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Large passenger birds, also called fandors, were domesticated shortly after the arrival of the Planetary Prince (500,000 years ago) by Bon's group, the board of animal domestication and utilization. They were still being used during the time of Adam and Eve but became extinct about 30,000 years ago. There is no firm fossil record of...

The Passover Sabbath (Pesach) is a sacred Jewish holiday commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus and the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. It begins in late March or April and lasts seven or eight days.

Paul of Tarsus is considered an apostle of Christ, although he never met Jesus. He experienced a spiritual conversion shortly after Jesus' death and subsequently became instrumental in establishing the Christian church. His doctrines were influenced not only by Jesus’ teachings but also by Mithraism, Stoicism, and the works of Plato and Philo. See also...

Perea was a region of Roman Palestine that lay east of the Jordan river and the Dead Sea, but it did not extend east as far as the cities of Philadelphia (Amman, Jordan) or Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan), which were included in the region of the Decapolis. The north border of Perea was at Pella and...

Perfections of Days administer the ten major sectors of each superuniverse. Three are assigned to each major sector. They are the fourth order of Supreme Trinity Personalities who represent the administrative policies and the executive judgment of the Paradise Trinity.

Perfectors of Wisdom personify the divine wisdom of the Paradise Trinity. They are associates and equals of the Universal Censors and the Divine Counselors, all of whom participate in the government of the Ancients of Days, together forming the highest mobile advisory body in the universes of time and space. They are the highest orders...

Peripheral Paradise is the region at the edge of the Eternal Isle. The Seven Master Spirits, in association with the Seven Supreme Power Directors, maintain their force-focal headquarters on the Paradise periphery. On this surface are the landing and dispatching fields for various groups of spirit personalities, as well as the enormous historic and prophetic...

There are permanent orders of citizenship throughout the grand universe. Some examples are: midwayers (inhabited worlds), Material Sons (local system), univitatia (constellations), susatia (local universe), Spirit-fused mortals (local universe) and perhaps Son-fused mortals (superuniverse). Even Paradise and Havona have permanent citizens, such as Havona natives and others.

Descriptions in The Urantia Book suggest that, during the early evolution of mankind, the Mediterranean Sea once extended to the Indian Ocean (64:1.1) and the Arabian peninsula was submerged (64:7.1) thereby creating a Mesopotamian (or Persian) peninsula (62:1.3). Also see MAP.

The Personal Aids are higher personalities of the Infinite Spirit who are exclusively dedicated to the assistance of the Infinite Spirit. Located on Paradise, they can travel to the uttermost parts of creation to execute the bidding of the Third Source. They traverse space much as do the Solitary Messengers but are not persons in...