Town in Perea, ancient Palestine.

Judas Maccabee, a Judean priest who assumed command of Judean resistance to Greek forces in the second century BC. Maccabee restored Mosaic services at the Mt. Zion temple.

Ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in southern Europe.

Palace of Herod Antipas, who governed Galilee and Perea during Jesus’ youth and ministry to A.D. 39.

Melchizedek Son who incarnated on Urantia during the times of Abraham in approximately 2,000 B.C. At present, Machiventa is the planetary Prince of Urantia.

Island republic in the Indian Ocean, about 240 miles (385 km) off the SE coast of Africa.

Village in Galilee.

A park near Bethsaida-Julias where Jesus held conferences, camped with his followers and ordained seventy teachers.

(1) In this city's resorts of ill repute the women evangelists found and ministered to Mary Magdalene, (2) Where Jesus as a boy engaged in fishing with the uncle who made his headquarters near this city, (3) Jude, Jesus' brother, established his home here.

A gigantic luminous mass of blazing suns in the Milky Way galaxy.

Three wise men who supposedly were drawn by the star of Bethlehem to the manger of the infant Jesus.

Paradise Sons of God who are children of the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit and who take part in judicial actions, magisterial missions and bestowal missions on the worlds of space.

Followers of Gautama, who developed the ""Great Road"" religious philosophy casting them free from the social limitations inherent in traditional Buddhist philosophy.

The 50th Reflective Spirit, of divine Trinity origin, he was created by the Supreme Being in functional liaison with the Deity Absolute. He is chief of reflectivity in the grand universe, with headquarters on Paradise.

Comprises about one tenth of a superuniverse and consists of one hundred minor sectors, ten thousand local universes and about one hundred billion inhabitable worlds.

Syrian believer of Beirut.

Hebrew prophet.

First name of a Melchizedek Son who is one of the authors of the Urantia Papers.

Native or inhabitant of a peninsula of southeast Asia comprising southwest Thailand, western Malaysia, and the island of Singapore.

Syrian bodyguard of the high priest Caiaphas.

An island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa.

The first of the order of Graduate Guides and the being who greeted and acted as guide for the first mortal ascender, Grandfanda, when he reached the outer circuit of Havona.

Plains near Hebron where three celestial beings appeared to Abraham.

(1) A deity regarded as being in form or origin or in other respects a man. (2) Dyaus-Zeus of the ancient Hellenic Greeks.

Boy king who ruled a corrupt and rich ring of politicians and effected the undoing of Judah, a southern Hebrew clan.

A centurion, or captain, of the Roman guard stationed at Capernaum who requested that Jesus heal his servant.

A public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.

The ""bread of heaven"" said to be miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness.

The name of a supreme seraphim of Nebadon, created by the Creative Spirit, who has ascended to the position of associate chief of seraphim on Urantia. Manotia associated with a Melchizedek Son in the work of preparing Paper 39, 'The Seraphic Hosts'.

The first name of a Melchizedek Son who was once attached to the receivership of Urantia after the rebellion, and who authored Paper 53, 'The Lucifer rebellion'.

A great mortal teacher during the post-Planetary Prince age on Urantia who taught veneration of the 'Great Light.' Mansant now serves on the Urantia Advisory Council as one of the four and twenty counselors.

One of the seven progressive training worlds on which planetary resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives when overtaken by death. These spheres are satellites that orbit world number one of the fifty-six worlds encircling Jerusem, the capital of the local system Satania.

Surviving mortals who reawaken on the mansion worlds belong to this class.

Recruited and glorified cherubim who function in most of the educational enterprises of the morontia life.

The name given to each of the seven satellites which orbit world number one of the fifty-six worlds encircling Jerusem, the capital sphere of Satania. These seven satellites(e.g. mansonia number one, two, etc.) are the mansion worlds devoted to the transitional culture of ascending mortals. Also refers to the mansion world experience or career. Seven progressive training worlds on which planetary resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives when overtaken by death. These spheres are satellites that orbit world number one of the fifty-six worlds encircling Jerusem, the capital of the local system Satania.

A tertiary Lanonandek Son who serves in the Satania system government as first assistant Sovereign to Lanaforge, the System Sovereign, and who sits on the Jerusem executive council, the supreme advisory body of Satania.

