
9. Conditions of Effective Prayer

Paper 92:
The Later Evolution of Religion

1. The Evolutionary Nature of Religion
2. Religion and the Mores
3. The Nature of Evolutionary Religion
4. The Gift of Revelation
5. The Great Religious Leaders
6. The Composite Religions
7. The Further Evolution of Religion

Paper 93:
Machiventa Melchizedek

1. The Machiventa Incarnation
2. The Sage of Salem
3. Melchizedek's Teachings
4. The Salem Religion
5. The Selection of Abraham
6. Melchizedek's Covenant with Abraham
7. The Melchizedek Missionaries
8. Departure of Melchizedek
9. After Melchizedek's Departure
10. Present Status of Machiventa Melchizedek

Paper 94:
The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient

1. The Salem Teachings in Vedic India
2. Brahmanism
3. Brahmanic Philosophy
4. The Hindu Religion
5. The Struggle for Truth in China
6. Lao-Tse and Confucius
7. Gautama Siddhartha
8. The Buddhist Faith
9. The Spread of Buddhism
10. Religion in Tibet
11. Buddhist Philosophy
12. The God Concept of Buddhism

Paper 95:
The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant

1. The Salem Religion in Mesopotamia
2. Early Egyptian Religion
3. Evolution of Moral Concepts
4. The Teachings of Amenemope
5. The Remarkable Ikhnaton
6. The Salem Doctrines in Iran
7. The Salem Teachings in Arabia

Paper 96:
Yahweh—God of the Hebrews

1. Deity Concepts among the Semites
2. The Semitic Peoples
3. The Matchless Moses
4. The Proclamation of Yahweh
5. The Teachings of Moses
6. The God Concept after Moses' Death
7. Psalms and the Book of Job

Paper 97:
Evolution of the God Concept among the Hebrews

1. Samuel - First of the Hebrew Prophets
2. Elijah and Elisha
3. Yahweh and Baal
4. Amos and Hosea
5. The First Isaiah
6. Jeremiah the Fearless
7. The Second Isaiah
8. Sacred and Profane History
9. Hebrew History
10. The Hebrew Religion

Paper 98:
The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident

1. The Salem Religion among the Greeks
2. Greek Philosophic Thought
3. The Melchizedek Teachings in Rome
4. The Mystery Cults
5. The Cult of Mithras
6. Mithraism and Christianity
7. The Christian Religion

Paper 99:
The Social Problems of Religion

1. Religion and Social Reconstruction
2. Weakness of Institutional Religion
3. Religion and the Religionist
4. Transition Difficulties
5. Social Aspects of Religion
6. Institutional Religion
7. Religion's Contribution

Paper 100:
Religion in Human Experience

1. Religious Growth
2. Spiritual Growth
3. Concepts of Supreme Value
4. Problems of Growth
5. Conversion and Mysticism
6. Marks of Religious Living
7. The Acme of Religious Living

Paper 101:
The Real Nature of Religion

1. True Religion
2. The Fact of Religion
3. The Characteristics of Religion
4. The Limitations of Revelation
5. Religion Expanded by Revelation
6. Progressive Religious Experience
7. A Personal Philosophy of Religion
8. Faith and Belief
9. Religion and Morality
10. Religion as Man's Liberator

Paper 102:
The Foundations of Religious Faith

1. Assurances of Faith
2. Religion and Reality
3. Knowledge, Wisdom, and Insight
4. The Fact of Experience
5. The Supremacy of Purposive Potential
6. The Certainty of Religious Faith
7. The Certitude of the Divine
8. The Evidences of Religion

Paper 103:
The Reality of Religious Experience

1. Philosophy of Religion
2. Religion and the Individual
3. Religion and the Human Race
4. Spiritual Communion
5. The Origin of Ideals
6. Philosophic Co-ordination
7. Science and Religion
8. Philosophy and Religion
9. The Essence of Religion

Paper 104:
Growth of the Trinity Concept

1. Urantian Trinity Concepts
2. Trinity Unity and Deity Plurality
3. Trinities and Triunities
4. The Seven Triunities
5. Triodities

