[tmtranscripts] 01-20-01.SPOKANE TEAM

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DATE & TIME:  Saturday, January 20, 2001; 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION:  Spokane, WA, USA
TEACHER(S):  TOMAS, ONAGAR
TOPICS:  Time.  Teaching.
T/R:  Gerdean

TOMAS: Good afternoon, faithful flock.  I am Tomas, one of many teachers 
ministering to the children of Satania who have yearned for and been 
bequeathed the rightful connection with its peer worlds in the galactic 
neighborhood of Norlatiadek.  One of the overlooked factors is that:  when we 
work with you on your world, this world Urantia which has been isolated, we 
are also contributing to the advancing status of those other planets which 
were thwarted by the dis-en-circuitment.  Of all the immediate environmental 
exigencies, this is the one that allows for the growth of your world to be 
also affecting the growth of those other worlds which were isolated.
The light that you begin to give off, that is as a heart-throb in this system 
of Satania, is a pulse beat that registers On High that you are alive and 
well, and thriving in the universe again.  Even as a babe in an incubator, 
you are living, fighting to survive, hungry, and filled with potential. 

There is a visitor this afternoon.  This visitor has been an inspiration for 
many, and I will not dwell on his accomplishments, only to say that he is 
well-known throughout this System as one with tenure.  I welcome to our 
configuration a representation of the person Onagar, a member of the Counsel 
of 24 and an icon of Old Man Time.  

ONAGAR: Greetings.  Thank you, most gracious child.  You perhaps see me as 
decrepit and more crooked that the branch of an old tree, but I am – you will 
excuse me – beautiful.  Because of my many experiences, not because of my 
physical appearance.  The fact is what I regard now as beautiful is far 
different than that which was beautiful to me when in my youth.  

This perspective on age is largely wasted on you, even though your 
perspective is a viable appreciation of what time is in your sphere, your 
life in your society in this year of your world development.  When I was 
here, yes, when I was here in the early dawn of Urantia, I was a brief point 
in time, as brief in perspective as a snowflake on a sunny day.  It is the 
experience of time that allows for the perspective that can arrange for you a 
realization of how the organism of life is a bigger reality than the falling 
snowflake can perceive.  

What is a million years to me?  I have only begun my eternal career.  No, I 
have no resentment nor regret about my life.  Those errors of experiential 
living are long since assimilated into the greater reality; the error is as 
if it had not been in the face of that which has become the reality of today 
in the unfoldment of perfection in the worlds of time and space.  I have, as 
if I were a grandfather, had the opportunity to observe Urantia advance as I 
advanced, in time, through the psychic circles and spheres of light and life, 
as I met these values en route to Jerusem where I am ensconced today in 
company with my progeny.  

I am, indeed, honored to be a part of the Counsel and to be what you might 
consider an elder statesman in my position.  It has been a great source of 
satisfaction to see the errors of time being corrected and to witness the 
heroic feats of noble souls advance in cosmic consciousness.  Therefore I 
feel very much like the Father must feel, with His children -- his Sons, his 
Sons' sons, his grandsons, and on and on – grandchildren down the line, all 
advancing into perfection.  

How I am touched and amused by the perspective that you entertain when you 
wonder if I am not impatient to advance, having been around in this little 
corner of the galaxy for such a long time.  You who are so brief in your 
existence!  Is my Adjuster impatient?  I have no sense that IT IS any more 
than I AM, for we are active being who WE ARE, doing what WE DO, according to 
divine will.  

Thank you for pulling me out of the mothballs of history to implant me on 
your current page of recognition of Who's Who in the universe and where we 
might be when and as we encounter one another en route to Paradise.  Carry on 
in your configuration and enjoy your meeting.

TOMAS: Tomas here to reiterate our guest's message that wisdom is a product 
of experience. His presence helps put into perspective the striving for an 
attainment of full authority of one's self, one's purpose.  Perhaps you will 
remember to be more patient with yourself and your relative status as you 
ponder the experience of Onagar, he who prayed for protection against the 
curse of the ice.  He is an icon you can use even today, you who live in 
these climates where ice and snow are a major factor in your existence.  

The conditions of your fuel availability and costs are evidentiary of the 
merits of Onagar's prayer nearly a million years ago.  With the influx of the 
new age, the introducing of the frontier of the mind, having gathered around 
you the high tech tools to make it possible, and a new calendar millennia to 
effect a new buoyant attitude, and yes, indeed, even today a new President 
inaugurated into your midst to provide hopes that a curse of the ice and 
other reflections of mortality can be dealt with maturely and gregariously 
for all of earth's children.  

Those of us who have implanted ourselves in your lives are here to make a 
difference, are here to help you make a difference.  Even if it only is 
presented by your earnest prayers for divine intervention and protection from 
isolation or eradication.  We aim to bring you encouragement in your efforts 
to forestall the curse of the ice and the cold attitudes of any icy reality, 
without the life-giving warmth of the Son, the Michael Son that infuses the 
breath of life into the children of time to embark them upon a path toward 
dancing, loving, giving, learning, leaping in enthusiasm and joy for the 
bounties and opportunities and invigorating challenges of an advancing race 
of people.

The challenge indeed is ours, and I, with you, hope to be one of those 
progeny of Onagar who can look up to those who have preceded us as having the 
experiential wisdom that can inspire us to keep going when times get rough 
and who bring such a sense of pride and fulfillment when they do come, as 
advancing souls in the mission of Michael to conjoin all His creation in 
adoring acknowledgement of our Eternal Parents in Paradise.  

Are there questions this afternoon?  

THOROAH:    I don't have any particular questions, Tomas.  

GERDEAN:  I have a question, Tomas, and it's – I don't mean to be rude to 
Onagar whose visit I thoroughly enjoyed, but I am reminded now of other 
members of the Counsel and if they are there and what would it be like to be 
able to visit with Porshunta, who was another early spiritual leader in her 
time who was known as an Oracle.  I, as a T/R, am fascinated by the fact that 
she was here and is known as the Oracle of Delphi and how did she mediate the 
message, the morontial messages to the mortals of her time, if it was similar 
to the practice that we engage in.  

TOMAS: Yes, Gerdean, it is a natural question to wonder about.  I will not 
grant you access today to Porshunta.  Perhaps she will visit sometime and you 
can be assured of the opportunity to inquire, but for now, for today, I am 
going to leave it as it is as far as guests.  I hear you asking if Onagar is 
older than I am and I tell you he is.  I am not as advanced as you might want 
to think, my loyal friend.  I am not gone yet beyond Jerusem myself.  Being 
an ascended mortal and having more experience is as highly relative as time 
itself.  Let's invite discourse through an intermission.

            [Intermission]