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THE TEACHING MISSION |
TEACHERS OF THE LIGHT II
THE TEACHING MISSION: A collection of celestial transmissions
from across the U.S. - June-October, 2-001
CONTENTS
North Idaho Group: Elyon, Malvantra on Positive Reinforcement,
Words and Tones, Worship; June 17, 2001
Abraham in Woods Cross, Utah: Sharing of Yourself; June 18, 2001
Abraham: Responsible Care of Self; June 25, 2001
North Idaho: Tomas, Christ Michael, Elyon, Machiventa on passing
on what we have learned, Michael’s ministry, exercise of faith;
June 24, 2001
North Idaho: Elyon and Abraham on truth and revelation,
inspiration and ritual; July 1, 2001
Southeast Idaho: Daniel on events and attitudes and beyond; June
29, 2001
Abraham on the Correcting Time, phase two; July 9, 2001
Spokane Group: Tomas and Paulo on our movement, genetic lineage,
Lucifer, Satan, God in complicity with Lucifer and recognizing
rebellion as childishness; July 14, 2001
North Idaho: Elyon on preparedness, worship and service and
phase two of the Correcting Time; July 15, 2001
Abraham: Which master do you serve? July 16, 2001 in Woods Cross
Aaron on progress in human understanding; July 18, 2001
Ham in Nashville 7-22-01 on Changes in the Spiritual Lives of
Urantians
Aaron in a Garden session, July 17, 2001, via The Church Within
Abraham: The Marriage Begins, Stillness and tried and true
techniques; July 23, 2001
Southeast Idaho: Alana, Daniel, Minearsia, Altern; July 20, 2001
Garden Session with Aaron and Elena; July 24, 2001
North Idaho: Evanson, Daniel, Elyon on spiritual fusion,
questions about teachers; July 22, 2001
Aaron on self denial and forgiveness; July 27, 2001
Spokane: Dolores, Tomas, Paulo on the ecology of the evolving
supreme; July 28, 2001
North Idaho: Elyon and Machiventa on rejuvenation and growth;
July, 2001
Abraham on reaching beyond comfort levels; July 30, 2001
Spokane: Timothy and Tomas on human associations and human
culture; August 4, 2001
Abraham on the exercise of assumption; August 6, 2001
Arcadia, CA: JarEl, Graydorf, Benson, Galatia, Lucio; July 23,
2001
Southeast Idaho: Klarixiska and Abraham, August 3, 2001
Ham on starting over; October 1, 2001 in Nashville
Arcadia, California: Christ Michael, Machiventa and others;
September 20, 2001
Abraham on responsibility to our fellows; October 1, 2001 in
Woods Cross
North Idaho: Stormy seas with Christ Michael, Nebadonia, Elyon
and Lester; September, 2001
Arcadia, CA: JarEl and other teachers; September, 2001
Ham on honesty and self-honesty; Oct. 8, 2001 in Nashville
North Idaho: Solonia on personality creation and communicating
with departed human teachers
Time capsule: Olfana in Half Moon Bay, CA on being our best
selves; 12-19-98
Olfana on the power or prayers; October 19, 2001
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Positive
Reinforcement - Words and Tones, Worship Teachers: Elyon,
Malvantra
June 17, 2001 Fathers Day
Elyon (Mark TR): I greet you today. This is Elyon, and I would
change the pace slightly and ask that you join me in a moment of
gratitude and worship, for today is Fathers Day and it is
entirely appropriate that we spend a moment in recognition and
awareness of the Father of all.
Dear Father of fathers, we acknowledge your light and your love
to the very boundaries of our abilities. We understand your
divinity to our full capacity. We seek only in our journey to
you that we more fully grasp who you are and more fully become
day by day all that we are to become. We realize that this
journey is your gift to us, Father, and we understand that our
only significant gift or contribution we make will be our
journey and the accumulated experiences you have set out so
generously for us. We ask to fully engage this experience that
we may live to the fullest and contribute our experiences back
to you, the one who has made them all possible. We realize this
is a certainty, and we look forward with great love and
anticipation to the fulfillment of this destiny.
Today I would say a few words about reinforcement, particularly
positive reinforcement. As you know as an aspect of your dual
nature, all animals on your world respond to tones instinctively
and without consideration. They are either drawn to or away from
any situation largely based upon the tones that are used in
creating the situation. Your words can be viewed as less
significant than the tone of voice, the phrasing, the welcoming,
you provide in their delivery. You must grow to understand that
it is not so much the specifics of what you say but the love
with which you say them. When said with a loving, devotional,
tone your words take on the tones of a heavenly song which draws
the hearer ever deeper to you as they are instinctively pulled
toward your positive tones. Likewise, using stern or negative
images has the opposite effect of repelling your listener away,
even unconsciously. It is much as drawing a horse out of the
stable one uses soothing, calming tones to assure the animal
that there is no cause for danger or for fear. Using sharp,
abrupt tones sends an animal into frenzied flight unconsciously.
Whenever possible remind yourself of the impact of your words
and the tones you use to deliver them. This is the very reason
why we as teachers and parents come to learn that our charges
are greatly comforted by soothing tones of appreciation and
love, and the barriers fall away, the minds and the hearts open
up, and subsequently the truths are able to penetrate deeply
into the being. One in this life cannot err to the side of
positive reinforcement. It is very important that those you
contact perceive your accepting nature and your positive tones.
Again, your words are not as important as the manner in which
you express your natures, your understanding. We offer repeated
head pats to your group that we may express our pleasure and
beckon you, draw you forward, with our tones of endearment and
love and appreciation. This draws the animal out of the stable.
This brings the animal to be openly hand fed by the custodian.
That having been said, it is nice to appreciate all of you,
sharing this time with me in recognition of the Father of all
and in recognition of the power of the positive word to impact
and make positive changes on our entire sphere of influence.
Those are my words for today, and I know of your appreciation
for my lessons and my service to you. I send you my appreciation
for your service to me and to the mission, as well. I step aside
to allow for others.
Malvantra (Jonathan): I greet you, I am Malvantra. I will speak
on the subject of worship.
We note your expressions of difficulty with the practice of
stillness, for it is not the natural state of beings of your
kind who are wired biologically for activity. On a world fraught
with peril, established initially in the mechanism of fight or
flight, the organism is not inclined to close all senses down
and to sit. You will find periods of stillness in the Father's
presence on the mansion worlds easier to undertake, for your
very vehicle itself will be better suited to that activity. Once
you overcome that difficulty, the practice is much easier to
undertake.
It is up to each individual to discover techniques that
predispose one to the experience of worship. Worship in itself
has no technique, for it is the experience of personality with
the Original Personality, our Father, and that exchange cannot
be formulated. But given cultural conditioning, biological
tendency, and personal orientation, you can craft for yourself
methods that will bring the worship experience to you. If you
picture a drop of water on a table and adjacent to it a dry
paper towel, the methods you develop for worship are intended to
close the distance. Once the paper towel and the droplet meet,
there is absorption; there is merging. This is the worship
experience. When personality of son or daughter meets in the
embrace of the Paradise Father it is a form of oneness much like
the meeting of water and paper.
All of you have been engaged in the study of the pursuit of the
Father and the understanding of reality as a means for greater
recognition of the work and nature of the Father. You know your
purpose is to understand reality and to pursue spiritual
experience. Michael has left you with a charge to go forth and
preach the gospel. You also know that wisdom and worship are the
highest forms of adjutant mind function. It then becomes
apparent that these three: the pursuit of wisdom, the experience
of worship, and outreach in service, become your primary
purpose, your foremost activities no matter what specific
undertaking or event you are engaged in. These overlay all
contexts wherein you may acquire or express these three
purposes. Each will reveal the Father to you in different ways,
refreshing ways, and as I have indicated that there is no
technique for worship itself, but technique to arrive there, the
same holds true with service and the acquirement of wisdom. You
must learn what methods are appropriate for you, the ones that
facilitate the acquirement of these experiences, and by
facilitate I mean not only that make it easier, but also may
propel you forward when you are resistant, that dutiful drive,
that sense of obligation, that knowing what is right even if you
are not feeling in the mood for it.
There are teachers hanging in the wings, and it has been given
to me to open the floor to discussion. You may request feedback
of teachers in attendance.
Mark: I'm curious what any teacher might say about this upcoming
Rob Cricket presentation. I notice it pushes certain buttons
with some people. I'm trying to fit all that in positively and
appropriately.
Elyon: This undertaking of your visiting fellow is being offered
based on his experience with worship and is intended as a gift,
as a sharing of what has been learned with the desire that those
who attend discover greater intimacy with the Father, one that
they will deepen and possess for themselves without any need to
have continual instruction or guidance from your fellow. His
methods will provide new elements that you may choose to
acquire. It will also expose you to techniques that some enjoy.
I note your comment that others may not find attraction towards
engaging in some techniques offered. You as a group are desirous
of reaching to your fellow human beings to convey truth and to
encourage a personal spiritual experience. Many you meet will
not always enjoy the same practices that you have that have
enriched you. To know of methods that are not ones you
personally find uplifting but you recognize bring fruitful
rewards to others is a beneficial acquisition. Everyone who
attends has free will and must choose their reasons for being
there and must on their own sort their experience for its worth.
Be not concerned overly whether those who attend thoroughly
enjoy it or are put off, for both experiences will contribute to
deepening their understanding of themselves and what they enjoy
in a worship experience. You have provided the grounds for the
experience and for the sorting, the decision making, to be
derived therefrom. Having observed your visitor in the past, I
express anticipation that you willenjoy his visit.
Mark: Thank you. I'd like to ask about an observation of a
principle and its relevance, that is, when an individual forms a
technique, it is then available to others through the mind
circuits. As a principle it becomes more effective for those who
have mastered certain techniques to attempt to express those to
others so more minds can share that experience. In part that is
what we are expecting of ourselves. We are promoting what is the
property of mankind, trying to jump-start those around us by
example. Could you speak to the relevance of this?
Elyon: Yes, I will. You have discerned well this mechanism, this
natural sharing, and the ability of mind to adopt the methods of
others, the approaches of others. Your desire to jump-start
another's pursuit of greater spiritual experience is quite
similar to your anticipated weekend next week. Here is one who
has the same motivations to share things learned on his own.
This sharing is good. The greater it is spread around the world
the more drawn closer the world brotherhood will be. But it must
be kept in mind that techniques, constructs, methods, are
stepping stones and not the path itself. All too often divisions
are cleaved between different groups of spiritual aspirants over
approaches.
This is the very reason why Michael was reluctant to give a
prayer form to his apostles. But if you can understand that
these discoveries that you make that you wish to share with
others are, precisely as you have stated, ways to jump-start,
and let those to whom you have given this spark of initial
energy the freedom to travel in their own ways, you have done
the best, and you are allowing for the best to emerge. Since
personalities are arranged in types, you will experience
expediency with some individuals at one extreme and resistance
from others at the other extreme with degrees intervening. By
working as a group, by exposing yourself to varieties, you can
reach the broad spectrum of personal orientation. I hope this
has helped.
Mark: Yes, very much. Thank you.
When you say the technique is he stepping stone, I had the image
that you could share the technique for crossing a river, but
each crossing is of something different, unique to that
individual's crossing. The skills may be the same but each
crossing is distinct.
Elyon: Very much so. The rocks in the river bed have shifted;
the speed of the water may be greater at a different time of
year; the temperature, a branch to cling to at the bank, all
could change. To return to the stepping stone is not the path,
imagine the burden acquired if you took every stepping stone you
stepped on with you to the next. The relevant stepping stone is
the technique to use at the time.
Mark: Very nice. Thank you very much.
Elyon: You are welcome.
Mark: I'd like to follow Elyon's lead who says you can never say
too much positive and once again express gratitude to the
teachers and all those who are just behind the curtain. We feel
your presence more and more as we engage in our lives' dramas.
We yearn to commune with you and are thrilled by your words of
encouragement. We send ours back to you, our support crew. You
make our drama so much more fulfilling. We are very grateful.
Elyon: This is Elyon acknowledging the reception of your
expression and grant mutuality in our feelings toward you. We
are delighted to have students in the classroom who are eager to
learn, who desire to do their homework. It is rewarding to any
teacher to see students advance from lessons received, from
lessons we give. I will now call recess, erase the chalkboard,
and look forward to our next assembly.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- SHARING OF YOURSELF JUNE 18, 2001 WOODS
CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. Thank you for that heart and mindal
expanding prayer. Well done. (Opening prayer by Rob Cricket.)
This evening I am feeling rather filled with gratitude, for all
those things that really concern me seem small when I am truly
connected with Spirit.
Our God is a giving God. He is generous in all ways. He is
abundant with love and kindness, but also is He generous with
those lessons, be they simple or complex, that lead us closer to
Him, yes. In experiencing such kindness and generosity from a
caring Father, how can we not also want to be giving of
ourselves? In the giving are you truly divinely connected.
What does it mean to be truly giving of yourself? The goodness
from our Father flows through us like a current of energy, and
we are filled with feelings of well-being and the urge to also
do good. To be closed off, self-protecting or too shy is an
obstacle to that divine flow of energy. You have each known
individuals, or are an individual, who loathes the sharing of
yourself, your mind, your hopes, your dreams and also your
discomfort.
One who shares not--receives not. What a lonely existence to be
unwilling to be exposed for the creature you are meant to be.
Many that cannot find it in themselves to be open and willing to
share life with others usually feels that they are of no value.
Our Father sees each child with extreme value and each one is
His beloved child. In this Brotherhood \ Fellowship we must
realize the importance of the giving and receiving of one
another.
In the sharing there is learning and growth; there is literal
Spirit circuitry connections; there is the possibility of Father
being about His business through you. How many times have you
learned from hearing others experience? How many others have you
helped from sharing your experience? Do not be discouraged by
those who wish not to share or are not open to hearing you.
The Master wasn't discouraged but kept moving, being about the
Father's business. Along the way He always left His fellows with
thoughts to ponder or words of encouragement. Many did not share
back with Jesus and it was not in Him to find offense, no. His
self-forgetfulness and direct communion with Father had rendered
Him ego-less. His ego could not be bruised. Sure, His heart felt
sorrow for those He could not reach or those who spurned His
kindness, but He knew He had all the love He could ever need in
His Father.
The Master, with His divine connection, was driven to be a
fountain of good news and free flowing love and inspiration.
Jesus knew the Father's supreme desire is an unbreakable
communion with each one of His children. Now, that is something
to rejoice over. That is a reason to drop petty concerns and
anxiety. We have the universe at work for us. We have all the
love we will ever need in our Father. How can we not be a
fountain of good news?
This week contemplate your willingness to be open to others,
even if they seem harsh or different. Be willing to listen
first, then share and find that spiritual circuitry. Think about
the Master and His love for people, even those who despised Him.
Think about His self-forgetfulness that led to ego-less-ness. In
your moments of quiet time make effort to find that flow of
energy from Father and use it to serve and create lasting
spiritual bonds with others. That is all. Have you questions?
CALVIN: Abraham, first I'd like to welcome our visitor, Rob
Cricket and again, Marcie. I believe it is your second time
here. Welcome and feel free to ask a question. (ABRAHAM:
Greetings, friends.)
SIMON: Yes, Abraham, I am very grateful for the lesson this
week. It seems to go to the heart of a building and increasing
love for each person I might come in contact with each day, each
moment as the day goes on and to look forward to that day with
that increasing love for Father flowing through me and to that
individual I am in contact with. I wonder if you could speak a
little more about that issue in building that love and that
circuitry? I see it as sort of a flow like in a dam. Is that a
good visualization? Like a dam of love behind? Like to build up,
recharge? What I am asking is how to recharge that love when you
feel like it is low?
ABRAHAM: Yes, Simon. Understood. I would not so much call it a
dam, but perhaps a river that is free flowing, never beginning,
never ending, yes. There are moments in mortal living where you
feel the universe is with you and well organized. Your joy is
overflowing. You are flexible in nature. You are ready to be
shown new things. You are apt to be helpful to others. This is
the river of divine energy. This is a literal physical mindal
feeling. There are moments also when the animal side tends to
take over with ego involvement and the instincts of selfishness
are activated. This may occur when you feel you are slighted by
another, or we feel life is unfair and you turn inward and close
off. This closing off is also stopping that flow of divine
energy and this leads to feelings of isolation, unworthiness,
and ultimately a terrible loneliness, as if you are the only
person who understands what you are going through. There is an
entire universe who really understands you and is always with
you, but through the chaos of mortal living we are likely to
fall into those ego traps. We are likely to feel defenseless
instead of empowered from on High. You cannot really build
reserves of divine energy such as the dam you described.
Reserves lead to over exuberance and fanaticism, and possibly
thoughts of over self-importance. The energy must remain
free-flowing, in that you are willing to go about the Father's
business, come what may, without worry of ego damage. The river
must be allowed to keep flowing because it reaches those you
come into contact with. Good question Simon. Another question?
DIANNA: Abraham, as you know I went though this very intense
training this week and I invited Michael to aid me with this
training. These lessons have been so poignant and appropriate to
what I have been learning about--the aid, the assistance of my
brothers and sisters [inaudible] and just how we progress and
learn. I have been getting so much divine information recently,
but I wonder if you have any other perspectives about the
training in particular or an assessment for me at this time?
ABRAHAM: Certainly, Dianna, my daughter. I do realize the spurts
of growth you have been experiencing. With growth there is
always growing pains. You would do well to know that these pains
pass and not allow yourself to become so devastated by them.
With each obstacle you become stronger, and most importantly you
become the person you were intended to be. Overall you do very
well and your dedication is understood. I do recommend however
for you to become very honest with yourself. There are issues
which you are hindered by, but you feel you have no power to
change them. I say you do have personal power though the Spirit,
and Father knows your desires and hears you well. Have not worry
nor fear that you are on a path that is not what you envision
for yourself. Trust Father and trust in your ability to follow
His will. Have not worry daughter. We are with you. Another
question?
ROB: I had a personal experience with our Father, Michael of
Nebadon, and Mother Spirit. In cooperation with them have
produced a book and in cooperation with them have given my life
over to ministry [Inaudible] which brings me to this house, this
country and to the world. I have a question of asking your
comments, your advice on how you think about things I take care
of or need to that would facilitate this to the will of our
Father?
ABRAHAM: Certainly, my son. I do know you. We are not strangers.
(True) I am aware that your enthusiasm is overflowing. You are
anxious to see this work come into fruition. The best
recommendation I could give now would be to take things slowly.
Allow things to build with a natural evolving momentum. There is
no need to rush things along. You have a wonderfully big heart
and your love for our Trinity Caretakers is beautiful to behold,
yes. The universe is with you in your desires, but as you full
well know their techniques and planning are far better than
anyone else's. You would do well to release your expectations of
what you would like to see happen for the bigger and better plan
of what can really happen, yes. Well done, my son.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- RESPONSIBLE CARE OF SELF JUNE 25, 2001
WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. What an energy here this evening. I ask
you to harness it and redirect it to the ONE we all serve.
Pause. That's better. Thank you.
I realize living in today's world is stressful and still you are
so surprised at the animal within. You have your common
reactions to everyday life events and certainly at times it does
seem that you have not had any spiritual training. Have not
worry, nor let your hearts be troubled. Do not become
discouraged with what seems to be spiritual regression.
This mortal experience is meant to push you, to drive you toward
higher mindedness. Everyone has choices on how they will react
to stressful circumstances. You can lean toward an animalistic
rash reaction or draw from the well of spiritual higher
mindedness. Either is acceptable and always creating new
lessons. You know by now we are not perfect but strive for
perfection.
It has become simple to self-punish when the animal side is
shown, as if this will keep you in line. The more you
self-punish, the more you are disappointed in yourself and
discouraged, feeling as if you will never get it right. This all
leads to those feelings of unworthiness and 'why would Father
care for such an unruly child?'Here are your feelings of
orphanhood. Here are your feelings of utter aloneness in the
universe.
We are straying off the lesson of overcoming obstacles in the
Brotherhood a bit, but when you think about it, if you feel so
unworthy how can you possibly be connected in the family of God?
Living the mortal life naturally, instinctively, draws out those
imperfections within that need attention. This is shown to you
to give you drive towards greater things, not discouragement and
feelings of unworthiness.
When one feels so unworthy, inadequate and alone, one is likely
to neglect themselves, spiritually and physically. It is
difficult to draw upon spiritual power when you feel physically
ill. Do you see the mental or emotional focus causes physical
effects that complicates everything and really takes away the
joy of mortal living.
Always do we recommend you to stay connected to the Spirit
through stillness practice and prayer. This is a natural
antidote to animal tendencies. When faced with stressful events
use your words to describe how you are really feeling. Do not
assume anything without asking questions and attempting to view
the overall difficulty. A little understanding can diffuse any
stressful situation practically.
When the animal ego-self presents itself, do not punish yourself
but turn toward the Corrector Himself. Present your behavior to
Father. Tell Him of your feelings and reasoning behind your rash
actions. What do you believe a Father would say to a child who
is searching for answers and a better way, a higher minded way?
Certainly He would not punish you as you would yourself. He
would not discourage you or make you lose confidence in your
status as His child, no. He will show you a new and better way
to handle situations. He will encourage you to keep trying, for
you are His valued child who is in a state of becoming.
With all our imperfections, our First Source and Center, our
Upholder, our beloved Father, who knows all things, could not
possibly love us anymore even if we were perfect. Accept the
fact these animal tendencies will present themselves for you to
build spiritual muscles and learn self-mastery. Be not
discouraged by them but be challenged. Know that your Father is
right there in every moment, not condemning you but calling out
for you, "This way, my child."
Know that Father's children are quite sensitive and need to be
encouraged by their peers also. You can learn from Father and
not be condemning towards our fellows as if we were their judge,
but definitely can we describe to them our feelings, our hopes
for a new and better way, sure. Certainly can you show your
fellows a better way with encouraging words and sharing that you
truly understand them, for you have also had the same
experience.
This week strive for higher mindedness by not self-punishing but
searching. Do not allow the feelings of unworthiness to creep in
so as to cause mistreatment of self. You do understand these
feelings of unworthiness are a major cause for drug and alcohol
abuse among other forms of abuse. You can be firm with yourself
as long as it challenges you to do better. Do not leave yourself
with feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness that you will never
learn. You are indeed that of our Father's. You are the dwelling
place for His gift to us. Be responsible in the care of the
self. Yes.
That is all. No questions. Know that I am with more than you
know, as are Mother's angels and various universal helpers.
Please call on us. Know that we are with you. My love goes with
you. Until next week, shalom
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics:We Pass on to Others What We Have Learned, Michael's
Ministry, The Exercise of Your Faith Teachers: Tomas, Michael,
Elyon, Machiventa
June 24, 2001
Tomas (Gerdean TR): Good morning, faithful flock. I am Tomas,
your friend, your longtime companion, and your cheerleader in
your efforts to take the gifts you have become aware of and turn
them into service to your fellows, as we are also under the
influence of the universal law that we pass on to others what we
have learned. This format may appear foreign to you who have not
been exposed to us in this way, but we are a fellowship of
family in the spirit that is a viable extension of Paradise, for
we are in service to Lord Michael and in harmony with the
ministering spirits that have been designed to help the
ascending sons in their paths. The light we bring is not a
blowtorch or floodlight but a steady glow. You discover this
illumination as you put one foot in front of the other in faith.
The demonstration of how the mortal and the divine walk together
was so beautifully illustrated in your session yesterday, for
this depiction of how the spirit leads lures you into advancing
is very much the technique we seek to duplicate as we urge you
to take what you know and gently urge your fellows into the line
of truth, such as you have been led to discover by your
knowledge of divinity. We seek to teach. We seek to teach not so
much academic information, as this abounds, but to convey a
reality, a real aspect of existence that is eternal and
enduring, that which has been born of the spirit and becomes
strengthened as a result of its faith-walk with spirit such that
your confidence grows, your reality grows, your effectiveness
grows, and your truth, beauty, and goodness grow in accordance
with those simple lessons that you allow yourself to be lured
into learning by those who have gone before you and have paved
the way, now reaching back to encourage you to come into the
presence of living love and to accept it as your own walk with
God.
What a joy it is to be your friend and associate and to watch
you come alive as lights becoming stronger and brighter. Indeed,
your lights are helping to bring about the dawn. The combined
lights of your association connect with your neighbors hither
and yon who are also in response to this dynamic circuitry of
personality pull toward home, toward Father, toward divinity.
Well, there are many, many here in attendance today, as many as
you would allow yourselves to recognize. I will thus ... hush.
Michael (Mark): There are, indeed, a great many here in
attendance at this time, and they are all here at my bidding, my
dear ones. They are here as gifts to you to aid in your
ascension, your understanding, your comprehension of the
patterns and principles you are learning day by day, hour by
hour. I would access this channel of communication to you at
this time as an illustration to you that I do so because this
channel is available to me, and I will use any and all channels
to present myself to you and those who I have instructed to be
about this task.
I desire to more fully come among you that you may know me more
fully and recognize my presence in your lives, as I am with you
always. I am not only there during your trials and your
struggles; I am with you to share your joy. I am with you to
share your love. I am with you that you may share me with
others. You are with me that we may seek and we may find all of
my children. Those who hear my words, those who feel my presence
indeed are my servants. You each minister to my children and,
whether or not you are always aware, you speak for me. This is
how I choose to manifest in this life. In your lives, with your
lives, through your lives I will touch others, and you all will
help me. You are my eyes to see, my ears to hear, my mouths to
speak. When there is a need for service it is you they will see,
my friends. It is you they will hear. It is through you that
they may come to know me, and I will find each one and bring
them into the flock. I will seek them out, and you will be my
foot soldiers. This is not a responsibility, a burden, to be
borne. This is a gift.
When working with me and spirit you are lifted up as these
circuits complete. Each time you are elevated nearer to me and
to the Father be not afraid to speak for me. Call on your
highest ideals and there I am. I will help you. I will minister
through you. We must work together. This is a privilege we both
share, my friends. This special liaison was designed by the
Father of all that we may both be lifted up, that we may all be
lifted up. This is a Paradise pattern that you are beginning to
perceive even at your very beginning existence. I assure you I
offer you my peace that this pattern pervades our beings, that
we must simply allow this pattern to exist.
I desire that you show all my children the joy and the love you
have come to know in coming to find me. Be not serious about
this task; be joyful. this is indeed a gift to be taken and a
gift to be given. So, let us let this dance of joy begin,
continue, proceed, and be directed to the Paradise Father where
we shall together stand in eternity in the embrace of the loving
Father of all and there receive the love and appreciation for
our efforts in bringing about this light and life.
There are others available to you, as you so desire. I withdraw,
but I never leave you, my dear ones. I am never far from you.
For now I leave you my peace and my joy.
Elyon (Gerdean): Greetings, this is Elyon, your resident
instructor and your long-term friend. How it pleases me to be
with you and to see how you reach for words to embrace one
another in the spirit. The spirit is truly the great
homogenizer, the mayonnaise, that holds you together, the thread
that consistently weaves the tapestry of the family of man and
God into a greater reality, the morontia reality, indeed.
(Question about how we can proclaim and live more fully the
religion of living spiritual experience without encumbering
ourselves with the religion of ...(inaudible)?
Elyon: Practice. The props of beliefs are purposive and they
have served humanity well in evolving up from the primitive
worship of nature and fear into the exalted realms of
recognition of those powers and personalities which present
themselves as patterns of perfection for you to follow. These
extensions of a greater reality are beyond words, beyond mortal
concept until such time as the aspiring mind seeks to formulate
a belief system around the concept they have attained in their
minds or hearts. This is how evolved religions grow, it's how
truth becomes crystallized. When you begin to take it and study
it, it has already lost much of its elan. This is even so
appropriate, for it provides an academic understanding of
beliefs and a record of the evolution of spirit reality. It is
what you might call scaffolding on the way to true worship.
Understanding what role beliefs play is a step into awareness of
how they have worked for you and also against you, for in these
concepts of beliefs there has been difference. Where there is
difference without enlightenment there is conflict and
competition. Thus in many ways the phrases and practices held
sacred by some are regarded as profane by others. So, to you who
inquire as to how to transcend these stumbling blocks into the
clear light of communion, you need to be mindful that what is
precious to you may be anathema to others.
In presenting instructions to teachers and believers you have
been counseled to always respect the personality of man. Many
times man believes that he is his belief system. Therefore when
you disregard or disrespect the belief system he or she
subscribes to, you have somehow caused offense and thus
alienated the brother you seek to embrace. So, being mindful of
your words is essential to a pure reflection of spirit reality.
As you make contact with the spirit of the other, as your spirit
engages the spirit of your brother, you have made a viable
connection that transcends words, that transcends belief
systems, that transcends dialogue. This language of love is the
door through which the Father Himself will speak to you both. As
you allow yourself to be led by this spirit, as you put yourself
in a position of giving yourself over to be the eyes and ears
and mouth of God, the words will be put in your mouth that will
not offend your brother but that will sound as music to his
soul. You will be received; your words will be received as food
and not as gall for them to stumble over. Thus, in the end the
language of spirit is the language you need to seek to speak,
not the language of man nor of beliefs nor even philosophies,
but that of love. It's a practice that is found by trial and
error as you offend your fellows without meaning to or as you
find yourself pondering your own words that you interject into a
communion that may abruptly alter the very molecules of the air
as that word falls as dead weight on an otherwise soaring
moment.
You would think by my response that I was insinuating you must
be careful of what you say as if you need to walk on eggs as you
travel your path and seek to enjoy in joy being among your
fellows. I tell you that the closer you are to living in the
spirit the more in joy you are and the less you need to worry
about what words you use, because they will be more and more an
emanation of that within you which you are automatically
becoming, because your nature is becoming more Godlike in your
efforts to be His instrument.
You introduce a topic of profound importance, for this is a
major stumbling block among those who are just starting out on
their paths. They have found a belief system, and they seek to
share their belief system. The doors are slammed shut in their
faces because they have not learned how to separate what they
believe from their faith, which is stirred because they have
found something in which to commit their belief. It's an arduous
process if you allow it to overrule your intent to share that
which has become your passion, your core reality, your driving
power, and your greatest need. As you sit in stillness and bond
with that reality within, you will gain in strength and in
courage in attempting to lead yourself into communion with
others that this might be shared, that the lights of others are
also illuminated by faith and by the spirit. As the light then
shines upon your association that light itself will eliminate
the shadows of misunderstanding and mere words which get in the
way of the communion you seek and find because of your shared
vision, your shared joy, your shared reflection of spirit.
I know it is hard for you word people, but it is also a fun
challenge. Perhaps this is why we occasionally make up new words
that can accommodate a nuance or a moment in which there are no
words to account for what you have just experienced or realized.
* Machiventa (Mark): This is Machiventa. I perceive that the
time draws short as the flesh grows weary. I would seize this
opportunity in this classroom which you have orchestrated for
this purpose to make some simple observations and to pose some
simple questions before we ring the bell and adjourn this
melchizedek classroom for recess.
I of my order and you of your order both greatly enjoy basking
in the glow of our sovereign, soaking in his love and light and
reveling in his joy. We also both would agree that with this
gift we receive we are then motivated to express this in ways
suitable in our environments. I of my order am inclined to be
the one to consider rolling up the sleeves and getting to work
in order to be about the expression of service which you have
come to learn is a necessary aspect of the receiving of this
Father's gift. So, I point out some factors for you to remember
as you go forward and are drawn to service like moths to a
flame.
