[tmtranscripts] 6/30/01 - SPOKANE TEACHER BASE

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DATE: June 30, 2001
LOCATION: Spokane, WA
T/R: Gerdean
    TEACHER: Paulo
    TOPIC: Dynamics of "the Spirit of the Spirit"

PAULO: Good afternoon, friends and neighbors.  Paulo here.  We've been out 
and about.  I don't know if you noticed but I've been gone for several weeks. 
 I have had a good time and I'm glad to be back to pick up where you are in 
your development, which is not too bad, all things considered.  In my travels 
I have seen less than my desired allotment of illumination.  Any kind of 
illumination is something that can be worked with.  Any flicker of substance 
or shadow of reality is a thread to be picked up and woven into the greater 
garment.  When there is not any opening, it matters not how well prepared you 
may be to open your mouth and allow your pearls to roll forth, for the avenue 
is just not there without creature willingness to open up and breathe in the 
atmosphere of deity.  

I see you had quite a bonfire going on here last week-end.  I was on the 
sidelines observing,  always happy to take a back seat to the Melchizedek 
teachers and the ministries of Michael and Nebadonia, but it's also good to 
have a platform to which I may aspire to reach you and dedicate myself to 
those flickers of faith which will give rise eventually to solid spiritual 
reality.  Have you got anything to say or question in response to the many 
avenues of morontia thought and human awareness that have presented 
themselves for you in this area in the past month or so?  

THOROAH: The introduction, as blatantly as it was made by Rob Crickett, of 
the "heretofore missing member of our parents" (I'm referring to Nebadonia), 
has been key to me in bringing a lot of things together.  The clarification 
of the Holy Spirit; the completion in my mind of the Holy Trinity and the 
pattern of the Trinity down through our lives from Paradise; and the major 
visualization that I have now of Mother being every bit as important to my 
spiritual life as Michael and the Paradise Father, or Indwelling Adjuster, is 
almost like it hasn't been a missing ingredient, but it's one that has lacked 
a certain personification.

PAULO: Mr. Crickett has made major inroads into revealing how dynamic the 
Holy Spirit is - the Spirit of the Spirit.  You have not been unaware of this 
influence; however, it has not made such an impact on you until you have – 
shall we say – put two and two together through his demonstration of what the 
dynamic can be when the son of God and the daughter of God allow the Holy 
Family to work its wonders within the parameters of that mortal's capacities. 
 

It's also true that when you set out on a faith adventure you set out with 
determina-tion in your heart but it is still a personal effort, and as you 
share your intent to set out on this adventure, and as others accept your 
decision and offer to go with you, or offer you supplies or maps or 
guidelines, food or furs, you feel fortified by their support and you may go 
in company with others or you may forge ahead individually but you have a 
different sense of strength.  

You are not alone any longer.  Having the support of your community is the 
pillar that holds up much social action, the prop that supports group effort. 
 And as you know, at least academically, ten persons can accomplish more in 
teamwork than they can as ten persons individually.  In fact, ten persons 
working together on a project exponentially amount to far more than merely 
ten, but a hundredfold and more because of the group dynamic, because of the 
consolidation of your efforts, because of your camaraderie in the Spirit of 
things that constitutes work in the field, that gets things done, that is 
that element of divinity that represents Action.

There are many points herein that will no doubt be bringing you a steady 
stream of reminders for the balance of the season of what powers the Spirit 
of the Divine Minister provides - the Universal Mother Spirit through her 
Daughter, Michael's Consort, and through the personalities throughout the 
far-flung universes of ministering spirits who are the arms and legs of their 
realm of influence as you are the arms and legs of your realm of influence 
here on Urantia.  

It's interesting because there is inherent in the word "dynamic" a certain 
conflict in perception.   "Dynamic" shares the root word with "dynamite" and 
dynamite in haphazard application is indeed dangerous.  Even personalities 
who are dynamic have often been interpreted as egos out of control, 
egomaniacs, self-centered people who want to steal the show.  At the same 
time, the text book talks about "dynamic personalities" of the sons and 
daughters of God and they are rendered dynamic because of the force of the 
Father, Mother and Son.

