© 2017 Ivan Stol, Claude Flibotte, Simon Orsini, Patrick Morelli
© 2017 Association Francophone des Lecteurs du Livre d'Urantia
Despite a sustained controversy over the origins of The Urantia Book, those who have read it seem to be attached to it by discovering the true spiritual values it contains. This is how, throughout the world, under the impetus of small groups that are increasingly numerous, spirituality and fraternity are developing gradually and almost uniformly. On the other hand, the methods differ according to the continents and the peoples, allowing imagination and creativity to express themselves widely, announcing future instructive exchanges. I will speak about this later.
Ivan
Le Lien is the journal of the French-speaking association of readers of the Urantia Book (AFLUB), a member of the UAI, Urantia Association International.
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The world did not appear by a magic wand of a so-called nature, but by a Creator whose design was carried out by subordinates. The organization of the universe is intelligent, so it must have the same origin.
The amoeba is the very type of single-celled organism that has perpetuated itself almost without modification.
This microscopic creature and its protozoan cousins correspond in animal creation to the bacteria of the plant world.
The stage was thus set for the appearance of the first vertebrate animals, fish.
Simon Orsini
The term tension in the singular and plural is used in 25 paragraphs, apart from meanings such as nervous, psychological or other tension.
“As a time-space creature would view the origin and differentiation of Reality, the eternal and infinite I AM achieved Deity liberation from the fetters of unqualified infinity through the exercise of inherent and eternal free will, and this divorcement from unqualified infinity produced the first absolute divinity-tension. This tension of infinity differential is resolved by the Universal Absolute, which functions to unify and co-ordinate the dynamic infinity of Total Deity and the static infinity of the Unqualified Absolute.” (UB 0:3.21)
In this chapter the term tension is used for the first time in The Urantia Book. One of the observations which may be made concerning the liberation of Deity from the fetters of unqualified infinity is that the inherent and eternal free will of Deity is apparently not comprehended in the fetters of the unqualified. The term divorce also suggests a rupture between the static unqualified and the dynamic infinity of Deity which is resolved or compensated by the Universal Absolute, which reunifies and coordinates these two antipodal states. The Urantia Book infers from this that the Universal Absolute was inevitable in the act of the absolute free will of the Universal Father.
Patrick Morelli
Following the questioning of my friend Éric Tarissan and those raised by Guy Perron about God the Sevenfold, here is my understanding as of today. Despite the fact that I have been studying this theme and many others for several years within another study group, I do not consider myself an expert on the subject. I feel and see myself much more as a perpetual student facing the mysterious beauties that await me in the eternal future!
I believe that we must follow the example provided by our revelators and, first of all, grasp the meaning of the words used in order to clarify our thinking. Let us therefore look at some of these definitions.
Claude Flibotte
In Rimini, on the shores of the Adriatic and opposite Croatia, kilometers of beaches hosted this third Franco-Italian meeting.
The topic: Doing God’s will
Participants:
They are now in the list of ectors_urantians_italians@urantia.fr.
Again, not far from the beach, the town of Sitges near Barcelona hosted this European inter-association meeting in Spain.
There were 18 of us for 8 associations:
Ivan Stol — November 2017
The weak take pleasure in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours, its consequences are God’s.
Knowledge is only possessed by sharing it; it is safeguarded by wisdom and made social by love.
Progress requires the development of individuality. Mediocrity seeks to perpetuate itself in uniformity.
The argumentation needed to defend a thesis is inversely proportional to the truth contained in that thesis.
Hello everyone. I again held a UB presentation stand in Toulon.
I met a few people who were surprised to discover a book that many volunteers were making known through their translation work, their donations and their rationality.
There were people, but only curious and intrigued people stopped to ask what it was about because as you can see in the photos, there was little information. Some even found the stand to have a more scientific than spiritual aspect.
Despite this, I had the joy of being able to speak about this book to several entire families, young people who were very alert and already on a personal path identical to that recommended in the book, and many others.