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Thank you Marty!
 
Thank you Marty!
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I have always maintained that there exists one letter in the Declaration of Trust that is problematic, namely the letter ‘a’ in the clause cited below to “foster a religion”. The letter ‘a’ signifies one among many e.g. one of many competing religions currently operating in this world, some as evolutionary repercussions of ‘revelation’. However, the document becomes explicit in the section entitled “[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2016-08-21-Solving_the_Disunity_of_the_Urantia_Revelation#THE_CURRENT_STATUS_OF_THE_REVELATOR.E2.80.98S_MANDATES Current Status of the Revelator’s Mandates]” where it is observed that as "there are none ordained”, a failing grade of F is given.  
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I have always maintained that there exists one letter in the Declaration of Trust that is problematic, namely the letter ‘a’ in the clause cited below to “foster a religion”. The letter ‘a’ signifies one among many e.g. one of many competing religions currently operating in this world, some as evolutionary repercussions of ‘revelation’. However, the document becomes explicit in the section entitled “[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2016-08-21-Solving_the_Disunity_of_the_Urantia_Revelation#THE_CURRENT_STATUS_OF_THE_REVELATOR.E2.80.98S_MANDATES Current Status of the Revelator’s Mandates]” where it is observed that as "there are none ordained”, a failing grade of F is given.  
    
Nevermind the overall tone of the document reading like a new age version of the infamous sermon ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_an_Angry_God Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God]'' by the colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards, or perhaps more accurately, a contemporary Sales Director of the media monster owned by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch Rupert Murdoch] whose lust for profit has wreaked ruin upon some of the best book publishing in the field of religion.  
 
Nevermind the overall tone of the document reading like a new age version of the infamous sermon ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_an_Angry_God Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God]'' by the colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards, or perhaps more accurately, a contemporary Sales Director of the media monster owned by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch Rupert Murdoch] whose lust for profit has wreaked ruin upon some of the best book publishing in the field of religion.  
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Perfect communication does not entail use of word symbols but operates as a “direct flash” of intelligence “straight to the intellect” of any recipient. Words are twice removed from their source, but they are nevertheless helpful to those who cannot ‘hear' in silence. Of course perfect communication occurs where the mind is “consciously quite unconcerned” with its phenomena, focused instead upon the priority of communion where "there exists no need for communication” as we typically understand it.  
 
Perfect communication does not entail use of word symbols but operates as a “direct flash” of intelligence “straight to the intellect” of any recipient. Words are twice removed from their source, but they are nevertheless helpful to those who cannot ‘hear' in silence. Of course perfect communication occurs where the mind is “consciously quite unconcerned” with its phenomena, focused instead upon the priority of communion where "there exists no need for communication” as we typically understand it.  
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I would remind you of the purpose of Daynal Institute serving those students who have savored [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Epoch_V many revelatory texts] given to our world during this time of accelerated change to explore their source within e.g. a deeper probe of the inner life. The purpose is to surmount the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_great_challenge great challenge] of our time by fostering a culture of communion such that personal communication with God may be characterized less with the methods of ''indirection'' than direct flashes of intelligence to the intellects of his human partners!  
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I would remind you of the purpose of Daynal Institute serving those students who have savored [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Epoch_V many revelatory texts] given to our world during this time of accelerated change to explore their source within e.g. a deeper probe of the inner life. The purpose is to surmount the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_great_challenge great challenge] of our time by fostering a culture of communion such that personal communication with God may be characterized less with the methods of ''indirection'' than direct flashes of intelligence to the intellects of his human partners!  
    
Gratefully,
 
Gratefully,
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Increasingly does the mind grow through spirit identification so that this base expands as it rises into each new level. The fruits of the spirit emerge from this process, and all of these are reflections of a balanced mind.  
 