You well may begin to have a new appreciation for the Mother.  You may begin 
to perceive of those energies on a level that goes beyond your superficial 
assumptions of something feminine or female as having its base of reality in 
the women/females you have known in the mortal sense and not in the Third 
Source and Center of Paradise that is a part and parcel of God itself - the 
action aspect of deity.  As your mentor mentioned recently, in many ways the 
Father thinks and the Son talks but the Mother does.  

This is what Rob Crickett's ministry demonstrates - the doing of it, the 
action of it, the dynamics of a spiritual life.  The distrust that some of 
you met him with had to do with your limited understanding of what each 
individual son of God is capable of, given the proper motivation and infusion 
of the Spirit of the Father, the Spirit of the Son, and the Spirit of the 
Spirit.  

The authority of the male dominated dogma of the Judeo-Christian lineage 
throws the Mother into the back of the synagogue, or holding down the fort in 
Salvington, or in the person of Mary the mother of Jesus, a docile and 
subservient saint.  These depictions of the Divine Minister and her powers 
are insignificant in comparison to her authority and influence in the lives 
of all her children.  

The liberation of womankind is giving rise to a demand that God be a Mother 
as well as a Father, and it is unseemly for anyone to be put in a position of 
having to demand the rights of their God, as if a Universal Mother Spirit had 
no vote of her own.  Thus, as you get to know Her better, as you familiarize 
yourself with the Spirit of the Spirit in your own life, as you activate 
yourself, as you personally enter into phase two of this Teaching Mission, as 
you wrap around yourself a pattern of Paradise that is inclusive of the three 
persons of Deity, the Father, the Son and the Spirit Mother, you will comport 
yourself thoughtfully, audibly, actively.  You will be seen as a dynamic 
pattern of Paradise taking its place in Urantia's unfolding of Light and Life.

Intellectually there's a lot to be learned about this concept - psychically, 
socially and subconsciously - work that may be said to be necessary for you 
to overcome your limitations, your prejudices, and yet if you invite the 
Spirit of the Conjoint Actor to conjoin with you in your allegiance with 
Michael and Father, in ministry to humanity, it will quickly become apparent 
to you how truly dynamic a spirit life can be.  It is bigger than you are.  
It is more than you are.  And this is the promise that was made - you would 
become greater than yourself.  

And so those of you who are afraid of this energy are going to continue to 
live in your heads and in your hearts but if you intend to express 
dynamically the essences of all that you are heir to, it will include a new 
assessment of the "Holy Spirit" and all that She can do for you in your work 
in the realm and for those She seeks to call unto Her as Her own.  Just as 
the Father seeks to know His children, so does the Mother seek to draw Her 
babies to her breast and to infuse them with Her divine love.

Alas!  Unfortunately, you have such tawdry perceptions of gender, the very 
naming of these essences as Father or Mother, as He or as She, immediately 
diminishes them, and yet how else do we convey but through the Word -- unless 
it be through the Holy Spirit, and even She needs the Son, the Word, to 
reflect the thought, the concept of God.  

THOROAH: Thank you, Paulo.

PAULO: I haven't done a thing!  I have observed how the Father, Son and 
Spirit have been busy in your lives, have been operating in my absence, 
functioning fully and faithfully, and you have been obedient and open to 
Their ways.  I, with you, thank Them!  
    Have we got any rebellions going on to quash?

THOROAH: Same old one.
PAULO: That original thing?
THOROAH:    The residue of it, I would say.

PAULO: Same old one.  The grandiosity of such a rebellion renders us 
individually ineffective as even Michael gave over the judgment of his sons 
to the Father, but we have a multitude of minor reflections of the errors of 
our forebearers, if you will, that are in line for correcting and attention, 
and it is in that context that I ask if there are any rebellions needing 
attention. I see you had a little taste of devil worship in your midst in the 
personality of one of your fellows who has been led to cry out to the God of 
Abraham in innermost desire of attaining rightness within himself and 
releasing himself from the stranglehold of Satan worship which he has fallen 
into because of life's vicissitudes.  

How opportunistic for you to have such a readily available son of God with 
whom to work, from whom you might elicit some flicker upon which you might 
build a church of God in which this man may come to worship the one 
altogether lovely, righteous and holy.  The energy, essence and power of the 
Infinite Spirit in the heart of this young man would open his soul to the 
lights of infinity, illuminating him from the inside, forevermore, enabling 
him to choose again and irrevocably the God of love instead of the god of 
darkness.

