I ask because I have come across passages I feel could be read creatively. TUB tells us the Thought Adjuster communicates to the human mind by indirect means and through symbols. The following is an example of what I feel could possibly be approached from a creative frame of thought:
“The Father is always to be found at this central location. Did he move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential center the universal lines of gravity from the ends of creation.”
How could the Celestial posit such outcome as a statement of fact to an event that, historically, had not happened? Unless he bases it on a model he believes explains this kind of phenomenon. And why associate this event with the word “pandemonium”?
Yes B.B., a creative reading of the Urantia Book can open many avenues to the imagination and it was also alluded that Gene Roddenberry got some of his ideas from reading the Urantia Book, but there has never been any conformation to this allegation, however, he was quoted as having said that there was much more information in the achieves from where it was assumed that he got many of his ideas from for the Star Trek Series.
Nevertheless, you focus on the word “pandemonium” in the Urantia Book, where it is used four times as follows:
“(119.1) 11:1.4 The Father is always to be found at this central location. Did he move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential center the universal lines of gravity from the ends of creation. Whether we trace the personality circuit back through the universes or follow the ascending personalities as they journey inward to the Father; whether we trace the lines of material gravity to nether Paradise or follow the insurging cycles of cosmic force; whether we trace the lines of spiritual gravity to the Eternal Son or follow the inward processional of the Paradise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind circuits or follow the trillions upon trillions of celestial beings who spring from the Infinite Spirit — by any of these observations or by all of them we are led directly back to the Father’s presence, to his central abode. Here is God personally, literally, and actually present. And from his infinite being there flow the flood-streams of life, energy, and personality to all universes.”
“(618.2) 54:5.13 12. Time, even in a universe of time, is relative: If a Urantia mortal of average length of life should commit a crime which precipitated world-wide pandemonium, and if he were apprehended, tried, and executed within two or three days of the commission of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a comparison with the length of Lucifer’s life even if his adjudication, now begun, should not be completed for a hundred thousand Urantia years. The relative lapse of time from the viewpoint of Uversa, where the litigation is pending, could be indicated by saying that the crime of Lucifer was being brought to trial within two and a half seconds of its commission. From the Paradise viewpoint the adjudication is simultaneous with the enactment.”
“(758.6) 67:5.1 Great confusion reigned in Dalamatia and thereabout for almost fifty years after the instigation of rebellion. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world was attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Among the superior and partially trained sojourners in and near Dalamatia there appeared a sudden advancement in cultural status, but when these new and radical methods were attempted on the outlying peoples, indescribable confusion and racial pandemonium was the immediate result. Liberty was quickly translated into license by the half-evolved primitive men of those days.”
“(849.5) 76:3.2 Adam wisely spent most of the time training his children and their associates in civil administration, educational methods, and religious devotions. Had it not been for this foresight, pandemonium would have broken loose upon his death. As it was, the death of Adam made little difference in the conduct of the affairs of his people. But long before Adam and Eve passed away, they recognized that their children and followers had gradually learned to forget the days of their glory in Eden. And it was better for the majority of their followers that they did forget the grandeur of Eden; they were not so likely to experience undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate environment.”
Then the use of the word “pandemonium” has been noted of having the, “Origin: 1660–70; after Pandaemonium, Milton’s name in Paradise Lost for the capital of hell; see pan-, demon, -ium“
Where it has also been noted by some scholars of the Old and New Testament that prior to the resurrection of Jesus, that paradise or heaven and hell or hades, were located at the center of the Earth, where after Jesus’ resurrection paradise was moved from that center to a spiritual place in the heavens. This should not necessarily be taken literally, but may indicate a metaphorical situation, which can point to other creative narrations, which to some degree, can fill in the blanks or add to an overall, more complete story line.
The reason why I brought up Gene Roddenberry, earlier is because, as I have mentioned on the other forums that Gene’s hope that Star Trek would follow along a different creative agenda, which did not occur, he proposed other creative endeavors which he wished to project a more direct story line, in one of these creative areas was posthumously produced as “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda” TV Series, which ran for five years. There is one more TV Series which was produced which started off, in the first episodes as depicting extra terrestrial beings which seemed, IMO, to assimilate the arrival of Adam and Eve in the Urantia Book, where these beings were portrayed as eight to ten feet tale dressed in violet type clad and, to me, indicated a parallel to the Urantia Book descriptions, for which the aforementioned assumption of Gene having read the UB as a possibility, but after the first few episodes, these beings were depicted as normal height, most likely to production limitations. This series was called Earth: Final Conflict.
Now in the Andromeda Series, there were a race of people or creatures which were called the Magog, who came from what was called the Magog World Ship, who’s leader was called the Spirit of the Abyss, where this leader appeared as pure energy enclosed in a humanoid shell, but the idea which Gene seemed to project was that there were trillions and trillions of these Magog who’s primary function was to reproduce through an evasive method which would take over an alternate host being. Now this is the kind of creative association which takes me to many different areas of interest, even though the original narrator of any narration may not be implying too, but certainly may spawn the imagination to associate other meaning from what might be interpreted as simple text. As mentioned before thee are areas in the Bible which can and do reference alternative interpretations, and were it not so, then how is it that the Hebrews were able to extract 613 various laws from the interpretation of the first five books of the Bible, more specifically Deuteronomy.
So I find your topic here as an interesting addition which could project many different scenarios, from just a few isolated paragraphs.