Your order of being has a unique potential not even available to
my order of being and that is the exercise of your faith which
is your gift to the Father. This faith enables you to be more
than you are, to accomplish more than you could, to actualize
more than you fathom. I draw to your attention the examples you
are familiar with in your text of the incarnation where I
actually walked on your world and the impact of my visit and
draw your attention to my human charge Abraham who had what is
considered to be a far reaching impact. I point out to you : he
is no different than you who sit here today. I reference that
our sovereign, the Creator Son, who also walked on your world
started as a babe and again was no different from you who sit in
this room. Faith was not bestowed upon him differently than
faith has come to you. It was his exercise of faith which grew
this faith which we all agree has had a lasting impact on your
world. Then I draw attention to his human associates, his
apostles in the flesh who followed in his steps. They were no
different from you who sit in this room at this time. Each one
of them had the gift of the Father and grew their own faith in
accordance with their abilities. It was the combination of their
personalities and this faith which propelled their actions and
which subsequently impacted your world.
Throughout time human associates have been engaged with all
manner of assistance from the other side, and in each case the
ones to make a significant impact were just as you are in this
room. I encourage you to realize the tools that are before you,
to heed well the gifts brought to you by those on the other side
who would be of assistance as well as those of you, your
brothers and sisters who are more advanced, who have done
extracurricular activities and have prepared to be able to
minister to you in the flesh. Accept these gifts from these
brothers even in your midst. Accept the tools of all those
around you who would enable you to be more than you are. Realize
that you have at your beck and call more tools than did those
who came before you who impacted your world so greatly.
Now I pose the question: What stands in your way? What are the
obstacles which act as your stumbling blocks to impacting your
world? You have the teachings. You have the scriptures, the
writings, the tools, the messages. You have the experiences of
your brothers and sisters. You have Michael within you. There is
nothing that could stand before you and the actualization of
this destiny. It is merely for you to decide that these things
that are between you and your destiny are to be removed,
overcome, gone over, around, or through. It is up to you to
decide when this happens, how this happens. It is not a matter
of if this happens, for all these obstacles will be removed in
time, will be removed by the conscious, freewill choice acting
in faith. You may do it now. You may do it later. You may do it
here. You may do it there. You will do it. You decide, my
friends. When do we roll up our sleeves and get to work as my
melchizedek order is prone to do? I tell you it is upon all of
us. I, being of long duration, find myself waiting and
observing, much time elapsing and, not to alarm you but, your
time slips by. I will be here for the next wave, the next
generation, the next set of spiritual seekers just as you are
here now. I will minister to them faithfully as I will minister
to you. I have given you my word. The teachers have given you
their word. Michael has given you his word; he is in you.
Therefore, we have nothing holding us back. In reality there is
nothing holding us back.
So, that pep talk having been delivered I now choose to cut you
free. Ring the bell and adjourn this class for which I and the
others are so grateful that you all attend.
Rob: As you know I am cut free by Michael to minister around the
world his gospel. I am aware of that privilege and the
opportunity to minister his will, the Mother Spirit's and even
your will as a senior in the ministerial team on the planet. Can
you outline five things I could add to my ministry for Urantia
readers and for the global population that would meet your
needs?
Machiventa: My dear friend, I am in awe. I register your
question, but, my friend, I would hesitate to alter your course,
because your course has come to you from a very sacred place of
your faith and your trust in Michael. I see no imperfection in
your plan. I see nothing lacking in your course. I see nothing
you need to be any more effective than you are. I hesitate to
imply by giving you any specifics that there is anything at
fault, anything missing in your ministry. You indeed are a
shining example of potential maximized in the flesh. To the very
limits of your understanding and your ability you have opened
and stretched your faith wings, and you are acting on what you
understand and know about the Father and His desire for you. I
do not want to get in the way of that communion between you and
your Father. I offer you all the words of encouragement and
support I can provide. I even pledge to you that I will aid in
your ministry in whatever fashion I may be of service to you, my
friend. But you are one of us, and you are in no need of
redirection or reinterpretation Only expression lies before you,
only fruition is beyond you. It, to us and to your own spiritual
development, is rather insignificant whether your ministry
occurs here or there or in this fashion or that manner or with
these words or those phrases. What is important to us is that
you act, and when your foot is raised and in motion then we are
there to help you guide it and put it down. You are one who does
not hesitate to raise his foot for the next step and seek
guidance for where it should land. The guidance comes from on
high and is in no need of revision from one of my order.
Rob: I certainly can. Thank you. I love you very much.
Machiventa: Please accept the gratitude of the entire corps of
melchizedeks for those of your order such as yourselves who
reach out and emulate Paradise pattern to the very limits of
your capabilities. We could ask no more.Michael could ask no
more. The Father expects no more. Yet you will give us more; you
will give Michael more. It is truly inspiring for one of my
order to behold one of you acting in such faith, because this
faith has been developed from nothing. This faith has come from
you inside. I was created without the need for faith. You have
had to develop this faith out of darkness. To see your faith
elevated to such a level in your only beginning existence is
truly miraculous. I give glory to God in the highest when I
observe this. Thank you. Thank you all for the exercise of your
faith. It is truly inspiring to all of us who stand around and
beside and with you through this career. I am humbled by what I
see and I thank you deeply.
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Truth and Revelation, Inspiration and Ritual Teachers:
Elyon, Abraham
July 1, 2001
Elyon (Jonathan TR): My dear friends, this is Elyon. Happy am I
to be in your presence as always to make this contact, to
continue our progress as a group who are dedicated to Michael,
who are forward looking, who wish to not only drink deeply from
the living water but also to share that water with others who
thirst.
I wish to speak on truth and revelation and to borrow the
phrase, that truth is always a revelation. It is quite natural
to define truth as an understanding, informational in nature,
knowledge based, something to gauge verifiability; reality as
contrasted with falsehood, things unreal. Truth is revelation.
Revelation is truth; it is the dynamics, the transfer, that is
truth.
When Michael said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life", the
way is a path that implies progress. Life is dynamic. Without
vitality in a static state there is no life. Truth is very much
like these two. Awakening to revelation is the experiencing of
truth which is composed of secondary elements such as knowledge,
experience, wisdom, faith, and trust .... one sees more
particularly the secondary elements. There is understanding;
there is clarity, but the seeing is the truth. That is the
dynamic. Truth in motion is revelation to the human personality.
A body of facts will never be equivalent to truth because facts
by nature are static. This is why we stress the stillness, for
it is a dynamic relationship with our Father. This is why
Michael has asked us all to go forth and proclaim the gospel,
because our reach to another is the revelation of truth; it is
truth revealed. It is true revelation.
We have spoken in the past about you being an everlasting
fountain of spirit that can pour forth into your life and touch
the lives of others. The search for truth is best undertaken
from this internal vantage point. As you piece together your
understanding of life, your position in it, as you accumulate
knowledge that bears upon you from the outer world, your
interaction is the dynamics of truth in motion. Truth has the
nature of coalescing, of bringing many elements into a
clarified, perceivable, understandable, and experiencible state.
When the master said that the kingdom of heaven cannot be hid
under a basket he was pointing to this flowing dynamic of truth,
and that it is by nature revealing. Truth literally cannot be
compressed or contained. It is expansive. The fine line between
revelation and truth is the recognition in human experience.
Truth ever and always is. As long as there are two personalities
in the universe that interact, there is truth. Revelation is the
recognition of that presence.
Truth is manifold and singular at the same time. It is manifold
in the aspect that the personality through growth encounters
repeated gradations of revelation. But each revelatory
experience is an encounter with that singular truth, the vital
dynamic of living relationship with God and created reality.
When Michael spoke that if you drink of his living water you
will never thirst again implies that his truth is ever-present.
No matter how much you exert yourself spiritually to grow, that
truth will be there always quenching your thirst. Each time you
drink you experience revelation. The water has not changed. The
cup may be different. The time of day may be different. Truth
is, the experience of truth is, revelation. The components that
a human being can grasp of truth entail such things as facts and
knowledge and wisdom and faith and trust. These are more
tangible to the human mind than is truth. All together bring
about spiritual experience and expanded wisdom.
I have used my allotted time and will make room for others and
allow for your input, as well.
Harold: Is there a difference between revelation and
inspiration?
Elyon: Revelation can occur when the human mind is unprepared.
It can flash before the eyes of the soul and be startling,
though it is not necessarily a requirement that this occur for
it to be revelation. Inspiration combines human input with the
divine embrace. It requires willingness, engagement of the
personality, the acceptance of the motivation. There is a
responsive element from the human being that entails an
inspirational episode. Truth is everywhere present. Revelation
can occur but will not be fulfilled until recognized, and that
is the recognition of truth. But inspiration never hovers before
you undetected. It is something you are well aware of from its
onset. Does this help?
Harold: Yes, thank you.
Abraham: Greetings to all of you, this is Abraham. I am
welcoming all who come to our region to partake in the
fellowship of another gathering of like souls. I anxiously await
the arrival of those who can attend and also give my love and
embrace to everyone, whether you gather with us or undertake
your other activities. We in this mission are engaged to be of
service to Michael and Machiventa. Though at times such as this
upcoming gathering we get together to celebrate, it does not
matter where upon this globe you are stationed, we are all in
one congregation working for Michael. I salute your work.
Harold: What part should ritual take in organizational
gatherings like the one we are going to? Since Jesus did
facilitate this for the original church, are there any
suggestions we can be doing?
Elyon: Ritual is to the group what habit is to the individual.
It establishes pattern which is beneficial, and it also can
encourage stagnation if either an individual or an organization
is not keen upon amending and evolving habit or ritual to better
satisfy the progressing needs of either. Good ritual is like
good habits. They are beneficial. Sometimes a habit must be
trained into an individual by another as is the case when a
parent teaches a child, but a habit is something that is only
real when it is self chosen, when it is self possessed.
Otherwise it is a command or a demand. Ritual likewise must be
self possessed, in some way valued or cherished for it to be
effective. It cannot be a legislative procedure required of an
organization or a congregation. Therefore creativity is a
necessary factor for discerning or discovering ritual methods,
techniques, which will be uplifting, that will be encouraging
and inspiring.
Jesus left the ritual of a common meal, sharing in the bread and
the wine with a context of fellowship with him. He knew his
apostles would experience great loss in his absence which was to
occur in only a few days. Their human association sitting at a
meal was about to be transformed into a creature to creator
association, the communion of worship. Ritual to be of value to
the soul must entail this element of contact with the divine or
at least the encouragement of the reach to the divine. It was
convenient at the time and in the culture for Michael to select
the meal, the Passover. It was a gathering that had a religious
context, and it was the last event they were to do together
privately and organized. Those elements can be incorporated into
new ritual, its relevance to the individual, the personal
intimacy, that friendship element, fellowship element, and the
context of spiritual contact.
Does this provide means for you to pursue?
Harold: Yes, good thoughts.
Olfana (Ginny): I have a few words about inspiration and ritual.
I am Olfana. When you allow yourself to be inspired by a great
thought or a revelation or an action you may perform, if it is
spirit filled, if it is God filled, if it is love filled, if it
is service filled then the natural tendency is movement, action.
If you look at persons whom you consider spirit filled, you will
notice their composure, their stature, their bodily
accouterments that speak to you. The natural result of a love
filled thought is action. Think of a time when you were sitting
and being quiet or just doing your everyday routine, and you had
an inspiration. What did you do? What happens to your body?
Generally there is movement, an upliftment of the structure, an
opening of the eyes, a reaching out with your hands, taking
steps to fulfill the inspired thought. Many of you have these
moments but you do not follow through every time with the
outward movements. Study persons who are in a state of
inspiration that is not phony and is not accidental. The spirit
is uplifting. Bodily motions are simply an overflow of love and
joy and excitement over an inspired thought or a revelation.
I would encourage you in your daily lives to practice small ways
of using your bodies more, using your breath, your eyes, your
hands, and your feet. Practice in little ways even jumping up
and down, doing a dance. These are all natural outpourings of
love. If you are truly spirit filled and it is truly a pure and
personal love, you will never be embarrassed. In your culture
there is some sort of stigma about people who jump around and
dance and act weird as if motion and activity is somehow not
dignified. You will never wonder what to do with yourself when
you are spirit filled. It will overflow.
So, I encourage all of you to stand now and use your bodies in
any way that gives some sort of relief to your spirits. I leave
you with this little assignment to move more, to celebrate with
our your vehicle more any time you have an inspired thought.
From: Bill Kelly <billk@ida.net> Eastern Idaho/POCATELLO TeaM
Teacher: Daniel - Events and Attitudes and beyond ...
June 29, 2001
Prayer by Virginia: Father: we pray that you would help us to
use those things we hear to make us better people and to be able
to serve and love all of our brothers and sisters. Amen.
Daniel (Bill/Isaac): Greetings, my friends: this is Daniel, your
teacher, your guide, your staunch supporter and great admirer.
We spoke last week about a metaphor that I have used for years
dealing with the waves, the uncertainties and the vicissitudes
of life; and I reminded you that you cannot always second guess
what the meaning of those events may be for you. The event, in
itself, is not objective in meaning, but is totally conditioned
by the responses of the people involved in that event. To one
person a rainy day is a calamity, spoiling the picnic planned;
raining-out the baseball game that their children were playing
in. But to another person that rain is the welcome relief from
the drought; is the opportunity to stay inside and read a book
instead of watering the lawn by hand. To yet another person,
that is dependent upon rain for dry-farming, rain is not merely
convenient and pleasant, but crucial. This is, of course, a very
puerile illustration, not very profound, but it illustrates the
point that events in themselves have no meaning apart from those
whom they effect.
I stress this because it is the habit of mortals, especially on
a planet like this one, to attribute to the event itself innate
meanings. Isaac is allowing me to illustrate with a pet-peeve of
his which is wind, for to Isaac wind is annoying! It disrupts
the little bit of hair that remains on his head. [Laughter.] It
dries his skin. It takes things out of his hands when he is
trying to do small work. It roars in his ears adding to his
tinnitis, and represents a basic unpleasantness, at least it
does so when it is strong enough. But, you see, the wind is
essential for the functioning of this planet, for if there were
no wind the trees could not reproduce themselves. If there was
not wind to assist in the evaporation of water, then the cloud
formations would be diminished. If there was not wind the birds
could not fly as easily, and soar on the thermals and other
types of wind. If there was not wind then the windmills would
not turn and produce power. If there was not wind then the
sailboats would malfunction and be in a dead-calm, and so forth
and so on.
When you stub your toe on some object and curse the object, this
is indicative that you are giving that object meaning which it
does not have. It did not place itself in your way. You simply
were unobservant of its presence. Because all events only have
the meanings that you ascribe to them, then the means of
handling the ups and downs of life, as we call it, falls totally
in your hands. The secret to a life of balance and stability
does not consist in having a bed of roses. The secret is
learning to ascribe the proper meaning to the events that come
your way.
What we teachers have been doing with you people these nearly
ten years duration is helping you to enlarge the landscape
device; to increase the size of your painting space; to broaden
the confines of your thinking. It is, however, impossible to get
"out of the box". This is erroneous. What needs to happen is for
the walls of the box to be expanded. You will never get out of
your box for you cannot suddenly divorce yourself from your
past, but you can indeed expand the boundaries of your
perception and interpretation. In order to do this, though, you
need to be disabused of the notion that things carry meanings in
themselves. This is why I making a special point of this
tonight.
If you are struggling with stress, this tells you that the
source of your problem is not in the events themselves, but in
how your are interpreting what they mean to you.
Now I understand that none of this is brand new information.
These ideas have been discussed before by us in the Teaching
Mission and even by some of your wiser, learned men and women.
But these concepts are important because they are the key to
moving from a life full of stress, anxiety, anger, depression,
guilt, blameÑthe poisons of the spirit, to a life where the
fruits of the spirit are manifest. Last week we talked about the
sorts of lives that can be lived, the life of self-direction and
self-will, and the life of faith in the over-care of God. This
is where these meanings can move from one arena to another. If
you are living the life of self-will you are saying basically
Ômy will be done,' then you will struggle with the events that
come to you as it will be your intention to gain control over
everything, which can lead to the insanity that I mentioned last
week. But if you choose rather to say Ôit is my will that your
will be done,' then the events that come to you, (and I include
people in the concept of events), then the events that come to
you are not challenges to control. They are gifts for learning.
They are gifts for giving and receiving love.
You are born 100% animal. It is not until you have been under
the administration of the Adjutant Spirits that you are ready to
make a moral decision so that the invasion of Spirit can occur.
You will never lose your animal nature until you complete the
mortal career, and even then it remains to be gradually
transcended in the morontial existence for morontial is a blend
of material and spiritual. However, you have begun your
morontial experience at the point of the birth of soul, which
also occurred simultaneously with the arrival of Spirit in your
life, and so your are mortal beings and morontial beings both.
This is information that many, many people do not know, and if
they hear it unprepared, would reject out-of-hand.
My words are not given to give you the impression that you can
suddenly move from the self-life to the Spirit lead life in one
gigantic leap. If you were fully in the Spirit mode, you would
all be translated! On planets in Light and Life where people
live three to seven hundred years, there is time sufficient in
the mortal life span to actually achieve that commitment which
results in translation; but on this planet it is very rare, for
your days are short. Therefor, be patient with yourselves.
You are created animal beings. This is not as the Greeks
thought, the doing of the demons. Oh no. This is the Paradise
pattern reproduced in time and space by none other than Joshua
Ben Joseph, as you know him, your Creator Son, in consort with
Nebadonia, the Local Universe Mother Spirit. You are good in
your animal nature, but capable of mistakes. You are good in
your divine nature and capable of achieving perfection. When
those two are in cooperation, and upon fusion, you will be
forever sealed to that destiny.
Now, this is going to sound so predictable. How does one reframe
the meaning they give to events so they can let go of the stress
and the Spirit poisons, and copeÑno, transform themselves in the
process? The answer is again, inhale, exhale. Inhale the
stillness. Exhale the service; and you must do both. Not just
inhale and not just exhale, for only stillness without service
is stagnation. Only service without stillness is depletion.
You are together tonight as free-will creatures. Nobody has
forced you to come to this gathering. You love to fraternize
with each other, and you love to fraternize with us who you feel
with your spiritual antenna, but seldom see with material eyes,
viz., your older brothers and sisters including me. In this
connection fellowship becomes both intake and output, both
inhale and exhale. You fellowship with each other as you
fellowship with God in stillness. You are experiencing the
uplift, which is of the same nature as occurs during your
one-on-one time with God. Yet you serve each other in various
ways: as you share your ideas; as you discussÑargue perhaps. You
serve each other by your joyfulness, by your pleasure with each
other's company.
Last week I urged you to throw off the muddy clothing that is
holding you back, the cultural conditioning, the negativity of
unbelief, of skepticism, of ridicule towards the things of the
Spirit, and take a good shower of God's love, and put on lighter
clothing. I know that you all desire to do this, and I know that
you will all succeed. I have concluded my comments. Are there
questions or comments?
Virginia: Daniel, I am assuming that the coming of the Thought
Adjuster is your reference to us identifying with Spirit. I
think that was your word, and that also was the beginning of the
soul, but I think the Spirit part is so much later for us. Am I
correct or am I confused?
Daniel (Bill): The Spirit part that you may be referring to
Virginia, is the recognition of the presence of Spirit in your
life. Many people, especially in Christianity, have been taugh,
that the time of recognition is the actual time of arrival; but
the Thought Adjuster arrives upon completion of the first moral
decision of the growing child which does average in the fifth
year on this planet at this time. Upon the arrival of the
Thought Adjuster, which is totally unconscious to the child,
then the soul begins to develop. The awareness of the presence
of Spirit, however, is generally not found to occur before the
arrival of early teenage years. Does this answer your question?
Virginia: Yes, thank you.
Ken: Daniel, how are you this evening?
Daniel (Bill): I am very much at peace, my friend, and very
excited to be in the presence of you all who are such cherished
companions.
Ken: Thank you. It has been mentioned in our classes before that
we are becoming morontial. Tonight you have talked of Spirit. Is
there a morontial Spirit that comes to us as we progress towards
Light and Life?
Daniel (Bill): Morontial is that term that is a mixture of
material and spiritual. It is that reality dimension that
intercedes or intervenes between the purely spiritual and the
purely physical existence. It is not a morontial Spirit because,
as I said, it is a blend of spiritual and material, but it
begins with the birth of the soul. This begins for most people
in their fifth year of life.. The morontial experience is a
constant changing ratio of material to spiritual. When you begin
your morontial career at five and a half years old you are 99.9%
animal/physical, and one tiny little fragment of the Thought
Adjuster as it relates to the composition of your soul. But as
you grow the ratio changes so that the more there is that is
spiritual the less there is that is material, and vice versa. By
the time that you reach the Mansion Worlds for those of you who
are making great spiritual growth in the mortal life, your ratio
might be well past 50-50 with more spiritual than material. And
at the end of your morontial career when your finally graduate
from the Local Universe and head on to the Superuniverse career,
you are fully Spirit, no longer morontial, for the ratio has
come down to 99.9% spiritual and 0.1% material, if you
understand this meaning.
Ken: Yes.
Daniel (Bill):Then in the spiritual career from that point on to
Paradise you grow in Spirit, but it isn't the same thing as the
ratio changing of the morontial career. This is the evolution of
the soul, beginning with the first moral decision; and that soul
surviving mortal death brings you then to the next life.
Consequently when the human mind and the Indwelling Spirit have
reached total commitment, perfect alignment, then there is
fusion. From that point on there is never any doubt about the
outcome of that career.
Ken: The box just keeps getting bigger and bigger, infinitely
bigger.
Daniel (Bill): Yes, the intellectual box has no limitations.
Even the Paradise Finaliters have not reached their limits, but
in fact stand on the very door step of the most incredible
adventure. None of us is 100% sure of the meaning of this, but
those people whom I visit with from Paradise, those Finaliters
are even more enthusiastic and excited by far than I am; and I
am more enthusiastic and excited than you all are; and you are
more enthusiastic and excited than the majority of your
associates.
Lori: Daniel, does fusion only occur, or most occur, after our
mortal life here?
Daniel (Bill): On this planet, yes. On planets that are more
advanced where people live longer lives, the ratio of fusion to
natural death changes. In fact, on advanced planets up to half
of the inhabitants do not experience natural death. My planet
was quite advanced in Light and Life, and about 37% of the
inhabitants were fused before death. They were transferred
directly to the Mansion Worlds. I, however, did die the mortal
death, which is the rule of thumb here. Part of the reason is
that no one lives long enough on this planet to get enough
wisdom to achieve fusion. There have been exceptions and they
lived a long time ago, the ones that are known to you in your
records. [Editor: He may be referring to the accounts in the
Bible of Enoch and Elijah.] And there are people today who are
being fused, but I am not a liberty to discuss that.
Lori: Well, now I am trying to tie it all together with the box
and service and the gifts. So as I understand it, if we can
expand our box and lift the values or importance we put on
people and situations, that in my personal case I usually drag
up from the past, am I to understand that there are gifts in
each situation with each person, if I can only lift the veil
long enough to see them, and I can begin to lift the veil
through service and stillness?
Daniel (Bill): I admire your mind for you are attempting right
now to integrate everything that I said by way of illustration
and by synthesizing. The answer to your question is essentially,
yes. The box was a reference to enlarging your interpretation of
the meaning of events. Sometimes the personal meaning doesn't
change. The party which you were planning to go to, which was
relying upon sunny weather, will be canceled by the rain.
Enlarging the box would be understanding that there are a lot of
other meanings that can be attributed to the rain besides your
own personal disappointment. While it has been disparagingly
referred to as rationalizing, it is still helpful to remember
that "one man's garbage is another man's treasure", that the
rain does have very important value to other people.
Now as to receiving the gift, say from an unpleasant encounter
with another person, this becomes much more difficult, because
it seems that inherent in this conflict is nothing but
negativity! It is true that this was the hardest thing that
Jesus dealt with when he was trying to teach his disciples how
they should respond to events that appear to be inherently
negative. Of course, you know what he taught. He taught that you
should not respond to that event with a negative response. He
also taught that you should not lay down and be walked upon by
that evil situation, but rather that you should do something
positive, if nothing more that of your own free-will offering to
do what the other person was trying to force you to do, in order
to overcome the evil with good. In saying, "overcoming evil with
good", I am, of course, generalizing. You are receiving the gift
of soul growth, for that does result in the slight change in the
balance of the spiritual and the material.
As to exactly what to do and how to do it, that is for each
individual to struggle and find out on their own, because it is
in the struggling and the deciding that you gain soul growth.
Doing what somebody else advises you to do may, in fact, be a
wise thing, but not if it is done without any processing,
thinking and understanding. Then it is merely obedience. You may
luck out and obey the better advice, but the best thing is to
process and make those decisions yourself. Does this further
muddy the water?
Lori: No, it's just as I've always said, "it's the process, not
the product". And that is a pretty universal thing, as I am
finding out. It is just that it's not that hard for me to make
lemonade out of lemons, or change my plans when it comes to
nature. It's usually, where I get hung up, in expanding my box
is with people, and the situations that occur over and over with
people you have negative history with. And so you can try really
hard, but I guess it is important to know there is soul growth
from trying.
Daniel (Bill): We have discussed this before. It is also your
choice to decide when to stop interacting with people who are
negative. Even Jesus did not bang his head against a wall. He
did not curry the favor of men or women. He was able to discern
when there was the possibility of progress in a relationship,
and if he knew there was no possibility, he cut it off. For
example, there are several events in his life I could refer to,
but I am thinking of the temple discourse on Tuesday of Holy
Week when he gave his enemies one more chance to change their
minds. It was clear to him after a few minutes of speaking that
by the looks on their faces, their motions and their mumblings,
that they were not going to change their minds, but they were
going to pursue his death; at which point he shifted gears to a
straight forward statement of how it was, and referred to them
in pretty strong language: a nest of vipers, white-washed tombs,
etc., etc. He did not say this because he suddenly hated those
people. He still loved them; but he was calling attention to
their hypocritical behavior, you see. In the final sentence of
his address to them he said words to the effect that he was
leaving them desolate.
Now we are not the Master, and our judgement is not as good as
his. Therefor I am not suggesting that we start making
presumptive judgements about the impossibility of making
progress; but I am suggesting that this is a choice that we all
have, that at least for now I am making no progress with this
person. Whatever I do is rejected, is misunderstood, causes
conflict. I choose therefor to put it aside, and wait on the
future. Perhaps that person will change their mind, or perhaps I
will change mine, you see.
Lori: Yes, thank you for your patience.
Virginia: Daniel, is it then possible to say that the very
positive reaction is some situations is just to walk away?
Daniel (Bill): Yes, it is, for to stay there and continue to be
abused and become upset and angry is not positive. I just
caution you not to take my words as an easy out, to not do the
hard work that is necessary in relationships. Well, my friends,
my TR has limitations tonight and is requesting that we
conclude. I will honor one more burning question, however, if
there is one.
Virginia: Daniel, I do have one, and it has to do with
relationships. Frankly I both fear and hope that if
relationships are not settled here on this plane that there will
be given amply opportunity to understand one another and forgive
one another on Mansion Worlds. You know, I think of the verse in
the Bible that says "we will know even as we are known" and that
I guess that I just want you to say "Yeah, yeah, we will get
another chance" if we don't get things solved on this planet.
Daniel (Bill): You will be given more time beyond this life, as
you know. There is no guarantee that relationships that were
difficult here are automatically going to be corrected for it
"takes two to tango" and many more people decide against
continuing the ascension career after mortal death than before
it. I am not saying that large numbers dessert the heavenly
quest, but it has happened that some people cannot, will not,
when they find they have more time to progress, decide to
continue. So therefor, it may be, that, if you have say a
specific person that you have not resolved things with, that in
the next life you make the attempt again, and they most likely,
now given all this time and that there is no excuse that can be
put up to postpone it, will force them to confront this. Do you
understand what I am saying? There is not a guarantee that your
willingness to work things out will always be characteristic of
the other person.
Virginia: Thank you, Daniel. That is certainly is a realistic
opinion, obviously.
Daniel (Bill): There is no automatic fix, you see. Free-will is
always involved. The great majority do progress.
Virginia: I guess that I am thinking that if you survive the
resurrection, why in the heck don't you keep on going to working
on what we need to work on. [Laughter.]
Daniel (Bill): Because the work is more difficult. There is no
means of procrastination., or making excuses. There are no
diversionary options.
Virginia: There is no television. [Laughter.] Thank you, Daniel.
Daniel (Bill): As you say, “not to worry,' about the next life.
It will take care of itself. This one is the one that you are
fully invested in now. Well, my friends, I have heard the ring.
[Laughter because a phone rang.] It signalizes the completion of
our time together. I would ask you all to stand and hold hands.
Bob, will you TR, please.
Prayer by an unknown being (Bob S): Friends, let us be in the
attitude of prayer. Oh most holy, wise and loving Trinity, who
through Your wisdom has created the universe for us, for our
benefit, for our edification, for our service to ourselves and
to you: we humbly thank you for the opportunities You provide us
to grow and become the personality you want us to become. We ask
Your presence with us as we go our separate ways now into the
lives we have chosen and have been given, to be encouraged, to
be enlightened, to be enlivened, to be set afire ,or it is
through enthusiasm that we grow and become. In the name of those
who created us, we humbly thank you for all that is. Amen.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- PHASE TWO JULY 9, 2001 WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I so enjoyed your discussion this
evening. It was nice to hear you discuss something else besides
the Conference. This everyday living reality is what we have
spoke about so many times before.
Our Mission is about finding those reserves to draw from a
spiritual account in a practical way, a way that suits the human
and the divine. I breathe a sigh of relief, for we have put our
best foot forward, and now we leave the results in Father's
hands. I can say every individual received exactly what they put
into the Conference gathering. I trust that most will have those
spiritual reserves on hand for some time to come.
I have been assigned the somewhat controversial task of
reiterating the basis from which this Teaching Mission stems. I
am speaking about the Urantia Book. This Book is our compass in
the sea of everything. Many ideas will come and go, and you can
always measure these ideas with the Book. The Book is a solid
directional guide even though it may contain some material that
seems farfetched. Nevertheless it is a lighthouse that leads us
to the shores of balance.
Next to this Book we have our beloved Father Fragments providing
for us ever new and updated information. In the days ahead we
would do well to ponder our closeness with the beloved
Indwelling Fragment that is ever showing us a new and better
way. The communication with our Fragments is becoming more
simple to understand since the planet has been reincircuited
into the fold of Nebadon.
Do not make the mistake of putting these Father Fragments on a
mystical pedestal, because this leads to over-indulgence in
self-aggrandizement. Become used to thinking of them as the
better part of yourself, your higher mind, your revelatory
provider. These Mystery Monitors are the gatekeepers to all that
holds meanings and values. Allow them to work and notice your
new sense of balance and confidence to be at home in the world.
Those wonderful Fragments are a safety measure to weed out
non-reality while correlating information that will serve you
well, and last I would say a few words on living revelation.
Down through the ages you can see how the basic goodness of all
religions have taken hold. They have not gone away. Those things
that are really true will be lasting. There is always a great
deal of excitement created around certain theories, but when
they lose the momentum of the peoples faith they go by the
wayside. As you mature in Spirit you find you need not give
faith energy over to just anything. You can always count on your
Indwelling Fragments to keep you up to date with universe
happenings. You can know their ministries more mentally than
emotionally.
In course of choosing from the banquet table the Adjusters can
certainly lead you to those dishes of nutrition, and what might
not always look appetizing to you may be with more spiritual
sustenance according to the Indweller. You can measure living
revelation with your understanding of becoming more selfless.
What feels good and true may be food for the ego, not
necessarily for the soul.
Have confidence, my friends, your Indwelling Father goes before
you. He has sampled everything and is a helpmate, not one who is
waiting for you to make a mistake so He can chastise you. Ponder
these things this week, my friends, for we are at the beginning
of phase two of the Mission. Let us rally our faith, filter out
the falsities and check our foundation for cracks. This phase
will be the building. I would not receive questions this
evening, but would love to leave you with some heightened energy
reserves by praying for you.
