Letter from Dr. Sadler to Jacques Weiss, June
1967
Transcribed from an original by Saskia Raevouri
June 14, 1967
Dear Brother Weiss:
Christy has just brought to my attention your letter with a certain book report sent to Mrs. Julia Fenderson; and she said she would like to have me write you my reactions to this. Matters of this kind are constantly coming up here at headquarters.
Time and time again our attention is being called to something from flying saucers to all sorts of other psychic phenomena. I think it is the plan of the ememies of the Urantia revelation to try to get the leaders of this movement sidetracked, if possible to this, that or other interests irrelevant to the welfare of the Urantia movement.
Again and again I have been asked to investigate some psychic movement, and I have steadfastly refused to be diverted from the Urantia Book and the Urantia Revelation. That is my job. No matter if it is flying saucers or grubbing gnomes, I pass them by. Of course if my friends get interested in any of these side issues I am interested enough in their welfare to to take pains to write them my opinions and to warn them against becoming preoccupied with issues which find no root of encouragement in the Urantia revelation.
One of the first communications we had from our midwayer friends at the time of the organization of the Urantia Foundation warned us that efforts would be made to divert our attention and to get us occupied with irrelevant movements, cults, phenomena, etc.; that many matters would be brought to our attention to attempt to confuse, occupy and bamboozle us. And the midwayers' instructions to us was: Pay no attention; stay on the main line of the Urantia revelation, and avoid all of these sidetracks. And that is what we are trying to do.
Just a few months ago a most unusual and interesting case of an automatic writer came into my office, and the poor woman was upset that she couldn't interest me in her case. I told her that years ago I had investigated automatic writing and probably knew as much about it as any living psychiatrist, but that I was too busy with many more important things, to spend any of my time reading her voluminous output. I added that years ago my investigations had shown me the technique, the modus operandi of automatic writing, automatic talking, and all of the associated phenomena.
But listen, Brother Weiss, the Urantia revelation has nothing to do with all this mixed-up and muddled human psychology. We have been given a bigger and better job which ought to keep us busy -- which is surely keeping me busy and happy. The fact that your mind and my mind were open to receive the Urantia revelation suggests that this same open-mindedness, if it weren't dedicated to a single job, could be completely sidetracked by all this psychic phenomena which, interesting as it might be, has nothing to do with the important work that we have been given to do.
You have been entrusted with a big job -- the responsibility of the French edition of the Urantia Book -- and I feel that you ought to be so occupied with it that you are too busy to waste your time over a lot of interesting and baffling phenomena that may be brought to your notice.
When I first met you, I said to one of my associates that your sharp, keen and inquiring mind would probably have more or less trouble trying to pursue a dedicated course of devotion and loyalty to the Urantia revelation, while at the same time dealing with a lot of queer things that would be coming up now and then in the psychic world.
There is nothing wrong in your becoming interested in many things, but don't let them occupy too much of your attention or divert your dedication to the Urantia revelation.
Sincerely,
William S.Sadler
WSS/ar