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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">DATE:<SPAN
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</SPAN>September 7, 2003</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">LOCATION:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Dorenda & Willie’s
House</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3">
</SPAN>Rio Rancho, New Mexico</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TEACHERS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>TOMAS & ANATOLIA</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOPIC(s):<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN>The
Symphony (revisited)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3"> </SPAN>The
Song of Prayer<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Q & A:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Group Project</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">T/Rs:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Gerdean (for Tomas); Matthew (for Anatolia)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U>MUSIC:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Elena
on Piano:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Take Time to be
Holy” </U></P>
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"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">PRAYER:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Master Teacher, <o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>We take the liberty to walk with you hand in hand, individually or as a
group, to ask for you to take us before the Father – not that we prefer you over
the Father or vice versa, but that in retrospect with my request, you have made
the Father known through you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
look forward to the time when we can share your company jointly and with
<U>all</U> of divinity, so that we may, in the process, know ourselves as we are
made to be and as we are becoming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And that is the greatest joy of all, that nothing is condemned or set for
desecration unless one chooses, but we are destined to be whole and united with
all that is good, holy and happy.</EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>We encourage that development here and now, and not just “pie in the sky
when we die” but look for the tools and the avenues and to make the right
choices, to make that possibility of being wholly happy and one with all now as
it will be forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>We appreciate the teachers that you send to us and ask for their presence
and yours today, and in appreciation for this gift of teaching that we are privy
to, may we open the doors in the world to such understanding that all may be
knowing of your loving presence and their role in creativity and love
forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>In lasting appreciation, we are forever yours.<o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Amen.</EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><EM> </EM></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Group:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Amen.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B>Devoted students
and friends, I am Tomas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
afternoon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anatolia and I and many
other heavenly hosts take great pleasure in joining with you this afternoon in
our communal reach toward greater revelation of the divine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your harmonics are exemplary of the
oft-referenced symphony that enables each of you to be true to your own
instrument and, in conscious or unconscious accord with the Master Conductor,
strike the chords/play the notes appropriate for your part of the song our group
sings ~ in upreach and outreach, in seeking, finding and distributing that music
which will render you each complete ~ having participated and having received
the divine gift of association in making music to enhance reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a noble work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And while we obviously can enjoy Elena’s
contribution to this concept by her skills as a pianist, each of you are also in
the figurative sense an instrument.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In Matthew’s prayer today, there
was reference made to knowing yourselves, in order to be most true to that
reality which you bring, which you are, and which you grow in as you become more
and more in tune with your fine art of playing in company with your Adjuster,
your internal God fragment that pulls you along into a greater awareness of your
capacities as a music-maker.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">All your lives you have sung your
solo tunes and fiddled with your strings or tooted your horn, but now we come
together under the direction of the Master Conductor, in order to create a
joyful noise, one which will accompany your individual and group light that
shines as a beacon to those who would see with eyes to see or hear with ears to
hear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The process of knowing yourself
is the same as practicing your instrument, in hopes of gaining greater and
greater mastery over the technique of playing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Obviously you cannot become the best
coronet player you can become if you are trying to master the viola.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it behooves you to become true to
yourself in such a way as to enhance all that is, and it is in the mind that
this becomes workable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Teaching Mission, large and
small, is a format for those who will to learn to teach, based on what you have
garnered to be part of wisdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
may be the gospel in its traditional sense, or it may be pragmatic in terms of
social development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be
through ministry and healing arts, or in any way the Word of God can be
broadcast to and throughout your material realm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">There is a path you take to
become excellent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But attaining
excellence requires a consistent upholding of those skills which have enabled
you to attain your mastery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your
world, which presents itself as very complicated and/or complex, you may feel
like a simpleton in playing the purity of your own selfhood, your own
excellence; it can be easily drowned out by the cacophony of instruments which
have not even warmed up to the opportunity to play, who have not heard the
Master Conductor tap-tap-tap on the podium and bring them to attention as a
group or even individually.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is
the time for you to practice your solo.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Invite harmony. Listen for those who have pitch.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Engage them in a duet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy the elementary exercises of the
