What is the meaning of the number of man or the the mark of the beast called 666?
[print] [email] The closest reference to that number comes from the following paragraph: “The grand universe number of your world, Urantia, is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the registry number on Uversa and on Paradise, your number in the catalogue of the inhabited worlds. I know the physical-sphere registry number, but it is of such an extraordinary size that it is of little practical significance to the mortal mind.”(15:4.8) Perhaps this number, which ends in 666, was revealed to John and all that he recorded were the last 3 digits. There are no magic numbers. The universe is logical, not magical. Some numbers have significance because they refer to universe realities, but numerology and the magic associated with numbers is superstition based. The “mark of the beast” is a figure of speach signifying our evolutionary animal origin. It’s referred to in the following paragraph which describes the gradual spiritual purging and purification we experience as we move through the mansion worlds
