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<P><STRONG>DATE:</STRONG> September
28, 2003</P>
<P><STRONG>LOCATION:</STRONG>
<STRONG>Rio Rancho, NM, TeaM</STRONG> (Ann Henry’s house, with visitors:
Willie’s Mother Anna and Sister Claire from Columbus, Ohio, as well as Larry
Whelan and Donna Brown Whelan from the Temple City TeaM in California) </P>
<P><STRONG>TEACHERS: TOMAS & ANATOLIA</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>TOPICS:</STRONG> Universe Hierarchy and
Administration<BR>
Choosing to be a Part of the Divine Will</P>
<P><STRONG>Q&A:</STRONG> About
Judgment<BR>
Judgment and
Discernment<BR>
Help is Available</P>
<P><STRONG>T/Rs:</STRONG> Gerdean (for Tomas); Matthew (for Anatolia)</P>
<P><STRONG>MUSIC</STRONG>: Elena on Piano: "What Wondrous Love is This"</P>
<P><STRONG>PRAYER:</STRONG> (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of
Jesus, the Christ.</P><I>
<P>Master Teacher,</P>
<P>We come to you with delight and rejoicing in our hearts and openness to your
teachings through the teachers that you will make known to us today. We always
place ourselves in your presence because we wish to have the teachers that are
appointed by you, the head of this universe, representative of the God-force
that we know and are growing in love with as we continue on our journey with you
toward the Father. It’s a journey that we have acknowledged and have asked for
blessing and for your patience with us as we continue to be one with our
creator, as you are with all of us. With the intentions in our hearts that you
know, we ask that they be addressed. Those of our family and friends to be
healed, brought into wholeness, and made aware of who they are in you, in union
with our Heavenly Father, we place before you now, and all other concerns that
you know about are placed upon the altar of concern or rejoicing right now. And
for all else that you know to be true and holy and for the unity of this world,
we place before you now. Amen. </P></I>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> Greetings, my friends and loyal students, visitors,
celestials and mortal associates alike. What a marvelous opportunity I find
before me today in your presence. How I rejoice to behold you and enfold you in
the divine love of the Universal Father, awash in the sea of mercy whose waters
are stirred by the presence of Lord Jesus. I am Tomas, your teacher, in company
with Anatolia, my co-host, and we are accompanied today by a host of heavenly
helpers who sing hosannas in praise of being.</P>
<P>What kind of love is this, that surrounds us today in this sacred space
generated by the gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
humankind? Only the love of God enhanced by all the universe. I would like to
have a moment to discuss with you today the concept of the hierarchy of the
universe, the administration of the universe, and how it is that we who know God
are able to ascertain our niche in this living organism of divinity, and find
sheer repleteness therein, even when we are aware of and as we are aware of an
appropriate sense of smallness as we behold the infinity of divinity in the
many, many personalities that derive from our First Source and Center and who
populate the universe through the worlds of time and space. </P>
<P>I will not have you teeter on the edge and get dizzy, because of the vastness
of this scope, but rather bring you back into the composition of this campfire
that we attend in the intimacy of our circle of association through the Spirit
of Truth. What a place to study authority, under the Spirit of Truth! What an
ambition to aspire to create the experiential God, the Supreme. But these are
the prescribed roles and duties impressed upon creation, in order to bring the
divine will into fulfillment for and throughout eternity.</P>
<P>There are always those who are more advanced, more experienced, for those who
are ascending sons of God, those who have a mortal beginning, who ascend from
the worlds of time and space up into the presence of God, as well as inward to
the presence of God who indwells you. And there are always those who are less
experienced, those who have not learned to see with eyes to see or hear with
ears to hear the divine voice or feel the nuances of the divine whisper, but
even those who are ignorant are precious in his sight and radiating life in
potential. </P>
<P>Just as the Creator Sons are given the opportunity to create life throughout
their local universe, as has Christ Michael of Nebadon, so are you mortal sons
