[tmtranscripts] Thought, Word & Deed (05-22-97.PGH)

[Gerdean]

DATE: May 22, 1997
LOCATION: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
T/Rs: Gerdean and Hunnah

Study: 
Paper 8: The Infinite Spirit 
Reading from T/R News Network

Teacher Session:
Topic: Godlike Behavior in Thought, Word and Deed

TOMAS: Good evening. What a bounty! How marvelous to have you all here. It is a feast, a feast of plenty. Even so, with such a captive audience, I will not keep you this evening. Your evening has moved along at a merry clip and you have accomplished much, but indeed I would be disappointed not to participate and to greet you and to yet plant more seeds of growth, albeit, I have not seen the fruits of our efforts of our assignment last week and already this evening you have the enticement of Malvantra's intriguing assignment. But you are such an eager lot, so hungry for involvement, for work and play in the spirit realms, I will give you yet another course. It has to do, of course, with your text and your lesson on the Infinite Spirit.

Those of you who have been following along have been aware that we have been very slowly but systematically assigning a project of observing personality as representational of the First Source and Center, and that as you observe personality you feel an impulse, as representing the Eternal Son. For two weeks now we have hovered on the brink but have not acted; now you see why we have not acted. We have been waiting for the Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Actor, to complete the Trinity and also to complete your personal comprehension of trinity as you choose to personalize the God experience.

I realize that many of you find the text academic and remote from your personal interests, even in its acknowledging your incomprehension of its information. You are, even still, a microcosm inasmuch as you are of potential immortal status. You are to be perfect even as He is perfect. How can you become perfect in your realm without knowing how the Father is perfect in His realm? Why do you need to know of his nature and attributes if it is not also true that you have a shadowy reflection of these same attributes?

God consciousness and sonship is more than an academic understanding. It is a reality. It is a living experience. And so as you choose to experience life and, to some extent, try to comprehend a parallel between you and God. It has been presented thus in your text and in our corresponding lessons, so you may personalize what it is they are discussing when they discuss the First, Second and Third Sources and Centers: the Thought-God, the Word-God and the Deed-God. And then there is you. There is your thought, your word and your deed. This is why our long pondering over the word "motive." What are your motives when you stand facing personality? Are your motives selfish or are they in line with your desire to be God-like, to be perfect in your realm as He is in His realm?

Recall that as the Father and the Son come together in agreement, instantly the Infinite Spirit acts, and the same occurs in your own make-up. When you present yourself as a willing extension of Paradise, to function with and for and in harmony with the perfect pattern of Paradise, what is your thought? what is your word? what is your deed? If your thought and your word are in harmony, the spirit then will wash you into deed.

Remember it is said in your text that religionists act. A spiritual life is a dynamic life, and even if they do it wrong, they will do something. It is because of their willingness to perceive that they are guided in their efforts to serve that religionists do something. They open themselves to the activation of the Infinite Spirit, as do I and as do you. 

And so now when you feel that these matters are far removed from you, that the realms of Havona cannot be comprehended, recall that although that may be true, they can, even so, be lived as a miniscule representation of the perfection of Paradise and you can be aware of it. You can be part of this thrilling adventure, this enthralling experience.

Next study there will be more about the Third Source and Center. I anticipate it will enlarge your capacity for understanding even more after you have pondered the picture I have painted for you this evening and if you are willing to personalize this picture.

Are there questions?

Elizabeth: I like the picture which you gave us, about how to bring these concepts into our thinking about our very own selves and our very own lives and our very own thoughts and our very own actions, so I really thank you very much, Tomas, for that. 

That's good. A bit of help for me, anyway. Thank you.

TOMAS: Thank you, Elizabeth, for your keen observation. I spoke earlier this week in the Butler group regarding the concept of the Conjoint Actor, and this may express to your creative mortal minds somewhat more the nature of the Conjoint Actor, for you recall the text made reference to the stage being set, and so I will bring in "the theater" - for all of you have love for the theater; even your Shakespeare (one of those wonderful books) spoke of the world being a stage and the men thereon being actors.

But on Tuesday I was elaborating this concept of personality expression in and through the Father and the Spirit by suggesting that you identify your evolving nature -- Your spiritual identity, it says, "Father, thy will be done. Thank you for this gift of life. How may I serve?" You are presented then with a personality, a challenge, an opportunity. And the Eternal Son's impulse impacts you to serve, and to serve with mercy. And you check your motives; you connect with your God fragment; you ascertain that it is your will that His will be done and at that instant you are then filled with the energy wherewith to follow through on the particular assignment/engagement/challenge.

Now in our studies, for the last several weeks, we have looked at the personality of you who have been assigned spiritual names, who have recognized your spiritual identity, have identified with those qualities within yourself which are eternal, which are aspects of the divine. You have looked at your humanness, at your animal legacy, your character defects. We have laughed together at our common imperfections and accepted our own failings, and those of each other, in love.

It is that imperfect person, that animal personality that lives this material life, that associates with other beings of animal origin, that has in common survival matters, family matters, work matters, emotional matters, those things which make you part of this human race, the arena in which you work and play. And you have your higher nature and your human nature. The higher nature is the part that wants to do God's will, and the human nature is the part that gets influenced by the tide pool of the material existence. 

The key here is to allow your higher nature to pull the strings, to have reign over your lesser nature, to allow your higher nature to take your animal persona into your arena therein to function, but not be guided and led by its own instincts, no, rather, guided and led by that aspect of relative perfection that you grab onto in your aspiration to do His will and to serve.

This requires (getting back to my original premise) acting. But if you are the creator, if you are the Stage Manager under the Big Director in The Sky, then you will subordinate your animal personality sufficiently that your more spiritized personality can prevail.

