APPENDIX THREE
These were taken from showcased material that was prepared for publication. Those who prepared and edited these "teachings" either personally lacked the knowledge that they contradicted The Urantia Book, did not care, or claimed The Urantia Book has been altered.
"MACHIVENTA" Material "channeled". 9/23/92 This material was widely disseminated to demonstrate the high "quality" of this "transmitter receiver's" teachings.. The document is titled "WELMEK".
"MACHIVENTA": . . ".Haven't you all experienced times when you're searching for words and cannot find them? You will have someone who is much closer to you than your spirit fragment who will be able to serve and help you in this way". (pg. 7)
NOTE: SEE PAGE 1190 of The Urantia Book: "Apart from possible co-ordination with other Deity fragments [Thought Adjusters] the Adjusters are quite alone in their sphere of activity in the mortal mind . . . the Father has certainly reserved for himself the right to be present In the minds and souls of his evolving creatures to the end that he may draw all creature creation to himself ..." and [1177] "The Adjuster is man's infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul Godward."
"MACHIVENTA": "Stand up for yourself when the time is right as our Master did in the temple when he destroyed the money-changers and the animal sellers. This is fine". (pg. 13)
NOTE: SEE PAGE 1891 of The Urantia Book. Of course, the Master did not "destroy". anyone. Allowing for rhetorical excess, the purpose of the cleansing of the temple was not to stand up. for himself. Aside from this specific incident, The Urantia Book passage goes on to establish a broad principle. The principle of the temple cleansing applies to groups, not to individual relationships. (The statement by "Machiventa". was in reply to someone who was asking about a personal relationship problem.) In the spirit of the book, those who, in the name of being fair and open-minded, allow their study groups to be dominated by a few individuals with personal agendas should read the text on page 1891 with care:
[1891] The cleansing of the temple discloses the Master's attitude toward commercializing the practices of religion as well as his detestation of all forms of unfairness and profiteering at the expense of the poor and unlearned. This episode also demonstrates that Jesus did not look with approval upon the refusal to employ force to protect the majority of any given human group against the unfair and enslaving practices of unjust minorities who may be able to entrench themselves behind political, financial or ecclesiastical power. Shrewd, wicked, and designing men are not to be permitted to organize themselves for the exploitation and oppression of those who, because of their idealism, are not disposed to resort to force for self-protection or for the furtherance of their laudable life projects.
From a large publication promoting various "channeled" material, this segment dated 2/25/92
SLAGLE: I asked how to better discern my Adjuster's guidance'.
"CELESTIAL TEACHER:" "That is the quest of the human: how to discern the human mind from the divine mind. This is your great challenge as it is of every other mortal on this planet". (pg. 2)
NOTE. SEE PAGE 1207 of The Urantia Book: "You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and adjuster . . . trust all matters of the mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Thought Adjusters". [1208] ~ A human being would be better to err in rejecting the Adjuster's expression through believing it to be purely a human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity".
This is extracted from a large booklet produced in Sedona: The Salvington Circuit, Volume 1, No 1, May, 1993. This group declares The Urantia Book to be the first one tenth of the Fifth Epochal Revelation and their own material to be forming the remainder!
"The spiritual deficiencies of twentieth century Urantia are such that these rebellious starseed have remained on the seventh, sixth, fifth and fourth psychic circles for countless centuries without advancing to a higher circle". (Pg. 10)
NOTE: Putting aside the question of mortal reincarnation, which The Urantia Book refutes, one must wonder how Urantia's twentieth century deficiencies have caused problems for countless centuries. Paladin, one of the centerpiece "celestial personalities" of the Sedona collection of "teachers", manages the difficult task of contradicting himself within the same sentence.
The Salvington Circuit denigrates the integrity of The Urantia Book by insisting that Dr. Sadler altered the text to exclude reincarnation and astrology. [Page 20]: "William Sadler Sr. was vehemently against the idea of reincarnation . . . He was also vehemently against astrology . .".. Paladin states that when information in the papers declared these beliefs to be true: "He then began a systematic degradation of these papers.".. One of the articles in The Salvington Circuit is titled: Ascension Astrology, and was a "channeled" work of Paladin.
Others who have had pet beliefs, such as the dead returning to earth to communicate with humans, have also insisted that Sadler must have altered the original Urantia Papers, since the Papers refute their own ideas. Clyde Bedell, who was in the Forum from 1924 until it was disbanded with the publication of The Urantia Book, told me that Dr. Sadler held his responsibility as to the integrity of the Papers as a sacred trust. Alteration would have required the collusion of at least five Individuals, each of whom was sworn to protect the text inviolate.
Channelers pick and choose material from The Urantia Book at will; they use the Revelation when it suits them and claim it was "altered". or is "out of date" if it does not. Other beliefs are possible, of course. But should they not stand upon their own integrity and quality, and not upon the shoulders of the Fifth Epochal Revelation?
[1176]: Although the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, he is also present on the worlds of space in the minds of his countless children of time, for he indwells them as Mystery Monitors...[1177]: The Adjuster is man's infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul Godward.
[1187]: There are no intermediaries or other intervening authorities or powers functioning between the divine Adjusters and their human subjects; God and man are directly related.
[1190]: Apart from possible co-ordination with other Deity fragments the Adjusters are quite alone in their sphere of activity in the mortal mind . . . the Father has certainly reserved to himself the unchallengeable right to be present in the minds and souls of his evolving creatures to the end that he may so act as to draw all creature creation to himself, coordinately with the spiritual gravity of the Paradise Sons. Said your Paradise Bestowal Son when yet on Urantia: "I, if I am lifted up, will draw all men."
[1206] The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind.
[1209]: It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function-when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development-that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the welfare of such a [mortal] being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.