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===Topic: '''''Roots of the Urantia Book'''''===
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===Lesson===
The Urantia Book is heir to a rich tradition of human thought and divine teachings when it comes
to aid with the mysterious and timeless spiritual process of revelation. The traditions and efforts
through which revelation appears is older then man on earth, but all men on many earths experience
much as we do, such is the yearning of the human soul wherever it takes origin. We are no different
in our need for some justification of our existence; or, conversely, feel we need an ear about how
unfairly pressed we are by the terms of our material existence. The roots from which we partake our
spiritual guidance are ancient, surprising, and drive deeply in the evolutionary soils to find the
wellspring of divine nourishment to give to man.
The roots of living revelation can be traced back centuries on our world, and in particular, the fifth
epochal revelation was more than just a seed in the Victorian Age. It was taking shape through the
processes used then, but modified and transfigured as the times today required for the modern mind
to hear it well. Man seeks the superior knowledge of God, and even though he may fail the tests of
time to receive it sometimes, the spiritual pressure to enlighten eventually brings an epochal
disclosure for all to hear.
Beginning in the England of 1870, lived the 31 year old Stainton Moses already a gifted medium,
who became a student of a high quality revelation under the guidance of the mentor who called
himself Imperator. Moses wrote his lessons down until 1878, and had them published as Spirit
Writings, in 1883.
Reading these lessons today, anyone who has had the benefit of the Urantia Book’s teachings would
conclude, with but a few exceptions, that Imperator was preparing a revelatory statement of
considerable scope. His exhortations to train Moses cover most of the material written in the
publication of his book, and through them we may see what Imperator’s revelation would contain.
The 1870's text does not have sections on universe cosmology beyond the local universe, although
Imperator’s scope appears to be somewhere between Part III of the present-day Urantia Papers
(History Of Urantia) and perhaps some of Part IV, ''The Life and Teachings of Jesus''.
Upon asking under what authority the revelators worked with him, Moses received this answer
concerning who instigated the work, and who saw to its progress:
<blockquote>“You understand aright. I have before told you that I was myself the recipient of influence from a spirit
who had passed beyond the spheres of work into the higher heaven of contemplation. That Spirit is the
Spirit of Jesus. He is now arranging His plans for the gathering in of His people; for further revelation
of Truth, as well as for the purging away of the years of error which have passed. He chooses His
messengers in the spheres, and allows us to select our instruments. He is the head of this new
endeavour.”[from Imperator to Stainton Moses; C.1878]</blockquote>
<blockquote>More Spirit Teachings, (the second volume published circa 1888) Stainton Moses (writings in this work often
were taken from earlier transcriptions not included in the 1883 work, Spirit Teachings.)</blockquote>
Imperator warned Moses that the work they were undertaking could be threatened if he, Moses, did
not take the warnings seriously to avoid contacts outside of the present circle of his spiritual friends.
Because he did not completely heed these warning, this and other concerns led to breaking the
contact with Imperator after 1880. Imperator warned Moses in 1874 that . . .
<blockquote>“Powerful agencies are even now at work, as we are assured, who will seize every opportunity of
developing mediums through which phenomena the most startling may be produced, so as to convince
the inquirers of supernatural power so called. This done, the rest is easy. By degrees trick and fraud
are allowed to creep in, the moral teachings are allowed to appear in their true light, doubt is
insinuated, and the uncertainty and suspicion which have become the fixed attitude of the mind
regarding phenomena which at first seemed so surely spiritual, gradually extend to all manifestations
and teachings.”(March 15, 1874 Section 29 Spirit Teachings, Stainton Moses (1839-1892)<blockquote>
Caligastia hated Jesus. In fact, the hate was visceral to the point that if he, Caligastia, could dethrone
the proposed second coming, he would. To do this Caligastia enlisted the aid of Lucifer to help him
destroy the reputation of the ethnic group Jesus was found to take origin in on Urantia, namely the
Jews. Among the Palestinians of that day were those who remembered the story of Jesus as he had
appeared in the so-called Holy Land, and that they had become heir to the narratives that had
appeared in the Gospels giving rise to the Christian New Testament. Because the Palestinians held
Jesus so highly, Caligastia enlisted the aid of Lucifer to poison their homeland by insisting that the
Imperial Power known as the English Empire, be instructed to follow their own wishes and return
Palestine to the Jews when it was possible to do so. In this event, the Palestinians would become
enraged at having their homeland stolen from under their feet by Jewish settlers who had no more
power to arrange such a possibility without the help of the powerful Caligastia who wanted to
confuse and anger the people.
Caligastia then proposed to Lucifer that there should be at least three more reasons for the Jews to
be castigated or eliminated to take revenge on the bestowal’s Son’s heritage as King of the Jews.
In this proposal, Caligastia asked Lucifer to find a place to introduce the codes of life in such a way
that the benefit of Jewish culture to the world could not be recognized and that the idea of a
monolithic kingdom of God go no further than recognizing Lucifer as God. The mind sustaining
grid was to carry those philosophies created to sustain Lucifer forever on the apostate worlds of
Satania and on the planet in particular called Urantia.
Caligastia subscribed to the idea of divide and conqueror. He divided the Christians from the Jews
and the Arabs from the Christians in order to confuse the spiritual circumstances with the nation
states. All of this was to betray the heart of man to withhold it from the savior of the planet. The
Satania rebellion was still being spread during the 18th and 19th century rise of nationalism and the
industrial revolution which funded the narrow aspirations of nation states that played right into the
hands of the rebels. The old statement about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread was exactly
the situation man concocted by his enthusiastic orgy of material gain without material replenishment
and spiritual wisdom.
Imperator knew that Stainton Moses, an actual candidate for the recovery of revelation from the
hands of Caligastia and the team he had assembled to re-write the spiritual history of Urantia, knew
nothing of the dangers waiting to trap the promising Reverend who had the fortitude to do what
Imperator requested. If Imperator allowed it, however, Caligastia’s plans would subvert these
attempts and the machinery would be put into place by the rebel Son to put a stop to the Nebadon
government from asserting regency over Urantia. The Caligastian scheme sought to cause the mortal
population to rise up against any attempt to teach them the truth of universe life and the cosmology
of ascension and its spiritual rewards. Caligastia and Lucifer determined that the hardest thing to
every reverse was a popular consensus that anything the Sovereign Son did would be considered an
invasion of the popular will and be resisted to death.
The presence of Caligastia on Urantia presented special problems of security for the proposed
revelations this early in the game. Special precautions had to be taken while serious safe-guards
were erected to protect and thereby avoid having the medium overwhelmed by the agents of the
rebellion. The celestial group surrounding the transmitter, Stainton Moses, was composed of forty-
nine individuals in seven circles of seven individuals each; each circle, collectively, having a task
of guarding each of the seven circuits required to complete the transactions of providing information
and maintaining spiritual stability of presence with Moses.
The spiritual contact to the transmitter was usually Imperator, but others, namely Rector, second in
command, could fill in when Imperator was not available for the session. Both Imperator and Rector
were pseudonyms for well-known spiritual achievers who had completed their life times on Urantia
and had been tapped by the Michael government to return to Urantia in search of suitable candidates
to prepare for the fifth epochal revelation.
Above Imperator was an even higher level of coordination that reached back to Christ Michael
(Jesus) under whose authority the 1872-1878 disclosures were made to Moses. When Moses began
to fail at his task (mostly and alarmingly through disinterest, and not unlike the disinterest displayed
by the famous Sleeping Subject of Urantia Book production) to help Imperator provide a new
revelation, the spokesman for the group of forty-nine revelators reminded Moses that not all of
everything depended on him because,
<blockquote>“In America, the land from which dates this movement in your days, there are many who have been
so far developed as to lead a dual life, and to hold face to face intercourse with us. We have even now
a band of workers there who are achieving results which we cannot command here through
faithlessness of mind, materiality of interests, and even grossness of atmospheric surroundings. It is
not with our work as with your mundane affairs. We read the heart, and it is useless to feign interest
which you do not feel--that you would not do--or to proceed on our way while faith is lacking. . .
.”[Imperator](March 15, 1874 Section 29 Spirit Teachings, Stainton Moses)</blockquote>
We conclude there is an odd situation in some of this arrangement described above in spite of
Imperator's careful truthfulness with Moses. First, there is no mention of the chain of command by
Imperator of Urantia’s government supporting him, and of the twelve receivers (Melchizedeks) we
know were on the planet at the same time the group of forty-nine was working with Moses. Maybe
no such direct link was necessary at the stage Imperator reached in validating his use of Moses, but
subsequent to the work in England, Imperator still does not mention them in 1895 when he had a
chance to do so working under a new medium in Boston (Mrs. Piper).
