DATE: Leap Year Day
Sunday, February 29, 2004
LOCATION: The Bowen Townhouse
Rio Rancho, NM TeaM
TEACHERS: TOMAS & ANATOLIA
TOPICS: "The Passion"
The Atonement Doctrine
Q & A: Learning to T/R Concepts
T/R’ing Healing Energies
New Format – Logistics
T/R’s: Gerdean and Matthew
PRAYER:
Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus,
the Christ

Master Teacher,

We come to You again today, as we do every Sunday that our group
meets, to call upon You to be with us as we continue with the
lessons that are so kindly and ably given from our Spirit Friends.
It is an instrumental part of our development, which will lead to
the building up of the Kingdom, both within each of us as well as
without, that which we can touch and effect. We are grateful for the
opportunity, through You and the Teaching Mission and the designated
Teachers to our group, and for our on-going development, that we may
be able to fulfill our destinies, whatever they may be, and in
appreciation for the film which Mel Gibson has produced, which there
are some positives which will come from this as well, and we trust
that it will be the positives that outlive any negatives, but all
are growth opportunities from the infinitesimal to the sublime.

For the lessons today we are grateful and are grateful for the
opportunity for this group, for the accompanying growth afforded.

For all of those cares and concerns within our hearts, we place
before You now. Amen

TOMAS: Good afternoon, my friends. I am Tomas, your friend and
companion and occasional teacher in these processes of expansion of
your own actualizing from the potential that lies inherent within.
We rejoice in your stance of coming forward to embrace those of us
who, in our way, advance as well in our reach for you, for this
ongoing experience of adjusting the finite to the infinite will be
with you eternally.

Even though, in time, as you ascend, this adjustment will be made
less prevalent, even so, your origin, as animal-origin beings of the
worlds of time and space, always will influence or color your
personality perspective. Only upon arriving at the portals of
Paradise will you be able to lay down your remembrance of what was,
in order for you to fully give yourself up to what is in the
presence of perfection.

But in the process of attaining such perfection in the presence of
the Universal Father Himself, there are many, many stopping places
along the way in which you are enjoined to connect with that sacred
sphere of divinity which suffices to serve your hunger for divinity
attainment at that point in time.

This is made experientially true for you in these sessions we enjoy
together and in those moments when you, by yourselves, are inclined
to take the time to set aside the concerns of your world and your
place within it, to recharge your batteries and replenish the soul
by regaining your strength through the power that comes from On
High.

The God Within each of you is essentially God Himself, inasmuch all
you need is provided for you in that Divine Fragment which you hold
within your own soul. When you find that "the world is too much with
us," will yourself to step aside from that quicksand which, without
regard for your soul, will take delight in consuming you for its own
purpose and not for the purpose of becoming more like God, which is
your eternal purpose.

The idea of sacrifice, being a very prominent theme in the wake of
the film you are talking about, ("The Passion") calls to our
attention how steeped in this mentality your culture is -- and I
speak particularly to the Christian culture, which worships Jesus as
he was and is depicted, albeit incorrectly, by his supposed
sacrificial act of dying as an atonement for the sins of Adam.

The error of this thinking is shot through your entire
unconsciousness, as if to die for the cause is somehow exalted …
that if you sacrifice yourself to some greater purpose, your reward
will be felt in Heaven … that there is something noble about
sacrificing yourself and all that you are for some real or imagined
value.

This is the problem with the atonement doctrine, for all of you are
conditioned now to this sense of sacrifice, and when you, through
your own sense of self -- (healthy self. God-conscious self) -- rise
up to reflect the truth of what Jesus taught and represented in the
exemplary and sterling life experience he lived here, you are made
to feel as if you are out of line, as if you were attempting to
become assertive and, as you understand, assertiveness is regarded
as the sin of Lucifer. And so you find yourself trapped in this
position of either being the devil or dying. What kind of choice is
that? That is no choice to be forthcoming from a loving God.

