Urantiapedia is “only” a shared effort with many other projects for the dissemination of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. It aims to provide several projects within a much larger context. We believe that these projects are necessary and essential to facilitate the current generation of readers and future generations a broad understanding of this extensive and complex revelation.
It is evident that the last epochal revelation has been given to us in an unusual way. The usual way of sending a great revelation to the inhabited worlds has always been to send a bearer of that revelation, a person or persons who by their incarnation and life example have left a revelatory message, usually a life example rather than a collection of writings. The Fifth Epochal Revelation, however, takes the form of a written text, and that doubtless has important implications. We are limited by language and format barriers as to the content of this revelation. We do not have in this revelation the life example of an incarnated celestial personality.
It is inevitable and even necessary that this written format evolve into a multitude of other formats that allow for a better dissemination and understanding of this text. With this objective, many readers, from the first moment of publication and even before[1], have created additional projects based on The Urantia Book. It is within this great shared effort that Urantiapedia is framed. The table below is a sample of other projects that have either already been undertaken, or are currently in progress, or have been formulated as an idea but have not been put into action. From here we want to encourage the community of readers of The Urantia Book to observe these projects as a possible goal for their altruistic collaboration with the purpose of achieving the greatest possible dissemination of these wonderful revelations.
The list in the table offers the name of the project that we consider of great interest for the dissemination of the Fifth Revelation, its promoter along with the languages in which the product was published, as well as the contributions to that list by Urantiapedia, either as a promoter or as a user of other products.
Project | Producer | Urantiapedia |
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THE URANTIA BOOK: | ||
The Urantia Book | Urantia Foundation | 25 / 27 translations added |
Abridged and illustrated version of The Urantia Book | (never done) | — |
Illustrated web version of The Urantia Book [2] | Urantiapedia | In progress |
The Urantia Book Audiobook | Urantia Foundation (DE , EN , ES , ET , HU , FI , FR , IT , NL , PL , PT , TR ) / Urantiapedia (DE , ES , FR , IT , JA , KO , NL , PT ) |
Added in 9 languages |
THEMATIC INDEX: | ||
Topic Index | Harry McMullan (EN ) |
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CROSS REFERENCES: | ||
Concordex | Clyde Bedell (EN ) |
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Paramony, Cross-References of The Urantia Book and the Bible | Duane Faw (EN ) |
Added with translation to 25 / 27 languages |
Cross-references of The Urantia Book and the Quran | Omar Delgado and others (ES ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
Cross-references to The Urantia Book and other books suspected of being used by revelators | Matthew Block and others (EN ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE: | ||
Archive for The Urantia Book | Urantiapedia, using existing publications (EN , ES , FR ) |
Added in 3 languages |
LIBRARY: | ||
Library on The Urantia Book | Urantiapedia, using public domain books (EN , ES , FR ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
ENCYCLOPEDIA: | ||
Encyclopedia on The Urantia Book | Urantiapedia, using the Subject Index as a base (EN , ES , FR ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
PINACOTHECA: | ||
Art gallery related to The Urantia Book[3] | Mo Siegel | Some images used |
CARTOTECA: | ||
Online map library about The Urantia Book | Urantiapedia (EN , ES , FR ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
Illustrated Atlas on The Urantia Book | (never done) | — |
MEDIA LIBRARY: | ||
Online media library about The Urantia Book [4] | Urantiapedia (EN , ES , FR ) |
In progress in 3 languages |
Historical archive on The Urantia Book [5] | Urantia Book Historical Society | Used for the Newspaper Archive |
Catalog of books, music and other creations related to The Urantia Book[6] | Pato Banton (EN ) |
To be added in the future |
PART IV VERSIONS: | ||
Novelized Version of Part IV | Urantiapedia, Jan Herca (ES ) |
In progress |
Abridged and illustrated version of Part IV (The Untold Story of Jesus)[7] | Jesusonian Foundation (EN ) |
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Illustrated web version of Part IV (Discover Jesus)[8] | Center for Unity (EN , ES , FR ) |
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Comic version of part IV | (never done, proposed by Nemias Mol) | — |
Movie version of part IV | Center for Unity (EN ) |
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ONLINE SCHOOLS: | ||
UBIS (Urantia Book Internet School) | Urantia Foundation (various languages) | — |
As can be seen from the table, the list includes 24 major projects, and Urantiapedia is involved in the direct production of 8 of those projects, possibly the largest contribution currently being made in this field. Still, we want to emphasize that Urantiapedia is just a drop of water in an ocean of present and future efforts that must be made to achieve the greatest and best possible dissemination of the extraordinary revelations of The Urantia Book. With the help of our invisible friends and a lot of patience, it will be achieved, without a doubt.
The first additional work to be created is the extended table of contents that appears at the beginning of all editions of The Urantia Book, which was prepared by Dr. William S. Sadler. ↩︎
Illustrations that may be in the public domain if they fit well with the text or are original to reflect scenes and portraits on topics and people never before described. ↩︎
Collection of presentations, diagrams, 3D models, podcasts and videos, either included within Urantiapedia or as links to the pages that contain them. ↩︎