BAKIM on the GOLDEN NUGGETS OF TRUTH

We would speak on truth. In Jesus' time incarnated in supreme empathy with you, his children, you became brothers and sisters in the flesh. There was a great persistence of confusion and conflict in those times. Times have not changed in this respect. You each face confusions, face divisive expressions of truth.

Now , with the spirit of conviction, you are urged to find this truth from the wellspring of holy living waters that flows within each of you. And as water flows and as blood flows it is never ending but continuing, and so is truth. From within, growing, ever expanding, it can be tested, it can be drunk fully. You can search to great ends to find this truth or you can be satisfied and live in love with a small portion.

What is right for you as a beloved free willed creature and child of God is right with God as well, and is right with creator Michael and your brother Jesus, for your capacities in mortal flesh can never exceed the inherent. But this is only one small stage of your eternal purpose.

Imagine if you will the sojourner on your planet who goes into the beautiful awareness to see and feel God. And in the joys of this bountiful and plenteous creation revels in the trees, the sky, the mountains, the streams from where there is a great external energy that you can attune your mechanisms to feel quite intensely, more intensely than when you are bound within your structures.

One who will seek spirituality may walk in this beautiful land, may splash in this beautiful stream as the moving living waters flow upon your bare and open feet. And if by chance you are one of those who search truly for those nuggets of spiritual wisdom which will sustain you, which will make your living waters flow, for truth you may find within the stream with little searching, golden nuggets symbolizing wealth here, symbolizing the eternal truth that you seek

But you may find several beautiful gold nuggets in this stream and you may look at them and feel joyful at the beauty of the small amount of truth you have discovered. And you may rush into the town with your nuggets, to show these beautiful and valuable nuggets to all around with enthusiasm to share what you have learned. And these small nuggets of truth can represent the whole parcel of your spiritual growth.

Here on Urantia they are sufficient to make you a faith child of the Father. You will accept these tenets of religion, this doctrine, this truth, these insights, these illuminations, these ideas, these small treasures. They are enough to sustain your eternal search for the peace of God's love inside.

Many humans will not be satisfied, however, with the nuggets in the stream. They will search for deeper truths and they will search the stream until they find from whence these living waters come, into the heart of the mountain to find the source, this vein of great spiritual wisdom that runs within, below the surface, in places that are dark perhaps and frightening to those who have a twisted view of the Father's true nature, are afraid to question, are afraid to pursue, are afraid to question the authority of the priesthood.

These searchers who would look beyond the few nuggets of truth to find the vein of truth ... they are also blessed children of the Father in their search. And they will find more gold, they will find more spiritual wisdom, and they will serve a higher function, though equally regarded and equally loved as the one who cherishes and clutches the nuggets.

But the Father indeed does smile upon those who will in their spiritual quest search deeper. Some will find a vein of gold which gives wealth. They are sufficiently satisfied in this wealth and they will build big churches upon this foundation. This gold of this truth becomes a doctrine solidified in brick and mortar and in the circle of believers who bring this church to life.

Still others among you will not be satisfied even with this level of truth. And they will seek to go deeper in the mine, still deeper into the unknown, disdaining their fears, finding courage in their faith in the Father and they will go to great depths of darkness to find the deeper, much deeper lode, mother lode of truths that they can find. Wherever you carry your search, however deeply you search for truth, you are honored and you are loved. But know that the heavens do smile when you do move forward boldly and courageously in a search for deeper meanings and higher truth.

Truth, I would say to you is ever-growing, for in mortal life you can glimpse and feel only a very few of what are considered the absolute truths. All in this sphere, all in time and space is a relative truth. All is relative, and with the full knowledge that what you believe and what you do not believe and all that you consider is all relative, comes the peace of mind in knowing that we are but explorers and discoverers finding the nuggets we can . We dare to move beyond our fears. The heavens rejoice that we have done so and beyond these fears they will join us in this search deep into the mine of truth.