beginner, in order to whet their ambition to become more and better
artists.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Observe how many have the words
messed up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather than “Take time
to be holy,” they “Take time to be lazy.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They construe idle time as the time to do nothing, instead of utilizing
idle time to engage in up-stepping ones skills so as to find life more
meaningful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those who look to
sources outside themselves or engagement and reinforcement of their perceived
reality, will not opt to follow the Conductor’s lead and enable, with you, to
enjoy being part of the orchestration of the Evolving Supreme. But remember our
chamber orchestra here that we enjoy, and begin to consider the notes you play
as a part of the necessary composition of the symphony this group is, the music
it plays, and the message it projects into the atmosphere – which in turn will
soothe the savage beasts in your domain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Stay true to your own
instrument.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Practice your pitch
daily.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Entertain yourself with a
practice session.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And keep your
mind invigorated by trying out new compositions to practice and master, so that
your mind is exercised as well as your skills.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eventually we will be able to hear the
song you sing, for the echo of your music will begin to return to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will begin to see in your efforts
together, the reflectivation of the Divine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By shining your Light, you will attract
the light of those who also seek the Source of all Light.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thus, of course, (the principle
being and the ideal remaining) the symphony will grow and incorporate such a
chorus as to enhance the spheres throughout eternity. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I will be back in due
course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anatolia is free to take
the baton of this session and lead you into her song of psalms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">ANATOLIA: <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>A wonderful day, a wonderful way, to
begin our session – with a prayer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you probably could not imagine starting off our sessions without a
prayer, I only encourage you to do so because it is a wonderful way to bring
about the correct, proper attitude and impressions that you wish to make upon
yourselves as you enter into your part of the bargain to become more enlightened
and enhanced beings of creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This is encouraged because it is
helpful for you to make the adjustment from primarily material beings, involved
in the course of life that you are following, and needing to disengage for just
a moment to place your emphasis and ideas out onto the table where they
belong.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is as if you are saying
prayers or placing them before an altar, to have the sacrifice that you are
placing, be found worthy and acceptable for the needs that you present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is most basic, if not primitive, in
humanity’s perspective – to place one’s offerings on the altar of sacrifice,
wishing to appease an angry god or set of gods.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To set the record straight, to beg for
acceptance, so that the winds and elements do not destroy those parts of reality
which are known and dealt with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I only bring this up in terms of
encouraging you to start anything of importance with a prayer, to place your
attitude in proper perspective.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This does more in the intent of prayer than any request or placement of
your needs before the altar will do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For you see that your God-Presence is with you always, and your “burnt
offerings” never have been or ever will be necessary to appease your God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You carry the God-Fragment with you
always.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You place yourself in the
proper frame of mind to be able to receive the graces that are always with you
when you begin any effort worth doing, with prayer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You enable your energies to balance and
become in balance with those that you place yourself before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So it is of vital importance to
begin any effort with prayer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
as if you are watering a plant or a flower.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In order for it to continue to grow, it
needs the proper environment in which to thrive and to become all that it is
capable of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is, too, as
with prayer, as you place your hearts and minds in proper perspective. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I wish to offer this to you – not
as an instruction, as if this is something new, but as a reinforcement for what
you have already known.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or for any
who may have need of developing a more mature approach to prayer, it is again
doing more for you than it is for our Heavenly Presence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your statement of prayer is the
placement of yourselves on the altar.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There you are able to commune and to become one with your request.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You enable it, as your Father enables
you, to become one in the creative process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I leave this with you to do and
to practice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has marvelous
possibilities and results.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Prayer,
in terms of placement of an adjustment of attitude and perspective, can be
accomplished wherever, whenever the situation is needed or you simply wish to
commune with your inner presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
leave this with you and encourage your continued practice of prayer over the
simplest of matters, for all that matters is simplicity and a pure heart.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I leave you in good tidings and
present each of you with a lily in your hands as remembrance of the purity that
you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only your recall
that needs to be enlightened.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Peace
be with you, and may you reflect the beauty that is in your hands.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Group:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Are there questions from our sessions over the summer or from the