Could we say that the direct inclusion of the Melchizedeks at this moment with Imperator was not
part of the revelatory plans at the time? The fact that our planet had no chief administrator in place
except the receivers was complicated by the situation that it was the absent Jesus who was given the
official designation to fill the office of Planetary Prince who would actually take over the reigns of
the deposed Caligastia, may have made mention of the Melchizedek intervention moot. The only
thing we know for sure is that the planetary government rulers were not mentioned this early, or their
role allowed to take center stage as it does today through the Machiventa Melchizedek assumption
of the Planetary Prince’s office at the behest of Michael himself to assume. In the 1870's the
captain’s role was assigned to the Council of 24 who were directly involved with Imperator to find
a suitable situation in which to make the disclosures that would be known as the Urantia Book in the
future. We may further note:
<blockquote>1) The revelation as envisioned at this time was through the auspices of The Council of 24,
which was and is Christ Michael’s organizational envoy to Urantia and which answered to
him. The Council of 24 is also Urantia’s source to provide us with a Governor General who
was selected from this body formed at Pentecost under the direct supervision of Christ
Michael(Jesus). We may rightly assume this to be correct because one of the members of the
group of the forty-nine under Imperator was John the Baptist (JTB)*, who also served as one
of Urantia’s Governor Generals during this period.*(John The Baptist is identified in a book
by Trethewy, A. W. The 'Controls' of Stainton Moses, London: 1923, 291pp. In this book
JTB was said to have worked with those Imperator had assigned as possible candidates who
could be induced to cooperate with the assignments passed out by the Council of 24 for these
purposes. Trethewy knew nothing about a so-called Council of 24, but he did note that the
presence of JTB strengthened the operation considerably. We may never know to what
extent Trethewy was actually part of the planned administration of the fifth epochal
revelation as he was completely unaware of any contact himself)</blockquote>
<blockquote>2) The keepers of earth’s safety are the twelve Melchizedek Receivers who had wide
authority to act on Urantia upon the default of Caligastia, and who in turn,
coordinated with the Council of 24 for the spiritual administration of the planet. The
Melchizedeks were not directly involved with this attempted wide-reaching revelation
in the nineteenth century, at least not then to the extent they became involved in the
early twentieth century as guardians and/or instructors of this work. The same is true
today in the same way regarding the Magisterial Mission where the Avonal Son
coordinates with the Melchizedeks but is independent of their oversight.</blockquote>
<blockquote>3) The Most Highs are involved as Imperator assigns his thanks to their ceaseless
work on his behalf. Since the Most Highs are an integral part of operations with the
Melchizedeks, much of the work of the Most Highs apparently could be exercised
through their regent and observer with The Council of 24. It is also to the Most Highs
we can likely thank most sincerely for their work to isolate Caligastia while the
Papers themselves were indicted into English and allowed to appear in the safe on
paper at the 533 Diversey residence of the Contact Commission.</blockquote>
We also have seen through the centuries, and even by the testimony of modern history, that persons
sought for the purposes of providing revelation reveal a pattern in their personal lives. We notice
these Trustees are usually highly educated in the day of their selection, and exhibit an abiding
interest in religion, metaphysics, teaching, and philosophy. Seldom are they given to trance directly
themselves, but usually begin their output through the art of automatic writing coupled with the
solemnity of meditation, and have usually proceeded through and completed the worst disruptions
of soul growth leading them to live respectable lives with settled dispositions. Not all interested
individuals could possibly meet all of these requirements, but in the main, such qualities are sought
by celestial review and are mortals who are probably already sponsored to serve in the Reserve Corps
of Destiny.
We can not see by their direct behavior of these Trustees that such individuals selected for
mediumship are all going to work out. The Urantia Book speaks to these other qualifications for
more advanced standing that are essentially spiritual and unrevealed to the eye. Today’s Teaching
Mission transmitters generally meet these criteria for service: They exhibit the self-control which
allows the message to be transmitted without sub-conscious additions; plus a conscious intention to
want to have these contacts; to desire to know the Father in heaven; to feel some degree of
brotherhood and service to mankind; to have gained certain mastery of the self enough so that they
are assigned a pair of destiny guardians to them alone; and to have had some degree of
communication with the Indwelling Spirit in the mind area of what Freud calls the super-conscious.
It will be confusing to understand that transmitting-receiving and the ability to do it in the Teaching
Mission is not usually associated with what is popularly called being “psychic”. Rather, the
communication circuits required to transmit are supplied exclusively to the work of the Correcting
Time in general, and to the Teaching Mission specifically. This is one reason that we make a
distinction between transmitting-receiving and channel even though a listener could not usually tell
the difference. Because of the training associated with a Reserve Corp, human personality in
addition to the encircuitment of the energy field used by the Correcting Time, errors, while they do
happen, are greatly reduced.
The Indwelling controls permissions in and out of the mind for any spiritual contacts in the Teaching
Mission and otherwise. Knowing these details comes to us thanks to the Urantia revelation. From
this list we may rightly surmise that an individual such as Stainton Moses had an extraordinary and
settled encircuitment with the spiritual beings he was in contact with, but like so many even today,
he treated lightly the responsibility to behave in a manner which permitted serious work to conclude
before it had really begun. Moses was ignorant of the cause that would shake the world to its
foundations in a few short years.
We do note that Stainton Moses, who was born in England, was a Rector at Maughold and later as
Curator, in the spring of 1868, of St George's, Douglas, Isle of Man. At the time (1870's and 80's)
of these communications he was fulfilling his appointment as English Master in University College
School, which position he held until 1889, (see Forward, Spirit Teachings). These positions, except
for the last, were all associated with the Church of England in some way, and in particular, reflected
the great interest in Biblical re-examination during the Victorian revival in religious studies. This
background, together with what else was available, are the right chemical and genetic dispositions
to form the pattern we described, and they are the evidence of good standing of the person Stainton
Moses was as a recruit for the work.
In part it may be assumed that Christ Michael’s testing of the revelatory waters of man’s interest as
they existed on Urantia was rightly conditioned by the age, and by the circumstances through which
truth had to be communicated. In the person of Stainton Moses, he was usually insisting on proofs
that were literal which was typical of the mind set of most in his day, and he was just as concerned
about the social repercussions on him of this kind of work. His choice to invite people interested
in séances and personal communication with their departed relatives through the spirit world brought
warnings from the group of forty-nine, especially Imperator, that he should desist for reasons of this
project, security, and his own health. Even today there is a ban in place– enforced by the celestial
educational corps– of not permitting this kind of activity to develop although it has been asked for
quite frequently. Stainton was of the opinion that he had to use his talents publically in order to
maintain a reputation as well as earn a living that could substantially see him through his worst fears
of succumbing to England’s Poorhouse. Only Imperator knew the danger well enough to assign
more than one pair of seraphim to guard the right-minded but short-sighted Moses.
The First Revelatory Commission which later replaced this nineteenth century arrangement to test
and produce an outline of revelatory material to later be presented in a much greater volume as the
Urantia Book, did not yet exist during Imperator’s time with Moses. It was not until 1895 that the
Commission had arranged to meet and become active on Urantia in order to obtain a set of working
rules with mortals who could do the work. By then, Moses had died in 1892 because of injuries
suffered in a freak accident. We think it may be at least partially correct to suggest that these
attempts at bringing the world a new revelation ran into strong headwinds. Imperator could have
used the buttress that the First Revelatory Commission would have given him, but more than the lack
of a commission began to take the toll on the work to be done. And it was in 1895 that Imperator
was reassigned to the United States to leave the plans for the English revelation behind.
In 1870 the Franco-Prussian War occurred and Germany (Prussia) occupied France. France was an
ally of England, and the Prussian demonstration of military might frankly shook John Bull to his
roots and hence the rush into formulating protective alliances in case of war against the Kaiser
erupted. It was also in 1870 that the first Vatican Council promulgated the dogma of Papal
infallibility. Now a mere mortal as Pope could out maneuver the revelations of a Christ if he so
choose and be sanctioned by the authority of his office that had long become moribund in its exercise
and hardly enlightened enough to pronounce the truth in absolute terms. This was true in Roman
Catholicism and it was true in its way in the society of the Empires of Russia and most of the
civilized western society, except in the rough and tumble United States. Europe had become a
crystalized society enforced by the social mores of the Victorian era and the domination of the
government by the Tories who had no love of the lower classes. Elsewhere in Europe there still
ruled the feudal practices of a millennium ago.
