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<DIV>Date:
August 3,
2003<BR>Location: Rio Rancho, NM
USA - at Willie and Dorenda's new home<BR>Teachers:
Tomas and
Anatolia<BR>Topics:
In the Midnight
Moment<BR>
Difficulties, Opportunities,
Challenges and Gifts <BR>Q &
A:
If I get there before you…..? Welcome to Mansonia<BR></DIV>
<DIV>T/R's: Gerdean for Tomas; Matthew for
Anatolia<BR><U>Music: "'Tis Midnight" - piano solo by
Dorenda
</U></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Prayer: (Matthew) Let's place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Master Teacher, </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We welcome you to our presence - as we are always in your presence, but we
may not always be conscious of that - and welcome you to the invitation of
<EM>'where two or more are gathered'</EM> you are here.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We are most grateful for this opportunity to be able to share every Sunday
with you and with your Teachers that bring us to Higher Truth and better
awareness of who we are and that Life does not need to be difficult because it
is really simple - in terms of Love being the message and being the goal.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We are very grateful for the message that has been delivered and that we
are a part of it: that we are loved as you are loved, and the Father who made
All is Love. For this we are eternally grateful.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I add a personal note for the anniversary of my brother's passing away -
Greg - last year at this time, and trust that he is with you and in great glee
over the happiness that he now deserves and which you promised each and every
one of us both here and hereafter, that it's not merely an <EM>installment
program</EM>. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For all that is in our hearts and the needs that each of us knows and feels
for ourselves and others … we place before you and before our heavenly Father
and all Deity. We celebrate and are glad, for we are one with you - now and
always. And we welcome this lesson today. Amen.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: Amen</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: Good afternoon, precious flock. Anatolia and I embrace you and
welcome you again into the embrace of the Universe - the Cosmic Contact with
neighbors in the Spirit Family. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What an abundance of Joy we have today in your gathering - this culmination
of many life decisions that have brought this man and this woman to their
hearth, in which they delight to share themselves, their love and their faith
with those of you. And with us! who conjoin with them in the celebration
of the Gifts of the Spirit. (long pause)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I pause for a moment at midnight reflecting on your selection of music
today, Elena, and wonder at the choice: the attitude that is so reflective
of the Inner Life of the Faith Son ~ the quiet time of day that invites
reflection - and reflectivation - on the affairs of your existence ~ be they
personal, societal, global or cosmic in extent. It is a time of quietude
and sanctity ~ at that instant in your daily life that marks the close of one
day and the opening of another day-in-the-life of you creatures of time and
space. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The reflections that rise up in the conscious mind at midnight are often an
odd, and yet poignant and creative, upsurge of subconscious longings and fears
enmeshed with superconscious yearnings and faith to create such a tapestry as
this - your life moment. The midnight hour is always filled with human
pondering, not excluding the fearsome ponderings of the individual who is alone
or the individual who contemplates death, or loss of life and loved ones. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And yet, still, at this very hour of the clock striking twelve, the
resurrection emerges in the final chime that earmarks a new tomorrow, a
resurrection, faith of a new dawning, because of the constancy of the universe.
Whether or not and to the extent that Consciousness of the Divine may enter into
that state of consciousness, it is nonetheless a Moment in Time that is replete
with the Human Condition.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And so we pause at the final gong of the twelfth hour and meet the New
Day. And the New Day is a cheerful and sunny depiction of Light and Life
in the home and heart of our friends and family.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My lesson today is set aside -- adapting to the circumstances of Life as I
find it … as it is incumbent upon you to also adapt ~ at a moment's notice ~ to
Life as you find it. For in this Fluid state of Acceptance of what Life has to
offer, there are those exercises in expanding God-consciousness that give meat
to your efforts. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thus, I will ask for Anatolia to present her portion of the program.
But before I relinquish the microphone, and in acknowledgment of Free Will, I am
not intending to direct the show but to be, yes, <U>efficacious</U> in our
delivery of that which longs to be revealed. Anatolia, if you would,
proceed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>ANATOLIA: Welcome, all, to this New Abode which bodes well for the
Lightness that is in each of your hearts, as we observe today your attitudes of
graciousness and appreciation for the things that are important in life and not
just the trimmings or trappings. This is important as you begin to wander off
into your introspective directions of Truth-Seeking. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Let me not waste a moment to also welcome Linda (Renault), for her trip
here is not an easy accomplishment, necessarily, and depicts the dedication
which she, too, shares with the Teaching Mission and with all of you as well.
