[tmtranscripts] 12-16-00 SPOKANE TEACHER BASE

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December 16, 2000
Spokane, Washington
TEACHER PAULO
TOPICS:  The Counsel of 24; Sense of Urgency
T/R:  Gerdean

PAULO: You may or may not believe this, my friends, but I have never in my 
universe career seen such conditions of weather as you have here on Urantia!  
The world I lived on as a mortal was not as young a world as this, and so we 
had more stabilized conditions.  I understand that Tomas had observed such 
inclement conditions and indeed his civilization was carved out of a need to 
withstand severe weather conditions, but on my world we were fairly 
salubrious and so I have jokingly commented to my comrades, "I am glad to 
borrow your woolies."  

I am Paulo, happy to be in your company again this afternoon. I am going to 
open the floor this afternoon to whatever hodge-podge of information is 
indicated.  It will be perhaps a preliminary seasonal party akin to parties 
reflecting the festivity of Christianity and other features of festivity to 
enliven the winter doldrums.  There are many here in observation of your very 
placid realm, but we see the inner activity in your spirit selves, so while 
you may fool each other into thinking that there is a calm exterior, 
interiorly you are active and abounding in questions of a curious nature.

Let me be so bold then as to speak for our visitors (unless and until they 
want to speak for themselves).  We will begin by a general discussion 
revolving around the Council of 24's involvement in Urantia affairs of 
planetary governmental concern, considering the new administration of Prince 
Machiventa being inaugurated and many additional alterations in what would be 
regarded as a normal procedure for an advancing evolutionary world.

We are enjoying the continued association of the Council of 24, at least 
insofar as it appears in keeping with the Correcting Time procedures.  The 
personalities who have been serving on this Board have much to contribute to 
our understanding of your planetary history and why many of you behave the 
way you do and what we might be able to expect because of what experiences 
has befallen your world.  

You may be assured that should it be mandatory that they advance, they will 
advance; but, having the option, they are inclined to remain to be of service 
for, after all, have you not been told that the universe's eyes are upon you. 
 Yet why would one want to leave just when they were being most helpful?  
Onagar has perhaps the more obvious need to be about his own advancement, and 
many of the other early individuals are considering the option to proceed, 
but there are those who would not choose to give up their position on the 
council at this time and you can certainly appreciate their reasoning.  

For example, the possibilities of Adam and Eve being able to return to 
Urantia has been discussed in your midst, and many speculations have arisen 
as to the DNA enhancement; there, too, are those of you who have felt the 
influence of a Material Son and Daughter on alignments of  "a romantic 
nature" among you devotees.  We are finding Adam and Eve's assessments and 
advisements invaluable and have appreciation for their loyalty to their 
continued trust.  

Yes, we have active and conscious contact with the Counsel, we in the Teacher 
Corp.  

In reference to politics, when you have a change in your administration, 
there are certain key positions that are appointed because of the nature of 
your gubernatorial system, but under the parties are the foundations of the 
republic that enable democracy to prevail in times of transition.  This same 
truth is held On High, in that, these administrative matters are handed over 
and even though major moves may be made on the cosmic chessboard, the workers 
remain in place so that the universes of time and space proceed gradually and 
naturally into advancement/ ascension.  

Just because a dispensation has rolled over, does not mean that suddenly all 
the players have changed, in particular, in such a case as yours wherein you 
have been spending time in the equivalent of an incubator as we have nurtured 
your lifeline to infinity, having encircuited Urantia such that it is now 
born again into the organism of the living universe.  When you have been made 
stable, perhaps after a thousand year reign, the personnel will have made a 
complete transition, but we are finding you, too, appreciate the knowledge 
that your beloved historic helpers have maintained loyalty to you and your 
mutual world.

We will no doubt break a lot of the standard rules in this era, in particular 
since you have broken ALL the rules already in your evolution here on 
Urantia.  A decimal planet, an experimental planet, is often a case requiring 
inordinate amounts of attention, as are children with special needs.  You 
will find, however, in the course of eternity that the experiences you are 
undergoing in your evolving realities are going to be useful to you and to 
the development of the greater universe in those days hence when you have 
become part of the Corp of the Finality.  

And this knowledge is sometimes all that is necessary for you to appreciate 
that what you are experiencing has merit, even if you can't see, at the 
moment, what possible good could come of it, what use it could present to 
anyone.  

I will stop for a while to see if there is something from you or any of you.

THOROAH: We didn't have any questions sent in to us this week.  I have some 
things on my mind.

PAULO: I am most interested in your mind which presents itself to me.

THOROAH:  Sometimes there's a feeling of urgency with this Mission, at least 
it's an intensity, increased intensity, which I felt Very strongly in the 
last four or five months having to do with activity centering around George 
Barnard and his activity with the midwayers and their activity with us, and 
the release or return of delinquent midwayers, plus all of our geographical 
changes that we've gone through here, Gerdean and I, and I get the feeling 
that there really is not an emergency.  