Our Father, our Son, our Mother, I humbly come before you on
behalf of my Mission fellows. There has been a great expense of
energy as of late, and I in my love for them, beseech you to
rain down upon them your everlasting love and comfort. Aid them
in their integration of all they have learned this week-end.
Bring balance to imbalance. Bring clarity to cloudiness. You
know as I do that their underlying motivation was out of love
for you. We know that. We know that you know their expense in
Spirit was great and we ask you for that Spirit energy that only
you can provide.
I speak on their behalf that if there was ever need again for
such energy expense, my friends here would not hesitate to once
again do all they could for you. I thank you, my Father, the
Father of all father's. I thank you Michael, for we could not
want for a closer Brother/Friend. I thank you Mother for your
grace and example of service without glory. Know that our
thoughts, our love, our complete being is in you. We will
gratefully accept your energy, guidance and love in return. Amen
and shalom.
DATE: July 14, 2001 LOCATION: Spokane, WA T/R: Gerdean TEACHERS
& TOPICS: TOMAS,: Our movement compared to a Nebulae :
Discussion of genetic lineage (Nephilim, Nodites) PAULO:
Responds to questions re: (1) Lucifer being forgiven (2) Satan
as a cult leader, (3) God in complicity with Lucifer Recognizing
rebellion vs childishness
TOMAS: Good afternoon, fishers of men.
We are here with you in grateful acknowledgment of the growth of
our movement, our spiritual reality, the conviction of faith
wrought by your association with like-minded believers. The
strength of your community is like a nebulae swirling in space.
When the holy finger reached forth and stirred the air, all
matter therein was activated and set in motion. Once this motion
became actualized, it resulted in the formation of your world
and many other worlds of potential in time and space.
Thus the holy finger reached out and stirred the air bringing
the potential to Urantia that we see realizing itself today in
the formation today of the solid substance of your loyalty to
that which is becoming real in a spiritual sense and which will
have permanent effects on Urantia as well as in your own souls.
This creative force is brought to you by those power directors
which
provide the centrifugal force that throws off that which is
unnecessary and the centripetal force which forces together
those which can join compatibly as the basis of the world that
you are creating.
That which will be throw off will be thrown off will be thrown
off because it is not intended to be a part of the becoming.
Those of you who are forced together by this cosmic centripetal
force are often in a place where you are
unsure of how you connect with that piece or those pieces which
you rub against. And sometimes you say, "I'm not going to stay
here where there is friction against me," "I'm not going to stay
here where there is something poking me," "I'm not going to stay
here where I have to listen to that." "I
am irritated and uncomfortable by that which is rubbing me the
wrong way," but the cosmic centripetal force keeps you in check
and in time it will come to pass that the rough edges will be
worn down and the homogeneity of spirit will compose you such
that you merge well with that which surrounds you.
This gives credence, over a period of time, over that force
which connects you, even when you feel disconnected and would
prefer that some of the pieces abutting you would go wafting off
into outer space. But look at those with whom you have found
your niche. Recognize the easy flow of communion, humor, and
compassion that flashes back and forth between you, that
connects you, that helps you recognize that you are all part of
that circuit that keeps you together. That circuit is enlarging
daily. The rough edges that you encounter, the elbows that dig
into your side and the irritating noises that sound inharmonious
to your ear, only indicate adjustments necessary in order for
the parts to fit within the whole. You are indeed creating a
world, a world of spiritual reality, and in the cosmic sense,
the solidifying of your faith and your friendship is as enduring
and more so that the very ground you walk upon.
We were joyed to participate this past weekend in the stirring,
in the cooling and the congealing of the swirling energies that
comprise this far-flung community. Like pudding in a pot, we all
came together, mortal and supernal, and allowed ourselves to be
subjected to the heat that brought us to a boil and that
softened our edges so that we were able to harmonize with each
other in celebration of this sweet delight of our community. All
of us have come away, now, with a sense of rejuvenation and
re-application to our purpose, our united purpose to advance
Urantia and its citizens in the concepts of cosmic citizenry in
the loving universe that we enjoy.
There were uncomfortable moments, there were irritating noises,
and elbows poked in your sides. There were concepts that grated
your nerves and personalities that jangled your complacency, but
we advance in good faith.
Is there anything I can help you with now in terms of modulating
your pitch to appreciate the harmonics of our movement? Are
there questions?
THOROAH: Personally I love the harmonics. I don't know that I
have any questions as regards the Conference.
TOMAS: You are amiable and malleable. Your mind has set off in
the direction of antiquities and a study of racial origins. You
see how we all begin to feather our nests with that which is
essential to our comfort, our instincts, and our civilization -
that being our personal civilization.
THOROAH: Well, I have lots of questions as far as origins.
TOMAS: Perhaps I can shed some light; perhaps not. What do you
seek to know?
THOROAH: A case in point would be the reference in the Urantia
Book to the Nephilim -- who are referred to as the Nodites,
parenthetically, one time, in the Urantia Book -- and I'm also
reading about the Nephilim in other sources. They were a
recognized race, I guess I could say anthropologically as well
as speculatively -- as being from someplace else, their origins
being someplace else in the universe, such as another evolving
race or another world, but specifically I'm thinking of the
Anunnaki, the Nibiruans, and the
Nephilim who are said to be the same race, which makes the
Nodites unique and it captured my interest. I'm wondering about
our off-world origins. I know that with the Prince's staff that
there were obviously off-world influences on our human race. The
Urantia Book does not go into detail as to where that staff came
from and so I guess that's the mystery that I'm looking at right
now.
TOMAS: Well, you will not be surprised to learn that I am not
authorized to discuss that element of your planetary history.
However, I am not going to discourage your investigations
either. The descendants of Nod indeed presented a race of people
that were infused with the genetic influence of a life form not
originating on Urantia and while their progeny are certainly a
part of your composition, it remains true that your essential
ancestors are well known throughout the universe as Andon and
Fonta, the first two human beings to have been indwelt by a
fragment of God and they were your true ancestors although the
influence of the Planetary Prince's staff did affect a strain of
genetic lineage which has been amalgamated into the basic
evolutionary strains originating in the life pattern as was
planted here by the Life Carriers so many millennia ago.
A study of the blending of the races, dispersion of the races,
has much to offer in terms of under-standing much of your
planetary history, its development/ evolution as creatures
ascending/ evolving into beings capable of self-mastery and yet
none of their influences are so dominant as to interfere with
your own personal repleteness as a man among men.
THOROAH: That's why I was rather hesitant to bring it up because
it really has more to do with research and curiosity than it
does with spiritual growth and ministry.
TOMAS: Yes, indeed, which is why I won't spend overmuch time
there except to offer that the pages of the revelation provide
great stimuli for thought. And if studied with an open mind, can
provide you with many insights to contribute to the
understanding of those who have developed theories along the
lines you mentioned in such a way as to augment their theories
by revelation; thus the overall history of the planet is
gradually refined and understood from a broader perspective and
your peoples become interwoven again in and through the spirit
fibers that create the tapestry of humanity.
Honest intellectual study is a good expansion of consciousness
in that it will honor the efforts of those who have before
studied and presented information, be it true or false or
speculative. If you were in fact to regard your contemporaries
with the fascination and intrigue that you give your
forebearers, you would get along much better and find far more
delight in each other. Every one brings something to the table.
Rather than say, "Well, I've never partaken of that before; I
don't think I'll have any," expand your palate and accept the
offering and having chewed and savored the morsel you will be
able to better determine whether or not it is nutritious for
you.
At any rate it may give you a better understanding of your
neighbor and a greater tolerance of human differences, cultural
differences, even religious
differences, which can give rise to theologic discussions that
enhance and enlarge and further the minds' appreciation of how
great an extent humanity has gone to grasp deity and how
mysteriously deity works in the minds of humanity in introducing
itself in ways that can be understood or utilized in
the march toward enlightenment and subsequent loving service.
Yes, Paulo is here and he has received a question about Lucifer
that he is willing to take on. One moment, please.
PAULO: Paulo here. Good afternoon, my friends. It's good to be
with you in this format. I have with you enjoyed the events of
late and the stimuli that has come from your interchanges with
others. I am always interested in discussions that regard
rebellion and the effects of rebellion and the residue loyalty
to rebellion that you carry in your hip pocket if not in your
genes.
I have been asked about Satan and Lucifer in terms of the
Satanic cult and in terms of the concept of Lucifer having been
forgiven and further, the concept of the Father's complicity in
the rebellion as a result of His not interfering with the
Lucifer Manifesto.
This is probably too much to take on in one portion of an
afternoon session but I have a scope of response to present
which does not get to the bottom of the issue, no, and which
will hopefully leave you all unsettled as to the subject, but
there is no way you can effectively be a fisher of men without
encountering these theories as they are very much a part of your
legacy and we certainly know about the reference to the devil as
he is presented in biblical terms but there are new perspectives
on "the evil one" and the study of the influence of evil upon
humanity is at least as fascinating as your genetic lineage, and
so if you're looking for something to delve into as a study in
order to improve your connections with your brethren, as you
whirl your way around the mix into the center, consider that in
all of those aforementioned instances, it is and remains true
that Lucifer is no longer the entity he once was. He is as if he
had never been.
If you conclude he has been forgiven, then, as anyone who has
been forgiven understands, a perception of humility is a natural
result, and while it may be a far stretch of the imagination to
consider that Lucifer would be contrite, it is the logical
conclusion of that scenario, and indeed he is as if he had never
been, for that rebellion and defiance against the Father would
have subsided in his acceptance of the Father's blessing.
Let's consider the idea of Satan as a being emulating deity
worthy of worship, such as the Satanic cults engage in today as
a response to the sects of Christianity which have been found to
be unacceptable by the one who adopts the other side of the coin
as a response, a rebellious and defiant response, to the status
quo which has left them wanting. Evil is a part of ignorance.
Evil is inherent in imperfection. It is the grasping of
imperfection/ evil, and elevating it to sin that begins the
descent into emotional and mental hell.
If, however, turning to Satan as a response to Christianity as a
rebellious attitude toward church authority, the statement is
being made that the personal connection between Father and child
has been disrupted. In the relationship between Father and child
there is love. If the love has been distorted through judgment,
then the natural response is to pass your own judgment, unless
and until the light of truth enters in to soften your heart and
reveal again the connection with divinity that allows love to
reign supreme.
The concept of God being complicit in the rebellion because he
did not interfere with Lucifer's decisions, is a stretch. It's
as easy to attain as
any, I suppose, if you're going to speculate on what that Great
Divorce in heaven was all about. But let's look at the idea of
the family relationship and give yourself the assigned role of
the elder in the family, the patriarch or matriarch of a large,
industrious, affluent, and happy clan. Your role with the clan
has been established through many years. You have opted for a
policy of non-interference, just encouragement, and so your
children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren
have thrived under your encourage-ment, and now you have a
large, wonderful family.
Let's say that your grandson and daughter are well married, have
children, and you know that your grandson's wife is
contemplating an affair. Even though this realization causes you
great emotional angst, it has been your policy to not interfere
in the workings of the family in the personal realm and so you
see the signs and yet you don't interfere. The woman has an
affair, the husband finds out, the divorce comes to pass. There
is strife
The children are disrupted. And though they make good efforts to
remain friends and follow through with the values of life that
you have instilled in them, none-the-less, the children suffer
as a result of the family breakdown
and for the first time in generations you find your great
grandchildren behaving in a delinquent manner and you fully
appreciate that this has been because of the emotional rift that
occurred as a result of the woman's infidelity.
Can you say that the family matriarch or patriarch was in
compliance with the woman's decision? Are they complicit? No.
And neither was the Universal Father complicit in Lucifer's
rebellion. The great gift of God is free will, and our great
gift to Him is compliance with His will, which is greater. He
does not need to acquiesce to ours. He allows us to make our
choices and reap the rewards or experience the results by way of
cause and effect.
The fact remains in all cases, "the evil one" is no more, and
his direct influence is gone from Urantia and all other areas of
his one-time reign. However, the effects of his decisions remain
today, and herein is the great lesson. The effects of your
decisions have far-reaching ramifications. Every time you choose
to do your will over God's will, you are inviting a distortion
of the reality which is meant to be your inheritance.
Many of the things you experience these days in your world are
residue experiential from decisions made long ago. There is a
saying in your culture: "The sins of the parents are visited
upon their children," and you who are involved in the Correcting
Time are in the position now of taking responsibility for
yourself henceforth, of drawing a line in the dirt between you
and your predecessors and saying, "The buck stops here.
Henceforth, I will follow the Lord. I will seek His will and
follow it to the best of my ability. I will recognize the error
of my ways, of my conditioning, of my intelligence, and correct
myself so that I may better serve those who have yet to go
through the veil into the light that would have them purify
themselves also of that which has gone before and which leaves a
residue upon us as if it were smoke from a volcano dropping its
ash everywhere.
Clear the air. Recognize evil as imperfection and error. Grasp
truth, beauty and goodness and yield to its power, its drawing
power. There is no rule that says you and/or Urantia have to
stay in the dark, cleaning up the debris of past ages and past
error indefinitely. You can tilt the world on its axis by your
perception. Begin to see your world and everything in it as if
it were touched by the light, as if it had already been cleansed
and purged of all the error of history.
Every young thing makes mistakes in the process of learning how
to become mature. Put aside the things of your youth and embrace
the fullness of your spirit adulthood. Aspire for self-mastery
and make yourself amenable to those around you who are also
attempting to become fishers of men, to clasp to our breast
those who search for truth, beauty and goodness in the hearts of
others in hope that they will find it, too, within themselves.
Even Lucifer and Satan and Caligastia and Dalagastia and the
rebels - the rebel angels and the rebel midwayers - were
forgiven by the great heart of God. You can forgive those who
have gone before you and erred out of ignorance. But you need
not be complicit in the error by condoning the error. Jesus
taught to love the sinner and hate the sin. It's the sin that
we are trying to purge from Urantia - the error and evil of
ignorance - in particular when it is conscious.
I invite you to be aware of rebellion before it starts. Learn to
recognize the symptoms. Learn to see the malcontent in the eyes
of the granddaughter who thinks that happiness can be found in
another's arms. Learn to discern the self-aggrandizing who have
become prideful and are beginning to believe in themselves to
the point that they have exalted themselves to be equal with
God.
Children will be children and they are entitled to play. They
are entitled to reach and fall, to giggle and stumble, but at
some point they need to learn to walk. Help them walk, and then
walk beside them, as Jesus the Master Son of this local universe
works beside us all in our path, in our efforts to be one with
him in purpose, to give glory to the Eternal Parents in
Paradise. Let us not adulter and mingle with that which concerns
us not, but keep our eye on the pearl of great price.
I didn't infer, I hope, that I can't enjoy myself and you and
the process of learning and growing, in the process of attaining
perfection.
TOMAS: This is Tomas again. I am glad of Paulo's appreciation of
some of these fields of thought which are not necessarily the
kinds of thought I or you come to. How refreshing it is to have
the mind of one who is fearless and unafraid of controversy, who
truly takes the Kingdom by spiritual assault in all its
representations. To be able to discern good from evil is a
quality of perception attainment that is invaluable to you as a
Kingdom worker. To be able to discern the depth of perception,
the quality of concepts, and the degree of application, is a
skill that only the individual whose wisdom has been hammered on
the anvil of experience can discern.
We all have our contributions to make.
I will leave you with these contributions for the afternoon,
these discussions that can lend you encouragement into the
dimensions of thought and perception
that reach back into history and deep into the psyche
that do not lie obvious on the surface
but call forth your deep mind and your keen thinking to resolve.
We'll see you next week. Farewell.
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Preparedness, Worship
and Service, Phase 2 Teaching Mission Teachers: Elyon
July 15, 2001
Elyon (Jonathan TR): I greet you warmly. This is your friendly
instructor Elyon. I have some thoughts I wish to share with you;
they apply to your discussion today of worship and service as
two sides of the same coin.
I would bracket this series of comments with the word
"preparedness", for one side of the worship/service coin
prepares you for the other side.
You know that the feelings that well up inside from the
experience of the presence of the Father are supercharging
toward contacting fellows in your life and bringing to them a
relief through service, an inspiration through service, that
they might also be supercharged, having their needs addressed
and discovering the actions of the grace of God through His
ministering children. Also I am sure you each have noticed how
natural it is to give way to feelings of worship, thanksgiving,
and gratitude to Father for having been involved in an act of
service that has brought benefit to another. The enjoyment
derived from a successful ministry naturally is wont to flow
back to the source of all divine ministry. This I hope
illustrates how one, either worship or service, prepares one for
the other. To feel best prepared to minister to the needs of
another it is good to develop more deeply the experience of
fellowship, partnership, and presence of the Divine Indweller.
The Father is omnipresent, and this omnipresence is not only
spatial, that is, His presence is not limited just to the
expanse of infinity. He is likewise omnipresent in an eternal
sense, having presence now as past and future. This omnipresence
is, in a sense, spherical; the broad presence of spatial
everywhere-ness and the tall and deep presence of anytime
presence. You, on the hand, are present at a single point in
time: now. You slide through this everywhere/all time dimension
of the Father traveling point to point, experiencing the unique
minute second of reality and traverse therefrom toward new
experiences. You are present now, while the Father is
omnipresent always, and He gives you His fragment. Before you
spent any reflective time orienting yourself in relationship
with God, He pre-sent His own essence to guide you and to draw
you into His presence. This is the secret of your preparedness
for outreach of any kind, developing a closer bond to the divine
gift within. This enriches your moment. It clarifies your
orientation and motivates your actions. Then you can present
yourself to another with confidence that you are serving God in
the course of serving another.
This double factor of service is thrilling to witness taking
place in your life. It is not duty sense, wherein you go forward
to do good works for another with the hope that, because the
Father so wills, you will thereby please your God. It is, in
reality, the experience of the immediacy of the presence of God
as you serve your partnership in the ministry. The act is one of
serving with God, not for God. This sense of contact in service
is as meaningful and as real and as uplifting as a quiet moment
in stillness and worship, for there is no distance; God is as
close at hand.
I say for all who receive this message that the time is now to
erase the notion that worship is the drawing close to Father and
service is the reach to another. Better it is to view that
worship is likewise a reach to one's fellows and service a reach
to the Father, for in undertaking either activity you are always
engaged with God, and you are always accomplishing a result that
brings benefit to those around you. It may not provide immediate
feedback in the moments subsequent to the cessation of the
activity you have undertaken, but it has undercurrents that do
reflect upon the minds of those around you. These undercurrents
surface at the opportune moments of need in the lives of those
fellows.
I would report that all teachers who were present at your
conclave this past week have expressed joy in witnessing the
fellowship and the manner in which each individual grew and
sought to uplift another. This type of event is recharging and
uplifting, for an evolutionary creature must periodically
experience the reality of a growing spiritual experience in
other individuals in order to sustain the enthusiasm that is
needed for oneself. Few can support their pursuit of higher
realities without some comparison with the progress of others in
their lives. That is the benefit of our weekly gathering on a
small scale and the benefit of such a yearly gathering on a
large scale.
When this world finishes its correction and is on a normal
course toward Light and Life, these types of events as you have
just attended will be not so much for recharging as for
celebrating, for daily life will consist more of that recharging
with the culture, the society, the workplace; all structures
will contribute to the upliftment of personality through
spiritual growth. The mansion worlds will teach this to you in
due time, for this planet has much to do in this correction
period before your everyday life will take on this tonality.
I have finished my comments. I welcome your input.
Tom: In one transmission they spoke about the "second phase" of
the Teaching Mission. Could you expand on that?
Elyon: The mission began by the implacement upon this world and
others of teachers like myself who were trained to provide
training for the many upon the worlds who were willing to
respond, to take in the training, to incorporate the training,
and become qualified as trainers. That phase is well underway,
in the ripening process. It entails activities in the Michael
correction time that are broader than the movement of the
Teaching Mission as you understand it in its social and
networking context, for the Teaching Mission is an outreach by
the visiting teachers to many aspects of the cultures upon each
of these worlds.
Phase Two approaches, but Phase One has not finished its full
cycle. Phase Two is anticipated as that time when the human
beings who have been in training are aware of their
responsibilities and willing to act in regard to their
responsibilities, but not simply singly, rather, knowing full
well of the experience and preparedness of many others, and for
those others to be just as aware of your own preparedness. It
will become less of isolated individual actions and more a
collective awareness of a group effort. But I must define what I
mean by group. I do not mean that you will organize into a body
that acts as one, but rather, you will understand how your
efforts are integrating with the efforts of others, and they,
too. It will be cooperative and supportive rather than
haphazard. There will be deliberateness in response to what
others have undertaken by yourself so as to contribute mutually.
Phase Three would be the full establishment of Phase Two wherein
the human race works harmoniously. That, by observation, is yet
a long way off. It would bring an end to the organized effort of
the celestial teachers as a distinctly defined melchizedek
outreach of correction. It does not mean that we would no longer
be of service; it means the project would close and the normal
path of reaching Light and Life or ascending to the Father would
continue with all the support and cooperation of advanced
beings.
The Correcting Time is an extension of mansion world efforts on
the native planet level. Just like the mansion worlds, the
Correcting Time will lose its necessity when all hindrances have
been eradicated. As you know from your studies, that means the
establishment of the system in Light and Life. So, I assure you,
we will be engaged on this world for quite some time, and I mean
we all, yourselves included, will be engaged in this mission
project.
Has this clarified your question?
Tom: It poses as many questions as it answers. I suppose we are
still in Phase One, and Phase One and Phase Two will go along
concurrently for some time, right?
Elyon: That is correct. There is an overlapping, for there are
pockets of readiness around the globe, and there are areas of
deficiency. But one cannot wait for the unripe fruit to ripen
before picking the ripe fruit. So, certain clusters will begin
the second phase of activity while others catch up.
Tom: Thank you for your comments.
Elyon: You are welcome. I would release from this engagement at
this time and give you my love. Share it with all.
At any point in your ascent to the Father there is a degree of
preparedness for action with the Father. There are a few
milestones in your ascension which, in a sense, function like a
diploma; one is fusion, where you have a marked sense of
accomplishment. But more often along the way you must use faith
and trust, knowing that you have a degree of training
accomplished that will be of benefit to others.
Take care..
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- WHICH MASTER DO YOU SERVE? JULY 16, 2001
WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. As I look around the room I am touched
by Father's faithful all gathering to once again become centered
and focused. It is apparent that you each come to learn and
participate without need of any promised reward. Quite an
accomplishment from when we had first begun. My message this
evening simple, and yet without it we could not continue with
these teachings.
Down through the ages man has always searched for answers,
answers of any kind. When one man would appear to have more
knowledge--then the other men would then follow him. With the
ever evolving ego practices men and some women have sought a
place of importance. The more followers they attained the more
important they were. As the Correcting Time moves forward, and
old ideas are fading away, we find that we need not a mortal
hierarchy to go through to get to God.
Every individual has access to things divine. Every mortal will
find for themselves that they cannot serve two masters. You
cannot put your fellows on a pedestal and be beholden to them,
while Father is set aside because you cannot see Him, or you
cannot trust in yourself, or your connection with Him. We serve
the one God, the First Source and Center, the Father of all
father's, the divine Director, the Perfection in the midst of
imperfection. He is who we worship. He is who we serve.
Man has been a slave to many things--his fellows, his mortal
material needs, addictions, want for power and glorification for
ego. I could say most of these mortal masters all are rooted in
fear, fear of loss, fear of being punished, fear of isolation.
The main reasons many mortals do not ever really become close to
Father is because of fear. They fear Him, His power, His
all-knowingness, His fairness, His overwhelming love. Many
perceive Father as a stern commander who does not have their
best interest at heart.
So many hide from Father. They will allow Father in on the
Sabbath or perhaps at prayer time, maybe even meditation, but
they exclude Him when they are about in their daily human
dealings. Some of those dealings are not so divine. You cannot
really have a part time Father. You cannot only have God when
you want Him. He is there in all your mortal undertakings. There
is nothing hidden. Yes, He will show you your shortcomings, but
that is out of His love for you. His main duty is to point you
Paradiseward.
Father does not seek to shame you into righteousness, no. He
seeks to be a loving, intimate associate who seeks to co-create
your eternal path to Him. Do not pray to Him for fear of what
will happen if you don't. Do not worship Him as if to pay off
your mortal debts. Father, who carefully orchestrated all
creation, is not to be tricked or manipulated, no. You cannot
bargain with Father saying, "I will give you this for that," no.
He is your closest ally, your most trusted friend, your shield
against mortal harsh reality, your shelter from the storm, your
spirit replenisher, your wayshower.
This week, my friends, ponder which master do you serve. What is
your perception of the First Source and Center? Where can you
bring Him into your life that you have not before? Think about
how fear may lead you to leave Father out. Does Father want to
be in every aspect of your life--even the most darkest? Have
discussion with one another during the week on this topic. I
understand there are questions and assessments. Proceed.
CALVIN: Abraham, *** is such a sweetheart in supporting the
Mission as a skeptic and a cynic, like you say some of us are.
She has requested an assessment.
ABRAHAM: Certainly. ***, my daughter, we do delight in your
questioning mind. Even as a child you could be found speaking
more with adults than with other children. Your drive for
knowledge has made you who you are today. I see you as well
balanced and yet a little fearful about your foundation of
belief. You love Father and the source in which you have learned
about Him, yes, no doubt, but still there is a tiny part of you
that says, "What if all that I believe is not really true?" Know
that many individuals experience this, and while you are an
intellectual daughter of God, do not allow the intellect to
override your faith. Measure your intellect and faith with your
past experiences. There are some things even you can't explain.
While you are strong in character and bold in technique, do not
forget there is still that child inside who dreams of greater
things, yes. You are where you should be--skeptic or not. Your
daring to question is truly beautiful and keeping others to
always check their real motives. Well done, my daughter. We will
speak again. Another assessment.
Yes, Esmirelda, my dear daughter, I do see you in these trying
times as one with grace and immeasurable strength. You need not
feel that events have befallen you for one reason or another.
You are a woman of faith and know full well that Father will
correlate your experience with meanings and values. You would do
well to become more direct in your discussion with others. To
hold back because you believe it may cause turmoil or pain is
really detrimental to you. Certainly you are gifted in your way
with words and you can find a way to be tactfully honest and
open. Have not fear, for with each day that goes by your Father
grows closer to you. You are as you should be. Take comfort, my
daughter, for in every mortal event there is great value.
Another question?
CALVIN: Quick welcome to *****, first time here with our group
tonight.
ABRAHAM: Yes. Welcome. Questions?
VISITOR: Abraham, you have played a very important role in my
childhood. I have to admit I have come here tonight with this
group of people...part of me feels a little cynical because the
way I was brought up not to believe in things that cannot be
explained by science or of a religious nature, but I have not
really lived up to it. I have become quite cynical. What would
you have to say to me?
ABRAHAM: I understand you, for I was indeed the same way. I held
firmly to the teachings of my forefathers until the appearance
of my mentor, Machiventa Melchizedek. I cannot change your
cynicism, but most definitely can I offer you fellowship and
love. You have had experiences that has brought your mind to
where it is now and that is not bad, but a stepping stone to
greater meanings and values. I can say the painful events of
your past are not destined to repeat so you need not be so
distrustful, but renew your personal relationship with Father so
He can show you a new and better way to be open to new ideas,
new challenges. I do understand your concern of being led astray
or falling for falsities. You though are the controller of your
mind, and you can trust in that to weigh those things you see
with what you actually believe. Cynic or not, I welcome you.
JOHN: Abraham, I definitely relate to what you were saying in
the lesson about parts of your life where you want to include
Father and there are other parts where you exclude or even just
forget about His existence. I guess my question is--maybe
besides the stillness, how do we get to a place where we can go
ahead and allow Father into those places that we are not so
proud of or feel worthy of?
ABRAHAM: Understood John. You know you are not perfect and are
in a state of becoming. Certainly Father knows that. That is
indeed part of His plan. What other mortals may deem shameful,
Father sees these things as opportunities to become closer with
you. He know you at your very worst and He does not love you any
less, no. Once you have committed to bring Father even into your
darkest areas, the levels of shame fades away and your
co-creating partnership with Father excels. Many individuals
cannot seem to overcome their past mistakes, and their guilt is
a barricade to God. The ego loathes to see its own mistakes and
seeks to cover them up with excuses, but the divine seeks
Father's guidance on how to correct or to find a better way.
Yes, stillness is good. That keeps a close communion with
Father, but real honesty with yourself and Father takes you to a
new level of taking action towards really putting the divine way
to work, yes. Father is not about atoning or even redeeming
after deeds are done. He desires to be brought into every
situation beforehand as if He was a partner in all your decision
making. Good question, John. Does this answer? (Yes.)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:36:13 -0500 From: Bob Devine
<bobdevine@onewest.net>
CELESTIAL TEACHER AARON on PROGRESS IN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
Greetings. I am Aaron. Tonight I am beginning a series of
discussions with you on progress in spiritual understanding.
Your mind is not the end all, but it is the arena wherein we
have the opportunity to function. Your adjuster is the navigator
of your spiritual development. We put into place some of the
directions of the navigator. It would be a mistake for you to
consider us as equal to the navigator. That would be like
mistaking the rear of the ship for the front. We guide from
behind, as a support, whereas the adjuster guides from the front
and asks you to join him.
What then is our benefit to you? We give you exposure to
rudimentary skills and concepts of spiritual value. We apply
some grain in the machinery which causes friction so your mind
is stimulated to ponder the possibilities. This gives the
adjuster some meat to work with. Instead of waiting for you to
stumble upon moral questions and dilemmas by chance in daily
life, we have been commissioned to accelerate the process by
giving a regimen of exercises to you who would listen. We are
aiding the evolution of your society by presenting you with
information at an accelerated level, which will present you with
choices and increased opportunity for growth.
Don’t lift this up higher than it needs to be. All glory belongs
to our Creator for allowing this to progress. We are in the palm
of his hands. Be certain that you recognize our relationship
with you as being on the friendship level and the sibling level.
Don’t get yourself to the place where you are adoring the
process and us as relators of information at the expense of your
inward development with the First Source and Center. Your
consciousness of Michael’s spirit will amplify the truth in
these words.
Being about the Father’s business is the application of oneÕs
self to the mission of personal development to the extent that
one is released from the fetters of self-consciousness into the
increasingly dawning universal consciousness of
self-forgetfulness. This is the place of spiritual potential
where the recognized child of God claims its birthright and
becomes a true source of spiritual power. This is the place
where the universe is reclaimed. Self-forgetfulness begins by
gaining an acceptance of self, not a denial. You must know who
you are and accept it and be willing to move forward, rather
than trying to push down your limitations.
You have probably recognized by now that our methods do not
emphasize what you shouldn’t do as much as we emphasize things
you can do, steps you can take, to progress forward. Try to look
at life in the manner of what you can do. When you get down or
feel that you are slipping or missing a beat, then look at
something you can do for someone else, or some project that you
can take up that will give you a sense of re-engagement with the
path of progress.
At this time I will allow our discussion to end. I would
appreciate you reading this information and then offering
questions at the beginning of our next contact. Once we are
clear with this information, then we will proceed to the next. I
appreciate your efforts and look forward to you applying
yourself to the projects and goals you envision for yourself and
your family. I will help in any way that I can be of assistance.
Keep the consciousness of divinity as your goal. My peace to you
this evening.
CELESTIAL TEACHER HAM in Nashville On Changes in the Spiritual
Lives of Urantians 07-22-01
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you tonight
with gladness and love. My heart is overflowing with happiness
to again be with my students. Tonight, let us discuss changes in
the spiritual lives of Urantians.
