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<DIV><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">DATE:</FONT></B>
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">September 21, 2003</FONT> <BR><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">LOCATION:</FONT></B>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">Carl & Janet's new home in the Foothills
of</FONT> <BR>
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">
Albuquerque, NM</FONT> </DIV>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">TEACHERS:
TOMAS & ANATOLIA</FONT></B> <BR><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">TOPICS:</FONT></B> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">
"Women's' Things" and "Men's'
Things"</FONT> <BR>
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">Progressive Progeny</FONT> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">Q&A: </FONT></B>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">What
makes life meaningful?</FONT> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">T/Rs:</FONT></B>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">Gerdean
(for Tomas); Matthew (for Willie)</FONT> <BR><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman">MUSIC:</FONT></B>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">Elena on
Piano: "Blessed Assurance"</FONT> </P>
<P><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">PRAYER:</FONT></B> </P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Thoroah: That's
a State Farm song.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: It
is?</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Thoroah:
Blessed Insurance.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Oh,
no.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Thoroah: They
say Jesus was an insurance salesman.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Elena:
Long-term.</FONT>
<BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: That's
like Jesus being called "Andy".</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean:
Andy?</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Andy
walked with me.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group:
(Laughter)</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean: Andy and
Harold.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Elena:
Harold?</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean: Yeah, Harold,
who art in Heaven.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group:
(Giggles)</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Whoever
Harold is.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Thoroah: He's in
the bathroom on the right.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group:
(Laughter)</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: I always
thought it was Harold, the angel.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean: No,
it's "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold by thy name."</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Is that
what you thought it was?</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean:
No. That's what I heard other people thought it was.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: There
is a prayer that Catholics said before or after dinner, which included "By the
mercy of
God" and my sister thought it was "by
the emergency squad."<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group:
(Laughter.)</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Ready
when you are.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=2> </FONT>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus,
the Christ.</FONT> </P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Master Teacher, We come to you today, glad to
be here, in Carl and Janet's new abode that speaks well of them and for them and
should be a comfortable, loving home which we are happy to be able to experience
with them; </FONT></I></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">And for this time of year in the glory of
this fabulous weather that exists in the Southwest we are grateful and ask for
periodic rain, which will make living here continue to be a
pleasure;</FONT></I></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">For all of our families that are doing well
and continue to thrive as a result of life that was given us, as we have been
able to pass it on to yet future generations, we appreciate the opportunity to
be part of that chain of progression as we progress in spirit, both here and
always, we are grateful;</FONT></I></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">For the teachers that we are to hear from
today, we appreciate this opportunity to share in ministry and in light and life
communication and to be aware of the oneness of all creation and life within you
and our heavenly parent;. </FONT></I></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are forever grateful.
Amen.</FONT></I> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">TOMAS: Welcome, once more, my friends and
loyal associates in this Teaching Mission, who gather round in order to focus on
the facts of life as are revealed and maintained on that plateau of
consciousness which derives and perpetuates great satisfaction in the joy of
living. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is no need to limit your appreciation of
divine value to the celestial perspective, no, for the material world which you
inhabit provides a plethora of opportunities to tout the progressive culture
which contributes to the wealth you enjoy.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Once again, we greet each other in the humble
