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</SPAN>The Perfection of God<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nature of
God<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Perfection is fundamental to eternity<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
process of Perfection<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Perfection of the universe<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
“proof” of perfection<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Universe
moves from imbalance to balance<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>The Love of God<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What
makes God loving?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Divine
Fragments<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Purpose
of life<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Turning
negative values to positive ones<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life
perspective due to interpretations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Acceptance/appreciation of God’s love<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Q & A<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love of
self<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mansion
worlds<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love
versus torment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Bob (TR,
Daniel)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">April 19, 2003<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BOB:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good morning, this is Bob.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Group greetings)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome to
the Denver Teaching Mission group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is good to see that you are relaxed today; you seem to be very mellow,
as you would say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today we will
begin another basic lesson; today’s lesson involves the “Perfection of God” and
the “Love of God.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two of my favorite subjects!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ours as well.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As you recall, we have been here a long time,
reconnoitering and preparing for the Teaching Mission and for the Correcting
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been in mind through
the administration of this local universe for many, many thousands of
years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is in fact, a part of
your world history that you will find on Salvington, on the walls that depict
the history of the local universe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One of the greatest, unfathomable concepts of all
human-kind, even mortals wherever they may be found on all developing worlds, is
the lack of appreciation, even rudimentary understanding, of God and the nature
of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even your religions today,
many of which discuss the love of God, accept this love didactically; they
accept it as a matter of principle involved in their texts, yet when we hear two
or more people argue the characteristics of God, they oftentimes dismiss or look
at the perfection of God as impossible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yet perfection is fundamental to eternity; when you have arrived in
Paradise and have gone through that wonderful moment, that eternal moment of the
embrace with the Creator, you too will have received the “kiss,” so to speak, of
perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your long, long journey
through many lifetimes in the local universe ascension scheme for yourself is a
process of approaching perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In your finaliter stage, you recall that you will have one more step of
attainment, to incorporate into your being, and this can and will only occur
when this universe, the Grand Universe, has come into stability and itself is
then in a state of perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
surmise that is so, at least.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
until then, as finaliters, you will be nigh on to perfect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Quite an
accomplishment!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Perfection is, in your estimation, impossible, for
the imperfection of life, and the daily experience of living is shot through
your whole being; there is no way of escaping this imperfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, in your chrysalis stage as
mortals on this world, you are going through an incubation, a process of
“becoming more.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so you must go
through this process of imperfection, and then one day, you will look back at
yourselves and appreciate the process of becoming more perfect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To say that nothing can be perfect is to
nullify the central quality of your Creator –and that includes a belief system
dependant upon the perfection of the Creator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We advise you to be careful with this
kind of thinking; there are no threats, it is simply that it retards your
progress in the universe, immensely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If there is no perfection, then why attempt this life as a journey into
the afterlife?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although you are not
eternal, the potential of an infinite life is yours, it is given to you—the
given is that it is there as long as you strive to develop your potential to
become perfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Perfection is fundamental to the
sustenance/maintenance of the universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And logically, were you to extend God’s perfection back to the moment of
creation, you would realize that any flaw in God, any imperfection in God, would
have realized itself in the development and evolution of the universe, and it
would implode.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would have
imploded long ago. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And no, that
would not herald the beginning of a new universe, with another “big bang.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There was only one “big bang,” and the
universe will continue to expand evermore, always, and never implode, due to the
perfection of the Creator, and all processes inherent in the
creation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On one hand, this is extremely simple, yet there is
no way to prove it to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
only prove it to yourself through your observations of the universe —it’s length
of duration and how it works.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
may say, “Yes, but I see in the astral heavens, galaxies, whole galaxies, coming
together, colliding—isn’t that destructive?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aren’t there destructive, terminal
processes involved in the universe?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And the answer is, no.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are no terminal processes; there is only evolution and development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From your observations of the universe,
and the collisions that occur, the eruptions that occur, there is still a
balance, not imperfection, not the termination of a long-standing piece of art
as a universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is still young;
it is still becoming; it is still evolving; it is coming into balance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Were you to speak to the Architects of
the Universe, those designers of the universe, who now help mold and shape the
universe and help it move toward balance, you would know that this is all part
of a large plan.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, collisions do
occur; yes, whole galaxies get gobbled up in black holes, those dark bodies
mentioned in <I>the Urantia Book</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a part of the balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Eventually, all the “wheels of light” will come into balance; eventually,