You all know something about acting, for if you were to take a keen look at yourself, you would all realize that you do a great deal of it. You have all been taught how to act. If you realize this - that much of your behavior is method acting - we will have a much greater scope of understanding the play in which you find yourself.

I feel a little -- what is the word? "Scrunched." This is a very poignant discussion -- poignant to my mind, at least, and important also to my mind as to how you perceive your own microcosm of Godliness in action through an understanding of these Paradise Trinity Beings. This is such a fascinating juncture, where it is that you launch into action. I can only trust, as I have in the past, that the reality of the moment, of the lesson, of the capacity, of the text, of the whole nine yards, will prevail in due course, in due time. It is a challenge.

Merium, I see you are smiling. Have you stamina for a contribution this evening?

MERIUM: Good evening. My contribution shall be very brief, and hopefully will have a flutter of wings attached to it. I would like to say "Be of good cheer!" This has been pretty heavy going, and many, many small images have come forth to me like servings from Hunnah, and I have refused them, but I want to have you be of good cheer and, with your imagery, imagine having a Great One who has many names and many titles accompanying you, his arm around your shoulder, and let this wonderful part of you companion you in your daily affairs and allow your awareness and understanding to come to you.

"This is the Way. Walk thee therein." There are many lines of scripture that have floated through Hunnah's mind while Tomas has been talking and I encourage you to open your windows and let the fresh air and the sweet reminders come in as little birds accompany you in your daily adventures. Do not make this a hardship; do not make this difficult for yourselves. You are doing so well; you are so greatly and dearly loved. 

That is all I wanted to say, Tomas.

TOMAS: Merium, thank you for saying it. I don't know what it is about the feminine persona, but I don't have it and Merium does. Butterfly wings, voile, and all that jazz. (Group laughter)

Elizabeth: You make a great combination, though.

MERIUM: We do not know how this conversation would be if it were a male dominated group, and it would be most amusing and very jolly, I think, if we did have many men here because the words would be appropriate for them, and since this has been a predominantly female group, the wording has been embroidered to meet their needs.

TOMAS: My colleague is alluring and flirtatious, as well! I agree that the yearning for the male mind is meritorious. Even so, we thrive.

Elizabeth: Yep. We do. 

TOMAS: Have we questions?


Iyana: I would like to say that Yogananda said that the whole world is a great big movie and all of us are actors in a play. And we know that often through our lifetimes that we have acted as though somebody expected us to act this way and have not been our true self, but since we've been on the path I think that most of us have been our true selves all the time. Our true selves meaning that we are the daughter of God and just trying to do His will because it is our will to do so.

TOMAS: It is the striving that matters, indeed.

MERIUM: I would like all of you to observe yourself when you were in a mode of appreciation of yourself. When do you like yourself the best? What are you doing when you are at your best? That will be a clue.

Group: (Giggling and whispering)

Hester: Do you want an answer?

Group: (General deterioration into talking all at once then taking off in their own direction)

TOMAS: If you don't mind, I will ask Merium if she has completed her thought.

MERIUM: I have not only completed my thought but I think that the portion of the evening that we are involved in has been completed.

TOMAS: I am inclined to agree with you, Merium. I believe that they have run off on us. (Group laughter) I assure you we are not slighted, for we have done our job and now we can sit back and observe your social portion, but I will say that we are interested. Not only are we interested and desirous of you to follow through with your assignments, but you need the practice in terms of your disciplined sharing.

Think this week upon all these things: our lesson of this evening, which will be extended; the reading of the lesson and exercise of Malvantra, which will also be extended; and, of course, your observation of personality which you find so fascinating. I can see that you have too much homework already, so I will withdraw and confirm Merium's good advice - to be light of spirit and not ponderous but indeed enjoy this springtime of the season and of the spirit. 

Until next week, then, my friends ...

Leah: Excuse me, Tomas. I have a question. Will you and/or your associates be bringing us a word this week? similar to what was in the (Malvantra's) transmission?

TOMAS: It is perhaps not obvious to you, but we have been making attempts all along to make contact. It is, I guess, redundant to say that only as you are made aware of it are you able to begin to be cognizant of its actual possibility.

Of course you may be open to words, concepts and messages, for you realize that the planet is being literally pelted. We are serious about this stuff, you see. We are at it night and day, and so yes, Leah, be aware of these impressions that come to you in your super-conscious mind and/or in your very center of being.

They may flash upon you as a literal word from your awareness or from Hester's dictionary, but they are often indications of subjects to ponder. "Spring" obviously for new beginnings and fluidity, as in living water, and the season itself. In lyana's case, "health" was an indication to pay attention, and so she did and so she has and we are happy that she is well and with us today. These messages are constantly being given to you by your spirit helpers, and the more that you can believe that they are there attempting to assist you, the more you are willing to be open to the assistance they have to offer.

Leah: I thank you for your discourse. I just thought we would be given a specific word this week in the manner that was discussed in the transmission.

TOMAS: You may be assured. I cannot say who it is that will give you a word, whether it will be from the realm of the Teaching Corps, the angelic corps, the United Midwayers, a visiting student, a Melchizedek Teacher, Michael himself, your own Thought Adjuster, or whomever in that great array of personalities --

Leah: I know I'm being picky here but I got the impression when I heard the article that everyone in that group was given one word. That's what I'm attempting to ask.

Elizabeth: We weren't quite finished with the lesson, I don't think, because, I thought it was going to be for two weeks. We would discuss it for two weeks.

Leah: Oh! Okay. Thank you. Now I understand. Thank you very much.

TOMAS: I am out of here.

Group: (Laughter) Thank you! 'Bye Tomas. We love you.










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