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Five Principles · Urantia Radio

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  Well, I feel like talking about the revelation.
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  How are you? Welcome to another episode of
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  the Rancho Radio podcast. I've been reading the book for a
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  long, long time and I'm always looking forward to the next
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  opportunity to share with you. And I'm glad that you're here
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  with me. We've got, I think will be an
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  interesting couple of topics that we'll address.
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  I want to wrap up my character personality profile of Grand
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  Fonda because the story just gets more and more interesting.
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  And I asked you if you have somebody in the Urantia book
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  that you think we should bring to light on the podcast.
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  All kinds of different personalities, individuals.
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  And one listener wrote and said Noah was a great personality
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  that maybe we should spend some time with.
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  So I think we might. But I want to go over the five
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  principles of the Urantia book teachings.
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  And this was spurred on by Byron Beletzos.
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  Byron is a great writer a got his master's seminary.
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  He knows about the Urantia book. He writes often great books
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  articles and he has a sub stack running now that talks about the
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  real need for Urantia book infrastructure.
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  We hope to have him on at some point to elaborate on that and
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  what he means. But I think what what the basis
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  is, is that we're 100 years in to the revelation in fact.
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  And I think he's right in in stating this.
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  But February 11th, 2026 was the 100th anniversary of when the
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  Sadler group when the people that would come to his home
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  there in Chicago and they the papers started to come through,
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  meaning that the papers started to appear all the details.
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  But Needless to say, it was about 100 years ago when the
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  ranch of Papers began to reveal themselves, so to speak.
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  And so we know from now 100 years in that it claims to be a
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  divine epical revelation. And it was specifically intended
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  to uplift by providing missing gaps of information about our
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  prehistory and also about some of the more spiritual
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  revelations. And I, and I asked myself when I
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  think about what what Byron is talking about, what are the
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  principles of the Urantia book? Because most people that you
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  would talk to who have no knowledge would be curious to
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  know what the Urantia book teaches.
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  What are the basic principles? Every story has to be simple and
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  easy to understand if you can't explain it rather quickly.
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  And so the Urantia book is not a simple book.
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  By no means it's it's, it's, it's profound, but it's not
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  profound because it's simple. When you boil everything down to
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  the basics of what is it actually teaching?
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  They're pretty simple. And I want to share those with
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  you. And here's what they are.
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  And then we'll get into Grand Fonda a little bit.
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  And then if there's time, we'll talk a little bit about Noah.
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  We may have to save Noah for the next podcast.
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  Here are my 5 principles of the Urantia Book teaching.
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  Now I want you to have your own 5.
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  That's my challenge to you. I want you.
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  If you're a long time reader, what do you think are the five
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  or six principles that The Urantia Book is trying to convey
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  to modern man? It all boils down to this.
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  The Urantia Book's basic teaching.
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  The thing that is at the root, the foundational root of
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  everything it says is this. God is real.
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  God is pure spirit, but also a personal being, the source of
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  all personality in fact, and we are his spiritual children.
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  It actually starts and ends with that premise.
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  The universe is number 2. The universe is inhabited and
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  administered by spiritual beings who serve as teachers to the
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  various ascending mortals from the evolutionary worlds of time
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  and space, Seraphic and others, and the Urantia book goes into
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  great detail to explain the logical and proactive
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  administration of creation itself.
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  This is not just a vast bubble of emptiness.
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  There's actually something going on here and the Urantia book
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  explains what that is. I think the third principle of
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  the Urantia book is self-evident because it dedicates almost half
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  of the book to the life and teachings of Jesus.
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  So the principles there include the fact that Jesus was the Son
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  of man and the Son of God. Absolutely.
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  There's no higher being between the Son and the Father.
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  And This is why Jesus says he, he who has seen me has seen the
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  Father. It is not possible for the first
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  Source and center of all things to Incarnate as material being,
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  but if it was possible for such a thing to occur, it is likely
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  that we would see the Eternal Son.
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  The Eternal Son, the second Person of Trinity, is the
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  personalization of God the Father.
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  It is now a dual relationship completed by the Trinity of the
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  Spirit. That's what the Urantia book
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  teaches. The Son represents the Father,
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  but this does not mean that man cannot approach the Father.