the whole universe, the Grand Universe, will be in balance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we perceive, we surmise, we will
then see the universe be on the brink of the Days of Light and Life, and this
will inaugurate the opening of the outer space fields.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Until then, you will see evidence of a
universe that is developing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
many ways, the universe is still very young.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are going to witness the evolution
of a whole universe, as it moves from imbalance to
balance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Let us take a small break to answer any questions you
may have about this topic.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have one. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I am just amazed that I had that thought in my head, “I sure would like
to ask a question right now.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
first question, please.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student: You mentioned the opening of the outer space
fields.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you explain that a
little more?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
would refer you to <I>the Urantia Book</I>, which speaks of these, the outer
space fields, which are developing, which are now unoccupied.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find fundamental answers to
your questions there.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have a question, Bob.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Certainly.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were
mentioning the Celestial Architects, and I was wondering if they play a role in
intervention in any way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For
instance, if a planet within a local universe developed to the point where there
were physical beings evolving to the point where they all had, or for the most
part, had indwelling Thought Adjusters, and would a planet such as that, be
allowed to collide, let us say, with some other celestial body that did not have
life evolving on it, would it be allowed to become annihilated, or would there
be intervention?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Strictly speaking, the answer is “no” because they would not be the ones
who would be mindful of the situation and effect a different outcome; it would
be more specifically, the Most Highs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And yes, there are plans in place for all inhabited planets that may
become impaled in a star or collide with another planet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So there would be intervention?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Certainly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s my thought.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And why?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Why would there be intervention?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does anyone have an answer?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The first answer that comes to mind right now for me is, I’m struggling
with my evolving “agondonterhood aptiva,” my ability to believe without seeing,
as we all are on this planet, and that version of faith as an agondonter is so
important from my perspective, to our evolution toward Paradise and the work
that we will do, will depend a great deal on what we have managed to become on
this planet, given the fact that we are able to believe without seeing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, I just can’t imagine a planet
such as this, especially the home of our Creator Son’s final bestowal, being
allowed to be annihilated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are too many pieces of who we become as we evolve inward, that are contingent
upon what we learn here.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
simply put it as the individual who is most important.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Correct?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The individual?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Uh…yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is the answer.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Bob, I have a couple of questions from previous lessons that have arrived
via the Internet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let
us tend to them when we have completed the lesson today.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that fine?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other questions related to the
perfection of God?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You said in the beginning, that we shouldn’t think in terms of “nothing
is perfect,” that we are doing a disservice to ourselves, as well as to our
understanding of God, when we suggest that perfection is not possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess I have never really thought in
terms that nothing can be perfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think of snowflakes, for instance, and think of every single one of
them as being perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Newborn
babies, flowers—so much that we are surrounded by—beauty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While everything is different, it is all
perfect in and of itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only
things I think of as being imperfect are perhaps things that happen between
people interacting with one another, often so imperfectly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is nothing wrong with thinking in
those terms of imperfection, is there?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No,
of course not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Babies are perfect;
so are snowflakes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you are very
correct in determining that imperfection arises from the decisions, the
self-will decisions of individuals, who do not know perfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But for those who are conscious of the
journey, the attempt to become perfect becomes the ultimate chore, not as a
competitive measurement of yourself against anyone else, but simply, it is your
“work” to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that leads us
into the second part of this lesson, which involves the love of
God.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your Creator is not an emotional being—so what is it
about God that makes God loving?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is it that aids you to determine that God is loving?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our feelings.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your feelings, your thoughts, your
estimation of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God does not
know love; God <B>is</B> love!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet
God is not emotional; how can this be?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>1) It is principally and almost totally determined by your own
perceptions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God is not loving to
those individuals who do not perceive the beneficence of the universe around
them; they do not feel that God is loving because they do not enter into a
physical relationship of dependence or independence, of support.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The love of God emanates from its very
being, its very nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God is
love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can this be?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I said, it is solely dependent upon
your interpretation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Were you to see past the boundaries of time and of
physical space, so that you were aware of more levels of consciousness and
dimensions and states of being, if you were to see the morontial realm in its
totality while you are still a mortal, you would have a better perspective of
the total loving nature of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All
that is required for your sustenance, maintenance, development, and longevity,
has been provided by the Creator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All that you need is available to you—and that is just on the