You are One Unit, as much as petals on a flower make a Unit of gracious and
loving Beauty. It is my pleasure to be with you in this realm which offers
all of us the opportunity to welcome Newness and Life wherever it is
demonstrated.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This is a New Day, for which Tomas spoke in the beginning, relative to
Dorenda(Elena)'s choice in music. Speaking of New Days, each one ~ as you
become aware ~ is beset with challenges and opportunities. And not just thinking
in terms of beneficial or positive ways of thinking. Each opportunity that
presents itself ~ whether a challenge or whether a gift ~ is an opportunity to
accept that which is presented.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Let us say that the day, as it begins, would bring you some unbeknownst
difficulty that in its most positive framework would be presented as a
challenge. If that is the case, what would that challenge represent? It
would represent the opportunity to meet and greet and to bless the occasion and
to enable the best outcome to result. In other words, a simple example
would be ~ especially on a Sunday morning when one certainly does not expect
difficulty because of the innate nature of a Sunday morning, which is
worshipful, restful and peaceful by its nature and design ~ let us say on such a
Sunday morning you are greeted by a baseball flying through one of your windows.
This would certainly create a rude awakening to your otherwise peaceful
scene. The challenge of this opportunity for graciousness is not to be
Pollyanna and to simply say, "Oh isn't baseball a wonderful game?" but rather,
to rise to the occasion to say, "What must we and can we do to not curse the
darkness but to bring Light upon this occasion?"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>One can choose whatever their reaction will be. It can be one of
immediate and intense agitation and looking for the culprit that caused an
invasion of your privacy and peaceful mindset. This is not the preferred
choice but one in which most people would respond. I encourage you to seek out
the best in all situations, not because it is the right thing to do but because
you are Forces of Light. What more can you do but to face the situation with
integrity! ~ which is to present the same Light that you do during a moment of
Joy ~ to also present that same Light upon a moment of discouragement? For
both are the same opportunities. Both exist within the Light, and it is
your opportunity to share that which you have and to not keep it from a moment
where it is needed most.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So, I encourage you not to turn off your emotions but rather to fine tune
them, to be able to rise to the occasion of Light meets Light. Light is needed
where there is darkness. Light is welcome where there is Light to be able to
expand and enhance Its presence. I simply encourage you to be that which you
are: Emissaries and Light Bearers of Goodness, Truth and Beauty. This is
your charge ~ not because I say so, but because IT IS OUR charge, as Beings of
Creation, to be continuations of the Light we have been given. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We are the Light, after all, and if we do not pass that on, we are denying
the world and the cosmos our version of what will make it better.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I encourage each of you to continue to grow - to seek within that which is
your part of the Reality that we call Life, and to cherish the opportunity to be
part of this which we share jointly … much as the petals on a flower. I
welcome you and ask you to "scoot over" so I can add my petal to yours as we
stand waiting the smile of our Heavenly Parents to allow us to continue to grow
and to be the aromatic gift that we are. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Peace be with you and know that you are Loved and Love ~ at the same
time. May all be well, and I love you dearly. Until we meet again.
Amen.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: Amen. Thank you.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: You will appreciate the choice of words then, when I, Tomas,
suggest now we engage in intercourse. Are there questions?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: (much laughter)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Elena: Well, for once I don't have a question.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Renault: Is there a way to let Dotty know we wish her well and know
that she's doing well and onto other things by graduating? (Dotty is a
long time friend of Renault's mother, who recently left this realm.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: It is inherent in the resurrection, our understanding of a
support system of those who love her: those in the flesh and those who have
'met' her in her new form. The first few days of adjustment to the
Morontia Life is a flurry of New activity and meeting New personalities - being
reunited with friends and family who preceded the Traveler. And there is,
of course, somewhere in the musings of their Midnight Moment that they think
about those they've left behind. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But, by this point they have such a New perspective on the dimensions of
Reality that these understandings are inherent. Dotty knows you love her ~
knows you have always loved her ~ knows that you are happy for her transition
and that any sadness you feel on account of her passing, is a natural part of
the grieving process and that the bond between you will never fail.
