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92:5.2 Most great religious [[epochs]] have been [[inaugurated]] by the life and teachings of some outstanding [[personality]]; [[leadership]] has originated a [[majority]] of the worth-while [[moral]] [[movements]] of [[history]]. And men have always tended to [[venerate]] the [[leader]], even at the expense of his teachings; to revere his [[personality]], even though losing sight of the [[truths]] which he proclaimed. And this is not without [[reason]]; there is an [[instinctive]] longing in the [[heart]] of evolutionary [[man]] for help from above and beyond. This craving is designed to [[anticipate]] the [[appearance]] on [[earth]] of the [[Planetary Prince]] and the later [[Material Sons]]. On [[Urantia]] man has been deprived of these [[superhuman]] leaders and rulers, and therefore does he constantly seek to make good this loss by enshrouding his [[human]] [[leaders]] with [[legends]] pertaining to [[supernatural]] [[origins]] and miraculous [[careers]].

92:5.2 Most great religious [[epochs]] have been [[inaugurated]] by the life and teachings of some outstanding [[personality]]; [[leadership]] has originated a [[majority]] of the worth-while [[moral]] [[movements]] of [[history]]. And men have always tended to [[venerate]] the [[leader]], even at the expense of his teachings; to revere his [[personality]], even though losing sight of the [[truths]] which he proclaimed. And this is not without [[reason]]; there is an [[instinctive]] longing in the [[heart]] of evolutionary [[man]] for help from above and beyond. This craving is designed to [[anticipate]] the [[appearance]] on [[earth]] of the [[Planetary Prince]] and the later [[Material Sons]]. On [[Urantia]] man has been deprived of these [[superhuman]] leaders and rulers, and therefore does he constantly seek to make good this loss by enshrouding his [[human]] [[leaders]] with [[legends]] pertaining to [[supernatural]] [[origins]] and miraculous [[careers]].

92:5.3 Many races have conceived of their [[leaders]] as being born of [[virgins]]; their [[careers]] are liberally sprinkled with miraculous [[episodes]], and their return is always expected by their respective groups. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia central Asia] the tribesmen still look for the return of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan Genghis Khan]; in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] it is [[Buddha]]; in [[Islam]] it is [[Mohammed]]; among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28Americas%29 Amerinds] it was [[Onamonalonton|Hesunanin Onamonalonton]]; with the [[Hebrews]] it was, in general, [[Adam]]' s return as a material ruler. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon] the god [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk Marduk] was a perpetuation of the [[Adam]] [[legend]], the son-of-God [[idea]], the [[connecting]] link between man and God. Following the [[appearance]] of [[Adam]] on [[earth]], so-called sons of God were common among the world races.

92:5.3 Many races have conceived of their [[leaders]] as being born of [[virgins]]; their [[careers]] are liberally sprinkled with miraculous [[episodes]], and their return is always expected by their respective groups. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia central Asia] the tribesmen still look for the return of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan Genghis Khan]; in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] it is [[Buddha]]; in [[Islam]] it is [[Mohammed]]; among the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28Americas%29 Amerinds] it was [[Onamonalonton|Hesunanin Onamonalonton]]; with the [[Hebrews]] it was, in general, [[Adam]]' s return as a material ruler. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon] the god [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk Marduk] was a perpetuation of the [[Adam]] [[legend]], the son-of-God [[idea]], the [[connecting]] link between man and God. Following the [[appearance]] of [[Adam]] on [[earth]], so-called sons of God were common among the world races.

92:5.4 But regardless of the [[superstitious]] [[awe]] in which they were often held, it remains a [[fact]] that these [[teachers]] were the [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[fulcrums]] on which the [[levers]] of revealed [[truth]] depended for the advancement of the [[morality]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]] of [[mankind]].

92:5.4 But regardless of the [[superstitious]] [[awe]] in which they were often held, it remains a [[fact]] that these [[teachers]] were the [[temporal]] [[personality]] [[fulcrums]] on which the [[levers]] of revealed [[truth]] depended for the advancement of the [[morality]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]] of [[mankind]].

92:5.5 There have been hundreds upon hundreds of [[religious]] [[leaders]] in the million-year [[human]] [[history]] of [[Urantia]] from [[Onagar]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak Guru Nanak]. During this time there have been many ebbs and [[flows]] of the tide of religious [[truth]] and spiritual [[faith]], and each [[renaissance]] of Urantian [[religion]] has, in the past, been identified with the life and teachings of some religious [[leader]]. In considering the [[teachers]] of recent times, it may prove helpful to group them into the [[seven]] major religious [[epochs]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN post-Adamic Urantia]:

92:5.5 There have been hundreds upon hundreds of [[religious]] [[leaders]] in the million-year [[human]] [[history]] of [[Urantia]] from [[Onagar]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak Guru Nanak]. During this time there have been many ebbs and [[flows]] of the tide of religious [[truth]] and spiritual [[faith]], and each [[renaissance]] of Urantian [[religion]] has, in the past, been identified with the life and teachings of some religious [[leader]]. In considering the [[teachers]] of recent times, it may prove helpful to group them into the [[seven]] major religious [[epochs]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN post-Adamic Urantia]:

