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<P>DATE:</B>
November 09, 2003</P><B>
<P>LOCATION</B>: Esmeralda’s
Hideaway<BR>
Rio Rancho, New Mexico</P><B>
<P>TEACHERS</B>: <STRONG>TOMAS &
ANATOLIA</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>TOPICS</STRONG>:
Independent Will in
Service<BR>
Involving Yourself in Life</P><B>
<P>Q &
A</B>: Sharing
the Inner Life<BR>
Teaching vs. Preaching</P><B>
<P>T/R’s</B>: Gerdean
& Matthew</P><B>
<P>MUSIC</B>: Elena
on Piano: "Softly and Tenderly"</P><B>
<P>PRAYER</B>: Matthew: Let us place
ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.</P><I>
<P>Master Teacher,<BR> After an intro
like that, we hear that you are calling, we can feel your presence and your
influence upon us and it makes us glad to be among creation. For we could have
been anything – a mockingbird, a tree, a toad or otherwise, but we get to ascend
next to Father Himself, and with you in heart mind and to make the unity finally
accomplished.<BR> For all that you
have been, done, and are for us and to bring in your flock, we are forever
grateful.<BR> For the teachers that
are with us today and everyday we are grateful as well. We look forward to the
teachings that we receive today to edify us and, more importantly, the flock
that remains as you send us forth to do your work and the Father’s will. Our aim
is to be accomplished disciples and to be your presence as the unity of all
stands for all time.<BR> We are
forever grateful. Amen.</P></I><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Good afternoon, loyal
friends, beautiful children, avid students and humble servants. </P><B>
<P>Group</B>: Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B>: What an appropriate
song for the thread that has been woven into the consciousness of many of you,
in terms of service, ministry, outreach and the like. "Softly and tenderly Jesus
is calling." In this manner, it is possible for you to also provide an
inducement to those you would feed. But so often in your culture, you introduce
concepts by way of what might appear to be a sales pitch. And when you have
bought and sold all you intend to, you do not want your soul bought and sold.
Rather, you want it to be lured forward in such a way that you can rely on the
peace that prevails when the Master is about, when you are in his presence, when
you are mindful of his association. </P>
<P>What a challenge then, it must be for those of you who come to minister with
such enthusiasm and fervor that you appear as Peter, dynamic but often
overpowering. This is part of the human condition, of course: to exalt what you
believe and know ~ that it is worthy of the belief of all others. But a belief
is a personal matter and the true work of the Kingdom is to enable son and
daughters of God to know their Father such that they avails themselves to the
Voice which gently and tenderly calls and leads them into their own religious
experience and their own path to Paradise. </P>
<P>This is such an existential experience! It is something that must be
accomplished, acquired, attained in each of you and very personally. This is the
beauty of the Master: that when he calls, you who know the sound of his Voice,
will listen. </P>
<P>I would like to speak today a bit about independent will in service. It
relates again and still to the theme that when you are called and commissioned
by God … to provide a service, or to feed his sheep in a way that is compelling
for you, or that impels you into the field … you drop everything willingly and
hasten to do his bidding. But we have been observing how it is that everyone is
not thus led. Not everyone perceives that God has given them an assignment, or
that their personality perforce has anything to do with the divine will thus, in
humility, they back off and devote prayerful energy, then, to the solutions of
mankind.</P>
<P>There is a third alternative, and that was one which Machiventa Melchizedek
incorporated in his sojourn here. Before materializing, it was determined that
it would be necessary that certain steps be taken to prepare the way for the
arrival of the creator son when he incarnated here in order to introduce the
love of God to this world. Machiventa took it upon himself to undertake to come
here and prepare the way by establishing the one God concept. And his decision
to come here was approved by those On High and so it came to pass. </P>
<P>This is the third option: that you decide for yourself what you will do. Make
your plan. And then present your plan to the celestials to determine whether or
not they will work with you. If no help is forthcoming, you would do well to
regard this as a premature effort, perhaps, or one not completely in keeping
with the needs of the moment. But if your motives are truly to serve and to
minister (rather than for self-aggrandizement), it is likely that the hosts of
heaven will foster your involvement and encourage your plan.</P>
<P>It comes down, again, to decision-making and following through for yourself
and your own destiny when you hear the voice lead you into a service path. This
does not need to be as lofty and exalted as it may sound, using Machiventa
Melchizedek as an example. Your choices to make a pot of soup for the neighbors
and sit with them is also a decision which provides a service and a ministry. No
one told you, perhaps, but having made the choice, the decision, you were
provided the goods to make the soup and the strength to make the trip to those
whom you would serve.</P>
<P>This independent action in terms of service is always a courageous venture.
