Urantia Foundation - Purpose

Purpose

The main purpose of the foundation is to provide for the dissemination of The Urantia Book and to ensure that the text remains as unaltered as possible. It published the first copy of the book to be made available to the public in 1955. Since then, it has also translated the book into a number of different languages.

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