The Urantia Book: the “Fifth Epochal Revelation”
From the ETs and More Infiltration of Catholicism”

Adapted from Daniel O'Connor's book "Only Man Bears his Image" with permission

Although known most commonly as The Urantia Book, this 1955 text—presented as a new mystical revelation—also goes by the title, “The Fifth Epochal Revelation.” (The “fourth” such revelation being that of Jesus Christ.) Thousands of pages long and immensely popular, this “channeled” work is claimed, by its original publishers, to have simply materialized on paper. The text that allegedly inexplicably appeared consisted of answers to questions written down by a group of friends in Chicago in the 1920s; questions which they had been instructed to write down at the behest of certain “celestial beings” (“extraterrestrials”).

Eventually the text of these “revelations” was published, and they have since been disseminated, read, and followed widely. Untold thousands, if not millions, of Christians (including Catholics) to this day are beguiled into regarding this book as an authentic work of mystical literature. It remains a bestseller in many languages, and it is heavily advertised by its publishers.

In 2023, author Gregg Tomusko even published his own book entitled The Catholic Church and the Urantia Book, dedicated to extolling the supposed overlap of both. Mr. Tomusko describes himself as a daily-Mass-attending Catholic, a former seminarian, and a confirmation class teacher who regards Catholicism and the Urantia Book as “spiritually the same...each is to bring people closer to Christ.”

Mr. Tomusko goes on to provide lengthy, and deeply confused, descriptions of why he regards Biblical teachings and teachings from the Urantia book as perfectly harmonious—whereas a sincere consideration of the two together reveals nothing but the latter providing a New Age perversion of Scripture.

For example, he cites John 16, wherein Jesus says, “I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now,” and uses this as his springboard to pretend that the decidedly anti-Christian nature of the following teachings from the Urantia book are “Catholic:”

(Note: numerical citations within the following quotes refer to entries within the Urantia Book.)

Urantia: Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise ... doing all this without in any way referring either to the visible Church on earth or to the anticipated second coming of Christ. 170:5.19 (1866.2) Be not discouraged; human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail. 196:3.33 (2097.1)[322]

Later, Tomusko’s own words display his radically deficient understanding of Jesus Christ. He writes:

But the Father’s will was for Jesus to live life as a man, to gain the experience of being his lowest free-will creation and thus have to figure out the Father’s will, as we must. Jesus, growing up, slowly began to realize that he had a pre-existence ... At Cana, Jesus was more surprised than anyone when the water turned to wine![323]

Just as we saw earlier, in the case of Monsignor Balducci—who, like many ET promoters, believes that the human race is on the “lowest rung of spiritual evolution”—so here we find the same blasphemy which results from failing to recognize the truth that human nature is the very pinnacle of God’s Creation.

Since it is indeed a dogma that Jesus had a human nature like ours, it follows that whoever dismisses human nature as holding a rank below “aliens,” cannot avoid succumbing to the same errors against Jesus Christ Himself. Despite these heresies, Tomusko usually comes across like many other Catholic Urantia followers: “orthodox minded.”

He keeps his Latin pocket prayer book handy, he draws from St. Thomas Aquinas, and he speaks highly of the Divine Office in its traditional naming: Lauds, Vespers, Compline, etc. He even writes:

The Catholic Church and the Urantia Book introduces us to the Big View. They’re always talking about eternal life ... The Catholic Church has fought the devil through the centuries. She reminds us that we are in a war against “Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.” Like a light bulb that continues to get dimmer, we’ve become complacent to evil’s entrenchment and steady victories on our world. Christians need a wake-up call...[324]

Paragraphs such as these sound wonderful. Tomusko goes on to share how he teaches his Catholic confirmation students, in the 7th through 9th grades, about the Urantia book along with Catechesis; sharing teachings from Urantia while modifying individual words therein to make it sound less esoteric. (For example, as a dedicated devotee of Urantia, he “knows” that the “real” name of Jesus is actually “Christ Michael,” but when reading passages from Urantia to his confirmation students, he replaces that with the lowly and earthly name for Him, “Jesus.”)

He relays an intricate guide on how to incorporate the Urantia Book into everything Catechetical, going so far as to present a selection of readings from it for each day of Holy Week and various hours of the Passion.

Highlighting Mr. Tomusko’s case is important here to convey a broader reality. For although he is not exactly a New York Times bestseller, there are many Catholics and Christians like him.

One would not necessarily discover, upon meeting them—or even being one of their students!—that they hold wildly esoteric and subtly Faith-undermining views derived from revelations given by “extraterrestrials” (demons). They cover their tracks well and know exactly when to switch terms borrowed from these demons in disguise with more ordinary ones, in order to blunt the impact.

