• As a reverse method to demonstrate that the Revelation did not come from evil sources. An evil spirit personality would not choose a word which would bring direct focus upon himself. This word certainly does.

• The word Satan in Arabic means to be remote, as from the truth. In Hebrew it means an opponent or an adversary. This star system went into rebellion; as a result it became adversarial to God, and to his plans. Application of the name by our Revelators makes the designation literal, descriptive of the misfortune brought on by the rebel system administrators. This star system will be forever remembered as a rebel system in the annals of the universe. Eventually, as time flows through the ages, the darkness of that memory will evolve into images of the stage on which Michael of Nebadon set his saving acts. He is the great Creator who brought salvation to a wayward segment of his creation.

• If Salvington invokes images of salvation, then does Satania invoke images of rebellion. Both words will condition future generations to these conceptual connections. This conceptual invocation will affect their attitudes about spiritual realities, and about system administrative relationships in the heavenly realms.

Thus, we should be able to recognize the possible multiple reasons for this choice of name for our star system. The authors of The Urantia Papers used a word which would be descriptive for us, in our language. This means we were not given a universe name, recognized throughout the space realms as the name of this system, but rather a name suited to our present planetary condition, and remindful to future generations of our rebellious history.

As an indication of Christian confusion consider that the word Satan became a catch-all for several different rebel celestial personalities. Some of these are noted in the Bible, but the generations blurred their respective roles. Lucifer is a Latin word for the Hebrew Hillel ben Shachar, Isa 14:12, which literally is Day Star, Son of Dawn. In translation of the Hebrew texts, the seventy Jewish scribes who gave us the Septuagint chose the nearest Greek equivalent word. They used

Eusphorus, which meant Light Bearer. Lucifer was the Latin equivalent, introduced into Bible translations by the Church fathers of the early first millennium AD. Lucifer means Light Bringer. (The Latin lucere means to shine and is found in English lucid. The English bear is derived from an old Indo-European root found in Sanskrit bhar, Greek pher, and Latin fer.)

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This Satania illustration shows the method used by the authors of The Urantia Papers to name the many different space realms and headquarter spheres. Asanother example Jerusem, the name for our system capital, appears almost like a perversion of Jerusalem. Jeru, the same initial form, is used in both names. The final sem is superficially similar to salem.

Examination of the word Jerusalem reveals that it is composed of two elements,

Jeru + salem (3384 + 7999). (See note 1 below). Salem is the Anglicized form of the Hebrew shalom = peace. Many Hebrew scholars believe jeru comes from a verb root which means to throw, cast, or shoot. In Hos 6:3 it is used in the sense of throwing water = rain. Literally Jerusalem would mean throwing or casting peace. Jerusalem should be the wellspring of peace upon earth. How truly unfortunate it has been the source of so much hatred and animosity. The word sem (8034) can also be found easily in Hebrew, where it is an “appellation through the idea of definite and conspicuous position.” It implies a “mark or memorial of individuality,” hence “honor, authority, or renown.” It is the origin of the word Semite. The word Jerusem might mean throwing honor, or casting forth renown, or, in another sense, establishing authority.

Thus, more careful investigation shows that the name Jerusem is a legitimate construct from Hebrew, and that the authors of The Urantia Papers were intimately familiar with the pattern of name formations in that ancient language.

Note the following:

No human mortal associated with the process of the revelation of the Papers recognized these name constructs. The Revelation does not derive from human sources.

Edentia is another example. It is obviously related to Eden, but again the literal significance is not recognized by conventional attitudes. Eden (5731, 5727) in Hebrew means a place of luxury or delight. It is a generic term, not a specific designation for an historic geographical locale.

The Garden of Eden was so named after the beauty and pleasure of its design, not as an indicator of a unique place. Our application to the geographical location was the only method we had for identifying that unique spot. Therefore, Edentia is merely an Anglicized appellative designating resplendent beauty and spiritual glory. Once again we see how the Revelators used their intimate knowledge of Hebrew to arrive at another name which invokes images derived from the basic roots of that ancient language.

Now consider the name Urantia. It comes directly from Greek uranos = heavenly (3772). This word was used repeatedly by Paul in his letters. Gal 1:8 —

“But if we, or an angel from uranou, preach any other gospel . . .” Eph 1:10 — “. . . both which are in uranois, and which are on earth.” And so on. The form Urantia again has an Anglicized ending in the -tia which is found in many names when borrowed from other languages.

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In classical Greek mythology this same word led to Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, of the heavens, and the name for the goddess, Aphrodite, denoting her gift of spiritual love. If we take the literal significance of the Greek word = heavenly, this planet has a unique and highly honored role in the distant reaches of the future.

Havona sounds suspiciously like heaven. Were the authors of The Urantia Papers once again short of imagination in devising such a word, or did they reach beyond superficial recognition of sound, and shallow linguistic views, to offer deeper instruction?

The modern English heaven derives from an Old English hefen, but otherwise has no known Teutonic parallels. The German himmel is thought to have an entirely different origin. As the Oxford English Dictionary states, “the ulterior etymology (of heaven) is unknown.” If we examine Hebrew word roots, we find that the verb hawa = to form or mold, has an imperative hawaneh = Formed! or Molded! (2)► With a “w” to “v” phonetic shift this could easily be the origin of the word havana. It is found as an ancient place name in various regions of our planet, such as Havana, Cuba. This may also be the origin of the Havona of The Urantia Papers. It suggests a forming or molding by God of an original and eternal central universe surrounding the Isle of Paradise.

Another troublesome example is morontia, the name for the semi-spirituallevels which compose a creative realm between the purely physical and the purely spiritual. When we leave this world we will resurrect in morontia bodies. These are the celestial bodies discussed by Paul in I Cor 15:40. This word may derive from

Hebrew moor, = to alter or change. See Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Hebrew dictionary number 4171. Use of this word is found in Hos 4:7, ameer = I will change, Ps 106:20, morou = they changed, Job 20:18, t’mooratow = the restoration, and so on. The word morontia again is merely an anglicized form of the Hebrew word. But again, the Revelators reached into the Hebrew language to derive a conceptual term heretofore unknown to us.

These brief illustrations provide some idea of how names for places are usedin The Urantia Papers. Now consider personalities. At first glance, many of these names also seem to be pure artifice.