"It is
high time that man had a religious experience so personal and so sublime
that it could be realized and expressed only by 'feelings that lie too deep for words'." (99:5.9)
About '
nigh' that rhymes with '
high' (and both can refer to time) ...
Re:
https://www.theidioms.com/high-time/
"Romans 13:11 (KJV)
And that, knowing the time, that now it is
high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."
"originated in the 13th century and it refers to the warmest time in the day. Since people of that era were mostly farmers, this time marked the turning point in the day when you must have either gotten so much work done on the land or you begin doing so immediately."
Re:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=KJV
"Matthew 24:32-33 (KJV)
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is
nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors."
About '
nigh' as used in the Urantia Papers (but not once as ' nigh ') ...
The number of times (69) '
well-nigh' is used in the UB is "well-nigh unbelievable",
but high time to note its commonality amongst so many Papers! This suggests
editorial supervision of the developing UB manuscript that was well-nigh on high,
especially since 'well-nigh' was rarely copied from a UB source!
One UB Paper contains '
high time': 99
UB Papers containing '
well-nigh (52)':
Foreword, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27,
28, 30, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 55, 56, 57, 68, 74, 75, 77,
87, 89, 101, 106, 110, 118, 122, 123, 126, 129, 143, 145,
148, 149, 155, 157, 161, 172, 177, 185, 186, 189, 190
A memorable '
well-nigh' in the UB:
"All our efforts to enlarge the human concept of God would be
well-nigh futile except for
the fact that the mortal mind is indwelt by the bestowed Adjuster of the Universal Father
and is pervaded by the Truth Spirit of the Creator Son." (2:0.3)
Significant evidence that "editorial supervision on high"
is the reason for such quality rewrite of Speer's writing:
Re:
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/26/item ... 00spee.pdf
"Studies of the Man Christ Jesus", by Robert E. Speer, 1896, p.207
"Jesus well-nigh exhausts the possibilities of language in asserting and describing His mission
* from the Father."
UB Paper 161 - "Further Discussions with Rodan" (161:2.9)
"He well-nigh exhausts the possibilities of language in reiteration of his claims of intimate association
* with the heavenly Father."
* Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia, 1. The Seventh Bestowal Commission
"Throughout your Urantia bestowal you need be concerned with but one thing, the unbroken communion between you and your Paradise Father; and it will be by the perfection of such a relationship that the world of your bestowal, even all the universe of your creation, will behold a new and more understandable revelation of your Father and my Father, the Universal Father of all." (120:1.4)
Interestingly, the rewrite effectively clarifies that the Father did not give Jesus this mission - it's the nature of these divine Sons of God to reveal God in their bestowal missions. Thus, Speer reflects what Jesus taught his apostles (what they perceived/remembered) - not what UB authors knew about Jesus' divinity and his bestowal missions required to earn him title of "Master Son". Editing, well-nigh evidence that humans did not directly participate in writing UB Papers.
About
Paper 119 - The (7) Bestowals of Christ Michael ...
Why have no sources been found for this Paper?
Because Paper 119 is part of this epochal revelation!,
what only UB authors knew about Jesus' divinity!
"Cannibalism was once well-nigh universal among the evolving races." (89:5.3)
Paper 89 — Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
Good evidence that the UB author of Paper 89 (or project editor on high) referred to another source(s)
to justify inclusion of "well-nigh universal cannibalism" when phrase was not in primary source for Paper 89:
"The Science of Society", (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927),
by William Graham Sumner and Albert Galloway Keller
This inclusion suggests that the UB editorial team presented truth as found in various human sources,
deleting that which was not true and including/paraphrasing that which was true. This type of multi-source analysis
would have been quite difficult in the pre-internet decades! This also suggests UB authors had access to well-nigh
ALL that humans had written in the past. "Well-nigh unbelievable"!
Additional support of "well-nigh universal cannibalism" as fact:
Re:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/ ... rldlit.pdf
"Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism"
Refers to Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" (1918)
and "well-nigh universal cannibalism".
UB authors acknowledge the sources of the Papers (when not "revelation") ...
"In formulating the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the character of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together with an attempted description of the perfect central universe and the encircling seven superuniverses, we are to be guided by the mandate of the superuniverse rulers which directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal truth and co-ordinate essential knowledge, give preference to the highest existing human concepts pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort to pure revelation only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous expression by the human mind." (0:12.11)
"I am the secondary midwayer of onetime attachment to the Apostle Andrew, and I am authorized to place on record the narrative of the life transactions of Jesus of Nazareth as they were observed by my order of earth creatures, and as they were subsequently partially recorded by the human subject of my temporal guardianship." (121:0.1)
Acknowledgments that human writings ("expression by the human mind") and Jesus' life as observed by the midwayers were the sources
of the UB Papers. Such acknowledgments infer that ALL human writings and midwayer observations were available to author the Papers.
And "ALL human writings" suggests that NO human then living (or now) had access to so much written material
Humans did not participate in writing the UB Papers" ...
Re:
https://www.urantia.org/urantia-foundation/history
"A History of the Urantia Movement", By Dr. William S. Sadler
"The Papers were published just as we received them.
The Contact Commissioners had no editorial authority
Our job was limited to 'spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.' "
Despite the sources since discovered, humans did not edit that into the Papers.
However ... Dr. William S. Sadler was not unfamiliar with "well-nigh" in his book:
"The physiology of faith and fear; or, The mind in health and disease" (1912)
Dr. Sadler was more than proofreader of the UB manuscript (new theory) ...
The widespread use of "well-nigh" in Dr. Sadler's "The physiology of faith and fear"
hints that his mind was used similarly to how midwayer messages are created.
While the material was presented by unseen celestials, Dr. Sadler may have
been authorized to restate it for better readability and consistency
across all the Papers.
Rod 
Morning meditation ...