© 2000 François Le Rohellec, Jean-Claude Romeuf, Jean Davier, Guy Bourhis, Jeanmarie Chaise
© 2000 French-speaking Association of Readers of the Urantia Book
Journal of the association L'A.F.L.L.U. French-speaking Association of Readers of the URANTIA Book
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¶ A Word from the President
There are questions that appear very simple but nevertheless carry within them the most fundamental aspects that exist. This is what I think of the call launched by Christine Baussain in the previous link (Link No. 12), a call that I perceive as follows: how can we translate and above all share in our human relationships the most beautiful substance and the fullness of our individual communion with our Father?
Indeed, are we not told on page 2097 that “the great challenge facing modern man is to establish better communications with the divine Monitor who inhabits the human mind”?
And is it not through this certainty of the experience of the divine in oneself that spiritual unity - doubtless the basis of the most effective and generous associations - is born among men?
So many elements that deserve at least that we stop and think about them a little, as some of you have already done in this new issue of Lien.
Happy reading!
Francois Le Rohellec
President of the A.F.L.L.U.
¶ Summary
- The President’s Word by François Le Rohellec
- A fire by Jean-Claude Romeuf.
- Melchizedek or the 2nd Revelation By Jean Davier
- Does God exist? by Jean Davier
- Questions-Answers:
- Bottle caught by Guy Bourhis
- What Would Jesus do? by Jeanmarie Chaise
- Gazette section
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¶ A Fire
Winter is here, cold, silvery and magical. Nothing moves under the frost. Only the fairies dance in the frost. Not a sound enters the house. We are going to change years, centuries, millennia. What does it matter! It is a number composed of a two with three zeros. We will have to get used to writing it, that’s all!.. “The days go by, I remain” says the poet.
What could be more pleasant on this cold day than to curl up next to the fireplace, breathing in the haunting but irritated voice of dead wood becoming embers and then ash! The flame slides its ghostly fingers into the meanders of my meditation, mixing it with caramelized sedative scents.
Jean-Claude Romeuf
¶ Melchizedek or the third revelation
The term Melchizedek designates an order of divine sons halfway in the spiritual hierarchy between God and men. They are also called emergency sons. After the rebellion of the planetary prince Caligastia and the failure of the material sons Adam and Eve, twelve Melchizedeks assumed the supra-material jurisdiction of our planet. They can make themselves visible to material creatures and even incarnate as was the case of Machiventa Melchizedek on our earth. It is interesting to consult the Testamentary and New Testament chronicles which deal with this subject:
- in Genesis 14-18 “Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine: he was priest of the Most High. He blessed Abram” (who became Abraham: father of many nations, Gen: 17-5)
- his name is mentioned in the psalms of David (110-4) “the Lord has sworn and he will not repent: you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”
Jean Davier
¶ Does God exist?
Many human beings feel indifference or skepticism towards the problems of the existence of the spirit and eternal survival. Are we tossing around in a hopelessly closed abyss, with no other way out than death, from which no one returns according to the old adage?
After the single thought of past centuries made of ecclesiastical domination, a new totalitarianism has taken hold, driving an unprecedented scientific development, an uncontrolled social metamorphosis and incapable of forging an ideal society, where religion, science and philosophy would work together for the accomplishment of man.
Jean Davier
¶ Questions and Answers
Bottle caught
A word of advice to Christine. You have to read and reread the Book. I know some of us who have read more than twenty “passages” and they are not tired. The more they read, the more their eyes are opened, the more their hearts open, and the more they are able to study, that is to say, to delve deeper into certain subjects, to connect them together, and thus arrive at a harmonious practice of the teachings of the Urantia Book.
It is this studious reading which gradually allows them to “translate” a little of what is written into a little of what is experienced.
This is a slow maturation of our minds that can be accelerated when the Adjuster, our divine Gift, has perceived the state of our progress and our readiness to do the will of the Father. This “movement” is solely within the realm of individual experience: no one can “move” our Adjuster for us, it being well known that in reality, it is rather he who seeks to “move” us by a whole range of means of which we are generally not conscious.
