The Unique Book of Life
by Rev. Dr. Frank Uhlir
edited by D. Gander
This exerpt (edited here) is found near the end of Rev. Uhlir's second booklet "Talks to Students".
I would like to ask students one question: among all your books, with all their facts and scientific knowledge, do you also have the book of the wisdom of life? -- the book which tells you what life is in its very substance, where it comes from and where it goes, and the purpose and plan of life. The book from which you may learn about the Prime Cause of all causes and about the ultimate end of all consequences; the book which shows the fascinating drama of life in which the whole of humanity has played an active role throughout time immemorial, and where you also actively participate. Do you have this book?
It is very easy to possess it, but not always easy to learn from it. Many students can more easily understand even the most difficult university textbooks than this book of the wisdom of life, because understanding it requires different capacities than the ordinary books of knowledge require.
If you wish to learn from this precious book of life, you must be fully attuned to the realm of Life itself. It won't help to be merely clever.
The book of the wisdom of Life differs fundamentally from all other books in content, principles, origin, goal, -- in everything. For example, it says that besides the visible realities there are also invisible realities which cannot be measured with a yardstick, or weighed on a scale, or statistically tabulated, and yet they give purpose and sense to everything we measure. It also says that man is much more than a briefly living animal, he is immortal. It says he cannot die or be destroyed, but is heading for an ultimate destination, and compared with that destiny all his present fame, power, cleverness, and success is a mere shadow.
This book also leads you to the mind of the Absolute Intelligence (and to the heart of His absolute Love -ed.) where all creation originated, the Source of all order, harmony, and laws binding the boundless cosmos, the Truth of Life you long for which can tell you infinitely more about yourself than any other book.
This book is also unique in the sense that it wasn't authored by men but was gradually revealed to them, and this revelation was gradual, taking many centuries before its final form.
Your know I have in mind the Bible, which not only has survived for millennia but it is the most widely studied book in the world. Although it actually consists of 66 separate books written by 30 or 40 different "authors" in 3 languages, covering different topics under varied circumstances over about 1500 years -- yet this book is so marvellously unified that all its volumes represent one unit, with one theme.
The Bible is not a book of geography, history, ethics, or philosophy. It is the book of Life (our existence in its essence), projected on the geographic and historical screen of the earth, sifting all human philosophies and ethics by the sieve of eternal Life.
edited by D. Gander
This exerpt (edited here) is found near the end of Rev. Uhlir's second booklet "Talks to Students".
I would like to ask students one question: among all your books, with all their facts and scientific knowledge, do you also have the book of the wisdom of life? -- the book which tells you what life is in its very substance, where it comes from and where it goes, and the purpose and plan of life. The book from which you may learn about the Prime Cause of all causes and about the ultimate end of all consequences; the book which shows the fascinating drama of life in which the whole of humanity has played an active role throughout time immemorial, and where you also actively participate. Do you have this book?
It is very easy to possess it, but not always easy to learn from it. Many students can more easily understand even the most difficult university textbooks than this book of the wisdom of life, because understanding it requires different capacities than the ordinary books of knowledge require.
If you wish to learn from this precious book of life, you must be fully attuned to the realm of Life itself. It won't help to be merely clever.
The book of the wisdom of Life differs fundamentally from all other books in content, principles, origin, goal, -- in everything. For example, it says that besides the visible realities there are also invisible realities which cannot be measured with a yardstick, or weighed on a scale, or statistically tabulated, and yet they give purpose and sense to everything we measure. It also says that man is much more than a briefly living animal, he is immortal. It says he cannot die or be destroyed, but is heading for an ultimate destination, and compared with that destiny all his present fame, power, cleverness, and success is a mere shadow.
This book also leads you to the mind of the Absolute Intelligence (and to the heart of His absolute Love -ed.) where all creation originated, the Source of all order, harmony, and laws binding the boundless cosmos, the Truth of Life you long for which can tell you infinitely more about yourself than any other book.
This book is also unique in the sense that it wasn't authored by men but was gradually revealed to them, and this revelation was gradual, taking many centuries before its final form.
Your know I have in mind the Bible, which not only has survived for millennia but it is the most widely studied book in the world. Although it actually consists of 66 separate books written by 30 or 40 different "authors" in 3 languages, covering different topics under varied circumstances over about 1500 years -- yet this book is so marvellously unified that all its volumes represent one unit, with one theme.
The Bible is not a book of geography, history, ethics, or philosophy. It is the book of Life (our existence in its essence), projected on the geographic and historical screen of the earth, sifting all human philosophies and ethics by the sieve of eternal Life.
