The Urantia Book tells us nothing!

To be more specific regarding my original statement ("The Urantia Book tells us nothing!"):

1. The papers describing God and Trinity in general are very detailed and seem to tell much more than a mortal mind can really grasp.

2. The papers describing celestial governments are more general and although they describe the organization of the government including the number of beings as well as their reporting relations and deployment locations, they tell very little about the actual substance of the government work. The same applies to celestial education where only the headings of the curricilae are given but not even the headings of the subjects let alone courses. If I were to enroll to a university, I would need much more specific information about how the university works or what it teaches. In this regard we can only have faith in that the education and government will work to our benefit.

3. The papers describing the Thought Adjuster and its relation to us is very detailed, in fact probably more so than we can actually understand. But we can aim to improve our understanding.

4. The papers describing the life of Jesus are very detailed and very easy to understand, at least on the level of a personal history. However, deeper understanding will require more effort and understanding how Jesus is the model for us will require lifelong work.

As for why TUB does not tell about the subjects in 2. above, I can give some guesses:

- The descriptions would be beyond our understanding. This is, in fact, given as a reason in certain passages.
- The descriptions may not be revealed to us for reasons unknown to us. Occasionally there is a comment thereto, but I suppose this is not the primary reason.
- The descriptions would not have any real value to us and TUB concentrates on issues that are crucial to us. Even then it is already huge in size.

The last one, I assume, is the most probable reason for the most of the missing material. I can imagine that it would fill volumes and volumes. TUB also states somewhere that the education methods are so much better there that an hour spent with "a living book of philosophy" (forgot the actual term used in TUB) gives us much more than 1000 years of studying with earthly methods.

Again, I want to repeat that TUB tells us everything - everything that we need to know and can understand, and then some more.

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