Project Authorization
December 2023
This project is being carried out under the aegis of the
Truth Beauty and Goodness Commission.
I – Project Authorization
Machiventa's updated request to build a Global Library of Wisdom (project scope has been redefined).
Missing the transcript where Machiventa narrowed the scope to matters pertaining only to progress toward Light and Life status.
CTAG #19 transcript - October 16, 2023
We have always had little groups here and there all over the place, each one kind of working independently on their own and some have survived the three decades plus of this Teaching Mission and are a tremendous repository of wisdom and service.
So, we are in the very beginning stages of trying to envision how to create a repository of expertise and make available to our brothers and sisters our collective wisdom and experience so that it's there when it's needed.
Machiventa's original request to build a Global Library of Wisdom (project scope was too big)
Bryan Guignard - Sponsor Mar 2, 2017.
Machiventa Melchizedek presented the people of Urantia with the concept of a Global Library of Wisdom. Some of the transmissions from Machiventa referring to this are listed below. More references will be added as they are discovered.
From New Era Transition #04 – Evolution of Democracies, Oct 3, 2016.
Machiventa: As we have said as well, we hope that eventually there would one day be a library of sustaining human wisdom, so that what works is retained, and what does not work is also set aside to show and demonstrate to the readers and patrons of this library what does not work. We know that what does not work is often forgotten, similarly as the pangs of birth are forgotten by the mother in her great joy for her new child. So too, must this reality remain with you, but not agonize you; it must in fact, give you hope that through the positive and constructive wisdom that is retained, you have confidence that you can make improvements on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and decade basis to improve your societies. When hope is gone, then confidence becomes vacant; it is essential that you have confidence in the knowledge of what works from the past to begin the inception of new dimensions of inventiveness, socially, politically and economically.
Library of wisdom.
As we have said as well, we hope that eventually there would one day be a library of sustaining human wisdom, so that what works is retained, and what does not work is also set aside to show and demonstrate to the readers and patrons of this library what does not work. We know that what does not work is often forgotten, similarly as the pangs of birth are forgotten by the mother in her great joy for her new child. So too, must this reality remain with you, but not agonize you; it must in fact, give you hope that through the positive and constructive wisdom that is retained, you have confidence that you can make improvements on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and decade basis to improve your societies. When hope is gone, then confidence becomes vacant; it is essential that you have confidence in the knowledge of what works from the past to begin the inception of new dimensions of inventiveness, socially, politically and economically.
July 20, 2015 – From New Era Conversations #51 – Democracy and Its Evolution.
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager.
A library of wisdom is essential.
We have mentioned in the past that there has never been a library of wisdom to guide decision-making, whether as a father or mother, family, community, state or a nation. There are actions that support continuity and sustainability, and actions that do not. There are actions that in fact, are detrimental to the sustainability of a family or nation. We estimate that eventually someone, sometime, somewhere will begin to develop such a library of humanity’s sustaining wisdom, and that they will be funded with knowledge and wisdom that comes from all the history of human societies and humankind, throughout all its history, and contemporarily, from all the millions of social research projects that have ever been completed, and that these will eventually be summarized into categories for social sustainability, social and societal sustainability, political and governmental sustainability, and financial and economic sustainability. There are certain rules, certain proofs, certain truths in those three areas that are invariably linked, that when broken they will surely bring about eventual social decline and collapse.
July 6, 2015 – From New Era Conversations #50 – Destabilizing World; Trust; Government.
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager.
There is no library of wisdom for guidance
These nations have no formulated policy on how to resolve these great problems. This points to the imminent fact of elements that contribute to the instability of your world, if not the anticipation of the future. Your nations and societies and institutions were never formed with an underlying intention to become sustainable, so when these events develop they are new and they are difficult. What is worse (or as bad) that makes it difficult is that there is no library of wisdom of what works and what does not work, to assist political and economic and social decision-makers how to proceed in difficult situations. This will be seen in the future as a “no brainer,” that there must be a base of wisdom of what works and what does not work to guide the decisions that effect so many people. There are, in fact, a number of problems in your contemporary societies and their operation that will be seen in the future as silly—not to have thought about that, and to not plan for a future with the variables.
Mar. 30, 2015 – From New Era Conversations #43 – Peace; Intention; 3 Core Values.
Teachers: Mantutia Melchizedek, Regional Manager and Projects Coordinator, and Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager
Wisdom gathering about successes and failures.
It is paramount in these projects that somewhere along the line that your historians stop writing about the history of failures and successes, but also become historians of wisdom—human sustainable wisdom—not just in archives that are hidden away, but actual, operational libraries that are online for gathering wisdom about the various aspects of human living and human societies, and human conduct, and human commerce. Wisdom gathering has been done by many people, some of you have read in Nancy J. Turner’s two book set “Ancient Pathways: Ancestral Knowledge,” that the indigenous people of North America in the Northwest have a history of many, many centuries of wisdom gathering concerning the use of herbs and plants for their daily use in thousands of different ways. They have done wisdom gathering to enhance their survival and their sustainability, and have been successful, at least until the invasion of the Anglo-Saxon Europeans who came to this continent in the 17th Century. Now, those wisdoms are being lost to the detriment of the sustainability of those indigenous cultures. Yet, your world, your civilization of Urantia is a culture unto itself that must begin gathering wisdom about its stability and sustainability, and particularly it must become a learning civilization, a learning organization to learn how to adapt to changing conditions.