Reply to a September 2, 1997 letter from Mr Matthew Block for "The Fellowship"

Open reply to " The Fellowship "

September 16, 1997

Monsieur Block

Beforehand, I thank you very much to have gave me an honest reply concerning the two letters that I have sent you for information. You have responded me that you wanted that I know that a great number of readers in the Urantia movement were thinking in the same way and that some of them had already expressed similar convictions like the one express in my letter to the Foundation trustees. But in the same time you inform me in insinuation way that you refuse to publish it because I pretend having a meeting with Gabriel of Salvington, also that a great number of readers will reply with cynicism to these pretensions, and considering of the turbulent Fellowship story that the politics are decided according to the group wisdom. Nevertheless you finish your letter saying to me that you hope that the Foundation politics will change in response to comments and letters like mines.

First, if there is really a great number of readers who are thinking in the same way, why must we keep silent concerning these subjects? Isn’t dishonest hiding and ignoring such realities like these toward other people and behaving like we were not existed ?

Is your news are submit to a "good appearance" or to a frank and honest press liberty according to the book and what’s around? So who’s then the Fellowship represent now? Some "nice" persons who speak and think like the Foundation managers or readers in general ?

Personally, I haven’t meet too much readers who have been sharing trustees opinions on these questions about "Trademark and Copyright", neither about these persecutions with trials against persons and dynamic and sincere groups. But as we don’t want to live in squabble, as we want to live in peace so we do like we agreed with some positions even so aberrant in itself, and that almost everybody reprove it. Then we do like it is often in a family where there are some problems to hide, incest per example. They hide to entourage the lived incest reality because they are afraid the family break, afraid to finish alone so they suffer in silent and bear what is the unbearable. All the people nevertheless know that the only way we can stop problems like this is openly speak about it, what after permit to develop plans and to consider some solutions.

I think that the Fellowship who you admit having a "turbulent" passed actually live an internal consciousness problem still much more serious than any soundly turbulence. Perhaps most of the other similar groups also live the same thing. Is the Fellowship will haven’t on certain aspect give back their arms ahead of what I call " the Foundation enslaving power"; the contradictories whose emerge in the honest letter that you sent to me are the gleaming prove of it.

I invite you to audaciously go ahead in accordance with your deeps beliefs. Realize that you gently follow the political game construct on an illusory and deceitful base, and who have decided to adopt an authoritarianism autocratic management power to subordinate by force some members and readers which sincerely adheres to the book .

How can you say to me that you will keep on silent the book I create and the convictions I express, and at the same time that a great number of readers generally agree with my opinions and that you hope the Foundation politics will change unless you are personally persuaded of the rightness of the opinions I displays and who denounce the Foundation conducts.

I had in my hands an exemplary of the book adaptation the Fellowship have already edited and that you had to retire from the market because of it perverse license. It’s evil to have obligated the Fellowship to retire a such work like that who according to my sense is the most wonderful work that I ever seen and consulted presently. We shall not going very far to right away feeding and accepting such a govern like this, and taint with such a un-evolutionary comportment. Where are we when we are arrive to want to hide the truth because this risk to awake some deep personals convictions and who are shared by a lot of peoples?

How can we think that such a book who pretend to be the most recent "revelation" up to now reveal by competent supra-human personalities and it would be confined to live imprisoned in a rigid and sectarian enclosure, and what’s more to be prevented of reproducing itself? They want the book live but not too much, and certainly not having children. It’s absurd ! We do like in the ancient times where printing and communications was not existing to try to protect a written wholeness who are since much decades even so protected from these dangers simply because they have been passably edited in the English language and such as the revelators gave it to the earth people.

How can we imagine to have in our hands such a book like it and that the spirituals authorities would expect like capricious mythical Gods that the book be used only in restrictive perspectives and taint of pathologic rigidity and rigorousness? It would need certainly not to stop putting these sad realities on the table, otherwise this will certainly mean that the book is in danger. In danger to loose his own credibility in face of his owns teachings.

Concerning the cynicism which a great number of readers will respond to me concerning my meeting with Gabriel, I can only try to demonstrate the contradictory aspect of it in the actual circumstance :

How readers of this such a book and who proclaim from A to Z to have been communicate to the human subject who had this communication degree with invisible supra-human personalities would be unable to imagine the possibility that Michael and or his administrators disgust to manifest himself to human in particular and extraordinary situations (for us)? If it’s truth what you say to me, if it’s truth that readers will receive the pretends I affirm with cynicism instead of receiving it with an healthy curiosity and a reserved wisdom to minimal give attention and listening what I have to say so what are they doing with such a book like that in their hands.?

They want the Urantia Book do his way in the world like it is with his exceptional pretends, but in the same way they will welcome with cynicism that a human person will have been charged of some special missions, and personally meet the chef administrator who have nevertheless appointed and entrusted some responsibilities to all sorts of specialized personalities to work at the creation of several texts who compose the Book of Urantia ! Is it not a contradictory and paradoxical attitude?

All of you who work for the Fellowship would deeply meditate on these facts and contradictions who reflect the spirits states of your organism such your honest and sincere letter naturally let it show against the light.

If the Fellowship decide to keep conceal that a book of extracts five times smaller than the original book have been construct because I pretends to have meet Gabriel and there are some cynicism persons, so all of you would have to ignore the Book of Urantia and abandon your work at the Fellowship who’s according faith to similar book pretensions. Be that as it may, it’s an evidence that my pretensions are hard to accept, also believe that I easily imagine that it can be superfluous for simple readers that these astonishing pretends be displayed, BUT that my extracts book et that the ideals I display be hide, this, will be passably troubling, even so worrying!

We have a nice book in hands and it’s our responsibility to make it grown and make the most of it for the other people, in presenting it under all kind of diversified forms, for the love of the Truth, of Father will and for personal being of the humans who live on our planet, the Earth.

Fraternally,

Pierre Girard

Longueuil, Qc Canada …

P/S I seriously asking to me if it will not be necessary to begin to think to the necessity of putting on feet an organism totally detach from the Urantia Foundation and who would evolve to feel comfortable out of the narrow-minded and sophisms they profess against of the "simple good sense".

Excuse me to use openly your letter to try to make emerge certain realities and to do the truth promotion as being the only personal and collective valid base to finally be able to construct a world tainted of wisdom, love and peace.