and exalted environment of "the home." This one, replete with artifacts,
represents, in cultural terms, "blessed assurance" -- assurance of your
civility, and refinement as civilized beings, through the art and order of your
accoutrements and tools of existence. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">What would a celestial care about fine china or
bric-a-brac? What I appreciate about this home and the personal taste of
its host and hostess, is the depiction of material value, which extends beyond
today into yesteryear, and thus reflects, in perspective, the hopes of
tomorrow. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">The material realm, as troubled as it may be in
the political sense, is indeed a shrine to those values which Michael, our
Creator, espouses and upholds, even as you now uphold the values of your
community and the home, which is at the heart of the community - "the master
civilizer" indeed, for while you enjoy the company of celestials, there have
been many centuries, many generations of mortals who have stood out from the
commonality of humanity by their uniqueness and courage in presenting that which
has been seen to be beautiful, true and good, according to the capacity of the
time, of the age, of the era in which these mortals lived, and upon their backs
has your culture been forged. It would not be possible for this current
age of high tech and high speed mechanics to be, were it not for those who went
before, paving the way through the inventions and covenants that have been your
cultural inheritance. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">This speaks to the human animal, to the ability
of Homo sapiens, through the ministry of the seven adjutant mind spirits, to
formulate a way of life worthy of passing on to your progeny for the creation of
a better world for tomorrow, and in like ways, you here today are engaged in a
loyalty to the values of yesterday which were worthy of holding you in good
stead today, that now may be a springboard to your cultural inheritance
tomorrow.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">You menfolk may see these many objet d'art as
mere "women's things" but the same pattern is true for you in your "men's
things" which is often a reflection of the glory of war and other historical
presentations of the upward struggle for supremacy and mastery of the bonds of
oppression in man's attempt to bring forth the noble and brave elements of Homo
sapiens, once again, to heroic stature of defending and maintaining the home and
hearth and the community which is somehow embedded in your collective
consciousness and which you are willing to struggle to maintain and fight for
its survival. Such is the history of humanity on your planet.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">In the face of the political picture today, let
not the tendency toward ennobling the bigger picture, diminish the greatness of
the little picture, for it is in the details of life that the personal religious
experience is developed. It is in the tenderness, the delicacy, and the
intricacy of emotional nuance and mental sympathy that courage is induced and
greatness is brought into play. Greatness is not always on a global scale,
or even a universal scale. It is often private and personal.
Sometimes between friends, but it does not go unnoticed by the archives of
eternity, for all these values are written in the annals of libraries that
record the development of your civilization. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thus, while you engage yourself in "schlepping
stuff" from one location to another, like the frontiersmen of your country
carrying across this continent those artifacts and reminders of civilizations of
long ago, you have nonetheless, brought forth, through your "things" these
representations of those values which have made your people and your country
great. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Upon your shoulders and the accoutrements of
your culture, including the intricacies of your greatness, our future depends,
on Urantia. And so we commend your efforts and regard these alterations in
address to be not mere amusement but true forward steps in the advancement of
civilization, for you are, in your way, leaving behind that which was
ineffective and setting out, in great faith, to the horizon, to that new
frontier ahead, that will reveal the new truth, beauty and goodness that can now
come from the vacuum left by that which you left behind. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Inspiration is a relative thing. And while
this lesson today may not be of a high revelatory nature, it is nonetheless a
blessed assurance that the lives you live are meaningful, and that which you
adopt and uphold as having value, in fact does have value, if only as a symbol
of that value which you individually hold in high esteem and worthy of espousing
to those who follow you in the long chain of cultural advancement into light and
life. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">We enjoyed the humor that you evidenced as we
connected today, and so at the risk of sounding politic, I will retort for your
amusement, "I heard a song the other day entitled 'Shackles and
Cheneys'."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group: (Giggling) </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">TOMAS: It might be that the Reversion Directors are
in attendance. I definitely am aware of Lester, the Jester. In the
interim, I can feel and appreciate the presence of my co-worker, Teacher
Anatolia, and those of the Teacher Corp who observe our gathering and those from
this system who have, as always, beheld your/our light and come to visit.