The first name of the Melchizedek Son who directed the twelve Nebadon personalities who authored those papers concerning the local universe and the history of Urantia.

A speaker at the forum in Rome to whom Jesus provided personal ministry and who became the successor to the Apostle Peter.

The chief god In Babylon who was a perpetuation of the Adam legend, the son-of-God idea.

The leader of the Cynics of Rome who, in interactions with Jesus sometime during A.D. 22-23, learned about good and evil.

Also known as John Mark, as a boy he lingered about many of the scenes that he depicts in the Gospel bearing his name.

(1) Jesus' second sister, (2) Sister of Lazarus who was, together with her brother and sister, a close friend of Jesus and his family.

(1) The earth mother of Jesus, (2) Mary Magdalene, a convert of Jesus who became the chief spokesman of the women's corps of evangels, (3) Sister of Lazarus who was, together with her brother and sister, a close friend of Jesus and his family, (4) The wife of Clopas, one of the women believers who witnessed Jesus' crucifixion and came ready to prepare his body after his physical death, (5) Mary Mark, mother of John Mark, in whose home the Last Supper was held, (6) Mary, mother of the Alpheus twins, who went with other women believers to anoint Jesus' body after his physical death.

A convert of Jesus who became the chief spokesman of the women's corps of evangels.

Beings who are the mobile subordinates of the Supreme Power Centers.

A Creator Son who has sojourned seven times among his creatures and thereby become a sovereign and supreme ruler of his Local Universe.

Comprises the seven evolving superuniverses in association with the central and divine universe and the uninhabited but mobilizing universes of outer space.

The wealthy young man who refused to part with his worldy possessions as a prerequisite to becoming one of Jesus' ordained teachers.

(1) Preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values, (2) The philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies.

(1) To come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out, (2) To assume material or bodily form; become corporeal.

(1) One of the twelve apostles of Jesus, (2) The Gospel of Matthew, one of the four gospels of the New Testament.

One of the twelve apostles of Jesus.

Replaced Judas Iscariot as treasurer of the apostles.

Raised to the highest possible point or condition or position.

Ancient village or town near Jerusalem.

Meaning and value combined into one term.

City in western Saudi Arabia

Mobile assistants of the associate power directors.

Town in Perea, ancient Palestine.

Ancient city in northern Israel, on the plain of Esdraelon.

One of the 100 corporeal members of Caligastia's staff, Mek headed the planetary council on art and science.

The first of the four orders of descending sonship designated as local universe Sons of God, created by the Creator Son and Creative Spirit in collaboration with the Father Melchizedek in the early days of populating the Local Universe of Nebadon.

The first of the four orders of descending sonship designated as local universe Sons of God, created by the Creator Son and Creative Spirit in collaboration with the Father Melchizedek in the early days of populating the local universe of Nebadon.

Ancient temple in Tyre, Phoenicia.

The process or result of mental activity.

The second smallest planet and the nearest to the sun.

A lake formed by the river Jordan, about ten miles north of the Sea of Galilee.

(1) Ancient name for the land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, (2) Location of the Planetary Prince's headquarters approximately 500,000 years ago, (3) Location of the second Garden of Eden approximately 36,000 B.C., (4) Where a Melchizedek colony was established in the 2nd Century B.C. (5) Homeland of the Chaldean priests who set out to pay homage to the infant Jesus, (5) Location where the remnants of the destroyed Hebrew civilization were held in captivity in the 2nd Century B.C.

An ""energy carrier"" particle of matter that holds together, by reciprocating function, the charged protons and the uncharged neutrons of the nucleus of the atom.

Beings of the Infinite Spirit who function as the connecting links between the higher personalities and the ministering spirits.

The promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.

Of or relating to the Messiah, his awaited deliverance of the Jews, or the new age of peace expected to follow this.

A seaport in NE Sicily where Jesus, Gonod and Ganid stopped on the way to Rome and where Jesus changed the life of a young fruit vendor boy.

Pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.

The result of man’s unavailing attempt to span the chasm between the widely separated domains of science and religion.

Hebrew prophet who boldly denounced the priest-ridden ritual of the Hebrews and fearlessly attacked the whole sacrificial system.

Assisted Elisha, the faithful associate of Elijah, to keep the light of truth alive in Palestine.

