The Urantia Book supplies the missing origin as well as the missing destiny of the solution of the problem. P.215 - §3 "Even in the study of man's biologic evolution on Urantia, there are grave objections to the exclusive historic approach to his present day status and his current problems. The true perspective of any reality problem--human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic--can be had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases of universe reality: origin, history, and destiny. The proper understanding of these three experiential realities affords the basis for a wise estimate of the current status." And an enduring solution since it will have exhausted the source of wisdom and experience that is available to the problem solver.

P.1295 - §4 "Experience, wisdom, and judgment are the concomitants of the lengthening of the time unit in mortal experience. As the human mind reckons backward into the past, it is evaluating past experience for the purpose of bringing it to bear on a present situation. As mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible action. And having thus reckoned with both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment decision in the present, and the plan of action thus born of the past and the future becomes existent."

P.1295 - §5 "In the maturity of the developing self, the past and future are brought together to illuminate the true meaning of the present. As the self matures, it reaches further and further back into the past for experience, while its wisdom forecasts seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the unknown future. And as the conceiving self extends this reach ever further into both past and future, so does judgment become less and less dependent on the momentary present. In this way does decision action begin to escape from the fetters of the moving present, while it begins to take on the aspects of past future significance."

The person who finds the Urantia Book of interest is likely to either be seeking for a higher religious and spiritual enlightenment, or is fascinated by the intellectual beauty of the book. Aside from the religious and spiritual assertions of the book, the Urantia Book is beautiful literature, and the sheer beauty of the language is intellectually satisfying. The person who seeks and finds the Urantia Book for religious and spiritual reasons is looking for answers to unanswered religious and spiritual questions. He is aware of the problems in the world and how they affect the future of the world. He usually believes in a God of Love. Imagine his surprise when he reads that celestial beings have created six races and that some of them are inferior to others. Especially must he be concerned when he reads that the Indigo race of which the current black race is descended from as it has received some mixture in slight amounts from the other races is inferior to the other five. Having being taught that God is love and that God loves all of his children the same, he must began to question in earnest whether or not this is in fact a divine revelation even though the Urantia Book tells him that God loves all of his children.

P.454 - §2 "... in the final analysis, it would be hardly proper to use the words "greater" or "lesser" in contrasting the destinies of the ascending orders of sonship. Every such son of God shares the fatherhood of God, and God loves each of his creature sons alike; he is no more a respecter of ascendant destinies than is he of the creatures who may attain such destinies. The Father loves each of his sons, and that affection is not less than true, holy, divine, unlimited, eternal, and unique--a love bestowed upon this son and upon that son, individually, personally, and exclusively. And such a love utterly eclipses all other facts. Sonship is the supreme relationship of the creature to the Creator."

So how is he to reconcile his ideals of the Heavenly Father with the facts that are presented supposedly of origin from beings that represent Him? Well, for one thing to just focus on the fact of the inequalities of the races is error, for we are instructed from the Urantia Book that P.42 - §6 "Philosophers commit their gravest error when they are misled into the fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an isolated aspect to be the whole truth. The wise philosopher will always look for the creative design which is behind, and pre existent to, all universe phenomena. The creator thought invariably precedes creative action."

In trying to understand the seemingly contradictory attitudes in the Urantia book, it is very helpful to read and study the book from the beginning to the end. While studying single topics of interest may satisfy the current intellectual curiosity, it will never give insight to the disturbing questions that are sure to be raised. P.215 - §2 "For example: The human mind would ordinarily crave to approach the cosmic philosophy portrayed in these revelations by proceeding from the simple and the finite to the complex and the infinite, from human origins to divine destinies. But that path does not lead to spiritual wisdom. Such a procedure is the easiest path to a certain form of genetic knowledge, but at best it can only reveal man's origin; it reveals little or nothing about his divine destiny."

If one is thoughtful he will acknowledge the existence, though he may not be willing to admit this publicly, of intellectual and spiritual variations with in his own family, social group, and race. If such variations exist within a race, it is not unreasonable to expect that these same variations will exists between races. Even Jesus acknowledges the inequalities of man when he said "Although you cannot escape the recognition of differential human abilities and endowments in matters intellectual, social, and moral, you should make no such distinctions in the spiritual brotherhood of men when assembled for worship in the presence of God." But the variations of differences between the race and in the race are a good thing as pointed out in the reasons below for having six evolutionary races with varying intellectual and spiritual receptivity. In the evolution of mankind, it requires this variation to successfully reach the area of light and life. A genius would hardly enjoy working on an assembly line, but would find delight in solving difficult intellectual problem that all benefit from. I am not blind to the horrors that racism has caused and continue to cause in the world, but evolution is still in the process of unfolding, and remember what divine revelation can not accomplish evolution will. Evolution will eventually vindicate the Father's divine plan. It will just take longer from the time space perspective.