That said, the mere knowledge that at the moment one practices the studious reading of The Urantia Book, and that other readers in the world are engaged in an identical activity, must provide an exaltation of the soul which is none other than the feeling of “communing among ourselves in the love of our Father…”
Guy Bourhis
Another response to “Bottle in the Sea” by Christine Baussain
¶ “What Would Jesus Do?” »
“What Would Jesus Do?” is the title of a bestseller written by Charles M. Sheldon, which answers the vital question “What does it really mean to be a Christian?” and which can be found almost everywhere in the United States. Naturally here this small but essential question is to be considered for us in the light of our dear Revelation and not according to the concepts which have become traditional in our current Western cultures.
What would Jesus have done (meaning: in such circumstances?) This is the question I ask myself when I read this message from Christine Baussain, thrown into the sea of our questions. Yes, what would Jesus have done, or what would he have answered if he had been asked: “Is there not a way to commune with each other in the love of our Father?” What would he have answered, in fact, to people who had just become aware of The Urantia Book and who would ask him such a question?
Jeanmarie Chair
¶ Relaxation Corner
Severin Desbuisson
¶ Gazette section
It might interest some of you to know that a group of New Zealanders are making machines that deliver more electrical energy than they consume, since they are able to capture energy from space. If you are interested, you can contact Guy Antequera at his e-mail address: guy.antequera@wanadoo.fr, and/or visit the website: http://depalma.pair.com/ . Guy is a long-time reader of the Urantia Book, he was part of the Avignon study group before leaving for Touraine, but there is a good chance that we will see him again in the Avignon region as well as his charming wife, Marie-José, during the year 2000.
Chris Ragetly
¶ The various teams of the A.F.L.L.U.
Le Lien Urantien
Responsible: Chris Ragetly with:
- Anne-Marie and Dominique Ronfet: reading committee and layout.
- Séverin Desbuisson: reading committee and sending mail.
- Joseph Le Dain: paper edition and mail delivery.
Mainly electronic channel (use of e-mail with sending of attached files) except for paper edition and mail sending.
Organization of meetings
Responsible: Séverin Desbuisson with Philippe D’Amore.
- Search for accommodation
- Writing and sending the advertisement
- Organization of the meeting
Readership Management
Practical aspects
Responsible: Pascal Coulombe in association with the Paris office run for the foundation by Marie-France.
- Computer data entry, management of subscriptions (Urantian Link and I.U.A. Journal) and contributions.
- Dispatching mail/phone calls to various managers.
- Heart-throb.
For a few weeks now, common use of a database shared between several locations and users (integrated synchronization mechanism). Exchange of updates by email.
Relational aspects
Responsible: François Le Rohellec with all local intermediaries.
- Management of the geographical distribution of readership and transmission of information to local intermediaries.
- Each local intermediary is responsible for inter-reader links in their region.
The primary basis of readership management is the contact form sent to any reader contacting the office for information. In addition to the primary technical management, the essential thing is the personal contact made possible by the regional (and later departmental) division.
Edition of ancillary publications
Responsible: Joseph Le Dain
- In conjunction with the Urantian Link reading committee, evaluation of the work proposed for publication (distribution limited to the readership, no public distribution possible given the association’s statutes of the 1901 law type).
- Finalization of the layout.
- Management of legal aspects (ISSN — ISBN number).
- Implementation of the necessary means to successfully produce the paper edition at a lower cost and in a flexible manner (very variable number of copies).
- Final paper edition.
Website
Responsible: François Le Rohellec
- Technical management of the site.
- Selection and upstream processing of information for placement on the site. Technical management of the French-speaking forum.
¶ Meeting in Gex
The dates of the meetings for the readings of the Urantia Book are on Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. once a month, as well as on the last Sunday of the month at 2:00 p.m., in Gex at Johanna Beukers’s, 76, rue de Rogeland.
We have readers from France, Geneva and Lausanne who join us regularly.
Agenda of dates sent on telephone request: tel. 0450416559
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