For thousands of years you have required human spiritual
leadership. You have been blessed by many human teachers who
have given the world an immeasurable uplift. When Melchizidek
come the first time, he came as a man. When your creator son
came, again he came as a man. But now, you are moving beyond the
adolescent phase where one needs human example and are
transitioning into the phase of being able to understand higher
knowledge and wisdom directly from spiritual sources.
There will still be human leaders, certainly, but you children
are on the edge of being aware of a much greater reality. You
are coming into contact with a new and greater world. Like the
Viking explorers of old who braved the seas of faith and landed
in a new world, so have you my friends braved the seas of doubt
and the storms of unbelief to set foot in a new and greater
world. Indeed, you are becoming as ambassadors from our world to
yours. You are testifying with your lives as to its existence
and you know of a certainty that mortal death is but a step from
this world to the next.
You are gaining immeasurably from your exposure to this greater
world. You are truly becoming citizens of the universe, heavenly
citizens, even while sojourning on earth. You are broadening
your horizons through contact, regular contact, with teachers,
angels, and even an occasional whisper from your indwelling
spirits. The world has opened up and you find you have a place
in this greater world, in this greater scheme of things even
while you may be searching for a place in this smaller earthly
world. Always are you sure and secure of your place in the
greater heavenly world.
History is indeed changing now. Human beings are less and less
reliant on other human beings for their spiritual bread and
water. More and more is humanity reaching toward the heavenly
world and the heavenly world is reaching back and grasping your
hands individually. Gradually, you are becoming less and slaves
to tradition and to the traditional fear based religions. More
and more are you turning toward love and receiving your
spiritual bread directly from the spirit rather than the
leftovers from someone elseÕs table. Gradually, you are
perceiving that there is vast amounts of, vast numbers of
morontia and spiritual beings who have come to this planet to
help and guide you each individually.
This is vast change and you are fortunate to be living through
this. You are fortunate to be able to perceive the MasterÕs
power flooding back to the world in which you live. You indeed
are the first to behold this power, to have understanding of the
vastness of his love and the completeness of his mercy. The
Master comes to all who would open their hearts to him. His
power is transforming. You are not the same people you were
before you opened that door and allowed him entry.
Rejoice then and be exceedingly glad for the MasterÕs arm is
about your shoulder and his word of encouragement speaks to your
ear. Follow me, says he. Follow me. Allow his hope to fill your
hearts, allow his love to comfort your minds. Allow his
footsteps to guide the way. Be unafraid to follow wheresoever he
will lead you. Have complete faith and a steady heart. And now,
I would like to receive questions at this time.
Q: Your lesson dealt with the spiritual threshold and the host
of morontia and spiritual beings that surround is. Are there any
techniques we should be aware of to be closer to and communicate
with these beings?
Ham: Certainly, yes, the body should be clean of poisons. The
heart should be clean of spiritual poisons of fear, hatred, envy
and so on. Treat your body and soul as the temple of the Father.
Have respect and take care of the physical and the spiritual.
Stay your mind on him as much as possible. Seek the stillness
that your mind may be quieted and your heart may be humbled.
Seek not the spirit through the material but seek the spirit
through the spirit. But above all, seek after love. Reach out to
the world, both material and nonmaterial, in love. This is the
way. Is this helping?
Q: You spoke earlier about poisons in the body. I thought that
Jesus said it wasn’t what we put in our body but what came out
of our body in speaking poisons?
Ham: Yes, he was trying to put into perspective the ritual hand
washing before taking a meal. There were people then and people
now who put the form above the substance. But, surely you must
also understand that it saddens the angels to witness their
human charges poisoning their bodies with alcohol or drugs for
these things interfere with spiritual growth and can lead to
weakened physical states which lead to disease and even death.
So, certainly these poisons should be avoided.
Q: Ham, I went to a UFO conference not to long ago. You were on
my mind a great deal. It was a very spiritual experience. The
more I research it the more I understand that we don’t
understand. In my life time, are we supposed to or are we going
to figure out who these beings are?
Ham: Well, no. You will not be able to understand the many
comings and goings, both angelic and rarely material beings.
These observers are very rare, much less than the sensationalism
would lead you to believe and it will be some time before
earthly civilization is such that real communication will occur.
It is very doubtful that this will happen within the next 100
years. These physical beings are not allowed communication at
this time. Your world is not ready. Is this helping?
Q: A lot of times our lessons are about developing our own
spiritual growth. Do you have lessons on putting our spiritual
growth in action. Inequality is heavy on my heart. Do you have
messages on putting this into practice or is inequality
something we just have to suffer through?
Ham: This period of your growth as a planet will see many
changes. Material inequality may always exist in some degree and
yet spiritually, who is first and who is last? Those who endure
great suffering often advance quite fast spiritually and have
great lessons to teach these humans who may be materially fed
but spiritually barren. We see great riches where you see great
poverty. Human beings will gradually learn to love and respect
each other as they are. That being said, it is correct for those
with great prosperity to be concerned and generous with those
whose fortunes are less. Compassion is a central spiritual
fruit. You cannot love only a few of your brethren, but
righteousness compels you to love all of your brethren. And so,
this impulse of love is good and a positive sign for the world.
Is this helping?
Q: You were talking about the threshold of the bigger world and
the smaller world. I wonder if you have any advice on having the
incentive or inspiration to go back into the smaller world and
having to abide by its conventions and all that.
Ham: Yes, when you are motivated by service then all manner of
human convention and narrow thinking become simply an
interesting pathway. You serve in many ways. Each one of you is
brought into contact with people who need you. They may not know
they need you, they may be full of resentment or jealousy or
anger toward you, but nonetheless they need you. Each one of you
must conduct yourselves as an ambassador for a greater world.
You must give those who stumble in darkness, glimpses of the
light. This is your purpose. The son of man came not to be
served but to serve. He came not as a conqueror, but as a humble
servant willing to wash the feet of his children. When life is
understood in this greater context as holding these deeper
meanings, the most humble work is elevated for you serve God
when you serve his children. Think of yourselves as not servants
of God, but sons and daughters of God who have seen a greater
light and whose duty now is to give that light where you can to
his other children. Serving the Father elevates life. There is
no job so small that it is not precious to the Father. The
Master said he who would be greatest among you must become a
servant to all. That means not just the people you want to
serve, but the people you don’t want to serve as well.
Go in peace, my prayers and my love go with you each. Farewell.
From: Daniel <cwithin@churchwithin.org>
A "Garden Session" Excerpt from an Aaron Lesson July 17, 2001
AARON: Yes, now you understand what it is like for us coming to
teach all of you who will listen. We learn from each of you, new
things which garnish our own experiences. Yet we do not come to
find something new to follow, for we have already discovered Who
it is that we follow and that is the Father. Once you have
attained that personal level of understanding and knowingness,
there is no longer a reason to look for your answers anywhere
else. You are led to interactions so that you may have an
opportunity to serve and also to learn a new way in which to
serve. When you have become totally service-minded... then you
have reached the highest level of existence on your world. You
have come to be living your lives as the Master lived his. You
cannot go higher than that on this sphere. And yet, there is
ever so much yet to learn; refinement to acquire; purpose to
discover. You will not be bored because you have attained such a
level, I assure you. Rather you will find how very much more
there is to accomplish. But you will accomplish it as teachers
who are also students, for this side of Paradise, indeed, all
are students.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- THE MARRIAGE BEGINS JULY 23, 2001 WOODS
CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I am glad for the early start to
tonight's meeting for we have much to cover. Beginning the
second phase of the Correcting Time, it is wise for us to cover
some of those tried and true techniques that have carried us
this far.
We have discussed The Urantia Book as a measuring tool for all
our incoming spiritual information. We have discussed the
importance of the relationship to our Indwelling Adjusters. We
touched on the importance of awareness on who we serve, and the
realities of our Paradise Father. I will say a few words on the
technique that brought you this Correcting Time Teaching
Mission, yes.
The stillness practice is a time of quiet openness that is
specifically for you. It is for you and Father to keep your
relationship fresh and growing. The stillness practice is an
antidote for stress and mental and emotional confusion. The
stillness is not about uprooting mystical happenings that proves
God is real, no. It is not about showing yourself to be a
dedicated child of God. It is not about paying your dues to show
you are worthy of "child of God" status.
The stillness practice is balance for your mind and a cleansing
of spiritual poisons. The stillness is reconnecting to Father,
that all-knowing Parent, who sees you for who you really are and
loves and encourages you without end. The stillness or
meditation is an equalizer between the divine and the human--a
balancer of the ego, a line drawn between self-loathing and
self-love.
Stillness was not designed to add to your guilt because you do
not practice it, no, but it is a safeguard for you to become
balanced in Spirit, mind and body. A sound connection with
Father leads to clean and clear thinking, which receives
incoming divine information that produces overall benefits for
the mind and body. The human body cannot repel ailments if the
mind is in turmoil. It all begins with stillness, my friends.
The second thing I would like to cover is teacher purpose and
position. The teachers have come to you out of the state of
emergency for the planet as a whole. We have come to you in this
Mission to assist Urantia back into the fold of Nebadon. We are
to assist you in becoming aquatinted with the new spiritual
re-incircuitment. We have come to help uplift and create calm in
these new changes.
My associates and I have come to help you each make sound
contact with the beloved Adjusters. We are not about mysticism
or coming to a chosen people, no. We are not about proving God's
existence or ours for that matter. I am personally here out of
my love for this world's people, and I find it my highest honor
to serve Michael in this wonderful epic adventure. Yes, it is
momentous, and yet we must each remain small and usable to God.
The teachers and other spiritual assistants are not here for
your mortal amusement, nor a sideline hobby. We are about change
and real spiritual work. We are not to smooth over bruised egos
or poor self-esteem, no. Those are matters for you and Father.
In this Correcting Time the age of courting is over--now the
marriage begins. Most of you understand the complexity of the
marital union. There are so many new things to become accustomed
to. There are habits and behaviors your partner has that you
cannot possibly comprehend as to why. A true marriage takes
continuous maintenance, communication, and a willingness to see
one's own mistakes. A healthy marriage does not point out one
anothers faults, but stands in commitment to assisting a spouse
with understanding and honesty, heartfelt genuine honesty, not
as a superior individual who knows more but one who is willing
to be open to new possibilities.
My friends, we have each entered this marriage with expectations
and there is no doubt we have faced great disappointment, but
also has there been tremendous growth and lasting bonds of
friendship. There is a particular joy you can only receive from
a committed, healthful marriage. There is the promise that you
are not alone in the world to face everyday harsh realities. You
have a place where you feel safe to be who you really are and to
know you are very much loved. In a good marriage you are allowed
mistakes. You are allowed to grow from them. You have the
support of one another instead of the ridicule you might find in
other relationships.
The time of courting is over. The non-reality that you show a
perspective spouse to win their affections is phasing out and
the reality of seeing who your partner really is will come in.
Now our real work begins. Now we will see who is in this
marriage for the long run. We will see if devotion and love can
overcome trivial habits.
A good marriage, of course, always put Father first and tries to
view every situation through spiritual eyes. This is not to say
there will not be disagreements or even arguments, hurt
feelings, etc. We must be firstly committed to Father before we
can commit to one another, yes. With any healthy marriage there
is sacrifices, there is a giving and receiving, compromise.
Among the Brotherhood of Urantia there will be those
difficulties that arise and many will not be able to endure.
Many have not the faith nor commitment to stay the course. This
is to be expected. Realize though the benefits from
compromising, giving and receiving and sacrifice are required to
show forth any fruit.
In this union of ours, what sacrifices are you willing to make?
What are the costs of the Correcting Time? How much are you
willing to release so you can receive? A marriage is centered
around the entire family, not just one person--all are
considered--all are taken care of. What is your role in this
union? Father does not ask you to give all that you have, but
more perhaps asks--give all that you are. Be willing to lose
self for His sake so that He may make you more than you are.
Yes. No questions this evening. I do want to express to you each
my love and dedication goes with you. I am honored to be entered
into this union with you. Until next week, shalom.
From: Bill Kelly <billk@ida.net> Southeast Idaho/POCATELLO TeaM
Teachers: Alana, Daniel, Minearsia, Altern, July 20, 2001
Prayer by unknown being (Bill): Humor is the gift of the Gods to
lighten the load of life. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, my
friends, for we are all the sons and daughters of the living
God. Amen.
Alana (Bill): Greetings, dear ones. I am Alana once again with
you. You are delightful to watch when your are light and
cheerful, when you are celebrating each other's dignity status,
when you are not taking yourselves so seriously. Indeed, is this
a night of celebrations and new beginnings for every day is a
unique piece of eternity. Everyday allows for the unfolding of
the possibilities which are latent in it. Personally, speaking
for the teacher corps, we congratulate you, Lori, for reaching
40-years in your eternal career. You will indeed find the short
span of time to be infinitesimal when you begin to approach our
ages, yet at your time and span, this is a great achievement to
have survived intact [laughter] and with grace abounding your
40-years of life on this planet with its manifold difficulties.
You are surrounded by your friends and family, and you have
everything to rejoice in. So we also add our congratulations to
your milestone in your ascension career.
Lori: Thank you.
Alana (Bill): As you know I have been temporarily assigned to
this teacher corps group to assist Daniel in his work as well as
Minearsia and others who are involved. I am particularly
delighted to see so many of my gender in this meeting for indeed
has the role of women in this world, on this planet, been a
dismal one. I need not rehearse these facts for you, but I do
tell you that there has been marked improvement in the more
civilized sectors of Urantia. Your dignity status has moved from
that of burden-barer, quasi-slave, second class citizen, to
equality of value with the male gender; and indeed are some men
amazed at what you women are doing these days in terms of all
the shattering of the stereotypes including not only the ability
to love and nurture, but also equal intelligence, and even
approaching physical strength on a par with that of men. But the
most important thing for you women is to know that you are
daughters of the Highest Source and Center and central
Personality responsible for this entire universe of universes.
Your daughtership is every bit equal to the sonship of the
males. You are different from them, but you're are perfectly
equal in the generous duality which is the essence of time space
creations. Now I have covered these concepts before, so I will
not take any more time with them. All that I really want to tell
you tonight is its fine, it's wonderful to free yourself and
rejoice in your femininity, your humanity and your divinity
status.
Now to you men I say welcome to you as well, and I rejoice to
see you here in good numbers for religion should not be a "woman
thing". Faith should not be assigned the default status of
femininity. Faith should be equally the characteristic of robust
masculinity as well, for faith is really beyond gender. It is
the essential characteristic of humanity which seeks
God-consciousness. Faith, after all, is a manifestation of deep
trust in the goodness and the love of the very essence and core
of the universe. Faith is like that of a child who trusts that
their parents do care for them, love them, and are doing what is
right for them. Faith is the soul's response to the indwelling
presence of God, and in that trust, the complete willingness to
follow that divine parental guidance.
Summer has been characterized as a time of vacation, a time of
partying, a time of rest and reversion, and so it is tonight a
celebration of your humanity and your progress in this mortal
life. My thanks to you for listening to my ramblings off the top
of my head, as it were, and I now give you your beloved teacher,
Daniel. One moment, please.
Daniel (Nancy/PamElla): Greetings, my friends, my faithful
students. It is with joy that I avail myself of PamElla's
partial willingness to allow me access. Our unstated until now
deal is that my statements through her will be very brief. I
wish only to state what a joy I personally experience in the
love that swells from each of you in the bonding and experience
of family. I wish to also use this moment to address Lora Lee.
It is such a pleasure to have you among us! I am very
knowledgeable about you and your most generous and overflowing
heart. It is truly my privilege to have this opportunity to
thank you for your willingness in being among us tonight. And
now I will release PamElla from this duty that the celebration
may continue.
Minearsia (Bob S): I am Minearsia. I wish to thank those mortals
who made the effort today to come listen to your elder brothers
and sisters who have made a trip of considerable distance to be
with you. We wish to open your hearts and minds to the myriad of
opportunities which lie before each of you in the course of your
physical existence. While we cannot address them individually or
specifically, you who are open are aware of what I am referring
to.
To those who are relative new to this format, I welcome you on
behalf of the myriad of ascendant beings and others who have
gathered on this planet and the others of recent rebellion
status to assist the wayward mortals on each of these planets to
hasten their spiritual maturity.
All of you in this room are blessed in more ways than you can
possibility understand at your own individual level of spirit
progress. You must rely upon those of us who have broader vision
to apprize you of your situation. Soon, very soon, all of you
will have the opportunity to make major strides in your
spiritual status, and I will say no more regarding this tonight.
Ken: You're going to leave me out there on a limb aren't you?
[Laughter.]
Minearsia (Bob S): Ah, Kenneth. I should have expected such a
quip from you. Ladies and gentleman, you are on the verge of
momentous progress for which you have only to open your eyes and
nod your head to be part of this marvelous time on Urantia. I am
not allowed to say much more. You know we have alluded to this
time of magnificence which is about to evolve on this planet.
Those of you who are so inclined will be asked to take a role, a
position in this time of wonderment. Each of you will be
apprized in detail when the time arrives. Until that moment I
urge you to prepare yourselves for these opportunities and be
ready to engage in whatever decision making is required in
relationship to your mortal responsibilities. My friends, this
is a time of great opportunity for each of you and your brothers
and sisters on this planet for the new dispensation is at hand.
The time is here for those who are willing to move forward in
haste. It will be a time for rapid growth and development, not
just the slow preparatory periods which we have been
participating in over the last ten years, because when major
opportunities are presented, they are accompanied by
opportunities for giant spiritual strides. So I urge you all to
prepare yourselves for what is about to transpire. It will be a
time of major enlightenment. Well I trust I have whetted the
appetites of those of you who have been sitting on the
sidelines, and to those who are already well into their
preparation I know you are as excited, perhaps not quite as
excited, but potentially as excited as we, your older brothers
and sisters, are. That concludes my presentation this evening.
If we have time there are others who wish to greet you tonight.
Ken: We have time.
Altern (Bill): I am Altern. Greetings to you all, and especially
to my dearest friend, Lori.
Life is sometimes like a long distance swim in one of your large
lakes where you move through the waves of change, the ups and
downs of the vicissitudes of life and grow weary only to find
that your toes touch a sand bar, and then you can stand and
rest. You look back at the distance that you have swum and
realize what a tremendous achievement it is, but your have not
arrived at your destination. As you rest on the sand bar you are
given a respite, a perspective stance, which allows you both to
enjoy your achievement and get ready for the next swim. Indeed,
in your culture there is much ado about reaching the magic
number forty for indeed it is roughly half of normal life span,
although now many people are living beyond that number.
Certainly it is poor humor to call the number forty the hilltop
so that you are sliding downhill as you move on to higher
numbers. Such a distortion, although it is usually done in
humor, is due to the limited time frame that many people operate
under, that is, the belief that this life is all there is. As
you enjoy this milestone Lori and the rest of you friends and
family, think of it more like the first 220 yards in a long
marathon, perhaps even the first 100 yards. That is to say, far
from being "over the hill", you are strong enough to get off to
a good start on the race to Paradise having achieved this
40-years of the lessons that life gives you on the theatre of
operation which we call Urantia.
Of course in a literal sense you are not in a race to get to
Paradise, at least in a race in which you compete with any other
individual. A race is a poor analogy. Even a swim is too tiring
a picture. Rather you are on a great adventure! The future holds
for you unbelievable pleasures, opportunities, service, and
experiences. It holds for you meetings with other sons and
daughters of God who do not share you planetary culture
background let alone your national or ethnic background. Beyond
the imagination of human kind is the great adventure to the very
source that started the whole gigantic, colossal, tremendous
experience we call life in the universe.
You also will have opportunity to mentor others, even as I have
been given this opportunity of serving you. Indeed it is true
that everything that you learn you will be teaching others for
the universe is one vast school and you are part of the
evolution of the God of Time and Space, the Almighty Supreme.
Words are inadequate to express reality though they are
necessary, but the faith that was spoken of earlier is your ship
for bringing you safely to the shores of Paradise. Your pilot
resides within you. You are the captain who decides the course.
Continue, my dear, to so wisely choose your course through the
advice of your indwelling Pilot that your course will avoid the
rocks of despair, doubt, guilt, shame and fear, and move
confidently on the serene waters of joy, peace, and
contentedness, so that your ship will reach its destination at
the end of the wondrous journey.
You will also not be alone on your ship for it is impossible to
be a child of God without being in relationship with your
siblings. Your siblings are not just this group with you here
tonight. They are certainly not just your family of origin. Your
siblings are spread through a vast universe, for all intelligent
will creatures created in the image and residing in the
personality circuit of the Universal Father, are indeed brother
and sister to you. It's a great adventure, this life. Once again
congratulations on this milestone!
Lori: Thank you.
Altern (Bill): Daniel will speak again. One moment, please.
Daniel (Bill): This is your teacher, Daniel. I have the feeling
that I would like to allow others to make comments so that all
of you are included. Please at this time make your comments or
statements or raise questions as you wish.
Nancy/PamElla: I had a question for Alana. I was a little
surprised by the emphasis on the equality of the genders,
because it seems to me that all of us present would have no
doubt about that. And I was even a little reactive to your
description about men with the word ‘but' rather than ‘and,'
something about women. So I guess my question is what was the
purpose of that discussion of the equality of the genders?
Alana (Bill): This is Alana. PamElla, I have been on a diatribe
about this topic for some months, because I come from a group
that resides in a part of the world [Costa Rica] that women do
not have the equality status that you enjoy here. I have
discussed this in much greater length at other times, and my
purpose tonight was to highlight the very equality fact that you
allude to. I am wondering why you are somewhat offended by my
commentary? Do you feel that perhaps I shorted the male gender
in my comments?
Nancy: No, I didn't feel you shorted the male gender. I just
feel that to make a point out of the equality of women was to
suggest the inequality of women, that it was such a fact that it
didn't need to be addressed at all. I know I look around this
room and I don't see anyone that I would expect needed a lesson
on the equality of the genders.
Ken: Oh, I did. [Laughter.]
Nancy: But I haven't been keeping up with all the transcripts
and I haven't been here lately so I wasn't aware that you were
working in a part of the planet where the women are really
severely downtrodden still. And so that explains to me why you
would be on a diatribe on it, because I certainly have been on
the same diatribe before [laughter] in other situations. So I
thought it was strange. I was wondering why we would have to be
assured of reality, like preaching God is loving to a group of
people who know a loving God.
Alana (Bill): Keep in mind, my dear, this group present in this
room is not the sole recipient of these transcripts. Indeed, the
group in Costa Rica also looks to the guidance of other groups
for its material. Yes, I would agree that this group doesn't
need any lectures on the equality of women, and we have not
referred to this for the your benefit, but I felt Lori was an
outstanding example of someone who has always believed and is
living that equality out in her life.
Nancy: I agree with that. [Laughter.]
Alana (Bill): Have I mollified your feelings?
Nancy: Yes, and thank you for your patience. I know I was asking
a controversial question and I appreciate your patience and your
response.
Alana (Bill): Another reason, my dear, is that I am temporarily
assigned with Daniel because this group has not had a designated
feminine teacher as co-teacher in the past, and it was felt that
it would be necessary to do the new curriculum on relationships
with the modeling of the two genders, the duality that is
characteristic of the time/space universes. If you have not read
the transcripts you are not aware of this background, perhaps.
Nancy: So true, and thank you for your patience.
Alana (Bill): It isn't a small issue, you see, for across the
world women are not regarded everywhere as equal humans. You
yourself know this very well. It is very true in Latin America
and various other places, and I won't get more specific; but I
rejoice in the recognition of your status. Never forget we must
hold forth this equality so that the legacy of Adam and Eve
which was lost can be reinstated for the rest of the world.
Thank you for your question, for you are obviously one whose
mind is not idle.
Nancy: Thank you, Alana.
Lori: Well, teachers, I would just like to say thank you so much
for the attention [laughter] and the acknowledgment. It's the
best birthday present I could ever have hoped for! Thank you.
Daniel (Bill): This is Daniel. We are delighted and we feel
privileged to be a part of this night of honor for you, and I am
glad that it gives you satisfaction and joy for us to pay
attention to your individuality, and indeed, we do love you all.
The rest of you don't feel slighted that Lori is the center of
attention tonight. It is only appropriate.
Ken: I would like to comment to Minearsia. When I told him I
felt that I was left out on a limb, I am out on this limb in the
breeze and like everybody else here, we are in the wind and it
is the wind that creates change. I enjoy it; and I accept the
change and I will continue to accept the challenge. Thank you
very much, Minearsia, for your elaboration.
Minearsia (Bob S): Ah, Kenneth. Your comments are always
anticipated and looked forward to. This is the clearest way I
can characterize our attitude toward your questions. Those of
you who have questions and are reticent to raise them are
reminded that you have only to go into the silence and your
resident helpers will be most happy to address your personal
concerns as you raise them. Most of you are aware of this, but I
thought that perhaps I would remind you, and especially the new
comers, of this fact. Everyone in this room has a corps of
assistants readily available to them which they may access at
anytime. Thank you, Kenneth, for raising this question and
allowing me to elaborate in this manner. The time before us all
is a time of great expectation. I trust I have helped all here
tonight to prepare themselves for what is coming over the
horizon as we speak. Are there other questions or comments we
teachers may help you with this evening?
Pat: Minearsia, you talked about being prepared. I am sure you
will probably say stillness is one, but are there other steps
that that you would outline for us in our preparation?
Daniel (Bill): This is Daniel. A bicycle has two wheels. The
front wheel steers as well as moves forward, and the back wheel
trails behind. When a person is in motion on a bicycle both
wheels are equally important. The front wheel is worship,
stillness, prayerÑone idea, one concept. The back wheel is
service. Service follows from worship, but the two cannot be
separate. The front wheel guides you so that you express love
through service. This is the same concept that I presented as
two sides of a coin. You cannot separate the two. I presented
this because Minearsia nudged me and said, "You have explained
it before, Daniel. Try it again". [Laughter.]
The question of service of course is not as concrete and simple
as stillness, and does require that front wheel leading in order
for service to follow effectively. As to how you serve, who you
serve, and in what manner you serve, this is the result of your
connection with God. Has this answered your question?
Pat: Very clearly. Thank you, Daniel.
Daniel (Bill): You are welcome. Are there any other comments or
questions: [Pause.] If not I would have you stand again and hold
hands with your thumbs to the left [laughter] in honor of our
mother to be. [Ed: Nancy is pregnant.] Let us worship God.
Great and wonderful Parent, deepest and dearest Friend, majestic
and wonderful King of creation: we bow our hearts in humility,
joy, and thankfulness for all the wonders of personal
relationships with You and with the universe of brothers and
sisters. We thank You for the zest of adventure; for the winds
of change that blow away the dust of the past and give us fresh
perspectives; for the rain of love that washes away fear and
guilt and shame, and allows us to lift our faces wet with the
rainfall of love to You, and to look at each other and see past
our appearances to that true person that dwells within. I thank
you for all who are present here tonight, seen and unseen, and
for this occasion of celebration. May we all persist in our
journey toward You. until we stand before Your luminous presence
one day in perfection and gaze fully into Your wonderful face.
Send these, my brothers and sisters, to the joy of their future
lives, even as Christ Michael walked in the foot steps of
humanity. So be it. Amen.
From: Daniel <cwithin@churchwithin.org> Post Falls, Idaho
Teaching Mission Garden Session #11 with Aaron and Elena
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Following a Beautiful Thankfulness Worship from Jill, the
following transmission began:
AARON (T/R Daniel): Thank you Dear one. We said that prayer
right along with you. Thank you for allowing it through so that
we all may Worship with you.
Greetings my friends and colleagues. This is your brother Aaron.
I am grateful that you chose to participate in this evening’s
class with us. I would like to take this opportunity tonight if
you will, to address the larger audience. We have been having
our classes for some months now, and there will often be less
individually personal pieces of the messages that you may wish
to share with your TeaM partners.
Gratitude is an extremely potent tonic for the Soul. When you
can have those elated feelings of intense gratitude to our
Father and to all of us, then you may truly experience the full
and loving attitude of your Soul in action. Gratitude energizes.
Thankfulness propels one forward to seek new and undiscovered
opportunities for love and for service and for relationship.
Gratitude is a full level above a personal need for forgiveness.
When in Gratitude one is totally unaware of any need for
forgiveness, for to be Grateful is to Worship, and in Worship we
become in tune with Spiritual Realities. It is your job, now
that you are aware, to begin living your Morontia, your Soul
life, Now. And indeed you will continue to do so from here to
Salvington. But, it is a part of Morontia life and experience
that we learn to participate in the creation of Spiritual
Realities, just as your initial task is to transform your human
reality into Morontia Realities. Now that you are becoming more
aware of those times when you are experiencing ÔSoul ControlÕ if
you will, then as one who is consciously living your Morontia
life you should also recognize that at the same time you too are
in the process of creating your Spiritual Realities as well.
Each of you, All of you, have Grown by leaps and bounds in a
very short period of time. Let your Soul feel Thankful. Let your
Soul be bathed in Gratitude. You have been given Much. And
forget not, that to get where you have, you have also Given
much. We and all of the Teachers know how much each of you give
without your being aware that you are even doing so. It is
becoming more natural for you. It is becoming a Way of Life.
Less and less often do you make the lesser choice, so that the
few times that you do choose the lesser, it is alone and
therefore far more recognizable to you. Do not judge yourselves
for any of your mistakes. You make remarkably fewer than you
would have made only a few short years ago.
Well neigh all of you are now in a time of transition. It is a
time for going within and seeking your FatherÕs advice on
preparing for your Personal Mission. For true it is, from here
into Eternity, each of us in on a Personal Mission with God. The
Father is the only one who will be with us each throughout every
single step of the way. That personal relationship with Father
is what enhances all other personal relationships with everyone
else. That relationship with Father is our opportunity to
continually discover who we each really and truly are. We are
all Children of God who are all in Love with one another. This
is what is most needed on your world at this time, for people to
learn to Love one another. You each have quite a task ahead of
you, don’t you? You have been well trained for it.
Jill: I certainly feel that is true. I know who I am, this
precious beloved child of my Father, and therefore I know that I
am given the wisdom and understanding that is pertinent to my
personality to allow my self to be my FatherÕs Will in every
eventual moment. It is such a Joy to know who I am and to know
it is OK to be this Child of God.
AARON: This is The Discovery that each must experience for
themselves. It is the experience that makes possible so much
more in your life. Thank you class. It has been my joy to speak
with you this evening. I do so look forward to these weekly
gatherings, these weekly classes. I will retire now.
There may be others willing to address you this evening. If you
would care to take a short break we won’t be far away.
(A short break ensued.)
ELENA (T/R JILL): Greetings one and all. This is Elena, Jill’s
personal teacher.
It’s a pleasure to sit in on the session tonight and I wanted to
take this opportunity to add another perspective regarding the
open act of Worship and Gratefulness to our Father.
What I observe as quite normal for those of you on Urantia who
have become conscious seekers of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, is
that your initial step tends to be an intellectual one. This is
normal, for you are cognitive beings seeking active
Spiritization. Your intellectual ability and your cognitive
processing can define and describe many experiences. However, to
feel Gratefulness is exactly that. An Emotion. You will not be
able to truly Worship the Father until you take all that you
have learned cognitively and move into Passion for what you know
to be True, Good and Beautiful. There is no way to be Grateful
intellectually.
Think about that this week if you will. And when your thoughts
are exhausted and you still cannot define Gratefulness in a
satisfactory way, then still your mind and open your Heart.
Feel. Emotionally remember the many wondrous experiences that
you have had through your five senses, through your creative
processes, your creative expressions. Feel Love for that
creative person you are, for that creative consciousness within
you that allows you to feel. Therein lies the secret to
beginning the walk on the pathway to Gratefulness and Worship
for our Father whom is the only one capable of giving us the
gift of Passion. For you see, Passion is Alive, it is not a
brain function. Journey down your own pathway of Passion. Feel
and own the Love your Father has for You, and the words and
thoughts of Worship and Gratefulness will begin to flow. May you
all know this Joy and Peace as you travel your Pathway.
