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Our Sister Sphere · Urantia Radio

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Well, I hope you. Have a nice beverage and that
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you are comfortable. Where you are.
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As we Nestle in, as I'm doing now, and we're going to have a.
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Really great show. And I always assume that new
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people are tuning in because, well, the numbers tell me that
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new people are tuning in. Every week we're.
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Picking up new listeners to the Rancho Radio podcast I Am.
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Of course, your host. Long time reader.
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I just realized the other day that I first picked up the book.
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In 1983, so that puts me at 42. Years.
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Of reading and studying and thinking about the revelation.
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And I never look back. And I I'm always.
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Grateful that people. TuneIn and explore the
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revelation I knew I have a a page which you may be aware of
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and it's. Called.
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Urantiaradio.org. We have our podcast which.
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Is on the Spotify network and then on iheart and all the
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different podcast platforms. But in addition to all that, we
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have your rancherradio.org and it.
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Sort of showcases. All of the recent updates and
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it's anyway. It's.
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It's also has a the. Your Rancher Radio live stream
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which we just added that component, so check it out when
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you get a chance. You can listen 24 hours a day on
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the Rancher Radio station. Just look for the.
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Live stream thing at the top of the menu and then if you want to
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listen to. Podcasts, obviously you're.
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Doing that now. So anyway, we're going to talk.
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About life. And what it's like on another
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world. And it's kind of boggling, mind
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boggling to me. That here we have.
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The Urantia book which has been around for 100 years and you
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would think that. A chapter dedicated to life.
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On Another World would at least get some attention from
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somewhere. They could have at least made a
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movie about it, you know, By then, by by this time.
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I've always found it fascinating and one of the things that makes
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the Urantia book a revelation. Is that it steps outside of.
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What you might call traditional Christian theology.
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In fact, I I wanted to point it out on my about page.
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My about page is the introduction on urantiaradio.org
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and I want to go there for a minute because it's important
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for me to. Share with you why I do this.
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What I'm involved with, and I think you're involved in it too,
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but let me just read to you. It's not very long.
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But it will tell you. Everything you need to.
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Know about why I believe this book?
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The Urantia Book is important for those people that are just
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stopping by or may not be familiar with the Urantia Book.
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I wrote this. The Urantia book is the history
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of creation it now becomes. Possible for all to?
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Grasp and interpret the meaning and.
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Purpose of life. Within a more comprehensive
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narrative of those events that. Preceded.
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Our existence, events that verify our universe is orderly,
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intelligently guided, and under the domain of a loving and
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mindful Creator now. That philosophic idea has.
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Been debated since the beginning of human history.
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The idea of the universe being orderly, intelligently guided
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most people aside from people of maybe faith and certain other.
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Philosophies or ideologies might.
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Perceive of the universe as being orderly, but they don't
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have evidence other than perhaps maybe some some ideas like
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gravity might be an indicative. Of order.
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Certainly the laws of thermodynamics, entropy, but but
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you can't quite put your finger on it.
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But the Urantia book does put its finger on it and it very
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plainly states that the universe is intelligently guided and
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under the domain of a loving keyword there is loving and
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mindful Creator the universe could not have.
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Have produced somebody like a Jesus.
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Without it being a domain of loving and mindful creation.
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And Jesus said that he. Was the.
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Son of the Father, and he who had seen him has seen the the
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highest potential of God in man that you.
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Could ever see. The Urantia book reinforces this
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concept. Now, this is not a traditional
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religious program. I wouldn't even consider the
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Rancho. Radio podcast A religious.
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Program in the way that I interpret that you're not going
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to hear anybody preaching to you here.
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My job is not to. Preach to you.
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And talk about sin or retribution or.
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The Gospels or try to. Interpret scripture.
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That's not. What this is about?
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It is about God. But it is not about preaching.
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It is about. Looking and studying the Urantia
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book. Because of what it.
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Says and as I state in my preface on my website, the
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Urantia book is a history of creation.
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Now more than 1/4 of the Urantia.
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Book, as I write, also discloses the.
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Life and Teachings of the Son of.
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God. Jesus.
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Of Nazareth as presented by our unseen friends whom we commonly
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referred to as the Midway or Commission and this group of
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semi spiritual, semi mortal community otherwise known as the
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11111 were there. They they witnessed the life and
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teachings of Jesus. It was an important event.