As the last part of the nineteenth century passed, more and bigger wars between the European States
loomed that would also involve Turkey, Russia, and war even arose in their colonies as the
competing European powers sought to outstrip each other in all classes of development. General
world war was portending and no one knew quite how to stop it before it became too late. All the
while, Caligastia and his supporters were making it as difficult as they could for the Michael
government to bring change to Urantia and eradicate the remaining reminders of the greatest blunder
Urantia ever suffered. Consequently, the work of revelation was once more interrupted and it was
pulled up by its roots and transplanted across the Atlantic. What could have been prepared on
English soil no longer was considered possible or safe. The entire enterprise fled the European
continent and headed for America, taking with it a complete change in scope to prepare Urantia for
a new dispensation.
*DIVINE PREPARATION IN AMERICA FOR EPOCHAL REVELATION
In 1878 Imperator wanted to prepare a new revelation, and twenty-two years later, Jesus himself
alluded to it becoming a reality to his student, when he said that even the Bible was going to be
surpassed by new truth. The Bible, he remarked in 1910, had inspired men, but God has greater
things in mind to inspire their thoughts:
<blockquote>“The Bible has become to you THE Book, but I would also have you know that God has inspired men
and women with power to reveal, in our own time, even greater things, and ever fresh unfoldings from
the heart of life. Above all things, we want you to have the open visions today, for greater things are
coming, and God is doing wonders among you. Rejoice in the new revelation, abounding in hope.
The new will reveal the old to you afresh. Have no doubts. Launch out into the deeps of God, and
fear not.”(First Edition 1910 Christ In You “by Anonymous” New York 1919 Printed USA. This work
is beautiful and timeless.)</blockquote>
By 1905 we also have a new cast of characters to learn and who have to be taught to receive and
formulate what would become a revelation of epochal dimensions. In addition to an all new cast that
was assembled to receive the revelation, there was also a demotion of importance of the
compromised efforts at spiritual contact through the practice of spiritualism and the stand-alone
medium. While this practice continues in a great many instances through the rest of the twentieth
century, the quality of the work begins to suffer, and the tradesmen of the day search for ways to
make profits out of the process. What had been a proving ground for the universe personnel
associated with promoting revelation on Urantia, was now viewed as undependable and erratic by
those in science and in the medical field.
Names made well known to us after the publication of the Urantia Book are part of recorded history.
But there are also unknown or hardly known people that worked in the process of revelation begun
in Chicago. Many of these unsung heroes who brought us the Urantia Book without knowing what
they were working toward probably came from association within the wonderful educational effort
in America that appeared a little after the turn of the twentieth century.
In fact, it is here in the touring lectures and tent classrooms of the Redpath Chautauqua that God saw
to it that the main personality ingredients would naturally meet and mix together. Chicago was the
meeting place of those coming from the east and those traveling from the west to begin their lives
of investigation, show biz, and commerce depending on their choices, and who would meet to
produce the enigmatic fifth epochal revelation. One, a Dr. Sadler, became the mortal leader for a
project that which would impart sweeping new truths, and it began in his office located in a Chicago
mansion.
The person who would be in charge of the future publishing of the Urantia Book worked as a
Chicago psychiatrist, with his physician wife, Dr. Lena Sadler (Kellogg). In addition to their
professional duties, they volunteered to lecture across America about health and hygiene. A keen
observer of the circuit enjoyed the Sadlers on stage and recounted what they brought to the audiences
of those days before radio.
<blockquote>“In the same period [circa 1911] were the two Doctors Sadler, apostles in new dress of the old theme of
individual improvement. Dr. William Sadler was a psychiatrist. Fortunately for Chautauqua, he respected the
germ theory as much as he did Freud; it was he who, after one startling experience with the "Chautauqua
salute,"** drove it [the Chautauqua salute] out of business. His wife, Dr. Lena Sadler, was a Chicago
gynecologist who had successfully beaten down the prejudice against women doctors. She was an active club
woman, too, and the pair made a very presentable team. (1)</blockquote>
<blockquote>(1)[Text Footnote] Taking a registered nurse with them, the couple [the Sadlers] offered a choice of one to
three-day programs, with the further innovation of a medical round table. Dr. William discussed worry and selfmastery,
which to the folks in front meant the old, inspiring refrain, "How to Be Happy." Dr. Lena talked about
the care of children and mothers.</blockquote>
<blockquote>(Culture under Canvas: The Story of Tent Chautauqua; Harry P. Harrison as Told to Karl Detzer, Hastings
House, Publishers, New York , 1958, P182.)</blockquote>
<blockquote>The Chautauqua salute offended the writer of a letter-to-the-editor received at the New York Times,
and published on October 25, 1904, which in part read: “Recent large political meetings have
impressed me with one fact– namely, that the so-called “Chautauqua salute”– the waving of
handkerchiefs– ought to be suppressed. It is a menace to the health of the public. . . .”</blockquote>
Then we must consider the mysterious Harry J. Loose. He too appeared on the Redpath Chautauqua
circuit in 1917 to lecture, but he was already familiar with the Sadlers because he became a patient
of theirs about the year 1914. His teaching specialty was about crime and his work as a detective
and policeman. He was also a home-made psychic which he hid from all except Dr. Sadler. In the
line of duty, he had been shot and may have suffered the event as an emotional trauma which caused
him considerable mental distress. What is of particular interest with this individual is his
preliminary association with what would be the basis for the first 31 Papers of the proposed Urantia
text.
The hint that such was his to witness would become a great work of revelation is given in his own
words in a letter to Harold Sherman, a friend, screen writer, and fellow believer in the production
of the revelation in Chicago. Loose tells Sherman that he knew about the proposal to begin work
as far back as 1906. In frequent references to the Urantia Book by Loose in the published Sherman
Diaries, we can read of his secret contributions which ended by 1934 when he left the Sadler group
of human reviewers and advisors called the Forum.
<blockquote>“Remember to watch for a tremendous book which will be published in about two years. It has been
now thirty-five years in the building. It is not mine but I had something to do with it. You will
recognize it when it appears. It will be world shocking.” (Harry Loose Letter to Harold Sherman,
February 04, 1941, The Sherman Diaries, Vol I, Compiled and Edited by Saskia Praamsma with
Matthew Block, Square Circles Publishing, California, Page 100.)</blockquote>
There remains credible evidence that the celestial revelators maintained speech contact with those
who helped bring the revelation forth well passed the initial experiences with the “Sleeping Subject.”
In particular, Harry Loose often said he received instructions, and in several letters like this, he
mentions the supernatural control in the following fashion.
<blockquote>“I must leave this letter unfinished and send as it is. I have just received instructions to cease my
writing and to report. I do not know if this means a complete and permanent quittal [sic] or not . . .
. Have you violated confidence in anyway?” (Ibid, April 20, 1941, p 219)</blockquote>
Harry’s claims to hear (clairaudient) and visit (remote locating) at a distance along with other
phenomena we are familiar with today. There are mortals, for lack of a better term, who
are“specialists” and who have developed audible methods of thought transference and physical
projection. Sherman dabbled in this with Sir Hubert Wilkins and it was a subject of mutual interest
and discussion between all three men. Loose may have been part of a spiritual network known only
to the Thought Adjusters who coordinated with the high universe commissions to visit the physical
mediums for assignments without causing a lot of notice. In any case, we think it is fair to suspect
that Loose, Sadler, Wilkins, and a man known as Howard Thurston (associated with the Chicago
Cubs and a world-famous magician), knew Mrs. Blake of Omaha, Nebraska, and a few more, who
all were likely part of the secret conspiracy to bring about the greatest revelation since the birth of
Jesus. We do not know the specific details of assignment, but they are the likely candidates
assembled by the Adjusters with the help of the Council of 24.
Audible contact (inside and outside) as mentioned with those charged to assist revelatory expansions
are usually done as described when so much must be taken into consideration and the urgency of the
task well known. In this case it may be that the only way to be sure that the work proceed as planned
would be to charge everyone with a secrecy oath and then begin the process to open up the means
to move material from the Orvonton Revelatory Commission of 24, which was composed of high
spiritual beings assigned for this purpose by the Ancients of Days. (See Page 354 of The Urantia
Book for a description).
