© 1986 G. Harpur, William Wentworth, Madeline Noordzy
© 1986 ANZURA, Australia & New Zealand Urantia Association
P.0.Box 606, Brighton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 3186.
¶ A Note From The 6-0-6 Team
Welcome to our first issue for 1986. We have some great ideas planned this year for your enjoyment — articles, study information, cartoons, the children’s competition, and news from around the world.
A major event this year will be the National Conference in Melbourne on the weekend of June 7 and 8. Keep the weekend free so you can join in the fun.
The theme will be: “The Tapistry of Loving Service”
This year we also intend to make the Urantia Book more readily available Australia wide, with books available through local study groups at a reasonable price. More details later. Remember too that we’d love to hear from you. So do drop us a line.
¶ 30th Anniversary — An Excerpt From The Urantian, December 1985
Last October 12 saw the attainment of a significant milestone — the 30th anniversary of the first publication in 1955 of The URANTIA Book. By the end of this 30 th anniversary year (i.e.1985) more than 143,000 copies of the original English version of The URANTIA Book will have been sold and distributed since its initial publication. Figures for the sale and distribution of the French translation of The URANTIA Book (titled Le Livre d’URANTIA), since its first publication in 1961, will reach a total of almost 17,000 copies at the conclusion of this year. Thus, by year’s end, the combined total of all copies of The URANTIA Book sold and distributed since 1955 will be about 160,000 books.
Historically, it is interesting to note that during the first half of this 30-year period (or until the end of 1970) about 18,000 copies of The URANTIA Book (English version) were sold and distributed, while in the second half of this 30-year period, more than 125,000 copies of the English version were sold and distributed. Yet another intriguing fact is that it is within the last ten years that almost two thirds of all copies of the English version have been sold and distributed.
While we do not have complete figures for the month of December, it is possible to state that distribution for the English version and the French translation of The URANTIA Book will reach nearly 10,000 copies this year. Distribution for The URANTIA Book will exceed 8,000 copies, while that for Le Livre d’URANTIA will be somewhat less than 2,000 copies.
¶ Calendar Of Events + February 1986
Wed. 5th Feb. Brighton Study Group : Guerdian Angels. p. 1241
Tues. 11th Fèb. Shepparton Study Group: What is Religion?
Wed.12th Feb. Frankston Study Group: Ministry of The Infinite Spirit.
Wed. 19th Feb. Glen Waverley Study Group: The Faith of Jesus.p. 2087
Every Wednesday the Sydney Study Group meets at 7 Walsh. St.Narrabeen.
¶ The Cosmos Directory
G. Harpur
| LOCATION | HEADQUARERS | IS RULED BY | IS THE | DESIGNATION | IN THE | OF | WHICH CON- SISTS OF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| URANTIA | 1 PLANETARY PRINCE |
606th | PLANET OR INHABITED WORLD |
SYSTEM | SATANIA | 619 INHABITED WORLDS 1000 WHEN COMPLETED |
|
| SATANIA | JERUSEM | 1 SYSTEM SOVEREIGN LANAFORGE |
24th | LOCAL SYSTEM |
CONSTEL- LATION |
NORLATIA- DEK |
100 LOCAL SYSTEMS |
| NORLATIADEK | EDENTIA | 3 VORONDADEK SONS ( THE MOST HIGHS ) 1 FAITHFUL OF DAYS ( IN OBSERVATION ) |
70th | CONSTEL- LATION |
LOCAL UNIVERSE |
NEBADON | 100 CON- STELLATIONS |
| NEBADON | SALVINGTON | 1 CREATOR SON MICHAEL 1 UNION OP DAYS ( IN ATTENDANCE ) |
84th | LOCAL UNIVERSE |
MINOR SECTOR |
ENSA | 100 LOCAL UNIVERSES |
| ENSA | U MINOR THE THIRD |
3 RECENTS OF DAYS | 3rd | MINOR SECTOR |
MAJOR SECTOR |
SPLANDON | 100 MINOR SECTORS |
| SPLANDON | U MAJOR THE FIFTH |
3 PERFECTIONS OF DAYS |
5th | MAJOR SECTOR |
SUPER- UNIVERSE |
ORVONTON | 10 MAJOR SECTORS |
| ORVONTON | UVERSA | 3 ANCIENTS OF DAYS |
7th | SUPER- UNIVERSE |
GRAND UNIVERSE |
MASTER UNIVERSE |
7 SUPER- UNIVERSES 1 CENTRAL UNIVERSE 4 UNINHABITED SPACE LEVELS |
Note: If you want to contact Uversa, be sure check this directory first for correct area code. If you want speak the Universal Father personally, contact your private Thought Adjuster.
¶ The Derivation of Values
At a political seminar in Sydney recently it was clearly understood, that the quality of our political life grows out of the values we live by. The values we live by determine the essence and quality of our entire civilisation; and our system of social co-operation and control — our political life in general — is no exception. An understanding of this fact — that values lie behind all our social processes — is one of the keys to improving the level of our political life in Australia, but it is something which often seems to be overlooked both by elected representatives and by the population at large.