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It was an important event in the annals of of universal creation.
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Watchful eyes observed. Our little planet.
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For 33 years. Because the Son of Man was
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incarnated into the into flesh and bone.
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It was a momentous event. Can you kind of grasp if you
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understand the divinity? Of Jesus.
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You have to admit. That it wouldn't just.
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Be for this one. Little world, although we've.
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Benefited, mostly, but we're talking about a creation of up
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to 10 million worlds just in Christ Michael's domain alone.
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So I continue on with my preface on the Rancher.
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Radio.org. Says the arrangement.
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Book authors tell us. The two most valuable
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experiences a human being can have are the conscious act of
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communion with God as a personal living experience.
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What you will, what you. Will hear on this program.
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Is what we talk. Often about the spirit that.
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Is a part of. Every human being, and this is
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the glorious message, is that no matter where you come from, no
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matter what you. Believe.
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No matter your pedigree, your genealogy, none of that matters.
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Except for the fact that you are an.
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Ascendant human being. A soul potential.
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And you have within you a spark of the living father.
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His spirit lives within. Each one of us, and it makes it.
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Possible for us to. Have that that inner communion.
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If if God the. Fragment of the Father was not
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in us. We would not be conscious of
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that. He is not far off as an abstract
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many great religions. View of God of.
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Being far off and an abstract, something that we can never
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touch. And yet he is a part of us and I
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write. We are endowed.
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By the Spirit we. Are made in his image as shown
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by the existence of free will. We are free to choose or reject.
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This divine spirit, and it is that exhibition of free.
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Will that leads to? The age-old question.
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That everybody always asks, which is, if there's a God, why
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does he let? Bad things happen, and we've
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seen in recent history. With real tragedies.
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And there's always real tragedies going on.
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Why? Because when you have free will.
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You have choice. And when, When you're dealing
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with human beings, Human beings are capable of much error and
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much evil. Because they choose evil, they
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choose to reject. The leadings of the Divine
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Spirit and the Urantia Book I write in my.
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Preface says the second. Most important human experience,
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we're told. Is to study how Jesus lived his
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life Jesus displayed a. Living example of how man can
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find a God living life, a God centered life and in doing so
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reach our potential as ascending human beings.
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And I write the Urantia. Book is a religious.
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Book to be sure, but it is not a new religion.
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There are no formal. Groups, leaders or spokespeople.
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It doesn't qualify as what you might determine to be a cult
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because there are no leaders. There's no there is a community.
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Of believers that follow. And read and study and discuss
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and share their insights. But that's the extent.
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It is not a new living philosophy.
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What it? Does is it expands.
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Our philosophical concepts Urantia book is not someone's
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evolutionary idea. It is a.
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Revelational presentation of new truths intended to fill in the
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missing gaps of human. History.
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It is a. Lifting of the curtain to cosmic
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reality. Each of the four.
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Sections of the Urantia book are.
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Pieces of a Galactic. Puzzle that, when assembled,
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portray an intelligently designed and lovingly
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administered universe filled with various types of advanced
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mortals, semi and holy spiritual personalities who.
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All have a specific. Function in the Universal
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Ascension program. These angels and higher beings
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are guided by a much higher principle based on eternal and
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infinite reality concepts. Imagine what?
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It would be like. If you removed the.
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Obstacle of death. From your living experience, if
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you no longer had to. Worry about the idea of death.
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The cessation of existence. If that was removed, how
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different what your what? What would your concepts?
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Be. What would your ideas be?
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And I'm also convinced that the Urantia book is their attempt
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to. Disclose some of these.
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Concepts. As best as we.
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Can receive them in this age. So therefore I write.
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Having studied the Urantia papers for nearly half a
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century. I feel compelled to share it
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with others. Who might be inclined to study
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the book and each podcast? That we do here is a study.
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Of the 190. 6 separate papers. That comprise the Urantia book.
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So I appreciate you. And in a minute, we're going to
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talk about Paper 72 and what it. Is all about on.
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Life on another world. It's a profound idea, that.
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These revelators. Dedicated one paper to
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explaining. To us how?
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Human beings. Just like us.