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thus, I might venture to say that the spirit of your departed friend longs
to comfort <EM><STRONG>you</STRONG></EM> in <EM><STRONG>your
</STRONG></EM>concern for <EM><STRONG>her</STRONG></EM>, which should give you
an idea of how well she is doing … and will continue to do well with the New
Paradigm of Reality which is being presented to her in this dawning of her New
Day on Mansonia. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Yes, Renault, she appreciates your sympathies. I can say this as a
result of having had the experience myself ~ not because I have personally
checked in on Dotty and asked her about her experience, but perhaps this will
suffice insofar as giving you peace of mind in knowing that your friend knows
that you miss her already and is happy for her glorified state.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In keeping, now, with Dotty's inherent, innate concern for you, are you
OK?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Renault: Sure. A few aches and pains but I'm okay with it
all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: Are you making reference to emotional or physical or mental
aches and pains?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Renault: Physical.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: In this I would suspect Dotty would also offer her condolences
to you for the loss of comfort sustained by her passing. But this is done with
good humor and good cheer. This, too, shall pass. Are there other
questions?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Esmarelda: Tomas, I'm curious about something, since Renault
mentioned the passing of a loved one, my brother Jared told me that Daddy was
sleeping until the next great awakening. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: Let me stop you for a moment, Esmarelda, to repeat for
clarification what you have said. You have said your are curious, because
your brother has been told his father, your father, who has passed over, is
sleeping - yes, continue.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Esmarelda: And that - I can't remember if he said it was Ham or who
it was that said it, but also in my mother's passing, she chose to be asleep
with my father until they were both awakened. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What I'm curious about is that when I get to the mansion world - you said
we are greeted by our loved ones and those who have gone before - if both of my
parents are still sleeping - will I be able to be welcomed by them - since they
are sleeping?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: And your question, then, is (to repeat for the transcriber)
that if your parents are both asleep awaiting the new dispensational roll call,
and if you should resurrect and advance to Mansonia before them, will they be
there to greet you?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Esmarelda: That's correct.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: No. This is, however, one of the conditions of advanced
growth. It might seem unfair that you would not be met by your parents who
preceded you, but consider … if you are more spiritually astute and more ready
to pursue your Spirit Journey … that you to be there when they are
awakened. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The configuration of Life as you know it is not necessarily the same
configuration you will find after your death and resurrection. There will
be so many things New. There is a real problem directing your consciousness to
how different it will be because you haven't been there and you continue to take
your Mortal concepts into your perception of what Life will be like on the First
Mansion world.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But remember, like the angels, men and women are not given in marriage
beyond the Life in the flesh. And there is, in Truth, no reason for your
native nuclear family to be in attendance in order for you to recognize MORE
intimate associates in Spirit Reality - that being your own Thought Adjuster,
who is your Father - and your Guardian Seraphim, who is in many ways your
Mother. These elements of Divinity are your True Parents and they will surely
greet you. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But for the human psyche, these entities are most often represented by that
which the human mind already understands. This is why the legends reveal the
loved ones as being literal. They may or may not be literal. And at some point
during your readjustment to your New Life, you will indeed have occasion to
reunite with their personalities, and the remembrance of whether you had been
related in the flesh may or <EM>may not</EM> remain valuable ~ for what is of
True Value is that which has <U>lasting value</U>, and families are a product of
the material worlds. They come into being not only to maintain civilization but
to propagate the race. And you don't need to propagate in Heaven. Nor do you
need to acknowledge the Maternity and Paternity of those who gave you human
Life. But, as you acknowledge and recognize their Personality, you will see the
Father reflected in them and the Mother reflected in them such that you will see
Who they Truly are. And that may or <EM>may not</EM> relate to how you know them
now, as humans.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I tell you this fully understanding that there are many who will discard
these words completely, inasmuch as they are not compatible with the human
emotional tract. It is very much like - Again, I will be booed and hissed! - It
is very much like those who will not go to heaven unless their pet is there as
well.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: (some group laughter)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Elena: Well, there's a substantial group of those.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: This is understood. But I am not here to pacify you. I
am here to teach you. And if no students come back next year I will have learned
my lesson. (more group laughter) But if the ones who do come back are eager to
know Real Truth, rather than what they want to hear, I'll know I'll have done a
