The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

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re-keyed, In 1955 text: rekeyed. The only other occurrence of re-keyed is in hyphenated form 48:2.21 in the text. Words formed with the “re-” prefix, fall under the same general Chicago Manual of Style rule, but this instance is covered by an exception: “a) When the first vowel of the added word would ... suggest mispronunciation, the hyphen is retained.” In this case, the un-hyphenated form appears to indicate that the first syllable is pronounced with a short e, causing the reader to stumble. Insertion of the hyphen resolves the problem.

Notes to Paper № 44

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worlds, In 1955 text comma after worlds. This is the only one of the committee's recommendations that allows the reasonableness of the original but recommends the change because all publishers have long since adopted the change.

Notes to Paper № 45

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Sometime, In 1955 text: Some time. The one-word form is correct as the reference is to an indefinite point in time rather than to an indefinite period of time. (See Webster’s) Given the location of this word in the 1955 text — with a line break occurring between Some and time — it is possible that the original error was simply a missing end-of-line hyphen.

Notes to Paper № 46

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miles, Here the “mile” could be referring to a “standard Jerusem mile” and so was left unconverted.

Notes to Paper № 51

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13 ... and 681,204, the total number is therefore 681,217. However, at 53:7.8 it is stated that the total number of Material Sons lost in Satania is 681,227.

Notes to Paper № 53

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bound the dragon (all the rebel leaders) for an age, We must not forget, however, the following verse, Revelation 20:3, which reads “... and after that he must be loosed a little season.”

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He contended that “majorities rule,” Hence we learn that Lucifer was the first protagonist of democracy in our Universe.

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“mind is infallible.' This is a major contention of the modern materialistic so-called science.

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the three azure blue concentric circles, Let us think about the possible reason for this emblem. Many visionaries and mystics (including the present editor) have visualised the evolving immortal (“morontia”, in terminology of the Urantia Papers) soul as a blue sphere of light, see for example the excellent presentation by Troy R. Bishop here: http://www.starspring.com/gloriousascent/swi- files/glorious_ascent.html. Furthermore, if we rotate the three blue concentric circles around the common axis of symmetry, they will appear as one blue sphere. Therefore, we see that the emblem of the three concentric circles not only represents the Trinity government, but also the morontia soul, i.e. the true essence of what we are becoming.

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Panoptia, is a coined word from the Greek prefix pan- “all” and Greek optos “visible”, resulting in the probable meaning of “the place of those who see all (or “see the big picture”).