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And that are not too far advanced of us or not too far
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behind, as you will see. And there's one group of people
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on this world. I'll give you a little tease and
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then we'll take a little musical interlude.
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As I like to do, but just to. Give you a kind of a quick
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summation. This other planet, they don't
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name it, they don't give it a name.
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But I have some ideas on that. And they say that this planet
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has 11 continents. Now we have what, 7 continents?
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We have 7 continents on our world.
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They have 11. Well, this planet has 1111
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continents, and of all the 11, only one of them has emerged
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from the. Savage stage of.
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Existence. So this one continent, which
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we'll learn about in just a minute, is compared to our life.
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Here. Perhaps in the United States,
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perhaps in Western civilization. And wait till you hear what?
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It has to say about how these other people live.
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In a minute here on the Rancho Radio podcast, Hang on.
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OK, we're back and I want to, again, thank you as we delve
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into Paper 72. Feel free to read along if you
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like. You don't have to.
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We won't read the whole thing. I'm just going to read some of
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the highlights and then give a summation and then I really want
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you to think about it. And again, this is.
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Out of. I almost wanted to call this
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segment off. World.
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Because I think about it so much, I can't even put into
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words how much I. Appreciate whoever put this.
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Together, it's momentous. It's.
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Historical it should. Be making headlines sometimes I
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I don't understand why nobody. Has caught this.
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This has not caught any community outside of the Urantia
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book and yet it is mind blowing to think about what we're being
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told and why and why are we being.
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Told What is it? That our unseen friends want to
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share with us. Why do they want to share?
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With us. Look around you.
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Look at. What's happening to our?
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World. This is the world where Jesus
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chose to live his. Life 2000 years later, look at
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what's happening. You know the one thing good
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about social media, And maybe it's not even a good thing.
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I'm not sure the. Jury is still out, but you
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really do. See, I think more of what's
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going on in the world than you would.
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Ever see? Because the news and and these
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various agencies, they don't really go out and.
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Tell us what's really. Going on some of us live in
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these large cities and we. See the filth?
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That's piling up and the number of homeless you're seeing a
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degradation of. Society.
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It's almost like we've reached an apex and now we're going the
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other way. So I asked myself, did the
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Urantia revelator see this coming?
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I mean these are advanced semi spiritual beings.
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They've been around for eternity.
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Some of them, they know what's going on.
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I mean they see where the. Trajectory is we.
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We have a lot of things that are going against us.
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We've got the fact. That our planetary Prince
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Calagastia. Threw his.
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Lot in with Lucifer during the rebellion And what did that do
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that threw us into a darkness for over 200,000 years when
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mankind should have been learning the.
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The basic essentials of. Civilization building.
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You know, if you don't believe me, I want you to do something
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for me. I want you to go, and I want you
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to find out where Lake Van gets its name.
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Lake Van and Eastern. Turkey, it's the largest.
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Inland lake I think in and Turkey you do.
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All the research. You can go.
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Talk to historians. Go.
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And to the. Halls of the Greatest.
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You know museum you can find and and try.
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To figure out. Where Lake Van comes from And
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then ask. Yourself.
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Why is it? Are there vestiges of superior
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civilizations? In this region, the oldest
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region of Earth, Goblecki. Tepe is there.
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Lake Van, the Assyrians, all of the If you look at a map of the
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where civilization starting to emerge in prehistory, you'll
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find that it completely validates what the Arantia book
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says, that at one point we had the Nodites and the Vanites, and
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these were the. Vestiges of the Calagastia.
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Civilization that went awry. During the Lucifer rebellion.
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I hope I'm not going too fast. My point is.
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This is that we. Are reaching an apex of
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something, everybody. Feels it, everybody says.
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Something's going on when that. Kirk fellow got shot.
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A lot of people said that they felt the spirit.
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Of something unusual. Turning point.
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And so that might explain why the tarantula.
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Book revelators thought that. Maybe this was the time and
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certainly the maybe it was the time to give these people a
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little nudge. Maybe it was time to reveal to
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them some information. A good friend of mine, a good
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friend of mine always says, how can you know?
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Who you are? If you don't know where you came
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from. And so in my preface on the
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Oranja book, I say it's a history book.
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How do we ever get a good. Assessment of who?
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We are as a people, as a race, as a culture.
