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<p>09-07-2003</p>
<p>Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you here this day. The
effort you have each made toward spiritual growth and self-improvement is
known on high. It is true that the Father’s spirit respond to the tiniest
flicker of faith. How much more do you receive for your tenacity and faithfulness
in the face of many trying circumstances. </p>
<p>The opportunities for you each will expand in your lives as your capacity
for service enlarges with your faith. Your lives have been sufficiently
rugged to spur you toward spiritual questing. And spiritual questing, the
yearning to know God and to be like him, is the foundation for your souls.
It is for less robust souls to be content within your earthly organized
religions and it is the failure of these religions to recognize and nurture
spiritual questing and growth that remains their greatest weakness. </p>
<p>Human beings have constantly failed to grasp the essential spiritual nature
of religious teaching. Always does the more advanced teaching become polluted
with evolutionary religious thought. But, you my children have indeed broken
free from the tradition bonds of this world. You have begun to sense the
reality of spiritual freedom, even if you are afraid to stretch your wings
and really explore the freedom that is before you. </p>
<p>Spiritual freedom is a difficult concept for human beings to grasp. Over
many centuries the human mind has been locked in chains of the fear of God
and unconsciously endeavoring to appease this fanciful tyrant, this judgmental
parent who is critical of his children in your minds. You are correct in
sensing that releasing the concept of Hell and eternal damnation is a great
leap forward and though the Master never taught such folly, it was so deeply
ingrained in the minds of his followers...</p>
<p>Q: He said one time about taking the brush and throwing it in the fire
and pruning the plants that did not produce, but maybe they mistook that.</p>
<p>Ham: Yes, that is a misunderstanding like many of his parables. The separation
of the wheat from the chaff was meant to illustrate that the spirit retains
what is good and releases that which no longer serves within each individual
life. He did not mean that some people are only chaff. The indwelling spirit
retains and sorts and keeps everything of value, that was his meaning. Human
beings often try to be their own sorter. Humans often try to judge themselves
and judge what should and shouldn’t be. But this is the job of the Father’s
perfect spirit. </p>
<p>Human beings still endeavor to appease God by following strict rules for
behavior. Human beings still try to appease God by sacrificing or giving
alms or tithing which is all tied to the primitive idea of sacrifice. Human
beings try to understand God’s laws and to work within that limiting concept
in order to gain God’s favor. All these things had been swept away in the
master’s life and teachings, but subsequently were brought back by tradition
and the compromises that were made in order to spread the master’s words.
But, the Master’s seeds are still sprouting. They are still growing a new
in each heart and will find unique expression there. </p>
<p>Your world is trembling on the brink of great changes. There will be a
great deal of religious soul searching and spiritual decision making over
the next several generations. Your religions are still wrestling between
the concept of God as judge as given my Moses and the concept of God as
Father, protector, and friend as given by Jesus. The difference in these
concepts will be crucial to the story of your world. </p>
<p>You, my friends, have been taught much greater and enlarged truth. You
have absorbed the perspective given in your book and you have been diligent
students of the teachers words. This give you a vastly superior understanding
over that of your fellows. Each of you has a part to play in the spiritual
upstepping of this world. Doubt not what I have told you. </p>
<p>Each of you has grown in faith, grown in patience, grown in diligence.
But most of all, you have grown in love. And children once more I will say
to you, that loving yourselves, accepting fully your positions as God’s
children, these things are not accomplished over night. This world is harsh
and filled with harsh punishments, harsh people, and it is difficult to
do as the Master did, to be soft hearted and loving with those who cause
you harm. </p>
<p>It is not an easy road, this learning to love. It is not a way of timidity
and shrinking back. Courageous loving requires the robust exercise of faith.
It requires grasping after the unknown value, but it is faith which guides
the human mind within that unknown and it is faith that you must learn to
exercise completely. Use up your reserves and you will find you still have
plenty. Don’t be afraid to live by faith. Don’t be afraid to relinquish
your hold on the ego in order to grasp that unknown value that only faith
tells you is there. </p>
<p>What are your questions?</p>
<p>Q: Is there any ways you can help use distinguish between a hard task
and a barrier our spiritual helpers put in front of us to move us in another
direction. Do you have any help?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my son, if this were an easy answer, it would help in the spirit.
The difficulties are often deliberately designed to be part of your growth,
those that you work through and those that are not possible to work through
both. You cannot tell the difference until the final outcome, otherwise
your would be short circuiting your own growth. If there is something which
you can honestly say you have done your best, you have reached the limit
of your human abilities and your praying abilities, and still the result
is not what you would have wanted, then this barrier has served and you
can rest assured in your human efforts. But, when there is something which
all human effort has not been exhausted, which you would simply like to
escape from, this may be the type of barrier that will reappear later in
life because if it was not worked through the first time, your lessons were
not learned so it must be worked through again. The difference will only
be found in your own heart and you will know as time plays out which is
which. I cannot be any more specific than that.</p>
<p>Q: That helps, thank you.</p>
<p>Q: Do you have anything for Rebecca?</p>
<p>Ham: Certainly. My daughter, you do well. Continue upon the path we have
laid before you. You do well in your perceptions and your analysis. Work
persistently and for a while look neither to the left nor the right but
stay focused and you will find your self moving forward rapidly. Be at peace
in this work for you do well. </p>
<p>Q: Jarad?</p>
<p>Ham: My son, you do well also. You are finding a different role in being
the supporter rather than the one supported and for a while this is necessary.
In every true partnership, support is crucial in both directions. You are
finding within yourself a natural, nurturing character, an ever more Christ-like
attitude and a gentleness of spirit that has long been submerged and smothered
since childhood in the mistaken ideal of the masculine that has been your
persona. The cultural shackles that propel people into false ideals of themselves
are unfortunate. It is good to explore all aspects of yourselves. For the
male and female, both exist within each body, and finds expression in different
ways. You do very well my son. Have peace.</p>
<p>Q: Do you have a message for Charlie B?</p>
<p>Ham: My son, you do well. The Master has said be gentle as doves and wise
as serpents. By this he meant to caution believers to use common sense and
to be wise in the ways of the world as well as gentle in the spirit. Listen
well to these words.</p>
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<p>As always, my love and my prayers go with you each. Farewell. </p>
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David G. Schlundt, Ph.D.
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Vanderbilt University
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