[tmtranscripts] 3/9/99 TOMAS

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March 9, 1999
Butler PA Teacher Base
Subject:  Islands/Relationships
Teacher:  Tomas
T/R:  Gerdean

GROUP:	Claireesa, Angus, Gerdean, Hunnah and Rachel

TOMAS:	Good evening, beloved flock.  I am Tomas, your teacher, your friend,
your guide and your companion.  How are you all this evening?

GROUP:	Good evening, Tomas.  Welcome.

TOMAS:	It is wonderful to be here and feel your vibrant presences.  We are
very grateful for your application this evening in your musing of spiritual
matters.  When you consciously apply yourself to your own spiritual growth,
and in company with one another, you have opened the door to us, far more
readily than if you were thrusting a responsibility upon your teachers to
bring you in from recess or to wrench your attention from your text, but as I
say, your discussions this evening have made it easy to bridge the gap in
addressing your soul needs and therefore, in the long run, the needs of those
to whom you minister and teach and preach as you pass by.

For surely, borrowing upon your excerpt, you encounter many individuals in
your lives who may be difficult to love at first blush.  It is one of the
difficulties on your world even now, as a result of its not having had an
example of a loving administration and an example of divine family in action.
You who have begun to know the Father's love have begun to feel the heart and
soul connection with the Father and with His agents, including those among you
in the flesh who have been able to receive the understanding of divine love to
the extent that you collectively have been able to give this same attribute.
It thus brings me to my lesson, a lesson you know well, and that is the value
of relationship.

As Jesus taught the gospel is the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
man.  Now if you look upon each other as segregated, isolated individualists
without due connection, you will find little in common with which to bridge
the gap from here to eternity.  But as you recognize the connection with one
another through divinity, then you have a different accord with which to
appreciate your association with your fellows.  If you look at a human being
as someone apart from you, you stand as an island.  You yourself stand alone.

Yes, islands.  Indeed I will discuss the element of relationship prior to the
opening of the circuits.  Not long ago there were in fact relationships based
upon values which have been held in high regard from time immemorial and the
relationship between Father in heaven and the child on earth was supreme and
revered and honored by many.  And yet as we have been able to begin to
perceive the effects of the opening of the circuits, the connection between
you all has become so viable as to create an entire new reality.  This new
reality is affecting everything, and is certain to affect your relationships
and bring about an enhanced understanding of your relationship with your
fellowman because of your relationship with divinity, your Creator.

You have been called upon to be born again and now as a result of your having
been born again, all things are born again, including your relationships and
your perception of relations, and thus your societies will change, your
industries will change, your methods of doing business, all facets of live
will be altered because of your enhanced appreciation of relationship as a
direct result of your rebirth.  And an understanding of what that means in
terms of the living organism of the universe.

No longer will you, who have an understanding of what's going on, no longer
can you walk past a fellow mortal on the street and be unaware of their
presence, for they are now suddenly a reflection of Father and having to do
with you.  They are now a part of your reality.  All of your lives you have
more or less maintained yourselves as functioning efficient and even
affectionate islands.  You have kept your feelings in check, your emotions
under wraps, your thoughts relatively to yourself, your faith certainly
submerged, and you have minded your own business.  

But now all of life is your business and your perspective is changed.  It will
take some time before you have fully grasped the reality of this new way of
life, for you are creatures of habit and you have much conditioning in your
behaviors and thinking that you must become aware of and glean the value of
and discard so that you may fully embrace the greater reality which will be
revealed to you through your trusting association with your indwelling God
fragment, that loyal divine fragment which untireingly asserts itself to
embrace you fully, and as  you agree to work with it, your life will be even
more invigorated and the people next to you will become even more valuable to
you because of your sense of awareness of the potential of the perfection of
the life surrounding you and within you.

Relationship.  The T-shirt that was featured at the Celestial Nights retreat
indicates the space between thee and me forevermore will be sacred.  This
implies a divine connection, a certain sublimity of environment which will
pervade our atmosphere, inasmuch as we are both and all embraced by divine
light, divine love, divine life.  This leaves us no longer alone as an island,
but as a part of the wave upon the shore of the new reality.  Be mindful then
of how your energy configuration impacts upon that being in your proximity.
Being an island is no longer the most effective approach, for your self-
containment provides a barrier now to the living love that is sacred and alive
between you.

I have enjoyed my opportunity to discourse with you this evening on this
matter for I realize how dear it is to your heart, you who have found such joy
in your associations and you who also have such coldness, even when among
many.  What a phenomenon it is, indeed, as a mortal human being on Urantia.
It is truly full of adventure and opportunity, challenge and difficulty -
enough to whet even my appetite!  Are there questions this evening?