beginning of our existence as a teacher base, or even from the far-reaches of
your consciousness?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I wanted to ask.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There have
been a couple of comments about this group changing the way that it would work,
and I may be misphrasing this slightly, but there were a couple of comments that
referred to that and that piqued my curiosity tremendously, and wanted to know
if you would care to clarify that a little bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Indeed, Elena, it was you last week who properly demonstrated the answer
you seek when you indicated that your perspective today is not the same as it
was when we were younger in our existence as a group.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You evolve, each of you, and as each of
you evolve in the spirit and in morontia consciousness, you are like the
instrument that can play more and more sophisticated passages.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, up until now, in some regards
you have each been playing solo.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And even while we have been meeting as a group, your are only now
attaining an ability to function as a group, as a “unity in diversity”
arrangement, and to develop in your existence what might be called “group
consciousness” or a sense of overcontrol in which we invest ourselves for what
you are as a group is much more powerful than what you are as individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you know, ten people
working together can do more than ten individuals, for they are exponentially
empowered, and we are reaching a stage of development in which we will become
more aware and practice the aspects of the group in the initial efforts to
exhale the divine breath that you hold jointly, into the ethers of the
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This practice, this
development, will provide you greater strength to go about your business in the
world because your growing appreciation of the cosmic chemistry of this greater
consciousness will override those circumstances in your daily life in the
kingdoms of men such that you will be able to more readily recognize the
perspective that you have gained from this gathering and more effectively deal
with the matters you find in the arena you have to deal with.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Just as Teacher Ham said in his
first few lessons, “The living water is real,” so too are these realities which
you are being led to assimilate through these sessions, these lessons.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The mortal experience is the
experiential laboratory, or playing field, on which the reality of the Living
Water rains down upon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the
course of time, the reflection of the divine will be not so much a shadow but
the more real and the material life you live will be more easily seen as the
shadow of this greater reality.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now, be advised, I am not saying
the group here that meets here on Sunday afternoon is a false god, no.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not asking you to worship your
Sunday configuration, no.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not
asking you to give it more credence than is required for you to recognize the
fact that as the Living Waters are real, so is the Family of God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And as you now are able to
recognize the instrument that you are, and determine your own capacity (as far
as your skills in playing), you will also be able to recognize how you fit
within the configuration of the rest of your fellow players here in this group,
such that you are able to develop a harmony that will resonate such that the
reality of the Evolving Supreme is made visible and apparent to you and to
others by your individual and group application to the process of evolving the
Supreme.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this give you some
idea of …?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes, and that makes more sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I just didn’t really know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes you – from the lessons you get a little bit of an idea and your
imagination takes a hurdle in one direction or another or just a hurdle flinging
it out there, not knowing what that might mean, so this brings it into a perfect
content.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Understandable and doable,
so yes, thank you.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Along those lines, yes, there are those groups that/who take these
laboratory experiments of the lessons we give and, taking them literally, begin
to create, as a group, service opportunities or organizations in an attempt to
literally bring the light of the divine into the material realm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And these exercises in expressing values
of divinity are always of benefit to the participants, for they are obvious
exercises of a nature that will enable them to develop their skills as an
instrument.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In some cases they will
be able to ascertain they are not the instrument they thought they were.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are not a piccolo but a tuba!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thus the experience is good, even
though it appear to be a bizarre excursion into unreality or “my science
project.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An experience is good if
it teaches you more about the divine and about your relationship with the
divine, and even about truth, beauty and goodness in its essential nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there other questions?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Thank you, Tomas.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Matthew:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>It sounds as if you were suggesting a group project.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I was not suggesting a group project, although oftentimes a group, once
formulated, will desire to take on a project in order to cement those bonds of
affiliation and commitment that seem to be inherent in the group process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to say that if there is a group
project, it will be your project; I am not assigning you one.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Matthew:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I understand.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>If you take on a group project, I want to know all about it, of course,
as I want to know about all of your undertakings and entanglements in the
process of becoming who you are and mastering that reality, for this is the
Melchizedek University purpose on Urantia campus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Paula:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>I don’t think we need any projects.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think it is just that we enjoy being together, talking, listening to
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just generally enjoying