Those of you who say you have not been subjected to the theory/the
doctrine of atonement are nonetheless quite affected by it. If you
could but understand that much of your response to life itself is
based upon that cultural conditioning. If you could examine your
behavior in this regard and place responsibility for such behaviors
on the external pressure that not only invites it but demands it, it
will help you clarify how you may be of better service to your world
and to your fellow man.

But it is a tremendous, almost overwhelming, project for it is so
insidious, and it is so closely tied in with your own reverence for
your Creator who incarnated here as a mortal, like you. It is as if
you cannot see the forest for the trees. Your empathy for him and
compassion for the experience is so emotionally overwhelming, you
cannot see how it is that you are being duped.

Just as Jesus was misunderstood, so are you. But I ask you not to
sacrifice yourself on that cross, willingly. You are not criminals.
You are not living 2,000 years ago. You are not subjected to the
same rules, even though they are in many ways the same. You must
gather from Jesus’ experience that which you need to take with you –
away from that scene at Golgotha - and remember what he came to do
and what he did deliver to you through his accomplishment – not
dying on the cross for you or for the sins of your forefathers, but
for bringing to you the glorious news of the loving Father in heaven
… who was not the God of the Hebrews.

Jesus’ God was not a terrible and jealous God. He was not vindictive
and destructive. He was not bringing plagues of locusts or famine.
He was not smiting races of people, women and children. He was not
leading man to war against each other. These are remnants of the
animal ascent from the nature of the beast up Jacob’s ladder to the
noble estate of Sons and Daughters of a living, loving God.

Ours is the God who has brought to you the peace that passes all
understanding, that has delivered his perfection to you through the
abundance of life as it can be seen in nature, in the flawless
beauty of the physical realm, as it is also seen in and through the
Spirit of Truth that has been bestowed upon you since Jesus departed
as the Sovereign Son of his Universe.

The idea that God would demand such a sacrifice of his children is a
despicable idea and that so many of you in your culture continue to
expect you as "Christians" to continue that pattern of laying down
your life for the betterment of others, is also a warped idea of the
goodness, beauty, and truth of divinity. For God has called you
forth, out of the darkness, as Jesus called forth Lazarus, to rise
up and live again in the spirit, in the eternal life that is offered
in joy of eternal Sonship.

I cannot stress to you enough the importance of getting this
straight in your mind and in your heart. It is essential that you
who know the Master, you who sit with Him in the privacy of your own
prayer life, you who turn to Him for answers to your soul’s
questions, clear your mind of that erroneous thinking and give
yourself freedom from that taint of your erring ancestors. Give the
children of tomorrow the opportunity to look forward to the life
that is intended for you – that being peace on earth, goodwill
toward all men.

This is my message for today.

Group: Thank you.

TOMAS: Before I relinquish the floor to Anatolia, I would like to
remind you that there are changes afoot, even in our own group – all
good changes, all growth adjustments, adjustments to the growth and
the needs of you yourselves as you aspire to make yourselves more
aware and more available to what it is that you can do to support
and add to this tremendous challenge we are here to address ~ not as
an overriding and burdensome responsibility, no, but as a joyous
undertaking for the upliftment of these souls who linger and
languish in mistaken identity.

Formatting, we will deal with at a later time.

Anatolia, may I pass you the baton?

ANATOLIA: Welcome, all, to our weekly rendezvous with eternal
destiny.

This is a delight to participate in, not because I get no
opportunity to speak otherwise, but because I join one of our able
Teachers, held in esteem, not just within your group but among the
other teachers within the Teacher Corps, and am happy to be able to
share my amount of breath that I experience in the cosmic environs.

I wish to share with you today good news of that which we have been
discussing by the lesson presented today by your Teacher Tomas. I
wish to share with you the teaching and good news that occurs as a
result of that which has transpired in your world and that which, by
otherwise good intentions, is leading to a better under- standing of
that which our teaching is about. And that is to convey to you that
despite the good intentions or perspectives that a believer in faith
has, to be able to share with the world, the outcome of this effort
is a grand opportunity for teaching.