CLAIREESA:		Tomas, I have a question.
TOMAS:	My dear, I am honored to attend to you.  May I assist in some way?

CLAIREESA:		Yes.  A situation happened this week where I was in a store
shopping.  There was a man who came in who I couldn't understand.  It sounded
like jabber-jaber-jabber-jabber-jabber.  But the clerk seemed to know him and
know what he wanted and he wanted a tape, a recording tape, and they only sold
them in packs of three, and he had all his pennies on the counter and he
didn't have enough.  My first impulse was to just give him the money for the
tape, and then I thought - a fear, I guess, sort of came into it as I thought,
"Oh, jeez, what if he follows me out of the store and keeps talking to me.  I
won't know what in the world he is saying!"  Therefore, I missed an
opportunity, I feel, to be of some service, only because of fear of someone
who was so different, and I need help with that.

TOMAS:	You have, in fact, revealed to us all that it was your fear of not
understanding him that stood between you and the opportunity for service, and
this is certainly something for you to discuss with Jesus in your prayer time
with Him for this is something you can garner divine wisdom from The Father.
And yet, inasmuch as you have asked me to respond to your question, I would
suggest that given all the circumstances, your initial instinct was to be of
service and thus you are true to your altruistic motives and it would have
done you well, considering he did not ask you directly to be of service, to
rather observe the interchange between the gentleman and the proprietor of the
store, for therein was the initial relationship.

I sense you have not understood my response.

CLAIREESA:		So it's sort of like, when the interaction is between two people
that doesn't really involve you, don't butt in?

TOMAS:	In that situation, I would say so, and it's not so much a matter of
butting in, but in being of service and being attentive to the relationship of
the primary players in the scene, it is possible that, had you not blocked
your desire to be of service by your fear of not understanding his language,
that you might have been able to be drawn in naturally to the interchange
between the two, thus enlarging the community by a natural inclusion.
Remember the Father indwells these beings.  It may have been the better part
of valor for you to withhold the giving of alms for you know not what his
propensities are and the proprietor does, you see.

It would have given you an opportunity, perhaps, to observe more fully the
far-reaching, further-reaching effects of such a desire to be of service and
thus you could have made a well-informed decision as to whether or not to
respond to your initial instinct which was to be of service.  You did fine,
daughter.  You did well.  But as to the matter of being afraid of not being
able to understand a man's "jabber", I do recommend you take the matter to the
Master himself, for His response.

CLAIREESA:		Thank you, Tomas.  I think I have insight into the answer already.
Thank you very much.

TOMAS:	You are very welcome, daughter.  It is a pleasure to be with you and to
afford each of us the opportunity to further our friendship and association.
Are there other questions?

RACHEL:	Not from me, Tomas.  I'm pretty much drained.  I did my move.
TOMAS:	Yes, we see the effects of your many decorations.  It looks lovely.

RACHEL:	(Chuckle) Thank you.  And I thank you for encouraging me to step out,
for truly I experienced God in action.  Truly I did.

TOMAS:	Let's not stop now!

RACHEL:	No, I'm not stopping now, but I have to rest for a little while. I'm
pretty much drained.

TOMAS:	It is well to remember balance, yes, and to attend to your mortal
vessel.  I will take that as a cue to remind you all of your physical beings.
When I spoke to you earlier about your being connected to one another, it is
also true that you share a certain modicum of literal physicality, for as your
electro-chemical system manifests into your environment, it permeates
environments abutting yours.  

If, for instance, you are hyper-vigilant, your hyper-vigilance will reflect
itself upon your neighbor.  If you are depressed from perhaps poor diet, your
depression will waft into the environment of your associates.  And so not only
are you manifesting personality, you are also manifesting chemistry, if you
will, and it is important that you be aware of what and who you are and what
you are manifesting into your environment, for it will impact upon your
neighbor.

I am reminded of the phrase "socially fragrant."  Socially fragrant does not
mean expensive perfume.  Socially fragrant means having a loving and healthy,
clear and clean thinking mind, body and spirit.  I ask you all to look closely
at your machine and see to it, within your ability, that it is operating at
maximum efficiency, for then you will be most effective and as you are more
effective spiritually, you will be more happy emotionally.  They are all
connected.  Once again we are reminded of relationship.

I will remove myself for your second phase.  It has been a pleasure.  I will
see you soon.  Good night.

GROUP:	Thank you to administering to our spiritual growth.  Good night.