[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho NM TeaM - 4/7/02

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DATE:           April 7, 2002
LOCATION:       Rio Rancho NM USA
TEACHER:        TOMAS
TOPICS:     THE DIVINE MINISTER:
                  The God of Action; The Gift of Mind;
       Q&A:         Pets; Paul; Eve
T/R:            Gerdean

TOMAS:  Good afternoon.  This is Tomas.  It is such a wonderful opportunity 
for me to have your companionship in this arena, this social configuration 
which you have brought into being because of your hunger and thirst for 
righteousness, and to perceive the Divine in your lives.  You honor our 
Eternal Parents by your desire to show your faith in our Heavenly Parents and 
in each other in faith.  It is a great pleasure to be here.  

I want to share with you today a reference to our feminine deity.  The Divine 
Minister is our maternal frame of reference.  It is the Bride of Christ of 
which I speak.  However, this aspect of divinity is a third of the Trinity, 
and so I'd like to bring to you a perspective on that aspect of spirituality, 
which is a part of the universe and which is also a part of you.  

But I will be brief and depict the macrocosm of creation as First Source, 
which perceives, which creates, which upholds and administers; and the Second 
Source which is a personification of mercy and a right hand of God while 
being also God; and the Third Source, the feminine, is the active angle.  The 
active angle of God is the Mother, the Holy Spirit, that which infuses life 
into the worlds of time and space.  

The Mother is in truth the mother of all her creation.  That which you see is 
of the Mother; that which you think is because of the mind, a gift from the 
Mother; all that you sense as a sentient being is a gift again from the 
Infinite Spirit, the mother of creation.  

Here you understand "Mother Earth."  Mother Earth is a part of the reality of 
God.  The spring rains, the flowers, these are manifestations of God for 
which we laud the Mother.  The culture here indicates a woman's work is never 
done.  Have you seen Mother Spirit in stillness?  It is never done.  It may 
pause -- to ponder, or consult with the Eternal Son or the Universal Father 
-- but the action is the product of the Infinite Spirit, which reaches down 
into the worlds of time and space through her daughters, the Divine 
Ministers, who are the Brides of the Christ Michael Creator Sons of time and 
space, creators of local universes like yours.  You thus are living in one of 
the rooms that has been created by, designed by, conceived by the Bridegoom 
and the Bride, Michael and the Divine Minister, your Parents indeed.  

Now, when Jesus walked your earth, he was not given in marriage.  His work 
was not of this world.  He had a bride that waited for him at home, as he 
went out on his seven bestowals to secure for himself and his consort, their 
Kingdom they had conceived, planned, designed and created for the glory of 
their Father in Heaven, our Almighty God.

Thus when you see the wonders of nature, it is appropriate to think of the 
blessed Mother that we call Nebadonia.  Nebadonia is the embodiment of the 
perfect reflection of the Christ, whose universe, Nebadon, is our home.  Thus 
we live in Nebadon and give honor to Nebadonia, our Mother.  

Let me enhance your look at the feminine part of divinity yet further and 
discuss mind, for the third part of trinity, Infinite Mind, is the mother of 
the Divine Minister, who provides you with your mind as a tool to use while 
on earth.  

The mind you've been given is an incredible mechanism, a multi-faceted 
miracle of creation, indeed, from our perspective.  For it is capable of so 
much consciously and unconsciously, even superconsciously.  It is in the mind 
that the choices are made that will further your growth or halt your spirit 
progress; thus your mind is your sacred arena of thought. This is where you 
choose.  

The gift from our Father, our Universal Father, is your free will.  And so 
while our Eternal Parents may provide you with every opportunity under the 
sun to be all that you can be, you have the option to make up your own mind 
about your destiny.  For the greatest gift you can give back to your Father 
is to respect and love His authority, His overcontrol, His benificence, and 
His devotion to your rights of passage such that you opt openly and freely to 
do His will, to honor His being, and give glory to His name.

There are those who attest that motherhood is inherent, that mother instinct 
is built-in.  And there is, indeed, a pattern of biologic insurance that 
allows for the young to be born and tendered by its mother until such time as 
it is able to contend for itself.  But the Infinite Mind, the Divine 
Minister, the Mother Spirit, is devoted not only to Her children but to Her 
children's children, and the children of eternal-coming-forth.

There are so many qualities of godlikeness that are unnoticed by your people 
in your culture because they have no reverence for the gifts the Mother 
brings. This is, in your day and time, a cultural conundrum, for your history 
has been deformed in terms of its innate appreciation of motherhood.  

We would like to re-introduce to your world the wonders of the Holy Spirit.  
That is your Divine Mother.  She holds the worlds of time and space in her 
arms and to her breast.  She cradles her worlds as tenderly as you hold your 
own, and as animals assist the life of their young.

