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The Birth of a Divine Revelation: The Origin of the Urantia Papers

The Birth of a Divine Revelation: The Origin of the Urantia Papers

Report on the origins of the Urantia Papers. Describes the evolution of events which led to the Papers. Includes biography of William Sadler, the human agent, an account of an associated group, (the Forum), and discussion of threats to the Revelation before it was published.. Offers a wealth of detail heretofore unpublished. Original scholarly research.

About the Author

Through a series of unusual events the author came to recognize that our planet is experiencing celestial visitations today, and that this world is under the supervision of agencies which report directly to our Creator. As a result of these discoveries he had a striking spiritual experience late in 1967. Since that time he has devoted his energies to the study and purpose of revelation.

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From Chapter 1: A man wanted to know the difference between Edgar Cayce, the so-called Sleeping Prophet, and the Sleeping Subject described by William Sadler in the Appendix to his book, The Mind At Mischief. The latter was suspected of being involved in the creation of The Urantia Papers. I shall describe the sequence of events which led Sadler to investigate the behavior of the Sleeping Subject, how that relationship developed into The Urantia Papers, and why Edgar Cayce could not have been the Sleeping Subject.

Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Moyer Pub (February 16, 2000)

The Birth Of A Divine Revelation

The Mechanical Origin
of
The Urantia Papers

Ernest P. Moyer

PO Box 1206
Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331
Early, 1997

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Appendix Two

BAD SCIENCE

Subject: Bad Science
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:17:36 -0400
From: "Ernest P. Moyer" epmoyer@netrax.net
To: JUpiTeR593@aol.com
CC: World-Destiny@home.ease.lsoft.com, FreeUrantia@home.ease.lsoft.com

Joshua:

Refer to your post

Subject: "bad science"
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:45:07 EDT
From: JUpiTeR593@aol.com

Norm Du Val attempted to answer your concerns about the scientific errors in the Urantia Papers by stating "There are few real errors of science . . .," and by offering a paper by Denver Pearson. While Norm's statement is literally correct, nevertheless scientific errors do exist. Furthermore, the scientific errors have been isolated from non-scientific errors, as though the latter were not important. The non-scientific errors have been causally assigned to "a few typographical errors and minor word changes or corrections (fingerprints)," as Pearson put it.

If we are to come to grips with errors in the Papers we must deal with all of them — not merely those convenient to our scientific orientations.

Both Norm, and Pearson, as well as many others in the Urantia community, engage in these rationalizations to avoid dealing with material that is misleading, and downright theologically false.

Pearson's rationalization was that "anything touched by human hands has fingerprints." Indeed, we now know that Sadler left his fingerprints within the Revelation in attempt to correct what he knew were errors and contradictions. These errors and contradictions came to his attention between the first and second printing. An important contribution to that list was in a letter from Benjamin Adams to Sadler in 1959. In reaction, Sadler made changes to the second printing, but neither he, nor Christy, nor anyone else among the Trustees and staff informed the world about those changes. They also suppressed knowledge of the Adams letter. Clearly, they were attempting to hide these problems from the public. Only through the later work of Merritt Horn and Kristen Maaherra did we become aware of them. I also recently discovered a few.

Consider how Pearson attempted to rationalize the statement on page P.657 - §5.

"The planets nearest the sun were the first to have their revolutions slowed down by tidal friction. Such gravitational influences also contribute to the stabilization of planetary orbits while acting as a brake on the rate of planetary-axial revolution, causing a planet to revolve ever slower until axial revolution ceases, leaving one hemisphere of the planet always turned toward the sun or larger body, as is illustrated by the planet Mercury and by the moon, which always turns the same face toward Urantia."

Pearson stated:

"The real problem seems to be a misreading of this complicated paragraph. It expresses two ideas in two interrelated sentences. The first sentence introduces the main topic which is planets slowing down by tidal friction. The second is a compound-complex one of parallel construction with several dependent clauses explaining what eventually happens to a planet affected by tidal friction. In it we have two ideas and two examples of those ideas; planets revolving ever slower (Mercury) until axial revolution ceases (the moon). It is easy to see how confusion comes from a sentence so structured with multiple dependent clauses."