able to create the life that will extend these forever truths into the future,
that your culture will build upon, that the spirit will grow with, until such
time as all of everything is filled with the wonder of <I>love</I>. And
somewhere within this tapestry of reality is where you are. And when we meet and
reach out with our individual spirit nature to greet each other in the spirit,
to acknowledge the God fragment of eternity that each of you own, it is such an
experience that you choose not to do harm to each other, but to do good. </P>
<P>For this is the nature of the divine. This is the nature of true love. To do
good to others. But there are those who reject good works, that fear your
presence, for their concept of the divine is distorted by the incorrect
malfeasance of Lucifer or basic ignorance of the divine will. There we find
ourselves in this Correcting Time in which woes of your persona and your world
will be able to be healed, renewed, reawakened and when one of you chooses to do
His will, even in the most nebulous or vague of ways, so shall His light shine
into the darkness. </P>
<P>Thus, those of you who are aware of your work, who willingly conjoin your
wills with the divine will, recognizing the truth of the admonition which Jesus
often spoke of when he said, "Even so, thy will be done." "Not my will, but thy
will be done." "It is my will that your will be done." And so we learn to
configure our will with the divine will, through trial and error and a
perception of the Spirit of Truth which will guide you and lead you into eternal
truth, a passage which we ascending sons all are able to existentially share in.
</P>
<P>How wonderful to bow to the authority of those who have your best interests
at heart only because it is in their best interests to be loving. And thus love
extends into the darkness of fear, lighting the way, as the Master said he
would, and did, when he walked upon your world as one of you, a child of God, a
man among men. And now he stands as the Sovereign Son of his universe, his local
universe of which we are a part, and this sketch of a universe hierarchy is how
it is that while we have one magnificent God whom we adore, we are surrounded by
and continually upheld by a loving universe of personalities which go about
doing good, as they are designed to do in accordance with the Creator of all
things and beings.</P>
<P>Beautiful children that you are, it delights me to be your friend -- you who
have sought such comfort from the Comforter, who have yearned for the peace
which passes all understanding that is given to the sons of God as their
birthright. </P>
<P>What a wonderful opportunity to speak today, with so many in attendance. It
exponentially up-steps the amplitude of our gathering, and in hope of the
acceptance of my words into your super-consciousness, I relinquish my place at
the microphone for my fellow teacher.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> Welcome all. I am Anatolia, who is once again pleased to be
among you as a teacher of this august body, and that is true no matter what
month it is. I am happy to be among you as your teacher. There is one among you
who got that little joke, and I am grateful. Be of good cheer, for today is a
glorious day in the kingdom of our creator, a day full of cheer and delight,
free of mayhem, disorder, disagreement and whatever description you can place at
your table and particularly on your plate. There is a time, after all, that one
wishes, hopes and prays will be free of terror, distortion and things
unwholesome and unwelcome in your life. There is too much dissension among you
to be convinced that dissension is the way of the world. </P>
<P>Let me take this a notch higher, but the good news is not beyond your realm,
to let you know that that which you would otherwise perceive as the way of the
world is just one perception of the world as you understand it to be. For the
world can be as bright and cheerful and full of hope and expectation as you
elect or choose to entertain. This would include those who would live in or
within settings or environments that any of you might consider less than
desirable or full of tension and unwholesome surroundings. It is true that those
who had inhabited, survived and often leapt heads above others in their
transmutation process during the Jewish holocaust. There are those who, by
election of will and their internal being, were able to overcome and surpass the
horrors of their experience. It is true that such self-election is a reality and
probability, depending upon the way one accepts their place within that world.