And as these truths become illuminant by the lights that we would help you cast in these dark areas, much more truth will be discerned and found on Urantia. Much greater levels of spiritual insight and beyond. That experiential feeling brings you closer to the Father.

In these times of enhanced energies, know that you have more help and guidance and inspiration than ever before should you choose to go deeply into the mine, disdaining all fear of darkness, the lack of knowledge; disdaining all judgment that your fellows would make upon you. For no judgment is valid that comes from human mouths and minds. You are free to use your free wills, your own expressions, your own deep desires to propel your quest for all the truth that you can handle, all the truth that you can find. Be not fearful. Do not set your truth on false foundation. You will recall the lesson of Tarkas, my brother, who discussed keeping your truth living and growing as in the deep forests with their living plants, each growing, each symbolically representing a higher level of truth.

But when you stop growing and learning, you learn no more truth and gain no more insights. You gain no greater peace and comfort in knowing. For if you cut down these beautiful living trees of truth, turn them into fence posts, saturate them with your poisonous chemicals so that even the small life cannot live, you have turned the living truth into a dead fence post mounted in concrete. Stationary, unmoving, to which you attach barbed wire to separate what you believe from what your brothers believe.

And in these fenced compartments we compartmentalize ourselves, we alienate ourselves and we live in a deep alienation. Too often this prevents us even from looking with sincerity and love deeply into the eyes of our fellows. Herein all truth lies and once your truths have stopped growing you have limited your growth, for your perceptions with these mortal minds, these mortal eyes can only go so far and you are stuck with this low level of learning and insight. You have built fences to separate you from your fellows, to stop the living truth from growing.

Such could be rectified, and yet humankind finds it embarrassing and threatening to change one's mind when greater truths are discovered. And when those truths have been set up in these fences that separate you, it is extremely difficult to tear up fence posts set in concrete, to take hold of barbed wire and tear it away so that this openness of truth and understanding with your fellows comes forth in florid and beautiful pastures of plenty.

And so, truth is living and growing in your sphere, in your time, in your existence. You can only gain a measure of truth to ensure your growth in the quest. Continue to add nuggets, continue to look for the vein of gold, of true and deep understanding; seek and ye shall find. Be ye perfect even as God is perfect. This is your quest.

It is troubling that many upon your sphere still despair of knowing what their true purpose is. And yet it appears so plain, to learn and grow in love, to find God, to know God, and to be like God. For God is the all, the one, the everything, is the First Source and Center of all. Do not short circuit your growth. Do not stop your progress. Do not stop learning and growing for that is your purpose here.

TARKAS on TIMES OF CHANGE

The spiritual hunger is quite deep and growing. It is necessary that these hungers and frustrations be brought to a fever pitch, one might say, and we look for our contacts such as this to be effective as these energy circuits are opened so that we may talk with you.

So there is a blanket opening of energy forces all over Urantia. and as we know how to channel them into fortuitous inspiration, you respond in feeling the need for empathetic service, giving. These energies may affect others quite differently, even to the extent of propelling discord and temporary insanities.

But the energy circuits must indeed be opened for these free communications to take place. That is why there will be time of distress and discord associated with the spiritual awakening, just as older times of discord and conflict affected ourJesus' incarnation as well. But the Prince of Peace concept is quite real. Very often these new teachings will bring levels of conflict and discord. That is why, carefully, we seek to inspire you to teach in the right ways.

You are correct in that you are to radiate love, care, mercy and compassion without regard to any specific text or to preach adamantly for or adamantly against your fellows' beliefs. For when threatened they will strike back. But when confronted by your balanced view of love and harmony they will be attracted to you and magnetized by the sheer presence of your personality.

Often new energy forces can come into play to attract these lost, troubled and even cantankerous souls, even without uttering a word. When they are brought to you, you need to have established by that time a clear channel to the inspired words of the Father through your indwelling spirit and often with our help to help you verbalize the words. Know that this is a highly cooperative enterprise. Even the Father Himself is involved, through the indwelling spirit and through the angels of ministry, especially your guardian angels, and through the teachers, and through the leaders of the mission, and even those who are responsible for opening these power circuits incrementally so that these lessons and inspirations, heightened awareness, heightened consciences can come through.

