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<P>Date: March 2, 2003</P>
<P>Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA (the home of Menopah and Paula)</P>
<P>Teachers: Tomas and Anatolia</P>
<P>Topics:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Come Unto Me, You Who Are Heavy Laden</LI>
<LI>Constant Contact with Diety/ "Being Connected" </LI>
<LI>Hiding From Jesus/Going It On Your Own</LI>
<LI>Realizing the actuality of your connection to everything</LI></UL>
<DIV>Q&A:</DIV>
<UL>
<LI>Adam and Eve as counselors/Learning about co-administration</LI>
<LI>Being Mindful or your Relationship with your Source</LI>
<LI>God on the Job; Surpassing Intolerance</LI></UL>
<DIV>T/R’s: Gerdean (for Tomas) Matthew (for Anatolia)</DIV>
<P>Music: Elena on Piano Special arrangement: "Prelude/Offertory/The Lamb/He Who
Began A Good Work in You/I Know Whom I have Believed" </P>
<P>Prayer: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.</P><I>
<P>Master Teacher,</P>
<P>We come to you today in live, vivid and renewed spirit of who you are and
what you expect of us. As we contemplate and anticipate and take action with the
forthcoming Lenten season, may we give up or dedicate ourselves to your higher
purpose, so that we may know what the stations of the cross were about and what
the resurrection entails and that we are called to the same Fruit of Action;
that if need be, we follow the same path; that, in any case, we commit our self
to death and resurrection, renewal, and eternal lasting in the glory of our
relationship with you before our Father.</P>
<P>We ask that the teachers who are present today give forth a message that
renews our faith, strengthens our will and places us in relationship with you
and our Father and with all of Deity, now and forever. Amen.</P></I>
<P>TOMAS: "Come unto me, ye who are heavy laden and I will give you rest." This
is Tomas, your elder brother and teacher, friend and companion, along with
Anatolia and a host of others who hover over you, as angels are wont to do. We
come to you through the grace of Jesus, as a mother hen tends to her chicks.</P>
<P>You who are heavy laden, you who don’t even know you are heavy laden, for –
how is it said? "I’ve been down so long it looks like up to me" – and yet I feel
your souls climbing the ladder of joy when you are lifted. How you clamber to
the refreshment of Spirit Reality. How you yearn for upliftment. You want to
live the life that you have been bestowed as children of God and yet you are
constrained to the kingdoms of men. Your work is in the field but your joy is in
the Spirit. </P>
<P>When you return from the fields at the end of the day, you would choose to
know security and serenity by the hearth of the homestead, and the love of your
family. Every family is uplifted by the Spirit, but the rigors of living a life
in the flesh, on such a world as this, continually draws you down to the level
of life where it is led, lived, by those in relative darkness. The effort to
uplift humankind from its path of acquiescence to the Lucifer Legacy is an
effort that you, who teach the Gospel, are forced to deal with. Sometimes you
forget to reach for the exalted places, since the chasm between
God-consciousness and the darkness is so great. </P>
<P>But you are so much more effective if you are well anchored in your own
Spirit Reality. You are of better service to yourself and your fellows when you
are in constant contact with deity. The prayer, that you are familiar with,
indicates that where two or more are gathered together, there is Jesus in your
midst. The actualizing of that concept is the key to domestic harmony; it is the
light of truth that elevates you above the rigors of your efforts and it
comforts you at the hearth of reality. Yet you struggle on. You work and worry,
conscientiously fretting about this and worrying about that, wondering why the
world does not conform to your wishes, sinking deeper and deeper into a quagmire
of frustration, even anger -- at humanity and ultimately at yourself -- for you
have somehow cancelled your connection to the Divine Source in your emotional
and intellectual discernment of what humanity is up to.</P>
<P>We are dealing with your emotional realm here, and your mental realm, for