And for some, a gamble, for one never knows until one makes the choice, whether
or not it was a good choice. Even so, the new truth is that if you don’t like
the choice you made, you can make another choice – unlike a former paradigm
which, if you made a choice, you needed to follow it through to the bitter end.
While cause and effect is certainly a law of the universe, it is not so
unyielding it will not allow for a better choice before the damage is done.
Unraveling knots is preferred to cutting the rope completely. </P>
<P>Independent choice is, however, always subject to those upon whom you depend
and/or those who depend on you. By depending on others to find the format or the
wherewithal to serve, you begin to experience the delights of service but,
should something happen to that scaffolding, you have yet to discover if you can
fulfill your outreach purposes by standing on your own two feet. Likewise, if
you have a desire to serve and you set out to fulfill your mission, and by doing
so you take yourself away from obligations you have already committed yourself
to, that would leave others high and dry, you may need to review your motives in
seeking to serve further, or above and beyond. </P>
<P>These human quandaries are part of your active spiritual problem solving
precisely because Jesus is calling you. He calls you forward into your own
awareness of the conscious universe and in the journey your natural response is
to prepare the way for others to learn what you have learned. This is how you
teach what you know: by giving others an opportunity to learn what you have
learned. </P>
<P>Here is another rub, however, for in your desire to serve, it may not occur
to you that others may have already learned that lesson. And yet, if you are
learning from your experiences how to be more effective in the field of
introducing the divine light into the souls of those you meet, you will remember
the gospel is based on the family concept, and you are siblings with these
myriad sons and daughters who seek to serve in their own right, in their own
capacity, and in their own time. And rather than discouraging these young ones
or disdaining their efforts, it is the nature of a loving parent to encourage
the learning child and to show tolerance for their foibles. </P>
<P>The result of service is not always immediate or obvious. And so, if you were
seeking to serve for your own self-satisfaction, you will find your efforts
being wasted. You may as well stay home and put that energy to better use
through prayer and reflection. The beautiful and unforgettable truth remains
that we who have heard Jesus calling and who have responded to that call, will
never be the same, and in some ways will never be content unless and until all
of creation is mindful of that precious sound of Jesus calling, softly and
tenderly.</P>
<P>I cease my sounds for the moment and relinquish the floor to my
associate.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA</B>: Welcome, this fine
Sunday afternoon in the Albuquerque area. I wish to remind you, if you have not
done so already, to take a look at your environment. Look around, especially
from this near hilltop where you can see out over the Albuquerque area, the
valley that you see before you, as a wonderful expanse and expression of the
vastness that applies here. Then wonder, if you will, what this vastness can
compute to in terms of a look, vision, or portrayal of what you have to look
forward to.</P>
<P>I often make reference to "if you could see what I can see" you would never
question anything again. For you see all of the possibilities come to life and
play out before your very eyes. If you could watch seven to ten motion pictures
at one time, and see them all in their unique, loving, living portrayals of
forms of life and expression that exist simultaneously, then you would have some
idea of what I speak of, for there is much before you that you presently do not
understand. </P>
<P>In like manner, there is much before you in your life or dimension that you
do not understand yet I wish for you to incorporate in your perspective more
possibility thinking – specifically in terms of thinking and believing that
behind every personality presentation that you encounter there is more depth,
breadth, and height than you can possibly imagine. For the most disturbed
individual that you can think of, in terms of how sad and shattered a life can
seemingly be, you have only to consider that which you are unaware of (as I gave
a momentary glance of the multitude of dimensions that exist at the same time).