The Heavenly Father is the father of the individual, not the group. The individual has a different destiny than the group. The rules governing the individual are personal while the rules governing the group are non personal. The individual is destined for Paradise and the Corps of the Finality while the group from which he hails from is destined to remain on the planet as a perfected race. The individual evolves vertically that he is ascends while the group evolves horizontally. The relationship with the Heavenly Father is one characterized by love and mercy. P.365 "There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures are yours for the striving!" No such qualities can be applied to a group as such, though admittedly individual members of the group can share in the sonship experience. It is helpful to remember that it is the soul that enjoys sonship status and not the mortal body, and the soul is indestructible at least for all those who entrust its safe keeping to the heavenly Father.

In reading and studying the Urantia Book it is important to remember that all of the information on a given topic is not located in the same area. The Urantia book presents P.1110 " ...cosmic data in such a manner to illuminate the spiritual teaching contained in the accompanying revelation." Concerning the present problem of the races with regard to inferior and superior, we must keep in mind that the words inferior and superior are relative terms. The universe is filled with relative realities including personalities realities. For example the six evolutionary races, including the Indigo race were superior to the Andonites, the race from which they sprang, while the Adamites and Nodites were all superior to the six evolutionary races, including the red, blue, and yellow races. In the evolutionary universes of time and space we can not escape relativities. That which is superior to that below is inferior to that above.

There are differences in the brain and mind of mortals in the universe. P.566 "… there are three basic organizations of the brain mechanism: the one-, the two-, and the three-brained types. Urantians are of the two-brained type, somewhat more imaginative, adventurous, and philosophical than the one-brained mortals but somewhat less spiritual, ethical and worshipful than the three-brained orders. "There are three groups of mind designs as related to spirit affairs. This classification does not refer to the one- two- and three brained orders of mortals; it refers primarily to gland chemistry, more particularly to the organization of certain glands comparable to the pituitary bodies. The races on some worlds have one gland, on other two as do Urantians, while on other spheres the races have three of these unique bodies. The inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity are definitely influenced by this chemical endowment." Mortals with two glands are more receptive to spiritual receptivity than one gland while being less receptive than those with three glands.

Difference also exits among celestial beings. Midway Creatures differ from each other. P.864 "The United Midwayers of Urantia are organized for service with the planetary Seraphim in accordance with innate endowments and acquired skills ..." P.426 "... The Infinite Spirit, as personalized on the local universe headquarters intends to produce uniformly perfect seraphim, but for some unknown reason these seraphic offspring are very diverse." P.392 "The universe of Nebadon began its existence with exactly 12 million Lanonandeks and when they had passed through the Melchizedek sphere, they were divided in the final test into three classes: Primary: System Sovereigns; Secondary Planetary Princes, and Tertiary: subordinate assistants, messengers, custodians, commissioners, observers, and prosecute the miscellaneous duties of a system and its component worlds". P.273 The Havona Servitals and The Conciliators are created unequal. "Every forth creature is semi material." They are created this way because of the need for different functions. "… neither do the higher orders look down upon the lower orders of existence."

P.726 - §2 "There are many good and sufficient reasons for the plan of evolving either three or six colored races on the worlds of space. P.584 - §6 "The evolution of six or of three colored races, while seeming to deteriorate the original endowment of the red man, provides certain very desirable variations in mortal types and affords an otherwise unattainable expression of diverse human potentials. These modifications are beneficial to the progress of mankind as a whole provided they are subsequently upstepped by the imported Adamic or violet race. On Urantia this usual plan of amalgamation was not extensively carried out, and this failure to execute the plan of race evolution makes it impossible for you to understand very much about the status of these peoples." Though Urantia mortals may not be in a position fully to appreciate all of these reasons, we would call attention to the following:

P.726 - §3 1. Variety is indispensable to opportunity for the wide functioning of natural selection, differential survival of superior strains.

P.726 - §4 2. Stronger and better races are to be had from the interbreeding of diverse peoples when these different races are carriers of superior inheritance factors. And the Urantia races would have benefited by such an early amalgamation provided such a conjoint people could have been subsequently effectively upstepped by a thoroughgoing admixture with the superior Adamic stock. The attempt to execute such an experiment on Urantia under present racial conditions would be highly disastrous.