They haunt the ranks of not only Catechists but also respected clergy, popular apologists, learned theologians, experienced exorcists, and, increasingly—as the climax of the Great Deception draws near—they will likely be found among the ranks of Bishops working in the Vatican. This is all fundamental to the Antichrist’s plan; for success, he will need extraterrestrial belief and expectation as rampant as possible in the Church before his public entrance. ***

Let us consider more content from the Urantia Book, lest anyone be tempted to read Tomusko’s book and agree with his take on the harmony of Urantia and Catholicism. The “celestial beings” who “revealed” this text to us teach that earth—which they refer to as “Urantia”—is just one inhabited world in one particular “remote local universe,” a “local universe” that is itself only a part of “superuniverse number seven” (each “superuniverse” contains tens of thousands of “local universes”). All together, we are told that seven trillion inhabitable planets exist (cf. Urantia, 15:2.17), though we are immediately reminded, by the “celestial being” dictating this text, that “all such estimates are approximations at best, for new systems are constantly evolving.” (15:2.25) One can only guess how many more trillions of inhabitable planets have “evolved” since!

Like most “ET” revelations, the book claims that earthlings are unfortunately quite “unevolved” in comparison to the beings on other planets, thereby setting the stage for our dire need to make contact with the extraterrestrials and learn from them.

Also resembling other “revelations” that seduce many Christians into their clutches, this one speaks extremely highly of Jesus—even appearing to acknowledge His Divinity—before going on to later deny the Virgin Birth, and, finally, to teach that Jesus is only one of almost a million “Creator Sons”—one who has 10 million other inhabited worlds to minister to in our particular “local universe.”

This description, of course, renders Jesus’ role quite minor in the grand universe-scheme. Although the Urantia book does assert a Trinity of sorts, it is a Trinity of being several categories higher than the minor one to which Jesus is said to belong.

He is “Divine,” sure, and He is the second person of “a” Trinity, sure. But once you hear what the “extraterrestrials” have to say, you realize just how much bigger the picture really is. This, too, is a ubiquitous strategy in ET belief (not only in “ET revelations”)—superficially conceding the truth of the teachings of the Church, while ultimately aiming at making them seem so small.

Whereas Jesus assures us in the true Public Revelation—the Bible—that whoever has seen Him has seen the Father (cf. John 14:9), the Urantia Book regards Jesus as merely a “revelation” of the Father; perhaps an “incarnation,” of sorts, of the Divine Nature, but certainly not literally the only begotten Son, consubstantial with the Eternal Father Himself.

A true textbook for diabolical deception aimed at transforming Christianity into a pseudo-Christian New Age Antichristic religion, the Urantia Book even presents its own version of the Our Father prayer, which reads:

“Our Father in whom consist the universe realms...give us this day the vivifying forces of light” (144:5.2,6). Another version it suggests reads: “Our creative Parent, who is in the center of the universe...deliver us from inertia, evil...” (144:5.12,19)

Obviously, this is not an authentic private revelation. But care should be taken to ensure recognizing this now does not tranquilize anyone into supposing that the ability to identify a clear and explicit heresy is sufficient to keep him spiritually, morally, and theologically safe. It is not.

Although I have highlighted some particularly problematic selections above, the fact remains that the vast majority of the Urantia Book’s content appears “orthodox”—that is, almost all of its teachings do not explicitly contradict a dogma. The book’s modus operandi is not heresy, but something much darker and more dangerous—something that permeates “Christian” ET promotion—subtle apostasy. The goal is not so much to deny any particular Christian or Catholic teaching, but rather to make it all feel so small in comparison to some “higher” reality and “more urgent” calling in relation to it.

It is precisely this trap to which even the “orthodox minded” among the faithful can easily succumb. Had such a reader not been forewarned that the Urantia Book is indeed heretical nonsense, he might pick it up, open to a random page, and stumble upon a deeply fascinating passage. Not seeing any heresy, such a reader would likely continue reading page after page—still not stumbling upon anything flatly contrary to dogma.

Were this reader particularly inclined to alien belief, he would likely behave as an alcoholic beginning to smell whiskey. Continuing his voracious reading, he would be hopelessly hooked before long, and once he happened upon an explicit heresy, he would be too addicted to quit.

This is not a theoretical scenario: it is a description of what has happened in untold thousands of cases. A Catholic is not safe merely by being protected against the Urantia Book. There are countless other diabolical “revelations” like it, and countless more bound to be published soon.

There is only one sure defense against all of them: categorically rejecting belief in extraterrestrials. As long as that alien-belief-openness exists, there will always be some “revelation” (from demons disguised as ETs) that is able to sneak around other, less fundamental, defenses.

The Urantia “revelations” are clearly an attack on Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.