This opportunity is being brought about in the discussion that the
sacrifice of Jesus was not so much a lesson of sacrifice and
selflessness as it was a supreme lesson of love and surmounting /
overcoming / resurrecting / eliminating any opposition which would
be placed in one’s path.

In other words, it is difficult to present, or to discuss, perhaps,
awkward to convey, but that in the discussions that take place, and
of those which you may have already heard or shared yourself as a
result of seeing and believing the points of view from this movie
the people who have seen it, to say that they are brought to a new
level of understanding, and are in awe at the sacrifice, are at
least able to rise to an occasion, to realize that there was a real
movement of supreme effort exerted in the sense of benefiting
humankind, that if one were to sweat blood, the effort in doing so
is far beyond most humans’ capacity to imagine. So if for no other
reason than for mild to nonbelievers not appreciating, prior to this
movie, recognizing that a supreme effort was exerted on behalf of
humanity, then the movie serves a purpose.

However, there is limited value in depicting the amount of suffering
that took place. In a sense it belittles and denigrates; it is
undeserved by Creator Son. Nevertheless, for those who are of the
opinion that to denigrate and focus on merely the brutality and
depth of despair and despicable treatment -- of any human being, let
alone a Creator Son – have at least a perspective that perhaps the
blood sacrifice was more than what it appeared to be.

Perhaps his rising above that which was despicable, incomprehensible
and vile is what Jesus intended to conquer by his expected and
accomplished resurrection from the tomb three days hence. For, after
all, is this not the magnificent part of the story? That a
limitation that would appear to have squelched, silenced, and
eliminated that which people did not want to hear, could not be
silenced, could not be vanquished, and is evidence that truth shall
prevail and love is unquenchable and unconquerable.

This is the message that underlies all that took place within the
week leading up to the resurrection. It is not as if we wish to
exempt or gloss over the events of so-called Good Friday, but rather
it is because of Good Friday that we know the Resurrection.

One can also argue: would it not have been possible for Jesus to
have lived a so-called normal life, to have retired somewhere, to
have lived a normal life and died of natural means? But this would
not necessarily have proven or indicated the supreme victory over
death that he demonstrated on Calvary.

Despite the best efforts of a weak and un-insightful mob scene, he
was able to rise above, literally, that which is the worst of fear
for anyone in the flesh. This leads us to the conclusion that any
and all efforts to love and to serve are beyond reason for fear,
hesitation, or reservation as to the ability to leave a gift or a
legacy that may be of value.

I contend, or offer to you, that a labor to present a beautiful rose
from a child to its mother, which may have entailed sacrifice,
strife and effort to reach among the thorns into a bush to secure
the flower to leave for one’s prized love destination, this in and
of itself has a lasting giftedness and contribution that can not be
bought, purchased or otherwise duplicated. For obstacles to be
overcome at such cost is truly a magnificent presentation.

I urge you, therefore, to focus on that which Jesus did give, so
that all may have eternal life, by recognition and by development of
their own internal sources of recognition of who you are and where
you hail is worth your time, effort and commitment ~ to no longer
have fear that anyone could even put you to death for that which you
offer as your gift to humanity and to the sacredness of life.

I leave this then for your consideration as to the ongoing debate
and what you may be able to lend to it, not just in terms of
discussion, but in terms of your contribution to the Kingdom of God.
It is each and everyone’s choice and opportunity to do the most that
you can with the gift of life that you have. Not that everyone is
called to such demonstration, but whatever it is you are called to,
surely it is as real and as powerful to you as what a Creator Son
demonstrated by his gift of life.