We will refer often and again to the Divine Minister, for God is not only a 
god of might and power and authority; God is also gentleness and quiet 
strength and patience.  These qualities are also in you and in you each, so 
that you, in your depiction of our Prince of Peace, may reflect the qualities 
of the Father and the Son and the Spirit in your life, in your realm, in your 
family, as you pass by.  

These are my words for today that I have prepared and brought as appropriate 
for this day of nurturing the earth with falling rain in the desert.  Will 
you, with me, rejoice in the profusion of aliveness that is yielded up from 
this blessing, this kiss of Our Mother?  

(Long silence)  Are we all together here?  Are we indeed working?  Is the 
tape recorder connected and are we all present and accounted for?  I ask this 
in an attempt at good humor, inasmuch as it seems we were remiss (last week) 
in sharing our private live, our inner life with God, with those who enjoy 
knowing and seeing that the will of God is being done "on earth as it is in 
heaven" in other cities and homes throughout the world.  

DORENDA:    I thought you were talking to me, Tomas, because I was a little 
tired today and I wasn't as totally with it here as I was.  I was thinking, 
"uh oh!"  

MARY JO:  I was going to apologize because with that "spring forward" hour -- 
)and I had a crockpot going last night that needed to be turned off at 3:00 
this morning) -- I dozed twice, Tomas, and I apologize for that.  It is not 
that you in any way are not capable of holding my interest.  It's just that, 
at my age, I tend to drop off -- every once in awhile, anyway.  But the 
lesson was great. 

And we have a guest for the first time today, and I'm sure you know Yvonne, 
and we're very glad to have her with us today.  Thank you.

TOMAS:  I have enjoyed a divine connection in her company this afternoon and 
have gathered from her personal spirit guides and associates a replete 
depiction of her own soul growth, and so we've become old friends already.  
Even so, I anticipate an opportunity to get to know her/you even better as 
time goes by, as you begin to share openly your challenges and opportunities 
of developing your soul growth in your life and in enhancing the lives of 
others.  

It is a pleasure, as I have indicated, to be in your company.

YVONNE:     Thank you.  Likewise.

TOMAS:      Are there questions or observations?

DORENDA:    I have one question.  I was thinking.  Our mother gives us our 
minds for during this life, and so I was kind of curious about after we leave 
this world, because, Tomas, you are from another world, and Ham is from 
another world, so I was kind of curious about - I know YOU still think.  I 
mean, you just don't get these little scripts handed to you, I imagine, so 
you have to think and you need to develop them, and I'm not meaning to be 
smart-alecky but I just didn't quite get the thing about our minds that we 
use on this world and how maybe our decision-making process or our thinking 
process might happen afterward.

TOMAS:  Yes, I enjoy your thoughts there.  They refer back to the thing about 
the mind that is on loan for you during this intense time of life, the time 
in the flesh.  There are many things which the mind requires to live in this 
kind of form that the human lives in, and while the mind is certainly 
variable and, naturally, will be different in each world, each civilization, 
each culture, each individual, it is still a mind which is appropriately 
created for the mortal creature.  

The mind that you will inhabit and utilize in your afterlife is concerned in 
many ways with a continuance of what you're learning here but it will not be 
so finite, nor will it be so concerned with matters of survival.  So many 
things, as I indicated, can and will be accomplished with this amazing 
mechanism of the mind which you are enjoying now.  Even so, I am working 
mainly with your divine mind, the morontia mind, the mind which is less 
pivotally focused on your survival needs in the flesh and more on your 
survival needs in the spirit.  

The exercise that you've developed with your divine mind now, your morontia 
mind, is going to be immeasurably helpful to you when you resurrect, as you 
will have already conscious experience in using the higher mind, while there 
are millions of people and generations of people here who have hardly touched 
base with their divine mind because the evolution of the races has conspired 
to keep their attention fast fixed to that which was essential.  So you will 
appreciate that our arrival and our work with you is in large part due to the 
fact that your minds have reached the point where your survival is assured in 
the flesh but your higher minds are eager to know more about who you are in 
terms of eternity.

And so I would ask you to conclude that the other creations throughout the 
vast universe, the evolving worlds of creature beings, are indeed recipients 
of the same mortal mind mechanism, but with its own unique needs and 
benefits, appropriate to the life of that individual.  

The realm of the mind is so utterly fascinating.  I am certainly not the only 
teacher in this Teacher Corp who has sat "open-mouthed" and been astounded by 
the evidence of your mind at work.  It is so much like having the opportunity 
to discover a whole new species of creature.  

