FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER SIXTY YEARS, the unabridged, unaltered, inviolate first edition text of The Urantia Book will be reprinted exactly as it was originally published in 1955. Why every serious student of
“The first printing of The Urantia
Book . . . As the earliest extant version of the text,
the 1955 edition is the most authoritative source for
insight into the authors’ thought and compositional
style, so the greatest weight was always given to the
usages found in that edition.” |
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This project was offered to Urantia Foundation |
| We offered this entire project to Urantia Foundation in 2015 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first edition. Our intention was to anonymously collaborate with Urantia Foundation to publish the inviolate first edition without requesting reimbursement or fees. Mo Siegel, President of Urantia Foundation, was interested and presented the project to the Board of Trustees at their meeting in July. We were ... (READ MORE) |
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An Instant Heirloom |
| Until now, readers who wanted a
first edition of The Urantia Book had to search far
and wide and pay dearly–currently $700 to $800 or more
for used copies. This makes it especially difficult
for scholars, scientists, theologians, and serious students
who need to verify the timeliness of the information
as stated in the 1955 first edition. For example, Dr. Mark A. S. McMenamin, professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College, published a book titled: The Garden of Ediacara, Discovering the First Complex Life (Columbia University Press, 1998). In this study, Dr. McMenamin makes some remarkable references to The Urantia Book. He wrote to a Urantia ... (READ MORE) |
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Urantia Foundation published 10,000 copies of the inviolate text of The Urantia Book in 1955. It never again published the original inviolate text of The Urantia Book; changes were made in all printings of The Urantia Book after 1955. |
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Urantia Foundation’s Declaration of Trust: In January of 1950 Urantia Foundation was formed and five trustees assumed all authority over, and responsibility for, the preservation of the unaltered text of the proposed Urantia Book. A Declaration of Trust was formulated by Urantia Foundation as a founding organizational document and approved by the revelators. The principle duties of the trusties are to protect the inviolate text, as clearly defined by the following section of Urantia Foundation’s Declaration of Trust: (READ MORE) |
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THE UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES that were made for the second printing in 1967 (READ MORE) THE AFFIDAVAT OF DR. MERIDITH SPRUNGER (READ MORE) SUPPORTING LETTERS Helena Sprague; James C. Mills; Scott Forsythe Benjamin Adams and Dr. William Sadler (READ MORE) |
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