Glossary Archive

Seraphington is one of seven sacred spheres of the Father circuiting Paradise. It is the "bosom of the Son and the Spirit" and the home world of the vast hosts of unrevealed beings created by the Son and the Spirit. This is also the destiny sphere of all ministering orders of the angelic hosts, including...

The Seven Absolutes, or the Seven Absolutes of Infinity, are: 1. First Source (Father), 2. Second Source (Son), 3. Third Source (Spirit), 4. Isle of Paradise, 5. Deity Absolute, 6. Unqualified Absolute, and 7. Universal Absolute. These are the seven prime relationships eternalizing within the I AM. All seven are existential—they have always existed, and...

The finaliters are presently 6th stage spirits. They will become 7th stage spirits when the Supreme Being has actualized (when the grand universe is settled in light and life). At this point, it is believed that a finaliter's dual mind will become triune—wherein the attuned human and divine minds (Adjuster) will become glorified in union...

There is no region of the Mediterranean Sea currently known as Sicilian Bay. To the north of Sicily is the Tyrrhenian Sea and to the east, the Ionian Sea. It's possible this is a reference to the southern region of the sea between Sicily and Tunisia.

By conventional definition, simians include all monkeys and apes, including humans. But The Urantia Book separates humans (even as Hominidae) from the simian group after the appearance of the "Primates" (as they define this group). The book also separates pre-existing "lemurs, gibbons, apes, and other monkeylike creatures" from the modern simians that evolved from the...

There are several Simons mentioned in the book. The most prominent are: Simon Peter, the second apostle and brother of Andrew Simon Zelotes, the eleventh apostle Simon of Bethany, the father of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha Simon, Jesus' third brother

Simon of Bethany was the father of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, who all became good friends of the young Jesus. Jesus visited Simon's home many times on his early ventures to Jerusalem. Simon died before Jesus reached his 18th year but later, under Lazarus, this home became Jesus' headquarters for his work in the southern...

Simon Zelotes was the 11th apostle, chosen by Peter. He was a fiery agitator and spoke much without thinking. He was a merchant in Capernaum before turning his attention to the patriotic organization of the Zealots. But Jesus won Simon over to the higher concepts of the kingdom, and he became a powerful and effective...

The Siwalik Hills are the foothills of the Himalayas. But because The Urantia Book was written in 1935, before the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, the hills referenced here are actually in northern Pakistan. The Badonan occupied the foothills of the NW Indian (Pakistan) highlands (64:3.1) to the west of these hills, as...

Sleeping survivors are those mortals who have died but were unable to attain the level of intelligence mastery and endowment of spirituality which would entitle them to personal guardians. Such surviving souls must rest in unconscious sleep until the judgment day of a new epoch, a new dispensation.