What obviously did not work in previous attempts to provide new information was to place the
medium/receiver as both the instrument and the manager on the physical side of the transaction.
That leads to problems of control especially when the control is left to the mortal. In the Urantia
revelation, the mortal instrument was completely controlled and managed and the managerial tasks
assigned to Dr. Sadler.
Someone, however, in the higher up hierarchy cut through all the red tape to start over with the new
way of doing things. In the old process the dual roles with mediums was changed and the practice
established to assign the receiver a passive role with no chance to interfere with transmissions once
agreeing to being used for higher purposes. This agreement may not even be spoken between the
subject and the Adjuster, but thanks to years of contact and training by the Adjuster in the mortal
life, the agreement does allow the Indwelling Monitor to accurately determine the attitude of the
medium and his acquiescence to the process.
We do know that Howard Thurston had a passing knowledge of the Omaha-based Mrs. Blake
(through Loose). Howard Thurston was also a successful entertainment businessman who worked
for about a year with the Chicago Cubs (1907), by bringing them back into prominence after the
huge White Sox scandal of 1906 where the championship was thrown for money by the Sox. While
there, did Thurston invest with the Chicago Board of Trade by trading in farm commodities? We
think it is entirely possible, for in the era of tycoons, Thurston was an opportunist like most and who
saw opportunity in rising markets. This would suggest that there is a fourth player we have
overlooked who was informed and ready to assist Thurston in his special money making projects
as well as his particular interest in spiritualism. The year would be 1907 and we can suspect that
there was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade who knew all about Thurston and spiritualism
since Thurston himself was a convert in Europe and had studied at the Dwight L. Moody Bible
Institute, intending to become a Unitarian missionary before he became a magician. Thurston was
civic minded and this may have been the link through which Thurston met the influential and
businessmen of the day. His conversion to accepting spiritualism as it was practiced in that day is
known to have taken place in the salon of Madame Eusapia Palladino where he witnessed without
trickery, he said, her ability to manifest many amazing feats. Like Houdini (whom he knew and
worked with in 1892), Thurston disliked the fake spiritualists and sought to root them out by
exposing them in the middle of one of their tricks.
Harry Loose was also a Chicago associate with Dr. Sadler and they may have compared notes about
Thurston and Blake on several occasions. All in all there is a sense of collusion about all of these
interests, meetings, and circumstances among the principles surrounding the revelation before it was
established within the Contact Commission in the offices of Dr. Sadler. The Sleeping Subject was
probably a mutual acquaintance of Sadler and perhaps a member or two of the Forum, and not
unknown to Thurston and Loose since Loose was attending the Doctor’s meetings in the early days.
That Thurston may have been involved with the Sleeping Subject is tentative, but placing him there
in 1907 also made him available for the chance meeting with him through other and innocent
activities such as requiring the services of a broker or official for investments.
The Sleeping Subject, a descriptive pseudonym for an individual all were sworn by Machiventa
Melchizedek to never name, was placed into a natural sleep by the indwelling Thought Adjuster
which directly bypassed the material personality with information the Urantia Book would be based
upon. Thus we see the first known use of a clear channel that can obviate the personality bias by
avoiding passing data through the medium's personality. We find that the behavior of the Sleeping
Subject is not unlike Stainton Moses in one respect in that they both evinced little interest in the
process, and were used frequently as passive and inattentive transformers to the actual work.
No human after the fact will easily understand how these complex relationships insured the Urantia
Books production except to note that the text’s usages and conceptual limits were determined after
the fact of Forum review and Dr. Sadler’s insistence that all comprehend he was in charge and would
brook no opposition to his dedication to finish what he was asked to do.
The secrecy oaths were a factor in bringing the whole enterprise into completion several years before
the revelators thought they could finish. The celestial plan for the book was originally envisioned
to be finished before 1945, but not before 1930 [a Loose comment]. Meanwhile, no one knew, on
either side of the veil, how to predict the blessings of time and spirit that came together into liaison
with the Universal Father and the ministry of the Thought Adjusters that would result in the finest
revelation Urantia had ever received.
Indeed, the universe however briefly, poured revelation directly over the land Chicago was built
upon and into the mortal vessels who would serve the rest of mankind through publication. The
revelators drew upon the resources of Paradise itself to complete the work that shall inspire Urantia
for centuries to come. All who worked directly in the arms of Jesus to bring the daily routines of
publication to fruition are gone now, but they deserve our heartfelt thanks and devotion to the work
they achieved through the turmoil of world war and the ideological struggles that followed it.
*ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
'''-ANONYMOUS, CHRIST IN YOU, PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK, (1910, 1919, 224 PP)'''
<blockquote>Earlier published in London, 1910. The referenced text is from the 1910 first
edition. This is a beautiful work and as timely today as the day it was transcribed.
The text may be read on line at <http://www.spiritwritings.com/christinyou.pdf></blockquote>
'''-DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN, THE NEW REVELATION, GEORGE H DORAN, NEW YORK, (1918).'''
<blockquote>The text may be accessed on line at -
<http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/nrvln10.txt>
Doyle does not quite understand what the “new revelation” is, but he is
convinced, that such a disclosure is being prepared. Because of Doyle’s wide
knowledge of the spiritualist movement, and his direct participation with many of
the subjects, the book is useful for the reader to gain a feel for what is happening
(1918) and, by its tone, hopeful signs that something wonderful is about to happen
with the participation of spirit on earth.</blockquote>
-HARRISON, HARRY P., CULTURE UNDER CANVAS: THE STORY OF TENT CHAUTAUQUA; AS
TOLD
TO KARL DETZER, HASTINGS HOUSE, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK , (1958) (ISBN:
9780313203800)
Anecdotes of the author who was one of the pioneers in the Tent Chautauqua with
some 30 years in various management capacities.
-MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON, MORE SPIRIT TEACHINGS, LONDON (1889, 124 PP).
1952 REPRINT SPIRITUALIST PRESS, LONDON, 1952.
It is this text which discusses permissions for the then active attempt to reveal
additional information for the proposed revelation Much of what did not get into
Spirit Teachings made it into this volume which also contains more information
about Stainton himself.
-MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (1839-1892), SPIRIT TEACHINGS, LONDON, (1883, 291 PP).
1976 REPRINT, SPIRITUALIST PRESS, ISBN: 0854370099 / 0-85437-009-9)
This work contains the bulk of the Imperator teachings and a major source for
tracing the attempt to provide Urantia a major revelation before the turn of the last
century. Because it is a text that was copied from his journals during the 1870's,
dating sometimes becomes a little haphazard and there is no good chronology to
depend on except when Moses actually dates an entry. It is a priceless inside look
at the workings of a celestial revelatory commission.
-NEW YORK TIMES THE, ARCHIVE STACKS 1904-1912.
The reader may access the archives on line at -
<http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html>. The archives
helped to ascertain location dates in public news stories around Harry Loose (d.
1943) and Howard Thurston (d. 1936), both known to be in Chicago at least in
1906 and perhaps intermittently until 1912. Thurston arrived from Europe to
New York in 1906, and consulted with Sadler sometime between 1906 and 1908,
then becoming associated with the baseball club, the Chicago Cubs, during the
period.
-SHERMAN DIARIES THE, VOL I OF FIVE VOLUMES; COMPILED AND EDITED BY SASKIA
PRAAMSMA WITH MATTHEW BLOCK, SQUARE CIRCLES PUBLISHING,
CALIFORNIA, 2002.
This volume is especially helpful in focusing on the whereabouts, and possible
contributions of Harry Loose, a mysterious confidant and patient of Dr. Sadler,
during the initial Sleeping Subject contact. Mr. Sherman met Loose and had
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frequent correspondence with him from which we learn more about the early
period of the production of The URANTIA Book, and coincidentally a degree of
Loose’s own participation in the work.
-TRETHEWY, A. W., THE 'CONTROLS' OF STAINTON MOSES, LONDON: (1923, 291PP).
Trethewy was a well known botanist, British Museum, who took an interest in W.
Stainton Moses’ work as a medium and sought to document his work underlining
the high moral character of the teachings. He particularly disliked fakes and
cheaters and liked Moses because he considered him to be above reproach,
completely reliable, and dependable in the forwarding of messages from
Imperator, the Moses control. It is in this volume that Trethewy discusses the real
personages behind the pseudonyms of the spiritual entities around Moses.
Trethewy corroborated his findings through others besides what he had
investigated himself providing today’s historians more than the usual reliability in
many of these findings.