You enjoy the Discovery channel and looking into the lives of various 
creatures, like lions or other cats, lizards or other reptiles, birds and the 
like, and their mating practices and their feeding practices and their 
migration practices and so forth.  You are no less fascinating, and even 
moreso because of the varieties of minds which have developed from the 
individualism that has been a part of your incredible evolution, as a result 
of the existence thrust upon you by the default of your Material Son and 
Daughter who would have been yet again the replication of the Michael Son and 
his Divine Minister on your world as they are a replication of the Universal 
Father and the Infinite Mind in Paradise.  This pattern reflects all the way 
down to you, as I mentioned before.

But as for the mind that you will use in your "next life", your morontia 
career, you will be then tapping into higher mind energy and a reality that 
is hardly relative to you today in your coccoon of existence here in the 
material life.  Is this helpful?

DORENDA:  Yes.  Thank you.  

MARY JO:  Tomas, I found it interesting that you mentioned animals, and for 
some reason I have had pets on my mind this week, and wondering some 
different things about pets and what purpose they were designed for in our 
life, and also I wondered if you had that type of thing, household pets, in 
your planet.

TOMAS:  Indeed, we did, but I will get back to that.  You are wondering what 
the purpose of animal life is, or the pet itself?

MARY JO: Pets in our lives.  Nearly all of us have household pets - cats, 
dogs, various - and I think they set a good example for us in many ways.  I 
think they are loyal, they're faithful, they depend on us, and they're really 
quite innocent, and they give of their love for us. I think they're pretty 
good examples, in a way, to follow.  I think they show us a lot of good 
things.

TOMAS:  This is a good point of reference for the duplication of the paradise 
pattern of perfection as it works its way down into the lower levels of life. 
 

This relationship that you, as human beings, developed with certain animal 
species, speaks to your own needs and desires for protection and 
companionship.  The success of your domestication of certain animals is a 
result of reciprococity of these animals to find you delightful and necessary 
for survival and companionship, although it is said that dogs are more 
amiable as pets, since cats have such a sense of independence.  But this in 
itself is a reflection of its owner and its legacy.  

You are able to learn about yourself by observing how your pets behave, just 
as teachers are able to learn something from their students.   It may not be 
of eternal value, but it is enhancing, even so, and thus of value, so, for 
you, the value that you have added to your life as a result of the 
association you enjoy with your pets.  You have added a dimension to your 
quality of life that has made you a better person, and this will carry with 
you into your universe career.  It is in this way that animals become exalted 
as having value worth surviving, but they do not, for they are not indwelt 
with the Spirit as you are indwelt with the Spirit, a spark of God Himself, 
while they are, however, infused with the energy and pattern of Paradise 
through Our Mother.  

Therefore it behooves you to tend to your animal creatures as extensions of 
divinity.  As above, so below.  And is it not said you have been given 
dominion over these animals?  It behooves you to know them and their 
practices so that you can honor and respect their way of life as we hope to 
instill in you an appreciation for the ways that other people think and 
believe so that you can honor and respect how they live their lives. 

MARY JO:    Thank you, Tomas.  That was very helpful.

TOMAS:  I would like to recess for a minute.  [Tape turned]

I will tell you now about pets. [Household pet meowed.]  There's one!  You 
see how we greet one another.  This is a dimension of the adjutant mind 
spirits that my world was far more aware of and sensitive to, although it may 
not have been understood in quite those terms.  If you could see what my 
culture was like, the culture I lived in was more integrated with life, such 
that we would not hesitate to relate to any living thing.  

It is customary for you to acknowledge the existence of other human beings, 
perhaps, and certainly register the reality of the animal kingdom, but to go 
so far as to relate to plants is still a stretch for the human imagination.  
But we were mindful of life such that we really did have an appreciation for 
God's omniscience, and when you are aware of the omniscience of God, in that 
He is in every-thing, it is easier for you to see God depicted and reflected 
in all life; therefore, it is easier for you to relate to that life wherever 
it may be found and, since we were comprised of certain evolved energies and 
segregated from certain devolved energies, it was not that we had to be on 
the lookout for dangerous animals or poisonous insects or reptiles -- 
anything that we knew was friendly -- and so the circumstances as I knew them 
in my world were completely different than your appreciation here, but to say 
Did I and we have pets?  Yes, very much so, in that we understood our animals 
and they understood us in ways that you only enjoy with a few species.

We would like to return to the focus of the Mother, and touch a bit upon the 
history of your world.  The evolution of the feminine aspect of deity has 
been thwarted as cruelly as has been the appreciation of the real divinity of 
manhood.  The god and goddess in individuals from this world, Urantia, is 
severely colored and influenced by this world's history which has not been 
fostering any kind of liberation or appreciation of godlikeness until only 
recently.  