I was surprised that Pearson would engage in this kind of rationalization.

Even a high school astronomy student knows that these statements are not correct. The moon continues to rotate on its axis, with one rotation per revolution, giving us the same face at all times. If the statement about Mercury rotation had been correct it also would rotate on its axis with one rotation per revolution. The statement that they cease rotation is an error which would appeal only to ignorant people.

If we back up into the complicated sentence we find that gravitational braking causes "a planet to revolve ever slower until axial revolution ceases, leaving one hemisphere of the planet always turned toward the sun or larger body."

When a planet leaves one hemisphere always turned toward the sun, it continues to rotate on its axis.

No amount of rationalization can alter that error.

The question then before us is how that childish error got into the Papers. The Revelators would not have engaged in such childish foolishness.

For your information, the first part of the paragraph is "good" revelation. "The planets nearest the sun were the first to have their revolutions slowed down by tidal friction. Such gravitational influences also contribute to the stabilization of planetary orbits while acting as a brake on the rate of planetary-axial revolution. . ." is a sound statement.

Unknown at the time of the Revelation was the behavior of the planets after this "slowing down" of their axial revolutions, and "stabilization" in their orbits. We now know that they go into synchronous motions, with the rotations related to the revolutions around the sun.

For example, Mercury has a simple 3/2 synchronicity. It has a sidereal revolution period around the sun of 87.969 days, and a sidereal rotation period of 58.65 days. (Sidereal means reference to a fixed point in the heavens — not reference to the sun or solar system.)

Another example is Venus. We now know that its rotation is clocked with its revolution around the sun such that it always shows us the same face when it comes between the earth and the sun.

Other synchronous orbits and rotations exists in the solar system.

In my investigations of private celestial contacts with various individuals I learned that one of the concerns expressed by our heavenly administrators is the mechanical mode of the earth, and the influence it might have on the other planets. If we should engage in tremendous energy conversions, such as in a nuclear holocaust, we might upset the natural equilibrium of the earth, and cause it to go into erratic instability in rotation, or other anomalous behavior.

For example, C. S. Lewis had this to say about information he learned during his contacts:

"A good many facts, which I have no intention of publishing at present, have fallen into our hands; fact about planets in general, and about Mars in particular . . .

". . . the present celestial year was to be a revolutionary one, that the long isolation of our planet is nearing its end, and that great doings are on foot."

". . . the force or forces behind 'Weston,' will play a very important part in the events of the next few centuries, and, unless we prevent them, a very disastrous one. . . .The dangers to be feared are not planetary but cosmic, or at least solar, and they are not temporal but eternal. More than this would be unwise to say."

This is what Adamski was told:

"This tilting of your earth is one reason for the constant observation we are giving it, for its relation to the other planets in our galaxy is very important. A drastic tilt of one planet would, to some degree, affect all . . ."

As you should know from the Revelation, one of the goals of planetary systems, and universes, is physical stability.

P.176 - §3 "We are able to recognize most of the laws governing universe equilibrium and to predict much pertaining to universe stability."

P.177 - §14 "When there develops such a spiritual harmony in a local universe that its individual and combined circuits become indistinguishable from those of the superuniverse, when such identity of function and oneness of ministry actually prevail, then does the local universe immediately swing into the settled circuits of light and life, becoming at once eligible for admission into the spiritual confederation of the perfected union of the supercreation. The requisites for admission to the councils of the Ancients of Days, membership in the superuniverse confederation, are:

"Physical Stability. The stars and planets of a local universe must be in equilibrium; the periods of immediate stellar metamorphosis must be over. The universe must be proceeding on a clear track; its orbit must be safely and finally settled."

P.1274 - §2 The time universes are not perfect; that is their destiny. The struggle for perfection pertains not only to the intellectual and the spiritual levels but also to the physical level of energy and mass. The settlement of the seven superuniverses in light and life presupposes their attainment of physical stability. And it is conjectured that the final attainment of material equilibrium will signify the completed evolution of the physical control of the Almighty."

