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Visiting with the Apostles Two and Two 2047 3. On the Mount of Ordination 2050 4. The Lakeside Gathering 2050 193. Final Appearances and Ascension 2052 1. The Appearance at Sychar 2053 2. The Phoenician Appearance 2054 3. Last Appearance in Jerusalem 2055 4. Causes of Judas’s Downfall 2055 5. The Master’s Ascension 2057 6. Peter Calls a Meeting 2057 194. Bestowal of the Spirit of Truth 2059 1. The Pentecost Sermon 2060 2. The Significance of Pentecost 2060 3. What Happened at Pentecost 2062 4. Beginnings of the Christian Church 2066 195. After Pentecost 2069 1. Influence of the Greeks 2071 2. The Roman Influence 2072 3. Under the Roman Empire 2073 4. The European Dark Ages 2074 5. The Modern Problem 2075 6. Materialism 2076 7. The Vulnerability of Materialism 2078 8. Secular Totalitarianism 2081 9. Christianity’s Problem 2082 10. The Future 2084 196. The Faith of Jesus 2087 1. Jesus—The Man 2090 2. The Religion of Jesus 2091 3. The Supremacy of Religion 2093

      The Urantia Book

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Foreword

      0:0.1 (1.1) IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia—that being the name of your world—there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the Orvonton corps of truth revealers have been authorized to translate into the English language of Urantia.

      0:0.2 (1.2) It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception, when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed language of the realm. But our mandate admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the English tongue. We have been instructed to introduce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with more or less distortion of meaning.

      0:0.3 (1.3) In the hope of facilitating comprehension and of preventing confusion on

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