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===THE TRANSITION YEARS===

===THE TRANSITION YEARS===

At the temple of religion on Lake Urmia Jesus delivered a series of lectures:  

'''At the temple of religion on Lake Urmia Jesus delivered a series of lectures''':  

The Urmia Lectures

The Urmia Lectures

*“When we, the midwayers, first prepared the summary of Jesus' teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the seraphim of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the wisdom of including these teachings in the Urantia Revelation. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus' day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master's teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men, as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master's teachings that was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master's Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus' teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.”

*“When we, the midwayers, first prepared the summary of Jesus' teachings at '''Urmia''', there arose a disagreement between the seraphim of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the wisdom of including these teachings in the '''Urantia Revelation'''. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus' day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master's teachings at '''Urmia''' to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men, as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master's teachings that was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master's '''Urmia''' teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus' teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.”