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For readers of The
Urantia Book
Study
Grow Construct Proclaim Share
March, 2011
Dear friends,
Due to new
hardware and software, I can no longer maintain this website normally, and I am
gradually migrating to
http://sites.google.com/a/kent.edu/jwattles. This new site will not be
used, however, for the Urantia Book-related documents here. Instead, I
plan to construct a separate google website perhaps beginning this summer. Please enjoy this website for
any good you may receive here. Come visit the new site, and, most of all, enjoy
increasing truth, beauty, and goodness day by day.
Your brother,
Jeff
Welcome! It is a pleasure to offer
these resources. This site is for students of
The Urantia Book, but in case you are new to it, welcome again! Here's a
quick introduction.
This is a project-centered website. We are to form thousands of study
groups
the world over. This book indicates all that is involved in study,
and here are
resources for individuals or groups.
In addition, we are to train
leaders and teachers.
The authors highlight various high leverage projects for planetary
advancement. Some of them are featured in these documents.
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Personal
spiritual growth, highlighted in many of these
essays.
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"The religious challenge of this age," to construct a
new philosophy of living. This project outlines an integrated
spirituality, embracing science, philosophy, spiritual experience, the beauties
of nature, the charm of intellectual art, morality, and the grandeur of genuine
character achievement. I have drafted a popular version of this
project, available online, and another book is in the pipeline that will be
appropriate for use in higher education.
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Revitalize
the gospel movement. The gospel is
the core of the religion of Jesus, the living truth of the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man in its many-sided dynamism. I lead an internet gospel
school for students who want to deepen their understanding of this infinite,
divine, and eternal truth, to live it more fully, and to communicate it more
effectively to others.
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"The great hope" of our
planet has to do with "the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new
and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in
loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers."
How shall this project be carried forth? In the context of Paper 195,
two methods are indicated: revelatory living and sharing the book itself. Readers who discover the
life-transforming power of the truths in the pages of the book naturally desire
to share it with many people. But what are the principles explicit and
implicit in the book itself that guide us in doing so wisely? How shall we
introduce The
Urantia Book in accord with its teachings?
Some of the above resources have been translated into
French or Spanish.
Jeffrey Wattles
Most recently
revised, August 14, 2009
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