Increasingly does the mind grow through spirit identification so that this base expands as it rises into each new level. The fruits of the spirit emerge from this process, and all of these are reflections of a balanced mind.  
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Wisdom grows in this environment as a balanced mind is immune to the extremes which plague the immature levels of mind. So it is, maturity, wisdom, and a balanced mind are spiritual developments that are always attended by increasing joy. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1995-09-21-Overcoming_Fear_by_Focusing_Upon_God#Anger.2C_Mind (1)]
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Wisdom grows in this environment as a balanced mind is immune to the extremes which plague the immature levels of mind. So it is, maturity, wisdom, and a balanced mind are spiritual developments that are always attended by increasing joy. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1995-09-21-Overcoming_Fear_by_Focusing_Upon_God#Anger.2C_Mind (1)]
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==January 8, 2017==
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'''Marty wrote at 7:24am'''
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AMEN Rob.
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Yes, our home base is our consciousness at whatever level we have attained.
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And grows through the nourishment of living truth. That is the experience of Father.
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Just words which bring meanings to each of us at our own home base. :>)
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'''Byron wrote at 10:10pm'''
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Bravo, Mer on the funding!  If you don’t mind, can you share what Gabriel had to say to you? Rare to hear from him compared to the others …
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Significant, I think, that Machiventa affirmed the Scalzo document through Daniel Raphael. Makes me what to study it now.
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BTW, it was Timothy Wyllie who first published the story of the Toronto transmissions on the adjudication, in his very first book.
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Love
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B
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PS  Hey everyone, I just extracted the full outline of my book, which is nearing completion. Elianne has started the edit on the opening chapters.
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enc: Your Evolving Soul
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The Cosmic Spirituality of the Urantia Revelation
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Preface
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Introduction
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PART I: INTRODUCING AN EPOCHAL REVELATION
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Chapter 1. Soul Glimpses: Poetic and Paranormal
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John Keats and the “Vale of Soul-Making”
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Paranormal Revelations of the Soul
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NDE Life Reviews: Nonjudgmental and Multiperspectival
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INTERLUDE: AN APOLOGIA
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The Co-creation of a Revelation
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An Outline of the Origin Story
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Chapter 2. The Grand Cosmos: A Universal Theater for Soul Evolution
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A Unified Stream of Guidance and Ministry
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The Personal Heart of Cosmic Reality
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The Eternal Trinity and the Origin of Evolution
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The Trinity in Time and Space
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An Anatomy of the “Universe of Universes”
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Heading Toward the Final Act
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PART II: SELF AND SOUL IN THE URANTIA REVELATION
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Chapter 3: The Synthesis Hypothesis
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The Gift of Evolutionary Holism
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A Proper Design for Soul-Synthesis
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Toward a Reinvention of Evolutionary Theism
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Exploring the God of Experience
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The Drama of the Evolving Soul
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The Ultimate Destiny of the Soul
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Chapter 4: Cosmic Individuation: The “Circles” of Self-Perfecting
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The Seven Circles of Cosmic Individuation
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Jesus and the Two “Axes” of Self-Perfecting
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The “Vertical” Growth of Value-Consciousness
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Quantitative Growth through Seasoned Experience [incomplete]
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A Bigger Picture of Our Destiny
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The Goal of Perfection in the Afterlife
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PART III: TRADITIONS OF SELF AND SOUL—EAST AND WEST
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Chapter 5: Early Beliefs About Self and Soul
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The Invention of the Soul in Primitive Religion
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Self and Soul in the Ancient Near East
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Soul and Spirit in the Classic Western Religions
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Aristotle’s Monistic Concept of the Soul
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The Question of the Indestructibility of the Soul
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Aquinas on the “Aristotelian” Self
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Saint Augustine and the Human Soul
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Chapter 6:  Gnosticism, Eastern Christianity, and the The Urantia Book
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Gnosticism and Christian Heterodoxy
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Gnostic Myth and The Urantia Book’s Alternative History
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Conflicting Gospels: Orthodox John Versus Gnostic Thomas Eastern Christianity and Divinization
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Postscript: Asian Ideas of Self and Soul
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Chapter 7:  Self and Soul in Modernity and Beyond
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Modernism and Its Discontents
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The Coming of the Integral Age
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The Core Contributions of Ken Wilber
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PART IV: SOUL-MAKING DYNAMICS AND COSMIC SPIRITUALITY
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Ch 7: The Nature of Personality Reality
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The Ancient and Modern Critique of Personhood
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Unique Self and the Riddle of Personhood
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A Closer Look at Unique Self and Personality
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Revisioning Personhood with the Urantia Revelation
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Ch 8: The Gift of the Divine Indwelling
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A Grand Meeting of Opposites
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Naming the Inner Divinity
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The Inner Betrothal Day
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Divine Will Is Yoked to Human Will
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Following the Divine Ideal
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Opening to Inner Light
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Ch 9 [Conclusions]
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==January 9, 2017==
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'''Mer wrote at 11:04am'''
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Thought you might all be interested in the perspectives shared below by the Christ Experiment...I thought it well written.
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Meredith
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----- Forwarded Message -----
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From: "info@thechristexperiment.org" <info@thechristexperiment.org>
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To: info@thechristexperiment.org
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Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 2:05 AM
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Subject: Email Alert
