The Guardian Plates
In the year 2010, a team of data-conservator Urantia Book readers scanned a copy of the 1955 First Printing of The Urantia Book into a set of computer files. The files thus obtained are in the public domain. The master copies of these images are called "The Guardian Plates," and are perpetually maintained unchanged and copies made publicly available around the world by a small group of conservators called "The Guardian Plates Conservatorium."
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| Download a copy of the Guardian Plates |
| The Guardian Plates are the masters of the images produced by a scan, by the Guardian Plates Conservators, of the complete pages of the 1955 first printing of The Urantia Book, still in the original .tif, 1-bit (bitmap) scanning file format, unchanged except for cropping. No alteration has been done, not even cleaning up of scanning blemishes, or artifacts. The Guardian Plates remain in the unbroken custody of the Guardian Plates Conservatorium, thus assuring that they continue to be the original scans. Copies are made and distributed, but copies are not the Guardian Plates; they are copies. The single set of originals -- the GUARDIAN PLATES -- remains apart for authentication purposes.
.tif files, text block only.
(8206 x 14323, 1600 dpi, 1-bit depth (bitmap), 1.1 GB)
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| Help safeguard the Revelation |
| THE GUARDIAN PLATES ARE the Fifth Epochal Revelation. |
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Unforeseen events -- a building burning down, a death, political upheavals, earthquakes -- over the next millennium can cause the revelation, as originally received, to be lost. |
| To help guard against such unforeseen happenings over an indefinite period of time, individuals worldwide can each download a copy of the Guardian Plates. Put their copy of the Guardian Plates in their “attic.” Pass it on to their children. On down the line of history. |
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Technology will change. Cultures will change and disappear. But destiny set in motion by the Divine will come to pass, no matter what. |
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Download and store away your copy of The Guardian Plates now, and help ensure the survival of the Fifth Epochal Revelation of truth to our world. |
| About the Guardian Plates |
| Because the Guardian Plates are photocopy images of the pages of a first edition Urantia Book, no text in any Guardian plate will ever be found to depart from the first edition text.. |
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Should effaced or trimmed-off content be discovered on a Guardian Plates page, a new page, photocopied from a first edition Urantia Book, will be inserted (never edited) if: (1) a suitable original page is available and (2) the problem is on the photocopy and not on the available original. |
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August 1, 2010 - Finished compiling Guardian Plates and made them accessible on the Internet. |
August 21, 2013
1. Added replacement pages for the following seven pages, whose page numbers had been trimmed off: pages 319, 426, 559, 1003, 1250, 1912, and 1929.
2. Added replacement pages for the following three missing pages, each of which had had a duplicate of the previous page in its place: pages 1292, 1738, and 2072.
3. Recompressed all 2,163 HD tif page images (including front matter) to the CCITT T.6, or Group 4, lossless compression coding, reducing the previously 2.4 GB total size of the high definition images to 1.2 GB. |
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March 31, 2017 - Changed a small amount of incidental text in the on-screen explanations. |
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