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===Lesson===
The Urantia Book is heir to a rich tradition of human thought and divine teachings when it comes
to aid with the mysterious and timeless spiritual process of revelation. The traditions and efforts
through which revelation appears is older then man on earth, but all men on many earths experience
much as we do, such is the yearning of the human soul wherever it takes origin. We are no different
in our need for some justification of our existence; or, conversely, feel we need an ear about how
unfairly pressed we are by the terms of our material existence. The roots from which we partake our
spiritual guidance are ancient, surprising, and drive deeply in the evolutionary soils to find the
wellspring of divine nourishment to give to man.
The roots of living revelation can be traced back centuries on our world, and in particular, the fifth
epochal revelation was more than just a seed in the Victorian Age. It was taking shape through the
processes used then, but modified and transfigured as the times today required for the modern mind
to hear it well. Man seeks the superior knowledge of God, and even though he may fail the tests of
time to receive it sometimes, the spiritual pressure to enlighten eventually brings an epochal
disclosure for all to hear.
Beginning in the England of 1870, lived the 31 year old Stainton Moses already a gifted medium,
who became a student of a high quality revelation under the guidance of the mentor who called
himself Imperator. Moses wrote his lessons down until 1878, and had them published as Spirit
Writings, in 1883.
Reading these lessons today, anyone who has had the benefit of the Urantia Book’s teachings would
conclude, with but a few exceptions, that Imperator was preparing a revelatory statement of
considerable scope. His exhortations to train Moses cover most of the material written in the
publication of his book, and through them we may see what Imperator’s revelation would contain.
The 1870's text does not have sections on universe cosmology beyond the local universe, although
Imperator’s scope appears to be somewhere between Part III of the present-day Urantia Papers
(History Of Urantia) and perhaps some of Part IV, ''The Life and Teachings of Jesus''.
Upon asking under what authority the revelators worked with him, Moses received this answer
concerning who instigated the work, and who saw to its progress:
<blockquote>“You understand aright. I have before told you that I was myself the recipient of influence from a spirit
who had passed beyond the spheres of work into the higher heaven of contemplation. That Spirit is the
Spirit of Jesus. He is now arranging His plans for the gathering in of His people; for further revelation
of Truth, as well as for the purging away of the years of error which have passed. He chooses His
messengers in the spheres, and allows us to select our instruments. He is the head of this new
endeavour.”[from Imperator to Stainton Moses; C.1878]</blockquote>
<blockquote>More Spirit Teachings, (the second volume published circa 1888) Stainton Moses (writings in this work often
were taken from earlier transcriptions not included in the 1883 work, Spirit Teachings.)</blockquote>
Imperator warned Moses that the work they were undertaking could be threatened if he, Moses, did
not take the warnings seriously to avoid contacts outside of the present circle of his spiritual friends.
Because he did not completely heed these warning, this and other concerns led to breaking the
contact with Imperator after 1880. Imperator warned Moses in 1874 that . . .
<blockquote>“Powerful agencies are even now at work, as we are assured, who will seize every opportunity of
developing mediums through which phenomena the most startling may be produced, so as to convince
the inquirers of supernatural power so called. This done, the rest is easy. By degrees trick and fraud
are allowed to creep in, the moral teachings are allowed to appear in their true light, doubt is
insinuated, and the uncertainty and suspicion which have become the fixed attitude of the mind
regarding phenomena which at first seemed so surely spiritual, gradually extend to all manifestations
and teachings.”(March 15, 1874 Section 29 Spirit Teachings, Stainton Moses (1839-1892)<blockquote>
Caligastia hated Jesus. In fact, the hate was visceral to the point that if he, Caligastia, could dethrone
the proposed second coming, he would. To do this Caligastia enlisted the aid of Lucifer to help him
destroy the reputation of the ethnic group Jesus was found to take origin in on Urantia, namely the
Jews. Among the Palestinians of that day were those who remembered the story of Jesus as he had
appeared in the so-called Holy Land, and that they had become heir to the narratives that had
appeared in the Gospels giving rise to the Christian New Testament. Because the Palestinians held
Jesus so highly, Caligastia enlisted the aid of Lucifer to poison their homeland by insisting that the
Imperial Power known as the English Empire, be instructed to follow their own wishes and return
Palestine to the Jews when it was possible to do so. In this event, the Palestinians would become
enraged at having their homeland stolen from under their feet by Jewish settlers who had no more
power to arrange such a possibility without the help of the powerful Caligastia who wanted to
confuse and anger the people.
Caligastia then proposed to Lucifer that there should be at least three more reasons for the Jews to
be castigated or eliminated to take revenge on the bestowal’s Son’s heritage as King of the Jews.
In this proposal, Caligastia asked Lucifer to find a place to introduce the codes of life in such a way
that the benefit of Jewish culture to the world could not be recognized and that the idea of a
monolithic kingdom of God go no further than recognizing Lucifer as God. The mind sustaining
grid was to carry those philosophies created to sustain Lucifer forever on the apostate worlds of
Satania and on the planet in particular called Urantia.
Caligastia subscribed to the idea of divide and conqueror. He divided the Christians from the Jews
and the Arabs from the Christians in order to confuse the spiritual circumstances with the nation
states. All of this was to betray the heart of man to withhold it from the savior of the planet. The
Satania rebellion was still being spread during the 18th and 19th century rise of nationalism and the
industrial revolution which funded the narrow aspirations of nation states that played right into the
hands of the rebels. The old statement about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread was exactly
the situation man concocted by his enthusiastic orgy of material gain without material replenishment
and spiritual wisdom.
Imperator knew that Stainton Moses, an actual candidate for the recovery of revelation from the
hands of Caligastia and the team he had assembled to re-write the spiritual history of Urantia, knew
nothing of the dangers waiting to trap the promising Reverend who had the fortitude to do what
Imperator requested. If Imperator allowed it, however, Caligastia’s plans would subvert these
attempts and the machinery would be put into place by the rebel Son to put a stop to the Nebadon
government from asserting regency over Urantia. The Caligastian scheme sought to cause the mortal
population to rise up against any attempt to teach them the truth of universe life and the cosmology
of ascension and its spiritual rewards. Caligastia and Lucifer determined that the hardest thing to
every reverse was a popular consensus that anything the Sovereign Son did would be considered an
invasion of the popular will and be resisted to death.
The presence of Caligastia on Urantia presented special problems of security for the proposed
revelations this early in the game. Special precautions had to be taken while serious safe-guards
were erected to protect and thereby avoid having the medium overwhelmed by the agents of the
rebellion. The celestial group surrounding the transmitter, Stainton Moses, was composed of forty-
nine individuals in seven circles of seven individuals each; each circle, collectively, having a task
of guarding each of the seven circuits required to complete the transactions of providing information
and maintaining spiritual stability of presence with Moses.
The spiritual contact to the transmitter was usually Imperator, but others, namely Rector, second in
command, could fill in when Imperator was not available for the session. Both Imperator and Rector
were pseudonyms for well-known spiritual achievers who had completed their life times on Urantia
and had been tapped by the Michael government to return to Urantia in search of suitable candidates
to prepare for the fifth epochal revelation.
Above Imperator was an even higher level of coordination that reached back to Christ Michael
(Jesus) under whose authority the 1872-1878 disclosures were made to Moses. When Moses began
to fail at his task (mostly and alarmingly through disinterest, and not unlike the disinterest displayed
by the famous Sleeping Subject of Urantia Book production) to help Imperator provide a new
revelation, the spokesman for the group of forty-nine revelators reminded Moses that not all of
everything depended on him because,
<blockquote>“In America, the land from which dates this movement in your days, there are many who have been
so far developed as to lead a dual life, and to hold face to face intercourse with us. We have even now
a band of workers there who are achieving results which we cannot command here through
faithlessness of mind, materiality of interests, and even grossness of atmospheric surroundings. It is
not with our work as with your mundane affairs. We read the heart, and it is useless to feign interest
which you do not feel--that you would not do--or to proceed on our way while faith is lacking. . .
.”[Imperator](March 15, 1874 Section 29 Spirit Teachings, Stainton Moses)</blockquote>
We conclude there is an odd situation in some of this arrangement described above in spite of
Imperator's careful truthfulness with Moses. First, there is no mention of the chain of command by
Imperator of Urantia’s government supporting him, and of the twelve receivers (Melchizedeks) we
know were on the planet at the same time the group of forty-nine was working with Moses. Maybe
no such direct link was necessary at the stage Imperator reached in validating his use of Moses, but
subsequent to the work in England, Imperator still does not mention them in 1895 when he had a
chance to do so working under a new medium in Boston (Mrs. Piper).