And you just verified something, that a thousand years from now we might be 
able to notice some wholesale changes, but it's hard to see changes in a 
small lifespan on this world, so I don't know what to expect.  I'd like to 
get comfortable someplace along the line instead of being on a string all the 
time wondering what's going to happen next and then being let down because I 
expected all kind of things.  I'd like to have a better idea of what to look 
forward to. What ... How far into the future should I be concerned with 
myself, or should I just be concerned with NOW?

PAULO:  Ham has suggested I refer you to his recent words having to do with 
being aware of the moment.  In the moment is where you are.  And yet I will 
comfort you by acknowledging the reasoning that could find a perpetual now 
preposterously ineffectual, in particular in terms of those of you who have 
an understanding of the value of perspective.  

Perhaps the midwayers' greatest gift to you in this period of time would be 
the benefit of their perspective, for they truly are the permanent citizens 
of the material worlds, and your midwayers have been even more "permanent" 
than most because of your tardy development.  But yes, they find your lives 
to be exasperatingly short-term, and have often complained to us that they no 
sooner get your attention and get you partially trained than you've gone 
already!  

THOROAH: That's for sure.

PAULO:  You can understand, then, why there is a certain positive anxiety on 
the part of these invisible helpers on Urantia, that intensity that gives off 
an urgent aspect, and you who open your hearts and minds to spirit influence 
are going to be made aware of that quality through your openness to our 
influence.  I would be remiss if I were not quick to point out that any time 
the Melchizedek's are involved, it will be, to some extent, an emergency 
measure, and emergency measures to a Melchizedek are the "life blood" of 
their existence, and this Correcting Time is a commission of a Melchizedek, 
therefore it will have the flavor of emergency/ urgency/ intensity that gets 
your attention.

And, in addition, a part of what it must be that you are sensing and feeling 
- not just you singularly but many of you, plurally - are feeling a pique of 
interest, a stimulation to the soul and the psyche that comes from 
acknowledgment of a greater reality, and this is an expected and natural 
response to the stimuli of morontia life and spirit influence.  Your 
reactions perhaps reflect a state of emergency conditioned by your animal 
natures, and so you think there is a fire to put out or a wolf at your heels 
because urgency has represented a fight for survival, but there is the 
positive element of emergency, too, and that is what you enjoy, that is what 
lures you toward yet more spiritual awareness, for it is a great "high".

Love is very powerful.  Seeing, knowing, sensing, following, feeling, 
experiencing, giving Love is potentially intense, even while it is also 
common and comfortable and soothing and enduring.

Again, we find perspective having great influence and value.  To be able to 
stay alert to the prompts, to be sufficiently awakened and alert to notice 
what prompts might be given you by your elder brothers and sisters in the 
spirit realm, by God the Father, through his Sons and from the Mother through 
her agents, is a degree of awareness, acute awareness, that brings you into a 
level of reality that all others pale by comparison.  The challenge here 
would be to feel the comfort of spirit over-control without becoming 
complacent and allowing the work to fall by the wayside, allowing that others 
are able to do what needs to be done and not taking responsibility for your 
part in co-creating your universe.

Each decision you make is vital.  In this, your own life is an intense 
experience.  

You are blessed to have a constitution that allows for you to know certain 
active phases followed by certain passive periods, such that you are not 
developing slothfulness nor "burning out" but maintaining an equilibrium for 
good steady advancement, growth slow but sure.  My friend, when you spoke you 
revealed many facets of your personality in a state of unsettledness and I am 
inclined to feel you are in line for a season of processing some of your 
exuberant experiences such that your foundations can be restored and your 
perspective can be renewed.  

There is much to be done in the moments to come, but you are not alone nor 
does the fate of the universe hinge upon you.  Or any of us individually.  
Even though we are all a vital part of the puzzle, bit players in the 
panorama toward perfection.  But I am happy to have time to spend with you, 
to walk with you part way in your association with advancing reality so that 
your growth can be wholesome, happy, natural, spontaneous, and encouraging.  
Even sure.  While you fully realize how exciting it can be and how urgent in 
the best sense of the word.

Show me a woman in labor who is not aware of a certain sense of urgency.  
Spiritual rebirth is as pregnant with promise, and fraught with a sense of 
urgency also.

THOROAH:    Thank you, Paulo.

PAULO: You are more than welcome, my friend.  I have a desire to convey to 
you all how much you are loved.  You have no idea how you are cherished by 
all of us.  How we have learned from our betters about love and address you 
with what we have learned.  Cherished children, worry not.  Keep the faith.  
Retain faith in Father in all things.  Rediscover Him in your walk with His 
Sons, Michael's sons, and forge a path to Perfection with glee and 
confidence.  Of all the news and information and value and comfort that we 
can convey, we seek most sincerely to convey to you how loved you are and how 
much love there is to go around in this abundant universe.  Fear not.  
Indeed, "Peace be upon you," as He has said.  

And be of good cheer . . . "for Santa Clause comes tonight!"  Amen. 

Farewell.