Matthew, I pass you the baton.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Matthew:
Thank you. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">ANATOLIA:
This is a fine day to be about the Lord's business. This is a fine day in
which all of willing heart and nature presume to be a part of God's plan here in
the universe and in the midst of all creation. I say this because I
usually begin my sessions with you in reference to the day that is at
hand. There has not been one yet that has been undesirable or less than
picture perfect. It is not to say that your land and its environs are a
draft of any type of weather change; it is, nevertheless, encouraging to be able
to witness such fine weather for those who are willing and able to participate
in this climate that you call your southwest. It is truly an historic and
sacred land that, for the most part, is upheld for its value and rich tradition
that has clothed, fed and nurtured an ancient peoples from nearly the beginning
of your time. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">So it is that we in your universe can affiliate
and identify with beings of ancient vintage and land of ancient homestead value
that has been handed down from one age to another. The age in which you
find yourselves is as revolutionary as many of those geologic ages of the past,
for this is the age - not so much of geologic epoch, but rather of philosophic
or spiritual epoch - that will bring in a new age of light and life, that will
surely be on your horizon as the sun is in its course throughout your solar
system. It is a certainty and an assurance, for as long as your earth and
its solar system continue to function, light and life restoration and a return
to decency is what is fully expected and certain to transpire. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">I wish to reinforce this goal and vision with
you, that for as far distant as it seems, nearly as far-distant and impassible
as your transiting through the atmosphere to reach distant stars and planets in
your current course of events, your current state of being, so too it seems
light and life is unlikely and impossible to attain. Let me assure you
that it is progressive progeny that will produce a semblance of what life on
your planet was to be and will become as you aid in the process of its
achievement. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">As you see, you can witness your life from many
vantage points, for as surely as I witness your presence and your being, each of
your lives reflect a dimension or a color, a shape, a design, much like a
kaleidoscope that does more than repeat its pattern but continues to unfold
without repeat the many colors, shapes and formations that your life
reflects. It is truly endless and interacts with time before current and
future. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Your presence here, at this time, is as
significant as those who will witness light and life, for as the Anasazi that
are reported and reputed to have been the ancient grandparents of today's native
generations, and are revered for that reason, it is as if time had stood still
and they may as well have been present in you're here and now time, for surely
their descendents are evidence of their having been and their continuing to be,
in a physical sense, because of the continuation of time. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Had light and life arrived in your world as you
know it right now, their role in producing a generation to experience this, is
as if they were here present with us now, for they participated prior to but
including the event itself. So it is, too, in your role and participation
with what you fully expect, want and need for this planet that you call
home. It is a home to all that inhabit it, but it is so much more.
So your role in it is as if it were happening here right now. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">As I had suggested a couple of weeks ago, in
terms of prayer, I wish to add one more intention on your prayer belt, it is to
include the presence of light and life in your world, to thank the Heavenly
Parents for bringing it into being, and by doing so, you are ushering in a time
when its reality will be one with all who witness it. I am not saying,
then, that it will happen in your lifetime, but your recognition and your
planning and preparation will help it be cemented and moved closer to your
future than simply holding it off as a hope. You may help it materialize
by your active participation. That way, in the mortal sense, you are
immortal. This is what it means to fully participate in your world - both
here and in the next. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">I bring you good tidings and always hope that
what you are experiencing is purely temporary, but that the more important view
is the eternal for which you are a part. This is what I wish to reinforce
with you today, that your eternal natures mixed with your physical, temporal
natures are intertwined, that you may invite and involve both as you participate
in both worlds. So I leave you in good stead, in good company, to continue
to meet, greet and be at one with all that you participate in and leave you in
good stead on such a wonderful day.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Peace be with you. May love reign in your
hearts now and always.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group: Thank you, Anatolia. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">TOMAS: And in order for these to become
realized, I have opted to inquire into your personal lives such that I would
like to hear from you as to how you feel your life is being made meaningful
through your efforts in the realm of your undertaking. There are always
challenges, but what of the motivation that keeps you at it? I know there
is more to your character than mere profit motive and pleasure seeking.