<B>this is where the choices are made</B> that will pull you up and out of that
worldly quicksand, away from the worry and the fear into faith and action.</P>
<P>Each of you are accompanied by seraphic hosts who are devoted to your
upliftment. There are legions of angels awaiting your cry for assistance. You
have Spirit Guides of whom you may personalize for your own use for the purpose
of adjusting your attitude and modifying your personality Godward. </P>
<P>I am often at a loss to know how to reach you, to reach into you, to assure
you and encourage you. I appeal to you – to your spirit, to your heart, your
mind, your emotions – as do those who yearn to see God revealed in real ways in
real life. For <B>he has not hidden himself from you</B>, if you think that, but
you have all hidden yourself from him - as if you felt yourself somehow
unworthy, or immaterial to the Divine Plan, when <B>God needs you</B>. </P>
<P>God needs you. </P>
<P>Your spouse needs you, certainly. Your obligations also look to you for
fulfilling your commitments. But these are only reflections of the Divine. If
you go about these tasks without the Divine, you are only filling up space,
going through motions, operating under assumptions, obliging a set of standards
imposed upon you by other than the Source.</P>
<P>Your challenge is to marry yourself to that Fragment of God that indwells
you, and betroth yourself to it. That is the Light that lifts you up, that
removes you from the conflicts of human existence, that reveals to you the joy
of service, the joy of Sonship. It is the Source that fills you with enthusiasm
to go forth and radiate. It is the Source that comforts and controls those
attitudes which allow you to proceed in faith and in harmony with the Divine
will. And yet you consistently look to each other as if the Divine were
unfettered by Humanness. Humanness involves imperfection and all of you are
humanly imperfect. Why would you seek approval from imperfection? Rather, seek
approval from That which is Perfect and That which reveals you as a perfect
Spirit Child, a perfect Reflection of Divine Perfection.</P>
<P>Can you feel when you are lost in humanness? And when you are lifted up into
a state of being that, augmented with Spirit, renders you superhuman?</P>
<P>Adam and Eve, your original earthly parents, are on duty, even now,
attempting to atone for their aborted mission, attempting to convey through the
Spirit Family, those values which they would choose to empower to you, their
children. Seek their counsel. Seek their guidance. Seek their many answers to
your many questions about your relationship with your spouse, your mate. For
they are the Ideal of Relationship. They reflect that level of bounty and
experience which renders them the ideal teacher for their children, those of you
who now suffer the vagaries of their default.</P>
<P>A universe awaits. A host of ministering spirits are at your service to help
you, to uplift you, to encourage you. And, indeed, your own indwelling Adjuster,
the God Within you, is ever-present, ever-ready, to hold you and to consume for
you those more progressive attitudes and beliefs within your mind that will
allow your soul to flourish and your society to smile. There is such a wealth of
resource to rely upon, to reach for, to sustain you. It serves no useful purpose
to become impatient or angry with your fellow men for being human, not as long
as you, too, are still human. </P>
<P>Rather, call upon the Lord, call upon that quality within you that is also
perfect and divine and that loves with a perfect affection. Reveal that Light
from your Source and reflect that loving attitude upon all you meet.</P>
<P>This is enough from me for this afternoon on this podium. I pass the baton to
my companions.</P>
<P>Matthew: Thank you.</P>
<P>ANATOLIA: This is a wonderful day in the neighborhood, per se, and the
passage of one of your own, in that regard, is welcomed. </P>
<P>I, Anatolia, am with you again today in your setting on planet earth. It’s a
gracious and glorious day for which you all have a right to be grateful and
pleased, for you live in a remarkable area, yet with many responsibilities as
well, for there is nowhere on your planet that is without the triumph of the
ages and the delicacy of an ecology whose back could easily break at any one