“outer!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Were you to look inside,
and really know the Divine Fragment that resides in you, you would see that the
Creator is definitely loving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
love of God pervades the universe; the love of God emanates from its
presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as the presence of
the Creator inhabits those individuals with a fragment of its divine nature,
there is God and there is Love.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Let us look at the other side of this:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where is NOT God?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where is NOT Love?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where are all the negative emotional
states?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where do they exist?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In unreality?)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They exist in the self-willed decisions
of selfish individuals, of immature individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, you see, there is a purpose to your
life, and that is to grow into love, to grow into perfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perfection and love are not synonymous,
though they are very much related in the universe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you become more perfect in your
nature, you become more loving; as you become more loving, it becomes evident to
all around you, to your guardian angel, to your Divine Fragment, and of course
to your neighbors, to your friends, that you are loyal, you are compassionate,
you are caring, you are forgiving—and this is just a very small list of positive
qualities that you will find, that support the nature of loving.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your journey is a journey of experience, of attaining
perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But such a thought is
really too profound to encompass or incorporate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is much easier to attempt the process
of becoming loving, rather than perfect, and in becoming loving you take on
those attributes of a loving nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Here is some homework for you:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Write down all of the positive values that support having a loving
nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Write down all of those
which you believe that you encompass fairly well—it doesn’t have to be right up
there at 100%, but one that you are fairly consistent with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Write all of them down, the positive
qualities of a loving nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then,
make another list—list those negative values and qualities about yourself, which
you desire to grow out of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you
resentful?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you spiteful?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are jealousy and envy too closely
incorporated in your daily, moment-to-moment thinking?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would encourage you, I will help you
to take one of those negative qualities and try to eliminate them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what is the opposite of that
negative quality?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, always
loving, and being of a loving nature is always at the opposite of all negative
ones, but which one is most closely related?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then work on that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now, this is where many teachers of a human nature
become lacking—they tell you to become perfect, to overcome these [negative
qualities], but they do not give you the tools to do that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were raised as a blank slate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Were you raised in a loving household
where there was forgiveness, where there is no envy or jealousy, no spite or
resentment—it would be easy to overcome those.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The tools are already there; you were
given them by being raised in a loving, functional family.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But perhaps you were raised where
resentment and envy were dominant; you would have a real struggle to overcome
those, because they were ingrained in your thinking, they were a part of your
learning process, part of your indoctrination.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you will need to remind yourself not
to be spiteful, but to be forgiving, supportive and fair.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may want to participate in a
self-help group; you may want to read books on how to overcome these
aspects—they are available.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Today, my assistance to you is to help you take on a
loving nature, for a loving nature is a part of your morontial nature and your
soul value and your soul survival-ship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The weight of your soul will not be increased until you become more
loving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very fundamental place
where this begins is making decisions about what to think and what not to
think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have said in lessons
past, your growth as a soul and your development are based on moral and ethical
decisions, decisions, decisions, plus service.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You live on a material planet because
that is the place where you can make decisions about the “outer.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you go to a lunchroom and join in
with people who speak of resentment and hatred?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first decision was going to that
table and sitting down and listening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A second decision was in deciding what to say.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the ultimate decision was the
decision to think, to participate, to gravitate there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, as you become more mature and you
become more morontial in nature, it is what you <B>think</B> that decides what
you say and what you do, and ultimately what you become.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the level of evaluation for your
growth—it is how you think and what you think.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To take charge of your decisions, then,
you much increase your awareness of your own thinking.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">God, being all love and all loving in nature, is
total consciousness, total awareness; and in perfection, there is not even a
decision to make about whether to be that way or not, it is part of the eternal
nature of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have a dear
friend you can speak to, confide in, ask them this question:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“You have known me many years; you
have seen me live my life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have you
seen me grow?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if so, how?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now I pose this to you for several
purposes:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1) Is to evaluate your
growth, the positive qualities that you have taken on in your lifetime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oftentimes, mortals are unaware of their
own growth, until someone stops them and says, “My, you have really
changed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are such a wonderful
person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I knew you when…” and they
might recite some of your negative qualities in the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that you know that you
have grown, that yes, you have evolved and have taken on more of a loving
nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what does this do? 2)
It furthers your help to grow, your own strength to grow, to continue on when