In other words, not by your own election or selection can you place mind over
matter, as a simple decision to overcome such travesty, but by the will of God,
which you will be able to incorporate into your consciousness, would you be able
to overcome such devastation. </P>
<P>This is what it is like and what is involved in making heaven on earth. It is
by choosing to adopt and be open to that spirit which is inside of you. It is
easy to say that it is simply a matter of will and choosing to incorporate
yourself within the will of God. I can tell you how it works or how simple it
is, but it is up to you to experience if you have not yet experienced what is
involved in choosing to do the will of your creator. It is simply saying that
you choose to be a part of the will of God as you understand it, and that the
goodness and will for other such beings that you encounter in your experiences
will be those which are best as intended by the creator with you and through
you. In this way you are bound to experience life as it is meant to be, and not
as the absence of such will-making would demonstrate it to be.</P>
<P>One could say I am making light of or oversimplifying the realities of your
world. I wish to reinforce that it is a matter of perception, as the will
dictates. The will pre-determines that which is the ultimate product or
production that your movie produces. So I invite you to incorporate the
intention and the script as you, the director, wish to produce with the
producer, and to get yourself a masterpiece, an academy award production that
you can be proud of. </P>
<P>It is simple, but yet takes a lifetime to incorporate and to produce. But it
is the Father’s will to allow each of his creation to produce with the greatest
of ease and beauty as is possible for each of his creation. So, creators all,
blend that which you know to be true within your inner being and to bring forth
gardens of joy and truth and beauty. Be at one within yourselves, now and at all
times, for the joy and peace and beauty that exist is here for your
understanding and expression right now. </P>
<P>I welcome each of our new visitors and wish to encourage each and all of you
to adopt a new way of looking at this dimension that includes the peace and
tranquillity of all time, here today for your encouragement and growth. Peace be
with you until we meet again and be safe in your journeys, wherever you may go.
Peace be with you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you, Anatolia, and thank you both, Gerdean and Matthew, for
your service as transmitters. </P>
<P>We come now to the portion of the established agenda, wherein you may engage
liberally in discourse of your choosing. We can have open discussion or
questions; it depends upon you. The floor is open.</P>
<P>Gerdean had a question while Anatolia was speaking. Let’s see if we can
juggle this conductor so that Gerdean’s question can be addressed. It seemed to
me, Tomas, that it was also a point of interest for other souls present here
today, so paraphrased, the question was about Judgment. Her question was: "Then
what creates the difficulty? Is it judgment? And easy enough to say ‘Judge not’
but we do! It’s a natural part of the assessment necessary in order to live
life. What do we do to up-step the judgment we engage in as a natural course of
human activity to a point where it is not destructive of the relationship that
would flourish were it not for the condemnatory attitude of judgment itself?"
Was that a fair presentation of your concern, Gerdean?</P>
<P><STRONG>Gerdean:</STRONG> Yes, it was, actually, very accurate.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> I will give Anatolia an opportunity to follow up, if
you would like, before I respond.</P>
<P><STRONG>ANATOLIA:</STRONG> The effort expended in judgment is like breathing
into a bag, in a sense. It is causing you to stop and look and evaluate, but it
is often self-reflective. Whenever you judge another (whatever the case may be),
you are actually judging yourself, for in finding the speck in your brother’s
eye, you are acknowledging the log in your own. And this is primarily the reason
why judgment is discouraged, is that, there is nothing you can do that is not
self-reflective, so if you wish to bring the speck out of your brother’s eye,
you must clear your own prior. This may be self-evident, but it is real truth
that there is nothing that you can do that is secret or hidden from the reality
of what is. Everything as you see it reflects upon yourself, so this is the
reason why it is best to heal thyself before reaching to your brother, to either
correct or to ask to have corrected that which is within your reach internally.
