Urantia Book The Urantia Book was written back in the twenties and thirties by the secretary of a rather well-to-do stockbroker in the city of Chicago. He discovered that when he went into a trance that an entity spoke through him and gave him all kinds of information which he was totally unaware of until such time as he awoke and read what his secretary had taken down in dictation. Over more than ten years of his trance talking, the secretary compiled a considerable volume of writing. If you've seen the Urantia Book you know how thick that thing is. We really don't know who wrote that book or who dictated it is the proper term. In general, we know who the amanuensis was and who wrote it down. The channel through whom it came which was this gentleman who was a stockbroker, but who the spirit was, who gave the dictation, we really do not know because the spirit claimed to be a whole stream of people, some of whom were just totally unlikely. Archangels, generally speaking, do not give dictation that way, and, as a matter of fact, anybody who is in the Brotherhoods or is of the upper levels of advancement—the higher beings, for instance, like Angels and Archangels or Masters—simply are forbidden to take over the control of another person's brain in order to speak through them as a medium. We have discovered and pretty well proven—there's a book called The Great Psychological Crime by J.E. Richardson (which I could recommend) as to how spirits are the ones who would speak through somebody and are primarily designed to mislead people. I mean, that's the thing that they're usually up to. And, in order to be listened to they will claim themselves to be anybody who is, say, out of the Bible as a spiritual great or an Angel or an Archangel. After all, who is interested in listening to what Jane Small who lived and died in Podunk has to say about such things. If Jane Small wants to deal through a medium and be listened to, she's probably going to say, "This is Mother Mary speaking" and so forth, and therefore, the listener would say, “Whoa. I better pay attention, because if the mother of Jesus has something to say I'm going to pay attention.” If this is Jane Small from Podunk talking, you'd say "What? Get out of here. Let somebody else come through." So most spirits in order to be heard or listened to and have an influence on the physical plane will claim themselves to be all kinds of great people. But, anybody who is of any advancement is absolutely forbidden, as for instance if he is a member of the Brotherhoods, from taking over the brain of another person or using hypnotism in any way. Hypnotism is essentially a technique by which a spirit entity controls the brain of a person who is incarnate, and telepathic hypnosis is a method that's used to speak through a medium. It's an interesting thing about books of that sort. Very frequently they can be quite inspirational. They inspire you because of the beauty of the thoughts. Urantia Book is actually poetic in many places. There are passages which, I know in reading it, just thrilled me as a possibility of what it was that they were talking about. Even though the possibilities probably are not real, the thoughts about them are really uplifting. Throwing them out would be similar to throwing out the writings of Omar Khayyam, because all the things he speaks about have nothing to do with an ultimate reality but with his ideas and views of what is beautiful in the world. So why throw out something which is a beautiful writing and which, indeed, as I say is poetic. Whoever happened to be the inspiration, what difference does it make? But, if you're reading it to find out what the facts are so that you call ally your activities and your perceptions with the ultimate reality, then I would not recommend it. Most of us in order to get a grip on what is sane and what is true, what leads us from wherever we are to the next step in truth, have to know that it has some reality to it and be assured that when we work with it that it's going to uplift us. Otherwise it leads you in the wrong direction. I'm going to use an example: the Jesuits who got into running the inquisition back in Spain back around the 1500's or so, truly believed that they were doing a great good for an individual to torture the evil out of them before they died, so they would arrive on the other side more capable of going to Heaven without spending so much time in Purgatory. That was truly their philosophical belief, and that indeed the more pain that they could inflict for a longer period of time on a person who had erred in some way, committed some kind of a crime, taught a doctrine which they believed was not true, that this was saving that person in some way. The fact that there were so many sadists among the Jesuits who really enjoyed doing that kind of work should have been something to alert them to the possibility that there might be something wrong with what they were doing, but they really believed that. As a consequence, the personal karma that they reaped for the incredible pain they created for so many people by psychological and physical, and what about the ones they shut up in dungeons for twenty years who never saw the light of day or heard another voice for twenty years, maybe they were worse off than the ones that they tortured on the rack. But, in doing these things still have to suffer the karma of what they inflicted on other people, they must go through the same experience someplace else in some other time. Maybe all of them have done so already. So, you can see that was their belief and the fact that they operated on that belief but the belief was wrong and the belief led them into extreme spiritual hardship. So, I think it behooves all of us to know what is the truth so that we can guide our actions to be in accord with the truth rather than against the truth.
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