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As simple human beings, if we don't know where we came from
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and then how? What it took to get here.
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And this is what you read about in the sections of the Urantia
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book about marriage and family. Life it gives a.
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Timeline of how marriage evolved, how families evolved.
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It's important to know that information because it gives you
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a better sense. Of.
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Measurement of. Measurement of.
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Progress and it. Says a lot about women and their
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challenges today now that they've been liberated for so
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long they were they were essentially might consider them
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enslaved and. Says with that liberty.
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Comes great responsibility and family, by the way, is very
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important in the Urancha book it says the family is the
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foundation of of progressive humanity without strong
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families, you cannot have a a strong society it is impossible
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so at some point the. History of society.
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And the evolution of growth and the evolution of mankind
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himself. And then in Paper 72, all of the
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sudden out of nowhere they start talking about another planet.
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But where did that? Come from Wait a minute, we were
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just talking about. Earth Well paper. 71 in the
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culmination of explaining how. Society has evolved with all of
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our. Cultures and our traditions.
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The final. Paper is the character of
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statehood. And it gives us and we've.
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Covered that before it gives us tools.
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On how we can ensure that our statehood survives and doesn't.
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Collapse, so at that. Juncture they switch and they go
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over to paper 72 and they say, OK, now that we've explained to
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you what we think you could do to move along society on
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peaceful means. So when they open by this in
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paper 72. It says by.
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Permission of Laniferge. Laniferge.
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Replaced Lucifer. When Lucifer defaulted and he
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through his. Rebellious ideas this is.
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Centuries and centuries ago, he was eventually being held in
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custody awaiting adjudication Laniferge and he is the system
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sovereign. He is a Latinandek's son.
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Laniferge is his name and he. Overseas.
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The entire system of. Worlds of which we exist, so the
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writers of the. Urantia.
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Book had to go. To Laniferge and say we want to
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present life on another world to the benefit.
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Of. The people of Urantia, Michael.
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'S world, so by. Permission of Laniferge, the
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Urantia book writes, and with the approval of the Most High.
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And we know the Most High's rule in the kingdoms of men from our
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Bible. The writer of this.
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Paper says I am authorized to narrate something of the social,
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moral and political life of the most advanced human race living
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on a not far distant planet belonging to our system to our
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system of satania of all the satania worlds, where which
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became. Isolated because of the.
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Participation of the Lucifer Rebellion.
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This planet has experienced a history most like that of
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Urantia and the similarity. Of the two spheres.
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Undoubtedly explains why permission to make this
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extraordinary presentation was granted, for it is most unusual
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for the system rulers to consent to the narration of one planet.
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Of the. Affairs of another this planet
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like Urantia. Was led astray by the disloyalty
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of. Its planetary prints in
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connection with the Lucifer Rebellion as I spoke.
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Before just like ours. Kalagastia.
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Kalagastia is. Mentioned in the.
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Bible is the devil. He was the one that tempted.
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Eve with ideas of. Going it alone.
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The rites they had a. Planetary Prince who defaulted.
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They also received an Adam and Eve.
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Shortly after their Adam. Came to their world.
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Adam came to our world, and this sun also defaulted, leaving the
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sphere isolated since a magisterial sun has never been
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bestowed upon its mortal. Races, so we have.
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A distinct advantage. We had the Creator, Son of the
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Universe live on our world. As part of his.
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Bestowal experience, They have not had a magisterial son visit
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them. They also have not had, as far
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as we can tell, the benefit of a Melchizedek for those who know
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your Bible. In the Sage of.
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Salem Macheventa Melchizedek was the man who singled out Abraham
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and taught him cosmology. He revealed to him the universe
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he revealed to him when he in the famous momentous discussion
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they have where he waves his hands and says your.
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Seed will be as. Plentiful as the stars.
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This planet that we're. Being told about didn't have
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that advantage either. Notwithstanding, they say, of
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all these planetary handicaps, a very superior civilization is
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evolving on an isolated continent.
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About the. Size of Australia they.
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Number about 140 million people, according to the Oranja book,
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and its people are a mixed race, predominantly blue.
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Which would be corollary. To the Nordic race.
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Of our history. Mixed in with the yellow, and if
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you remember from the Urantia book, we're taught that all
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evolutionary. Worlds will have colored.