vertebrae point.</P>
<P>Your realm in which you live enables you, like a life source and its plasm,
to be able to feed, and fuel, and fill, your hearts and your minds with those
things that are both temporal and spiritual. I wish for you to envision, and to
realize, the many facets that exist for you to be able to function in this
world, both in a physical and a spiritual capacity. This is what we call ‘being
connected’ -- at all levels and in all ways -- in order to be the best that you
know to be, as a child of our Creator and a citizen of the universe in which you
live.</P>
<P>This is a wonderful time in your capacity to see the movements that are
taking place in your world, both physically, geopolitically, and spiritually. It
is with great comfort that we bring you a message of impending heralding, that
your world will see a brighter tomorrow and that the wasteland that is potential
will not be realized due to the expectations of humanity which have risen past
that scenario.</P>
<P>There is much to be grateful for as your people have spoken and continue to
be encouraged by their voices, much as a child, who, entering an empty room,
finds that their voice has weight and measure, can be heard and felt as it
echoes through the empty chamber. This is being exercised both in a vocal and a
virtual manner, as the populous realizes their strength in unison with the
others. This is my way of encouraging you to realize your worth and to realize
your strength as a voice of reason and purpose within your world at this
time.</P>
<P>Many functions and many facets are being portrayed as we speak. The thoughts
of a New World that includes the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of all who inhabit
your orb, is becoming truer and more realized. This I wish for you to appreciate
and to encourage wherever you are able to reinforce its presence.</P>
<P>Let not anything that you see or hear, or determine, to be contrary to what
you know as God’s Plan, for this, His Jewel in your solar system, dissuade you
from pursuing the ultimate of unity that is capable within your planet. For
after all, nothing that has ever happened in your world, or the next, has
happened without the first concept, or idea, taking shape and bearing fruit. So
do not relinquish, nor give up your right and responsibility as a world citizen,
to take your rightful place as a citizen of this world and the universe, to live
the life that you are intended to live, to love as you are expected to love and
to allow yourself the freedom to be who you are in this, a world without shame
or sorrow.</P>
<P>This may sound contrary to your reality; however, as I was saying earlier,
your place in this world, that is, both physical and spiritual, needs to be
reckoned with, to be recognized and to be accommodated. For to live at one level
only is to deny your true existence. Being Spirit Children in your playground of
earth is both a responsibility and a renewal opportunity. </P>
<P>So place yourselves in good stead with who you know to be your ultimate truth
and reality. Realize that the eyes with which you see, the mouth from which you
speak, and the heart from which you find your life to breathe from, is the One
that enables you to do this. For you are the eyes, the ears, the mouth and the
heart of the Holy One, the Master of all Masters, the Creator of time and space,
and your place within it.</P>
<P>Recognize the unique and the ineffable of yourselves and take this, in turn,
to know that your place within your planet is holier because of your presence.
Be happy and glad that the breath that your take will continue without limit and
without measure, far into the distant future but is being breathed today. This
is the Eternal Breath, the rhythm of life itself, that you now partake. And know
that it has its spiritual counterpart at the same time.</P>
<P>Peace be with you and know that all is well, as you are well.</P>
<P>TOMAS: Children, let us commence our interchange of ideas. Have you any
questions?</P>
<P>Matthew: I had one earlier but it’s not coming to mind right now.</P>
<P>Elena: I had a comment that might be expanded upon. Tomas, when you were
talking about the times when we hide ourselves from Jesus, I think that’s true.
