Response of Saskia Raevouri to Foundation's open letter
November 10, 1999

Dear Trustees,

I offer this with love and concern, and in a mood of frustration:

I agree with most of Fred Harris' post below, which I assume you have all

read. There must be a way to solve this problem without litigation. I see it

this way: The English language version--with its many inviolate texts out in

the world and on the Internet--is now safe and protected. It is all grown up

and ready to leave the house, but the translations still need nurturing. By

spending all your resources forcing to keep the overgrown kid home and under

your supervision, you are neglecting the little ones. I cannot support you,

if my meager donation will enable you in any way to be in a better position

to sue Harry McMullen, who is doing what needs to be done to disseminate the

teachings. Many readers agree with me. I do not believe you have as much

support as you think you do.

The last time I checked our local Borders bookstore there were still two

BOXED softcovers sitting on the shelf, untouched. In my opinion the

Foundation is so sidetracked by irrelevant issues that it is no longer

capable of doing its ONE job, which is to publish the revelation and make it

available. Harry has proven not only that he is willing and able to take

over the job if it were given him by the courts, but I believe that he and

his supporters will keep their noses to the grindstone if given the honor of

publishing the revelation. If you sue Harry I will publicly donate $50 to

his cause, as we desperately need someone who is willing to deliver a

reader-friendly version of the Urantia Book. If you would concentrate on

this job yourselves and make it your priority, then I would donate the money

to you, but somehow I feel you have lost the ability.

I recently joined your Foundation Forum discussion list and was quickly

driven off by your cookie-cutter-mentality IUA representatives whose

thinking differed from mine. Is it good for our revelation to have the

publisher's spokespeople publicly treat readers who have new and original

ideas to a rottweiler attack? Can anything be more cultlike? We are

immediately branded as "impatient" (and worse) simply because we are eager

to share the 45-year-old revelation with the world NOW and not in a thousand

years.

I have much more to say but if I make this too long you may not read it.

Please reevaluate the situation, offer Harry a license as Fred suggests, and

move on to the job of getting the book translated. If you want the

support--both moral AND financial--of "little people" like me, you will need

to take such a course of action. If not, I believe the seraphic planetary

government will take the responsiblity away from you, and the lawsuit that

you initiate will be the vehicle that makes it possible.

With the best of intentions,

Saskia