Caves

In the Urantia Book

Andon’s family, the first humans, lived in caves (63:3.3-5)

• During the vogue of a particular animal, crude outlines of it would be drawn on the walls of the caves, and later on, as continued progress was made in the arts, such an animal god was engraved on various ornaments. 63:6.3
• The ignorant and superstitious aborigines believed that caves led to the underworld, with its evil spirits and demons, in contrast with the mountains, where good spirits lived 85:1.5

The Jordan poured forth from an underground cave (157:3.1)

Mithraics worshiped in caves (98:5.4) (98:6.3)

• northern white race built dwellings; they never lived in caves 80:9.4
• In the caves of western Europe may be found human bones mingled with the remains of both tropic and arctic animals, testifying that man lived in these regions throughout the later epochs of the advancing and retreating glaciers. 61:6.4
• The southern Cro-Magnons generally lived in caves and grottoes. 80:3.6 80:9.4

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• High places 85:1.5 — 1 Ki 3:2-3; 2 Ki 18:4,34; Lv 26:30; Nm 21:28; Nm 22:41; Dt 33:29.
• Holy mountains 85:1.5 — Ex 3:1,12; Ex 19:3,11-23; Ex 24:12-18; Ps 74:2; Ps 121:1; Is 2:2; Jer 3:23; Nm 10:33; Dt 11:29; Jn 4:20-21.