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Greetings Brothers and Sisters!
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Today we posted the following items.  You can find a link to each item on the [https://www.thechristexperiment.org/#!updates-latest/c2ft Update Page].
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:1 new Question and Response: [https://www.thechristexperiment.org/qa-8-januar-2017 What Should We Be Doing In Response To The Unity Document?]
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And as always, we welcome your comments and questions.
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Your Brothers in Faith,
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www.TheChristExperiment.org
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==February 3, 2017==
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'''Carolyn Hidalgo wrote February 3, 2017 at 2:43pm'''
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Hi Rob,
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My friend Vicki forwarded this document. I am not connected to any of these organizations, but apparently there’s been a lot of ‘disunity’ over the years?
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It’s disheartening to put it mildly that with such an incredible source of Revelation that people cannot find a way to come together for discussion when the principles in the text are about UNITY!
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It’s hard to imagine a ‘spiritual source’ that would threaten, or give deadlines…and remain anonymous, but I suppose in this antagonistic environment it isn't safe to publish your name.
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Would you be willing to share your thoughts on why there’s such disunity (& to me what seems like dysfunction) among those who’ve been drawn to read the Urantia Book? Do you believe its even possible to unite these 3 groups? I would think the group that is the most trustworthy would attract the most followers, but perhaps no organization can effectively ‘rule’ over a document that belongs to everyone’s interpretation, and there should be no group assuming control over it. No one group controls the Bible, why this one?
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So much divide now with Trump that this situation just seems to mirror what goes on within the UB community too. How can we move forward with this level of disconnection among the "spiritually conscious"? I’ve been told it’s the ‘perfect storm’.
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I was a bit ’taken aback’ that this was sent out on my birthday — Sept 28th...
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Warmly,
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Carolyn Hidalgo, CPCC
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==February 4, 2017==
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'''Rob wrote February 4, 2017 at 7:05pm'''
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Hello Carolyn -
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Thank you for writing!
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Yes, first and before the Urantia Book was published, there was the “Sherman Rebellion”, then after publication there was the contest over copyright, and more recently the attempt to exclude persons on the basis of their spiritual experience. Needless to say, it has been a "hard row to hoe”.
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One must recall that in the early phase of planetary evolution (post Planetary Prince) “the different tribes tend to develop specialized systems of religious and philosophic thought” that feature both “the early fears of primitive men and the later revelations” and “Urantians do not seem to have wholly emerged from this stage”. Is it possible to grow beyond these early phases characterized by antagonistic competition? Of course, but due to the deprivations suffered already, it will require much more effort on everyone’s part, human and divine, to surmount these normal evolutionary hurdles.
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The divide seen as a “perfect storm” could also be viewed as a perfect polarity affording sharply defined options to simplify choices necessary to proceed. How to move forward? Each has their own context of choosing in which to work, and as each does the will of God e.g. sharing the inner life with Him in the face of decision making, the way becomes clear. Indeed, “as moves the part, so moves the whole.”
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Press on,
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Rob
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==February 5, 2017==
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'''Carolyn Hildalgo wrote February 5, 2017 at 7:33pm'''
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Thank you Rob for providing your thoughts - always insightful  : )
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I asked Chris if he would ask his teachers Ophelius & the circle of 7, and they responded in today’s message:
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https://www.correctingtime.org/ct-messages/problem-disunity ('''''[[2017-02-05-The Problem of Disunity|also here]]''''')
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Warmly,
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Carolyn Hidalgo, CPCC
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==February 13, 2017==
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'''George Barnard sent on February 13 at 7:14AM'''
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This letter dated January 5, 2017:
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'''Some few months ago a 25 page paper was brought to my attention. It read: Solving the Disunity of the Urantia Revelation and Reuniting Factions by a Method Adjudged by the Conciliating Commission Sojourning on Urantia.'''
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The writing was signed by Mr. Nicholas W. Scalzo, 51 Ironworks Road, Clinton, CT USA . . . and wait for it . . . there are other contributors who must remain anonymous.
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These anonymous contributors cannot possibly be the Conciliating Commision of divine persons, Melchizedeks or Celestial Teachers of any kind, for Mr. Scalzo is hardly known to be a receiver of celestial messages. Moreover, had the writing been a message from On High, it would have been short, to the point and not have included the distinct unholy threat noted here directly below:
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'''Caution: If you are a reader of The Urantia Book and believe that the mandates and instructions of the Revelatory Commission that were given to us many years ago do not apply in the present day to you or to your organization, and that these mandates are ‘old news’ and for ‘others long ago.’ STOP! DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER! Lest you must need answer for your decisions.'''
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Expressed and implied those words constitute a vaguely worded, although absolute threat. The Father does not threaten, Michael does not threaten and other Celestials do not threaten . . . never ever! So, by what ‘authority’ does Mr. Scalzo and his band of well-meaning contributors threaten the many thousands of recipients of the daily 11:11 Progress Group Lists messages and our thousands of regular readers of the Urantia Papers ?
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Additionally to the earlier threat, should only two of the three ‘main’ Urantia Organizations be prepared to merge, all three will be ‘taken to task.’ (freely worded)
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Oops, additionally to yet another threat, there too goes down the gurgler our sacred human free will !
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However, in this total '''forget-all-other-organizations''' of Mr. Scalzo’s suggestions, both the Teaching Mission and the 11:11 Progress Group – being decidedly a part of the Urantia Global Awakening, and most certainly of great importance regarding additional new and still future revelatory information – have been brushed aside as having their origin on some alien planet, whilst they are '''today'''’s organizations that have ongoing contact with their Thought Adjusters, Christ Michael, Mother Spirit, The Damascus Scribe, Machiventa Melchizedek, Midwayers and former human Teachers.
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Strangely, in absolute contrast to the present suggestions of Mr. Scalzo, the 11:11 Progress Group was given Machiventa’s direct order in 2003 to break with the Teaching Mission, to go it alone, and to see both organizations grow at a rate that would make them both proud.
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Our Urantia Book readers need to know why our Celestial Brothers must first of all threaten our UB readers and secondly rob us of our God-given free will, for we have 11:11 Progress Group members in two of the three Urantia Revelationary Organizations you named.
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God bless you for trying . . .
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George Barnard – 11.11 Publishers Pty Limited, Australia.
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