The Workbooks of Dr. William S. Sadler, MD
Sponsorship of The Urantia Papers
The Urantia Papers were sponsored by various personalities, but, as they are grouped into
Parts, these major divisions were sponsored as follows:
Part I. The Central and Superuniverses as a group of papers was “Sponsored by a Uversa Corps of Superuniverse Personalities, acting by authority of the Orvonton Ancients of Days.” “These thirty-one papers...were sponsored, formulated, and put into English by a high commission consisting of twenty-four Orvonton administrators acting in accordance with a mandate issued by the Ancients of Days of Uversa...”
(UB 31:10.22)
Part II . The Local Universe papers, twenty-five in number, were “...sponsored as a group by a commission of Nebadon personalities numbering twelve and acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek.”
(UB 56:10.22)
The Commission as a whole functioned “...by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.”
Part III. The History of Urantia embraces sixty-three presentations “...sponsored by numerous personalities...These papers were authorized by a Nebadon commission of twelve acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek...”
(UB 119:8.9)
And as in Part II the sponsoring commission acted “...by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.”
Part IV. The Life and Teachings of Jesus are told in seventy-seven papers, and, excepting the first, were based on a narrative “...supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.” The first paper is indicted by a certain Melchizedek who states that he has been “assigned by Gabriel to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia and in the likeness of mortal flesh...” and further, that he is the “...director of the revelatory commission intrusted with this task...”
(UB 120:0.1)
The entire seventy-seven papers in Part IV as a group are “...sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia midwayers acting under the supervision of [this] Melchizedek revelatory director.”