good job as a Teacher.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Esmarelda: I think you do a very good job, and your message and your
answer to my question is comforting, and I think whatever the situation is when
we get to the mansion world, it will be joyous.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: I certainly found it so. Incidentally, my mate preceded
me in death but we were fortunate to have been resurrected at the same time. And
so as we made ourselves at home in our New Realm it was simply a matter of time
before we recognized one another, greeted one another in the Spirit, and resumed
our journeys as friends and as siblings … but no longer as husband and
wife.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Paula: Well, all of this doesn't make me a bit happy 'cause I'm old
and haven't got a long time to live and when I get up there, I want it to be
just the way I always figured it would be! I'll see my father and mother
and all the rest of the family and I'm going to have a great time up
there!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: But you misunderstand my words to you, child. I am not taking
away from you your beliefs. You are surely right. When you arrive you will
see your Parents as you perceive them. You will be given that which is
needful for you. And if you need your parents to greet you, and if it is
His will that your will be done, it will be so. But I will insist upon my
statement that how you will be aided in your ascent, and in relinquishing this
Life in order to embrace the Next, when you in fact are resurrected you will be
SO embraced by the Spirit you will KNOW that you are HOME. And that is all
I'll say on the matter at this time.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: (chuckles)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Paula: And now I feel a little bit better. (more
chuckles) I'm not anxious to get up there you understand. I'm having
a great time right here!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: I am glad to hear that, because we have an entire community to
develop here, and you are certainly a part of our community. I say that not
lightly because our conversation began a while back about the Garden of Eden,
and how it is that each of you are creating your own Garden of Eden. These are
not individual only. They are a part of the Community Concept. And so<EM> your
quarter</EM> of the Village that we are creating in Light and Life among us is
an essential element of the Reality that is unfolding in this Teacher Base.
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This Teacher Base extends beyond you individuals within it. It is a Point
of Light for the Great Southwest! And when others are drawn to this area,
it would be good if they were drawn eventually into the Light and as Light from
the Divinely guided ~ to the Garden of Eden that you have created.
The new community is composed of you ~ the individuals in the community
~ you who reflect the Divine. You who reflect the values that are
inherent in the Divine, along with us, are a reflection of Light and Life ~
Heaven on Earth. Your attitudes towards one another will show forth "and
they will know that you have been with" the Master, that you have learned to
love the Father, that you have been nurtured by the Mother, that you are happy
siblings in the Family of God. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This success story that you are is not exclusively for your happiness but
for the purpose of the Divine. If you would look at the circumstances that have
brought you all here ~ even today ~ you will each see that you have been
Divinely guided to this very spot. To this very moment. To this very
Midnight Moment. So as we pause here to reflect and reflectivate, the Next
Instant begins a New Day, a New Dispensation, a New Era. And it is one in
which we will rejoice in the Family of Man together with the Family of
God.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It all sounds very lofty and poetic, I know. But it is essential to
the advancement of your world that you become attractive, you see. Not
because, as Anatolia said, not because of your trappings, but because you
represent to their minds that which is truly worthy of attaining. It may be
perceived as a nice house with nice things, but it is far more than that. It is
far more than the superficial material presentation. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It is, in truth, the spirit behind the depiction that is at the Heart of
who you are and what you are saying to those who pass by you. If you can
be one of those people who represent Truth, Beauty and Goodness in such a way as
other people will look at you and say, "I don't know what it is about them but I
want what they've got," it will have provided a beacon that will indeed allure
and entice others to find <STRONG>you and your community will begin to be of
service to the Universe </STRONG>-- beginning here in Rio Rancho. And I
say that because this is where I am assigned. It is also the case in other
Teacher Bases and in other communities throughout the world where individuals
gather together to be all that they can be and reflect back Divine Value in all
they do. And this is how we will attain Light and Life. This is how
we will sooth the savage beast and bring about the peace which passes all
understanding. It is that reflection and reflectivation at Midnight - the
stilling of the heart and mind to ponder that which rises up and reaches up and
reaches out to glean greater understanding of the purpose of Life and the
fulfillment of your place within it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>How odd we should talk about Midnight when the sun is high in the sky and
the Light is dazzling. Perhaps it is one of those issues of contrast that
enables one to see more clearly the yin and yang of reality. Are there other
questions?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Paula: I will keep my mouth shut. (group chuckles)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>TOMAS: Then let us be on our way. Be of good cheer. See you next
week.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Group: Thank you, Tomas. </DIV>
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