Could we say that the direct inclusion of the Melchizedeks at this moment with Imperator was not
part of the revelatory plans at the time? The fact that our planet had no chief administrator in place
except the receivers was complicated by the situation that it was the absent Jesus who was given the
official designation to fill the office of Planetary Prince who would actually take over the reigns of
the deposed Caligastia, may have made mention of the Melchizedek intervention moot. The only
thing we know for sure is that the planetary government rulers were not mentioned this early, or their
role allowed to take center stage as it does today through the Machiventa Melchizedek assumption
of the Planetary Prince’s office at the behest of Michael himself to assume. In the 1870's the
captain’s role was assigned to the Council of 24 who were directly involved with Imperator to find
a suitable situation in which to make the disclosures that would be known as the Urantia Book in the
future. We may further note:
<blockquote>1) The revelation as envisioned at this time was through the auspices of The Council of 24,
which was and is Christ Michael’s organizational envoy to Urantia and which answered to
him. The Council of 24 is also Urantia’s source to provide us with a Governor General who
was selected from this body formed at Pentecost under the direct supervision of Christ
Michael(Jesus). We may rightly assume this to be correct because one of the members of the
group of the forty-nine under Imperator was John the Baptist (JTB)*, who also served as one
of Urantia’s Governor Generals during this period.*(John The Baptist is identified in a book
by Trethewy, A. W. The 'Controls' of Stainton Moses, London: 1923, 291pp. In this book
JTB was said to have worked with those Imperator had assigned as possible candidates who
could be induced to cooperate with the assignments passed out by the Council of 24 for these
purposes. Trethewy knew nothing about a so-called Council of 24, but he did note that the
presence of JTB strengthened the operation considerably. We may never know to what
extent Trethewy was actually part of the planned administration of the fifth epochal
revelation as he was completely unaware of any contact himself)</blockquote>
<blockquote>2) The keepers of earth’s safety are the twelve Melchizedek Receivers who had wide
authority to act on Urantia upon the default of Caligastia, and who in turn,
coordinated with the Council of 24 for the spiritual administration of the planet. The
Melchizedeks were not directly involved with this attempted wide-reaching revelation
in the nineteenth century, at least not then to the extent they became involved in the
early twentieth century as guardians and/or instructors of this work. The same is true
today in the same way regarding the Magisterial Mission where the Avonal Son
coordinates with the Melchizedeks but is independent of their oversight.</blockquote>
<blockquote>3) The Most Highs are involved as Imperator assigns his thanks to their ceaseless
work on his behalf. Since the Most Highs are an integral part of operations with the
Melchizedeks, much of the work of the Most Highs apparently could be exercised
through their regent and observer with The Council of 24. It is also to the Most Highs
we can likely thank most sincerely for their work to isolate Caligastia while the
Papers themselves were indicted into English and allowed to appear in the safe on
paper at the 533 Diversey residence of the Contact Commission.</blockquote>
We also have seen through the centuries, and even by the testimony of modern history, that persons
sought for the purposes of providing revelation reveal a pattern in their personal lives. We notice
these Trustees are usually highly educated in the day of their selection, and exhibit an abiding
interest in religion, metaphysics, teaching, and philosophy. Seldom are they given to trance directly
themselves, but usually begin their output through the art of automatic writing coupled with the
solemnity of meditation, and have usually proceeded through and completed the worst disruptions
of soul growth leading them to live respectable lives with settled dispositions. Not all interested
individuals could possibly meet all of these requirements, but in the main, such qualities are sought
by celestial review and are mortals who are probably already sponsored to serve in the Reserve Corps
of Destiny.
We can not see by their direct behavior of these Trustees that such individuals selected for
mediumship are all going to work out. The Urantia Book speaks to these other qualifications for
more advanced standing that are essentially spiritual and unrevealed to the eye. Today’s Teaching
Mission transmitters generally meet these criteria for service: They exhibit the self-control which
allows the message to be transmitted without sub-conscious additions; plus a conscious intention to
want to have these contacts; to desire to know the Father in heaven; to feel some degree of
brotherhood and service to mankind; to have gained certain mastery of the self enough so that they
are assigned a pair of destiny guardians to them alone; and to have had some degree of
communication with the Indwelling Spirit in the mind area of what Freud calls the super-conscious.
It will be confusing to understand that transmitting-receiving and the ability to do it in the Teaching
Mission is not usually associated with what is popularly called being “psychic”. Rather, the
communication circuits required to transmit are supplied exclusively to the work of the Correcting
Time in general, and to the Teaching Mission specifically. This is one reason that we make a
distinction between transmitting-receiving and channel even though a listener could not usually tell
the difference. Because of the training associated with a Reserve Corp, human personality in
addition to the encircuitment of the energy field used by the Correcting Time, errors, while they do
happen, are greatly reduced.
The Indwelling controls permissions in and out of the mind for any spiritual contacts in the Teaching
Mission and otherwise. Knowing these details comes to us thanks to the Urantia revelation. From
this list we may rightly surmise that an individual such as Stainton Moses had an extraordinary and
settled encircuitment with the spiritual beings he was in contact with, but like so many even today,
he treated lightly the responsibility to behave in a manner which permitted serious work to conclude
before it had really begun. Moses was ignorant of the cause that would shake the world to its
foundations in a few short years.
We do note that Stainton Moses, who was born in England, was a Rector at Maughold and later as
Curator, in the spring of 1868, of St George's, Douglas, Isle of Man. At the time (1870's and 80's)
of these communications he was fulfilling his appointment as English Master in University College
School, which position he held until 1889, (see Forward, Spirit Teachings). These positions, except
for the last, were all associated with the Church of England in some way, and in particular, reflected
the great interest in Biblical re-examination during the Victorian revival in religious studies. This
background, together with what else was available, are the right chemical and genetic dispositions
to form the pattern we described, and they are the evidence of good standing of the person Stainton
Moses was as a recruit for the work.
In part it may be assumed that Christ Michael’s testing of the revelatory waters of man’s interest as
they existed on Urantia was rightly conditioned by the age, and by the circumstances through which
truth had to be communicated. In the person of Stainton Moses, he was usually insisting on proofs
that were literal which was typical of the mind set of most in his day, and he was just as concerned
about the social repercussions on him of this kind of work. His choice to invite people interested
in séances and personal communication with their departed relatives through the spirit world brought
warnings from the group of forty-nine, especially Imperator, that he should desist for reasons of this
project, security, and his own health. Even today there is a ban in place– enforced by the celestial
educational corps– of not permitting this kind of activity to develop although it has been asked for
quite frequently. Stainton was of the opinion that he had to use his talents publically in order to
maintain a reputation as well as earn a living that could substantially see him through his worst fears
of succumbing to England’s Poorhouse. Only Imperator knew the danger well enough to assign
more than one pair of seraphim to guard the right-minded but short-sighted Moses.
The First Revelatory Commission which later replaced this nineteenth century arrangement to test
and produce an outline of revelatory material to later be presented in a much greater volume as the
Urantia Book, did not yet exist during Imperator’s time with Moses. It was not until 1895 that the
Commission had arranged to meet and become active on Urantia in order to obtain a set of working
rules with mortals who could do the work. By then, Moses had died in 1892 because of injuries
suffered in a freak accident. We think it may be at least partially correct to suggest that these
attempts at bringing the world a new revelation ran into strong headwinds. Imperator could have
used the buttress that the First Revelatory Commission would have given him, but more than the lack
of a commission began to take the toll on the work to be done. And it was in 1895 that Imperator
was reassigned to the United States to leave the plans for the English revelation behind.
In 1870 the Franco-Prussian War occurred and Germany (Prussia) occupied France. France was an
ally of England, and the Prussian demonstration of military might frankly shook John Bull to his
roots and hence the rush into formulating protective alliances in case of war against the Kaiser
erupted. It was also in 1870 that the first Vatican Council promulgated the dogma of Papal
infallibility. Now a mere mortal as Pope could out maneuver the revelations of a Christ if he so
choose and be sanctioned by the authority of his office that had long become moribund in its exercise
and hardly enlightened enough to pronounce the truth in absolute terms. This was true in Roman
Catholicism and it was true in its way in the society of the Empires of Russia and most of the
civilized western society, except in the rough and tumble United States. Europe had become a
crystalized society enforced by the social mores of the Victorian era and the domination of the
government by the Tories who had no love of the lower classes. Elsewhere in Europe there still
ruled the feudal practices of a millennium ago.