And I think the knowledge of that kinda becomes a burden because it’s so
frustrating when I realize that I’m doing that – not contacting Michael -
because I try so hard NOT to hide - and then when I realize that I am, it
becomes a double-whammy. I just get pushed even further down. </P>
<P>And, if I am having trouble keeping in touch with Jesus, then I’m a little
frustrated at the recommendation to consult with Adam and Eve! Because, if I
can’t contact Michael, then how can I hope to contact Adam and Eve? I’m a little
frustrated over this, if you can understand what I’m saying.</P>
<P>TOMAS: I understand completely. I understand frustration and I understand
your concern. The suggestion that you contact Adam and Eve as your mortal
parents, grandparents, is in the context of your humanness. Whereas the
admonition to seek the counsel of the Master is one that would stem from his
experience as a parent, yes, but not as a spouse – except in the spheres
Salvington with the Divine Minister, Nebadonia.</P>
<P>The human difficulties are (in part, apparently) from the default which left
your world bereft of the influence of the kind of parental guidance you would
have otherwise known. And which would have implanted in your race of people, the
values they espoused - that they are trained to administer as a Material Son and
Daughter. You are material beings, sons and daughters.</P>
<P>In this area of human counsel I would reiterate your option to reach for
their wisdom, their devotion to each other in the face of their desire and
commitment to be about their assignment of Material Son and Daughter to a world
already ravaged by Rebellion. They have an experiential frame of reference. This
is not to discourage you from counseling with the Master, certainly. He is your
most accessible counsel and comfort. But in these areas of spousal relationship
Adam and Eve still have a great deal to offer your world. Do you see?</P>
<P>Elena: Yes. (indistinguishable)</P>
<P>TOMAS: Jesus lived the perfected life; Adam and Eve thought they could, but
they did not. They suffered many disappointments as a result of being unable to
live up to the standards that they subscribed to and were created to do, in much
the same way, those of you who have committed yourselves to doing Father’s will
and to teaching and preaching the gospel have not always been able to live up to
your own standards and expectations. Jesus provides the encouragement,
certainly. He brings you into the presence of the Father, which will always
sustain you and help you in your efforts. He will wash you clean of all those
impurities and allow you to drink deep of the living water. Even so, the efforts
of a sustained, meaningful relationship with incumbent family life and
obligations is a function of the ‘human’ condition. And although it was the
farthest from their aspirations, the human condition was one which Adam and Eve
were subjected to, and which experience they share with you.</P>
<P>They were co-administrators of a world – a troubled world, certainly – but
they were prepared to CO-administrate. Are you prepared to co-administrate your
realm with your mate? What is co-administration, after all? What does that mean
when you go beyond mere ‘procreation?’ For there are many, many liaisons which
revolve around more than child-rearing. </P>
<P>The thing about ‘hiding from the Lord,’ would be perhaps when you are in your
employment situation and the ‘other’ reality dominates. If any union is
benefited by Christ-consciousness, if any situation is elevated beyond the
temporal by contact with the Divine, if anytime two or more are gathered
together in his name he is there in their midst, why would he not also be there
with you in the office? And yet, woe, most working environments, if not all, put
Jesus aside – put God-consciousness aside – in order to function as emissaries
of the Mortal existence – Mortal interests. And when you acquiesce to engage in
a relationship with anyone in which you have not called upon the Divine to
participate, you have "hidden from him" in the sense that you feel that you can
take care of it yourself. </P>
<P>Do you see what I’m saying?</P>
<P>Elena: Yes.</P>
<P>TOMAS: Adam and Eve thought they could do it by themselves.</P>
<P>Elena: Ya know, Tomas, about the ‘day thing’ – it’s like you forget, in a
way. Ya go to work and you get kind of consumed! At the beginning of the day --
and I’m sure everybody does this -- you want to include Michael in your life.
It’s not that you don’t want his help in everything, but sometimes you get kind
of engulfed and you forget. Maybe that’s the humanity part…? But there are times
when you stop and ask yourself "why didn’t I stop and say ‘I need some help’ or
something similar – recognizing and pulling Michael into the situation. I
certainly would want that. I just forget.</P>
<P>TOMAS: It would be good discipline, then, for you to experiment with that. In
particular, in your new position as Program Manager.</P>
<P>Elena: Do you any suggestions?</P>
<P>TOMAS: I am certain your creative sources will help guide you, but you can be
aware of yourself and your constitution and find within yourself when you
yourself have gone too far from your center…when you’ve gotten too frustrated or
angry with the situation or an individual….BEFORE you get too angry, stop
yourself. BEFORE you become too intolerant, BEFORE you invoke shameful attitudes
on those who are not listening. It’s a part of knowing yourself, being mindful
of your relationship with your Source and never allowing yourself to be too far
removed from Its Counsel. Bring it with you into all arrangements. Ask yourself
consistently, "Are you there Father? Are you with me in this?" And that will
keep you close, if you are sincere and not intellectually voicing a mantra-like
phrase.</P>
<P>There are occasions, also, where you are able to invoke the Spirit in your
work environment in ways that are acceptable and do not bespeak overmuch
religiosity. The simple word ‘Jesus’ is enough to catch people’s attention and
the inflection in your voice is a distinct aspect of what they hear. When you
say ‘Jesus’ you have their attention. Have you said ‘Jesus’ as if it were a
curse? Or have you said ‘Jesus’ as if it were a supplication. Or ‘Jesus’ as if
it were a Song of Psalms? </P>
<P>Perhaps when you encounter someone and say, "My God, how good to see you!"
