The Urantia Book — 2,097 pages, no author.
196 papers, said to be composed by named celestial orders and transmitted through a sleeping subject between 1924 and 1955. The subject's identity was never disclosed and has never been established.
The Urantia Foundation's account is that the papers were received between 1924 and 1955 through a sleeping subject in Chicago, in the presence of a group around the psychiatrist William S. Sadler that called itself the Forum, and that the group agreed never to name the subject. The identity has never been established, though Sadler's brother-in-law Wilfred Kellogg is commonly named. Sadler was a physician who had written a book debunking mediums. The book was published in 1955; a United States jury found the 1983 copyright renewal invalid in 2001 and the Tenth Circuit affirmed in 2003, which is why the English text is freely reproduced.
The papers were sponsored by named celestial orders and are addressed to the people of Urantia.
The Urantia Book, foreword and paper headings (rendered)The book asserts non-human authorship throughout; no human author has ever been acknowledged.
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