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  And that would be, I suppose, part of the the 4th is that we
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  have a connection, and that connection is made possible by
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  the Spirit fragment of the Father who dwells within us,
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  within our minds. And the fourth principle, I
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  think, is that Jesus of Nazareth specifically lived as one of us
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  in order to uplift all mortals of this world, and also his life
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  here was a revelation to other enlightened worlds, for he is
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  their creator Son too. Jesus's teachings exemplify that
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  we are all brothers because God is our universal Father.
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  And the Golden Rule seems to apply as the primary mode of
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  living between all of us, between the Spirit and dwelt,
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  mortals and beings of the realm. And for me, the Urantia Book is
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  a new revelation of expanded truth.
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  It provides source material of our prehistory in order to fill
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  in the gaps of missing knowledge.
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  And it was intended to do so. Like previous epical
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  revelations, it was intended to uplift humanity intellectually
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  as well as spiritual. I was thinking about how they
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  explain who Grand Fonda was. And for those who don't know,
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  he's mentioned throughout the book, Grand Fonda is mentioned.
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  He's like the Bob Sacramento of the Urantia book.
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  For those of you signs Seinfeld, he's always mentioned.
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  But who was this Grand Fonda in the days of Grand Fonda?
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  This is going back to the beginnings of the Super universe
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  stage of the of the Grand universe.
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  So we're told in Paper 24, the Grand Fonda is the name of a
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  Pilgrim discoverer of Havona. What is a Pilgrim discoverer?
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  Well, a Pilgrim discoverer is an ascended one time mortal who has
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  traversed the entire spectrum from a mortal of the realm to an
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  enlightened descendant personality.
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  And it is that stage when they reach the physical central
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  universe of Havona that they become a Pilgrim discoverer.
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  And what what's interesting is it, where did he come from?
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  Where did this Pilgrim discover, find it?
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  What was his first home? And I'm sure his name wasn't
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  Grant Fonda either. Maybe it was Sid or something.
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  And he wasn't a special person by any reference that they don't
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  give any disclosure to the name of the world that he came from.
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  They don't talk about his life on Earth.
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  Maybe he was just a normal person with spiritual with great
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  spiritual grasp. We are told he is from Planet
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  341 of System 84 in constellation 62 of Local
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  Universe 1131 situated in Super universe #1.
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  They do state the Grand Fonda is the acting head of the core of
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  the Finality. And for those who are familiar
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  with the Urantia book, we know that the Core of the Finality is
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  all of our destiny. It is the exclusive group of
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  ascenders who have traversed the range of experiential living,
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  starting as a human on a world of time and space to the
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  ultimate embrace of God the Father on Paradise.
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  So Grand Fonda is the head of that group.
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  Why? Well, because he was the first
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  one, it was the first one to achieve and be admitted to this,
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  this core that had been developed.
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  They were waiting for ascendant human beings to finally succeed
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  in making the trek. So in reference to to Grand
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  Fonda's origins, we can draw the comparisons with even our own
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  experience. Because just as Grand Fonda came
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  from planet 341, we live on planet six O 6 of the system of
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  our worlds. Grand Fonda's planet is in
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  system 84. Our system is #24 Jerusalem, the
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  capital sphere. Grand Fonda's system makes a
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  part of the constellation of #62.
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  Our constellation is the 70th the capital of it Edensia of
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  Norlitiadek or some call it Norlitiadek or Norlitiadek.
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  It is a constellation of 100 systems and Grand Fond is
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  constellation #62 is in the local universe and that local
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  universe is 11131. In our case, Nevadon is our
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  local universe and its number is 84 and our super universe is the
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  7th super universe. Grand Fonda was from Super
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  universe #1 and for the curious, the actual number of our planet
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  in the Grand Universe is five trillion, 342,482,337,666.
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  All right, So what we're told is that the present Grand Universe
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  will eventually contain 7 trillion evolutionary worlds of
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  time and space. That is the current plan.
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  And when that stage comes, when all of those worlds attain the
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  era or the age of Light and life, that is when the emergence
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  and the completeness of the Supreme Being occurs.
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  So based on that number, that would mean that we're about 70%
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  there. So that tells you two things.
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  One, we don't have as much to go, and two, it means it was a
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  whole lot of history that came before us.
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  And so in this respect, Grand Fondas Ascension was the first
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  to be completed a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away.
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  This has been the Urantia Radio podcast with your host, Jim
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  Watkins. Follow us online at
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  urantiaradio.org.