you think that you are incapable of growing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And 3) It is important for you to
develop your consciousness of yourself, your self-awareness, and most
importantly, your self-appreciation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many of you as you grow older, continue to denigrate yourself and
belittle yourself for being such-and-such a way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thought it is unfair as a pattern to say
those things, at some times it may be appropriate if long-standing habits of a
negative nature need to be addressed and overcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not diminish the work of your Divine
Fragment, the very essence of the loving nature of God invested in you, who is
ever urging you to become greater than you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your growth and ascendant journey reveals an even
larger facet of the loving nature of God as evident in the very reasons for
God’s habitation in you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have
shared today, the obvious reasons for a Fragment of God being resident in your
being is to assist you to grow into perfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But what does that do for God?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think about that question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me lead you with a second
question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can God understand
and know perfection completely, without knowing the processes of becoming
perfect?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answer, my dear
friends, is that your individual lives provide a wonderful environment for God
to come to understand its loving nature and its perfection – through your
efforts to become perfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are
convinced that God, the Creator, desires to know more about its own nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We speculate about the reasons why—you
may too—but in the meantime, you get to enjoy the wonderful participation of a
loving, generous, perfect God, who’s fragment indwells you and yearns to
co-creatively develop your life with you, consciously, in a union for all times
and all ages to come.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now, do you have questions concerning the loving
nature of God?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yeah, I do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may seem like
it is not the foundation of my question, but it really is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can remember as a very young child in
Sunday school, stamping my foot and arguing with my Sunday school teachers,
telling them that I couldn’t believe in their God because their God was full of
hate and vengeance, and my God was nothing but love, and I would not believe in
their God, and I know that there were many times that my Sunday School teachers
wished that I would stay home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
have always wondered throughout my life, why it is that seemingly horrible
things could happen to me, and yet “I” was always okay, “I” was not damaged, if
you will, like so many other people that I know who have had far less happen to
them, have become frozen in time, and damaged—why wasn’t I?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so my question is, on this planet
that we live on here, Urantia, is it possible that certain Father Fragments are
more active at a younger age?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
mean that, since my discovering <I>the Urantia Book</I> and having read it a
number of times, that’s the only answer that I have been able to grab onto that,
will explain my life and the things that have happened to me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The wonderful things have happened to
me, that haven’t happened to other people, and my question is always, why?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why me?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not any different or any more
special than anybody else, so why?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Can you answer that?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
your wisdom says, and our wisdom says as well, it is not so much what happens to
you, but how you interpret what happens to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so for you, your base of
understanding for interpreting what happens to you included awareness that
harmful events and accidents that occurred in your life were only passing events
– not anything that was there to cause a permanent redefinition of
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A deeper answer to your
question is that the basis of your interpretations came from a deep, close
association with your Divine Fragment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You were more accepting of the “voice of wisdom” you heard within
yourself than others, plus, you had the benefit of early learning that supported
a positive perspective in life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So that close relationship is possible, even as a young
child?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, of course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why is it
that in the early years, as <I>the Urantia Book</I> describes, that the
individual becomes invested with a Divine Fragment, a Thought Adjuster as you
call it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often, Its work is far
more influential in those early years than at almost any other time of a
mortal’s life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Because they were able to make a moral decision.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Right.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so the influence of the Divine
Fragment begins then; and even before then your guardian angel has had an
influence in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can,
think back to occasions in your life that had you interpreted them differently,
in more harsh and punitive terms, you may have become a different person than
you are now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that, perhaps,
would have left you with an expectation that that is the way life is, and you
have to meet it with a harsh and punitive perspective.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Truly, and that was what my struggle was.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was why was I able to interpret things
toward the light, rather than in a negative light?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now
it is not so important, the answer to your “why question,” but that you accept
this and now engage this powerful union more fully.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Oh, my goodness!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other questions? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, I recently had an experience of feeling God’s love in such a
profound way, and yet I was at the same time aware that as profound and as
massive as it felt, that I was, at the same time, intellectually sure that this
was just a glimmer of God’s total love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And as you said earlier, those who do not interpret universe in a
positive light don’t know anything of God’s love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My question is perhaps one more in the
academic realm than anything else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To what minimal degree, are we humans capable of feeling and knowing
God’s love…as we would say, 1% or 4% or 20% or 100%…I’m sure it is not
attainable until we get to Paradise… um, is this even a question worth
answering?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It might be a secondary
question that I’m needing…I guess I just want to know, on this planet and in our
experience, how much is possible?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is dependant upon the individual’s receptivity and their
maturity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I am assuming the question really refers to those who have maximum
receptivity, the Mother Theresa’s and whomever else you might lump with that,
the Nelson Mandela’s or whomever, in our mortal eyes appear to be, perhaps
…(mic. static)… the Dalai Lama who is receptive to that
