The Urantia Book – New Enhanced Edition

Review: Tertiary Circuit Supervisor number 572,842 has functioned Adopted: The spelled-out version, number, is appropriate in this context. 28:6.4 (314.3) 1955 text: The Significance of Origins are the living ready-reference genealogies

Review: The Significances of Origins are the living ready-reference genealogies Adopted: The plural, Significances, is required to agree with the verb are, and its construction is paralleled by the formation of the plural Discerners of Spirits. 28:6.8 (315.1) 1955 text: the Significance of Origins teach these ascenders

Review: the Significances of Origins teach these ascenders Adopted: The plural, Significances, is required to agree with the verb are, and its construction is paralleled by the formation of the plural Discerners of Spirits. 29:4.23 (326.5) 1955 text: the Seven Supreme Power Directors and the Seven Central Supervisors

Review: the Seven Supreme Power Directors and the Seven Center Supervisors. Adopted: There is no other reference to Seven Central Supervisors in the text, but there are multiple references to Seven Center Supervisors who function closely with the Supreme Power Directors. 30:3.12 (340.1) 1955 text: beings enroute elsewhere who pause

Review: beings en route elsewhere who pause Adopted: The original enroute is incorrect French and is not the form that has been adopted into English.

The Urantia Book

The Urantia Book | Index | Definition of Terms | Pronunciation Guide | Adopted Corrections

Foreword | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV

Adopted Corrections to the 1955 Text

Part IIReferenceConsiderationDecision 36:3.6 (400.1) 1955 text: subsequently add any thing new or supplemental

Review: subsequently add anything new or supplemental Adopted: The closed word is the correct choice in this case. 37:8.3 (413.6) 1955 text: Andovontia is the name of the secondary Universe Circuit Supervisor

Review: Andovontia is the name of the tertiary Universe Circuit Supervisor Adopted: While both a secondary and a tertiary Circuit Supervisor are assigned to the supervision of a single local universe’s circuits, only the tertiary Circuit Supervisor is stationed within the local universe. 41:1.1 (455.5) 1955 text: Within the domain of this Paradise Son of God the Supreme Power Centers

Review: Within the domain of this Paradise Son of God, the Supreme Power Centers Adopted: By indicating the end of the initial prepositional phrase, a comma after Son of God does greatly assist the reader. 41:4.4 (460.1) 1955 text: having become sixty thousand times as dense as your sun

Review: having become forty thousand times as dense as your sun Adopted: Textual consistency and current scientific estimates of our sun’s density both support the correction to forty thousand. 42:5.1 (474.5) 1955 text: ten octaves up are the X rays, followed by the Y rays of radium

Review: ten octaves up are the X rays, followed by the gamma rays of radium Adopted: Y rays written out as gamma rays. 42:6.7 (477.1) 1955 text: an electron weighs a little less than 1/2,000th of the smallest atom

Review: an electron weighs a little more than 1/2,000th of the smallest atom

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1955 text: The positive proton... weighs from two to three thousand times more

Review: The positive proton... weighs almost two thousand times more Adopted: The corrected wording is consistent with 42:6.8, where the author states that a proton is eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron, and is also in general agreement with current scientific opinion which places the ratio at about 1:1836.

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Adopted: The calculation of the relative masses of the electron and the hydrogen atom was undergoing a rapid evolution just prior to the writing of The Urantia Book, the ratio being 1:1700 in 1897; 1:2000 in 1904; and 1:1845 by 1922. This last ratio is also the one quoted in the 1934 Webster’s. 42:10.1 (480.4) 1955 text: The endless sweep of relative cosmic reality from the absoluteness of Paradise monota

Review: The endless sweep of relative cosmic reality, from the absoluteness of Paradise monota Adopted: The comma after cosmic reality correctly separates the following parenthetical phrase. 43:1.6 (486.5) 1955 text: established almost four thousand years ago, immediately after the announcement