*1. 92:5.6 ''The Sethite period''. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethite] [[priests]], as regenerated under the [[leadership]] of ''Amosad'', became the great post-Adamic [[teachers]]. They [[functioned]] throughout the lands of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites], and their [[influence]] [[persisted]] longest among the [[Greeks]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumeria], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindus]. Among the latter they have continued to the present time as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahmans] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] [[faith]]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethites] and their followers never entirely lost the [[Trinity]] concept revealed by [[Adam]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION]  

*1. 92:5.6 ''The Sethite period''. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethite] [[priests]], as regenerated under the [[leadership]] of ''Amosad'', became the great post-Adamic [[teachers]]. They [[functioned]] throughout the lands of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites], and their [[influence]] [[persisted]] longest among the [[Greeks]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumeria], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindus]. Among the latter they have continued to the present time as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahmans] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] [[faith]]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethites] and their followers never entirely lost the [[Trinity]] concept revealed by [[Adam]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION]  

*2. 92:5.7 ''Era of the Melchizedek missionaries''. [[Urantia]] [[religion]] was in no small measure regenerated by the [[efforts]] of those [[teachers]] who were commissioned by [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] when he lived and taught at [[Salem]] almost [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_B.C. two thousand years before Christ]. These missionaries proclaimed [[faith]] as the price of [[favor]] with [[God]], and their teachings, though unproductive of any immediately appearing [[religions]], nevertheless formed the [[foundations]] on which later teachers of [[truth]] were to build the [[religions]] of [[Urantia]].  

*2. 92:5.7 ''Era of the Melchizedek missionaries''. [[Urantia]] [[religion]] was in no small measure regenerated by the [[efforts]] of those [[teachers]] who were commissioned by [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] when he lived and taught at [[Salem]] almost [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_B.C. two thousand years before Christ]. These missionaries proclaimed [[faith]] as the price of [[favor]] with [[God]], and their teachings, though unproductive of any immediately appearing [[religions]], nevertheless formed the [[foundations]] on which later teachers of [[truth]] were to build the [[religions]] of [[Urantia]].  

*3. 92:5.8 ''The post-Melchizedek era''. Though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten Ikhnaton] both taught in this period, the outstanding [[religious]] [[genius]] of the post-Melchizedek era was the [[leader]] of a [[group]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouins] and the founder of the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]]—[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]. Moses taught [[monotheism]]. Said he: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.6] "The Lord he is God. There is none beside him."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.4] He [[persistently]] sought to uproot the remnants of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_87 ghost cult] among his people, even prescribing the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment death penalty] for its practitioners. The [[monotheism]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] was adulterated by his successors, but in later times they did return to many of his teachings. The greatness of Moses lies in his [[wisdom]] and sagacity. Other men have had greater [[concepts]] of [[God]], but no one man was ever so successful in inducing large [[numbers]] of people to adopt such advanced [[beliefs]].

*3. 92:5.8 ''The post-Melchizedek era''. Though [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(author) Amenemope] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten Ikhnaton] both taught in this period, the outstanding [[religious]] [[genius]] of the post-Melchizedek era was the [[leader]] of a [[group]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouins] and the founder of the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]]—[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]. Moses taught [[monotheism]]. Said he: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.6] "The Lord he is God. There is none beside him."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deutoronomy#Chapter_.4] He [[persistently]] sought to uproot the remnants of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_87 ghost cult] among his people, even prescribing the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment death penalty] for its practitioners. The [[monotheism]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] was adulterated by his successors, but in later times they did return to many of his teachings. The greatness of Moses lies in his [[wisdom]] and sagacity. Other men have had greater [[concepts]] of [[God]], but no one man was ever so successful in inducing large [[numbers]] of people to adopt such advanced [[beliefs]].

*4. 92:5.9 ''The sixth century before Christ''. Many men arose to [[proclaim]] [[truth]] in this, one of the greatest centuries of religious [[awakening]] ever witnessed on [[Urantia]]. Among these should be recorded [[Gautama]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism Jainist] teachers. The teachings of Gautama have become widespread in Asia, and he is revered as the [[Buddha]] by millions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] was to Chinese [[morality]] what [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] was to [[Greek]] [[philosophy]], and while there were religious repercussions to the teachings of both, strictly speaking, neither was a religious teacher; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse] envisioned more of [[God]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao Tao] than did [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] in [[humanity]] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] in [[idealism]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster], while much affected by the prevalent [[concept]] of [[dual]] spiritism, the good and the bad, at the same time definitely exalted the [[idea]] of one [[eternal]] [[Deity]] and of the [[ultimate]] victory of [[light]] over [[darkness]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION]

