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Foundation Map: Aug. 3 to Sept. 23, 29 A.D.
See Etymology of Coined Terminology.
Introduction
Section 1: The Transfiguration
p6: Father’s business See 148:3, The Father’s Business.
p6,8: Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek: See 35:1.2. “Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek are never away from Salvington at the same time.” It is possible that they were not really away, but were communicating with Jesus via some kind of holographic presence.
p8: crackling It could be that something like a static discharge sound occurred when Gabriel and Father Melchizadek were made visible. Perhaps this had to do with the process of making them visible to human eyes. Perhaps, because they are never away from Salvington at the same time (see note at p6), one or both of them were having their images projected into the conversations (some form of celestial videoconferencing). Such an event might electrically charge the air.
Why does static electricity make a crackling sound? (From Reddit.) That is the sound of the air expanding really fast then collapsing. When you see that little blue spark, that is electrons jumping from one point to another. Electrons need some conductive path, and metal is great. Air is not so great. In order to jump through the air a long distance, the air needs to be ionized, which means the electrons are stripped from the nuclei and you actually have a plasma. This air is really hot, and expands super fast, then cools down and collapses. So it sounds like snapping your gum because it is just like a bubble popping.
Section 2: Coming Down the Mountain
p2: See cross-reference study: Prophetic Prophec- Prophes-.
Section 3: Meaning of the Transfiguration
p2: Mother-Son See cross-reference study: Gender Studies.
p3: Eternal Mother-Son See cross-reference study: Gender Studies.
Section 4: The Epileptic Boy
Section 5: Jesus Heals the Boy
p4: spiritual ecstasy appears four times: (91:7.3), (158:5.4), (160:1.5), (194:0.3).
Section 6: In Celsus’ Garden
Section 7: Peter’s Protest
p1: See Topical Study: Genetic Introductions, Mutations, and Evolution: a Urantia Book perspective, and subtopic: “Were the Alpheus twins subnormal?“.
Section 8: At Peter’s House
Additional notes:
Matthew Block suggests that the following authors were influential in writing of this Paper and has prepared a parallel chart:
Wm. Arnold Stevens and Ernest Dewitt Burton, A Harmony of the Gospels for Historical Study: An Analytical Synopsis of the Four Gospels (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904, 1932) Archive.org copy.
Rev. Alfred Edersheim, M.A.Oxon, D.D., Ph.D., The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Volume Two) (New York: Longman, Green, & Co., Eighth Edition, Revised, 1899) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy, V.1. Hathi Trust Digital Library copy, V.2.Wikipedia page: Edersheim.
George A. Barton, Ph.D., LL.D., Jesus of Nazareth: A Biography (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy. Wikipedia page: Barton.
Robert Norwood, The Man Who Dared to Be God: A Story of Jesus (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929)
David Smith, M.A., D.D., Our Lord’s Earthly Life (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925)
George Adam Smith, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy. Wikipedia page: Smith.
Walter Russell Bowie, The Master: A Life of Jesus Christ (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928) Wikipedia page: Bowie.
David Smith, M.A., D.D., The Days of His Flesh: The Earthly Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Eighth Edition, Revised (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910)
Charles Fiske and Burton Scott Easton, The Real Jesus: What He Taught: What He Did: Who He Was (New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929) Anglicanhistory.org: Fiske. Episcopal Church: Easton.