and look them in the eye, you remind them, automatically, of their indwelling
God Fragment, even though they may not be intellectually aware of it. But when
you say, "My God, George…" or "My God, Janet…" you will remind them of the God
that is part of them. That brings religion – Real Religion – into your
environment, without you becoming preachy or sectarian. The point is to keep the
Spirit alive at work and not forget who you are: a Child of God. And what your
priorities are: that you should know him. Put him first. He will uphold you and
then you may go about doing good.</P>
<P>Paula: Ya know I got a problem because I’m usually pretty tolerant but we’ve
got a man up there at our church that is driving me absolutely bananas. In the
summer, he shows no respect for the fact that he is in church, that this is a
God-centered thing. He comes in, in a pair shorts that look like his underpants,
and all the time he wears a cap on his head in church. There isn’t another man
in the place who would do a thing like that – not even young boys, and they
aren’t usually cognizant of things like that, but even they know better than to
do that – and this character walks in, every Sunday, with his cap and doesn’t
bother to take it off. He doesn’t care where it is. My husband thinks that I
should be glad that the man at least comes to church, and I suppose I should be,
but I can’t stand this character and that’s probably intolerance on my part. I
don’t know how to correct it either.</P>
<P>TOMAS: You have not been able to separate the man from his presentation of
himself, in terms of his wardrobe. He is not his clothing. I will remind you of
the Master himself. Perhaps you will read about this and refresh your
recollection of his wondrous ways. When he was invited to the home of the
Pharisees, he would not engage in the ritual of the traditional ways, for he
chose to bring home the point that these are mere externals. The ritual of
washing the hands between courses during the meal is a mere ‘show,’ having
nothing to do with cleanliness or, indeed, with righteousness. </P>
<P>Perhaps this man is there to test you, Paula, in order for you to see beyond
the conventions of man to the Reality of God. Jesus, himself, might have shown
up in a hat, in an unorthodox raiment, in order to instill in those present, an
appreciation that a Son of God is a Son of God no matter what he wears, no
matter what company he’s keeping. Put aside the petty observance of his
‘fashion’ and look into his heart. Perhaps he is challenging others to recognize
the same Truth that Jesus taught: the Spirit is not to be found in outward
appearances but in the heart of man.</P>
<P>You are more concerned here about social mores than you are about the man’s
soul, and that is the crux of the disparity. You are a woman who has been
coached in social graces. Your conditioning is controlling your spirit here.
Give your spirit freedom of restraint from these conditionings as Jesus sought
to release you of the restraints of your conditioning. He came to release you
from these vines.</P>
<P>Ponder this in your heart.</P>
<P>Paula: Well, I guess I should just leave him alone. I’m not going to mess
with him. I just don’t like him.</P>
<P>TOMAS: You have not solved the problem.</P>
<P>Paula: No. I know.</P>
<P>TOMAS: You have not begun to ponder. You have opted to ‘hide from him.’</P>
<P>Paula: Well, let’s just say I’m glad he’s not my problem. Some other woman is
unfortunate enough to have married him.</P>
<P>Elena: You know what? I really admire what he’s been able to do. I used to be
married to a catholic person who would not cross the threshold of any other
church at all – no matter what the circumstances. His mind and heart were
closed. But this man (the man Paula has been referring to) has gone along with
everything his wife and family have needed regarding the church and the various
ceremonies, like the baptism of the family and so on. He’s been very supportive.
