Evolving Our Souls With Celestial Wisdom

III. THE HISTORY OF URANTIA narrates the origin of our solar system and offers a chronological account of the history of Earth (“Urantia”) and the evolution of all life on the planet, including an anthropological, sociological, racial, and spiritual history of humankind. This section also presents for the first time the story of the four previous epochal revelations to Urantia—with the Urantia Revelation purportedly being the fifth. Significantly, Part III includes detail about the so-called Lucifer Rebellion that traumatized Urantia and 36 other planets in the local system in the far-distant past. Lucifer was the angelic-administrative head of our local system of 1,000 inhabited planets, and most of our own planet’s angelic administration joined in rebellion with him and his chief lieutenant, Satan. The disaster of planet-wide rebellion led to the default of the first two phases of epochal revelation on our sphere, including the Earth mission of Adam and Eve, one of the most dramatic and fascinating narratives in the Urantia Revelation. And this gloomy start to humankind’s history was a key reason why Christ Michael chose to incarnate on our lowly sphere; Urantia’s disastrous history offered the starkest backdrop against which to demonstrate Michael’s sublime and merciful love for his most wayward creatures. Finally, Part III provides a comprehensive picture of the nature of personal spiritual growth, including soul evolution before and after death; the true nature and function of religion; and the concept of the indwelling spirit, or “thought adjuster”—the God-fragment that comes to live within the mind of each of us at the moment when our first moral decision is made as a child. Finally, Part III also reveals the “finite” and evolving aspect of deity, known as the Supreme Being. It should be noted that that many human sources are woven throughout the revelatory material in this part of the text, which the revelators indicate to be the case as one feature of the cocreative technique of revelation.

IV. THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS contains a lengthy account of Jesus’ life that is based, we are told, on the angelic record of his days on Earth. This powerful, detailed narrative sometimes covers events day by day and sometimes even hour by hour—including the story of the so-called “lost years” of Jesus’ childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. It also contains an extensive and detailed account of his private and public ministries, and his death and resurrection, and closes with the bestowal of his Spirit of Truth at Pentecost.