The fifth epochal revelation of truth to our world is here--a mighty, downward-moving cascade. At its headwaters is The URANTIA Book, a body of factually unified truth as originally received. From The URANTIA Book, primary truths pour over the brink of the cataract and splash upon a ledge below.

This first ledge is all of the individuals and organizations who accept truth directly from The URANTIA Book. Teachers, ministers, churches, writers, artists and others, they interpret the teachings of The URANTIA Book and relay them to others as secondary truths.

Below, on a second ledge, are the individuals and organizations who knowingly or unknowingly receive these secondary truths from The URANTIA Book. From here, tertiary truths splash down upon a ledge farther below. This process of receiving, modifying, and passing on truths originating in The URANTIA Book continues downward and outward.

In the years and ages to come, countless souls will be nourished by truths from The URANTIA Book, many neither knowing nor caring about The URANTIA Book itself. The truthfalls of our world will gradually become a river of truth. Each generation will be increasingly transformed by this living water. And one day everyone will look across the old barriers at each other and say, "Where have all the differences gone?"


© 1982 Troy R. Bishop. "The Cascade Effect" may be freely duplicated electronically and transmitted across networks and the Internet if the copyright notice and this permission notice appear on all copies.