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Spirit Infusion,
Daniel for Debbie, Question about Rebellion Teachers: Evanson,
Daniel, Elyon July 22, 2001
Evanson (Jonathan TR): Greetings to you all, this is Evanson.
Let us look for a moment at the idea of spirit infusion and make
some distinctions that I feel are critical to obtaining and
maintaining spirit contact; I speak of the spirit of divinity,
not that of personality contact among entities such as myself
and yourselves.
Perhaps the easiest way to begin is to look at the idea that you
are a child of God and, in having that realization, you
naturally understand you belong in the family of God. Now the
subtle distinction I desire to draw to notice is contained in
small, seemingly insignificant words that can cause stumbling. I
have just said that you realize as a child of God you belong to
the family of God. That word "belong" can still imply a
transience, a temporary-ness. Like for instance if you apply for
membership and your membership time period expires you would
then no longer belong. Of course, we know that in the Father's
family you are permanent. It would be a stronger statement to
say not that you belong to the Father's family but that you are
the Father's family.
When you feel the infusion of divine spirit some of these subtle
demarcations can play which can again lead to a temporary
experience. If you say you are filled with spirit, it implies
you are the container and spirit fills the void. This is good
for spirit ministers in this way, but it would be closer and
perhaps better to consider yourselves commingled, something more
like a sponge soaked with water, for the demarcations blur.
Spirit appears to be more of you than in you. Being infused is
when those distinctions cease, when you are spirit in motion,
itself, not just the transporter, but spirit in motion itself.
This awareness is what Michael sought to bring to all when he
said that, "I and my Father are one", and that, "I am in Him,
and He is in me", and "I am in you".
To an ascender who is sincere and humble this understanding of
infusion does not lead to a false sense of one's value, one's
superiority. It does not lead to fanaticism of privilege, of a
specialness above any others who do not yet have the experience
of oneness. Rather it brings a solemnity, the desire -- I am
catching myself at my own lesson, for you do not desire simply
to manifest, to express God or spirit, but you desire to be that
spirit. This is powerful to function with this realization. It
will be difficult to maintain. You will, more often than not,
experience it periodically, for you, like myself, have not yet
experienced Father fusion, which would remove the need for this
lesson entirely. So, it becomes our exercise to come to this
awareness and to do so in a balanced manner in which we do
recognize the greatness of deity, that all powerful being from
which we derive our existence, but yet simultaneously removing
all barriers that cause us to feel a separation; to be a child
of God, not as a membership but as a birthright, irrevocable.
This is a possession cherished by all souls who long for the God
of All.
Take in that spirit embrace, thoroughly remove the demarcations
that would cause you to set yourself apart. As time goes on
these separations will diminish in duration and, eventually,
that moment of fusion will occur, and oneness will be permanent
for all of eternity.
I have finished my remarks, thank you.
Evelyn: In our reading Wednesday it came up how, at the outbreak
of rebellion, certain members of the Prince's staff went into
rebellion. Of the others, all but Van of the loyal staff were
hauled back to Jerusem. Similarly with Adam and Eve's children,
except they got to choose to go or stay. Still, the planet lost
a lot of loyal, valuable workers in those two incidents. The
staff departure coincided with the arrival of the Melchizedek
receivership, a changing of the guard. From my human perspective
it seems that, not only do we have the rebellion to put up with
but, we are being deprived of these people who could help the
most. What is the wisdom to that pattern?
Elyon: This is Elyon, I will take your question.
Years ago I was asked if anyone moved on from the system while
the rebellion and the quarantine were in effect. I answered by
saying that, when there is a fire to put out, no one wished to
leave. Here, in regard to your question, I would turn the
metaphor that when a fire breaks out all must get out. True, the
planet was in peril, but the things of greatest value to Michael
were the souls and personalities and spirits at stake, the ones
in danger. That is why they were rescued. It did leave a mess,
but there was more time available for the rectification of these
errors than there was for the well-being of the souls and
spirits involved.
And there was this legal matter of free will. Lucifer had
asserted that Michael was preventing all from having free will.
The errors of these leaders had to be shown by the due course of
their own actions and consequences. It would have been futile to
argue them out. It would have contributed to his accusations to
have brought them summarily to a close. Therefore the retreat
was enacted.
Many centuries have gone by and the regrouping and the
re-engagement of ministering forces upon this world, not much
time from my perspective. It was not long after these series of
failures upon this world that the greatest gift that could
happen to any planet was decided and occurred, and that is
Michael's bestowal presence in human form.
Many teachers in this mission outreach share your concern for
the well-being of this planet and the rectification of the
wounds and damages that have occurred. That is why we serve.
The population of this world was not as large as it is today.
The welfare of the human creatures was not in danger. At that
stage of your planet's evolution it could continue on without
the services of the Prince's staff and still progress, but the
serious consequences of this outbreak of rebellion rested more
upon the spirit entities that were engaged and enlisted in
service on this world. While, indeed, it affected humankind, it
really was a dispute of a celestial order. Urantia had to suffer
as a victim, innocent as it was, the calamities that befell
those who were residing upon this world at that time.
I hope I have been helpful.
Evelyn: Yes, I think so. Thanks.
Elyon: Carry always the torch of the light of Michael. Hold it
high that others may see, high enough that many will see. Know
that if you follow the advice of Evanson you must yourself be
that torch; you must yourself burn brightly that all may see.
You are the emitter of the light of Michael. Consider it no
longer merely a possession but consider it you. You have days
ahead of you to work out this process and to experience it
directly in your own faith experience. Walk in him always.
Take care.
Aaron on Self-Denial and Self-Forgetfulness Date: Fri, 27 Jul
2001 19:51:18 -0500 From: Bob Devine <bobdevine@onewest.net>
Question: Could you explain in more detail the difference
between self-denial and self-forgetfulness?
Aaron: Self-denial is the act of trying to stop yourself from
being "bad" or doing "bad" things or the act of trying to
suppress character flaws. It holds with it the idea that you can
simply will yourself into submission to perceived goals and
attributes. Self-denial is a negative action to try to create a
positive result.
When you become more intuned to the Indwelling Spirit you will
find that you respond in a manner that is more positive in
nature. You will want to do God’s will simply because you want
to, not because you are worried that you might fail or that you
feel you are somehow unworthy, but that your simple engagement
with the universe and your FatherÕs presence are lures of
righteousness. Most often we have to fight past self-denial to
make ourselves known.
One of the characteristics of Michael’s mission on this planet
is the manner in which we have been counseled to interact with
you in our contacts. It is of supreme importance that we are
positive in our interactions with you, that we model behavior
that is consistent with the highest realities and the manner
that is characteristic of our Creator Son.
We are not here to admonish you and to tell you how you are
making mistakes in your life and how you are flawed people. This
is not the way. We are here to give you an awareness of your
place in the cosmos, to lift you up beyond the mere mortal
struggle to recognize the supreme goals of achievement that are
possible. We want you to know how cared for and how valued you
are to the universal plan for progression. But most importantly
we want you to know you are part of our family, that you have
the right to this relationship and that our Father is ready to
serve each person if you are willing to reach out and be served.
People do not have to serve others to be served by God. This
infers a requirement to have his grace. Rather would we
encourage you to let God serve you. This is done through the
stillness, taking the time to open your lives to God. Recognize
the love he holds for you and the relationship he desires to
have with you. The service you will do as a result of this
relationship will go much farther than attempts at service to
gain favor or a sense of worthiness to be in God’s presence or
to have his grace.
Any contention you have to this idea of allowing God to serve
you first, before serving others should fall away in the
knowledge that Michael as Joshua did not look to serve people to
find GodÕs grace, but rather spent his time in contemplation and
worshipful meditation with his Father, where he was graced with
the presence and the knowledge of the actions he could take. It
was his will to do the Father’s will, rather than an act of
submission. Many still believe they have to set aside their will
to do the Father’s will, but it is not so. Through your turning
to God and allowing his presence to fill you, you will want to
do his will.
Self-forgetfulness is a state you fall into when the mind is
secure in the knowledge of the self, where the doubts of one’s
actions are set aside in place of the assurance of God leading
you.
Many people have had glimpses of this state of
self-forgetfulness when they suddenly realize that a purity of
motive has swept through them and they have ministered to
another or upon their environment, unaware of oneÕs own needs
and desires. You have glimpsed this on occasion. But when one
recognizes this occurence, there is a natural falling back into
self-awareness.
The transition from the material realm of selfishness to the
spiritual realm of self-forgetfulness is a process that takes
time to accomplish. One has to know that they have a self that
has its own lures and desires so that they can master the self
through knowledge, awareness and acceptance. The transition is
the steps of coming to know oneÕs abilities and shortcomings and
then the process of turning these over to the Father through
stillness so that they can be transformed in awareness.
The self-forgetful state is when the self comes into alignment
with the Indwelling Spirit, such that both the self and the
spirit desire the same things, to see the universe and your
place in it so clearly that you do what is natural and serve the
best upon the environment in which you dwell. The transition is
the struggle you have to master the self so that it doesn’t step
into the way when you interact with your environment. Do this by
knowing who you are, not in trying to beat down the weak or
undeveloped areas in self-denial. Increasing self-forgetfulness
will naturally attend increasing self-mastery in the
relationship of the individual to the universe and its Creator.
DATE: July 28, 2001 LOCATION: Spokane, WA T/R: Gerdean TEACHERS:
DOLORES (prayers) TOMAS AND PAULO TOPIC: The Ecology of the
Evolving Supreme
DOLORES: Good afternoon. Dolores here. Let me lift you in prayer
prior to Tomas coming in at the onset.
In faith of your presence, dear Michael, and in faith of the
presence of the heavenly helpers in the invisible spheres who
lead us into your great Reality, lift our hearts and souls in
celebration of knowing you and in knowing your love for us, your
many creations. Rejoice with us in the eternal adventure of
finding Our Father
in our lives
as we exist and as we seek for Him in others and as we aspire to
become like Him and, eventually, in His presence, to worhip Him.
Give us patience, Michael, in our dealings with one another as
we come to know how to relate to the God who inspires us all.
Teach us to meaningfully
relate and interact with everyone we encounter in light of your
admonition to love one another as you love us. Help us to
discern how to love one another as you love us, as this, in the
example you gave, is the key to learning the path into
righteousness and glory for us all.
If it please you, Creator, we yearn to do your bidding. We yearn
to follow you into the fields and into the universities of your
choosing for us so that we will be better prepared to follow
your bidding in all things. We commend to you our very beings -
all that we are, all that we have been, and all that we are
becoming - in order for you to mold us and help us discern Our
Father's will for us. In His divine light we abide. Amen.
TOMAS: Good afternoon, my loyal friends, and companions. We
embark now, we engage upon, the new phase, the new decade, the
new plateau of distributing loving kindness and care into the
fields as nourisment for those who hunger and thirst for greater
truth, beauty and goodness.
This consecration of your will to do the divine will is the
Agenda of all of us, and yet each of us assumes our own
individual Assignment as far as our expression of our commitment
to doing the Father's will. In the expansion of spiritual
reality in your lives so that it will take on greater value for
you, you will begin to discern, through Stillness, the
personality pattern established in you that will conform to your
destiny path. Insofar as you are a fledgling soul, you will
experiment in your understanding of what is meant by His will
for you in your life and how you reflect His will.
Experimentation is part of the experiential existence. It's a
natural growing program. What you will do is you will ascertain
an approach and follow that approach until and as such time as
you are invited and directed in other ways, all the while
amassing for yourself value and meaning that becomes a part of
who you are. While you experience many variations of creature
choice, your essential Agenda is to be perfect in your sphere as
the Father is perfect in His sphere. And thus, as you master
your standing as you are, it is then apparent how to advance
even farther into the ideal of spiritual development as you
begin to see it unfold before you.
The essential question therefore is always to recognize your
primary Agenda.
I'd like to open this up somewhat for you today and include you
in my session by asking for certain specificities as to other
agendas of our past masters in teaching this lesson on living
God's will. For instance, have you got a response to the
question of "what was Machiventa Melchizedek's agenda in coming
here to Urantia?"
THOROAH: I was thinking that his agenda was to teach the One
God, of all the achievements, the idea of One God.
TOMAS: Precisely, Thoroah, and this agenda of his at that time
had everything to do with his purpose on Urantia. What would you
say his Agenda is today?
GERDEAN: Overseeing the reclamation of Urantia.
TOMAS: Overseeing the reclamation of Urantia. Fine. And what
would you venture to say was the Agenda of Jesus?
THOROAH: To let us know that this God loves us. TOMAS: A loving
God, yes. But what was Michael's Agenda? THOROAH: To complete
the seventh bestowal.
TOMAS: And gain sovereignty over his universe, yes. So you see
we have different agendas but we have the same overall Agenda -
to do the will of the Father at any particular given place in
time. Each life is given its own Agenda, and while in the course
of the life there will be many secondary and
tertiary agendas in the mix, always is the essential Agenda to
"Be ye perfect". That is a rather wide-open mandate, wouldn't
you agree?
THOROAH: Yes.
TOMAS: Within any situation/ paradigm, and from differing
vantage points, depending on the paradigm, there are what we
might call modifications for carrying out your agenda. An
example could be being perfect in a certain task set before you.
You must learn how to navigate the area or utilize the
tools therein. Thus the primary Agenda appears to be superceded
by lesser agendas.
If a woman is sewing a garment as a costume in a local theater
presentation depicting the value of neighbors and the value of
interacting in ministry, one might construe her as merely a
seamstress with a limited agenda, one which is, in their eyes,
less important than theirs, which may be a man who is washing
the car in order to drive the family to an engagement which will
represent him as a champion of a certain cause which bespeaks
the nobility of character that is held up as exemplary of a
denizen doing deeds on behalf of the community as a way of
indicating the level of civilization that is created in citizens
such as this, thus also depicting the high agenda of character.
Each agenda is a path in support of the exalted Agenda of the
sons and daughters of God in their mortal raiment. It is when
the parties exalt their agendas as having the sanction of God
over and above the others' agenda that humans encounter
conflict.
When you set out to be of service and to express yourself as
personalities in support of the values shared by all of
divinity, you assume the mantle of one who has a righteous
cause. But without taking the moment to perceive how the
individual is going about bringing their
impression/interpretation of this righteous cause into being,
you can only see the immediate act and it may have little
bearing on what the greater picture portrays.
Deep thinking is called for here. It's an example of not being
able to see the forest for the trees sometimes. You look around
and you see trees, you see your fellows engaged in various
activities, you see aspen, pine and maple all intermingled. You
see that some are tall and some are short. You see that the tall
ones are often crowding out the sun from shining on the
undergrowth. The tall trees thus making it impossible for the
saplings to reach their potential.
Back up now and look at the forest and see the lilies of the
field how they grow. There are certain factors of growth
involved in the forest of humanity, in the forest of
kingdom-workers. The circumstances of the forest tell how the
elevation, the temperature, the rainfall, the soil, all
contribute to the configuration of the forest in that time and
place.
The forest during Machiventa's sojourn here indicated a need for
a concept of One God to be implanted in order for our Creator
Son, when he arrived, to be able to impress upon his followers
how it is that Our Father is a loving God.Which he could not
have done if it remained true, in the minds of humanity, that
the many gods of Machiventa's day and age were still
flourishing.
So look at forest in which you are growing. The whole planet is
not one large wood. There are plains and barren spaces. There
are large areas where nothing grows. There are populated areas
that teem with life but have no surcease from the hustle and
bustle of the concrete jungle and cannot consider ecological
factors such as we are discussing. In some areas survival is the
primary agenda. They have not yet found the refreshment from the
protection of these mighty forests of spiritual community which
prevail and in which one may find sanctuary.
As geologic and climatic changes occur, as time passes, as
evolution occurs, all the tall trees will be brought down as a
natural course, and the trees growing as saplings are then
allowed to respond to the stimuli of growing conditions
prevalent. And when they have maximized their purpose, they too
will be felled in order to provide a soil of nourishment
suitable for the life yet to come.
The ecology of the Evolving Supreme is such that you listen to
your heartfelt response to the still, quiet voice within. If it
leads you to grow where you are planted, then grow you must in
the soil you found your roots. In the greater ecology, your
growth will be overseen by the nature of the greatness of
divinity.
If, in your forest habitat, it is impossible for you to find the
conditions necessary for you to be all that you can be, perhaps
you need to re-evaluate where you have found yourself emplanted,
and seek guidance and direction as to how and where you may find
yourself unobstructed in your ascent to the (son/sun) It is
possible for you to live the Father's will in your life no
matter where you are, and no matter what you do, and yet in
order to maximize your potential, for you to realize the agenda
that has been written in your heart, it may require some
uprooting and transplanting and reconfiguring your environment
so that your branches may stretch forth and your fruits
produced.
So many are content to remain stunted and say, "I can do nothing
about it, for this is where I have been planted. These are the
limitations I cannot surmount." And if this is your decision, to
abide by the constraints of your material existence, then so be
it, and go about your affairs in good cheer.
If, however, you are overshadowed by those tall pines which will
naturally find their way to the top, refresh yourself in the
relief they can provide from the driving rain and incidious heat
of the exposure they endure.
I speak to you symbolically because this is the language that
you will need to use in determining, in ascertaining an agenda.
Be it your own agenda or the apparent agenda of those who
surround you. Remember, too, that there are
many kinds of trees. Some produce crabapples. Some provide a
home for birds. Some are used to build papermills and buildings.
Some are for beauty only, and some produce food. There is room
for all, and each, in their own time, in season, serve. They
fulfill their agenda. How wonderful it is, the variety allowed
in this far-flung universe of mortal creatures that aspire to
find their natural habitat and flourish under the sun, in ways
that are both natural and supernatural.
North Idaho teaching Mission Group Topcis: Rrejuvenation and
growth, "Go forth and preach the gospel to all the world"
Teachers: Elyon, Malvantra
July 29, 2001
Elyon (Jonathan TR): Friends, I welcome your company. I give you
my greetings. This is Elyon. Today I wish to speak with you
about rejuvenation and growth.
For many who have been applying lessons and truths acquired
through various means besides that of learning through word,
there becomes established a track record, a historical lineage
of philosophical and spiritual acquirements. It is always
invigorating to have attained new insight, to have acquired a
new skill, that brings greater functionality on a spiritual
level in ministry or in personal well-being through the
improvement of character and behavior. These attainments are
bringers of joy and satisfaction and enthuse the soul for new
discovery, energize one for the effort needed and required to
attain higher levels. Growth undergoes this cyclical form:
struggle, attainment, satisfaction, and preparation through new
enthusiasm for renewed struggle. When one grows weary,
experiences the fatigue of effort, it is noted that the
personality seeks rejuvenation.
Often this word "rejuvenation" implies what I have just now
spoken of, that being, re-energized, to have enthusiasm, to be
rested. However, it really means to become as a little child, as
a juvenile. You can be exhausted and rejuvenated at the same
time. Witness the tired child from such hearty play still
enthused, captivated by the activity. What is implied in
rejuvenation? It implies the wonder lure of discovery, faith in
greater powers to guide and to protect, idealism and hope that
the future will be bigger and fuller of opportunity than it is
now. It implies the humility of understanding that one has more
to learnthan has been learned. It also implies a willingness to
act regardless of attained knowledge and a boldness to behave in
spite of skill, to undertake an activity without much fret or
worry over consequences; though this can and has at times
brought the youthful personality into trouble. These traits are
beneficial to the aspiring spirit liver.
Our master said that you cannot enter the kingdom unless you
become as a little child. I would append to that that you will
always remain a little child, not lacking in maturity, but
always retaining that wonder lure, that willingness to seek
adventure in spite of an assessment of ability.
Cyclically all of us, even myself at my level of ascension, will
exert and become exhausted, will be recharged and apply
ourselves anew. But if one can in a way drop the "re" from
"rejuvenate" and simply be "juvenated", to constantly retain
that youthful zeal, then one can be adventurous, one can be
still playful in spite of exhaustion.
As one who holds a level of training from our melchizedeks at
the grade level of a constellation, I understand your awe,
perhaps is the word, as you seek to comprehend what it may be
like to have ages behind you wherein you could have gained the
experiences -- and you will -- that I have undergone. It is
indeed rewarding. But I must also stress that every new turn in
my path to the Father reminds me how youthful I am. We stand at
the beginning of the path to Paradise, though I am drawing my
lessons from the realms of the Most Highs and you are from the
realms of the evolutionary worlds. We both have barely begun to
make our trek.
The cycle of time on earth is short, and you experience a rapid
time frame of youth to aging within your biological structure.
But never let that mold your thinking and your spiritual
aspirations. There are millennia ahead of you wherein you will
be youth. Continue to grow, continue to mature, to advance
yourself in morontia meaning and spiritual experience and
Supreme connectivity, but remain as a little child. Be
rejuvenated constantly. Know that aging on your world is no
different than the larval stage of a greater life; it must come
to an end, but it does not re-define the fact that you are
standing at the doorstep of a great mansion of wonderful
surprises. You have only simply begun. Maintain an idealism and
an adventurous curiosity.
I will now entertain your comments and questions.
Evelyn: That's a good thing to remind us of. We use the excuse,
"Oh, I am so old" to avoid doing things we know perfectly well
that we could do.
Elyon: It is true that one can limit applying oneself to an
activity or undertaking an endeavor using the definition of age.
Whether it be that one defines oneself as older and therefore
unable, past one's prime, or as too inexperienced, too young to
know what to do properly; it is good to lessen the value or
impact age has upon your desire to either be of service or to
advance your personality spiritually.
Malvantra: This is Malvantra. We have been charged by our
Sovereign Master Son to bring the gospel to the world, actually,
those were your instructions. My instructions are to bring the
gospel to the universe. Both of us have a rather large task, but
we soon discover that the world is not defined by the size of
the planet you are living upon. My universe is not defined by
the size of Nebadon; it is your realm of functioning that is
your world, that is my universe. Physically we have residence,
but functionally the boundaries are different than the physical
ones. You are already aware of this through your prayer life,
your worship experiences, and your spirit contact. You are
functioning beyond the definitions of your physical world, and
you realize that in your efforts to demonstrate righteousness,
to enhance truth, that you have little effect beyond your towns
or your region. The world is far too great to have impact upon.
The definition of "world" then becomes fuzzy, for in your inner
life you've extended yourself beyond the planet. In your outer
life you barely scratch the surface. So, the import of the
phrase, "Go forth and preach the gospel to all the world" is not
the world but the gospel, and that you do something to spread
it. While I am stationed on Urantia, I do little elsewhere in
Nebadon to be of service, but I am still preaching the gospel. I
consider that to be a high and noble task, for our Michael has
never been wrong in his assessment of needs throughout Nebadon
and his methods of going about ministering to those needs.
As Elyon has spoken of the inexperience of youth, know that, in
your mandate to share the gospel, the entire battalion of
melchizedeks stands behind you, that you are part of a movement
that spans throughout all planets within his domain. Even on the
worlds untainted by rebellion, undisturbed by administrative
defaults, the same gospel is still in need of being taught. You
stand not alone in this effort; the mobilization for the
upliftment of all souls is total across the whole span of this
universe. Where you lack experience, guidance will be provided;
where you need experience, lessons will be gained.
I am glad to be in your company, and I will now withdraw.
Elyon: This is Elyon. I would close our fellowship. I encourage
you to be that young child, to be of good cheer, to demonstrate
Michael's gospel of love towards one another, to rely upon your
heavenly Parent for assistance. You will be rewarded with
wisdom; you will be supported by a family of beings who all
equally strive to do as you are striving to do. I bid you
farewell.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- BEYOND COMFORT LEVELS JULY 30, 2001
WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I so much enjoy the group spirit here
this evening. You each appear to have rolled up your sleeves and
are ready to work. These past Mission years have only been
preparation for the present time, a warm up so to speak, the
teetering between faith, doubt, reality and mysticism. It is
apparent that the Teaching Mission is becoming more stabilized
and founded in the reality of the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man, yes.
With any new marriage there are needs to be met, rolls to
fulfill and positions to define. Now that we have established
commitment we will be called to certain duties. These task
assignments are helping each one of you attain experience as
well serve your fellows. You cannot say, "I am with
righteousness because I serve" or glorify the self because you
put yourself out, because you are also receiving valuable
experience in return.
In a good marriage you give in order to care for the whole. You
don't really give just to receive, and for those who do
understand the marriage concept, you will rarely ever receive
any credit for your good deeds. Again, that is not why we serve.
I can say that most individuals going into marriage have
expectations that never really come to pass, and the lessons are
hard and bringing a new consciousness. You will find that you
must move beyond your usual pattern of behavior, yes, even at
times compromise yourself. You learn to move from that place of
self-satisfaction and comfort to making effort towards trying
new things, doing different things.
This Teaching Mission appears to the outside world as new thing,
something out of the ordinary and strange. We are thankful that
those Mission beginners did step out of their comfort zone to
embrace the new without worry of ridicule. You have had these
years to digest lessons and always fall into the safe arms of
your Heavenly Parents should trouble arise. Now we are asked to
go forth from our self-satisfaction and comfort to handling
situations with spiritual maturity.
"I am fine, but I am not," is a saying we will become acquainted
with. "I am valued and loved, but I do not hold all the answers.
I am willing to step forth and drink the cup, fight the good
fight of faith, view my fellows as brothers and sisters, and do
what I have to for the good of the whole," yes. We could say you
have made your Mission bed--now lie in it. Go forth with courage
and deal with your mortal circumstances with spiritual power. Do
not recoil in fear as if you know not the Master nor have had
the spiritual training.
The spiritual path is not a path of ease and situations will
arise where you must step from your comfort zone to handle
situations. The Master seemed to have a perfectly focused mind
and a shielded heart. He could endure all things. The Master
could deal with difficult situations because He allowed Father
to work. Many were common to say the Master was beside Himself.
Instead of jumping to emotional rampage or assuming the worst,
the Master would consult with Father in prayer or stillness to
receive clarification.
Many things that happen are really not as bad as you would
think. They are subject to your human definition. So while you
go forth with your new courage to move from your comfort zone to
do new things forget not to consult the Divine Overseers for
clarification and direction. It was quite rare for the Master to
give way to emotional outbursts and that was due to His time
spent with Father. He was strengthened for everyday ordinary
daily mortal happenings. He moved with spiritual power from On
High because He was dedicated to allowing Father to work.
The Master worked not for self-recognition, no, but for the
welfare of the whole. He found spiritual strength to do even the
most difficult of tasks because of His Father connection. The
criticism He received was of no affect because He had tamed the
mortal ego. The business of who He was and how He was growing
and learning was only the concern of Father's. Said He, "I am
made more when I have given all that I am to my Father in
Heaven. I fear not the ridicule of society. I dare to move
beyond what I feel comfortable with to be of service to Him that
has created everything."
Friends, you will be called to certain tasks that you feel you
are not equipped or moves you from your level of comfort. Allow
Father to be at your side with His guidance and to bestow on you
spiritual confidence and power. Do not take my words in through
the ego's ears, no, but see them through the eyes of the Spirit.
This is maintaining balance. This is serving the whole.
Conflicts that arise within this marriage will need to be dealt
with to gain closer bonds of trust. You cannot cover over your
difficulties with social niceties and expect healing, no.
Michael's Spirit of Truth runs through the hearts of every man
and woman. Nothing will be hidden for long. We must move from
our comfort levels to face the truth in whatever form it takes.
We must move beyond the ego's cry for attention and remittance
and be about the business of truth and the desire to initiate
healing. I hope I am clear to you. A few questions.
Question: Abraham, I have a question about the lesson this
evening. My focus has been to work on myself and clear myself of
those spirit poisons that block me from being of service. What I
see in tonight's lesson is that if my focus is purely on Father
and focused in service, that I stand beside myself and I don't
need to be concerned with that healing, that the healing flows
through that. I am wondering if I am on the right track with
that thought. Can you provide me with some clarification?
ABRAHAM: You are saying in self-forgetfulness and focusing on
service you receive personal healing. Is that correct?
(I am trying to distinguish the difference in focus from where I
have been doing my process in growth right now, which has been
if I open myself up to Father I can learn how to forget and
stand beside myself, but what I see from tonight's lesson is
perhaps my focus needs to be not so much on what those spirit
poisons are within me, but on service and the rest will take
care of themselves.)
Understood. Many go through life believing they are so wounded,
so injured that they have not the capabilities to move on
towards self-forgetfulness into service. Nobody really perceives
themselves in a state of becoming and they long for perfection
in the self. This disappointment is overwhelming and they lose
confidence. Yes, recognize those spirit poisons as a part of
your total makeup, but do not become so discouraged as to think
that is all you are, no. Understand that these spiritual poisons
are natural and going to be with you and everyone for a long
time to come. In knowing the spiritual poisons you learned to
recognize and appreciate the spiritual fruits. Life is a balance
of both. Yes, a focus on helping others is helping yourself. You
do gain valuable experience in being open to serve. Many times
you are not the one who serves but are served. Feel not the
mortal life has made you weak and without confidence to go
forward, learn, grow and serve. Know that your place in the
Kingdom is secured and our divine Caretakers have the utmost
faith in you. You are learning a new self honesty and this is
wonderful, my daughter.
Each of you are on a path of discovering self truth and I have
full faith that you each have the courage to face it and become
stronger and inspired to become more, yes. I am slipping. Know
that with each week that passes I find myself more in love with
you each. Until next week, shalom.
DATE: August 4, 2001 LOCATION: Spokane, WA T/R: Gerdean TEACHERS
& TOPICS TIMOTHY: Human Associations 101 TOMAS: Human Culture is
an Interesting Study
TIMOTHY: Yes, indeed, you read me right. This is Timothy, the
personal teacher of your associate Ginny. I am glad to be here
in your presence and afford you my support as a friend and
neighbor in the cause of Michael's mission for Urantia. We here
in this area have had half-hearted attempts often and
whole-hearted attempts occasionally, and even while we have not
lit up the map with our spiritual illumination, we have at least
flickered sufficiently as to give our supervisors hope of our
survival and our thriving.
What you know to be true is how long it takes sometimes,
frequently, for seeds that are planted to become activated by
the ideal growing conditions that can only come about as the
willingness to grow sets in. You may be met with all manner of
support and encouragement, but if you are resistant to such, you
will not benefit one iota by the attempts of those who are
interested in your welfare to help you along the path.
I am a student teacher, as it were. (I am perceiving a great
deal of background noise in this auditorium today, as if there
were a parade outside and a convention in the hallway.) We
embark today on a new curriculum, entitled "Human Associations
101". We appreciate your signing up for this course, for truly
you cannot graduate without it. Human Associations is far more
difficult than an inter-species alliance. Humans are so densely
packaged it is hard to see their essence, and while it is true
that "by their fruits they shall be known," their fruits are
often mere habit, based on morality rather than integral to
their human beingness.
I am given the opportunity to convey to you that I am being
tutored in this Teacher's Assistant by Tomas who has
successfully taught a course in "Fruits of the Spirit" and the
true character that is revealed in the spirit-born, God-led
individual is going to be the representation of the highest
standard of moral value and ethical judgment.
The frame of reference for "judgment" which has molded your
consciousness has been the admonition, underscored by the
long-standing scriptural indoctrination, of "Judge not, lest ye
be judged." He who has self-mastery and righteous purpose is
able to see with the eye of a deity, a view far surpassing that
of the limited vision of mortality. And yet in the spectrum
of humanity, even factoring in the cultural mores, differences
will appear behind the veil of perception
based on the nature of that paradigm which establishes your
plateau of operation
by and through the accepted values of that culture. The simple
way of saying this would be, perhaps, "there is honor among
thieves." Anyone want to give a stab at what I mean by that?
