Book Arrivals 2024-10-21

Hello everyone, I'm thrilled to share that I've received the Urantia books safely! I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to each of you for your support, love, and generosity. Your contributions made this possible, and I'm forever grateful. Thank you for being part of this spiritual journey together.
Important Notice;
Urantia Book Community

To ensure the genuine spread of the Urantia Book's teachings, we will conduct a screening process for those interested in receiving a free book especially those near Fortportal and around. This is due to numerous complaints about scams and misuse.

We seek committed individuals truly seeking spiritual growth and willing to engage with our community. Our goal is to share this revelation with those who will cherish and apply its teachings.
Let's work together to promote the Urantia Book's message with integrity and sincerity.
Love

Zhōnghuá wénmíng dí límíng

  ^79:6.1 Sometime after driving the red man across to North America, the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from the river valleys of eastern Asia, pushing them north into Siberia and west into Turkestan, where they were soon to come in contact with the superior culture of the Andites.

  ^79:6.2 In Burma and the peninsula of Indo-China the cultures of India and China mixed and blended to produce the successive civilizations of those regions. Here the vanished green race has persisted in larger proportion than anywhere else in the world.

  ^79:6.3 Many different races occupied the islands of the Pacific. In general, the southern and then more extensive islands were occupied by peoples carrying a heavy percentage of green and indigo blood. The northern islands were held by Andonites and, later on, by races embracing large proportions of the yellow and red stocks. The ancestors of the Japanese people were not driven off the mainland until 12,000 B.C., when they were dislodged by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of the northern Chinese tribes. Their final exodus was not so much due to population pressure as to the initiative of a chieftain whom they came to regard as a divine personage.

  ^79:6.4 Like the peoples of India and the Levant, victorious tribes of the yellow man established their earliest centers along the coast and up the rivers. The coastal settlements fared poorly in later years as the increasing floods and the shifting courses of the rivers made the lowland cities untenable.

  ^79:6.5 Twenty thousand years ago the ancestors of the Chinese had built up a dozen strong centers of primitive culture and learning, especially along the Yellow River and the Yangtze. And now these centers began to be reinforced by the arrival of a steady stream of superior blended peoples from Sinkiang and Tibet. The migration from Tibet to the Yangtze valley was not so extensive as in the north, neither were the Tibetan centers so advanced as those of the Tarim basin. But both movements carried a certain amount of Andite blood eastward to the river settlements.

  ^79:6.6 The superiority of the ancient yellow race was due to four great factors:

  ^79:6.7 1. Genetic. Unlike their blue cousins in Europe, both the red and yellow races had largely escaped mixture with debased human stocks. The northern Chinese, already strengthened by small amounts of the superior red and Andonic strains, were soon to benefit by a considerable influx of Andite blood. The southern Chinese did not fare so well in this regard, and they had long suffered from absorption of the green race, while later on they were to be further weakened by the infiltration of the swarms of inferior peoples crowded out of India by the Dravidian-Andite invasion. And today in China there is a definite difference between the northern and southern races.

  ^79:6.8 2. Social. The yellow race early learned the value of peace among themselves. Their internal peaceableness so contributed to population increase as to insure the spread of their civilization among many millions. From 25,000 to 5000 B.C. the highest mass civilization on Urantia was in central and northern China. The yellow man was first to achieve a racial solidarity -- the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization.

  ^79:6.9 The Chinese of 15,000 B.C. were aggressive militarists; they had not been weakened by an overreverence for the past, and numbering less than twelve million, they formed a compact body speaking a common language. During this age they built up a real nation, much more united and homogeneous than their political unions of historic times.

  ^79:6.10 3. Spiritual. During the age of Andite migrations the Chinese were among the more spiritual peoples of earth. Long adherence to the worship of the One Truth proclaimed by Singlangton kept them ahead of most of the other races. The stimulus of a progressive and advanced religion is often a decisive factor in cultural development; as India languished, so China forged ahead under the invigorating stimulus of a religion in which truth was enshrined as the supreme Deity.

  ^79:6.11 This worship of truth was provocative of research and fearless exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The Chinese of even six thousand years ago were still keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth.

  ^79:6.12 4. Geographic. China is protected by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east. Only in the north is the way open to attack, and from the days of the red man to the coming of the later descendants of the Andites, the north was not occupied by any aggressive race.

  ^79:6.13 And but for the mountain barriers and the later decline in spiritual culture, the yellow race undoubtedly would have attracted to itself the larger part of the Andite migrations from Turkestan and unquestionably would have quickly dominated world civilization.