When this same seminar came to consider the question of the derivation of values, however, there was much less understanding. Two capable and courageous women from Queensland, who have been struggling to influence education policy in that state, made out the case for the official inculcation of traditional Christian values, which are often attacked and derided by radical teachers. There seemed to be general agreement that any moral revival in Australia would be based on such values. And it was at this point that I found myself in disagreement with these sincere women.
William Wentworth, Towamba, N.S.W.
¶ Crossword for the Children
Across
- 1. When Joshua was 13 yrs. old he went to … for his first Passover (9)
- 2. Joshua’s mother was called … (4)
- 7. Name of one of the singers at the temple (6)
- 9. City through which Joshua travelled on his way to Jerusalem (7)
- 10. The … of Bethlehem is a legend (4)
- 11. One of the languages that Joshua spoke (7)
- 15. Name of the other singer at the temple (4)
- 17. Town where Joseph and Mary lived (8)
- 20. Joshua liked to … with blocks on the house top (4)
- 21. Joseph was Mary’s husband and Joshua was … son (3)
- 22. God’s light of … is stronger than the sun (4)
- 26. One of Joshua’s brothers was called … (4)
- 27. A group of traders with their bags and camels is called… (7)
- 28. Joshua’s uncle lived by the … of Galilee (3)
- 29. The potter in Nazareth was called … (6)
- 32. Herod ruled over the land of … (7)
- 33. How old you are is called your … (3)
- 34. Joshua learned to weave on a… (4)
- 35. Can you … a boat? (3)
- 36. When Joshua was born all the … of earth sang a song of glory
- 38. The Jewish … said that you must not make idols or images (3)
- 40. A new thought in your mind is sometimes called an … (4)
- 42. We call our planet … (5)
- 44. Joshua was a … of his heavenly Father (3)
- 46. A Jewish temple is called a … (9)
- 47. Frozen water is called … (3)
- 49. When Joshua was 9 yrs. Old, he and his Dad climbed Mount … (5)
- 51. Horrible:… wanted to kill baby Joshua (5)
- 52. Joshua learned to … the cow (4)
- 54. Joseph 's trade was being a … (9)
- 56. The name of the heavenly helper who came to see Mary was… (7)
DOWN
- 1. Joshua’s Greek name is (5)
- 2. Then Joshua was born the Hebrews were ruled by the … (6)
- 3. Mary and Joseph had a table made out of … (5)
- 4. Mary’s cousin 's name was… (9)
- 5. Joshua’s first sister was called … (6)
- 6. Joseph and Mary lived … a stone house (2)
- 7. The earth name for baby Jesus was… (6)
- 12. We all … God’s children (3)
- 13. Nathan made pots of … (4)
- 14. Joshua could play beautiful music on his … (4)
- 16. Name of big city in Egypt where Joshua spent his first few years (10)
- 18. Name of the priest who was John the Baptist’s father (9)
- 19. When Joshua is 5 yrs. old, he … his Mum with the baby (5)
- 23. Before Joshua was born, he was the creator of our universe. He was…(7)
- 24. The people: that were not Jewish were called the … (8)
- 25. After Joshua was born, Hary wrapped him up and put him in a …
- 30. There Joshua lived, they could see the snow on Mount… (6)
- 31. The journey on a donkey is pretty … (4)
- 37. The Bible that Joshua family possessed was written in … (5)
- 39. Three … men came to see baby Joshua (4)
- 40. The place where Joshua was born was a grain storage under the …(3)
- 41. Name of Joshua"s brother was… (4)
- 43. In July and August the weather was … in Nazareth (3)
- 44. The Jewish Saturday was called the …(7)
- 45. Joshua liked to go … with his uncle on the sea of Galilee (7)
- 48. Joseph and Mary were … (6)
- 50. Joshua … many questions (5)
- 53. Another word for sick (3)
- 55. The three wise men came from the land of … (2)
¶ The Service Motive
It has been suggested that Australia is the Western World’s most secular nation. I leave it to you, to decide whether this is true or false. But another survey done a few years ago, came up with the conclusion that Australians are the happiest people in the world. Again is this true or false? We could start drawing all sorts of conclusions from these statements, if we took them seriously.
If we compare ourselves with countries like India, Iran, Pakistan and a few other ones, where religion plays such an important part in the lives of people, we could say that we are better off without it. It is perhaps true that we do not want to go back to the stage where the religions of fear held people in their grip.
¶ Encyclopedia On A Disk
In the beginning, there was the book. Now there is the compact disk. Grolier, a Connecticut-based publisher of encyclopedias and other educational materials, last week announced, it would begin marketing a compact-disk version of its “Academic American Encyclopedia” in October. The CD encyclopedia, printed on a shiny platter 4.72 in. in diameter, will contain all the information in Grolier’s 21-volume, 9 million-word printed encyclopedia.
The disk encyclopedia will work on a personal computer like the IBM PC, once it is equipped with a special compact-disk drive. This spins the CD platter and translates the digital information into words with a laser beam.
The possibilities of storing vast amounts of information on disks appear to be almost limitless. A single disk, for example, is capable of holding the contents of 540 copies of the King James Bible. Grolier’s next project: a disk that will hold both an unabridged dictionary and a thesaurus.
TIME July 1985
¶ Our Readers Around Australia
