In ''The Urantia Papers'', the revelators speak of that surface of Paradise which is occupied with personality activities as the upper side, and the opposite surface as the nether side. The periphery of Paradise provides for activities that are not strictly personal or nonpersonal. The Trinity seems to dominate the personal or upper plane, the Unqualified Absolute the nether or impersonal plane. The reading encompassed Paper 11:2.4-4.2, p. 119

Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Infinite Spirit. This central isle of the cosmos is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also be material, literal. The reading encompassed Paper 11:0.1-2.3, p. 118

Jesus proclaimed to the world: “The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. And to all who follow my teaching I give eternal life; they shall never perish. My Father, who has given me these children, is greater than all, so that no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” The reading encompassed Paper 164:4.5-5.6, p. 1814

When friends, neighbors, and all who had long known the blind beggar began to inquire of him how he was able to see, he answered them: “A man called Jesus came by this way, and when talking about me with his friends, he made clay with spittle, anointed my eyes, and directed that I should go and wash in the pool of Siloam. I did what this man told me, and immediately I received my sight.” The reading encompassed Paper 164:3.1-4.4, p. 1811

The Master, taking with him Nathaniel and Thomas, secretly went up from Pella to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the dedication. Jesus had attended the feast of tabernacles that he might proclaim the gospel to the pilgrims from all parts of the empire; he now went up to the feast of the dedication for just one purpose: to give the Sanhedrin and the Jewish leaders another chance to see the light. The reading encompassed Paper 163:7-164:2, p. 1808

Jesus spoke to the seventy, saying: “To you and to all who shall follow in your steps down through the ages, let me say: I always stand near, and my invitation-call is, and ever shall be, Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am true and loyal, and you shall find spiritual rest for your souls.” The reading encompassed Paper 163:5-6, p. 1806

After the breaking up of the Magadan Camp for the move to Pella, David Zebedee returned to Bethsaida and began immediately to curtail the messenger service. The kingdom was taking on a new phase. Daily, pilgrims arrived from all parts of Palestine and even from remote regions of the Roman Empire. Believers occasionally came from Mesopotamia and from the lands east of the Tigris. The reading encompassed Paper 163:4, p. 1804

Almost every human being has some one thing which is held on to as a pet evil, and which the entrance into the kingdom of heaven requires as a part of the price of admission. Riches have nothing directly to do with entrance into the kingdom of heaven, but the ''love of wealth does''; it is incompatible with the kingdom. Man may not share his supreme loyalty to a spiritual ideal with a material devotion. The reading encompassed Paper 163:2.7-3.7, p. 1802

Before Jesus laid his hands upon the heads of the seventy to ordain them, he addressed them, saying: “The harvest is indeed plenteous, but the laborers are few; therefore I exhort all of you to pray that the Lord of the harvest will send still other laborers into his harvest. I am about to set you apart as messengers of the kingdom; I am about to send you to Jew and gentile as lambs among wolves.” The reading encompassed Paper 163:0.1-2.6, p. 1800

Jesus declared: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Verily, verily, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the bond servant of sin. And you know that the bond servant is not likely to abide forever in the master’s house. You also know that the son does remain in his father’s house. If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, shall make you sons, you shall be free indeed.” The reading encompassed Paper 162:7-9, p. 1796