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Q: I never believed Sadler had
anything to do with the original transcripts of the Urantia Papers. The
papers came from Europe, via an 1800's expedition that led
the group through India, Nepal, the Himalayas and other places as well.
That's where the papers began to be related by non-human beings. I
can't believe people can cover up the truth and attribute the origin of
the Urantia Papers to Sadler or any other human. The papers are
not from America, and the name Urantia belongs to all humans. I can't
believe all the court issues, and one day the truth will be revealed.
Sadler and others really did a good cover up job, but not good enough.
I've been researching this since 1970 and I will never believe Sadler's
version and I certainly don't recognize any group who claims to
themselves special titles and special authority over the Urantia
manuscripts. Shame to all the liars for perpetuating the illusions of
lies and falsehood. They will stand and face their own deceit one day.
A: Thank
you for your interesting note. Your unique hypothesis is one I've never
heard before. Why do you think it's a better one than the one that's
commonly accepted? Why do you think the commonly accepted one is a
fabrication? What to you is more meaningful about an origin in the east
rather than originating in Chicago that would cause you to believe such
an account?
To me it sounds as if you may be hanging onto the
"new age" concepts that everything spiritually meaningful came from
some ancient sources in China or Tibet or India in the 1800s. Since
such new age concepts aren't supported by the teachings of The Urantia
Book and since the Chicago origin of the Urantia papers is so well
documented by many hundreds of personal letters, documents, and other
records, I don't find any reasonable support for such a contention.
If,
as you believe, the papers originated in the east, what language
would
they have been given in? The papers themselves say they were indited in
English. The reason English was chosen is first, it has the largest
vocabulary of any written language which makes expression of the
sublime concepts presented by the revelators somewhat easier, but even
at that the language often proved to be a stumbling block. Still, the
quality of English used in The Urantia Book is of the highest standard
of any literary work -- that couldn't have been achieved by a
translation from some less expressive language into English. Second,
due to commerce, English is becoming the one-world-language that is so
necessary in order for humanity to progress toward that
one-world-government on its way toward light and life. More and more of
the peoples of the world are becoming able to read the Urantia
revelation in its original language, not inferior translations.
Another
consideration would be that since much of the content of The Urantia
Book comes directly from books previously published, although altered
to express higher concepts than the original contained, and since some
of those books weren't published until the 1930s, how would that
material have been included if the original Urantia text came from
somewhere in the east in the 1800s?
But, just as you said, I
never believed Dr. Sadler had anything to do with the original
transcripts of the Urantia papers either. He was a custodian and more
the gatekeeper for their reception -- his job was to see that they were
properly received, were reviewed, were put into untampered book form,
and I believe he fulfilled his purpose better than nearly any other
mortal presented with such a responsibility could or would have done.
You
did say you can't believe people can cover up the truth and attribute
the origin of the Urantia papers to Sadler or any other human. Neither
can I -- all the more reason not to accept a far-east origin. Since the
origin in Chicago is the most logical and most simple, that also would
tend to make it the most believable.
I agree with you that the
name Urantia belongs to all humans, not just to Americans, and I've not
seen any evidence that anyone else believes otherwise. And as you said,
the court issues are a sad chapter to our history, but certainly not
unique.
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing why your
interpretation makes better sense to you than what most of us accept as
truth. One of the purposes of studying The Urantia Book is to become
more fully in tune with truth, to dispel flighty thinking, to rely upon
what our minds sense as being logical and of value; that requires
altering our thinking and being able to accept truth as we find it
rather than truth as we'd like it to be.
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