If this helps the question, I am happy to address it.</P>
<P><STRONG>Gerdean:</STRONG> Yes, it does, Anatolia. It certainly goes into part
of the difficulty; however, it activates my defense mechanism and so I see my
defensive nature is part of the problem. I’m still not clear on … I mean, I
understand why you shouldn’t judge people. But I have dealt with companies that
I have made a judgment about. That experience required a judgement; I made the
judgment. It has nothing to do with "you" but it has to do with "me" and it’s
just a company I don’t want to do business with, that’s all. That doesn’t
necessarily mean that it’s a company that you shouldn’t do business with, you
see what I’m saying?</P>
<P><STRONG>ANATOLIA:</STRONG> I offer for your consideration the difference
between judgment and discernment. One could say if you were standing at a
precipice that breached thousands of feet below you, is it good judgment or
discernment that you not jump? Judgment is choosing between one choice of an
evaluative nature over the other, therefore choosing one that is so-called
"good" and one that is not good or less than your preference. That type of
analogy or analysis placed upon individuals (who are extensions of yourself)
illustrate the point of not judging another; that objective case was intended to
present (in terms of whether to take a leap) is discerning the preference to
live versus not living. This is not subjective, it is objective, and gives no
detriment to a part of yourself which is part of the creation. Does this help
illustrate the point any more clearly?</P>
<P><STRONG>Gerdean:</STRONG> I feel a clarity in my perception but my cognizance
is still confused, so I will reflect on that at leisure later, but I feel better
for having heard what you said.</P>
<P><STRONG>ANATOLIA:</STRONG> In conclusion, to discern one company’s practice
that you choose not to do business with, is reckoning that those practices are
some in which you wish not to participate. This is not the same as judgment,
which in this case, would essentially place a determination that that company’s
actions or behaviors are undesirable and outside your sensibility zone and
therefore are undesirable and less than you would have it be and you decide you
wish to have nothing to do with them. The later description is an effort to
depict judgment versus discernment. Discernment, on the other hand, would be
that to your understanding a company’s practices are not entertaining a whole
life principle and because their actions appear to be contrary to a full
participation and inclusion in life, you discern that their practices are
anti-whole life and you wish not to endorse/ participate in their practices.</P>
<P><STRONG>Gerdean:</STRONG> I see.</P>
<P><STRONG>ANATOLIA:</STRONG><I> </I>It is simply objective versus subjective --
the subjective placing yourself above, as if you are above that; the objective
sees it more clearly as a choice of others’ principles that are contrary to that
which you understand to be whole life principle. I could go on, but I’m having
the sand cave into the hole.</P>
<P><STRONG>Gerdean:</STRONG> All right. Thank you, very much. I did appreciate
that and I got a lot out of it. Thank you. But then I’d like to say to Tomas,
that I would like to hear more of this at a later time. Perhaps we could have a
lesson on this kind of subtlety because in my discernment and in my way of
thinking, from my frame of reference, when I’m dealing with the Correcting Time
and I see things that need corrected, in my opinion, it doesn’t mean that I
don’t want to have anything to do with them. It means this is the kind of stuff
I’m going to have to deal with in order to deal with this. So anyway, I think I
could use all the help I could get in that, and I suspect that the rest of us
could use some higher education in that area also, anyway. Thank you.</P>
<P><STRONG>Willie:</STRONG> I would agree with you that in reality, principle
versus practice, at least for myself, I cannot claim (certainly) purity of
practice in that regard so I speak for myself: I judge all the time, but wish
that it wouldn’t be so, but I think that it is.</P>
<P><STRONG>Angus:</STRONG> I think there’s a timing aspect to that judgment and
the after effects that we pre-judge. We judge too early and we judge too
finally. We put it in a jar and say, "that’s what that is," rather than to look
at what we’ve made a judgment on and how that progresses and if we judge and
close our mind to it, that’s where judgment is in error. Judgment is there, but
if you close your mind to that without letting it grow and become more, that’s
when I think judgment becomes debilitating.</P>
<P>Larry: I think one of the biggest problems is judgment on ourselves, which is
why they probably put that in the Teaching Mission. When they say ‘do not
judge’, I think they are talking about us, too. And I think we are probably our
harshest judges and we need to get over it.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> I am Tomas, again and still. And you are correct
about judgment; it is not good to judge yourself or others because you have such
limited perspective, but any perspective you have is based on your short-term
existence unless and until you allow the mind of Christ to perceive for you, in
which case, the relativities of such realities have a way of finding a
perspective that makes it possible for you to become more liberal in allowing
others to have their own perspective. Indeed, if they opt to have a prejudice,
if they have pre-judged a situation, it need not invoke in you a warrior-like
need to correct the prejudice that someone else has, as long as you yourself
have dealt with it, and thus you are able to detach in love and move along. </P>
<P>But there is this insecurity in the human animal that needs constant
confirmation of its reality and this, to <I>it</I>, includes <I>its</I> belief
systems and attitudes and behaviors, as these are animalistic tendencies that
allow for <I>it</I> to remain a part of <I>its</I> own kind, as if <I>it</I>
were a part of the herd, with those herd instincts, or a part of the ant colony
with appropriate behavior designed to be industrious. And the human animal is
quite a composite of these characteristics of the DNA that you even now carry
around with you, which includes the most primitive of life patterns. </P>
<P>Up-stepping your instinctual urges into a truly conscious state of mind and
being enables you to live above the animal level and on the level of an
intelligent, God-knowing, spirit-led individual rather than the alternative,
which is your origin.</P>
<P>And so there is a lot of animal training in becoming socially acceptable,
divinely fragrant individuals capable of working in the field, even in the fray.
