" "The Urantia Book" is difficult to describe. It's a 2097 page comprising a 196 distinct papers that describe God, the created universe, and all the myriad entities that inhabit said universe. Supposedly "channeled" through a certain William S. Sadler, a psychiatrist, lecturer on comparative religion, and prolific author, by various celestial beings. I think that the book is a tremendous work of Sadler's imagination and an important philosophical and mythological construct. Which is to say, it's stupid to proseletize The Urantia Book as the absolute truth, but it's invaluable as a abstract speculative model -- and it's a damn good read!The Urantia book is a cross between Star Trek, the Bible ,Orson Scott Card and Edgar Cayce.The last 800 pages construct a life of Jesus Christ that is much better read than say Norman Mailer's "A Gospel According To The Son", or the disappointing, blasphemous "The Last Temptation Of Christ". I found one of the more intriguing passages of the book to be the LuciferManifesto, which purports to be the document that started the rebellion that got Lucifer andthose planets that followed him (including our planet Earth, called Urantia) ostracized and
isolated from the rest of the Universe. Yo! It's all about self-rule, something like the Declaration of Independence... "
— Edd, 1/16/2014