Note that the preceding two quotes from The Urantia Papers speak only of destiny reservists. Apparently such guardianship is associated only with those individuals who are members of the Reserve Corps of Destiny. Most likely this guardianship is not because the Destiny Reservists are special in the eyes of God, but because their loss would be damaging to unfolding planetary destiny. They are not given guardianship because of who they are, but because of what they are.

We should note that competent and trustworthy to assume such responsibilities does not necessarily mean they possess attributes of personality or talent that we would consider outstanding against the secular criteria of this present world. Elijah and John the Baptist were both feisty individuals who held no fear of speaking the truth in the face of social condemnation by their fellows. Many would not consider them stable personalities. The criteria are sufficient mental capacity, adequate moral status, and requisite spirituality. An immoral human being could not achieve such calling, nor could someone with a slow mind. Also spirituality in the eyes of God may not mean a quite personality or passive demeanor. We must be very careful in our assessment of human mortals who would qualify for such service.

A very specific qualification in the current world scene is a repugnance for spirit communication through the mind. The loyal midwayers now on this planet do not engage in spiritualism or mediumship. They do not manipulate the neural currents and modulate the brain synapses of their human brothers.

~206~ The Birth of a Divine Revelation

Page 865 — Their (midwayer) chief work today is that of unperceived personal-liaison associates of those men and women who constitute the planetary reserve corps of destiny. It was the work of this secondary group, ably seconded by certain of the primary corps, that brought about the co-ordination of personalities and circumstances on Urantia which finally induced the planetary celestial supervisors to initiate those petitions that resulted in the granting of the mandates making possible the series of revelations of which this presentation is a part. But it should be made clear that the midway creatures are not involved in the sordid performances taking place under the general designation of spiritualism. The midwayers at present on Urantia, all of whom are of honorable standing, are not connected with the phenomena of so-called mediumship; and they do not, ordinarily, permit humans to witness their sometimes necessary physical activities or other contacts with the material world, as they are perceived by human senses.

The emphasis is mine.

Mediumship, regardless of its name, whether channeling, transmitters and receivers, or any other name devised to mislead the spiritual fools of this world, is not engaged in by the midwayers. When they used SS they did not use his mind.  He was not a medium, channeler, or transmitter and receiver.

How then, can they penetrate human minds while respecting the dignity of those persons? Why is this not spiritualism?

The key is in this statement:

This statement suggests that the ministry of midwayers is required for members of the Reserve Corps of Destiny to achieve more efficient contact with their Adjusters. They may not be able to do so at the levels required, on their own, without this ministry. Thus reservists come in closer touch with the Spirit of God that is within them, and thus they gain a better sense of God’s will on this world.

Then the statement . . .

This was accomplished in much the same way as the loyal midway creatures function when they serve as efficient contact guardians of the human minds of the Urantia reserve corps of destiny at those times when the Adjuster is, in effect, detached from the personality. . . . tells us that the midwayers serve as guardians when the Adjuster is detached. When the Adjuster leaves for a period of time the human mind of this mortal must be guarded from the penetration of Caligastia. This may be necessary because members of the Reserve Corps of Destiny are forward-looking individuals.

They have wide ranging minds; Caligastia may attempt to mislead them if the midwayer did not protect against this threat. Caligastia is not interested in penetrating the minds of other mortals except where they give themselves over to him; other mortals do not play keys roles in unfolding planetary destiny.

15 - The Urantia Papers on Origins ~207~

This statement again confirms our suggestion that midwayers function to assist the Adjuster in conveying to the mortal mind those concepts and information necessary for that mortal to function in certain planetary crises. The mortal is rehearsed in the deep mind but is wholly unconscious of the activity. Curiously, some human mortals are contact personalities and are conscious of the contact, although it is possible they may not fully understand the purpose or the process.

Sadler certainly was one of those.

This statement leads many to draw a parallel between the human subject of Sadler’s study who was quite unconcerned about the entire procedure, and this individual who remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He would also then be the human being through whom this communication is being made. But who was the human being who enjoyed such a wide scope of activity? It could not have been the sleeping subject, with his great lack of concern. It had to be Sadler. If the Adjuster was working with SS how did that subject reconcile the leadings of the Adjuster? Did Sadler not work in the higher levels of intellectual comprehension and destiny concern? Did the human subject recognize the working of the Adjuster within him, or did Sadler since childhood learn a passive reaction to and inactive concern for those leadings which took place in his mind?

One other passage relates to the process of the presentation of this great Revelation.

~208~ The Birth of a Divine Revelation

Again, is this human subject the human subject of Sadler’s study, or the human subject of celestial activity? The inference of the human subject of these statements depends upon our perspective. The text can be weighed against either hypothesis. But now the arguments are sufficiently strong to demonstrate that this individual must have been Sadler. He could not have been SS.

Yet again, we can see why there was such confusion in the identification of the subject through whom these communications were transmitted. Sadler’s reference to the sleeping subject would make that identity certain. And Sadler definitely placed such interpretation on these passages. It simply never occurred to him, nor would it have been in the capacity of his thought, to believe it might mean someone other than the sleeping subject. The choice was natural for him. He, and his family, and all those he came into personal contact with, became imbued with the idea that these passages meant the sleeping subject. The idea of his sleeping patient being the sleeping subject, hence the subject of these passages, was natural for him to assume. But the passage does not speak of a sleeping subject. It speaks merely of a subject, as viewed from heavenly perspectives. Sadler was the subject through whom the communications came, not the sleeping man. But Sadler would never have entertained the possibility that he was the subject, he was too humble a man.