The Creator Son is the divinity co-ordinate of the Eternal Son, and the creative associate of the Infinite Spirit. To our universe and all its inhabited worlds the Sovereign Son is, to all practical intents and purposes, God.

An order of the Paradise Sons of God .

Beings such as the Urantia races.

The evolving soul of man, a morontia phenomenon .

Invaders of the Jordan valley.

Worlds on which the Melchizedeks have functioned as life carriers; progeny of a Melchizdek and a Material Daughter.

One of the unclassified and unrevealed orders of the Triune-origin beings.

Quiet zones which separate the successive space levels of the master universe.

Creatures who appear on most inhabited worlds, and always on life-experiment (decimal) worlds such as Urantia. They exist and function in the realm 'midway' between human and angel.

A group of sons chiefly, but not wholly, concerned with the services of the ascendant career of the time-space mortals.

A cousin of the Apostle Thomas.

Mind, on Urantia, is a compromise between the essence of thought perfection and the evolving mentality of your immature human nature. The plan for your intellectual evolution is, indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you are far short of that divine goal as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh. Mind is truly of divine origin, and it does have a divine destiny, but your mortal minds are not yet of divine dignity.

Perform invaluable service in the mind circuits on the inhabited worlds .

Coming from a local universe Mother Spirit and related to creature life of intelligence status .

The cosmic arena of creature choice.

mind personalities who have spirit.

Unerringly clutches all vital meanings of intellectual existence.

The mortal-mind transcripts and the active creature-memory patterns.

In the same sense that there are spirit personalities who have mind there are mind personalities who have spirit.

Roman goddess.

Angels are the ministering-spirit associates of the evolutionary and ascending will creatures of all space; they are also the colleagues and working associates of the higher hosts of the divine personalities of the spheres.

A group comprising the Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.

One hundred local universes (about 1,000,000,000 inhabitable planets).

Sister of Jesus.

A city in Perea.

Iranian god worshiped as the savior and redeemer of sinful mankind.

In Persia sun veneration gave rise to the later Mithraic cult.

In Persia sun veneration gave rise to the later Mithraic cult; successor to Zoroastrianism in Persia .

The greatest of all the mystery cults, the worship of Mithras.

An area of rocky hills, visible from Nazareth beyond the Jordan.

One of the dynasties of the East.

Founded a religion which was superior to many of the creeds of his time.

A paternal form of rulership.

The primary Sangik type, including the original red, yellow, and blue races.

Prepersonal presences that reside in the minds of will creatures.

The universe name for Urantia's solar system which was formed over four billion years ago (see Angona).

The living, nonspirit energy of Paradise.

Belief in the One God of final value.

Belivers in a supreme deity.

A tribe of red men.

Of, pertaining to, or concerned with proper conduct, or its principles.

That phase of universe-reality intervening and bridging the gulf between the material and spiritual realms of the universe.

An experience intended to effect the permanent eradication from the mortal survivors of animal vestigial traits.

One of the groups of the Messenger Hosts of Space, in the family of the Infinite Spirit .

The new life vehicle for the immortal soul and for the indwelling of the returned Adjuster.

Student visitors only within the confines of the local universe of their origin.

One of the groups comprising the Universe Power Directors.

Ascending pilgrims .

a new vehicle for personality manifestation.

Life in the flesh.

Completed mortals who serve in many capacities on worlds settled in light and life.

The destination of the ascending Adjuster-fused mortals of time.

Ascending pilgrims .

The emancipator of a remnant of the submerged violet race and the instigator of the revival of the worship of the Universal Father under the name of “The God of Israel”.

Members of a group of Universe Aids, a composite personality group of beings that are closely related to the organization and administration of the grand universe.

Morontia wisdom.

The Reflective Spirits.

One of the two divine parents of the Infinite Spirit.

The Third Source and Center and her daughters in the local universes.

A mountain to the northwest of Nazareth.

A mountain to the north of Nazareth.

The highest elevation on Jerusem and the point of departure for all transport seraphim.

The highest of all the hills of southern Galilee.

Mixtures of the white and black races .

The majority of people in the Greco-Roman world, having lost their primitive family and state religions and being unable or unwilling to grasp the meaning of Greek philosophy, turned their attention to the spectacular and emotional mystery cults from Egypt and the Levant.

An actual fragment of the very God of all creation .

Illusional.