Los escritos de Urantia hablan de Rodan de Alejandría como una persona real, seguidor de Jesús, que intenta armonizar la filosofía griega con el nuevo evangelio. Pero es curioso que la fuente de los reveladores es Henry Nelson Wieman y él no menciona a Rodan --que yo sepa--, sino que solo reflexiona sobre determinados temas de los que Los escritos saca diferentes pasajes. ¿Cómo es esto posible? ¿Coincidencias entre lo que dijo Rodan y él?
Henry Nelson Wieman, The Issues of Life (New York: The Abingdon Press, 1930)
Excerpts are from Wieman’s Chapter II: Living Together which parallel The Urantia Book: Paper 160, Rodan of Alexandria, Section 2; _The Art of Living
The Urantia Book UB 160:2.1 There are just two ways in which mortals may live together: the material or animal way and the spiritual or human way. By the use of signals and sounds animals are able to communicate with each other in a limited way. But such forms of communication do not convey meanings, values, or ideas. The one distinction between man and the animal is that man can communicate with his fellows by means of symbols which most certainly designate and identify meanings, values, ideas, and even ideals.
Source (Wieman 1) There are two ways of living together. One is practiced by all the lower animals. Men also live together in this way. But there is another way in which men can live together, in addition to this way of the lower animals. Let us call the first the low way and the other the high way. The low way is by anticipatory adjustments which are mutually adaptive to one other. The high way is by communication through which meanings are shared. These two ways of associating are radically different, although the difference is rather difficult to put into words. The second kind of association, which we call the high way, is what makes all the difference between the distinctively human and the merely animal way of living. Personality as something peculiar to man is developed out of this high way of living together. Human culture, the progressive accumulation of a social heritage, art, religion, philosophy, science, political and economic organization all develop out of this high way of living together and cannot develop when the low way is the only kind of association which is practiced
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What The Urantia Book Says About Its Origin and Purpose
Last edited by Jan Herca
06/05/2024
© 2000 David Kantor
© 2000 The Urantia Book Fellowship
Origin
[0:0.2] The revelators acknowledge the requirement placed on their activities of making use of the symbolism of the English language in giving expressing to the substance of the revelation.
[0:12.10] Initial acknowledgement by the authors of The Urantia Book of the revelator’s reliance upon human sources of expression.
[0:12.12] Editors acknowledge the role of spiritual forces in effective communication of spiritual values and universe meanings.
[77:8.13] Credit is given to the Midwayers for initiating the action which resulted in the appearance of The Urantia Book.
[119:8.9] Comment on the material presented in the discussion of the seven bestowals of Christ Michael
[121:0.1] A Midwayer’s comment about Part IV of The Urantia Book
[121:8.12] Midwayer acknowledgment of human sources used in the construction of the story of Jesus
Note that the Midwayers say of the four Gospels, “And these records, imperfect as they are, have been sufficient to change the course of the history of Urantia for almost two thousand years.” [121:8.11]
[77:8.8] About “contact personalities”
[110:5.7] “The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made . . .”
[101:4.1] The Limitations of Revelation
[101:5.1] Religion Expanded by Revelation
Purpose
“. . . our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception . . ”
“. . . What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, . . .”
[195:10.6] “The call to the adventure of building a new and transformed human society . . .”
[195:10.16] “The great hope of Urantia . . .”
[99:1.3] “The paramount mission of religion as a social influence is . . .”
[2:7.10] “The religious challenge of this age is . . .”
[195:9.4] “Religion does need new leaders, men and women who will dare . . .”
[196:1.3] “. . . Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is . . .”
[99:2.6] “True religion carries over from one age to another the worth-while culture . . .”
References
This article at The Urantia Book Fellowship website