With each incremental opening of these energies, periodically we sit back in awe and wonder what events they may foment upon your world. Sometimes disruption will very often heighten awareness that will lead to genuine spiritual growth.

As you learn to become teachers you will radiate love and care, concern and compassion for basic spiritual truths which are separate from dogma and certainly do not inspire argumentative discord with those who have invested deeply in the few nuggets which they have found. Or even the mother lode of a great faith which they've embraced wholeheartedly at the expense of all other lode that could be explored.

There are nuggets of truth in all of the world's great religions, and we seek to work quite positively to accent the commonalities and bring these faiths together.

ELISHA ..... A Worshipful Read Aloud Meditation in Appreciation of our Planetary Garden

I feel you Father. You are the wind. You are the crystal glistening flakes of snow. You are the sunshine, Father, that lights my path wherever I go.

You are the strong and hard and sturdy canyon walls, rising up to the sky. I look around me at the panorama of nature. I exclaim, Oh my! Another beautiful morning, another beautiful miracle that shines down upon us. Clouds of white, sky of deep blue and sunshine, and the glorious feeling in the air. The smell of the clean, pure flowing breath of life, of rippling waters and grass and trees. A garden,in time and space for humans to do as they please, and to find the meaning of all that they see with material eyes and know and realize that the material is but a disguise for the reality behind the physical eyes, for the reality of the spirit that rises up in glorious surprise.

And we look within, within, inside .... deep inside for the spirit to rise, and it comes in the quiet times. And my friends, in this loving circle tonight. It comes in more ways than you can surmise .... and it comes most strongly outside.

It is true that intimate gatherings in candlelit rooms, in the warm cocoon away from the chilling winds provide sanctuary by the fire, the fire within each of you, coming together in a beaming light that can be seen almost all the way to Paradise. And in these intimate gatherings, you feel, you generate these energies that give you more truth more beauty, more goodness.

The following morning when you arise, you can feel the difference, my friends,when you practice the stillness, when you find and keep and love and cherish and nurture this relationship with the Father ... and when you do not. And we know there are great energies abounding in the outdoors. A walk in the snow, looking up into the bare trees so straight, so strong, reaching with open, open, and naked limbs upward. Imagine them reaching upward .... upward to the Father from whence they came. As oak, as acorn, as birch, as needle, as leaf, melting back into the earth for sustenance as material that sinks below and rises up again in the spring with new and glorious life.

This cycle of your beautiful planet is an ever-changing and living museum. There are many museums of living, growing, changing, evolving art in the Father's time and space worlds. And you are part of such a gallery of artistic expression. CREATIVITY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE. And you create daily, you create daily. Create in love and know that the power outside can be brought into yourselves .... energizing ...... Energizing!
Feel the love .... We worship you, Father.

TARKAS on the DIVERSITY OF SPIRITUAL PATHS (jc)

Do not let the myriad of spiritual approaches be distracting to you or raise questions of authenticity. You will know the truth as you access the inner strength of conviction that is the Spirit of Truth, and those who have various approaches to the Correcting Time, the spiritual awakening, or by whatever perspective and denominated title it goes by, know that much, very much is from the celestial sources who literally clamor to work upon your planet and the field of spheres involved in this reclamation of the rebellions and defaults and myriad aborted shortcomings of your evolutionary path.

We would work with all humans on your small planet and do so through every known means, utilizing every qualified volunteer who comes and asks to work towards spiritual upliftment in these spheres. And so, you learn by different means, by different perspectives, and in turn, putting your own perspectives, and you radiate accordingly. Each understands, each receives in his own unique way. And so is it any wonder that all individuals, all institutions, all of all ... all ofeverything is involved in this spiritual awakening.