As the last part of the nineteenth century passed, more and bigger wars between the European States
loomed that would also involve Turkey, Russia, and war even arose in their colonies as the
competing European powers sought to outstrip each other in all classes of development. General
world war was portending and no one knew quite how to stop it before it became too late. All the
while, Caligastia and his supporters were making it as difficult as they could for the Michael
government to bring change to Urantia and eradicate the remaining reminders of the greatest blunder
Urantia ever suffered. Consequently, the work of revelation was once more interrupted and it was
pulled up by its roots and transplanted across the Atlantic. What could have been prepared on
English soil no longer was considered possible or safe. The entire enterprise fled the European
continent and headed for America, taking with it a complete change in scope to prepare Urantia for
a new dispensation.
*DIVINE PREPARATION IN AMERICA FOR EPOCHAL REVELATION
In 1878 Imperator wanted to prepare a new revelation, and twenty-two years later, Jesus himself
alluded to it becoming a reality to his student, when he said that even the Bible was going to be
surpassed by new truth. The Bible, he remarked in 1910, had inspired men, but God has greater
things in mind to inspire their thoughts:
<blockquote>“The Bible has become to you THE Book, but I would also have you know that God has inspired men
and women with power to reveal, in our own time, even greater things, and ever fresh unfoldings from
the heart of life. Above all things, we want you to have the open visions today, for greater things are
coming, and God is doing wonders among you. Rejoice in the new revelation, abounding in hope.
The new will reveal the old to you afresh. Have no doubts. Launch out into the deeps of God, and
fear not.”(First Edition 1910 Christ In You “by Anonymous” New York 1919 Printed USA. This work
is beautiful and timeless.)</blockquote>
By 1905 we also have a new cast of characters to learn and who have to be taught to receive and
formulate what would become a revelation of epochal dimensions. In addition to an all new cast that
was assembled to receive the revelation, there was also a demotion of importance of the
compromised efforts at spiritual contact through the practice of spiritualism and the stand-alone
medium. While this practice continues in a great many instances through the rest of the twentieth
century, the quality of the work begins to suffer, and the tradesmen of the day search for ways to
make profits out of the process. What had been a proving ground for the universe personnel
associated with promoting revelation on Urantia, was now viewed as undependable and erratic by
those in science and in the medical field.
Names made well known to us after the publication of the Urantia Book are part of recorded history.
But there are also unknown or hardly known people that worked in the process of revelation begun
in Chicago. Many of these unsung heroes who brought us the Urantia Book without knowing what
they were working toward probably came from association within the wonderful educational effort
in America that appeared a little after the turn of the twentieth century.
In fact, it is here in the touring lectures and tent classrooms of the Redpath Chautauqua that God saw
to it that the main personality ingredients would naturally meet and mix together. Chicago was the
meeting place of those coming from the east and those traveling from the west to begin their lives
of investigation, show biz, and commerce depending on their choices, and who would meet to
produce the enigmatic fifth epochal revelation. One, a Dr. Sadler, became the mortal leader for a
project that which would impart sweeping new truths, and it began in his office located in a Chicago
mansion.
The person who would be in charge of the future publishing of the Urantia Book worked as a
Chicago psychiatrist, with his physician wife, Dr. Lena Sadler (Kellogg). In addition to their
professional duties, they volunteered to lecture across America about health and hygiene. A keen
observer of the circuit enjoyed the Sadlers on stage and recounted what they brought to the audiences
of those days before radio.
<blockquote>“In the same period [circa 1911] were the two Doctors Sadler, apostles in new dress of the old theme of
individual improvement. Dr. William Sadler was a psychiatrist. Fortunately for Chautauqua, he respected the
germ theory as much as he did Freud; it was he who, after one startling experience with the "Chautauqua
salute,"** drove it [the Chautauqua salute] out of business. His wife, Dr. Lena Sadler, was a Chicago
gynecologist who had successfully beaten down the prejudice against women doctors. She was an active club
woman, too, and the pair made a very presentable team. (1)</blockquote>
<blockquote>(1)[Text Footnote] Taking a registered nurse with them, the couple [the Sadlers] offered a choice of one to
three-day programs, with the further innovation of a medical round table. Dr. William discussed worry and selfmastery,
which to the folks in front meant the old, inspiring refrain, "How to Be Happy." Dr. Lena talked about
the care of children and mothers.</blockquote>
<blockquote>(Culture under Canvas: The Story of Tent Chautauqua; Harry P. Harrison as Told to Karl Detzer, Hastings
House, Publishers, New York , 1958, P182.)</blockquote>
<blockquote>The Chautauqua salute offended the writer of a letter-to-the-editor received at the New York Times,
and published on October 25, 1904, which in part read: “Recent large political meetings have
impressed me with one fact– namely, that the so-called “Chautauqua salute”– the waving of
handkerchiefs– ought to be suppressed. It is a menace to the health of the public. . . .”</blockquote>
Then we must consider the mysterious Harry J. Loose. He too appeared on the Redpath Chautauqua
circuit in 1917 to lecture, but he was already familiar with the Sadlers because he became a patient
of theirs about the year 1914. His teaching specialty was about crime and his work as a detective
and policeman. He was also a home-made psychic which he hid from all except Dr. Sadler. In the
line of duty, he had been shot and may have suffered the event as an emotional trauma which caused
him considerable mental distress. What is of particular interest with this individual is his
preliminary association with what would be the basis for the first 31 Papers of the proposed Urantia
text.
The hint that such was his to witness would become a great work of revelation is given in his own
words in a letter to Harold Sherman, a friend, screen writer, and fellow believer in the production
of the revelation in Chicago. Loose tells Sherman that he knew about the proposal to begin work
as far back as 1906. In frequent references to the Urantia Book by Loose in the published Sherman
Diaries, we can read of his secret contributions which ended by 1934 when he left the Sadler group
of human reviewers and advisors called the Forum.
<blockquote>“Remember to watch for a tremendous book which will be published in about two years. It has been
now thirty-five years in the building. It is not mine but I had something to do with it. You will
recognize it when it appears. It will be world shocking.” (Harry Loose Letter to Harold Sherman,
February 04, 1941, The Sherman Diaries, Vol I, Compiled and Edited by Saskia Praamsma with
Matthew Block, Square Circles Publishing, California, Page 100.)</blockquote>
There remains credible evidence that the celestial revelators maintained speech contact with those
who helped bring the revelation forth well passed the initial experiences with the “Sleeping Subject.”
In particular, Harry Loose often said he received instructions, and in several letters like this, he
mentions the supernatural control in the following fashion.
<blockquote>“I must leave this letter unfinished and send as it is. I have just received instructions to cease my
writing and to report. I do not know if this means a complete and permanent quittal [sic] or not . . .
. Have you violated confidence in anyway?” (Ibid, April 20, 1941, p 219)</blockquote>
Harry’s claims to hear (clairaudient) and visit (remote locating) at a distance along with other
phenomena we are familiar with today. There are mortals, for lack of a better term, who
are“specialists” and who have developed audible methods of thought transference and physical
projection. Sherman dabbled in this with Sir Hubert Wilkins and it was a subject of mutual interest
and discussion between all three men. Loose may have been part of a spiritual network known only
to the Thought Adjusters who coordinated with the high universe commissions to visit the physical
mediums for assignments without causing a lot of notice. In any case, we think it is fair to suspect
that Loose, Sadler, Wilkins, and a man known as Howard Thurston (associated with the Chicago
Cubs and a world-famous magician), knew Mrs. Blake of Omaha, Nebraska, and a few more, who
all were likely part of the secret conspiracy to bring about the greatest revelation since the birth of
Jesus. We do not know the specific details of assignment, but they are the likely candidates
assembled by the Adjusters with the help of the Council of 24.
Audible contact (inside and outside) as mentioned with those charged to assist revelatory expansions
are usually done as described when so much must be taken into consideration and the urgency of the
task well known. In this case it may be that the only way to be sure that the work proceed as planned
would be to charge everyone with a secrecy oath and then begin the process to open up the means
to move material from the Orvonton Revelatory Commission of 24, which was composed of high
spiritual beings assigned for this purpose by the Ancients of Days. (See Page 354 of The Urantia
Book for a description).