But not to exclude the requirements and delights of the material existence, what
additionally do you find of merit and meaningful to you in your personal
ministry in your lives? Any volunteers?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah: Well,
Tomas, first of all, thank you and Anatolia for the kind words. The
other evening Paula and I were sitting there where Elena and Matthew are now,
and ... it looked good to us. We're very grateful and feel sure that the
Great Spirit has put us together. Our choir, this morning, sang a song
that's after a Negro spiritual and its composer is a black man, Andre
Crouch. Singing, "He comin' soon and very soon'" and in so many words
said, </FONT></P>
<P> <FONT face="Times New Roman">"Soon
and very soon, we going to see the King. Hallelujah!"</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula: Let's hope it won't be TOO
soon, because I like it right here, the way it is now!</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group: (Laughter)</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula: I'm not in any hurry to
die.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Menopah: You don't have anything to say
about it.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula: I know it. I can hope!
I keep thinking the genes in the family are pretty good. Some of them
lived to be over 100, so maybe I got some of that. I hope so, because we
love it here. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Elena: I think though, too, the
question was ... what in your life right now is meaningful? And obviously
it's meaningful for you guys to be together and have a wonderful home here,
which is very meaningful to us because you all are meaningful. It's a
circle. </FONT></P>
<P> <FONT face="Times New Roman">My
life right now has a lot of meaning, and I - which is kind of strange because I
know less of where I am in it that I may have ever at any point - but, it's ...
I have to trust that the chaos and change that I'm amidst, that I have to be a
comforting estate that people can rely on. Either at work, or in the
choir, to not add fuel to the flames that are going on, or to ... also a new
meaning has come up in my life, even just yesterday, of Stephanie, who was my
step-child, coming up back into my life ... which adds another meaning to
me. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">There was a place in the sermon today that said,
"Bring me this child," or "Here is a child, and if you take it,..." I
forget the words, but it meant to me that, okay, here is a child that is coming
up and needing something, and needing something that she needed before, too, but
maybe in a different way it comes back and has a different opening and providing
that progressive progeny in a strange kind of way that was mentioned
earlier.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">So I don't know where I am with any of this
stuff but hopefully remaining open with each one of those roles that I play and
taking one step at a time. I can feel confident that with the help and
confidence that I get, I can continue to do that, and I'm excited about, well,
seeing where that leads. So there's my two cents for the week. Or
four, as I usually do.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">TOMAS:
Meaningful indeed, the parenting
experience, and identifying with the parenting values inherent therein.
Even surrogate parents and parenting is a part of the apparent legacy you
receive as sons of God. Under more ideal circumstances, your parenting attitude
would have been far more developed because of the guidance and nurturance that
is part of the offering of the Material Son and Daughter, but that plan was
rather aborted and so your appreciation for the parenting attitude is aborted as
well.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thoroah, what personal insights have you to
offer this meaningful conversation, in terms of surrogate parenting?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thoroah: I feel like I've gone to a
mansion world school for parenting prematurely, because there is a lot of
parenting going on in the work that I do. It definitely is self-evidence,
as far as having meaning, although to see results is a matter of having faith,
which is an aspect of parenting that I now can fully identify with rather than
just intellectualize with. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">TOMAS: It is here that my lesson holds
water. It is in the details of the human experience that the values of
your existence are made meaningful. I would like to offer Matthew and
Gerdean an opportunity also to contribute to the group, the aspects of
meaningfulness in which they are personally engaged in their lives
today.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: Well,
I can go ahead if you would like. I'm working now and earning a living,
which is good, and involved in something that is also good regarding the safe
working conditions of people wherever they are encountered throughout New Mexico
and I'm glad to be part of that. However, it's not just a means to an end
but it's a meaningful means to an end. But I don't see that as totally my
reason for being, and have wanted to do something in a spiritual, teaching
manner, and had debated for several years and it finally hit me last Sunday
about becoming an ordained minister, so I essentially decided last Sunday that
that's what I want to do, but how to go about it, where to go about it, and all
of that, I certainly want it to be more meaningful than 'send $20 and get a
minister's certificate in the mail' and certainly want to contribute to my own
as well as other individual's spiritual growth, and I'm not presuming anything
other than wanting to share some of the things that I have grown in appreciation
of and would like others to be able to appreciate for themselves. Some of
those experiences that at least I have encountered, so that's what I am able to
say that I derive meaning from and yet aspire to more that will be able to add
further meaning. So thanks for the opportunity to voice that.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean: Well,
that's an interesting trigger for me, because as replete as my human life is, I
feel very unfulfilled as far as my ministries are concerned. I don't feel