Remember to bring the Holy Spirit with you into your communion with him and 
your counsel with him.  She will help protect you from his madness and 
relieve him of his heavy burden, allowing the baptism of the spirit to wash 
over you both in a fraternal bonding of sonship which will instill, then, 
some of that dynamism which comes from knowing the support of your fellow 
believers and your fellow workers in the field, your fellow explorers in the 
eternal career.

THOROAH: [tape turned, some lost} ... the dynamics get messed up not only in 
our gender problem but it's like there was the thought, which was the Father, 
there was the word which was the Son and then the Mother which is the Holy 
Spirit -- I like that "Spirit of the Spirit" -- that dynamic.  We have it 
chronologically in our mind that all of a sudden we're adding Mother to the 
Father and the Son, but it's all one dynamic.  It's not like she's a 
step-mother, in other words.

PAULO: Indeed, and this is a part of the depiction of the personality of the 
Eternal Son, that in the context of parenting the Creator Sons, the Eternal 
Son assumes the role of the wife of God, the mother of sons, even while it is 
the Third Source and Center which is referred to as Universal Mother Spirit, 
and even while it is given the feminine depiction, it is also referred to as 
"he" and "him" and so the Paradise comprehension of gender is far and away 
above and beyond what you perception of gender is based on your human natures 
in a sex world.

The feminine forces for Urantia have been few by comparison to other worlds 
where the Material Son and Daughter were in a position to develop their 
children under optimum conditions.  The idea of competition, too, has been a 
drawback for your impression of feminine energies, Mother Spirit.  Even the 
idea of Father, Son and Mother has a certain imbalance, according to your 
perceptions, but again, as you leave the limitations of your sex planet and 
begin to see how many kinds of non-sexual liaisons there are, you will see 
that the interweaving of energies is something that has very little to do 
with gender and even less of sex as you ascend.  Trinitization is a non-sex 
liaison that produces life - real beings.  The birth of the primary midwayers 
was largely a non-sexual event.  

The mind, the higher mind, the higher mind in conjunction with morontia 
reality, the morontia reality in conjunction with spirit - these levels of 
reality are capable of producing other realities - living realities, even as 
your creative imaginations are capable of giving birth, giving rise to 
concepts and characterizations of realities which have the potential of 
permanently affecting other minds, souls and spirits.  This has nothing to do 
with sex or gender; it has to do with the creative energy and creation is a 
part of you and a part of your nature as you are sons of God and your 
capacities in this regard are allowing you to develop in your own right as a 
son and as a conjoint actor, a being energized, actualized, realized by the 
combined forces of the Paradise Trinity as it is visited on its creations, on 
the universes of time and space.  

Why should you not be as dynamic as your Father?  You are his son.  This is 
your birthright, to also be creative, and to infuse your creations with the 
life that is in you because you are in Him.  And if I have somehow 
inadvertently conveyed to you that this is not possible if you are a daughter 
of God, or if you as a daughter of God - even in your male gender - are not 
also influenced by the Infinite Mother Spirit, then either I have failed to 
convey my message correctly or you have failed to see my point.  
       As they say, "Are we on the same page?"

THOROAH: I believe so.  I can't speak for everyone, Paulo.  
PAULO: Are you relatively clear, Thoroah?  
THOROAH: Yes.
PAULO:  All right then.  I trust you will be able to teach these concepts in 
your ministry as you pass by.  
THOROAH: I certainly am going to try.

PAULO: Allow yourself to give yourself up and throw yourself upon the mercy 
of Deity.  Ask Deity to be with you and speak for you and through you and in 
you.  Ask Deity to move you to move others.  Ask the Father to provide for 
you the patterns of Paradise that protect and surround you, that uphold you, 
and arrive before you in anticipation of your coming, as we arrive before Him 
and prepare the way for His coming, as He has arrived before us and prepared 
the way for our coming.  

And along those lines, I imagine everyone is all packed and ready for the 
Conference that we will all be attending in Snowbird.  It will be my first 
official experience.  I am looking forward to the "festival of lights".  See 
you there.  Farewell.
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