Paper 105:
Deity and Reality

1. The Philosophic Concept of the I AM
2. The I AM as Triune and as Sevenfold
3. The Seven Absolutes of Infinity
4. Unity, Duality, and Triunity
5. Promulgation of Finite Reality
6. Repercussions of Finite Reality
7. Eventuation of Transcendentals

Paper 106:
Universe Levels of Reality

1. Primary Association of Finite Functionals
2. Secondary Supreme Finite Integration
3. Transcendental Tertiary Reality Association
4. Ultimate Quartan Integration
5. Coabsolute or Fifth-Phase Association
6. Absolute or Sixth-Phase Integration
7. Finality of Destiny
8. The Trinity of Trinities
9. Existential Infinite Unification

Paper 107:
Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

1. Origin of Thought Adjusters
2. Classification of Adjusters
3. The Divinington Home of Adjusters
4. Nature and Presence of Adjusters
5. Adjuster Mindedness
6. Adjusters as Pure Spirits
7. Adjusters and Personality

Paper 108:
Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

1. Selection and Assignment
2. Prerequisites of Adjuster Indwelling
3. Organization and Administration
4. Relation to Other Spiritual Influences
5. The Adjuster's Mission
6. God in Man

Paper 109:
Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures

1. Development of Adjusters
2. Self-Acting Adjusters
3. Relation of Adjusters to Mortal Types
4. Adjusters and Human Personality
5. Material Handicaps to Adjuster Indwelling
6. The Persistence of True Values
7. Destiny of Personalized Adjusters

Paper 110:
Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind
2. Adjusters and Human Will
3. Co-operation with the Adjuster
4. The Adjuster's Work in the Mind
5. Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance
6. The Seven Psychic Circles
7. The Attainment of Immortality

Paper 111:
The Adjuster and the Soul

1. The Mind Arena of Choice
2. Nature of the Soul
3. The Evolving Soul
4. The Inner Life
5. The Consecration of Choice
6. The Human Paradox
7. The Adjuster's Problem

Paper 112:
Personality Survival

1. Personality and Reality
2. The Self
3. The Phenomenon of Death
4. Adjusters after Death
5. Survival of the Human Self
6. The Morontia Self
7. Adjuster Fusion

Paper 113:
Seraphic Guardians of Destiny

1. The Guardian Angels
2. The Destiny Guardians
3. Relation to Other Spirit Influences
4. Seraphic Domains of Action
5. Seraphic Ministry to Mortals
6. Guardian Angels after Death
7. Seraphim and the Ascendant Career

Paper 114:
Seraphic Planetary Government

1. The Sovereignty of Urantia
2. The Board of Planetary Supervisors
3. The Resident Governor General
4. The Most High Observer
5. The Planetary Government
6. The Master Seraphim of Planetary Supervision
7. The Reserve Corps of Destiny

Paper 115:
The Supreme Being

1. Relativity of Concept Frames
2. The Absolute Basis for Supremacy
3. Original, Actual, and Potential
4. Sources of Supreme Reality
5. Relation of the Supreme to the Paradise Trinity
6. Relation of the Supreme to the Triodities
7. The Nature of the Supreme

Paper 116:
The Almighty Supreme

1. The Supreme Mind
2. The Almighty and God the Sevenfold
3. The Almighty and Paradise Deity
4. The Almighty and the Supreme Creators
5. The Almighty and the Sevenfold Controllers
6. Spirit Dominance
7. The Living Organism of the Grand Universe

Paper 117:
God the Supreme

1. Nature of the Supreme Being
2. The Source of Evolutionary Growth
3. Significance of the Supreme to Universe Creatures
4. The Finite God
5. The Oversoul of Creation
6. The Quest for the Supreme
7. The Future of the Supreme

Paper 118:
Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

1. Time and Eternity
2. Omnipresence and Ubiquity
3. Time-Space Relationships
4. Primary and Secondary Causation
5. Omnipotence and Compossibility
6. Omnipotence and Omnificence
7. Omniscience and Predestination
8. Control and Overcontrol
9. Universe Mechanisms
10. Functions of Providence

Paper 119:
The Bestowals of Christ Michael

1. The First Bestowal
2. The Second Bestowal
3. The Third Bestowal
4. The Fourth Bestowal
5. The Fifth Bestowal
6. The Sixth Bestowal
7. The Seventh and Final Bestowal
8. Michael's Postbestowal Status