THOROAH: I would guess that it's the social relationship, the
society that is formed under any umbrella. And it's honored.
TIMOTHY: Correct. And in which its own values are the ones that
are regarded as standard operating procedure. These values then
are a part of the mentality and social order of beingness that
exist within that societal grouping. Yes, these are spiritual
demographics, as you indicated.
And so, barring your skill in knowing by exposure and experience
what words to use, what nuances and inflections are
communications in that societal setting in which you venture,
barring your expertise in every walk of life, you will need to
begin to perceive the manner in which our Father is leading
you to reflect His morality and ethics and not those of your
society, no matter how respected and exalted it may be. For it
is in this realm that matters of ethics and morality ends people
up in court or in conflict over the interpretation of what that
means, given all the mitigating factors and circumstances of the
moral issue or ethical situation at hand. It is not enough to
stay compliant to the values that prevail in the world at this
point in time, as they are faulty.
Yes, I see your hand go up in the back of the lecture hall. I
see the objection on your face, that I have overgeneralized my
remarks to indicate that the world as we know it is in error and
is untrained to determine what Godly morals and ethics are. I
see your defense of good people everywhere and the Angels of the
Churches are in your corner - and other angels as well!
And yet, given the evolutionary level of humanity as it evolved
over the centuries, up until about fifty years ago, it has all
been growing, developing, through the aegis of advancement
through trial and error. Not overlooking Our Father's contact
with and in each of His children, and the availability of the
Spirit of Truth, the basic building blocks of your planetary
culture had been altered and therefore thwarted in its early
beginnings. And so I hold to my comment about it being unable to
truly determine such standards as are inherent in the well-bred,
well-reared, well-trained child of God on a normal world, in
association with the planetary government and the Material Son
and Daughter in place.
I observe the world here and make my comments NOT to disdain its
standing, not in the least. Why am I getting a picture here of
handicap access? Are we to pretend that we are not handicapped?
Even while we clamor for the ramp?
TOMAS: Good afternoon, my loyal friends and neighbors, this is
Tomas. I have only one remark to make today, in the face of
Timothy's words. You have heard me in good faith and in good
humor assign myself the "handle" of Tomas the Opportunist.
However, you will find me taking leave of that designation,
given the nature of this upcoming course. An opportunitist is
not always one who is opportune on behalf of the highest ideals.
In fact, the perception in your culture that an opportunist is
one who would take undue or unfair advantage of a situation. And
while in private company I have little concern that you would
perceive me as attempting to usurp something at someone else's
expense, in the name of such a quality of lessons as we will
address in Human Associations 101, it would not behoove me to
sport such a handle.
Let's make this course something that can be developed into a
practical workbook experience. Come to class, if you will, next
week, notebook in hand and sharpened pencils at the ready. Bring
also your professions of desire to be useful in the field and
any questions or ideas you may have, having to do with how to
interact effectively and happily with your many peers, be they
children of rapture or unlovely mankind.
Alright then, if there are no further questions regarding your
new class, new course in this Teaching Base, are there matters
to kick around as one might do after class as you wait for the
bell to ring?
THOROAH: Yes. I've been thinking about this cultural situation,
thanks to our mentors Thursday evening talking about the
cultural things that we deal with and things that we don't
realize that are cultural that are just so natural for us to do
that we don't know why or maybe haven't even thought about
asking why, and so Human Associations 101 is an excellent
course. And
I think we'll be dealing with that! It's a part of the
curriculum, so that's good!
TOMAS: Good, yes. You are right to find it fascinating, for it
provides wisdom in this way: as you understand your fellows you
can learn to see their motivations and by getting to the root of
their needs, they will reveal their true essence to you in such
a way that you may love them with a divine affection, even while
their motives may hardly rise to the value standards developed
in one who has spent many reflective hours in spirit to discern
and master.
The study of your species has been fascinating from the
beginning, but the light that has been flooding Urantia recently
has added new dimensions and perspectives to your conditioning
such that the comparison is now able to seen. Perhaps you would
understand it this way. There is a house, a very filthy house
with somewhat slovenly while excessively busy people. The dirt
has piled up in their haste to go from here to there, and they
are so seldom home to look out the window, the windows are
befogged with grime from having been neglected. Into this home
comes a "clean freak," a Mr. Clean, or Scrubbing Bubbles, and
begins to attack the place in earnest in one corner and is
working their way throughout. It is very easy to see then, the
comparison between that which has been cleaned and that which
has been neglected.
The part that has been cleaned is beginning to evoke a change in
the residents. While they are still very busy and still very
slovenly on one hand and in a certain part of their house, they
are becoming more and more aware of how appealing it is in the
clean area. Indeed, they find themselves standing up taller as
they pass through that clean part. They have cause now to
glimpse the view from the clean windows and promise themselves
the moment to stand and enjoy their view as soon as their
busy-ness subsides.
And so it is that we are observing you in this house, going back
and forth from the old way, through the new way, on your way to
light and life. We can very clearly see how the light, how the
clean, how the scrubbing bubbles are affecting you and
understand completely how you got so dirty in the first place.
It's not judgment that gives us the vantage point of our
observation, but the actuality of perception itself.
Thus when we bring these things to your attention, it's not to
remind you of how lowly you are, no! It's to remind you of your
origins and to help you see that you are more and more dwelling
in the clean part of the house, and the patterns that you were
trained and accustomed to living under and with were conditions
over which you had little control. Now you can see. Now the sun
is pouring in the window, and the power of the Father is coming
through everyelectrical outlet. The mother herself is whistling
while she works in your domain, in her domain. From this
non-judgmental assessment of the human condition, we have been
able to understand you and have come to love you each personally
because of the conscientious application of attempting to
understand why you do the things you do, how you do them, to
what end, for what result, to fulfill what need, to overcome
what handicap, to feed what hunger. We want to be of service. If
we don't know who you are and what your needs are, based on
conscientious reflection through divinity, how can we
effectively serve? How can we take this kingdom by spiritual
assault? We can only let the agents of God in other ... assume
the responsibility for workmanship, while we pass through life
allowing life to pass us by and all opportunity to effectively
serve through passive acquiescence to that which we have not
embraced as our assignment in the gospel, in the doing of the
Father's will, in the sonship connection, in the true character
representation of the personality of God as it is directed
through your will to serve in your arena.
Yes, indeed, you are a study!
THOROAH: Thank you for taking the time.
TOMAS: It was given to me to use. I'll see you around campus.
Good afternoon.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- EXERCISE OF ASSUMPTION AUGUST 6, 2001
WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I must commend you on your interaction
this evening. You had the courage to move beyond your level of
comfort to bring your differences out into the open. Yes, it did
create discomfort, but also solutions in how to deal with
difficulties concerning your fellows. Well done. This is
spiritual reality. This is where God resides. This is where
lifelong bonds are made. God is not really out in the churches
of rampant emotionalism, no. He is in the details of living. He
is the guide to all healing.
I have discussed this before, but I will touch upon it a bit
anyway. One of the common difficulties in marriage is the
exercise of assumption. Partners never really allow total
communication and understanding because there is always
assumption occurring. You may mistakenly assume your
friend/partner is thinking much worse thoughts about you than is
really true. Especially those with little or no self-esteem will
assume everyone has the worst intentions for them as if they are
not really worthy of love, respect, time and kindness.
During the course of an individuals lifetime events will happen
that shape the personality and also the ego. Some build a
tremendous ego to cover insecurity. Some feel totally unworthy
of any good thing. So when events are occurring in the present
time, these past negative memories come into play, and most
likely individuals will try to defend themselves as if it will
heal the past. Some will build walls of defense as if it will
deter all pain and their hearts become hard.
With every individual you interact with it is more likely than
not they are also attempting to heal past pain. So you see,
difficulties become a part of something much bigger.
Circumstances that you would not find particularly painful may
be very much so to others, and this is where you can be an
understanding helpmate. You can calmly ask questions that may
find the real reason for the problem to be overblown.
Remember the Master in His patience and kindness to His troubled
fellows. He sought to be a teammate, who brainstormed to help
bring out issues and begin problem solving. He did not seek a
place above His troubled fellows as if He knew all, no. He
sought to stand side-by-side as a loving brother who found it
His utmost honor to assist His fellows. Remember this in your
difficulties that some circumstances are really much larger than
they appear and offer your ear, your time. Father seeks to
create healing and situations may arise to create opportunity
for healing.
You are correct when you speak of commitment and staying
together and working through your difficulties. I understand
there will be hurt feelings and emotional distress, but if you
can remain calm and focus on uncovering the real heart of a
problem, you can begin to work towards healing. Try not to
assume that you know what is in anybody's heart and mind. You do
not. This why communication is so important.
Discussing and really listening, and not worrying about another
underlying agenda, will get to the heart of matters. Do not be
so self-protective that you not only close out the threat of
rejection, but also the life-giving love. The ego seeks to be
seen, heard and always right, but the soul seeks acceptance in
its uniqueness. You can communicate with others where you show
kindness and respect for them as a person/child of God, yes. You
can want for no less for yourself.
You will always view things differently and just make effort to
expect that. Do not make your difficulties out to be matters of
right or wrong, but opportunities to bring issues into the light
for healing. Do not assume you know what others are thinking
because that is how you think. Allow time for communication and
real understanding. The ego seeks immediate gratification and
atonement for any disloyal action. Be watchful that ego does not
interfere with your opportunity for real communication, real
understanding beyond any emotionalism. The light of
understanding is the feeling that Father does know me and is
involved in my life and is guiding me to a new and better way.
This week find that freedom from assuming others thoughts and
intention. Look at this week as a week of discovery. Still
practice going beyond your comfort level towards creating a
healing situation. Do something that you would usually not dare
to do, of course that must be within reason and legal. No
questions this evening. I am due elsewhere, but know that I am
at your side as your group partner and I feel most grateful for
all that you have taught me. My love goes with you. Until next
week, shalom.
From: Larry Whelan <larrywhelan@earthlink.net> 7/23/01
Arcadia Teaching Mission Group Arcadia, California
Teachers:JarEl, Graydorf, Benson, Galatia, Lucio
Monday, July 23, 2001, 7:30pm
JarEl: TR, George. Good evening, it is I, your teacher JarEl. It
is good to be here with you tonight. Welcome all of those who
come here. Tonight I would like to speak to you about the
energies that the Father brings to you. The circuits are greatly
improving, more and more are being opened, and more information
is coming through. The Father does this so that His children may
have the opportunity to truly understand. So that they may come
out of the world of confusion and into the world of light and
life. It is my hope to not open too many circuits at one time.
For if you were to throw the switch and open all the circuits, a
huge spiritual energy would come to the planet, however it would
not be well received. For many are not prepared for this energy.
Therefore as the world increases spiritually, gradually, so do
the circuits increase gradually. At this moment there are
adequate circuits for the people of Urantia. There is adequate
information coming through. The more the need - the more the
circuits. The FatherÕs Love is great. He loves you so much,
beyond any words that I can speak to you tonight. In these
circuits that He opens up for you, He wishes to express His love
for you. These circuits are pretty much lines of communication,
a way for him to communicate to you. You all know very well how
it is futile to speak to someone who is not listening. However
the Father still continues to speak to you, even though at times
you may not care to listen. He is still there speaking to you.
It is your job to listen. It is your job to pay attention. It is
your responsibility to comprehend the message coming through. Do
not pretend to listen and do otherwise. If you truly desire to
listen to GodÉ pay attention. Silence yourself so He may speak
to you. You must learn how to do this well if you are to use
these newly-opened circuits. For the circuits that are yet to be
opened are far subtler in many ways. It takes practice to access
them. Of course there are circuits that are more readily
available to those who wish to use them. Tonight I would also
like to give the opportunity for any of you to transmit your
teachers or to say whatever comes to your mind. The floor is
open.
Donna: JarEl this is Donna speaking. I just want to say that
today I was thinking about listening so that is kind of
interesting that you were speaking about listening as a topic.
Because I was just thinking about listening and how important it
is for communication and I was also thinking about the fact that
so many people on this planet ( and I come across this a lot in
my profession) really don’t know how to listen. So I think this
is a very apropos topic for you to address. Listening is the
other half of communication. The half that some people might
think of as more passive, rather than speaking and yet it is
just as important as speaking. To be able to be a good listener
is a very valuable exercise when you are talking to a friend, a
companion or a family member. If a person can really feel
listened to, that is wonderful therapy. That is all I wish to
add.
JarEl: Thank you Donna.
Donna: You are welcome.
Lucille: JarEl this is Lucille. How can we increase this
spiritual energy and receive it. What are some of the ways other
than just the quiet time? Could you give some suggestions about
receiving more spiritual energy?
JarEl: Certainly. The energy that you wish to access is all
around you. It is not a matter of receiving more but a matter of
being able to access more. It is within you that you receive
this energy. This energy is there regardless. Energy that
surrounds you is subtle in many ways. You must learn to live
with it. You must learn to breathe it. You must learn to live
it. You must learn to see it. Notice that in every sentence I
use ‘you.’ It is within you that the energy around you is
accessible. It is very relative for within, you have the key to
access this energy. Receiving more energy perhaps from your
point of view may not be possible, however accessing more energy
is possible. To do this Lucille, continue with your quiet time,
continue with your meditations. But also learn to forgive
yourself. Learn to love yourself. Learn to love others. Learn to
give love and to receive love. Love is the most powerful energy
in the Universe, Lucille.
Lucille: Thank you JarEl.
JarEl: You’re welcome.
Lucio: TR, George. Good evening, it is your brother, Lucio. It
is good to be here tonight. I want to thank George for allowing
me to speak, for building enough courage for me to come through.
I want to express to you words of love, words of kindness. I
want to express to you my brotherly affection towards you. I
want to express many things. The unfortunate thing is that the
way I express things is super-natural or morontial or spiritual.
The way I express things, where I am from, the other person
feels it immediately. The other person senses it. And the other
person is able to express that same sensation back towards me,
giving us both a mutual understanding of our affection. However
the fortunate thing with expressing my love towards you is that
I could express it to you, however, very limited. Only through
words and perhaps slightly through spirit if you are receptive
of my love. It is so mush simpler up here. For we are made aware
of the other person’s intentions immediately. A majority of the
time those intentions are very good towards us. It is very
unfortunate down here where you reside that you very frequently
misinterpret each other’s intentions. You always imagine the
other person has bad intentions towards you. In fact many times
they are good. This imagination sometimes leads to disastrous
consequences. If only you were capable of knowing each other’s
intentions immediately through the spirit. That is why it is
essential that you communicate with one another, that you
listen, as JarEl said and as Donna repeated. For it is very
important that this process of communication which you, which
Urantia holds, continues. For it is essential to the survival of
your planet. Learning how to communicate with one another will
in fact save your planet. Learn how to understand one another.
But most important, learn how to understand yourselves. For in
doing so you are better equipped at managing your own
intentions. Perhaps the other person will read your intentions a
lot better and will understand that you have good intention for
that person, therefore alleviating any misinterpretation that
might ensue. Continue with your quiet time, but also continue
with your communications. Those are both important to you. They
shall both give you many fruits to come. Thank you.
Lucille: Can you tell us where you are from and more about
yourself?
Lucio: I have been trying to convey this information to this TR,
however due to the inexperience, I am currently unable to convey
this information to you. Perhaps some other time Lucille.
Lucille: Thank you.
Lucio: It is really felt that as within the TR that sometime
doesn’t allow this information come through. TRing is very
subtle in many ways. The information may be there, however,
because of the doubt within that TR, it is sometimes nullified
or void and it is made useless by the TR. Therefore it is
discarded by him or her. So perhaps many times the information
may come through and it may not. The more experience the TR has
the more he allows himself to trust the information. I hope this
clarifies it a little bit more.
Galatia: TR, Nel. Dear children, I would also like to come to
this doubting TR. I am her personal teacher Galatia. She is
doubting right now. I wish to convey a message of sweet love and
joy. I belong to the archangel corps who is present on this
planet. We are a very joyful bunch as you would call us.
Although we are serious when you take it that way, but we are
joyful in the Father’s Love and we would like to share that with
you mortals. We have observed so many generations of people. We
have suffered with them, cried with them but also rejoiced with
them. This is a beautiful place. We so long to open you up to be
more carefree. To really experience the beauty of this planet,
it’s all around you. I know many of you are getting more
sensitive to really taking in all the details of the life that
is throbbing around you; in the plants, in the gardens, in the
birds, in the little critters that live in the grass. You can
easily just not notice it, but it needs to be noticed more by
all people, because in there you will find the peacefulness and
the love of the Father. We care very greatly for all of you, so
open your hearts to us, reach out that we may connect with you
evermore and share our joy with you; lift you up and empower
you. Do not be afraid to be joyful, it is allright. Let your
burdens be lifted, know that love is flowing to you. All is
well. We love you dear ones. Just carry on. We will be here
watching over you. And many other orders of angels also are
working very hard with the teachers and with all of MichaelÕs
helpers. His great plan will succeed. Have faith in that. Reach
out to your fellows, help them, love them. Overlook their
actions that might irritate you. Just pour love on it and raise
them. I will now give a chance for somebody else to speak
Graydolf: TR, Chris. Greetings, this is Graydolf. I would like
speak more about the subtlety of TRÕing. How much faith it takes
to trust what comes through is really coming from the teacher
and not the vivid imagination of the TR. This TR has received
beautiful messages from Michael and feels that there is much he
can share. And he looks at other messages from Michael and
compares them and tries to figure out - is it genuine? But in
his heart he knows it is genuine. I was just thinking about
Virginia, how she must want to reach her teacher and share with
the group and how fearful she must be. I greatly understand all
of this fear. I would just like to make a suggestion. It is
really helpful to write things down, if from your quite time you
experience a great thought that is worth sharing, write it down.
If you have a computer, meditate, do your quiet time and try to
write things down. If you can’t really share live with the group
then bring some of your thoughts from the week and then share
them with us. I also wonder about my teacher. I don’t know how
to give out this information either. I know so little about
Graydolf. So I would just like to suggest that we practice and
put it in writing if we can’t put it into words. That is all.
Benson: TR, Steve. Greetings, this is Benson. A word about
circuitry. Many of you simply yet do not realize the amount of
power which has been coupled to your internal thought processes
which act in a sort of way as the transducer of the spiritual
thoughts of the teachers which you communicate through your
TRÕing efforts. And yes, gradually more circuits are being
strengthened` increased in power and opening up on practically a
daily basis. The remedy for those of you who wish to get into
tighter contact with the teachers is to intensify your forays
into the silence. You will begin to find that the messages
suddenly seem to come through when you are deep enough into this
state of mind and heart. You see, while some practice is
required, in joning oneÕs skills as a TR, in reality, we do a
lot of the work for you as your abilities increase. This is all
part of MichaelÕs master plan for the evolution of your
spiritual natures. One thing that deserves a cautionary note of
reference is a rather disturbing fact that certain deep
operatives within your own government (those individuals that
would not welcome the ability of people to expand the spiritual
receptional ability of their minds) would like to prevent ÉYour
government is experimenting, in a very limited way, with efforts
to impede the spiritual truth-seeking of mortals. This is being
accomplished through secondary projects involved with such major
secret military operations as HAARP, high altitude auroaral
research and protocol. However, their understanding of the truth
of spiritual matters, obviously, is very limited. For they are
attempting to impede the receptive spiritual circuits via the
use of material signals such as high-intensity low frequency
radio emissions coupled with extremely high frequency keyed
microwave carriers. This can cause adverse reactions in a
physical sense in individuals such as a ringing in the ears.
Which individuals have reported hearing in a very quiet
environment, especially in the evening hours, with a modulating
effect present, it is causing health problems; headaches and
tension. Be reminded, however, that your abilities to tune into
the spiritual communicationÕs realm far supercede any of their
abilities to interfere with such efforts. They do not understand
that we transmit information and minister to you via this
Teaching Mission through wholly spiritual channels. These
adversaries I speak of have not and never will learn how to
construct signals which can penetrate the spiritual realm. So
once again your best defense against any physically perceived
discomforts or interference is simply to tune them out through
meditation and tune into the silence. The silence is truly the
realm where you are protected, shielded and sheltered from such
interference and you continue to prevail in your development of
spiritual communications ability and continue to strengthen
those abilities, despite any efforts by others to impede them.
That is all.
JarEl: TR, George. It is JarEl again. As you practice your
meditations, as you practice your communications, the key is to
be unafraid, the key is to trust. Once you have this key,
thousands of doors will open to you. Information unimaginable to
you. But the most important of all is by opening these doors you
shall have access to the love of the Universe. And with this
love you will arm yourself so that you may love others, so that
you may share this with others. Continue with your meditations,
continue practicing. Continue meeting here every other Monday. I
look forward to it. As do many of my colleagues. I want to thank
you all for coming here tonight. If there is nothing further to
be said, I will bid you good night.
Southeast Idaho TeaM, Pocatello 8-3-01 Teachers: Klairxiska,
Abraham
Klarixiska (Virginia): This is Klarixiska. I just told my
tutoree to get out of the comfort zone so that I may be able to
greet each of you and open the session with prayer.
Father, Who has become so much greater to this small band of
children, including those of us who cannot be seen by these
seven sitting here, we are so grateful that Your love is an
umbrella for all creatures that You have created. We are so
grateful that Your love covers every religion, every race, every
endeavor to know You. We thank You that You look at the heart
and the motive and know that which Your children seek. We thank
You that You answer the prayers of the sincere, and truly more
truth, more faith becomes part of each that desires. We thank
You for our universe. We thank You for Michael. We thank You for
Nebadonia. We thank You that we have the source of strength and
help that You give to us. Continue to guide these, Your
children, and help them to get out of that comfort zone and be
willing to speak Your truth in love. So be it.
Abraham (Bill): Greetings. I am Abraham. I am here to bring you
part II of my pep talk.
Ken: Greetings, Abraham.
Abraham: Thank you Ken. Indeed, are you an intimate group this
evening, and it is a pleasure to once again be in your presence.
Your forthcoming birthday celebration is always a great pleasure
to us teachers and we will be here with bells on. We all but
worship Michael, our universe Sovereign, and especially do I, as
a mortal of this planet, cherish his knowledge and experience,
having lived on our soil.
You have been discussing getting out of the comfort zone.
Actually, my friends, it is not as though you have not been
doing this that these words were brought forth. If you had
remained in your comfort zone you would be no where near this
gathering tonight. All of you have been brave. All of you have
been willing to accept change and follow through on your heart's
leading. What I have been trying to convey to your sister group
in Woods Cross and to you is that you have now reached a
maturity benchmark. Phase II is because you have completed phase
I. You have graduated from that first level.
Your maturity now is evidenced by the fact that you are
comfortable with the truth that you know. You are willing to
say, "This is how I understand" this or that and it is not a
great concern to you whether or not your hearer accepts your
point of view. You are beginning to realize that your job is
merely to plant seeds, not to work on the cultivation or to
produce the nourishment that will result in harvest. That is the
work of other spiritual agencies, primarily the Divine Monitor
within each person. The Thought Adjuster is able to take the
words from your mouth and break through resistance that people
have in their minds: mental blocks, emotional barriers, fear,
guilt, shame, and doubt, in order to reach the level of comfort
that can allow a person to listen with more than the ears of the
ego. . You have no responsibility for the results of the seed
planting. It is not your job. It is true, however, that you do
have responsibility for how you plant the seed, in what manner
you offer your truth. There you are growing in discernment as
you mature. Here, at this juncture, is where your need for
guidance is critical. For your Indwelling Monitor is an expert
at adjusting thinking and therefor can help you to best say
things in a manner which will make it more likely for the seed
to reach good soil rather than fall on barren soil or be choked
amongst the weeds.
I don't need to dwell on the fact that there are many people
whose minds are closed to truth. We are not asking you to take a
battering ram to the doorways of their souls. We are not in the
business of coercing or forcing anything. We are merely
messengers of good news, the good news that there is a banquet
set in the presence of every mortal in their own heart, that
exquisite meeting place between God within and their soul.
I am persuaded that all of you here have made that nuptial
agreement, that you have decided that this mission is not a past
time, an occupation for your leftover seasons, but, rather you
have committed yourselves to doing the will of God as you best
understand it in all the parts of your life. I am confident that
my words last week were listened to, understood, and followed,
not only by those who were present then, as well as tonight, but
also by the larger audience to whom the transcripts are given.
Be joyful, my friends. This is the time that has been waited for
by the centuries. This is the spiritual Springtime that precedes
the beginning of Light and Life. Of course, it is soon, but not
tomorrow. It is growing person by person, group by group
throughout the world. People are, by whatever means of belief
systems they possess or whatever religion they may practice,
people are awakening to actual God consciousness. The circuitry
has made a difference, of course, for now Urantia is
encircuited. This effect is clear.
Some have wondered why there appears to be an upsurge of evil in
the world. It is my belief that this is partly an illusion and
partly it is the last throes of doubt, shame, guilt, fear and
sin before the shield is thrown to the ground and the sword is
relinquished. It is the last ditch stand of the darkness that
still inhabits many people's minds as they are about to realize
the futility of their defenses against the light of God. It is
not evidence of regression forever or of the defeat of our
mission. No, it is a last resistance before the open armed
acceptance.
Last week I did not allow for any questions in order that you
might feel the full force of my intention. Tonight I am willing
to engage with you. At this time I will conclude my remarks and
ask for your input. Are there questions or comments?
Ham on Starting Over Nashville, Tenn. - Mon, 1 Oct 2001
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am glad that you have
come this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss starting over. Life
is filled with those tragedies, impediments, and disappointments
which require stepping back, a period of reassessment and
regrouping, and then the gradual resolution to begin again.
Sometimes, you can have the overwhelming desire to give up, to
lay down and quit, to even stop living. And, my advice when you
come to this point is to simply wait and rest.
It is not necessary to be constantly active. Often times, the
mind is exhausted, and requires a period of rest which may
eventually incorporate reflection, but this is a necessary
process which will eventually enable you to face the harsh
realities of starting over. And, really, you do not start at the
same place you were. You are wiser, you are more softened and at
the same time steeled by your pain. You may have been through
that valley of the shadow of death very much alone, very
frightened, and yet, look ahead and there is sun upon the
horizon. A new life is waiting. It takes only the will to reach
out to grasp it.
Do not force this upon yourselves, but rather allow yourselves
to become ready. Life requires nothing but to live. Human beings
pile requirements upon each other and upon themselves, but there
are times when it is enough to live through the day. Courage
comes in many ways. Sometimes the most courageous among you
shows more courage in simply living through one day than going
through battle and the many things which you may thing of as
real courage. Know that the Father is with you through all these
things. The Father knows all of your feelings, all of your
guilt, your suffering, all of the regrets. He knows all these
things and will carry them for you as you live through your
days.
Many times, we have spoken of life being difficult and even
seemingly cruel. But look again, and see how the injustice and
the seeming cruelty in the world resolves eventually into
goodness. The Father does not allow evil to stand. With the help
of his children, the Father works to resolve all evil and
seeming evil into goodness.
You my children have each lived through many difficult, sad, and
almost unbearable times. You have felt the depths of human
sorrow and yes have indulged in those feelings of being sorry
for yourselves, and this is ok. As you grow in the spirit, you
understand that the most devastating loss, the most severe
setbacks in life, are not really the disasters they seem at the
time.
You know that human beings are give life eternal, that their
departure from this world is not a loss but rather a new
beginning. You never really lose each other. Some of you are
required to move forward sooner than others and those of you who
are left behind naturally feel a horrible hole in your lives.
But the fact is, that all people who pass away are reawakened on
a new and better shore. It is incumbent upon the living, those
who are left behind, to live out your lives in accordance with
the FatherÕs will and to find a renewed purpose in life in
accordance with his will.
Whenever you lose someone close to you, there is a period where
your relationship with that person begins to change. When
parents pass away, the children often begin to resolve issues
and problems that were present in that relationship. Some of you
have lived through or are living through a period where the
parent is very ill but not yet deceased and that leaves an
emotional limbo for the child. There is no way to move forward
in the way that occurs after the parent dies. The years ahead
will see many medical advances so that your children will not
suffer the lingering chronic illness that has become so common
place at this stage of your medicine.
There is much transition now in your world. You are living
through difficult and yet exciting historic times. Times of
transition are very often those times of starting over. Time
when your adjustment is so great that it requires a complete
rethinking or new understanding of your situation and perhaps a
renewed commitment to living the righteous life that the Father
desires. You have, within your hearts, a direct connection to
the MasterÕs spirit, also known as the comforter, but human
beings have trouble with their overwhelming emotions and it is
hard to quiet the mind and the soul to receive this comfort.
This is understood. But you must all know that when you are
ready, when you can open your hearts to this comfort like a
little child opens its arms to a parent, that that comfort will
flood into your soul and renew your confidence, renew your
spirit. Sometimes, life becomes so difficult that your
confidence is shaken, your belief in yourselves is undermined or
maybe this was there already planted from childhood.
But, my children, if you cannot have confidence in yourselves
have confidence in he who made you. Have confidence that his
work is not done in vain. If you cannot feel value in
yourselves, trust that the Father places his highest value upon
you and he sees you as many faceted jewels, the most precious
things upon this earth. If you cannot see this with your own
eyes, trade those eyes for his.
It is said that love bears all things and endures all things.
When things are so difficult that you cannot bear them, let the
love of the Father bear them for you. You do not live your lives
as autonomous little minds in fragile little bodies. You are
connected to all the power in the universe. Never are you alone.
Learn to receive his comfort. Learn to start over how ever many
times it is required. Learn to be patient with yourselves and to
allow yourselves rest and healing and comfort. Learn to be a
help to each other, to let the FatherÕs love flow from your
heart to another and to give comfort and healing in your love.
The apostles were not super men. They were simply men who
learned to love. This is required again of you in this life.
Acquire that habit of love and then bear all things and endure
all things with this love.
Are there any questions at this time.
Q: I have a question, which is a big question indeed. I find
very hard to believe that my son who is 25 years old died three
months ago and I find it very hard to believe that there is a
God. As I am searching for this God I would like some kind of
message to help me feel that he has not disappeared altogether
which is what I feel has happened.
Ham: Yes, my dear, I understand this confusion and this
overwhelming grief and anger toward God. People cannot help but
feel abandoned by God when something so devastating occurs and
it seems that the evil and injustice in the world has
overwhelmed all the goodness and the light. But such is not the
case. Your son is concerned for you. He wants to comfort you and
to help you to understand what he now understands, that eternal
life is a fact. He is on mansonia one, he is awakened, and is
doing very well. He will receive all the experiences that would
have helped him in this life. It is not as though he is deprived
of a full and rich life for this will be what he receives now.
The Father does not desire for any of his children to be
deprived of anything. So, each of you, when you leave this life,
you will be given opportunities to do those things which you
most greatly desired. The life after death experience, in its
early stages, is very much a filling in the blanks that you, for
whatever reason, could not experience in this life. But your son
is concerned for you and certain others, especially. He feels
like he wasnÕt able to do his duty toward you and others, that
his early departure deprived him of many things he wanted to do
for people on this world. But, that does not mean that he will
be deprived of that opportunity at a later time. He feels guilty
for leaving, but of course, this was not his decision. So, you
must not feel guilty or deprived either for you will both be
reunited in the future. Life goes by very quickly. Understand
that you will join him soon and others who you have lost and
will lose in the future. Death is but a temporary separation. It
is not permanent. So, feel all those feelings that you must feel
to get through this. Allow yourself the understanding that the
truth is much greater than it seems to be, that reality is much
greater than it seems to be. The Father cares for each of his
children in whatever stage of life or after life they might be.