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Races some 3, some 6. Ours had six races.
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Originally, two of them annihilated.
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Each other the blue race was very biologically uplifted by
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the. Adamites.
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Would be the blue. Then, of course we.
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Have the Asian yellow so on this world they had predominantly
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blue and yellow on this one continent of 140 million and
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they say that they fraternized and.
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Socialized very acceptably. The average length of life on
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this continent is now 90 years. That's 15% higher than than that
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of any other people on the planet.
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What is ours? Ours is 72 for men, 77 for
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women. The industrial mechanisms of
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this nation enjoys a certain great advantage derived from the
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unique. Topography of the.
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Continent, the high mountains on which heavy rains fall 8 months
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in the year are. Situated at the very.
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Center of this country. This natural arrangement favors
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the utilization of water power. And greatly facilitates the.
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Irrigation of the more arid western quarter of the
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continent. That's a very similar to what?
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We see with the Colorado River. You got this high mountain
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mountainous area in Colorado and it rains and it snows and all
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that water. Keeps places like Las.
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Vegas and Phoenix and Los Angeles afloat they say the
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continental nation in general followed the evolutionary trend
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of the planet. The development from the.
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Tribal stage to the. Appearance of strong rulers and
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kings occupied thousands of years.
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The unconditional monarchs were succeeded by many different
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orders of government. A board of republics.
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Communal States and dictators came and went in endless
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profusion. This growth continued until
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about 500 years ago, when, during a politically fermenting
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period, one of the nation's. Powerful dictator.
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Triumvirs had a change of heart. He volunteered to abdicate upon
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condition that one of the other rulers.
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The baser of the. Remaining 2 also.
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Vacate his dictatorship. Thus was the sovereignty of the
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continent placed in the hands of 1 ruler.
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The unified state progressed. Under strong monarchical rule
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for about 200 years, during which there evolved a masterful.
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Charter of liberty. To think about our own history,
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particularly in the United States 200 years ago.
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We have all these. Different people coming from.
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Various parts of Europe, you've got the Irish, you've got the
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Scottish. You've got the Germans, you've
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got mostly people that are trying to.
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Escape the the the. Church of England in their
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oppression. Targeting Quakers.
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Targeting Catholics. And they come to these new lands
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here in North America, all with different.
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Cultures all with. Different ideas of and they form
26:25
a constitution, and that constitution leads to the
26:27
Declaration of Independence. And these 13 states break off
26:32
from colonial rule of the Europeans.
26:36
And we in, in our own way, came up with our own masterful
26:39
charter of liberty, didn't we? Not unlike this nation that
26:44
we're being. Talked about the subsequent.
26:46
Transition at rights from monarchy to a representative
26:49
form of government. Was gradual.
26:52
The King's remaining as mere social or sentimental
26:55
figureheads, finally disappearing when the male line
26:59
of descent ran out. The present Republic has now
27:03
been in existence just 200 years, during which time there
27:08
has been a continuous progression toward the
27:11
governmental techniques about to be narrated, the latest
27:15
development in industrial and political realms having been
27:19
made within the past decade. Pause to consider that this
27:23
book, written in 1934, published.
27:26
Printed in 42. Published in. 55 S at.
27:29
The time they were writing this was 34 and the planet that
27:34
they're talking about they have the information up to about 1925
27:41
based on our so I'm wondering if that's a.
27:44
Clue because if if if it's a decade, is that because it took
27:48
that? Long to get from that planet to
27:51
this planet, somebody had to deliver the information, right?
27:56
Interesting. So the book goes.
27:58
On the paper goes on to. Talk about the political.
28:00
Organization how the representative government has a
28:04
centrally located national capital, there are 100
28:09
comparatively free. States.
28:10
We have 50. The states elect their.
28:13
Governors and their legislators. It goes on to talk about the
28:17
home life and let me just read a.
28:20
Couple of passages because. This continent looks at
28:24
matrimony and relationships very differently from our own on this
28:29
continent. It says it is.
28:31
Against the law for two families to live under the same roof, and
28:35
since group dwellings have been outlawed, most of the tenement
28:38
types of buildings have been demolished, but the unmarried
28:42
still live in clubs, hotels and other group dwellings.