So be of good cheer to know that you share in the co-creative
opportunity that Jesus did, by his demonstration of being and
sharing the life that is given each and every one of us. Peace be
with you, and may this week be particularly potent in your minds for
eliminating the negative connotations and limitations and for rising
to the occasion to join in the resurrection of your hearts and your
minds to eternal life.

Peace be with you until we meet again.

Group: Amen. Thank you.

TOMAS: Let us now welcome you to the exchange that we so enjoy. Are
there questions?

Reneau: There was an interview on Diane Sawyer where Mel Gibson
stated that he felt that he was moved and guided by the Holy Spirit
in making this movie, which I don’t doubt he was moved by something…
so he did this out of his own passion … to pick this. Was there
celestial help? A corroboration?

TOMAS: Let me turn your question around and ask you this: as you all
approach the work of consciously following what you perceive as the
divine will, what about then, those who have become sacrificial
lambs to the cause of strapping themselves with bombs to be
destructive of those elements that in their perspective are
destroying that which they regard as unholy?

The idea of being led and guided by the Spirit is always a frail
perspective, for it is subject to human error. The idea of passion
itself if fraught with concern, for passion is an emotional
condition and the Spirit is not an emotional state of being,
although devotees of a religious perspective are often ‘on fire’
with their point of view that it is the most important value in
existence.

How can it be that the passion of Mel Gibson is any greater than the
passion of Osama Bin Laden, when you look at what their programming
is, their conditioning? If you are, to some, "the infidel" in such a
degree and to such an extent that entire nations are rising up
against you, what scourge does such a passion add to this drama?

Yes, it could be said that anyone who has a passion that is
perceived to be divinely sanctioned is augmented by spirit aid and
power, but you cannot then say that one is superior to the other.
Passions are dangerous, for they are without thinking. This is an
intelligent universe. Intelligence is essential to wise planning and
to following through to create a stable base of reality for the
global environment.

The danger of religious war rises when the passion of the "spirit of
man" is committed to his ideals of his idea of what is the "Spirit
of God."

Does that shed any light on your question?

Reneau: Um-hum.

TOMAS: "Be still and know that I am God." In the stillness, in that
citadel of the spirit where you repose with the Master in sublime
worship of that which is most precious to you, you will not find a
need to destroy. You will find no evidence of ranting and raving,
raging or railing against – only in praise of, in support of, in
service to, in longing for. This is the illumination of the spirit,
the divine light that casts a soft loving glow over humanity and not
a glaring neon light that seeks to search out and find and destroy
an alleged enemy.

It is that kind of thinking that got Christ crucified! It is in
error. It is not noble; it is destructive. Be still and think! Think
about the effects of your causes, about the immediate short-term
effect as well as the long-range effect. Passion acts now. Without
thinking. Only from a sense of urgency and importance. Passion takes
what it wants to satisfy a terrible desire. To satisfy itself. This
is antithetical to the peace which passes all understanding and to
the glory of God.

Beware of fanaticism of this sort. Be wary of these kinds of
emotions, for while they speak to the heart of man, they speak to
the lesser being. They draw mankind back into the broiling, bubbling
cauldron of confusion that is at the root of the problem: that chaos
which came from Caligastia’s reign as a result of Lucifer’s
unwillingness to allow the natural unfolding of destiny to take
place slowly but surely and naturally, according to the divine plan.
Thus, you see, impatience is also a dangerous passion.

Being excited does not necessarily mean that you are being touched
by the spirit. Think before you act. Think before you respond. Add
wisdom to your composition. Remember the lessons of the seven
adjutant mind spirits, that five of them are animal, just as 5/7 of
your very existence is animal, at the top of which is worship which
may worship any number of approaches to divinity, and this, still
further, is crowned by the adjutant mind spirit of wisdom, which can
perceive that all of the lesser spirits serve a purpose but cannot
be the be all and end all of your existence.

If you must sacrifice anything, sacrifice the perspective of the
seven adjutant mind spirits to the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of
Truth will not tell you to rise up in passion against that which you
don’t understand. It will lead you into the ways of peace.