I'm doing</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">anything</FONT></I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> "meaningful". At least I'm not feeling the
satisfaction of that Blessed Assurance that I'm doing something that makes a
difference. Not counting the T/R'ing. As I've said many times
before, that's not something I take personally. So I'm ready to do
something meaningful but I have no idea what that may be. </FONT></P>
<UL>
<UL>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">I'm intrigued with the idea, as you say,
Matthew, of wanting to be ordained, because I get these uprisings at work
where I just want to start walking down the hall and talking to people and
just step out of that paradigm of reality that I'm in and enter into the one
that I feel I would actually be able to be myself in, or do some good
in. I'm not doing anything for that aspect of me. Even though
I'm being very effective in other terms. It's just not addressing
Gerdean's needs. I've tried going to some AA meetings but I'm
finding that service opportunities there are sorely limited, and now I can
understand why the teachers pretty much led me out of that program about
seven years ago, so there has got to be another field that I can work
in. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">And about the ordination thing, I'm admiring
Donna D'Ingillo, who is just going on the authority of the Father and has
opened her Center of Christ Consciousness. She doesn't need any
credentials except the ones that Jesus gives her on a daily basis. I
really admire that, because I'm one who has always, as a creature of this
realm, been subject to its values and going, "well, I don't have those
theological credentials that anyone would take me seriously." Even as
a writer I don't think anybody is going to take me seriously. Like,
"Well, what give you the right to have written a book? Why should we
pay any attention to what you say?" So, I'm frustrated, and feel I'm
living a very small percentage of my potential. But I don't know what
to do about it.</FONT></P></UL></UL>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah: Well,
just let me read back to you some lines from ... it's actually the closing
quatrain from Longfellow's poem called "Ode to a Water Fowl." It says,
</FONT></P>
<UL>
<UL>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">"He who from zone to zone </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Guides through the bounds</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Skydive, a certain flight</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">In the long way, that I must tread alone</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Oh, guide my steps aright."</FONT>
</P></UL></UL>
<P>
<UL>
<UL>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">So, you may be frustrated and think you're
not doing, but the spirit moves in strange and wondrous ways. We need
to be careful that we don't lean altogether to our own understanding,
because it's fraught with errors.</FONT></P></UL></UL>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gerdean: Thank
you.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula:
You know, my son in law has often
taught in the past and he just loves teaching, and then finally he accepted the
job offer in a big plant and I don't know just what he did and he liked it well
enough but not long ago they evidently weren't prospering the way they wanted
to, and they decided to get rid of anyone who was over 40, and he was, so he got
the ax, and didn't have work. Well then, of course, he felt terrible,
because my daughter was working and she was taking care of everything, and he
didn't know just what he was going to do, and all of a sudden he had a job offer
of teaching again in high school - math - for some of the kids who were having
real problems with it. And evidently they were kids who were kind of wild
and a little hard to control, and now he has found his niche again. He is
an excellent teacher, and I said, "Well, how do you like it, working with
youngsters like this, instead of just your average Joe Blow, you know, and that
you find in your usual school?" And he said, "Well, it's a challenge, but
I really, really like it. I enjoy it!" And he gave them a test and
they were coming up, they were learning! They were really getting what
Andy thought that he should. So he has found himself again, and I hope
that they keep him on because he was born to teach. And does a good job
and the kids will benefit. And they will. They're
learning.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Matthew: That's
the important thing.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah: Well,
Andy worked with this company that did research for the government and for other
corporations. What the research was, I don't know. But people who
run corporations are ruthless. It's a rare thing to find a CEO that has a
heartbeat in him, and he'd had a heart attack. His health was not
exceptionally well and he was 60 years old besides. We helped him
celebrate his 60<SUP>th</SUP> birthday. And Andy, of course, he has a lot
of plans. But anyway, "My God," I said, "The spirit moves in strange and
wondrous ways." Here's this man who started out, actually, teaching in the
public schools and is back there doing it again, and for kinds like Thoroah is
working with, who really need to learn what he can teach them, and perhaps they
will. He gave these kids a test and they seem to know what the subject
matter is that they covered, so it looks good.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula:
Well, if anybody can help them, Andy
can.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah:
Yeah. He's a teacher, that's what he really is.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Paula:
He was born to do that.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah: He
just stepped aside from it, you know, for a few years to work in research, which
I'm sure he loved to do, but ....</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paula:
The business didn't mind at all
giving him the ax.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Menopah: Oh,
no. By and large the corporations of this country or the people who run
them are ruthless, and ... they just are. I happened to work with one who
wasn't, but ... I don't know how in heaven he survived, but he did.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">TOMAS: Let me take back the reins.