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老子与孔子

6. LAO-TSE AND CONFUCIUS

  ^94:6.1 About six hundred years before the arrival of Michael, it seemed to Melchizedek, long since departed from the flesh, that the purity of his teaching on earth was being unduly jeopardized by general absorption into the older Urantia beliefs. It appeared for a time that his mission as a forerunner of Michael might be in danger of failing. And in the sixth century before Christ, through an unusual co-ordination of spiritual agencies, not all of which are understood even by the planetary supervisors, Urantia witnessed a most unusual presentation of manifold religious truth. Through the agency of several human teachers the Salem gospel was restated and revitalized, and as it was then presented, much has persisted to the times of this writing.

  ^94:6.2 This unique century of spiritual progress was characterized by great religious, moral, and philosophic teachers all over the civilized world. In China, the two outstanding teachers were Lao-tse and Confucius.

  ^94:6.3Lao-tse built directly upon the concepts of the Salem traditions when he declared Tao to be the One First Cause of all creation. Lao was a man of great spiritual vision. He taught that "man's eternal destiny was everlasting union with Tao, Supreme God and Universal King." His comprehension of ultimate causation was most discerning, for he wrote: "Unity arises out of the Absolute Tao, and from Unity there appears cosmic Duality, and from such Duality, Trinity springs forth into existence, and Trinity is the primal source of all reality." "All reality is ever in balance between the potentials and the actuals of the cosmos, and these are eternally harmonized by the spirit of divinity."

  ^94:6.4 Lao-tse also made one of the earliest presentations of the doctrine of returning good for evil: "Goodness begets goodness, but to the one who is truly good, evil also begets goodness."

  ^94:6.5 He taught the return of the creature to the Creator and pictured life as the emergence of a personality from the cosmic potentials, while death was like the returning home of this creature personality. His concept of true faith was unusual, and he too likened it to the "attitude of a little child."

  ^94:6.6 His understanding of the eternal purpose of God was clear, for he said: "The Absolute Deity does not strive but is always victorious; he does not coerce mankind but always stands ready to respond to their true desires; the will of God is eternal in patience and eternal in the inevitability of its expression." And of the true religionist he said, in expressing the truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive: "The good man seeks not to retain truth for himself but rather attempts to bestow these riches upon his fellows, for that is the realization of truth. The will of the Absolute God always benefits, never destroys; the purpose of the true believer is always to act but never to coerce."

  ^94:6.7 Lao's teaching of nonresistance and the distinction which he made between action and coercion became later perverted into the beliefs of "seeing, doing, and thinking nothing." But Lao never taught such error, albeit his presentation of nonresistance has been a factor in the further development of the pacific predilections of the Chinese peoples.

  ^94:6.8 But the popular Taoism of twentieth-century Urantia has very little in common with the lofty sentiments and the cosmic concepts of the old philosopher who taught the truth as he perceived it, which was: That faith in the Absolute God is the source of that divine energy which will remake the world, and by which man ascends to spiritual union with Tao, the Eternal Deity and Creator Absolute of the universes.

  ^94:6.9Confucius (Kung Fu-tze) was a younger contemporary of Lao in sixth-century China. Confucius based his doctrines upon the better moral traditions of the long history of the yellow race, and he was also somewhat influenced by the lingering traditions of the Salem missionaries. His chief work consisted in the compilation of the wise sayings of ancient philosophers. He was a rejected teacher during his lifetime, but his writings and teachings have ever since exerted a great influence in China and Japan. Confucius set a new pace for the shamans in that he put morality in the place of magic. But he built too well; he made a new fetish out of order and established a respect for ancestral conduct that is still venerated by the Chinese at the time of this writing.

  ^94:6.10 The Confucian preachment of morality was predicated on the theory that the earthly way is the distorted shadow of the heavenly way; that the true pattern of temporal civilization is the mirror reflection of the eternal order of heaven. The potential God concept in Confucianism was almost completely subordinated to the emphasis placed upon the Way of Heaven, the pattern of the cosmos.

  ^94:6.11 The teachings of Lao have been lost to all but a few in the Orient, but the writings of Confucius have ever since constituted the basis of the moral fabric of the culture of almost a third of Urantians. These Confucian precepts, while perpetuating the best of the past, were somewhat inimical to the very Chinese spirit of investigation that had produced those achievements which were so venerated. The influence of these doctrines was unsuccessfully combated both by the imperial efforts of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti and by the teachings of Mo Ti, who proclaimed a brotherhood founded not on ethical duty but on the love of God. He sought to rekindle the ancient quest for new truth, but his teachings failed before the vigorous opposition of the disciples of Confucius.

