[tmtranscripts] MERIUM et al at CN

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 CELESTIAL NIGHTS RETREAT
 Cape San Blas, Florida
 Late night, February 20, 1999
 Teachers:  Merium, Aaron and Will
 T/R/'s:  Gerdean and Bob Devine
 
 MERIUM:	I heard someone ask for a bedtime story.  I am Merium.  I am your big
 sister, and I am the storyteller.
 
 RACHEL & GROUP:		Hi, Merium.
 
 MERIUM:	All my lovely children, how you delight us.  I have been sitting here
 with my peers, other teachers, enjoying your party.  We have been observing
 your mortal behavior.
 
 GROUP:	(Uproarious laughter)  Please bring us to a higher level!
 RACHEL:	Sorry, Merium.
 
 MERIUM:	That is quite alright.  We are long accustomed to you children.
 GROUP:	(Uproarious laughter)
 
 MERIUM:	Many times we wait not just moments, not just hours, but lifetimes.
 And so we are bemused by your delight in one another and it is indeed a
 delight to us to acknowledge your revelry in good faith and in good will of
 your fellowship through Christ Michael.  It is altogether seemly that you
 should frolic as joyous children.  I had observed some of my elders here
 observing how hedonistic your behaviors can be 

 
 GROUP:	(Loud chuckles)
 MERIUM:	
 and someone brought up the subject of the golden calf, but 

 GROUP:	(Loud dismayed laughter)  None of us!
 
 MERIUM:	
 I reminded them that these delightful children are Father's
children
 and I am accustomed to playing on the floor with my children, as I have said
 many times, and so they have sent me out to greet you, for I understand you.
 I am a child myself.  I am perhaps a little older, but truly not much wiser.
 But at any rate, your shenanigans have been very much like healthy children
 scampering after a big family picnic, excited on spirits of one sort or
 another 

 
 GROUP:	(Laughter)  Whoops!
 
 MERIUM:	
 and reluctant to settle down to hear your bedtime story and to say
 your prayers, but we have come now at your invitation to address you and to
 help you get tucked in so that you will be able to sleep peacefully, knowing
 that on the morrow your Son will rise again and you will bask again in the
 gaity and the peace that is yours because we are loved by our Eternal
Parents.
 
 You are delightful children.  I am glad to be your friend.  I will move aside
 and allow another, perhaps elder teacher, to address you.
 
 GROUP:	Thank you, Merium.  Good night.
 
 AARON:	Greetings, friends.  I am Aaron.  It is my pleasure to be present
among
 your pleasantries this evening.  You have been moving to the harmonies this
 evening and in this light I would like to direct your thoughts to a different
 sort of harmony, that harmony which is the interaction of two personalities
 with each other.  Each interaction you face is an opportunity to play the
 instruments you have been given and we have been pleased to recognize that
you
 are willing to face each other with high intent, even amidst your human
 activities.  
 
 The lifting of your will into alignment with God's will is the tuning of your
 instrument so that you may someday play in an orchestra that tours the
 universe.  Recognize that your opportunities are endless, that no one moment
 can identify your eternity, and that your moments of purely human pleasure,
 while being rudimentary to the eyes of spirit beings, bring you into a
 grounding place such that you recognize your roots, only do we like to point
 out that you are capable of rising from the material to the spiritual
 progressively, so please do not see our wording as being disciplinary so much
 as to point out our own efforts at understanding human behavior.  
 
 You are here for a purpose, to fellowship with God's family and to enjoy one
 another and you have been doing this admirably.  Simply keep in mind that the
 transition forward can be aided by your moments of reversion.  Your energy is
 wonderfully vibrant this evening.  That is all.
 
 GROUP:	Good night, Aaron.  Thank you.
 
 LUGENIA:	Were we going to have a bedtime story?  Tell us a story.  Merium is
 the storyteller.
 
 MERIUM:	How demanding you are, child!
 GROUP:	(Laughter)
 MERIUM:	Have you not heard that we tell the same story again and again?
 GROUP:	(Mocking laughter)
 
 MERIUM:	The fascination of the bedtime story is not the story but the ritual
 of telling the story.  I will tell you this story, Princess, and that is that
 you have shown us in your behaviors this evening, in coming together around
 this hearth, this fire, that you know how to lift up Urantia.  By your group
 purpose this evening, you have mastered yourselves sufficiently, you have
 given in to your spirit hunger, you have brought yourselves encouragement by
 your music, by your psalms.  You have joined hands and done a ring-around-
the-
 rosey that has enabled you to be still sufficiently to hear again the
greatest
 story ever told.  You are our children and you are greatly loved.
 
 Now, as you go off into dreamland, as you think about your hopes for
tomorrow,
 as you think about your regrets of yesterday, think about these things in a
 magnified fashion and think about the hopes of the universe for you and for
 your fellows.  Think about the hopes of your fellows.  Do they have the same
 horizon that you have?  Do they know the same joys?  Do they have the
 assurance of sonship?  Are they privy to the same bedtime story that you
 savor, that you discard as having heard before?
 
 This story has saving grace, and you have in you the ability to bring this
 story to other children who cry themselves to sleep at night for they feel
 they are alone.  How out heart wrings for these babies who sit on the
doorstep
 of humanity not even knowing to knock, not even knowing they can come in if
 they but knock.
 
 The Master has called you to go out and find his lost sheep.  Find his
babies,
 and welcome them into your hearth, your home, the home that Michael has
 provided and that we are provided and that we are happy to play in and to
 serve in, that we belong to as his children.
 
 Once upon a time there was a little girl who longed for a blue dress.  
 
 SOMEONE:	(Something about) a red dress.
 MERIUM:	That is all.
 
 WILL:		Yes, I am Will, your friend and teacher.  I have few words tonight,
but
 did want to extend my greetings to you.  Thank you for your journey to this
 place of union.  Keep singly in your mind this evening before you go and lose
 consciousness, if you would, the union of spirit with soul.  Your embrace
with
 one another is reflective of degrees of spirit development that has been
aided
 by your eye upon the Father, your internal Guide, your truest Companion.  If
 you would spend a few moments in stillness this evening, remembering the
 ultimate Source of your unity, I would be grateful, as this is our purpose in
 coming to you, and thus my evening's mission is fulfilled.  Welcome to
 Florida.
 
 GROUP:	Thank you, Will.  Good night.
 
 

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