How I Found the Urantia Book - Square Circles Publishing

PART II: 1955-1969
JACQUES WEISS: Among the persons who were studying the typed
manuscript of the Urantia Papers between 1935 and 1955 was a Miss Caroline
Brown, a well-informed spiritualist with whom I had long conversations in New
York during the winter of 1947-1948. At that time Miss Brown never alluded to
the existence of the Papers.
In the early fifties this group received a celestial message stating that because
of advances in planetary communications, the number of potential readers had
become sufficient to justify the publication of the Papers in English with an initial
printing of 10,000 copies, and that a translator in another language would be
found to make it a truly worldwide work.
During Christmas time in 1955, as soon as the Papers appeared in English
under the title of “The Urantia Book,” Miss Brown sent me a copy and hinted
that the publication message might be meant for me.
It took me the first months of 1956 to read the book.
Like many French people, I had been searching for a philosophy that could
unite science and religion. After a thirty-year quest, I found it in the Urantia
Book. Well aware of the difficulty of translating the book into French and
publishing it, I nevertheless decided to consider myself, from that time on, as
being on a mission. I translated the whole text by hand in twenty-nine large
notebooks, constantly receiving immense aid from the invisible world—collaboration,
health, inspiration, and money.
When the manuscript was well on the way, I asked my secretary to
undertake the typing. Then I wrote to the Urantia Foundation, telling them
that I had translated the book into French and requesting permission to publish
it. There followed an endless period of negotiations and controls which finally
resulted in an agreement for which it was necessary for me to go to Chicago in
1960.
When I arrived there on August 21, Dr. Sadler introduced me to an assembly
of around seventy Urantians with the following words: “We received the order
to publish the Urantia Book in 1955 because the time had come and because
there would be a translator. I introduce to you today this translator, whose potential
the spiritual world knew of before the translator, himself, knew of the
existence of the work.”
Naturally these exceptional circumstances led me to form a great friendship
with Dr. Sadler in 1960. He was then 85 years old. In leaving him, I asked for his
promise to stay alive until I could come again to see him and deliver to him in
person the international fruit of the work. He kept his word.
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