  ^94:6.12 Like many other spiritual and moral teachers, both Confucius and Lao-tse were eventually deified by their followers in those spiritually dark ages of China which intervened between the decline and perversion of the Taoist faith and the coming of the Buddhist missionaries from India. During these spiritually decadent centuries the religion of the yellow race degenerated into a pitiful theology wherein swarmed devils, dragons, and evil spirits, all betokening the returning fears of the unenlightened mortal mind. And China, once at the head of human society because of an advanced religion, then fell behind because of temporary failure to progress in the true path of the development of that God-consciousness which is indispensable to the true progress, not only of the individual mortal, but also of the intricate and complex civilizations which characterize the advance of culture and society on an evolutionary planet of time and space.

5. THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH IN CHINA

  ^94:5.1 As the Salem missionaries passed through Asia, spreading the doctrine of the Most High God and salvation through faith, they absorbed much of the philosophy and religious thought of the various countries traversed. But the teachers commissioned by Melchizedek and his successors did not default in their trust; they did penetrate to all peoples of the Eurasian continent, and it was in the middle of the second millennium before Christ that they arrived in China. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there training Chinese teachers who taught throughout all the domains of the yellow race.

  ^94:5.2 It was in direct consequence of this teaching that the earliest form of Taoism arose in China, a vastly different religion than the one which bears that name today. Early or proto-Taoism was a compound of the following factors:

  ^94:5.3 1. The lingering teachings of Singlangton, which persisted in the concept of Shang-ti, the God of Heaven. In the times of Singlangton the Chinese people became virtually monotheistic; they concentrated their worship on the One Truth, later known as the Spirit of Heaven, the universe ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early concept of Deity, although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits insidiously crept into their religion.

  ^94:5.4 2. The Salem religion of a Most High Creator Deity who would bestow his favor upon mankind in response to man's faith. But it is all too true that, by the time the Melchizedek missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their original message had become considerably changed from the simple doctrines of Salem in the days of Machiventa.

  ^94:5.5 3. The Brahman-Absolute concept of the Indian philosophers, coupled with the desire to escape all evil. Perhaps the greatest extraneous influence in the eastward spread of the Salem religion was exerted by the Indian teachers of the Vedic faith, who injected their conception of the Brahman -- the Absolute -- into the salvationistic thought of the Salemites.

  ^94:5.6 This composite belief spread through the lands of the yellow and brown races as an underlying influence in religio-philosophic thought. In Japan this proto-Taoism was known as Shinto, and in this country, far distant from Salem of Palestine, the peoples learned of the incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek, who dwelt upon earth that the name of God might not be forgotten by mankind.

  ^94:5.7 In China all of these beliefs were later confused and compounded with the ever-growing cult of ancestor worship. But never since the time of Singlangton have the Chinese fallen into helpless slavery to priestcraft. The yellow race was the first to emerge from barbaric bondage into orderly civilization because it was the first to achieve some measure of freedom from the abject fear of the gods, not even fearing the ghosts of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because she failed to progress beyond her early emancipation from priests; she fell into an almost equally calamitous error, the worship of ancestors.

  ^94:5.8 But the Salemites did not labor in vain. It was upon the foundations of their gospel that the great philosophers of sixth-century China built their teachings. The moral atmosphere and the spiritual sentiments of the times of Lao-tse and Confucius grew up out of the teachings of the Salem missionaries of an earlier age.

Book Deliveries

I’m happy to share that I’ve just received the 30 more copies of the book, and they are now at my hostel. It feels like a coincidence because I just arrived back at school from home this morning as I had traveled home on Friday to visit my family, and shortly after, I got a call from UPS that the books are out of customs and ready for delivery. Glory be to God!  We truly serve an amazing God. 

Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible, especially brother Peter Laurence who helped us acquire the books through The New York  society, brother Soren, pastor Karo and many others who contributed to making this a success. I also send lots of blessings to all of you! Blessed be.

 

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Book Deliveries

I’m happy to share that I’ve just received the 30 more copies of the book, and they are now at my hostel. It feels like a coincidence because I just arrived back at school from home this morning as I had traveled home on Friday to visit my family, and shortly after, I got a call from UPS that the books are out of customs and ready for delivery. Glory be to God!

How Goes the Outreach Effort?