Historically speaking, you have all been deprived of your birthright, but in 
the process of reclamation, in the efforts to reunite you with your cosmic 
neighbors, you've been allowed a new glimpse of how it has been in the 
greater universe and you can better see how your history, darkened as it was, 
has inhibited the flowering of men and women both.  For while one is 
oppressed, the other is the oppressor, and neither of these patterns are 
optimum.

There were interesting discussions in our recess.  Are you inclined to share 
your observations and questions with others?

DORENDA:  Well, like Angus said, Paul takes the rap for a lot of the 
subjugation or ignoring of women or of keeping them in a lower place, or 
however you want to call it, but I guess I am kind of curious.  I mean, why 
didn't any of the other disciples - I mean, that's a good point.  Why should 
we just put it all on Paul's shoulders?  Somebody, it seems, could have 
spoken up.

TOMAS:  You can see this better when you put yourself in the apostles' 
immediate circle.  They themselves were mindful of the women's evangelical 
corp, which members were comprised of their wives, mothers and sisters.  They 
were very much aware of the work of these women.  In many cases the women 
were more industrious than their male counterparts.  Thus they could not see 
that they were remiss.  And indeed, this is the way of humankind.  When in 
your immediate circle all is well, it is easy to think that that paradigm 
extends out into greater planetary life. 

Their lives were in turmoil when Jesus was taken from them, and further 
confounded when he rose and greeted them in his spiritized apparition.  Their 
concerns were immediately very personal and very divine.  The matter of 
women's equality was not a high priority, given the challenges they faced, 
for their women were at it still.  

But we can't dwell on Paul as the bad guy here.  He certainly had his faults, 
but to blame the current state of affairs on Paul exclusively is to 
short-change your perspective, for well before Paul you were deprived of the 
paradigm of ideal family life when your Material Son and Daughter, Adam and 
Eve, were unable to carry on their work with you, and this was immediately 
and directly related to and because of the initial disruption to your 
planetary pattern of perfection when the Lucifer rebellion took your world 
and permanently affected your growth.  

Just as I mentioned earlier in the lesson, the mind is the arena wherein you 
choose to advance your spirit reality or halt its progress.  Your progress 
was irrevocably halted at that critical time when he chose to usurp the 
divine plan and do it himself.  And, without casting overmuch negative shadow 
on the male energy of your world, there has been ever since a tendency for 
man to take his realm and control it at the expense of the involvement of 
divinity, and that includes his mate and his children and his property.  

This is in many ways a natural animal trait that you share with the animal 
kingdom, and so in most regards it is a healthy pattern, but in the case of 
rebellion, it has a long range detrimental effect, and so for these many, 
many thousands of years, you men and women have suffered the effects of the 
Lucifer rebellion even in the relationship that exists between you and each 
other, and this is indeed one of the bright and shining areas of 
enlightenment that is coming to be -- the regard for the divinity within you, 
the microcosm of the macrocosm.  Within you lives the Father and the Son and 
the Mother.  Within you resides an element of all that is, for you are a son 
of the Original I AM or a daughter of the Original Trinity, and so that 
element of you which is eternal and divine is in need of illumination as to 
how it is that you will come to recognize in each other what our incredible 
Paradise Family has invited their creation to share with them.

DORENDA:  And I apologize for Paul, too.

TOMAS:  Paul has taken many blows.

DORENDA:    Well can I take that last one back?

TOMAS:      You need not.  He is completely appreciative of the heartfelt 
concern he has as a major player in Christian implantment, of maintaining the 
remembrance of Jesus the Christ through the ages.  This is a heartfelt 
concern he shares with everyone who opts to co-create with God and who runs 
the risk of error in inherent imperfection.  It is in faith, however, such as 
we also have in common with Paul, that that which is good and eternal will 
become activated and actualized in eternity, even as error and shadow will 
fall away in the light of the sun. 

ANGUS:      We also have a tendency to blame Eve for a lot of our problems.

TOMAS:      Indeed, she was a convenient scapegoat for many and an embodiment 
of evil woman, and yet if you yourselves could appreciate the conditions they 
encountered in their assignment here, the realization of what they had to 
contend with, and after all the time that went by in their only experience, 
it would perhaps be a solution you yourself might have considered as having 
merit.  She, too, has taken many hits, and yet her legacy lives on in the 
devotion she shares with mothers everywhere for their mate and their children 
and their homelife.  Just as you experience here.  And so she is more of your 
sister than your mother, even while she is supremely experienced in 
comparison.  

She learned; Paul learned; Lucifer did not.  More's the pity.  We can rebuild 
from any foundation if we have God at the helm.  Any error is able to be 
aligned and arighted if we have a relationship with divinity, but without 
God, we are not.  

In reverence to the triumph of divinity, let us go about our week in awe of 
the many dimensions of divinity.  Love, Mercy, and Action in the world of 
time and space which is your home.

Amen and farewell.

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