Tigran Aivazian - The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

material mind is the mother, It is curious to note that both English words matter and mother have the same origin, namely from the Latin mater and Greek μήτηρ both meaning “mother”. Indeed, the maternal instinct and the materialistic tendency have much in common and this was the probable cause of much conflict between Jesus and his mother.

succeeding presentations ... seven superuniverses, Another confirmation (cf. 0:0.1, 0:0.4 and 0:2.11), that this Foreword is intended for papers 1-31 only and not the entire so-called “Urantia Book”.

Notes to Paper № 1

The Creator ... curtain, cf. Psalms 104:2: “Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain.”

“God created ... inhabited.”, cf. Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.”

Be you perfect, even as I am perfect., cf. Matthew 5:48: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

has never revealed himself by name, Therefore, it is rather foolish to argue about the various so-called “names of God”.

the noblest work of man, The thought “An honest God is the noblest work of man.” originated in the mind of an American lawyer Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899).

God is spirit, cf. John 4:24: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

the sovereign, ... only true God, cf. I Timothy 1:17: “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Lo, he goes ... perceive him not, This is a direct quote of Job 9:11.

You cannot ... and live, cf. Exodus 33:20: “And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.”

light which ... can see, cf. I Timothy 6:16: “Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”

the temples of God, cf. I Corinthians 3:16: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

when the dust ... to God who gave it, cf. Ecclesiastes 12:7: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”

the invisible ... are made, cf. Romans 1:20: “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”

In all ... afflicted, cf. Isaiah 63:9: “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.”

in Him we all live and move and have our being, cf. Acts 17:28: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” Here, by “certain also of your own poets” Paul is probably referring to Aratus (315-240 B.C.) who wrote in Φαινόμενα 4-5: “Everywhere everyone is indebted to Zeus. For we are indeed his offspring.”

Notes to Paper № 2

Touching the Infinite, Here, as well as in all 30 occurrences of “touching” in the KJV, where this quote comes from (Job 37:23), is of course used as a preposition meaning “regarding”, “concerning”. The same applies to the usage in 96:6.4. Nothing whatsoever to do with the verb “to touch”.

Notes to Paper № 4

Satania, is a coined word from the Hebrew satan “adversary”, resulting in the probable meaning of “the hostile system”.

mota, is a coined word from the Latin motus “movement”, because the super-knowledge corresponding to the true harmony of science, philosophy and religion is inherently active and moving.

Lucifer, Normally, the Urantia Papers coin new words to designate some personality (such as Caligastia below), unless the personality is already accurately identified in the existing human records, e.g. the Bible. This is the case here, i.e. this Lucifer is none other than the “son of the morning” who is “fallen from heaven” and “cut down to the ground” of Isaiah 14:12.

Caligastia, is a coined word from the Latin verb caligo “to be in darkness, waste away”, resulting in the total meaning of “the one who is in total darkness”.

without ... sin, Hebrews 9:22.

Notes to Paper № 10

seven triunities, defined at 104:4.

Notes to Paper № 11

zones, In 1955 text: zone. The plural, found in all editions after 1955, agrees with the verb “are” and is otherwise consistent with the general sense of the paragraph.

Notes to Paper № 15

almost 10 6years, The modern (2003) estimate of the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is 2.54±0.06·10 6light years. It is possible, however, that here in the text we have a quotation of Edwin Hubble's thoughts which may have crossed his mind when he identified the Cepheid variable stars in M31 in 1925, thus forever settling the debate about the object being extragalactic.

Mass in matter tends to retard velocity in energy, Indeed, this is clear from the geometric nature of proper mass as the momentum p 5= m conjugated to the proper time x 5= τ, cf. the note on 23:3.2.

5,342,482,337,666, How are the 7 celestial coordinates of our planet just given (7, 5, 3, 84, 70, 24, 606) encoded in the registry number? Note that the digits 1 and 9 are absent from both sets. It is likely that the decimal status is included as well and, together with the planet's number 606 it is represented in the final digits 666, see the note on 58:1.1.

Notes to Paper № 23

299,789 kilometres of your world per second of your time, Note that the absolutely exact(by definition of “meter”) speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s.

899,367 km/s. I have worked out the mathematical details of a possibility of travelling faster than the speed of light by interpreting the fifth dimension of Kaluza's “unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism” as proper time τ and the momentum conjugated to it (the total phase space being the cotangent bundle T *M over a 5-dimensional Lorentzian manifold M of signature (-,+,+,+,+)) as rest mass m: x μ= (t, r,τ), p μ=(E, p,m), thus explicitly manifesting the geometric nature of rest mass (as opposed to it being an inherent constant parameter ). Therefore, the ordinary 4-dimensional mass shell constraint E 2= p 2+ m 2, g(p,p) + m 2= 0 appears as nothing but the restriction on all matter being supported on the “lightlike cone in 5-dimensions”: G(p,p)=0, where g and G are 4d and 5d metric tensors respectively. Thus, all energy is “lightlike” in 5 dimensions, but as this “lightlike energy” undergoes slowing down, it manifests itself (i.e. its projection to a 4-dimensional spacetime submanifold) as a normal “massive material energy”. In such interpretation of Kaluza's fifth dimension there is no need whatsoever for Klein's constraint of S 1-compactification thereof. Furthermore, it is easily seen that the modern offshoots of Kaluza-Klein model (superstring theories, etc.), which impose such constraints are nothing more than the special cases of monstrous situations of energy somehow locked in a loop of time-perception. Our “normal” perception of time is linear (and has a topology of a closed interval [a,b] and no such compactification constraints are demanded. Note, further, that the velocity in the fifth dimension (as measured with respect to the coordinate time t) is extremely high for slow movements in purely spatial dimension: dτ/dt = (1 - v 2) 1/2. Hence, if we can imagine a surface capable of reflecting the momentum in τ-dimension (thus causing dematerialization , i.e. passing through the point m=0 in the phase space) into one of the purely spatial dimensions (just like an ordinary elastic collision at an angle of 45 ocauses a reflection of, say p xmomentum component into p y), we would expect by the law of conservation of 5-momentum the corresponding spatial momentum to be likewise extremely high, even equal to that of light if the process begins from purely spatial rest ( p=0). And, having crossed “the light barrier”, there is then nothing peculiar about accelerating to an even higher speed, this being permitted even by such limited treatment of the material reality as Einstein's Special Relativity theory in four dimensions. The surface itself would have to be immovable in (coordinate) time, such as the Isle of Paradise, which we are told is reachable from any point in space by moving inward, the Paradise itself remaining outside space and time. This implies that superluminal travel is possible from any point in space, but some sort of contact with the Isle of Paradise or other such “surface immovable in time” (or some other dematerialization technique) is required — and this is apparently facilitated by the transport seraphim.