You will hear many points of view. The more you study them the more you will understand that the root truth of all is the establishment of a personal religion centeredness with God, that brings you in mind, spirit, and body balance to love successfully and fruitfully, in the realization that the radiation of love is the lifeblood which energize all and brings forth all manifestations of truth, beauty,and goodness, which will sweep your world in a quickening and increasingly rapid pace in the coming months and years.

Much will be happening. Much which we would not lay hand of prophecy, for the future is indeed made by many free will decisions; many plans intricately made and then anxiously awaited to fruition. Even on our side, the future is not cut and dried, my friends. It is being made, and you, indeed, will have a hand in making it.

My other comment had to do with the mention of harmonics, and know that this is indeed one such way with which we help humans to get into spiritual receptivity through the opening of circuits that will enthrall and enhance the receptivity of spiritual knowingness within each of you. And so, music and art and verse, philosophy and science and religion and many things will be part of the Correcting Time, the exciting time that lies just ahead.

ANDREW on TAKING LIFE IN STRIDE (jc)

Several teachers are here and Tarkas' entire class stretching out before you and above you listening intently to your intercourse of ideas and always anxious to interject with our own.

In time, yes, you will learn to take all in stride, to find the eyes in front of you ,the hurting, the askance, the suffering, the need of these who would find your kind words, find your kind touch. And you will minister pure and simple love to them. And in time, as teachers, you will be able to take all in stride that lies before you and look in the face of your fellows who may be criticizing you or berating you, full of acrimony, full of whatever. You will be able to look in their eyes, unperturbed, unshaken, confident in the loving faith that you can help this person overcome the suffering, the need for love that they may express in bizarre ways.

You know it is a call for love. Your feelings are no longer wounded and hurt, for, you stand secure, sturdy, in the light of the Father. And you will give love and you will influence many so favorably. It would be a minority who will truly seek to attack or defend needlessly, for the vast majority that will come to you will be in great hunger. Adversities will come. You will overcome them readily, for you will be strong in the love of the Father.

From the lesson tonight, it was said that humans are influenced by their genetics and by their environmental growth, and that the mediating influence that would render any damage from these factors to little avail, or handicaps of genetics, or environment, or even traumatic experiences of hurt and suffering and anger deeply embedded within the psyche, can all be overcome, and the human violence brought to center through the daily stillness,the attunement with God, the alignment with God's will. In this way, all humans, no matter their circumstance, have an excellent opportunity to continue their ascension.

WELMEK on SHARING WEALTH and CIRCUITRY

Tonight as I watched your reading of your text, I wondered if each of you realize how fortunate you are. You are truly wealthy, my friends, from a spiritual point of view. Your richness of the master's words that you have been blessed to read, the experience that you have with the teachers. These are treasures of which few of your brothers and sisters on this world are aware.

If you look on the material world and you see very wealthy people, you are all critical of them when they hoard their wealth, and you wonder why they would not share when there are so many needy people on your world. Now you are faced with this same problem, my friends, for you now are the wealthy ones. You have knowledge, you have love, you have insights that are worth more than any earthly treasure. Will you hoard your wealth? Will you only come to gather with your wealthy friends and live in a small exclusive little society? Or will you seek ways to share your wealth with your brothers and sisters?

This is the question that I pose to you. I do not expect your answer this evening but I ask that you pray and that you seek guidance from this question. That is all that I wish to say this evening. But I will entertain your questions.

ELISHA on OUR GLORIOUS FUTURES

One of these days, children, you may be called to help the Father on a world just such as this, with troubled mortals just such as this. You will know what it is like. You will be able to teach. May I say that you are now working in unison, cohesion with your indwelling spirit, to construct, to build a new and superior personality that will survive to a mansion, a home where you and your indwelling spirit will live together, coalesce, fuse as one.

Love this personality, love this mansion that you building for your personality survival, the finest personality that you can develop here on Urantia. Then, in safekeeping, that personality will be carried to glorious resurrection for your use in continuing your ascension, with a superior body and with a great impetus and knowledge to continue the quest. This is what you love, this pure personality that you are building for survival. As far as your failures, this is your opportunity to forgive your failures, learn from them and aspire to do better.