15 - The Urantia Papers on Origins ~209~

Thus we have direct confirmation that the midway creatures could manipulate the voice and the muscles of SS to produce the effects which so compelled Sadler. And they worked with him only when he was fully asleep, in order that they not violate his free will dignity. They did not enter his mind, and they did not talk with him through his mental neural circuits.

While these several passages explain the mechanisms involved in the revelation of The Urantia Papers, and identify for us the subject, the key personality in bringing the revelation to the world, there is still one word which states how the process of the final revelation was accomplished.

The key word is materialized. The Urantia Papers were materialized. The final and authorized text appeared suddenly, in written form. It did not come through SS, nor did it come through any sordid spiritualist performance. It came miraculously.

At this point it may be helpful to describe some of the episodes which brought Sadler around to the possibility of divine personalities working intimately with this world. One anecdote told privately to others concerned an unusual event early in Sadler’s experience with SS.

Some time in 1910 the Sadlers were awakened early one morning by an urgent telephone call from the wife of SS. She was beside herself. Something almost frightening had taken place during the night. When she awoke she found their apartment in some disarray, with piles of papers scattered about. She immediately awakened her husband. They examined the papers and found they contained written material on the subjects of the revelation. She immediately called Sadler. As Lena later described it, they were like firemen racing down the street in their night robes to the home of SS. Sadler found the piles of papers, much where SS and his wife had left them.

They counted about 400 pages, all covered with the handwriting of SS. The mass of material would have required the entire night for the man to write. It was coherent and organized, certainly not something a person would have done in his sleep, semiconscious. Sadler immediately tested the man’s hand and arm for fatigue but found none. His muscles were as though he had done nothing the entire night. What was truly going on?

As Sadler wrote to Willie White on November 6, 1910, I have had a very exceptional, and to me, a very remarkable experience.

At that point Sadler had sufficient evidence to recognize that the phenomenon of SS was more than the product of the man’s mind. It was miraculous, but Sadler, being so practically minded, was unwilling to label it such.

~210~ The Birth of a Divine Revelation

This was only the first step in a series of miraculous events. As described in the History document, the Forum members became intimately involved in the unfolding of the Revelation. If they did not ask questions there would be no response. Many of those members believed the revelators were unsure of human perception, and therefore depended on the questions to determine the style and content of the Revelation. But such view is primitive. Our celestial overseers know us inside out. It would be foolish to not recognize this. They did not need a group of human beings to show them the way. The real purpose of this procedure was to get the members emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually devoted to the Revelation. According to anecdotes, changes would be made in individual papers from the questions generated by the Forum members after they read the papers. Thus the members came to believe they were important contributors, and helped form the content of the Revelation. They probably were guided to such view by the Revelators, in order to keep them closely involved, and faithful to the Revelation.

Sadler told the story of how the miracle of the Revelation began to unfold. As I discussed earlier, Sadler and the Forum members were reprimanded for not asking more pertinent questions. As that process unfolded another strange event occurred. A list of questions was generated after one Sunday session. Sadler placed these questions in his office, in preparation for the next episode with SS, whenever that might occur. But something new took place. When Sadler went for the questions they had disappeared. In their place was a paper in response to the questions. Sadler thought that perhaps someone in the family had played a trick on him, but everyone denied it. No other persons should have had access to his private office. Did someone else do it? In order to reassure himself, he took the next list of questions to his bank box, where he placed them, under his private lock. As the story is told, he went on a Friday evening just before bank closing to ensure that no one else would have access. He then returned Monday morning when the bank opened, before anyone else had opportunity to get into the box. When he opened the box the same miracle had taken place, The questions were gone. They had been replaced by a paper.

Thus Sadler was led through a series of steps which prepared him for the final miracle of the revelation. Then, after ten years of activity with the Forum, the authorized Papers appeared. They came in groups, or sets, without questions from the Forum. They became the actual Revelation. Sadler was instructed to destroy all preliminary Papers.

The actual Revelation was in an unknown handwriting, not that of SS. And here is where Sadler was tested again. Whose handwriting was it? He took samples of handwriting from members of the Forum and his family to handwriting analysts, together with samples of the Papers. The analysts could not identify the source. It certainly was not in the handwriting of SS.

Thus we can grasp how Sadler was gradually conditioned to the miracle of the actual Revelation.

15 - The Urantia Papers on Origins ~211~

Unfortunately, because of his mid-western conservative mind, Sadler never fully came to grips with the possibility of an actual miracle. His explanation was that SS received messages through his Thought Adjuster, and that the midwayers, through skillful penetration of the mind of the latter’s indwelling then had contact with that information from the Spirit of the Father, and thus were able to place on paper the content of the Revelation. Sadler was led to this deduction because of the passages of revelation discussed above. First, he failed to recognize that he was the Contact Personality. He understood that to be SS. Then the skillful penetration of the mind of the latter’s indwelling had to be SS. He clung to this view in spite of the fact that he was unable to find any trace of the material in the mind of SS. He also failed to realize that the midwayers could communicate directly with planetary and universe supervisors, to produce the text. Why go through the mind of SS?