And so these opportunities to come together and enjoy the civility of sonship is
an opportunity o exercise your divine nature and this validates an element of
your reality that you will not have upheld by the animals and the animal
instincts of those who surround you in the secular world. </P>
<P>Are there questions?</P><B>
<P>Donna:</B> I have just a few comments and thoughts. I appreciate our
discussions today about judgment and discernment and the differentiation between
the two. I think this is a struggle that we all have, to try to understand this
better. What has helped me is some things I’ve heard from others and perhaps
from some teachers. I like to sort of put discernment on one side in one column
with the word objective and the word cool, kind of a cooler emotional response,
whereas the judgment I see as more subjective and definitely more emotional, by
the fact of it being more emotional, it tends to be more final, which is
something Angus spoke about, with more of a finality put on it.</P>
<P>And Gerdean today sort of linked up the discernment side with the Correcting
Time, which I do appreciate, because, you see, the Correcting Time being upon
us, of course, somebody, sometime, has to discern what has to be corrected, and
so that’s okay. We do need to discern. In fact, back to the biblical traditions,
discernment is supposed to be one of the gifts of the spirit listed in the New
Testament. So if we can have increasing ability to discern things, I think this
is moving in the right direction and we do need to do this. Discernment,
however, could be noticing something about our society or about our life here on
this planet that we would like to have corrected, and then lending our efforts
and our time towards those ends; whereas judgment has that finality about it
which doesn’t lend itself to being corrected even. It’s just sort of a finality.
So anyway, those are just some of my thoughts. </P>
<P></P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> Those are wonderful contributions to our communion
today, daughter, as are you.</P>
<P><STRONG>Donna:</STRONG> Thank you.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> There was a time when I lectured about this to an
earlier group under me and I talked about judgment, in that, whenever you
perceive that someone is judging you, to raise your right hand; and when you
felt that you were judging someone else – be honest! -- raise your left hand.
And be mindful of this throughout the week. Well, the next Sunday, those who
were honest demonstrated that they walked around all the time with both hands
up. (Group laughter) And then they looked guilty and vulnerable, as if someone
were robbing them -- and they felt fearfu1! (Group chuckles) And so rather than
feeling fearful, as if you are defending your very existence against the evils
impending, drop the burden of judgment and allow yourself to walk with a stride
that gives yourself the freedom to swing your arms and get a good gait going.