Thus you can see the reasons for the concern about the instability of our planet, and how we might contribute further to that instability. We are greatly retarded, due to the rebellion, and the default. We must become physically stable, as well as spiritually stable, to enter into light and life. Programs now being prosecuted on this planet are designed to achieve those stabilities.

You can also see a greater reason for the error introduced into the paragraph on page 657. If an evil spirit personality wished to inhibit our recognition and understanding of system stabilities he would introduce just such errors. Continued childish thinking, reinforced by those erroneous statements, would prevent us from coming to grips with the synchonicities in the solar system, and how they contribute to future system stability. Thus the error has important theological consequences which went unnoticed by previous commentators.

Clearly, there are profound imports behind such "simple" errors.

Only simple minded people would fail to recognize those imports.

Ernest

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Disclaimer

Disclaimer:
Some material presented will contain links, quotes, ideologies, etc., the contents of which should be understood to first, in their whole, reflect the views or opinions of their editors, and second, are used in my personal research as "fair use" sources only, and not espousement one way or the other. Researching for 'truth' leads one all over the place...a piece here, a piece there. As a researcher, I hunt, gather and disassemble resources, trying to put all the pieces into a coherent and logical whole. I encourage you to do the same. And please remember, these pages are only my effort to collect all the pieces I can find and see if they properly fit into the 'reality aggregate'.

Personal Position

Personal Position:
I've come to realize that 'truth' boils down to what we 'believe' the facts we've gathered point to. We only 'know' what we've 'experienced' firsthand. Everything else - what we read, what we watch, what we hear - is what someone else's gathered facts point to and 'they' 'believe' is 'truth', so that 'truth' seems to change in direct proportion to newly gathered facts divided by applied plausibility. Though I believe there is 'truth', until someone representing the celestial realm visibly appears and presents the heavenly records of Facts And Lies In The Order They Happened, I can't know for sure exactly what "the whole truth' on any given subject is, and what applies to me applies to everyone. Until then I'll continue to ask, "what does The Urantia Book say on the subject?"
~Gail Bird Allen

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Urantia Book, 44:0.11 - The Celestial Artisans

Never in your long ascendancy will you lose the power to recognize your associates of former existences. Always, as you ascend inward in the scale of life, will you retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of your previous and lower levels of experience. Each new translation or resurrection will add one more group of spirit beings to your vision range without in the least depriving you of the ability to recognize your friends and fellows of former estates.
Princess Bride 1987 Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya)

Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Urantia Book, 117:4.14 - The Finite God

And here is mystery: The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the reality -- actuality -- of that man. The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches nonreality -- cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.
Urantia Book, 167:7.4 - The Talk About Angels

"And do you not remember that I said to you once before that, if you had your spiritual eyes anointed, you would then see the heavens opened and behold the angels of God ascending and descending? It is by the ministry of the angels that one world may be kept in touch with other worlds, for have I not repeatedly told you that I have other sheep not of this fold?"
Urantia Book, Foreword - 0:12.12 - The Trinities

But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of personal religious experience—God-consciousness.
Urantia Book, 1:4.3 - The Mystery Of God

When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle "returns to the earth whence it came"; then, it is revealed, the indwelling "Spirit shall return to God who gave it." There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortal existence.
Urantia Book, 1:4.1 - The Mystery Of God

And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the mystery of mysteries.
Urantia Book, 1:4.6 - The Mystery Of God

To every spirit being and to every mortal creature in every sphere and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal Father reveals all of his gracious and divine self that can be discerned or comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures. God is no respecter of persons, either spiritual or material. The divine presence which any child of the universe enjoys at any given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive and to discern the spirit actualities of the supermaterial world.
Urantia Book, 11:0.1 - The Eternal Isle Of Paradise

Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates. This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit things and spiritual beings are real.
Urantia Book, 50:6.4 - Planetary Culture

Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when presented to them ready-made.
Urantia Book, 54:1.6 - True And False Liberty

True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.
Urantia Book, 54:1.9 - True And False Liberty

How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.
Urantia Book, 54:1.8 - True And False Liberty

There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness.

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