information?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not possible to answer your question in terms of percentages, as it is
dependant upon the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
we say that an individual can receive 10% of God’s love and know it thoroughly,
[more] then to another individual, that would be overwhelming and they would be
in a state of dazed confusion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>True.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me ask another
question—how much am I able—can you answer that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps that grows with experience and
it ever expands.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Another student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps you’ve answered your own
question.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, you have answered your own question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, you should puzzle about that
answer, should you not, that your ability to appreciate and know God’s love is
infinite.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is directly
related to your ability to express the infinite potential in yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are expressing, on a regular
basis, the negative emotional states, then you have a limited capacity to
receive and understand and know that love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When I say, “receive it,” you <B>all</B> receive it, but whether you
acknowledge it or not, is another matter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The ability to incorporate God’s love into your life is only as great as
your ability to incorporate the qualities of loving into your own life, and to
know that these loving qualities of living <B>work</B>; they are fundamental to
living in a larger universe; they are fundamental to your longevity as a
soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The degree of love that you receive and acknowledge
and can incorporate will always exceed your ability to understand it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is always a differential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Much as a master teacher teaches you to
learn more about yourself, so too, your Divine Fragment expresses and showers
you with more love than you can truly acknowledge and understand.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you awaken in the morning and you
see the day and you say, “It’s a good day!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I love this day,” you are beginning to understand that you are living in
a state of loving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would not
estimate your ability to receive this love and understand it; I would not do
that for anyone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would encourage
you to speak with your Divine Fragment and yearn for those positive, loving
qualities to be expressed in your life, and to learn ways of overcoming the
negative emotional states that you have in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The most earnest simple prayer is, “Help
me to love more completely,” the chore of a lifetime, an effort for
infinity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only by doing that can
you fully express the God that lives within you, and when you become of like
mind with your Divine Fragment, to be of the mind of God, you will truly
understand that loving is the way of the universe, that it is a benign place to
live, and it is only in the interpretations that you give to events around you
that color this loving state of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>No, we are not asking you to be naďve, and go into the heart of ghettos
and shout this and try to teach this—but begin with who and where you are, and
this is where you begin, and this is where you continue.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How important is it, Bob, for us while we are involved in our physical
lives, to learn to love ourselves, as unconditionally as we profess to be able
to love others?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is primary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To learn to love
yourself is primary to your continuation; learning to love yourself is to
appreciate your self as God does; it is not to look at all the flaws, but to
look at all the perfection that is becoming.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And those issues that need perfection
are issues for honing, for growing through, for understanding, and for learning
the opposite of.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Well, I wasn’t really referring to the God-like attributes, if you
will—all of those positive qualities I have, I certainly recognize and I
appreciate, but it’s the physical part, it is the aging body, the weight
gained—those kinds of things, that I have so much difficulty in accepting.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And on our way over here today, I
thought to myself, I think I need to join some kind of a group effort or
something—you know, women trying to deal with accepting their aging bodies or
something.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then I thought,
well, I won’t have anything in common with them—they will all be thinking too
old, and so, then I thought, well maybe I just need to let it go..(Bob:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lighten up.)...deal with it, accept
that, and forget it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a very good question, and it involves your identity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who are you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you your body?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you your years?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you your wrinkles?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you your weight?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, but it goes back to all of that, all
of that imprinting that we get from the time in the womb, practically.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what would you do with this
imprinting then?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I’d like to
unplug it!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then do so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you look in the mirror, do you say,
“I am this body in front of me, that I see in the mirror.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are, then you are identifying
with only the vehicle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You drove
here today in a vehicle, did you not? Are you that vehicle? (No.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then neither are you that body.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I understand all of that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My head understands most of it; it’s
getting it down into the hard-wiring part that I have trouble with,
sometimes.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If an Avatar can do it, why can’t you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yeah, right!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Intellectually, I understand it all;
it’s just getting it on an emotional level that I need to work
on.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Perhaps you need to be de-programmed and re-programmed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And who is responsible for that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Me and my Father Fragment.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how would you begin?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(By asking him to help me.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s assumed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Well then it’s just me, doing what he
suggests.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How about beginning with
listening to your own thinking?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Isn’t that the same thing, almost?)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Becoming self-aware of your own
thinking, and the decisions you make about your choices.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For example, you look in the mirror and
saying, “I’m fat!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even before