This kind of attitude feels good and confirms your very existence. </P>
<P>This was a fun exercise that illustrated these truths that we are discussing
today and if you will look at your world, there are many places where walking
along with a good stride, swinging your arms, is a virtual impossibility. So you
can see, just from this parable, in my discernment, just how much work there is
to be done on Urantia. However, the burden is light if we allow the Master to
lead us into those areas in which we are called to serve and relinquish those
areas over which we have little or no control to those who have that assigned as
their effort. If they do not do what their job is, it will soon come to the
attention of the community and as a community, then, it would behoove you to
take up the issue as the community and not as an individual for the community
speaks louder than its component parts. </P>
<P>That will suffice today for my political expertise. Are there other things
that you have experienced this week or that you have pondered in your mind that
are available for discussion?</P>
<P>Linda: I would like to volunteer a helpful thing that happened.
Procrastinating having to write a certain letter to a woman who had written to
me with a very … a kind of accusatory tone in her letter, and so it was very
hard to try to answer that without feeling that I had to defend myself against
all of these little insinuating accusations. And so finally my daughter sat me
down and said, "Okay, you don’t get anything to eat until you write the letter,"
because just moments before I had complained to her about procrastinating. </P>
<P>So what I did was, I sat there and kind of got quiet, and then I asked all of
our helpers if my angels could talk to her angels who could talk to her Thought
Adjuster and try to give me some feedback as to what would be the best way to
approach this woman to bring her up to like a higher ground, a higher
understanding, something I could say to her that would make everything all
right. And you know you always feel silly. It’s like they say, "We were just
waiting for you to ask!" It’s like, they are always there, waiting to help us,
we are teachers, et cetera. We say, yeah we know. Then I proceeded to simply
write and whatever came out and sounded good</P>
<P>I made a letter out of that. </P>
<P>I sent it off and then my daughter and all who had tried to advise me on
this, they all thought it was very good that I did not even try to defend
myself, but simply tried to address the tone in her letter as being a difficulty
thing. So I haven’t heard a reply from her yet but I just wanted to say, help is
out there, if you just ask for it and it will come your way, and that’s probably
how we are going to get through all this Correcting Time, is to call upon our
helpers to help us get through these difficult situations that we find ourselves
in. Thank you, every one.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS</STRONG>: We have a curiosity question for you, Renault. Were
you then rewarded with food?</P>
<P><STRONG>RENAULT:</STRONG> Yes!</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> What a clever animal your daughter is. And what good
counsel you offer your peers, for this speaks directly to the lesson on
administration and hierarchy in the universe. The many angelic corps who oversee
many, many realms of life – the angels of the homes, the angels of the churches,
the angels of the nations, the angels of the races, the angels of the angels are
all ministering to those who seek to act upon their light of truth. They cannot
help those who do not attempt to help themselves by lifting up their countenance
On High. And so we encourage these interactions, and if and as necessary we will
add elements of the personality nature that you understand in order for our work
to be done in your realm, in order to follow through the mandates that we have
been given or volunteer to do by the supervision of those who are in control of
the universe and who seek our happiness and the culmination and fulfillment of
the divine will of the Universal Father in Paradise, Him who we adore.</P>
<P>We have enjoyed having the new souls in attendance and the old souls who have
sojourned here too. We seek to open the path that the Master laid before you,
that you may do His will in the Mother’s far flung worlds of time and space,
that we may do honor to creation and assure our own immortality. Blessed be art
thou, little ones. Be at peace and go in joy of knowing your place in the
universe.</P>
<P>Dear traveler, would you conclude this portion of our gathering in
prayer?</P>
<P><STRONG>Larry:</STRONG> </P>
<P><EM>Dear Father,<BR></EM><EM> Thank
You for bringing us together here with our spiritual brothers and sisters and
thank You for opening our eyes and our minds and our hearts to the truths that
the teachers are teaching us. We pray for peace in this world. We pray that Your
will will be done in us, that we become lights to the world, that Your plan for
us will unfold in each one of our lives, and that the plan for this world shall
unfold. We know that there will be a time of light and life, and we would be a
part of the beginning of this. Thank you so very much, Father. We are so
grateful to be a part of Your Family. We are so grateful to see You in each one
of our brothers and sisters. Thank you. Amen</EM>.</P>
<P><STRONG>Group:</STRONG> Amen.</P><BR></BODY></HTML>