This is very difficult for you to understand and to tolerate,
because you are so short-sighted. Borrow upon our perspective.
Borrow upon the farther view, the long-range plan. This way, when
you lay down your tools and pick up the burden of the Master, you
will go forth celebrating his gifts, offering yourself in service to
the understanding of this thing called Sonship, this eternal
relationship with divinity that defies human passion and ascends
into the realm of perfect peace.

Often when Anatolia and I close our session we stress "peace be upon
you," "be of good cheer," "peace I leave with you." Peace is the way
of the God-conscious son of man.

What else? Are there questions?

Maria: You spoke of healing and transmitting/receiving and we were
discussing with other people that we were going to do it.

TOMAS: Yes.

Maria: Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by
healing?

TOMAS: Certainly. Healing is correcting. In order to heal, one
assumes there is something that needs healing, something that is out
of sorts, out of kilter, out of the fine design. If you pursue a
course of healing, you will need to have a greater understanding of
what we’ve been discussing – the nature of perfection as compared to
the nature of chaos, for chaos is imperfection. Chaos is in a state
of not knowing itself, or not being in keeping with its essential
need to be.

Healing entails ascertaining where the confusion lies, where the
missteps are, even to how they originated, allowing order to enter
in and become the prevalent reality. It is a process of prayer,
which would seek that the divine will be done in all things, even
into the pattern of perfection that is inherent in all of creation,
as it was intended, even before the effects of the default and the
rebellion, even as it was implanted – perfectly – in the life
implantation in you, in your life origin on this world.

The Life Carriers brought perfect pattern and planted it within the
living water of your world. It was sparked into life by the Mother
Spirit who actuates all of the material creation, and so the Mother
ministers as you seek to heal that which is in error. See the
pattern that is instilled by Universal Mind, that Third Source and
Center which refers to the material worlds. As those disruptions
affect the personality and social intercourse, appeal to the Eternal
Son, the Second Source. And as it impacts on the relationship
between the child and the Father, appeal to the Universal Father,
the First Source. In this way you bring the energies of Paradise
into your paradigm of thinking and you ask for the pattern of
Paradise to recreate itself in the realms over which you would
minister.

In healing, you are simply asking that everything be returned to the
pattern for which it was intended. There are those who feel that in
being healed or being corrected, (which is just about everything;
indeed this is the Correcting Time,) it is an attempt by you to
bring the original pattern back into being. It is there. It is at
the root of your reality. But it has been scrambled. Defiled.
Disheveled. But it is not destroyed. If there is life, then the
divine pattern is inherent within and there is no reason why you
cannot expect a miracle.

Be, therefore, of good cheer in your approach to healing others and
in healing yourself of those perspectives and perceptions that have
been distorted by the vagaries of existence and the ill-advised
decisions of your prior mentors. You may deal with energy, yes.
Energy is a part of the process of invoking healing. But neglect not
the personality of the Paradise Trinity, which gives personality to
the process. It gives you who are in the process of correcting,
associative appreciation since the universe is not entirely
mechanistic, but is also personal.

Much like the patient gives himself up to the care of the physician,
encourage those you would assist to give themselves up to the care
of that Dear and Glorious Physician which you represent and have
interceded on behalf of, for in this way you are a channel of
assistance. You are representative of the willingness of the Divine
to reach down to and into its child and set right the wrongs which
have been implanted. This will add another dimension and courage to
that individual who seeks to rise above his limitations and
deficiencies, to greater health, wholesome fulfillment, and radiant
joy of being.

We had indeed talked of learning how to tap into that Source. This
gets me back to the paragraph I inserted earlier, the logistics that
this will entail. This group is coming up on its two-year
anniversary, and thus this is a good time to review the patterns
that we have established and, where appropriate, up-step our program
of learning without disrupting the foundations that have already
been well established.