companionship.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>It is indeed a true hearth you and we create.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is very much like the figurative
campfire around which we sit to be mesmerized by the Eternal Flame and allow our
thoughts to wander away from the outer reality and focus on the delights of the
inner life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the inner life of
each other!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Well, I have an idea for a project, if one were to occur.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was just thinking that taking my old
idea of playing for rest homes, I was wondering if … I don’t have time to
organize that, but maybe somebody … Mother, maybe you would have time to call a
couple of the rest homes and then go on a … maybe once a month to have us go by
before our meeting and spend half an hour, 45 minutes, singing there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We could take the piano.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s … I mean, like any of us need
one more thing to do right now.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Esmarelda:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I
could do that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I’ll be glad to
sing for anyone that would listen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They would only listen briefly, and then it would be “take up your bed
and walk!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I could probably cause
everybody to walk.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I hear you say, “walk out.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I am amused and allow you to make those choices at leisure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is certainly true that there are many
who would benefit from a diversion of the routine existence, especially those
who have not learned or have forgotten how to elevate the routine prose of
mortal existence to poetry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
would do well, however, if you are going to be lugging around a piano and
coordinating your extensive schedules, to take adequate time to do a proper
recital.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And having mastered that
project, it would be easier then for you to perform recitals elsewhere and in
other locations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bringing a smile
to the face of the lonely or the disheartened, the ill or the weary, is a
service, a ministry, as you all fully appreciate how well you appreciate being
righteously entertained.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">All of you personally are
chugging right along, I take it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Esmarelda: <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I was
thinking about this project.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most
of the group, in one month, relocated their abodes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was kind of a group project right
there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it seemed to be a group
one because almost everyone in the group did.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>That may be enough to consolidate us for a time, for there will be
individual adjustments that as a group you can share, and yet in time it will be
true, too, you will be joined by those who have not relocated, and you must not
alienate them for not having had a change of address.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being established as a group enables you
to think about the influx of new people, and how they will feel as a result of
having been made aware of this reality paradigm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not church in a traditional sense,
nor is it merely social, but it has to be represented as a reality context
greater than entertainment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The living waters are real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And even those who have drunk deep of
these waters know the joy of sonship and are able to learn to swim therein, even
while there remain those who are dying of thirst in the presence of the divine
that dwells within them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This seed
has now been planted in your fertile minds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The prayer then will be that the seed
will be fertilized, watered, and benefited by the radiance of the sun, such that
in due course, the shoots of growth will sprout throughout the vineyard, giving
rise to a new harvest of souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Paula:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, I don’t know about the rest of
you, but I just enjoy being together, listening to all of you talk, getting
together in each others homes, becoming close, and that’s very important to
me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s more important than any
outside project.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To me.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Yeah.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This group is very
important to me, too.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Esmeralda:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>We’ve
become a family!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes, you are right, ladies, to recognize that the kingdom is not alone in
the exalted realms of the spirit, but realizes itself as well in the fibers of
the finite lives you live.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this
way the group will enmesh and provide a tapestry of such substance, we will be
able to use it for a magic carpet ride into morontia mota.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean wants me to say,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“We will go for a ride on God’s
mota-cycle.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group chuckles)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, friends, have we come to fruition
this afternoon?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Matthew:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes, thank you.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Esmeralda:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>A
great lesson.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elena:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>A wonderful lesson!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>It is a good new start to a new season, as we begin another semester of
study and aspiration in this classroom environment, in this communion of souls,
and in this worshipful place we call “home”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Enjoy your lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Return safe, fulfilled and effective for
more next week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Farewell.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Group:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, Tomas.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P><BR>Gerdean<BR>"Life, and
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