From the formation of the galaxies and earth itself, through the birth of Adam and Eve, to the present time of epochal change,
The Fifth Revelation: Key Passages from The Urantia Book encapsulates millennia in three hundred fascinating pages. In 1971, when author Kelly Elstrott discovered
The Urantia Book his life was changed forever. Almost thirty years later, as a successful chemical engineer, father of six children, including eight-year-old triplets, he compiled
The Fifth Revelation in gratitude for the way
The Urantia Book has guided and enriched his life. Seekers of spiritual truth and students of comparative religion will be familiar with
The Urantia Book as an epic 2,000-page anthology first published in 1955 from papers indited by superhuman personalities in the 1930s.
Now The Fifth Revelation - so called because The Urantia Book was the fifth time the Word of God was given to the people of earth - offers readers an illuminating sneak preview of the uplifting life teachings recorded in the original text, as well as a stand-alone volume of spiritual strength and beauty. Illustrating the book are sixty black-and-white prints of the world's greatest art, including Mary Cassatt's The Bath in a chapter about family love. Elstrott's personality and sensibility further enliven the reading experience with introductions to each chapter and careful notations guiding the reader to the original text. The wise reader will turn early on to the series of appendices at the back of the book, including an excellent glossary and index.
From the beginning, the reader is drawn into a universe startlingly reminiscent of George Lucas' "Star Wars" with countless inhabited planets. The good guys of earthalso known as Urantiaforge their way to perfection through the path of love and beauty and integrity, while the bad guys, who have rejected God's plan of brotherhood, perennially try to sabotage the way back to God, unwittingly serving as testers of faith. Spiritual Oscar winners Melchizedek, Ikhnaton, Isaiah, and Jesus himself, known as the Creator Son, cheer every member of the human race as we step slowly and steadily toward freedom under the watchful eye of a benevolent God.
The Fifth Revelation is a perfect introduction to The Urantia Book, and will fill a long-overdue place on bookshelves of all spiritually committed inhabitants of this sector of the galaxy.
About Kelly Elstrott
Kelly Elstrott was born in New Orleans and was educated at Louisiana State University where he studied history and chemical engineering. A partner / owner of ELI Inc., a firm that specializes in environmental control and vapor recovery, he is married to the French-born Catherine Grenier, a practicing pediatrician, and is the father of six children, including 7 year old triplets. He stumbled upon The Urantia Book in l971 when he casually began thumbing through it as a friend brewed tea on a rainy afternoon. Over the months and years that followed, his life was slowly transformed. A career blossomed. Marriage came, and children, and peace of mind, and an extraordinary joy.
Yet, Elstrott's discovery of The Urantia Book has in no way caused him to abandon the Catholic faith in which he was raised. If anything, it has taught him the importance of raising children in a tradition that stresses faith and love as focal points through which life can be best and most fruitfully lived. And while the philosophy of living set forth in The Urantia Book seamlessly unites together the leading-edge scientific discoveries with uplifting spiritual truths, The Urantia Book is a more potent reminder of how rich and wonderful life can be when the inner spirit is given free rein, to lift and guide without restriction.
Kelly Elstrott lives in New Orleans where he divides his time between his home there and a 30 acre camp in the pine woods of Mississippi where he raises catfish and blueberries and his children can run. The Fifth Revelation is his first book.
