The Urantia book. Softbound 1996, stated first edition. Good general condition: pages are very thin, no signiant damage. From the Publishers Note: This edition contains the original text of the 1955 first printing of The Urantia Book except for correction of typographical errors and certain harmonizations of spelling and punctuation. These adjustments are documented in a separate pamphlet, available on request from the publisher. Paragraph numbering has been incorporated to facilitate referencing the text in accordance with its inherent structure. For example, the second paragraph under "Problems of Growth" on page962 would be referenced as 100:4.2; i.c., Paper 100:Section 4. Paragraph 2. The locator numbering printed at the top outside margin of each page indicates the first paragraph on left-side pages, or the last paragraph on right-side pages. For convenient cross-referencing, small pointers placed between the text columns locate page breaks in the 1955 first printing of The Urantia Book, with the original page number(s) printed in small type at the bottom inside page margins. From the introduction: THE URANTIA BOOK ANSWERS LIFE'S MOST ASKED QUESTIONS Selected Examples: Does God hear your prayers? The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard (Pg. 1440) Words are irrelevant to prayer. God answers the soul's attitude, not the words. (876) Pray as Jesus taught his disciples honestly, unselfishly, with fairness, and without doubting, (874) Why does God permit evil and sin? both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. (541) Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice. (1278) Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. (1251) Does God know you personally? The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives Part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell within him. (55) What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the UIniversal Father lives within your own mind! (s5) If you will submit to the leading of the indwelling spirit, you will be unerr ingly guided. step by step, life by life, through universe upon universe....(32) In liaison with God, nothing-absolutely nothing --is impossible. (256) What happens after you die? When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you (1082) You begin over there right where you leave are to awaken on the shores of a better world. off down here. (470) From the resurrection halls you proceed to. where you are assigned permanent residence. Then you enter upon ten days of personal liberty. .. You also have time to gratify your desire to consult the registry and call upon your loved ones and other earth friends who may have preceded you to these worlds. (470) Is there intelligent life on other planets? An almost endless variety of creature life and other living manifestations characterizes the countless worlds of space. :(151) Seven superuniverses make up the present organized grand universe, consisting of approximately seven trillion inhabitable worlds. .. (145) How can People learn to love each other? You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor's motives and sentiment. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catch ing than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious. (963) Love is the desire to do good to others.