Surely even a shattered life has height, depth and width beyond that which you
can visually observe. </P>
<P>So in addition to this simply being a lesson of not judging, for you know not
what you judge, nor have capacity to do the same, it is a lesson for being more
mindfully aware of the immensity of your participation in this mystery called
life. "Alice in Wonderland" had nothing on the reality of being in an
unencumbered life. For yours will be the opportunity to become as expansive as
you wish or as specific as you wish. If you had ever wanted to meander into the
life of a flower and become connected with every part, portion and cellular
division of that plant, you may spend that kind of specific time in
experimentation and cooperation. Likewise, with your open hearts and minds, you
will be able to share in the administration of love as it is dispensed among
your partners and participation in eternity in whatever way is suitable to your
tastes, interests and personality achievement.</P>
<P>I paint this picture not to do anything other than to have you open your
hearts and minds to the possibilities that exist, not just for any single
individual but for groups of people, for colonies, countries, continents and
beyond. To begin with yourself, to be more mindful of dimensions that are beyond
your current perception, and that is dimensions within yourself, not just in
addition to yourself. Recognize that you are walking in a universe as an ex
tension but inseparable from yourself, and if you walk in such presence, what is
the individual beside you walking in? Certainly nothing less! </P>
<P>So rejoice and lift your hearts to know that you are chosen to be among
life’s creation and to blossom and pursue the perfection that exists currently,
here and now, only to the limit of your minds capability to understand are you
limited. I wish you peace, happiness and onward expansion in the here and now of
knowing who you truly are and loving every second of it. I wish you peace,
happiness and above all, successful voyaging. Peace be with you until we meet
again.</P><B>
<P>Group</B>: Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Paula</B>: You know, when you
spoke about the Albuquerque area, how lovely it is. We like to sit outside at
night where we live now and look out and see all the lights of the city below
us, and it’s perfectly beautiful. And I often think, "I wonder what’s going on
in each of those houses? Are they happy people? Or are they getting ready to get
a gun and shoot each other." Nine-tenths of the time they’re happy. They’re
living perfectly normal lives, and that’s good! But you wonder, because there’s
all those lights, and each one is somebody’s house. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is astute of you,
dear, because this is what Anatolia made reference to in discussing the many
levels of existence that are there, that could be seen through the seven movie
presentations suggested. There is merit to your imagination, and each one of
those lights. It invites a modicum of further insight in the path that is
presented. </P>
<P>The City is engaged in a campaign, for instance, to combine the fields of
cruelty to animals and domestic violence, inasmuch as domestic violence is a
problem on one level of social functioning, which may be so foreign to other
levels of existence it is not something that even comes to mind, yet it exists
and is a problem that is presented in the evolution of the human race that must
be dealt with and does call for those who have the stomach for that kind of
ministry. </P>
<P>This animal husbandry is ignoring entirely the divine aspects of existence.
Not only are the animals victims, so are the spouses and children. This is a
very low level of operation and one which cries out for something to be done
about the mental aberration that exists in these men and women who exist on such
a barren level of existence, right here in your own town, your own country. Yes,
there are problems like this the world over, and unless and until they are dealt
with, they will continue to damage the rest of humanity. </P>
<P>The matter of self-respect is at issue here and once again we find that the
spiritual solution is the only solution that will be enduring. Those who abuse
are seeking some kind of authority over their lives and they believe the
authority they vest in violence is all they are entitled to. And those who are
victims are love-starved and lack the self-esteem that comes from the dignity
status of sonship, to understand the difference in the types of attentions they
receive. There are those who believe that any attention at all is better than no
attention and so there are, indeed, social ills -- which is a field of problem
solving that is calling softly and tenderly to heal these wounds and nurture
these children into awareness of their true inheritance, their true authority,
and true love.</P>
<P>While it may be difficult to love unlovely mankind, it is possible to
minister to them if you are consecrated to following where He may lead in
ministering to those who have not yet found what they are looking for.</P>
<P>What is on your minds these days? What growth are you enjoying that you are
prepared to pass on to your peers?</P><B>
<P>Esmeralda</B>: I’m just
immediately wondering if everybody is warm enough.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Yes! Very comfortable!
We’re fine!</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B> Well, I have had a very
… revealing experience last night, actually. Stephanie came over last evening
with her son, Gabriel. Stephanie is my step-daughter, the daughter of my
ex-husband. And talk about different layers that Anatolia was talking about,
what she has gone through is just really incredible! She has gone through a
tremendous amount of things, including the abusive situations that were
described today of, -- from her dad and then also with men she had relationships
with, and has been through just an incredible amount, and just felt like she had
no one to turn to.</P>
<P>So last night it was really a revealing kind of a situation about her coming
to realize the value that she had received from what I had given her, an
appreciation – which she had already mentioned from the other time I met with
her -- but just an incredible growth on her part and someone who was just not
wanting anything else other than someone to talk to, and feeling like someone
cared about her and had given her some caring and attention, and was really
looking at that in a very different way. It was very heart-warming to me. </P>
<P>I was amazed to hear about what she had been through, and basically by
herself, with very little, if anyone to turn to, and she had gone through that.
