Paper 55 Paper 57
See Etymology of Coined Terminology.
Introduction
p1: Be you perfect See cross-reference study: Be you perfect.
Section 1: Physical Co-ordination
Section 2: Intellectual Unity
Section 3: Spiritual Unification
Section 4: Personality Unification
p2: Personality inherently reaches out to unify all constituent realities…: This passage is used in “Logical Consistency vs Personal Creativity,” a special presentation by Chris Halvorson, which was prepared on this subject at the request of conference organizer, Halbert Katzen, for the UBtheNEWS 2010 Education for Outreach conference.
p4: It is interesting to note that, prior to the development of today’s advanced medical technologies, one might have argued that, similarly, a child cannot have more than one mother and even that there is never a doubt about who the mother is. But now we can actually conceptualize motherhood in a number of ways. There are surrogate mothers and distinctions between whether all of the mother’s egg cell is used. But “it is literally impossible for any child to have more than one father,” still holds up.
Section 5: Deity Unity
Section 6: Unification of Evolutionary Deity
p6: abandonters (37:9.12) “As Urantia has its midwayers, Jerusem, your system capital, has the Material Sons and Daughters; Edentia, your constellation headquarters, has the univitatia, while the citizens of Salvington are twofold, the created susatia and the evolved Spirit-fused mortals. The administrative worlds of the minor and major sectors of the superuniverses do not have permanent citizens. But the Uversa headquarters spheres are continuously fostered by an amazing group of beings known as the abandonters, the creation of the unrevealed agents of the Ancients of Days and the seven Reflective Spirits resident on the capital of Orvonton.” See also: (30:1.44), (30:2.122), (40:10.4), (43:7.4).
Section 7: Universal Evolutionary Repercussions
p4: suddenly From Wikipedia: Stephan Wolfram: “From 1992 to 2002, Stephen Wolfram worked on his controversial book A New Kind of Science, which presents an empirical study of very simple computational systems. Additionally, it argues that for fundamental reasons these types of systems, rather than traditional mathematics, are needed to model and understand complexity in nature. Wolfram’s conclusion is that the universe is digital in its nature, and runs on fundamental laws which can be described as simple programs. He predicts that a realization of this within the scientific communities will have a major and revolutionary influence on physics, chemistry and biology and the majority of the scientific areas in general, which is the reason for the book’s title.”
See “Is There Design in Nature,” Section 7 of Neal Kendall’s Scientific Symposium presentation at Urantia Foundation in 2016.
Section 8: The Supreme Unifier
Section 9: Universal Absolute Unity
p7: space potency: (42:2.6) “On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as ABSOLUTA.” See Nigel Nunn’s “Exploding Dark Islands” presentation, which covers the relationship between absoluta, segregata, ultimata and in the creation of ultimatons and how all of this relates to dark islands and black holes.
space potency appears 21 times in 18 paragraphs.
Section 10: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Matthew Block suggests that the following authors were influential in writing of this Paper and has prepared a parallel chart:
Charles Hartshorne, Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism (Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1941) Wikipedia page: Hartshorne.
William S. Sadler, M.D., Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1936) Wikipedia page: Sadler.
p2,3,8: cosmology appears in fourteen paragraphs: (12:9.3), (55:5.6), (56:10.2,3,8), (94:11.12), (94:12.1), (98:7.6), (99:4.13), (101:1.5), (101:4.1,2,5), (111:4.4).
p14: antisocial appears seven paragraphs: (51:4.8), (52:7.5), (56:10.14), (68:1.6), (81:5.4), (82:6.4), (91:1.2).
p22: Seven Papers were sponsored by a Mighty Messenger: 28, 30, 52, 115, 116, 117, and 118. Seven Papers were presented by a Mighty Messenger: 32, 34, 40, 42, 54, 55, and 56. One Paper is said to be narrated by a Mighty Messenger: 22.
p23: See Topical Study page: What does The Urantia Book say about its creation?