You son has not disappeared except for your sight. But he
remains in the FatherÕs sight. He will experience a full, rich
and good life, even including raising children. You have much to
look forward to when you join him again and your rejoicing will
fill the universe. Know that this is so, even if you cannot
understand it right now. You will. Is this helping?
Q: If I may ask, I still am nowhere near understanding why this
has happened and I am looking for ways to understand, for a
place to start to believe that my son is in a better place or
why he had to go so soon.
Ham: Another excellent question. The state of life and afterlife
seems so incredibly important. Life is so precious that until
you have made the transition yourselves it seems unjust and
unfair when lives are taken young. And so, you are tempted to
look for deep philosophical answers to the question why. But,
actually, what determines whether a soul is present in the
material world or present in the next world is simply the
condition of the material body, nothing more nor less. When the
condition of the material body is such that the soul cannot
remain, then the soul leaves and that soul is that person,
complete personality, memory, thought processes, everything.
These material bodies are not meant to be eternal vehicles, they
are temporary, they are subject to accidents, they are subject
to disease. But, they are the first home of your soul and since
you have had no other home, and do not see with the material
eyes the physical reality of the soul, you are tempted to
believe that this is all there is. But just as the Father
provided material bodies in a material world, he provides bodies
of a finer type in a finer world. The soul is not a nebulous
thing which just goes back into some kind of huge God-soul. The
soul remains autonomous, the personality remains, the memory
remains. All this reawakens on this new shore and is
reincircuited with mind so that everything is very much as it
was before death. Neither are you suddenly all knowing or
brilliant or a god yourselves. You are just you in a different
place. You take up your new life where the old life left off.
You must be at peace concerning these things. Try to know them
in your mind now and know them in your heart after a time. The
Master, Jesus himself, came to tell you these things, to
reassure his children so that you would know that life is
eternal, not a fluke, not a cruel joke that is lived for a short
time then extinguished. But your life, your individuality, is
meant for greater things and your sonÕs life and his
individuality is meant for greater things. You both have an
eternal destiny. The short earthly life is just the springboard,
just the beginning. Is this helping your understanding.
Q: I will try very much to remember what you said and take it
one step further.
Ham: Yes, certainly.
Arcadia, California Teaching Meeting 9/20/01
From: Larry Whelan <larrywhelan@earthlink.net> Arcadia Teaching
Mission Group Teachers: JarEl, Michael, Machiventa, Coreli,
Lucio, Benson, others
JarEl: TR, George. Good evening, it is I, your teacher, JarEl.
Welcome George Barnard and Sandy. Welcome to all of those that
come to this meeting regularly. It is a most special occasion
when you all come here together to listen to a fellow brother
who is so involved in the emergencies of your world. There are
many of us here watching you and learning from you as well. We
are pleased in your enthusiasm and your commitments. As George
visits with you more often you become more intimate with his
adventures, stories and ideas. In such a way must all of you
treat one another in sharing ideas with each other and becoming
more intimate with one another. This is the only way that you
will learn from one another and achieve a greater understanding
and comprehension of where all of you are coming from. I invite
others to speak at this moment.
Michael: TR, Nel. Good evening children. Your mother and I would
like to greet you on this special occasion; bringing together
more of our children across the globe. It is with great joy that
we see you together, interacting, learning from each other in
the love that flows here. This gives us great satisfaction and
it should give you great satisfaction, especially in these
turbulent times. Your fellowship is very important; to
strengthen you, to give you joy, to go out into your own
environment to bring the calmness and the love to your fellows.
Our love for you always flows, always is with you. Allow us to
embrace you and strengthen youÉÉÉÉ. (It is so overwhelming, the
love that she feels, whoÕs speaking right now.) Feel this love
also, take it in, we are touching all of you, blessing you and
embracing you, just trust. The world is moving in the right
direction. A lot of good is happening, know that and believe it
and bring your loving energy out there to contribute to the
healing that is going on. Many of your fellows are in great
need. The activity of the spirit world is at its highest peak
right now and will increase. The healing will come. Stay active
with us, your Mother and I Michael. We love you so dearly. We
are proud of you and rejoice in your reaching and your desire to
grow and learn and love. You are all doing well. I will leave
you now, although I never leave you.
Benson: TR, Steve. Greetings, it is I, Steven’s teacher, Benson.
I have been temporarily absent for about four weeks of your
time. I was gone and serving in the capacity of assisting many
of the emergency contingent of celestial personalities who
arrived to assist following the disaster in New York City on
September the 11th. Be assured that legions of angels and other
celestial personalities have flooded to Urantia. All of them
virtually are serving in this emergency as volunteers. From this
tragedy every attempt is being make to allow good to emerge in
the wake of the disaster. As in the Lucifer rebellion, many
precepts of the good which has come out of that evil have been
noted in the registers of Nebadon. As it will with the event
that so tragically occurred on September 11th on Urantia, this
world disaster will eventually create more effects of good and
positive feelings in the long run, which will outweigh the sum
of destruction which has occurred. Be assured that every
available power of cosmic protection is now at your disposal.
You, as ambassadors of the gospel of the kingdom, know your
calling. You are the strong ones. You will serve to comfort
those who are distraught and those who have lost loved ones and
those who are so perplexed and lack in understanding that such
evil can still occur on Urantia. In your daily lives, in your
speaking and dealing with your fellows, constantly keep in mind
that you are armed with truth that some of these individuals
have not discovered. Make sure that every effort that you
undertake such as comforting and reconciling the disheartened,
will be asked to be done in accordance with the FatherÕs Will.
Michael is in direct supervision of the entire cosmological
forces, which are assembled here. This is the time when many
will be turning to Jesus for comfort, perhaps for the first
times in their lives. It is imperative that every effort is made
to assist these individuals in aborting some of the error, which
is prevalent in some of your so-called religious philosophies,
writings and manuscripts. Point out the best in these sources,
quote the wisdom from The Urantia Book that can put some of
these incomplete pieces of information into perspective to make
them whole. And pray, continue to pray, don’t be timid about
praying with others. Don’t be afraid to speak Jesus’ name and to
spread his message. His message will find tremendous
receptability in the light of current world affairs. What the
world needs now is Jesus. What the world needs now is to know
the truth about the love and the mercy of the Father. It can be
delivered gently and decisively. All that you need is to be
armed with faith and continuous contact with your indwelling
father fragment. Be strong and be brave and above all love one
another. The human beings of the world need each other more then
they ever have. Peace be with you. May the Father bless you and
guide you. This is our prayer from on high as well, we
celestials, we teachers are doing a lot of praying these days.
God be with you, farewell.
Lucio: TR, George. This is Lucio, George’s personal teacher. I
just want to introduce and welcome George Barnard and Sandy. We
greatly admire your work and support you in every way. We are
very glad that you have come to this group to share your ideas
and thoughts with them, so that we may influence them to do
great works as well. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
George Barnard: Thank you.
Corelli, Ham, Meister Eckart and countless celestial beings: TR,
Stella: This is Corelli, and Ham and Meister Eckhart and
countless celestial beings watching your loving gathering. We
all wish to say how we deeply regret what happened in New York
City. We tried our hardest to defuse this terrible tragedy. We
were not wholly successful but we are counseling those who have
arrived prematurely on the other side. Although they are deeply
grieved upon leaving their loved ones, they find that shelter in
heaven is indeed a glorious place. They wish to tell those that
have survived, who are their friends and relatives, that they
are safe and not to worry about them. Their concern is what will
your nation do to help those who have survived this trauma.
There are evil forces in the world that are trying to destroy
the cradle of democracy. They will not succeed. But in the
ensuing years there will be much trauma and soul-searching on
the part of those who have precipitated many of these events.
There are some who now regret what has happened, that they were
caught in this major evil, that they did not have the balance
and integrity to defy those who ordered them to commit these
heinous acts. Those hijackers, who are on this side, see the
error of their ways. Some still cannot understand that they were
lied to by their religious leaders and some deeply regret what
has happened and will try to reach those who are still
coordinating these dreadful events. These events will pass. But
until such time, we beg of you to pray and to continue sending
out love. This love is sorely needed, even to those that hate
because they were raised without the love that many of you know.
We know that from your group there is much love emanating and it
will have a sustaining effect on the world and on those you
meet. Even you are not aware of your power. Love will
transfigure hate. You are on the edge of a new age despite the
chaos you see about you. It will pass, but until such time know
that you are greatly loved and sustained by Christ Michael and
Nebadonia as well as all those on the other side who are
watching you and guarding you as well as they can. So as Christ
Michael says, Be of good cheer, we love you and continue your
great work. Good-bye.
JarEl: TR, George. This is JarEl. These are sure all reassuring
messages Corelli. I want to also reassure all of you that what
you do here is of great importance, not just for your wellbeing
but for a great majority of your soul growth. You indeed add to
one another in great amounts and you continue to do so when you
comfort others. It is indeed a spiritual credit added to your
life. At this time of world crises you are very useful to us.
Your words and comfort may perhaps bring joy to those that long
for it, may perhaps bring hope to those who have lost it. Your
love may perhaps bring relief to those who feel that the world
is full of hate and anger. For you will prove to them otherwise.
You will prove to them that there is indeed love still left to
give to those who need it. Indeed the Universe is full of love.
You are merely vessels that carry this love towards others. You
are more than that. You are God’s Children and God’s Ambassadors
that represent His love. You do so, so gracefully that you have
become shining beacons that attract those who are in darkness at
this moment. Many are cowering in the darkness because they feel
frightened; afraid of the evil things that men do. As
Ambassadors, you represent the better aspects of humanity. You
represent the potential of light and life. In your mind, in this
room you are living light and life. Take this with you. Take it
wherever you go and share it and give it freely to those who
desperately need it at this moment. Be unafraid of the world, do
not concern yourself with the overwhelming evil. Be only
concerned with the overwhelming love that you carry with you.
This love will conquer evil. This love is meant to conquer evil.
So in this way you should not concern yourself with evil because
you already immune to it. If you concern yourself with the love
of God and you let it melt you there is a protection of love
around you. Yes, perhaps the will of some may effect you, but
you know that to be false. For eventually all that is good
returns to God and if you are good you are already in God’s
Hands. Be of good cheer and many have proven to me that you are
children of God. It is only necessary to explain to others that
they are also children of God. This will bring peace. This will
bring the great understanding that you are all brothers and
sisters and that there is no more fighting or differences, that
you are all one in God’s Eyes. I will leave the floor open for
one more person to speak.
Machiventa Melchizedek: TR, Sandy. I am Machiventa. We see the
past events much the same as you do in this room. Let me assure
you that the ones that have passed over have been taken away
very abruptly and without just cause. On the other hand please
know that they have been lifted with such gentleness and treated
with such care from the very moment of death. We only wish to
say that mortals shouldn’t let this happen without learning a
lesson from it. Know that once they have entered the gates their
pain is no more. Pain will continue upon Urantia until the time
each person loves their brother and sister unconditionally. I do
not mean to sound harsh, however, I would ask each of you to
know empathy in your hearts for all of the people around the
world who are suffering. The higher spiritually you become, the
more humble you will need to be. You do not need to travel the
world, you do not need to do great things, however, the word is
empathy. When you see your fellowman suffering, reach out your
hand to help and bring no judgement to this other person and in
this way you can be as Michael was. Michael was the example of
the Father and he seen much hardship and heartache and horrific
acts of one man against another on Urantia. But our Michael has
never shown anything except love. Think about walking in the
shoes of some of our fellow Urantians. You may understand just a
little more about how it feels to be hungry, how it feels to be
homeless and the list goes on and on. If each day we reach our
hand out to just one stranger it will be a act of truth and
honesty, no matter how it is received by the other person. I
have come here today to tell this group of people that they
certainly carry the word of Michael. They practice the love and
the fellowship in their lives. I have also come here because I
know that this is a group of dedicated individuals who would
have the dedication to take action. I have handed George another
task and this will be the history of Urantia at this point in
time. I will ask him to meet with you after the meeting to talk
about this and ask for the help needed. We do ask the task of
the platoon: Gerry, Caroline, Sandy and George, at this time to
become the leaders of the physical task, which will make
history. This will be recorded in Paradise as a time of coming
together for Urantia. I must say that we need to help all people
on Urantia at all times and with the spiritual dedication that
each of you have it is time to move forward in the best way that
you know. We are very busy, we have brought the midwayers in
line and we will have more incidents where they are needed. We
must come together as a world, as our planet and this may take
you out of your comfort zones just a bit. I have brought each of
you here together to help each other in your endeavors and to
cling to one another in your work and your love for one another.
Stand tall with strength and I know the dedication will be such
that as a task is given to you, you will be able to recognize
and handle it. I cannot emphasize enough that this is one of the
most loving groups of people who have had the good fortune of
being together. This brings strength and I speak from all of us
here and especially Michael. We send our love and I will say
good-bye.
JarEl: TR, George. Are there any questions?
Gerry: JarEl, with regard to the additional project that George
and the platoon have been given regarding the assembling of
information and the recording and the compiling of information
to record the events of the recent tragedy and document what has
transpired, I would like to have a little clarification if
possible, from you or Machiventa or whoever might want to expand
a little bit as to whether this is to document the events of the
tragedy or more the reaction from around the world?
Machiventa Melchizedek: TR, Sandy. This is Machiventa. I have
asked for this documentation because it is a event of the
Correcting Time. It is a time that needs to be recorded such as
history of Urantia. I would like to have the love versus the
hate, the hurt versus the blessing it may bring. We are in a
duality here and as celestials we would be hard pressed to
understand all the emotional reactions, all the history making,
all the events coming up to this point and expanding as more
events happen. And I do not mean that as more terrorist attacks,
I mean that as the bringing together of all of Urantia. At this
time, it would impact the mortals of Urantia with a new time in
the Correcting Time that is ever so important and I have looked
at this group as an action group and I feel the input of each
personal chapter each person might have will be compiled into a
very historical documentation in the turning point towards
unconditional love. Does this make the point clear?
Gerry: I think as was suggested that we can discuss this after
we are done, I am sure this group can straighten it out.
Machiventa Melchizedek: TR, Sandy. I take my leave.
Stella: Maybe as a start each one of us can give our impression
of these times and then we can put this information in some kind
of a report. I think that we are kind of a representative of
public opinion, each one of us has felt this tragedy in various
degrees. Well that is just a suggestion.
JarEl: TR, George. That is a good suggestion Stella. You all
have much work ahead of you. I take my leave and wish you all
good night.
MEETING WITH ABRAHAM -- RESPONSIBILITY TO YOUR FELLOWS OCTOBER
1, 2001 WOODS CROSS GROUP
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings to you. The understanding we have
received here this evening brings us such peace. In this peace
we can re-center our soul-selves to prepare for another week
ahead. You each add so much to my understanding and keep me ever
striving to give back to you. I am filled with hope and renewed
in patience that this Brotherhood is coming about.
Knowing that you love me as your friend and teacher makes me
feel a connection, a responsibility to you. I feel with great
purpose when I am allowed to minister to you. Knowing that you
judge me not, and accept me as I am, strengthens me to do more.
You give me faith and confidence in my abilities by showing your
unconditional acceptance of me. I thank you.
To keep to oneself perhaps in isolation or fear is such a
sorrowful experience on the mortal path. You give not, therefore
you receive not. To believe you need to only care for yourself
is spiritually stifling and lonely. To feel a responsibility to
your fellows well-being gives one great purpose and required
spiritual experience.
The youth look at life with carefree eyes. They worry not about
raising a family, paying bills, or even where their future may
be headed. They truly are indebted to no one, but they are
solely focused on themselves, not all youth mind you, but some,
and even in this experience there is value. There are many
thoughtful young people who tend to ill parents or younger
siblings, but many youth have not thought for those around them.
This is natural. The story changes however when they become
parents. They are more likely to take care of themselves so they
can give to their children. They live not the risky life they
had before.
Do you see, my friends, how personally ministering to others
brings fruit to your own lives? To feel responsible for the
well-being of the whole is a servant of God. If you are
responsible for more than just yourselves, are you not more
likely to make decisions that benefit the whole and not just
yourself? Many fear personal ministry because they believe that
it is a task too great for them, too much of a burden perhaps.
If you ponder the life of the Master you see that there was no
burden too great for Him to bear. His love for His fellows made
it an honor to minister--not an imposition. Jesus lived the
perfected mortal life. He was with excellent balance mentally,
physically and spiritually. He mastered self-forgetfulness, but
was tended to in every way. He looked at every man as His
brother and every woman as His sister. He made time for
everyone. The material things of life were secondary, but even
in this Father saw to His material well-being. He felt a duty to
uphold His fellows, and in this He was in the midst of Father
Himself.
Every mortal has particular gifts, whether it is the gift of
compassionate speech, healing, or by other means, every mortal
has gifts. They may not be recognized, but most definitely is
every one person good at something concerning giving to the
whole, personally ministering, yes. Each one of you varies in
the gifts and your added or combined assistance brings balance;
it brings healing. Maybe you are gifted at helping to promote
faith, or perhaps you are good at being encouraging to others.
All of us add to the well of spiritual goodness that serves the
whole, quenches the thirst with the living waters. To force your
gifts on others in personal ministry is not what I am speaking
of, no, but to be there for others, even when it is inconvenient
to you is what we are speaking of when we discuss personal
ministry.
God gave you one another. When taking responsibility for one
anothers well-being, you have God. You bring out the best in one
another, if you so choose. Mortals were not meant to be alone.
Your experience together is required to advance spiritual
levels. How awesome is our Father, that even with these recent
events, He helps us to transcend our points of separation, race,
gender, social status and religion, yes.
On worlds settled in Light and Life, for a mother to look upon a
playground full of children she feels equal amounts of love for
each child. A community who witnesses a family tragedy feels it
is their own tragedy, and steps in immediately to assist. Your
sorrow is my sorrow. Your joy is my joy.
This week think about your responsibility to your fellows.
Journal how ministering to them brings you spiritual fruits or
advancement. How does ministering to the whole minister to you?
In long periods of isolation who are you solely focused on? Out
amongst your fellows is there self-forgetfulness? A few
questions.
SIMON: Yes Abraham. I appreciate your lesson. I have been
thinking about the difference between procrastination and
putting faith into action. I think you know what I am talking
about.
ABRAHAM: Procrastination could mean many things in service.
(Perhaps I mean holding back, allowing Father to do His will
through others or through waiting for the "time to be right."
Sometimes I see that as procrastination in my action to do
something.) Understood. There is procrastination and there is
patience. You know within the feelings of 'you should do
something,' but perhaps have fear or are apprehensive versus
these feelings of 'I will do something because it serves me.' I
have not doubt that you can examine your mind to find the real
intention. Many times must you just step out in faith without
thought and do what you are most believing in. Sometimes actions
are taken from an animal instinct side. I would suggest that you
see where your inner feelings are leading you, and if these
feelings persist, then I would say that it is time to take
action. If you feel driven toward something, allow time,
journaling and stillness to find the origin of this driving
force. Is it pure? Is it serving the whole? Is it for self gain
or a form or ease seeking? Yes.
CALVIN: Abraham, I welcome Yrma. She shared quite a bit about
the Muslim faith.
ABRAHAM: Greetings, my daughter. Feel free to ask any questions.
YRMA: I have a lot of questions listening to you. Why you are
here especially this night with these people here and not with
the other ones that are trying now to get together with you?
ABRAHAM: I have several groups and individuals that I am
involved with. I am assigned to assist in this Correcting Time
of Urantia. I am training individuals to go out amongst the
people to help this world go towards Light and Life. I am not
the only teacher. There are many and I can assure you that
everyone who would have spiritual help will most definitely
receive it. I do have great love for my students and they are of
many faiths, many nations. No one is forgotten. In order to
serve the masses I am to teach a few. Is this helping?
YRMA: Yes. Can I ask another question? (Certainly.) Are you the
Abraham that everyone claims as Father Abraham? (I am. Yes.) As
a Muslim person you know how we follow your teachings through
all this time (Inaudible.) the relationship between Mohammed and
you. You must have been pretty close because you was the person
that gave instruction to him. How was your time when you were
teaching him? What was your feelings? I think you know what I am
trying to say.
ABRAHAM: Yes. I still have great love for Mohammed, but those
teachings that I gave him was from my mentor and friend,
Machiventa. Mohammed was very bright and open to receive new
things, and I do believe he carried out instructions to the best
of his ability. However, down through the ages some concepts
were distorted, as was also in the bible. I was a man of stern
tradition. I was inflexible in my thinking until my own teaching
began with Machiventa. We must each remember that along with
Machiventa's instruction were commingled my own traditional
beliefs, and for that I am regretful, but I understand now that
it is all part of evolution. Mohammed continues to teach to this
day, not only Muslims, but many of the world's religions. He is
also with new and growing understanding, just as I am. He is
also saddened by negative events in the world. He aids, as I do,
in the overall correction and rejuvenation of the planet. Is
this helping? (Yes.) One more question.
MIRIAM: Question from Willie in Columbus, Ohio: Please ask what
it is that I can do actively to bring about understanding and
acceptance amongst the three factions for which he is father of
us all. I feel a ministry pull to try to bring about
understanding among the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths.
What I have in mind is something like the Urmia school that
Jesus attended where Cymboyton was a teacher. Do you remember
that from the Jesus Papers of the Urantia Book? This is a tall
order. I am mainly looking for something to begin work on. If it
is simple to pray--I can do that and I will accept that as my
special urge. If it is more I would appreciate some
reinforcement of that. This is why I would like to ask the
question of Abraham because he is the obvious connection.
ABRAHAM: My son, right now when emotions are high and feelings
are so sensitive, is a time when many wish to help and bring
about healing. If you are to do anything such as create a
school, then I would wait for at least a year. New ideas or
religions should not be built out of emotional response. You are
quite dedicated to this Teaching Mission and the sharing of your
experience with others is quite a ministry in itself. Your
attention to your family, neighbors, community is quite a large
job. My son, most people want what you want, and given time, we
will see it come into fruition. Be patient and live your life as
an example to others that God is real, He is working. You are
gifted in promoting faith and that is quite a lot. Set your
sights on practical spirituality. You can make a huge difference
one person at a time. Allow Father to show you the grand design
and work therefrom. Is that all Miriam? (It is and thank you and
I love you, love you, love you.) And I love you--all of you, and
I thank you for your support and faith. I hold each one of you
dear. Carry on. Until next week, shalom
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Riding the Stormy
Seas, Urantia faces a momentous turning point Teachers: Michael,
Nebadonia, Elyon, Lester
September 30, 2001
Michael (Mark): You so graciously welcome me into your circle.
And it is indeed with the divine grace of the Father that we
enjoy our relationship together. I would join you in our vessel
as we man the oars and pull hard for the distant shore.
I have spoken to you of the rough seas and the harsh winds, and
I have witnessed as these have recently buffeted you about and
have been most pleased that, as my modern day apostles, each one
of you was quick to regain your composure and to return to your
spiritual seat and to once again take up the task of pulling at
the oars together. It is indeed an incredible miracle to witness
material beings such as yourselves overcoming material obstacles
so quickly and remaining in your spiritual perspective, to
regain your composure and to be calmed by your spiritual
relationships. You have been prepared and that is well; you have
heeded the lessons; you have understood the teachings. Now your
focus may be given to the forward momentum of the task at hand,
regardless of the material surroundings and the transient
weather patterns, which at times may seem overwhelming and at
other times may provide you with peace and calm. You are coming
to realize that these transient weather events are separate and
aside from your overall function and mission. [You are] gaining
perspective to realize that these events are temporary and will
pass quickly.
There are more storms on the horizon, as you are all aware. We
have battened down the hatches; we have set our compass, and we
are of one accord that we are progressing steadfastly regardless
of the seas and the winds. It is a foregone conclusion that such
a spirit-filled vessel has only one final destination and one
certainty of passage. We must simply take the steps necessary to
propel ourselves, to move ourselves forward, that we may
function in all varieties of circumstances.
Adversity seems not so intense when we are firmly seated in our
spiritual seats, and we are willing to keep the momentum up,
eager to see this passage completed and are of firm belief that
our journey is one of certainty. Others around us may flounder
and call out as their vessels tip and sway as they encounter
uncertainty in their passage. They may even jump ship. But our
vessel is sturdy; our way is sure. Our compass points ever
forward.
We may find in our journey that we may be of assistance to a
great many along the way, drawing them up and into our vessel to
become part of our crew. This is the opportunity we have before
us, and all I see are eager to raise the sails and make some
progress in this journey. I assure you that I will be there with
you. Indeed, I will pull the oars with you. I will take a turn
at each of your seats and give you rest and the comfort that you
require, and together we most certainly will have a magnificent
voyage, likely to be filled with many encounters of an extreme
nature. Nevertheless, if we maintain our spiritual center then
we will not be knocked off course or unduly swayed by any of
these temporal events.
I am most pleased to see my crew hard at the oars, eager faces
ready for the next challenge, the next wave, the next strong
wind, to see what is in them of any value. In this way we build
our spiritual center with each event. It does not knock us down
but rather builds us up, makes us stronger, provides us with
wisdom and furthers deeper insights.
Thus our trip log becomes our increased experiences providing us
with a broader base for interpretation of reality. This is only
attained by our efforts and by our move forward on this journey,
and I look forward to crossing this expanse with you and working
closely to navigate our vessel so as to maintain a true heading
for the Father, for Light and Life on your world.
I withdraw to allow for others, but I never fully leave you. You
know who I am.
Mother Spirit (Jonathan): I am Divine Minister of Nebadon. I
come to you today along with Michael to again assure you of the
care, love, of your creator. This planet child of mine is
growing. Souls are seeking answers. The ground is fertile for
revelation. Many around this sphere have received and understand
truths that are necessary to be enacted in this immediate
future. You have witnessed how excitedly a young one will desire
to enact what has been learned, that the comprehension of a
possibility does not satisfy curiosity, does not bring
complacency but stimulates involvement, engages one in action.
All throughout our universe every attempt is made to encourage
the twofold function of discovery followed by demonstration.
Even we, your divine parents, undertake this same process.
All that is transpiring is for your good. All that you do for us
you do for the well-being of your fellows as well. This is a
time to be bold in your certainty, to stand firm, not only for
the stability of your own faith, but for its recognizability by
the searching eyes of others.
Our family is huge. If you were to be in my position you would
witness such a diversity that even one of divine origin finds
overwhelmingly beautiful. Underlying our unique characters is
our common spiritual fellowship. This I ask you to emphasize, to
promote, to live.
Urantia faces a momentous turning point; the potential for an
upstep on this world is great. This is the hour for wisdom; this
is the hour to view your circumstances from an enlarged cosmic
perspective. Michael applied all of his perspective of Havona in
the establishment of Nebadon.
We have ourselves directly experienced the pain and the shock
that you have likewise felt recently when Nebadon was rocked by
rebellion several times. Each one of these occurrences
transformed our region, upstepped it significantly because of
the searching and the truthseeking that was undertaken by all
influenced.
No event will disturb one who genuinely seeks for truth. Any
event will stimulate further searching and subsequent discovery.
Foster in your fellows the ideal of the continual search for
true reality, for everlasting goodness, and for ultimate beauty.
This will reveal to you what appropriate actions can be taken to
establish greater peace and harmony upon this world.
I embrace you. Take in with your arms of faith my presence. Ever
and always are you in the care of our great Father on high.
Elyon (Mark): This is Elyon and I would take one moment to avail
myself of the imagery provided to this TR and call you back to
the boats for a few more minutes.
Your world, your civilization, is as the inhabitants on a small
island. The tides are rising. As it becomes apparent that the
storm and seas of adversity will overtake your world, it is a
certainty that, in order to weather the storm, inhabitants of
your world must rush to their vessels and make them ready to
rise above this tide. You who have been engaged for some time in
developing a spiritual center know that you go to your vessel
which you have been preparing for some time and load your vessel
with only things of spiritual import to make a sure and speedy
passage. Many of your fellow inhabitants, when they get the
feeling that they must take to the sea, drag their vessels out
and, because they do not share a spiritual center, proceed to
load their vessels with things worldly, things material, things
important to them, things that comfort them.
As the seas rise and it is at first calm, you who have developed
a spiritual center find it easy to pull at your oars and propel
your vessel forward surely and certainly. Those who have
overloaded their vessels with inordinate material possessions
they cling to find that in the calm seas it is difficult to pull
at the oars and make any progress. Likewise when the winds of
change blow steadily and moderately you find that you are able
to raise a sail on your vehicle and make use of moderate winds
of change to propel you swiftly forward on your path. Those
around you who have overloaded their vehicles find it much more
difficult to make passage when their vessels are heavily laden
and ride low in the seas.
Finally, as the storm that you have seen approaches on the
horizon and you have taken your sail down and prepared it over
your vessel so as to be ready for the onslaught of weather,
those around you have been perhaps caught by surprise. They are
vulnerable, exposed, subjected to the winds of adversity, the
high seas of change. Under these conditions we, in our vessel,
will see many who are attempting to make a similar voyage
capsized, overturned, and otherwise suffering adversity. Many
who encounter this will desire for a change of vessel, a new
perspective. To be seated high in the water in a vessel of
spiritual orientation will look appealing to them, and they will
be ready to forgo and forget their vessels which now flounder
and be drawn up by ones in a spirit vessel. Others will cling
stubbornly to their vessels and literally will go down with
their ship.
We have before us the tools necessary to make this passage, to
complete our voyage, as we have had our training and importantly
we have had our priorities structured for the loading and the
preparation of our vessel. Therefore we seek to cast a lifeline
out to all those along our journey who would seek it, who would
ask for it. Thereby will we increase our crew and make shore on
the far side with a great many more souls than we began our
journey with. But our vessel rides high in the seas and can take
the addition of many more passengers, many more souls, because
they weigh nothing. They do not burden our vessel as material
possessions do. We are certain of our passage because we have
our compass of faith and we have our vessel of spirit. It is now
up to us to simply survive the voyage. In so we will gain vast
experience which will be helpful to us throughout our entire
ascension journey.
Just some more imagery for you to play with about boats, tides,
winds of change. Thank you for hearing my words today.
Lester (Jonathan): This is Lester, swabbing decks. For those who
have the advantage of climbing to the crow's nest and observing
the far flung, wide open seas .... but as I am often wont to do,
I would like to direct your attention to the galley. Relish the
nutrients that are placed before you and sing a heartysong and
quaff a beverage of your choice.
I give you my hearty hello and take my leave.
Arcadia, Calfornia Teaching Mission Group
October 1, 2001, 8:00 P.M. Arcadia, California
JarEl: TR, George. Good evening, it is I, your teacher, JarEl.
It is good to see all of you again, so soon. There is great
wisdom among you all. You must remember that you are all
brothers and sisters and you must treat each other as such. You
must forgive each other when your brother or sister errs. Take
the simple lessons and learn them; appreciate them. This is a
pattern you must repeat over and over again and that pattern
will be repeated on the larger scale if this pattern is begun.
You must learn to come together as one and trust each other,
become family. A family built on love and understanding. As you
trust each other in this group, so must also trust others
outside your group. It is good to pray for those who have hurt
you. Perhaps they will see the error of their ways and have a
change of heart. But do not expect them to come back to you and
tell you that they have changed. Trust that they will change,
hand them over to God and He will do the work for you. Everybody
goes through bad moments in their lives. You are all prone to
committing error, yet the Father has forgiven everyone of you
and so you must forgive those who have hurt you as well. At this
time the world needs much healing and forgiveness. Learn to
forgive so you may teach others how to forgive also. You are
useless if you yourself cannot be an example of what forgiveness
is. Everyone of you knows better. Learn to trust one another.