And he comes every Sunday. I just have to say that I really admire that and I
think the woman has a husband that honors and supports her desires and requests
for the whole family and how the children are raised. Another catholic might not
even come close to doing all that, as I mentioned earlier…so I have to say that
when I look at him I see someone I very much admire.</P>
<P>Paula: I guess I am intolerant then. I don’t like to see people show a
complete lack of reverence for the fact that they are in a church. This is no
place for anyone to wear shorts and cap. That’s not for church.</P>
<P>TOMAS: This is your conditioning.</P>
<P>Paula: I guess so. It’ll be awfully hard to change me.</P>
<P>TOMAS: Obviously there is an entire congregation who has a certain sympathy
with your standards and they bring you joy. Therefore, turn your heart to joy.
Let not this embitterment soil the experience for you and all the others who
have attended in order to worship and sing praises to God.</P>
<P>Paula: I guess my best bet is to just shut my eyes and pretend he’s not
there.</P>
<P>Menopah: Your best bet is to welcome him no matter what he looks like, or
what he wears. It doesn’t matter. You can take Tomas’s advice and look at his
heart.</P>
<P>(The cat – Cricket – decides to enjoy an escapade in forbidden territory
about this time and there is a mild disruption settling that score.)</P>
<P>Paula: Well, I guess I’m not as good as the rest of you. Because he makes me
mad every time I see him and I try not to be but I am. I just would love to go
up to him and say "Would you like me to hold your hat for you since you don’t
want to hold it yourself? I’ll take it."</P>
<P>Elena: I think probably each one of us has someone who gets our goat like
that. I know I do. I’m not putting myself any higher than you on that, that’s
for sure.</P>
<P>Paula: I know I must be a lousy Christian but he drives me crazy.</P>
<P>TOMAS: I am not concerned about whether or not you are a good or lousy
Christian. I am concerned about your soul. I am not here to uphold or counsel
you in your methods of worship, for those are your personal choices. I am here
only to encourage you to learn to worship. </P>
<P>There is tremendous variety of perspectives. In fact, every individual has
his, or her, own perspective, if he or she thinks at all. And so this problem of
disparity is a natural result of anyone who sees others as being different and
odd. It’s a universal problem, Paula, not singular to you. You are not being
picked on here,because everyone knows they can improve in their
God-likeness.</P>
<P>The task for ALL of us is, when we encounter our own ignorance and prejudice,
to pray for the dissolution of that bar that stands against our Oneness with
Truth, Beauty and Goodness. It is a process. But maligning yourself will serve
no purpose, nor will shaming others, for these are bars against discovery. And
if the ascension plan of Michael is anything at all, it is an on-going
adventure, an experience in discovering new, and other, entities which each
provide a new vantage point and another perspective on the dimensions of
existence, which we all enjoy.</P>
<P>There are a number of rituals I, myself, would incorporate in your group, but
I am not intending to make of it a ‘church of the good teacher.’ I would like to
see you praise more and pray more. I would like to see you sing and reveal your
heart to each other. I would like to see you use your minds more deeply, ponder
more thoroughly and appreciate more freely. But these are my aspirations for
you, and until such time as they are also aspirations for yourselves, there is
no point in my finding dismay in your presence for you are the light of my life,
though you are often subsumed by the darkness.</P>
<P>Precious ones, you are so dear to me and dear to those of us who have come
diligently to attend to you, to nurture your growth, to foster your spirit
reality, to help wean you from the ineffectual efforts of lesser realities, and
exalt you into the glories of Sonship. Call upon all of us and any of us at any
time. Reflect on our words as you will and welcome our insights into your
consciousness. Always and ever, however, invite the spirit of the Master, the
soul of Jesus, into your heart for he will lead you into the Spirit of Truth
which will continually assert itself into your heart and mind in such a way that
you will be compelled to follow where the Father leads.</P>
<P>How I love you. How greatly you are loved, in so many ways you have yet to
learn to appreciate. But we see your potential and we welcome the opportunity to
engage you in its development. Carry on then, little ones, throughout the
upcoming week and be Mindful of your Connection, your Conscious Connection, with
Divinity. Keep this Conscious Connection with Divinity alive and It will affect
the world -- Certainly the World you inhabit and those you love. Amen and
Farewell.</P></FONT></BODY></HTML>