Then hearing about how she had been afraid to come to me but had gotten through
that and decided to call me … and so it was just a very, very heartening. I had
to respect her tremendously. To hear what she had gone through and that she had
come to the point where she was right now. So, I was just pretty well amazed. So
that was a real revelation on my part, and a real rewarding one, too, I have to
admit.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, indeed, you have
had the priceless opportunity to observe how your merely being yourself was able
to enhance the life of another. This quality of sharing the inner life is
invaluable in forming friendship and upholding character. The divine in you
reached out to the divine in Stephanie and she was acknowledged, validated,
upheld and made more real because of that experience, and because you provided
that opportunity, it is you who is credited with bringing that understanding of
her rights as a human being to her awareness. Thus, she will be able to act upon
the light of truth that she now knows, in order to better her circumstances and
those who depend on her.</P>
<P>The job of outreach and ministry need not be uncomfortable or unhappy for
you. In fact, if it is in the natural course of your comings and goings, so much
the better but if and when you find yourself in the furrows of living
experience, it is your knowledge of the light within that will eventually lead
you through the morass and out of the experience in such a way that you will
have given much in the process of gaining depth, breadth, and height of
character-developing experience. </P>
<P>Work is involved in this Kingdom-building, but the work must be near and dear
to the heart or it won’t be effective; it won’t be fruitful. If you find
yourself in a situation where you are unhappy and unfruitful, consider it your
opportunity to be the recipient of the process of redirecting and correcting the
immature and/or aberrant presentation of your mind’s interpretation of reality.
This will enable you to go through the experience with dignity and emerge better
for it. These experiences become the fodder of the eternal adventurer, the food
that nurtures the service-oriented ambition. </P><B>
<P>Elena: </B> Well, actually, I can
use that in my work area, too, so thank you for that, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B>: When I speak about
service I am not drawing lines between this field and that activity – at least
not intentionally. If you can bring the light of truth into any situation, so
much the better. You are welcome.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, it was helpful on
more than one front. So thank you.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah</B>: Tomas, you said
something I really appreciate, about softly and tenderly would be a nice
approach in our outreach, our service, in our attempts to let people know what
we know. But you also said something like, if we’re into this service, outreach,
et cetera, for our own satisfaction, that we might as well stay at home and
pray. I’m wondering if you might elucidate on that a little.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B>: The glamour of the
divine in the minds of some is easily interpreted as what you might consider
"show business". The character Elmer Gantry was an example of such; he who was
charismatic and was able to generate a good following of parishioners who could
more accurately be called "fans". The ability to generate emotional excitement
in the name of the spirit is a technique that, while appearing to be a genuine
ministry, is in most regards a "production number." </P>
<P>This is why "softly and tenderly" is personally effective for those who have
fear of the Lord. It remains possible for the divine to become a part of their
consciousness with your guidance and ministerial touch. This intimacy is the
bridge that allows your Adjuster to make contact with their Adjuster. </P>
<P>The emotions are excitable but the spirit is not. The spirit is the epitome
of control! The Father is the one who maintains control, from Paradise. But
those who seek to wrest control from God in order to do His bidding are deluding
themselves. They are in "show biz!" This is a ministry, yes, but it is not
necessarily the most effective and long-range approach, nor is the approach we
teach, but we recognize its relative value when it <I>is</I> practiced. </P>
<P>The mind is enamored of certain concepts and the imagination is drawn to
certain dramatizations. The frills that are applied on top of the substance
makes it even more of a lure, but it is the substance of the thing that is at
the heart of the ministry, and thus the genuine ministry of the Father is able
to manifest in that individual’s life in such a way as to transform him
infinitely, and not merely for a season. </P>
<P>Opportunities abound for service. But those of you who have a sense of
integrity about your service, such that you don’t even know that you are being
of service, are sensitive to those affectations that are quite natural and
normal to others in their presentations of their ministry. They are not wrong,
nor would you be wrong if you were to create a presentation that brought certain
spirit truths to the consciousness of your audience or your congregation.</P>
<P>But the method of softly and tenderly calling the soul of your fellows to
come forth and receive the embrace of the divine, as you stand there in the
light of truth and the love of God, encouraging the eternal liaison, this
invitation and this supernal lure is in God’s hands and he will provide the
means whereby the soul is enhanced, the son is advanced, the mission is
accomplished, the ministry has been effective. </P>
<P>If you recall Jesus walking through the throng, feeling energy coming out of
him, and turning to say, "Who touched me? I felt energy go from me," you will
begin to recognize that as you pass by you will be able to minister to those who
see and hear you speak in His name, even as you comport yourself in your own
fashion – not as a production or a role or in any official capacity, but as an
Ambassador of the Father. </P>
<P>These stirrings make permanent impressions and contribute to the growth of
the individual and are potential growth for the Supreme. Does this help
clarify?</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Very much. It
distinguishes a lot in my mind between the terminology of teacher and preacher.