Learn to trust each other even if you know that person will
commit another error. Still you must allow that person to feel
that they are trusted. You will learn that trust is like a
jewel, like a precious jewel that you give to one another. When
you trust someone, it is like you giving him or her all the
riches in the world. It is like you presenting to them the gates
to Paradise. When you trust you give love and understanding.
When you trust you give them an endless vessel of every good
thing that can come out of you. God has all the intention and
trust in you, which is why He gave you freewill. He does not
take away this trust from you even though you continue to commit
error. He doesnÕt deprive you of this jewel that He so
graciously endowed you with. His trust is consistent and
eternal. His trust is unconditional. It is natural for Him to
trust you. In the same fashion I ask you to trust one another.
Be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. Trust one
another, ask the Father in heaven to trust you. I will now allow
others to speak.
Corelli: TR, Stella. This is Corelli, we greet you again on this
lovely evening. We enjoyed listening to your discussion
yesterday as we do today. Fear not those who might try to
disrupt your loving union. These are individuals who are in
error and are turning towards a path that is not for them.
However, it is their choice, be patient and loving towards them
and try to show them the error of their ways. But be not
dismayed. Your planet is going through a renewing period. All
hates, prejudices and jealousies will fall by the wayside. There
is the necessity of creating a permanently happier world. This
feeling of necessity is being replaced by sincerity in trying to
find a better way of creating this better world. This process is
long overdue, but a great catastrophe has befallen your nation
and is a wakeup call for people to examine their motives and
their way of life. Know this will garner sympathy for those less
fortunate than yourselves. This must happen and these third
world countries must brought into a world that will help and
accept them. There is unity in diversity. As you can see the
religious leaders of the world are coming together to find a
mutual ground. This is good, we are happy to see this happening
on your world. This feeling will grow, because we can see that
it has already begun. We will be in for more additional trauma,
but we are endeavoring to moderate these attacks that will come.
Make no mistakes about that, but be warned. It would be well to
gather food products and water for a possible emergency. As we
say, we are endeavoring to stop this carnage, but cannot always
succeed. We knew of the possibility of attack on the United
States but even we were aghast at the planning and at the
thought that went behind this attack on your country. You must
look at the root causes of this hatred. Many of these people
were not graced with love and they in turn are unleashing at a
society which they thought had betrayed and neglected them.
That’s why the healing love of Jesus Christ is so needed in this
world. It is there, his strength has fallen upon the world and
it will raise civilization eventually. But before then there is
the healing process and the discarding of these old racial
prejudices. You can each do your part by projecting love to
those less fortunate than yourselves, to those who are of a
different ethic background, to those who are of a different
religious belief. Tolerance, love and patience are sorely needed
on this world. We see that you are all good people with the same
intent. There are many others beside you. Your love must embrace
those that bear hatred towards you. Your love and consideration
will change many when they see how you react. But there will be
others who will harbor these hatreds. These must be watched and
fought so they can no longer put into action the plans they have
already made. The government is doing much to curtail these
activities. They are succeeding to a certain extent but there
are others that must be found. We will try to direct your
government and their agencies to these particular people.
Hopefully they will listen finally. But in any event do not be
dismayed your world will not be shattered. Your way of life for
awhile will be shattered, but the United States is strong and
has withstood many unhappy incidents in its history. It is still
a beacon of hope for those that are blind. In the long run you
will succeed. Christ Michael is here now. He and his helpers are
all seeking to moderate the war, which will come, but it too
will pass. We love you, we thank you for your attention, your
diligence, your love of Christ and we love you too. This is
Machiventa speaking for Corelli. Thank you all for listening.
Donna: JarEl, can I ask you a question? This question came up
the other night, it’s really Larry’s question, but we were
thinking about the survivors. We were thinking about the victims
of the World Trade Center. On how they died so quickly and so
abruptly and we were thinking about Corelli’s message about how
they were recovering some of them, in shock on the Mansion
Worlds and Larry said that he was under the impression that not
everyone was resurrected after three days. The Urantia Books
says about some being sleeping survivors. I told Larry that I
thought that they were now resurrected in three days since the
Teaching Mission came about. Anyway, we were having this
discussion and I said that this would be a good question to ask
JarEL. So do you know what my question is, JarEl? Does everyone
now days when they pass over or when they dieÉ. are they
resurrected on the third day or are there still some that go
into a sleeping survivor status?
JarEl: TR, George. Yes Donna everyone gets resurrected on the
third day.
Donna: JarEl, was this because of a new dispensation or what was
the event that came about that made it possible?
JarEl: TR, George. It was according to the dispensation that
happened recently. However given the situation of September
11th, it was imperative that we resurrect everybody on the day
of record. You may look forward to everyone being resurrected on
the third day from now on. Does this answer your question?
Donna: Yes, thank you JarEl that answers my question, I donÕt
know if it answers Larry?
Steve: JarEl, adding to that question. Is the three-day
resurrection due to the lifting of the quarantine? And number
two: I would like to know if the restriction of not allowing
departed loved ones to communicating with their loved ones back
on earth has been removed or modified?
JarEl: TR, George. To answer your first question Steve. This
planet is very special. The fact that Michael chose it as one of
the planets where he materialized makes it even more special. So
it is a special case. The quarantine is lifted at this time, you
are no longer in quarantine. However, that was not the condition
that stopped people from being resurrected on the third day.
With the new dispensation the third day resurrection has been
implemented. As for your second question, there are still
restrictions to contacting family members. However, it is
possible for you to contact a family member, but you will be
made aware that it will only be in limited form and in limited
time. For your family members need much work on the other side
and they continue to be very busy with their goings on. There
has only been a relative release of these restrictions. That is
why certain family members have been able to get through, but
there remains a restriction none-the-less. Does this answer your
question?
Steve: Yes. I have been in contact to a limited degree with my
departed Father. He has been imparting to me the things he never
did or was never able to teach me in his mortal life. I learn
more from him now than when he was alive.
JarEl: TR, George. I can tell you this much, everybody in this
room has been given permission to contact their family members
for the purpose that you will understand where it is coming from
and you will not be shocked. You will not treat it as
supernatural. You will treat it as real for you will know it is
real. Most of you here know the realities of the Mansion Worlds
and beyond. You know this but you have not experienced it. So
when your departed family members come and visit you, do not be
shocked or surprised. Accept it only as a matter of fact.
Steve: It is very comforting to be able to resume the
communication for me.
Stella: I have a question, when the hijackers and the innocent
people all die together, what was their reaction when they got
on the other side? Were the hijackers shocked that they were not
in Paradise? Did the people who died in the plane crashes know
that they had died? Can you tell us a little bit about what
happened?
JarEl: TR, George. The majority of those people understood that
they had passed. As far as the hijackers, some understood as
well. Some quickly realized the error of their ways. They are
now being instructed upon the new realities of the Universe. For
those who cannot accept and for those who cannot believe that
their leaders had lied to them, they continue in a state of
mental agony. For their reality and the reality that they hold
in their minds are not in unison so they continue in agony until
they are ready to accept this new and beautiful reality that God
has laid out for them. Does this answer your question?
Stella: Yes. Now the innocent people who died were they angry at
the hijackers when they got on the other side? Is there a
different mindset when you get on the other side?
JarEl: TR, George. A majority of them were in a state of shock.
A majority of them have not yet fully understood that they have
died. But there was little anger, for they realized that there
was nothing really taken away from them; that their life will
certainly continue. They were more afraid for the people they
left behind. They are afraid of what the governments of the
world are getting ready to do. They would prefer that people
will not suffer. The majority of these people have now witnessed
a new profound love in their lives and this love is very real.
They would like to send this love to the earth. The would like
to send a message: not to fight, but to love one another.
Larry: Well, these victims were all killed by the hijackers and
they controlled them and now they are all resurrected on the
other side. Isn’t there still animosity between the victims and
the hijackers? Were the hijackers interned or anything? Are they
held in separate areas? Or are all these people together? And
aren’t there vengeful feelings in some of the peoples’ minds? Or
do we automatically change and all become loving? And does
everybody get resurrected? Do some people make up their minds
here that they don’t want to be resurrected?
JarEl: TR, George. You ask many questions, Larry, but I will
attempt to answer them all. It is true everybody is an
individual and there are some that do harbor hate and some who
have to learn to forgive. It will be a slow process but rest
assured the majority of those who have passed on will learn to
forgive and will love one another. They are being counseled
individually. There are many up there who are aiding in this new
transition. They are learning to understand the reasons why
people do this. For your last question, everybody was
resurrected, regardless of the choice they made here on Urantia.
Steve: JarEl, does there come a certain time when a person
rejects mercy?
JarEl: TR, George. Yes, Steve, there is such an occasion.
However, I doubt that these survivors will be facing that soon.
I predict all of them will be rehabilitated in due time.
Steve: This is however not the case with Lucifer and Caligastia.
JarEl: TR, George. That is true, Steve, but there is a huge
difference between Lucifer and a mortal. Once a mortal arrives
on a Morontia World he recognizes the authority that is
presented before him. Or he soon learns to recognize this
authority. Lucifer was another case. Lucifer was an authority.
The mortal soon recognizes that there was confusion on the earth
and that he was a part of that great confusion. He soon realizes
that those in authority are there to help him and allows them to
help. This presents a quick growth to recovery, so then I
predict that a majority will be rehabilitated.
Steve: I wonder, even with these differences, canÕt a mortal
make the final decision to not survive?
JarEl: TR, George. Unfortunately that is true.
Steve: Thank you JarEl.
Lucille: JarEl, if this information could be given out to the
United States and the World, it would be such a comfort to know
that they were all up there. Even that the hijackers are given a
chance. People donÕt know that. Is there anything that we can do
or say? Or will they just have to learn eventually? If the story
of Lucifer and the adjudication was known and people wouldnÕt
blame the devil, wouldnÕt this information help so many people?
JarEl: TR, George. Yes it would. But it takes a lot on your part
to truly change a person’s belief after they have had it for so
long. Unless that person is ready and open-minded to new ideas.
Many soon will open their minds to new and better possibilities
and you will be there to explain it to them. So it is important
that we continue to tell them about this new gospel, this new
reality. Continue to tell them that we do not die, but we do
continue on and that there is a Father in heaven Who loves every
single one of you and that you are brothers and sisters.
Stella: How long do the people who pass over linger where they
formerly lived? Or do they go on immediately?
JarEl: TR, George. It is a short period in which they linger.
They soon are told that they must return to the Morontia Worlds
to start their studies. But they are allowed a certain grieving
time as well.
Larry: I am confused JarEl. I thought that people are
resurrected on the Mansion Worlds? If you die here, is not the
next thing you know being resurrected on the Mansion Worlds? Do
you come back? Or is it reflectivity that they communicate with
us or what?
JarEl: TR, George. Yes you are resurrected on the Mansion World.
Larry: What do you mean by lingering on the world?
JarEl: TR, George. They are given the opportunity to come back
for a short period, but they must soon return to the Mansion
Worlds.
Steve: Would it be safe to say in regarding to the hijackers
that were killed, regardless of repentance or not, that they all
went to Mansonia Number One?
JarEl: TR, George. That would be safe to assume Steve.
Larry: IsnÕt everybody resurrected on Mansonia Number One:
JarEl: TR, George. Yes.
Steve: However do not some mortals graduate to the next Mansion
World sooner than others?
JarEl: TR, George. They are allowed ten days of rest and then
some will graduate to the next Mansion World, yes this is true.
Ham on honesty and self-honesty Nashville, Tenn. - Mon, 8 Oct
2001 10:05:01 -0500
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am happy to greet you
this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss honesty and
self-honesty.
Self-understanding is something which should be never ending.
You are a child of infinity and you have an eternal destiny,
therefore, self-discovery is also an eternal process. Have
courage as you discover who you really are. Each new situation
has the effect of eliciting new responses and new
self-awareness. Let circumstances challenge you and allow
yourselves to open up to new awareness, both outside and inside.
You have a choice, you can go through life avoiding stimulation
and change or you can embrace the new and honestly confront what
you feel and experience.
There is a side of human nature that wants to remain in the old
grooves of life, that wants to react the same way to the same
sorts of things every time. But, if you look at this honestly,
you will see that you are really exhibiting a fear of
self-discovery. Sometimes it is easier to be comfortable with
set patterns than to risk the new discovery of yourselves.
People often make blanket statements about likes and dislikes
that shield them from having to be open to every new situation.
If you say, for example, "I hate westerns" then you are shielded
from every having to see a western and becoming a person who
likes a western. You are shielded from a new and different view
of yourself. Always there are things which fall outside your
patterns that are easily missed because of blanket statements
about yourselves.
But to be truly honest, you have to be open. You have to allow
new experiences to come in unimpeded. To be truly honest
requires a lack of prejudging. When you resist the temptation to
prejudge a situation or people then you open yourself to new
understanding which change you.
Human beings, especially as they grow older, tend to block off
more and more parts of the world that they are uncomfortable in.
Instead of experiencing the time they are living in, they simply
avoid it and retreat to those things and friends and experiences
that they become comfortable with. This is a mistake.
To grow vibrantly in the spirit means to grow in your time and
to take in the world as it is and to experience what it has to
offer. Often times the past is seen with rose colored glasses
and a filter which leaves out all the uncomfortable things and
allow in those things which are comfortable.
To be a spiritually vibrant person is also to be a pioneer. You
are seeking out the new and the different, things which
stimulate the mind and soul in the present time. Remember the
masterÕs council to the young man who was afraid. He said, there
are many wonderful experiences and great things to be done, but
you must go to those places where great things can be done.
Isolation is stifling to spiritual growth. True growth requires
honestly engaging life as you find it.
Another step in self-honesty is being open about your true
feelings. Sometimes, these feelings are buried under years of
suppressed vehements about their non-existence and these
suppressed feelings can change and color your reactions to the
present world. Sometimes if you have an unreasonable reaction to
something in the now time, it is helpful to trace it back and
think about what it is that is causing this reaction.
Often times, there are old feelings that need to be acknowledged
and this is a very freeing and empowering experience. Own your
feelings honestly, then you can let them go.
There are many times, situations, that come up, that you have
confused feelings about and this is the same situation.
Acknowledge the deeper feelings and the confusion will lift.
This process, my friends, is not an over night revelation. You
cannot be instantly healed of old patterns, old problems. Think
of life as a constant journey of self-discovery. You will
rediscover the past as you discover the present. All these
things work together.
So be open and be honest. Be joyful for these moments of life.
Let go of old patterns and old ways of seeing yourselves that
simply will not stretch enough to let in the new. Be engaged in
life. Have spiritual vibrancy. Be careful not to dismiss and
block out the things you might assume you would not like or
wouldnÕt want to do. Maintain a youthful attitude as you grow
older for you have something very valuable to give to this
generation. You cannot require them to meet you in the past, you
must meet them in he present. Withhold your criticism. Let young
people find their way and be always as open as a child where
everything is new and wonderful and different. Be as unafraid as
that child is. Experience life , live in the present, in the
now. And to do this, require yourselves to continually let go of
the past. To do this, you must acknowledge it honestly. Then
those events of the past have no more sway over you. Be honest
with yourselves and you will grow vibrantly in the spirit. Are
there any questions at this time?
Q: This lesson this week sounds very much to me like our recent
science of psychotherapy, would you comment on that science?
Ham: Certainly. This scientific endeavor, which is really more
or less the endeavor to discover the secret of human happiness,
this science is moving in the right directions and is sometimes
stumbling in that it tries to make the simple into something
more complex. When we look at human societies, it is often the
simple common sense instruction which does the most good for the
most people. The complex theories of the scientists are often
only perpetuated among themselves doing very little for the
population at large. The human beings continually make the
simple into something complex and sometimes the complex into
something too simple. But this is how civilization and science
progress. Without errors and stumbling, it is questionable
whether their would be real progress. Is this helping your
understanding?
Q: Absolutely, thank you.
North Idaho Teaching Mission Group Topics: Personality,
Creativity, Communication with the Dead Teachers: Solonia
October 14, 2001
Solonia (Jonathan TR): I bring you greetings, I make my presence
known. It has been some time since I have engaged with you in
this way. I am Solonia. It is good to be in your midst to share
your thoughts, to experience your vision, your hopes and ideals.
It is to ones like yourselves that I come to bring courage, to
offer support, to expedite our shared ideals of a better world
and of personality improvement.
You know from your studies that personality never changes.
Though my life span is centuries upon centuries long -- even
more so -- I am still the one who tended the Garden those many
years back. Yet I too have undergone development as an angel. I
find myself in better standing than even in those days.
Personality improvement is not the effort to improve, to fix or
better, to change, to recondition, to decorate your personality.
It is rather the alteration of the techniques whereby
personality learns and expresses. Though personality ever is, it
continually discovers greater methods, clearer methods, of
manifestation and of divine reach.
When we were engaged in the Garden project it was a primary
teaching that the human soul could correlate the events of the
material life with the Adamic teachings of the ideals of the
spiritual life by realizing that not all that transpires in
human events is impacted upon the individual from the external
world, that deep within the mind belonging to personality is a
creative force that initiates, that wills, that can alter events
independent of those activities impinging upon one. In a way, if
I may use the word, it is a "pre-sense" a presence. Taking time
to foster the relationship with God in stillness is the means
whereby we may stimulate creative action prior to the sensory
input of the world around you.
Humankind is progressing in the development of art, and this is
reckoned a beneficial progressive activity by those who hover
over your world, for this is a field for the germination and
sustenance of creative output. Imaginative expression gives
birth to the new. You have also an institution of athletics,
sports. This engagement of human beings; while it demonstrates
prowess, stamina, endurance, agility, and the like; it is
interactive and reactive to external conditions, the playing
field. The two go hand-in-hand, art and athletics. One springs
forth from the creative well; the other is interactive with the
many beings surrounding one. You do not need to be an athlete or
an artist to apply the abilities of both to your life.
When Michael stood before his accusers he maintained a silence.
Even the midwayers stood in awe of this manner of Jesus, for
many who observed those trying events were charged with the
sense of true justice and were appalled by the ignorance and the
willing ignoring of true justice by the human beings engaged in
the events of that hour. Michael had presence; he drew from his
inner source, the divine Father's presence, for his orientation,
for his validation. The origin of his actions was from within;
they were not conditioned by manipulations of any around him or
the well-meant, beneficent desires of those around him such as
his apostles. This was his artistic, creative approach. He could
have been athletic, as he was many times before the multitudes
and the skeptic questioners. He was adept, agile of mind in
wrestling with what was tossed before him in an attempt to snare
him in theological quandary. He could have been athletic but he
chose not, for at that time it was important to demonstrate the
solitude of relying singly upon the reality of the Father and
His acceptance of Michael's mission and His acceptance of his
teachings. No approval was necessary by any around him for Jesus
to draw strength in faith.
Gathering as you do in fellowship is an extremely beneficial
contribution to each individual through the strengthening of
bonds and the realization of mutual struggle, of similar
realizations, of tandem experiential growth. These specialized
social events of a spiritually thematic nature contribute
likewise to creativity, as does your practice of being alone
with the Father. And would it not? For have not the teachings of
the gospel coupled the Fatherhood of God with the brotherhood of
mankind? You cannot have one without the other. All the
activities of the Garden incorporated the social element of
teamwork through focus. But it was coupled strongly to the
teaching that the child and the great God must spend personal
time in communion.
The hectic, busy lives of the humans who dwell upon this world
today would do well to develop the inner foundation, that
strength of being able to stand strong while the winds of change
swirl around, to develop the strength of character, that
spiritual endurance, to drive forward to your goal in spite of
hardship, to continue even when things are running smoothly and
tempt you to take a slower stride. I say these things to confirm
your continual efforts in this regard. It is not a reprimand to
you for lack of effort. I acknowledge your devotion, your
sensitivity, and your dedication.
I am happy to be here today with you, and I would take your
questions.
Jada: Concerning contact with the dead, our book is so adamant
that this does not occur, and there are those saying it does.
Can you shed some light on this?
Solonia: In general practice this does not occur. It is unique
to the Correcting Time that some experimentation has taken
place, especially on this decimal world. It is greatly monitored
by many of high origin who oversee the value and the impact. It
is risky to undertake this means of contact due to the relative
ignorance of mankind regarding celestial populations upon the
world. We hold in our goals a desire that the people on Urantia
realize that there are populations of beings throughout the
system, and they are not human in origin. It is far more
important to us that you discover through contact angelic and
midwayer personalities than to re-contact your loved ones of
biologic origins.
These experiments, while communicative, are not visitations.
They have been transfers of contact from afar involving an
extensive cooperation with midwayers and morontia counselors. Do
not expect them to be regular, for, as you will realize
subsequent to your resurrection, that the engagements with
morontia life are so profound and attractive that, though hope
continues to linger in your soul for your nativity world, you
have much to do and to learn, and the first life has become a
fond memory. What we seek is for you to engage with those of us
who are assigned to the world you are now on who are here to
minister to you. Many do leave this world every day never to
return, but many, many arrive here to be of service. They are
the ones you benefit from the most in reaching toward.
As the circuits extend themselves throughout the system, greater
communication will ensue. The human races will receive
communication transfers not only from the higher spheres of
morontia nature but eventually from the lateral spheres of
evolutionary worlds.
Does this contribute thought?
Jada: Yes. How may we communicate better with the angelic
realms?
Solonia: Some of what I would give as answer is embodied in my
address to you today, that of the inner work, inner contact, and
the interactive contact around you. Not all personalities that
you consider cosmic, supernal, or celestial are interested in
this form of communication. Personalities run in types, and some
are more interested in your activities and offering guidance in
the real time unfoldment of events. Just as some humans find
difficulty in extracting and compiling communication, likewise
do some from my side of the fence find it difficult to express
in this manner to the human mind. While there are those of
special assignment in this Teaching Mission, there are many who
are assigned in a non-teaching manner yet still involved in the
Correcting Time. By deepening your intunement with the divine
gift within, projecting your truth realization on your daily
events, you can be assured of the associative input of your
attending angels, of your assigned teachers, and of the
midwayers.
Things become complicated for those who have room in their
midst, for not only do we care greatly for your beneficial
developments, but we are also acting on behalf of the planetary
administration and the administration of the system under many
guidelines and restrictions. Your best approach is to be the
initiator, the promoter, of goodness and beauty and truth. We
will be available to react to your efforts.
Today I speak to you in a situation that is receptive and
passive, but what will transform this world is the engaged and
active efforts of any one of you. Therefore, to follow Jesus'
favorite phrase, to be about the Father's business, is the best
technique available.
Friends, I express to you my love in the best way that I can. I
stand here in your presence. I draw in the radiance of your
souls, and I radiate from my angelic nature to you in return,
acknowledging our divine Source of absolute brilliance and
spiritual luminosity that we have yet to drink deeply to behold
greatly. The time draws closer, though the ages are long,
wherein each one of us will stand in the presence of the
Greatest of All, to drink deeply of that unfathomable mystery of
the origin of reality, to acknowledge the absolute intelligence
that could manifest all things, to initiate being outside of
itself, and to draw all personalities back to the divine source
while yet ever remaining discreet and individual associated
with, as well as intimately a part of, the First Source and
Center.
I leave you now with but a small comment. When I was assigned to
the Material Sons and Daughters on your world we drew the
interested to the Garden, trained them, and sent them forth. All
throughout the universe are being drawn to Paradise in training
to be sent forth. This is the grand scheme of time and space.
You may not have been in the Garden project, but there is an
immense garden project throughout all seven superuniverses that
you are today engaged in.
I leave you with this to ponder.
TIME CAPSULE:
Althena & Olfana on "Being Our Best Selves" from 12-19-98 Half
Moon Bay, California Visit the website: http://www.hmbtm.org
Hi everyone,
It's not the holiday season, yet, but I thought with all the sad
things happening in the news right now, that you might feel
cheered up by reading these words from Althena and Olfana.
Love, Susan Kimsey
Half Moon Bay, Ca December 19, 1998 Group Session: Bay Area TM
Christmas Party TR: Susan Kimsey
Althena: Blessings shower down upon us in this room. We are in
the presence of many dear ones--Teachers, Guides, Midwayers, who
serve with love and faith in this process. We are bound
together, now, with the blessing and joy of creative service in
the name of Christ Michael. Let our hearts open now to this
process. We are one in our commitment to serve now with
integrity and a sense of joy and excitement that this world does
now begin to heal itself. There is much work to be done, much
effort to come of this movement, and you, my dear children, are
a precious gift to us, now, in this process. We are most
grateful that you come together with the intention to further
understand the process by which the Teaching Mission reaches out
to the world in its redemptive service.
I am the Teacher Althena, and it is not a common process for me
to speak through S, now, but I wish to have my voice expressed
through her for a moment. I come from a planet most beautiful in
its evolution and I say to you now that your planet embarks upon
this same process of growth and development. You will see the
beauty increase in this world. You will begin to feel the
revitalizing energy, which can indeed begin to emanate through
your beings as God's Love continues to increase and produce
great blessings in this world. This is the gift of this season,
that God's Love indeed reaches to all of us and expresses itself
in the symbol of our beloved Christ Michael entering this world.
We, as Urantia Book readers, you, as Urantia Book readers,
understand that this is not the specific time and date of this
event, but the consciousness now on the planet within your minds
and hearts is this sense of the beauty and new arrival of this
gift to your world. I wish you to spread this joy in your
interactions with all those you meet within this season. Love in
indeed a gift that we can pass from one to another. Love
sustains us in ways mysterious, and yet at the same time,
understandable. We are indeed created out of love, and therefore
we resonate most strongly to the energy and vibration of this
Gift from God within us. Let yourselves express this marvelous
gift in your very being. Breathe in the love. Exhale the love.
Walk with the pace of love. View the world with love. Touch and
caress others with love. Speak with love in your heart and mind
and voice. This is the most beautiful and positive expression of
yourself that you can, indeed, make. And I would encourage all
of you to realize that you have just begun to understand all the
ways in which this beauty of love augments your being. I come
from a planet where we easily see the love flowing within our
beings. We are touched by this in all our relationships. Help to
develop this as a model among those of you on this planet. Be
yourselves with love, in love, by love, through love, of love,
and you will indeed be resonant with this divine energy, and you
will best express the message of the Creator Son in his gift to
this world. I close my statement with greetings of the season to
all of you, and I want you to know how precious each of you are
to those of us who serve now in the Teaching Mission.
Olfana: Greetings to each of you. I am the Teacher Olfana and
just as you mortals work in groups or pairs, threes, we
celestials also tend to find working alliances and chummy
situations whereby we may encourage and inspire and teach those
of you who have opened your ears and your hearts to the
beginnings of widespread communication from the universe. Unlike
my sister, Althena, I myself have begun my journey on a most
disturbed planet, and am entirely familiar on every level with
the legacy of rebellion. I have struggled in my existences
beyond the mortal life to rise above the tribulation which was
my experience in my mortal incarnation. And I triumphed over
this challenge, this tribulation, and part of my process of
continuing to move into higher and higher levels of awareness
entails assisting my slightly younger siblings, yourselves, to
also rise through the limitations which weigh so heavily upon
you.
When my sister Althena urged you to be yourselves and to do so
in love and with love, she is asking for a most profound
openness on your part to a transformation from within. As with
all transformations, this transformation entails releasing ideas
and assumptions about yourself that are part of the legacy of
rebellion, which would have you persist in your fixed ideas
about who you are, and what you are capable of, and what you are
not capable of. When my sister asks you to "be yourself," she is
not asking that you be the self with which you are already most
familiar. She is asking that you allow the potentialities, which
the Father has sown within you to emerge into your awareness and
into your experience. And she is asking that your love, the love
you have for God, and the love you have for your fellow
creatures, incite you to open yourself to this "self within,"
"these selves within" that await your openness to spring into
being.
You are more than you think you are. You are more beautiful than
you think you are. You are more talented than you hink you are.
You are more gracious than you "know" you are. You have more
love at the fingertips of your soul than you can dream of!
Continue to bond with one another. Continue to establish working
relationships to assist you in bringing your deeper selves into
the light. Continue to seek the Will of the Father Within, for
it is His Will that all you are is shared with all you meet. I
will close my words at this point, to make way for others who
wish to speak. I leave you with my boundless admiration for your
persisting faith, and the love that you are showing your
brothers, your sisters, here and there.
Half Moon Bay, CA Teaching Mission Group Olfana on "The Power of
Your Prayers" Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:18:16 -0500 Olfana on
"The Power of Your Prayers"
This is Olfana who speaks to you. I have a lesson that I wish to
present to all those who are seeking some longer, greater,
perspective concerning the events which now seem to rain down
upon your lives. There is, indeed, this sense of the torrential
rains--a monsoon, if you will--of pain and suffering, to so many
that live now upon the planet. Children have lost their parents.
Loved ones have been torn from each other's arms. Remarkable
buildings have been destroyed in the great cities of New York
and Washington D.C, and much is now also destroyed in
Afghanistan that has taken many years and much effort to build
and erect. Now, your country, and many others, are awash in
fears of bio-terrorism and hidden bombs, and other heartless
acts of destruction, and doom. Such a deluge of pain! So much
suffering among the innocents! When will these wicked rains end?
When will the sun shine down its golden light upon this world,
warming it, and offering hope for bright tomorrows?
I encourage you to understand that you, yourselves, are part of
the process which helps the sun arise in the heavens. You,
through your prayers and petitions to the Father, are a means of
engaging this divine ministry with your planet. You can, my
children, call forth the sunshine for your world! You can,
indeed, bid the sun to rise into the sky, and lighten the world
with its healing beams. This is the sunshine of the Father's
Love, Mercy, Tenderness, and Support for this world. This
powerful Light of God can, indeed, evaporate the rains of pain,
of suffering, of fear, and of violent retribution toward
perceived injustice. This is the Light which lit the heavens
during the first moments of creation, as God the Unqualified
Absolute extended into the Qualified Creation. Do you recognize,
then, the Power of this Light? Do you see the immense capacity
for healing and creative change that can now come to your world,
if you will but solicit it? Such is the Co-Creative Power of our
God, my children, that He will extend Himself in His Glory, and
reach toward you as a partner in His Divine Expression.
Please hearken to my words now, my students, as you continue to
see the dark rains pouring down upon your world. You can call
forth the Sun of God! In so doing, you invoke also the power of
God's Dear Son, Christ Michael. In His name, call forth this
sunlight! In His name, join with God to heal your world! In the
name of Christ Michael, command the dark rains to cease, and
pray for the explosion of brilliant light of God's Power to bath
your world in glory! Each of you has this co-creative potential
to work with God, my dear ones. Each of you is truly this
valuable in the Father's Eyes--this important to His Plan of
Perfection for the time and space universes that He has created.
I offer this lesson as a token of my respect for how important
you are in the scheme of things, my dear ones. As you listen to
the sad or distressful news reports which fill the hours of your
days, do not give in to emotional despair. Do not give in to a
sense of helplessness or hopelessness. Your prayers are a part
of the solution, now, to all that troubles your world. Your
prayers combine themselves with the prayers of the angels, with
the prayers of Christ Michael and Nebadonia, with the prayers of
the Melchizedek Teachers, the Urantia Midwayers, and all other
beings who now serve this world. Consider your prayers as a part
of this symphony of prayers that calls forth God's Golden Light
to heal and redeem this world, now, out of its dark past. Along
with your own prayers, offer encouragement to others who pray.
Model this God-Conscious behavior to the children of the world
now. Teach them the power of prayer, and you will help them to
shape a brighter destiny for their future. Do all this with a
confidence and trust in the power of goodness, of truth, and of
beauty, that you unleash in your prayerful efforts, and I
promise you, you will increase the pace at which the Golden Sun
of God will rise upon your world! My prayers and my blessings to
all of you who hear my words. Namaste.
Half Moon Bay, CA Teaching Mission Group www.hmbtm.com
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