This is Tomas, and thank you all for your heartfelt contribution to this
discussion. It is very apparent from your sharing that the new generation
is the impetus for today. Not only are they what make your life meaningful
in terms of your involvement and engagement, but as entities who have carried
the cultural weight upon your shoulder, not only of the mortal life but of the
morontial values that you have gathered to you and carried with you throughout
your lives, also yearn to find their place among those who will carry on the
civilization that we cherish and even depend upon to nurture value in
progressive progeny.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Melchizedek mission is frequently initiated
in order to stabilize the existing reality during times of tumultuous change, in
order to protect that which has been valuable, in order that it may stabilize
this period of change and maintain those evolved elements of your
superconsciousness that has grown over the centuries and generations since time
began on Urantia. And so again, while you observe the overview and see
from the cosmic perspective, while you question your standing in the universe
and your role therein, you will do well to also reflect upon the merits of your
mortal lives and what they have and do contribute to the maintenance of
civilization and the fostering of those values which we will utilize to upstep
humankind from here into the earlier stages of light and life which lie
ahead.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Trust that when your will is fixed upon doing
the Father's will, you will be assisted in this yearning. As the case of
Andy indicates, when one door closes, another door opens. And sometimes
the universe will see to it that a door is slammed shut so you have no choice
but to move ahead. And while I would not suggest that either of you
ambitious ones seek to be dismissed from your employment in order to support
your desire to be of greater service, your prayers will not go unheard and your
yearnings will not be in vain, for the universe</FONT><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">always</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"> responds
to those who seek to serve.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Prepare yourselves, in the meantime, for what
you can do, for there will be no challenge undertaken prematurely, and in all
things that the Father sends you out to do, he will prepare the way and provide
the mechanism wherewith you may embark upon that journey, infused with the
confidence that is born of that understanding which comes from not your own
understanding, as Men-o-pah states, but from the mind of the divine, which
accompanies you and works with you in your efforts to advance the Kingdom.
This is truth.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Next week we will have sojourners, and we
welcome the caravan that passes by, and like Jesus in his younger days, when he
with his father visited the mecca of the marketplace, you too will benefit from
the comings and goings of those who are en route to points east and west, north
and south, on their caravan through Urantia and through the Land of
Enchantment. Exchange well with your sojourning fellows, for this will
generate good will and commerce among you - spiritual commerce and meaningful
connections that become a part of the gridwork of our network of those who are
engaged in this compelling adventure of association with the Father of all and
his myriad agencies as well as Mother's myriad spirits throughout the
realm. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Before we go, have any of you a need to bring
forth? Anything to your mentors. (Pause) You are well fixed,
then, for your work this coming week. Your seed is germinating and will
soon begin to sprout. Be of good cheer. And be about your Father's
business. We'll see you next week. Farewell.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Group: Thank you.</FONT>
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