Set 8

Von Corven

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July 28–August 3, 2025

Set 8 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 13, 14, 15 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 130

On the Way to Rome

Paper 131
The World's Religions

131:0.1  During the Alexandrian sojourn of Jesus, Gonod, and Ganid, the young man spent much of his time and no small sum of his father’s money making a collection of the teachings of the world’s religions about God and his relations with mortal man. Ganid employed more than threescore learned translators in the making of this abstract of the religious doctrines of the world concerning the Deities. ...
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Excerpt from Paper 131: introduction, paragraph 1

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Set 7

Bida

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Set 7 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 11, 12 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 128

Jesus' Early Manhood

Paper 129

The Later Adult Life of Jesus

128:7.1  As this year began, Jesus of Nazareth became strongly conscious that he possessed a wide range of potential power. But he was likewise fully persuaded that this power was not to be employed by his personality as the Son of Man, at least not until his hour should come.
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Excerpt from Paper 128: section 7, paragraph 1

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Set 6

Margetson

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Set 6 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Paper 10 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 126

The Two Crucial Years

Paper 127

The Adolescent Years

126:1.1  This is the calendar year of his fourteenth birthday. He had become a good yoke maker and worked well with both canvas and leather. He was also rapidly developing into an expert carpenter and cabinetmaker. This summer he made frequent trips to the top of the hill to the northwest of Nazareth for prayer and meditation. He was gradually becoming more self-conscious of the nature of his bestowal on earth.
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Excerpt from Paper 126: section 1, paragraph 1

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Set 5

Tobin

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Set 5 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 8, 9 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 124

The Later Childhood of Jesus

Paper 125

Jesus at Jerusalem

124:1.3  The most serious trouble as yet to come up at school occurred in late winter when Jesus dared to challenge the chazan regarding the teaching that all images, pictures, and drawings were idolatrous in nature. Jesus delighted in drawing landscapes as well as in modeling a great variety of objects in potter’s clay. Everything of that sort was strictly forbidden by Jewish law, but up to this time he had managed to disarm his parents’ objection to such an extent that they had permitted him to continue in these activities.
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Excerpt from Paper 124: section 1, paragraph 3

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Set 4

Roberts

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Set 4 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 6, 7 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 122

Birth and Infancy of Jesus

Paper 123

The Early Childhood of Jesus

122:3.1  One evening about sundown, before Joseph had returned home, Gabriel appeared to Mary by the side of a low stone table and, after she had recovered her composure, said: “I come at the bidding of one who is my Master and whom you shall love and nurture. ...
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Excerpt from Paper 122: section 3, paragraph 1

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Set 3

Gerome

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Set 3 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Paper 121 and the following two papers from Part I:

Paper 4
God's Relation to the Universe

Paper 5
God's Relation to the Individual

5:1.2  Our Father is not in hiding; he is not in arbitrary seclusion. He has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to reveal himself to the children of his universal domains. There is an infinite grandeur and an inexpressible generosity connected with the majesty of his love which causes him to yearn for the association of every created being who can comprehend, love, or approach him; ...
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Excerpt from Paper 5: section 1, paragraph 2

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Set 2

Cole

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Set 2 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Paper 120 and the following two papers from Part I:

Paper 2

The Nature of God

Paper 3

The Attributes of God

2:4.2  God is inherently kind, naturally compassionate, and everlastingly merciful. And never is it necessary that any influence be brought to bear upon the Father to call forth his loving-kindness. The creature’s need is wholly sufficient to insure the full flow of the Father’s tender mercies and his saving grace. ...

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Excerpt from Paper 2: section 4, paragraph 2

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