28:46
The smallest home site permitted must provide 50. 1000 square.
28:50
Feet of land All land and other property used for home purpose
28:55
are free from taxation up to 10 times the minimum home site
29:01
allotment there's. Much detail about the specifics,
29:07
which I I really appreciate. In their telling, they say the
29:10
average number of children in each family is 5 and they are
29:14
under the control of their parents or in the case or the
29:17
demise of one or both under. That of the Guardians.
29:20
Designated by the parental courts, it is considered a great
29:24
honor for any family to be. Awarded the guardianship of a
29:27
full orphan. Competitive examinations are
29:30
held among parents and and orphans, or an orphan is awarded
29:35
to the home. Of those displaying.
29:37
The best parental qualifications.
29:40
But we have. That in a similar degree we have
29:43
adoptions and adoption. People have to qualify parents,
29:49
he says. These.
29:50
People regard the home as the basic institution of their
29:53
civilization. It is expected.
29:55
That the most valuable. Part of a child.
29:57
'S education and character training will be secured from
30:01
his parents and at home, and fathers devote almost as much
30:06
time and attention to child culture as do mothers.
30:12
It talks about the moral instruction is.
30:14
Offered by teachers. During the rest.
30:16
Periods in school shops. Religious training is deemed to
30:20
be the. Exclusive privilege of the.
30:23
Parents religion being looked upon as an integral part of home
30:27
life, purely religious instruction is given publicly
30:32
only in the temples of philosophy, no such exclusively
30:36
religious institutions as the Urantia churches having
30:40
developed among this. People.
30:42
So we have churches. They don't have churches.
30:45
They have. Temples of philosophy.
30:48
In their philosophy, religion is the striving to know God and to
30:52
manifest love for one's fellows. Servants through service for.
30:55
Them, but this is not. Typical of the other religious
30:58
statuses of the. Other nations on this planet,
31:02
religion is so entirely a family matter among these people that
31:06
there are no public places. Devoted exclusively to
31:10
religious. Assembly, this is a nice I don't
31:14
know what what would you call this sentence?
31:15
Let me read it to you. Tell me what you think
31:18
politically, Church and state as Urantians are won't to say.
31:22
Are entirely separate, but. There is a strange overlapping
31:26
of religion and philosophy. Then this this paragraph until
31:32
20 years. Ago the spiritual teachers.
31:35
Comparable to Urantia pastors who visit each family
31:39
periodically to examine the children to ascertain if they've
31:44
been properly instructed by their parents and they're under
31:48
government supervision. Says these spiritual advisors.
31:52
And examiners are now under the direction of the newly created
31:55
foundation of spiritual. Progress they also.
31:59
Say that this institution of their pastors.
32:02
That are state supported. Says they may not further evolve
32:06
until. After the arrival.
32:07
Of a paradise magisterial son final notes children remain
32:12
legally. Subject to their parents.
32:14
Until they're 15, when the first initiation into civic
32:18
responsibility. Is held, therefore, every five
32:21
years for five successive periods.
32:23
Similar. Public exercises are held.
32:27
For such an age. Or for such age groups at which
32:30
their. Obligations to parents are
32:32
lessened. Social responsibilities to the
32:34
state are assumed. Suffrage is conferred at 20 the
32:38
right to vote. The right to marry without
32:41
parental. Consent is not bestowed until 25
32:46
and children. Must leave.
32:47
Home on reaching the age of 30 these are their social.
32:51
Laws Marriage and divorce laws are.
32:53
Uniform throughout the nation marriage before 20 the age of.
32:57
Civil enfranchisement is not. Permitted permission to marry is
33:02
only granted after one year's notice of intention and after
33:07
both bride and groom presents certificates showing.
33:11
That they have been fully. Instructed in the parental.
33:14
Schools. Regarding the responsibilities
33:16
of married life, now think about how important that is because
33:20
these people. As we're told believe.
33:23
That. Family in the family
33:24
institution. Is the most important
33:26
institution, so they take it very seriously.
33:30
Not like in. America where we go off and
33:32
elope in Las Vegas and have a whoop whoop weekend and you
33:36
know, think of the divorce rate 50% they say that divorce
33:40
regulations. On this world are LAX but.