By Philip G. Calabrese, Ph.D.

Published in 1955, after decades of divine communications from personages visiting our world from outer space (via the mind of a sleeping, human contact individual with a particularly adept indwelling spirit) 69 years later The Urantia Book is still a well-kept secret!

Even taken as a book of inventive fiction, the scope of this 2097-page epic boggles the mind. It literally covers everything from the eternal Infinite to the evolutionary Supreme and ends with a cosmic mission and destiny for each individual soul as a coordinated part of the perfecting supreme Soul. How can such a work be unknown to so many people living today? Why is such a creative, and arguably a statistically proven, epochal revelation to our world largely unrecognized and even ignored?

One reason, which cannot be discounted, is that espousing a book presenting itself as “the fifth epochal revelation” to our world “Urantia” could easily bring ridicule and damage to a scientist’s or religious scholar’s reputation and position. (Every new scientific or religious advance is resisted by those threatened with obsolescence.)

For example, three scholarly authors of papers discussing The Urantia Book in a recent book edited by Byron Belitsos chose to be anonymous. Now why do you suppose they did that? For similar reasons, there has long been a tendency among believers to “bootleg” The Urantia Book’s insightful remarks without attribution.

The Urantia Book was purposely dropped quietly into world culture without fanfare, and the early culture of Urantia Foundation as copyright holder prevented the book from being quoted extensively except with hard-to-get permission. After all, people needed time to read and digest the book’s contents and judge its excellence. Superficial adherents could do more harm than good, perhaps taking control of the “Urantia movement” with a populist approach. 

That danger existed in the first generation of readers after publication. But now there are plenty of readers who know the book well enough to prevent such a takeover threat were one to surface. But in the meantime, due to conflicts in publication efforts, the Urantia movement outreach organization, once called the Urantia Brotherhood, split into two organizations, only one of which is organically associated with Urantia Foundation while the other, The Urantia Book Fellowship (UBF) publishes its own, essentially identical, English edition. 

Total Devotion Needed

Today, the many early young and enthusiastic readers of the 1970’s and 80’s are old, and the UBF’s local Urantia societies in the USA are typically dwindling in membership and participation. In the past, many of these study groups and local societies had little interaction with the central organization of The Urantia Book Fellowship (the present 36-member General Council (GC)). 

These GC members are very hard-working administrators, among our most dedicated believers. But they labor in a constitutional framework that badly needs updating, even now very slowly discussing a constitutional revision of that self-same ill-suited constitutional framework. God help them!

Absent a truly dynamic administrative leader, the Urantia movement has become somewhat institutionalized with structures that struggle to be relevant to USA readership and youth. 

To some extent, our Urantia movement organizations reflect those of us who profess belief in The Urantia Book and loyalty to Jesus’ Gospel message, but who have hardly been totally devoted to sharing the message. Life has other responsibilities and attractions, which too often become almost unbreakable routines. 

Apostles, Not Just Disciples

In my own case, I am totally dedicated to promoting the spiritual message of The Urantia Book when I am hosting my Urantia study group, and also during some other times during an average day, like at my United Church of Christ weekly lectionary meetings, and when writing a note like this or a derivative paper. But I’m still a long way from “total dedication”.

Professionally, I spent decades writing and publishing numerous mathematical research papers including a book covering my synthesis of 2-valued Boolean algebra with 3-valued conditional event algebra, none of which directly promotes the book except potentially to testify to my intellectual ability. 

At the same time since 1970, I also authored numerous presentations and papers on Urantia Book cosmology including a paper that statistically proves that “the probability that the UB was authored by human beings is less than 1 in 50 million”. That probability was based on Urantia Book predictions and contemporary science reversals of thinking since 1955, such as the book’s predicted discovery (in the 1990’s) of hundreds of millions of outer space galaxies. But those papers were submitted and appeared in the Urantia community publications, not in secular publications. Perhaps it is time for that to happen.

What we need, I think, are more people who can become Urantian spiritual leaders—full-time spiritual workers like the apostles, not just mostly part-time disciples populating dwindling “societies” that struggle to attract enthusiastic members to our mission. For that, we need a truly talented leader to coordinate our many efforts to share the revelation with the world. Pato Banton comes to my mind.

To gather active youth to the challenge of effecting the spiritual transformation of the world we need to better articulate the mission. At least we can muster the courage to openly espouse The Urantia Book so that we won’t hear “I’ve never heard of it” so often. Let our Urantia Book enlightenment shine and not be hidden under a bushel. The world needs that now.

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