</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There was a priest you
may recall, Thoroah, from your youth, who was a brilliant actor for God. [Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen] His lines were truly inspired. He was a delight to witness. He
was entertaining and able to quote scripture, able to also appeal to common
sense, and he was a great advantage to Catholicism because of his skill as a
presenter. He was a preacher, but he was so deft, it was not offensive; it was
artistry. </P>
<P>Even here, Elmer Gantry and his ilk are also very artistic. Look at the film
"The Apostle" and see how dynamic a preacher can be, how much impact he can have
on his flock, giving the spark of God freedom to operate within the souls of his
people. </P>
<P>There are teachers like myself and like Martin Luther King who are also
active in instilling the light of truth into <I>the mind arena</I> and the area
of consciousness that is stimulated by being taught, illuminated, enlightened
such that inspiration to act upon the light of truth is implanted, and this
often makes preachers of students. </P>
<P>And while all of these are dramatic, effective, exciting efforts on behalf of
God, there are many, human colorations involved, whereas, the ability to serve
through the still, small voice is the most intimate, and thus the most
satisfying, of all ministries. And to feel the surge of the Father fill the
mortal child with Its divine light, lifting up he who has been in darkness or
she who has been in despair, is surely the most rewarding experience a worker in
the field can know. </P>
<P>One more. </P><B>
<P>Paula</B>: Well, I keep thinking
about that "softly and tenderly" because as I said last week, of course, for
years my job was to talk to the patients and comfort them and so forth, and now
on Fridays when I’m at the hospital, it isn’t the patients that I have so much
contact with, but their families! They are sitting there waiting, on edge, and
upset, and part of my job is to comfort them. </P>
<P>But once a month we have the little-bitty people, about four to six years
old, that are having dental surgery and that’s a whole different ball of wax
because the parents are a wreck! You’d think that they were going to the
execution chamber! Actually, the kids are having a ball. To ride on the gurney,
"Whee! Boy!" and the nurses go a little bit fast and say, "How do you like
that?" and they think it’s great, but mommy and daddy are so nervous: they are
going to put that child to sleep, and he is going to be so frightened. Well the
kid isn’t frightened a bit! He’s having a great time!</P>
<P>Then! The recovery room calls and says, "Will you bring the parents of little
Joe Blow here? He’s all ready to see his mommy and daddy, so I say, "Now we’re
going down the hall and you’re going to see him." Well, we start down the hall
and the first thing you hear is little Joey Blowy screaming at the top of his
lungs, and Mommy says, "Oh, he’s in agony! He’s hurting terrible!" and I say,
"No! He’s not in agony. He’s got something on his gums. He’s not hurting a bit."
"Then why is he crying?" "Because he woke up in a strange place with a lot of
strange nurses around him and where are mommy and daddy?" So the first thing he
does is scream, hoping that will bring him. So by the time they get there, Mommy
and Daddy are calmed down a little bit and they just hold out their arms and the
crying stops like that! It’s okay. Mommy’s here. Daddy’s here. Everything’s
okay.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B>: These precious babies
are a good example for you to follow, to go through life with an attitude of
adventure and not crust yourself over with the baggage of the temporal life such
that you disenchant the youngsters with your own recollections of fear and pain.
They have a right to learn their lessons without pre-programming from prejudiced
parents. </P>
<P>What a delight, too, for the parents to hear that their child yearns for
their embrace. This is also an admonition to you to wake up wondering where your
Parents are and not ceasing your lament until they have embraced you in their
presence, and then commence your day. This gives your outlook an entirely
different approach and your ministry a new dimension as well, for your life now
is in the hands of those who are truly in control.</P>
<P>The presence of God surrounds us, the love of God smiles upon us, and the
spirit of God is within us. Let us go then, you and I, into the field and softly
and tenderly call forth the new growth. Farewell.</P><B>
<P>Group</B>: Thank
you.</P></BODY></HTML>