*4. 92:5.9 ''The sixth century before Christ''. Many men arose to [[proclaim]] [[truth]] in this, one of the greatest centuries of religious [[awakening]] ever witnessed on [[Urantia]]. Among these should be recorded [[Gautama]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism Jainist] teachers. The teachings of Gautama have become widespread in Asia, and he is revered as the [[Buddha]] by millions. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] was to Chinese [[morality]] what [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] was to [[Greek]] [[philosophy]], and while there were religious repercussions to the teachings of both, strictly speaking, neither was a religious teacher; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi Lao-tse] envisioned more of [[God]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao Tao] than did [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius] in [[humanity]] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] in [[idealism]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster], while much affected by the prevalent [[concept]] of [[dual]] spiritism, the good and the bad, at the same time definitely exalted the [[idea]] of one [[eternal]] [[Deity]] and of the [[ultimate]] victory of [[light]] over [[darkness]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION]

*5. 92:5.10 ''The first century after Christ''. As a [[religious]] [[teacher]], [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] started out with the [[cult]] which had been [[established]] by [[John the Baptist]] and progressed as far as he could away from fasts and forms. Aside from [[Jesus]], [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul of Tarsus]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Alexandria Philo of Alexandria] were the greatest [[teachers]] of this era. Their [[concepts]] of religion have played a dominant part in the [[evolution]] of that [[faith]] which bears the name of [[Christ]].  

*5. 92:5.10 ''The first century after Christ''. As a [[religious]] [[teacher]], [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] started out with the [[cult]] which had been [[established]] by [[John the Baptist]] and progressed as far as he could away from fasts and forms. Aside from [[Jesus]], [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul of Tarsus]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Alexandria Philo of Alexandria] were the greatest [[teachers]] of this era. Their [[concepts]] of religion have played a dominant part in the [[evolution]] of that [[faith]] which bears the name of [[Christ]].  

*6. 92:5.11 ''The sixth century after Christ''. [[Mohammed]] founded a [[religion]] which was superior to many of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed creed]s of his time. His was a protest against the [[social]] demands of the [[faiths]] of foreigners and against the incoherence of the [[religious]] life of his own people.  

*6. 92:5.11 ''The sixth century after Christ''. [[Mohammed]] founded a [[religion]] which was superior to many of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed creed]s of his time. His was a protest against the [[social]] demands of the [[faiths]] of foreigners and against the incoherence of the [[religious]] life of his own people.  

*7. 92:5.12 ''The fifteenth century after Christ''. This period witnessed two [[religious]] [[movements]]: the disruption of the [[unity]] of [[Christianity]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] and the [[synthesis]] of a new [[religion]] in the [[Orient]]. In Europe institutionalized [[Christianity]] had [[attained]] that degree of inelasticity which rendered further [[growth]] incompatible with [[unity]]. In the Orient the combined teachings of [[Islam]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism], and [[Buddhism]] were synthesized by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanak Nanak] and his followers into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism Sikhism], one of the most advanced religions of Asia.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:5._THE_GREAT_RELIGIOUS_LEADERS]

*7. 92:5.12 ''The fifteenth century after Christ''. This period witnessed two [[religious]] [[movements]]: the disruption of the [[unity]] of [[Christianity]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] and the [[synthesis]] of a new [[religion]] in the [[Orient]]. In Europe institutionalized [[Christianity]] had [[attained]] that degree of inelasticity which rendered further [[growth]] incompatible with [[unity]]. In the Orient the combined teachings of [[Islam]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism], and [[Buddhism]] were synthesized by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanak Nanak] and his followers into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism Sikhism], one of the most advanced religions of Asia.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:5._THE_GREAT_RELIGIOUS_LEADERS]

92:5.13 The [[future]] of [[Urantia]] will doubtless be characterized by the [[appearance]] of [[teachers]] of religious [[truth]]—the Fatherhood of God and the fraternity of all [[creatures]]. But it is to be [[hoped]] that the ardent and [[sincere]] [[efforts]] of these [[future]] [[prophets]] will be directed less toward the strengthening of interreligious barriers and more toward the augmentation of the religious [[brotherhood]] of [[spiritual]] [[worship]] among the many followers of the differing [[intellectual]] [[theologies]] which so characterize [[Urantia]] of [[Satania]].

92:5.13 The [[future]] of [[Urantia]] will doubtless be characterized by the [[appearance]] of [[teachers]] of religious [[truth]]—the Fatherhood of God and the fraternity of all [[creatures]]. But it is to be [[hoped]] that the ardent and [[sincere]] [[efforts]] of these [[future]] [[prophets]] will be directed less toward the strengthening of interreligious barriers and more toward the augmentation of the religious [[brotherhood]] of [[spiritual]] [[worship]] among the many followers of the differing [[intellectual]] [[theologies]] which so characterize [[Urantia]] of [[Satania]].