English language

• revelators instructed to use

0:0.1In the minds of the mor­tals of Uran­tia—that be­ing the name of your world—there ex­ists great con­fu­sion re­spect­ing the mean­ing of such terms as God, di­vin­ity, and de­ity. Hu­man be­ings are still more con­fused and un­cer­tain about the re­la­tion­ships of the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties des­ig­nated by these nu­mer­ous ap­pel­la­tions. Be­cause of this con­cep­tual pov­erty as­so­ci­ated with so much ide­a­tional con­fu­sion, I have been di­rected to for­mu­late this in­tro­duc­tory state­ment in ex­pla­na­tion of the mean­ings which should be at­tached to cer­tain word sym­bols as they may be here­inafter used in those pa­pers which the Or­von­ton corps of truth re­veal­ers have been au­tho­rized to trans­late into the En­glish lan­guage of Uran­tia.

0:0.2It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to pre­sent en­larged con­cepts and ad­vanced truth, in our en­deavor to ex­pand cos­mic con­scious­ness and en­hance spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, when we are re­stricted to the use of a cir­cum­scribed lan­guage of the realm. But our man­date ad­mon­ishes us to make ev­ery ef­fort to con­vey our mean­ings by us­ing the word sym­bols of the En­glish tongue. We have been in­structed to in­tro­duce new terms only when the con­cept to be por­trayed finds no ter­mi­nol­ogy in En­glish which can be em­ployed to con­vey such a new con­cept par­tially or even with more or less dis­tor­tion of mean­ing.

0:0.3In the hope of fa­cil­i­tat­ing com­pre­hen­sion and of pre­vent­ing con­fu­sion on the part of ev­ery mor­tal who may pe­ruse these pa­pers, we deem it wise to pre­sent in this ini­tial state­ment an out­line of the mean­ings to be at­tached to nu­mer­ous En­glish words which are to be em­ployed in des­ig­na­tion of De­ity and cer­tain as­so­ci­ated con­cepts of the things, mean­ings, and val­ues of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity.

• revelators instructed to use

31:10.22These thirty-one pa­pers de­pict­ing the na­ture of De­ity, the re­al­ity of Par­a­dise, the or­ga­ni­za­tion and work­ing of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse, and the high des­tiny of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, were spon­sored, for­mu­lated, and put into En­glish by a high com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of twenty-four Or­von­ton ad­min­is­tra­tors act­ing in ac­cor­dance with a man­date is­sued by the An­cients of Days of Uversa di­rect­ing that we should do this on Uran­tia, 606 of Sa­ta­nia, in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, in the year A.D. 1934.

• revelators instructed to use

56:10.23This pa­per on Uni­ver­sal Unity is the twenty-fifth of a se­ries of pre­sen­ta­tions by var­i­ous au­thors, hav­ing been spon­sored as a group by a com­mis­sion of Neb­a­don per­son­al­i­ties num­ber­ing twelve and act­ing un­der the di­rec­tion of Man­tu­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek. We in­dited these nar­ra­tives and put them in the En­glish lan­guage, by a tech­nique au­tho­rized by our su­pe­ri­ors, in the year 1934 of Uran­tia time.