What obviously did not work in previous attempts to provide new information was to place the
medium/receiver as both the instrument and the manager on the physical side of the transaction.
That leads to problems of control especially when the control is left to the mortal. In the Urantia
revelation, the mortal instrument was completely controlled and managed and the managerial tasks
assigned to Dr. Sadler.
Someone, however, in the higher up hierarchy cut through all the red tape to start over with the new
way of doing things. In the old process the dual roles with mediums was changed and the practice
established to assign the receiver a passive role with no chance to interfere with transmissions once
agreeing to being used for higher purposes. This agreement may not even be spoken between the
subject and the Adjuster, but thanks to years of contact and training by the Adjuster in the mortal
life, the agreement does allow the Indwelling Monitor to accurately determine the attitude of the
medium and his acquiescence to the process.
We do know that Howard Thurston had a passing knowledge of the Omaha-based Mrs. Blake
(through Loose). Howard Thurston was also a successful entertainment businessman who worked
for about a year with the Chicago Cubs (1907), by bringing them back into prominence after the
huge White Sox scandal of 1906 where the championship was thrown for money by the Sox. While
there, did Thurston invest with the Chicago Board of Trade by trading in farm commodities? We
think it is entirely possible, for in the era of tycoons, Thurston was an opportunist like most and who
saw opportunity in rising markets. This would suggest that there is a fourth player we have
overlooked who was informed and ready to assist Thurston in his special money making projects
as well as his particular interest in spiritualism. The year would be 1907 and we can suspect that
there was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade who knew all about Thurston and spiritualism
since Thurston himself was a convert in Europe and had studied at the Dwight L. Moody Bible
Institute, intending to become a Unitarian missionary before he became a magician. Thurston was
civic minded and this may have been the link through which Thurston met the influential and
businessmen of the day. His conversion to accepting spiritualism as it was practiced in that day is
known to have taken place in the salon of Madame Eusapia Palladino where he witnessed without
trickery, he said, her ability to manifest many amazing feats. Like Houdini (whom he knew and
worked with in 1892), Thurston disliked the fake spiritualists and sought to root them out by
exposing them in the middle of one of their tricks.
Harry Loose was also a Chicago associate with Dr. Sadler and they may have compared notes about
Thurston and Blake on several occasions. All in all there is a sense of collusion about all of these
interests, meetings, and circumstances among the principles surrounding the revelation before it was
established within the Contact Commission in the offices of Dr. Sadler. The Sleeping Subject was
probably a mutual acquaintance of Sadler and perhaps a member or two of the Forum, and not
unknown to Thurston and Loose since Loose was attending the Doctor’s meetings in the early days.
That Thurston may have been involved with the Sleeping Subject is tentative, but placing him there
in 1907 also made him available for the chance meeting with him through other and innocent
activities such as requiring the services of a broker or official for investments.
The Sleeping Subject, a descriptive pseudonym for an individual all were sworn by Machiventa
Melchizedek to never name, was placed into a natural sleep by the indwelling Thought Adjuster
which directly bypassed the material personality with information the Urantia Book would be based
upon. Thus we see the first known use of a clear channel that can obviate the personality bias by
avoiding passing data through the medium's personality. We find that the behavior of the Sleeping
Subject is not unlike Stainton Moses in one respect in that they both evinced little interest in the
process, and were used frequently as passive and inattentive transformers to the actual work.
No human after the fact will easily understand how these complex relationships insured the Urantia
Books production except to note that the text’s usages and conceptual limits were determined after
the fact of Forum review and Dr. Sadler’s insistence that all comprehend he was in charge and would
brook no opposition to his dedication to finish what he was asked to do.
The secrecy oaths were a factor in bringing the whole enterprise into completion several years before
the revelators thought they could finish. The celestial plan for the book was originally envisioned
to be finished before 1945, but not before 1930 [a Loose comment]. Meanwhile, no one knew, on
either side of the veil, how to predict the blessings of time and spirit that came together into liaison
with the Universal Father and the ministry of the Thought Adjusters that would result in the finest
revelation Urantia had ever received.
Indeed, the universe however briefly, poured revelation directly over the land Chicago was built
upon and into the mortal vessels who would serve the rest of mankind through publication. The
revelators drew upon the resources of Paradise itself to complete the work that shall inspire Urantia
for centuries to come. All who worked directly in the arms of Jesus to bring the daily routines of
publication to fruition are gone now, but they deserve our heartfelt thanks and devotion to the work
they achieved through the turmoil of world war and the ideological struggles that followed it.
*ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
'''-ANONYMOUS, CHRIST IN YOU, PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK, (1910, 1919, 224 PP)'''
<blockquote>Earlier published in London, 1910. The referenced text is from the 1910 first
edition. This is a beautiful work and as timely today as the day it was transcribed.
The text may be read on line at <http://www.spiritwritings.com/christinyou.pdf></blockquote>
'''-DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN, THE NEW REVELATION, GEORGE H DORAN, NEW YORK, (1918).'''
<blockquote>The text may be accessed on line at -
<http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/nrvln10.txt>
Doyle does not quite understand what the “new revelation” is, but he is
convinced, that such a disclosure is being prepared. Because of Doyle’s wide
knowledge of the spiritualist movement, and his direct participation with many of
the subjects, the book is useful for the reader to gain a feel for what is happening
(1918) and, by its tone, hopeful signs that something wonderful is about to happen
with the participation of spirit on earth.</blockquote>
-HARRISON, HARRY P., CULTURE UNDER CANVAS: THE STORY OF TENT CHAUTAUQUA; AS
TOLD
TO KARL DETZER, HASTINGS HOUSE, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK , (1958) (ISBN:
9780313203800)
Anecdotes of the author who was one of the pioneers in the Tent Chautauqua with
some 30 years in various management capacities.
-MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON, MORE SPIRIT TEACHINGS, LONDON (1889, 124 PP).
1952 REPRINT SPIRITUALIST PRESS, LONDON, 1952.
It is this text which discusses permissions for the then active attempt to reveal
additional information for the proposed revelation Much of what did not get into
Spirit Teachings made it into this volume which also contains more information
about Stainton himself.
-MOSES, WILLIAM STAINTON (1839-1892), SPIRIT TEACHINGS, LONDON, (1883, 291 PP).
1976 REPRINT, SPIRITUALIST PRESS, ISBN: 0854370099 / 0-85437-009-9)
This work contains the bulk of the Imperator teachings and a major source for
tracing the attempt to provide Urantia a major revelation before the turn of the last
century. Because it is a text that was copied from his journals during the 1870's,
dating sometimes becomes a little haphazard and there is no good chronology to
depend on except when Moses actually dates an entry. It is a priceless inside look
at the workings of a celestial revelatory commission.
-NEW YORK TIMES THE, ARCHIVE STACKS 1904-1912.
The reader may access the archives on line at -
<http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html>. The archives
helped to ascertain location dates in public news stories around Harry Loose (d.
1943) and Howard Thurston (d. 1936), both known to be in Chicago at least in
1906 and perhaps intermittently until 1912. Thurston arrived from Europe to
New York in 1906, and consulted with Sadler sometime between 1906 and 1908,
then becoming associated with the baseball club, the Chicago Cubs, during the
period.
-SHERMAN DIARIES THE, VOL I OF FIVE VOLUMES; COMPILED AND EDITED BY SASKIA
PRAAMSMA WITH MATTHEW BLOCK, SQUARE CIRCLES PUBLISHING,
CALIFORNIA, 2002.
This volume is especially helpful in focusing on the whereabouts, and possible
contributions of Harry Loose, a mysterious confidant and patient of Dr. Sadler,
during the initial Sleeping Subject contact. Mr. Sherman met Loose and had
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frequent correspondence with him from which we learn more about the early
period of the production of The URANTIA Book, and coincidentally a degree of
Loose’s own participation in the work.
-TRETHEWY, A. W., THE 'CONTROLS' OF STAINTON MOSES, LONDON: (1923, 291PP).
Trethewy was a well known botanist, British Museum, who took an interest in W.
Stainton Moses’ work as a medium and sought to document his work underlining
the high moral character of the teachings. He particularly disliked fakes and
cheaters and liked Moses because he considered him to be above reproach,
completely reliable, and dependable in the forwarding of messages from
Imperator, the Moses control. It is in this volume that Trethewy discusses the real
personages behind the pseudonyms of the spiritual entities around Moses.
Trethewy corroborated his findings through others besides what he had
investigated himself providing today’s historians more than the usual reliability in
many of these findings.
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