saying that, you have made decisions about who you are, what is preferential and
what is not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As one of your
humorous lines says, “What are the alternatives?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would your worry bring on an early
death?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And make it so that you were
not that body anymore?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps you
would not want to do that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I don’t
know that I worry that much!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
your living is important; living is a process, it is a gift for your soul
growth; it is a gift for learning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Begin with your thinking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(My stinkin’-thinkin’, huh?)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Correct.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
“stinkin’-thinkin’”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now I believe we are ready for the questions that
were presented from outside the group.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ll do my best to convey them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One of them has to do with someone who was reading the transcripts on the
Internet, and wondered if everyone really does go to the mansion worlds?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He felt that the text in<I> the Urantia
Book</I>, didn’t exactly say that and he wanted some kind of a confirmation that
it is either so or not so.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
can provide no further confirmation other than these and past assurances through
the TRs and Teaching Mission transcripts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a new revelation; this is the illustrated, personalized form of
<I>the Urantia Book</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>The
Urantia Book</I> was and is a wonderful beginning, a grand reference for your
life in a large universe, a cosmology to assist you to understand your place and
position and status and progress in the universe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet it is not complete.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why the Correcting Time includes
the Teaching Mission as an adjunct to <I>the Urantia Book</I> revelation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Fifth epochal Revelation includes
more than simply a “book.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
providing validation for this on the outer, in the form of perhaps another book,
would be in question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore,
the support of this logic is only from within itself—it is a closed circuit to
your thinking—but to a larger revelation, a mind that can see the larger
revelation and speak and know and hear, from the Spirit of Truth, the Christ
Spirit, which is here, you will know what is true and what is not true.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the validating, but improvable
source for these questions and answers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you believe that in your estimation, this answers the question?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(It seems like it should satisfy
him.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The second question is from someone who is familiar with the Padgett
transmissions, (and I’m not,) and they say that not many mortals from Urantia
have gone beyond the sixth mansion world, nor fused by their own choice, and he
was wondering if this is true, and if so, what happens to
them?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
have no answer for this question at this time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our understanding and our awareness is
that mortals progress; there is concurrence in many regards to <I>the Urantia
Book</I>, in that individuals who are in a ready state of progress and
development do arrive on the mansion worlds after three days.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a new dispensation, which
creates a new situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other
questions?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I do, based on this question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I guess in my own thinking—I’m really not sure where it came from, <I>the
Urantia Book</I> or otherwise, but I think that I have always believed that
because this is such a basic foundational experience for us, and our first
experience, and that we evolve eternally, but because this is our first life, if
you will, and we are so bloody stupid, really, even though we think we are so
smart—I mean it’s like we’re amoebas here, in regard to the whole scheme of
things, I just cannot picture that God would not give everyone on this planet,
regardless of the direction his or her life took, would not insist that they at
least get to the first mansion world to get a little more understanding of God’s
love and the whole scheme of things, before they would be allowed to be
annihilated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
your question is?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>My question is that that means everyone here, yes, does get to the
mansion worlds.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That has been said before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Okay.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In coming to
understand your world and all that happens upon it, remember that you are given
a new way of interpreting what occurs to you, [reference to the life of Jesus;
ed.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is through the loving
nature and understanding of God’s perfection, perfection abiding in you, that
your approach to your world is changed when you take on this loving nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not having a loving nature holds you
back from this understanding and from your further growth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And your growth becomes more rapid as
you understand the loving nature of the universe; that is different from the
decisions of individuals to not be in alignment with that loving nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That seems rather simple, but is one of
the most basic understandings that you have to learn while you exist in this
mortal body, captive on this material world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Bob, I have a question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yes)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can one feel so
loved by God, and so tormented by the world?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is your question?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yes.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of the
decisions God has made to build this world, create it, and because of the
decisions of others, who have made this world a torment for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also made beautiful by the
decisions that you have made; it is also made a torment by the decisions you
have made.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The undoing of the
torment is in taking on a more loving nature and living in a loving way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That may sound awfully romanticized, but
in fact simply living life by making decisions of perfection, those qualities of
living, which are exemplified in your spiritual heroes that you have mentioned
today is a practical way of learning to live successfully in a large
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strive to take on these
decisions, these ways of living and thinking, and you will find a world that is
different.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Blessings to you all today, thank you for
coming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We hope that you may be
able to learn the lessons of loving more easily in your life, as it is difficult
until you do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We understand this,
and that is why there is so much help abiding by you and in you, and the
awareness of that is becoming clearer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank <B>you</B> for
coming.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>