33:43
Decrees a separation. Are issued by the parental
33:45
courts. It's also recorded.
33:47
They say that the divorce rate on that planet.
33:52
Is 110th of our races on Urantia goes on to talk about their
33:59
educational system, which. We'll save.
34:01
For another day, but we. Could learn a lot from these.
34:05
People and how they have set up their educational system if we
34:09
adopted even 1. 10th of what? This book says that they're.
34:12
Doing on planet. X our our children would not be
34:16
in the position there aren't today in in in in America in in
34:21
California just recently a second largest state in the
34:26
country by population, largest school system.
34:30
Most money put towards children and half the kids who get out of
34:34
school can't. Even read.
34:36
Which just shows you how far we've.
34:38
We've fallen, they talk. About their crime, the way
34:41
they're industries are set up. They spend some time talking
34:45
about. How to take care of their
34:47
elderly? And the old age insurance.
34:50
Programs that they have, ladies and gentlemen, they're.
34:53
Giving. Us a way out?
34:57
They're showing us by example. That we could do better.
35:01
They talk about taxation because if you know.
35:04
That in in in the previous section when it talks about the
35:08
evolution of government, there are dangers of over taxation of
35:12
big. Government and they spell.
35:14
It out in this book they show us how another advanced
35:17
civilization is dealing with the same problems that we deal with.
35:22
They talk. About how they deal with crime.
35:24
And they say that these people are passing out of the.
35:27
Negative into the. Positive era of law.
35:30
Recently they have gone so. Far as to attempt the.
35:33
Prevention of crime by. Sentencing those who are
35:36
believed to be. Potential murderers and major.
35:39
Criminals to life service in the.
35:41
Detention colonies. But they say if such convicts
35:45
subsequently demonstrate that they have become more.
35:48
Normal. They may either be paroled or
35:50
pardoned. The homicide rate on this
35:52
continent is only 1% of that of the other creations.
35:58
So. In reflecting now upon the other
36:00
nations of this world that we've been introduced to, they they
36:05
write. Although the society and
36:07
government of this. Unique people are in many
36:10
respects superior to those. Of the Iranian nations.
36:13
It should be stated. That on the other continents.
36:16
And there are 11 on this planet. The governments are decidedly
36:20
inferior to the more advanced. Nations.
36:23
Of Urantia. And then finally it says here in
36:26
this paragraph, this recital of the.
36:28
Affairs of a neighboring planet is made by.
36:30
Special permission with the intent of advancing civilization
36:35
and augmenting governmental evolution on Urantia.
36:39
Much more could be narrated that would no doubt interest and
36:42
intrigue Urantians. But this disclosure?
36:46
Covers the limits of. Our permissive mandate.
36:49
So what do you think of that? Is it?
36:50
Is it? Deeply profound, that.
36:52
You. Have just been told that there's
36:55
life. Out in the universe.
36:57
And that there's even life on a world not that far advanced than
37:01
our own, going through the same trials and tribulations, but
37:06
without the benefit of. Having been visited.
37:08
And blessed by the Creator's Son.
37:12
And think if. We could apply much of these
37:14
lessons to our own predicaments. There's no room for error here
37:20
in trying to extrapolate what their intent is.
37:22
It says right here in paper 7212 this.
37:27
Recital of the affairs of a neighboring planet.
37:29
Is made by special permission with the intent of advancing
37:33
civilization and augmenting governmental evolution on
37:37
Urantia, we still have to solve our.
37:40
Problems they're not giving us. Advanced technology.
37:44
They're not giving us advanced formulas and how to solve our
37:47
energy problem, but they are giving us.
37:50
The information. That we are going through
37:53
because. They this other world is so much
37:55
like our own. Paper 72 again another.
38:02
Wonderful. Example of of this.
38:05
Wonderful revelation that we have.
38:06
Before us. And I'm and I'm grateful that
38:10
you've. Taken the time and it's been
38:12
almost 45 minutes. So with that, thank you.
38:15
I look. Forward to our.
38:16
Next. Get together and we have.
38:18
So much more to talk about. If you have a question or a
38:20
comment, it's easy to contact. Me just write an.
38:23
E-mail yourrancherbookradio@gmail.com
38:27
Until next time, Blessings to you.
38:29
Stay strong and stay faithful. See you next time.