P.726 - §5 3. Competition is healthfully stimulated by diversification of races.

P.726 - §6 4. Differences in status of the races and of groups within each race are essential to the development of human tolerance and altruism.

P.726 - §7 5. Homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively high levels of spiritual development."

In trying to understand the present problems of the races today and in understanding the Urantia statement about the evolutionary races, particularly the Indigo race, we must always bear in mind that the results we are left with are not what the divine plan ordained. If the divine plan had been followed, we would all marvel at the wisdom of God in evolving man. P.631 - §5 "If the mortals of distraught Urantia could only view one of these more advanced worlds long settled in light and life, they would nevermore question the wisdom of the evolutionary scheme of creation. Were there no future of eternal creature progression, still the superb evolutionary attainments of the mortal races on such settled worlds of perfected achievement would amply justify man's creation on the worlds of time and space." Today we would have one race, a perfect race with all of the necessary attributes, physically, intellectually, and spiritually instead of having fragmented attributes in the separate races. P.625 - §0 "... You would instinctively describe such a realm--could you be suddenly transported to a planet in this stage of development as heaven on earth."

P.919 "... it should be remembered that these secondary races had many desirable traits which would have considerably enhanced the primary people if their better strains could have been absorbed." P.920. "Biologically considered, the secondary sangiks were in some respects superior to the primary races." Ever bear in mind the revelators are reciting what happened, and we must always bear in mind what should have happened and what the results would have been if the divine plan had been followed.

In summary, the divine plan called for the evolutionary of mortal man from animals; secondly after the arrival of mortal man, it called for extraplanetary personalities to guide and direct the evolving humans, to organize society along moral and ethical lines, and to rid the races of the debased human stock that occurred as a result of human mating with their animal cousins before the ability to reproduce with them ended. This part of the divine plan was derailed when Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, joined the Lucifer Rebellion.

Secondly, the biological plan of uplifting the races was also prematurely ended when Adam and Eve degraded themselves to mortals after subsequently defaulting on their divine trust, thus diluting out the continuous stream of superior life plasm that was designed to upstep the races. This compounded the plight of evolutionary races, not withstanding that some gains were made to the uplift of the races. The blue race received most of this infusion of superior life plasm which eventually produced the white race and the dominant culture on the planet. As the evolutionary races continued to evolve, it eventually evolved to the stage where it is today. Though the Spirit of Truth as a result of Michael's bestowal allows for the escape of individuals from the double default spiritually, the races must now proceed using largely human methods for race improvement.

If we view the narration of the six evolutionary races without the context of the planetary rebellion and the Adamic default, it certainly appears that the Urantia Book is racist and is designed only for the white culture, but careful study of the revelation yields that insight which reveals that this is not the case. Is the Urantia book Racist? No! But the races are, no doubt due to the lack of adequate spirituality and subsequent lack of brotherly love. The revelators are forced to tell the story as it happened not as it should have happened. Even so they tell what the destiny of the race problem is. The races will eventually blend, and there will only be one race. In the meantime, we should pay attention to the reasons given for the evolving of different race with different potential for intellectual and spiritual receptivity.

We are told from the Urantia Book that P.1007 - §1 "Revelation is evolutionary but always progressive. Down through the ages of a world's history, the revelations of religion are ever expanding and successively more enlightening. It is the mission of revelation to sort and censor the successive religions of evolution. But if revelation is to exalt and upstep the religions of evolution, then must such divine visitations portray teachings which are not too far removed from the thought and reactions of the age in which they are presented. Thus must and does revelation always keep in touch with evolution. Always must the religion of revelation be limited by man's capacity of receptivity." But even with this being the case, it is not surprising that not all people who pick up this book and browse or read it are prepared to assimilate its teachings. The test of spiritual readiness is the ability to comprehend and assimilate.

In the final analysis, the Urantia book as a divine revelation must ultimately be validated by the faith of the individual. While it is true there are many historical facts that can be verified from our own historical records, there are many more, much more that cannot since these facts occurred before historical times, that is, before written records were in use. I suppose a lot of the questions and doubtings that we have concerning certain aspects of the 5th Epochal revelation is the unsuccessful worthy effort of the material mind to bypass the faith test. Like the concept of the friendly universe, the creation of the six evolutionary races with varying intellectual and spiritual capacities requires spiritual insight to discern the loving hand of the Father at work.