We need your input on how to go about the adjustments, rather than
merely telling you how we will comport ourselves for the next period
of time, for this is your learning platform. And while we are
delighted to come, and honored to serve, it will be you who
ultimately makes the choices that you can live with and which will
allow you to continue advancing in your spirit tutelage, without
succumbing to the lure of the worldly ways which would leave us
swept ashore, beached, disembarked from our sojourn.

What I would suggest is that in your social time you give voice to
your preferences and your needs. I urge you to continue to meet
weekly. I think, without being invasive, it is evident that the
weekly pattern has not hurt anyone, even though there are variations
within that pattern which give everyone an opportunity now and again
to venture away for various and sundry reasons.

There is no quota required, although with varying needs, both on
your side and our side, it may do you well to structure your weekly
gatherings such that we can take care of all our needs and desires
in terms of what we meet for with a structure which will benefit you
all.

Work with that prospect in mind, with alternate weeks or associative
choices. For example, Anatolia might take a Sunday and I take a
separate Sunday, so as to give Anatolia an opportunity to extend her
expression beyond that of being my assistant or associate but
developing herself in her own right. It would also provide me an
opportunity to forego my pattern with you such that you find more
variety in your gatherings.

Each of you ought to learn this technique, and you could sacrifice
your social session for group practice on a weekly basis or choose a
week or two per month to engage in that process, remembering that as
you opt to learn the process of transmitting/receiving, you are also
accessing the realms of spirit energy and divine personality which
will in turn help you to better understand the association we enjoy.
From that experiential standpoint, you will better understand the
process of healing. And so all of us benefit from this expansion of
our normal platform.

After two years of quality association, it is our sense that the
expansion is necessary.

It is up to you, however, how we will go about that and, referring
to my earlier admonishment, I will ask you to think. Think about
what it is you want to get from this reality we share and seek
within yourself that which your soul yearns for, and if we may be of
service. We are here for that purpose.

Within these remarks is the necessity to point out to you that there
are many other teachers in this mission and throughout the galaxy
that are aware of our experiment here on Urantia and attend these
gatherings apropos of their being able to also contribute. Thus,
there are visiting students and visiting teachers, not to overlook
the constancy of the midwayer corps who are always in attendance,
the various orders of angels who are also aware of our efforts, in
hopes of your eventual development to put them to greater use in
constructive methods of uplifting your world, and other members of
the Teacher Corps who also are available for augmenting your sense
of perception.

Abraham almost always attends, as does Machiventa Melchizedek,
although they are not pressured into speaking. We are very
prosperous in our resources.

There are many who would willingly come and engage you in the
process of learning to transmit, and as you get to know their
personality, your working association with them will be enhanced in
more ways than you would imagine from the inexperienced position you
hold as a non-T/R as compared to those who have learned this art of
communication. What else can I say?

What I can also say is how much we enjoy your company and, without
intending to overlook your personal guides, and your guardian
angels, you are a vast host of ministering spirits, even as we sit
here today in this amphitheater in the round. Even though you think
you are a handful of mortals, we are legion.

We have tentacles that reach out, not only into your community, but
into the spheres, sister planets, and distant points of light, all
focusing on your growth in the spirit, for your growth in spirit
reality is part of the scaffolding and structuring that will lend
impetus to the furtherance of god consciousness in your arena that
extends to the age of light and life, which will also enhance the
system and the constellation and Michael’s universe of Nebadon,
which then reflects its light even into Paradise itself.

While you enjoy your limited perspective most of the time, remind
yourself on occasion of how far into infinity your influence
extends, and for which Anatolia and I are supremely grateful, for as
you grow, we are made to look better, and all the worlds of time and
space are able to see the light of Urantia growing stronger, growing
brighter, and growing more and more beautiful as these sundry lights
come on as stars twinkling in the night sky.

Precious students, we bid you good afternoon. Be of good cheer.
Peace be upon you. Amen and farewell.