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<p><font size="+1">Ham 03/14/2004</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you here
this evening. All our time together is very important and precious to me
personally. Tonight, let us discuss harmony. The relationships between the
three figures of the trinity – the Universal Father, Eternal Son, and Infinite
Spirit – are always absolutely harmonious. As creation progresses outward,
there is a gradually increasing potential for disharmony among personalities
and among material beings, perfect harmony in a relationship is more of
an ideal than a reality. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Human beings are naturally very self-motivated, self-aware,
and self-centered. The coming together with another human being requires
the setting aside of selfishness. This setting aside of selfish motivation
is the only thing that can create the potential for harmonious relationships.
</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Harmony in the celestial spheres is ever more complete
as one progresses from the worlds of time and space on into the higher celestial
spheres. In the worlds of time and space, human beings have inherited a
great deal of belligerency, a great deal of fear driven competitiveness
and the desire to control others. It has been the unfortunate lot of humanity
to have been subjected many times to enforced control over free will. Many
utopian plans have used the enforcement of conformity as the basis of social
harmony. But this is not so in heaven. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">As you progress in the heavenly realms, you are given
more and more freedom and there is more and more social harmony to be seen.
As you progress in these realms, you also progress in the art of self-control,
which allows freedom. The greater ones control over self, the greater ones
freedom of choice becomes. It has been said the he who control his own tongue
is greater than he who controls a city. Growth in self-control is absolutely
essential for social progress as well as personal spiritual progress. You
are not free if you are a slave to an unruly tongue or unruly appetites.
These things limit the choices before you and eventually remove your choices.
</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">It is wise to continually be self-aware. Become aware
of the impulse before it is an action. Become understanding of yourselves
and do not be anxious about self-assertion. Self-assertion is an "I want"
stance. It is focused on self. The Master, on the other hand, was self-forgetful.
The body, the ego-self, did not control him, he controlled them. He was
not in a hurry to make his views known. He was not anxious about himself.
</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">He taught a unity of spirit. He taught the common effort
toward God-knowingness, but never did he require uniformity or that his
followers should conform in any way to a set list of requirements. His religion
was liberating, never enslaving. His religion was know God and become increasingly
like him in your own way. This is the only way to unlock human potential.
Each person must, in their own unique growth toward God, become increasingly
themselves. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">There has been much too much emphasis on conforming to
certain beliefs and certain efforts towards enforcing conformity have done
more harm to religion than anything else. The Master said many times, I
have come to liberate spiritual captives. This liberation is still occurring
as his words resonate upon your world. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">The only law of God is love. The only requirement the
Father places upon his children is love. Let love then rule in your hearts.
Let love be your requirement and allow the rest to fall away. Are there
any questions at this time?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Ham, may I have a personal message please?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Yes, my son, you do very well. It is wonderful to
have you here once more. Your recovery is wonderful to behold for all your
friends, and I am indeed among them. Do not be in too great a hurry to move
forward. This effort to come here has been a great strain and as it was
said of Abraham, this is noted for righteousness. You have come very far
in the spirit during this time of crisis. Indeed, you have come through
quite a profound change. Embrace this change. Let your decisions be firm.
Move toward increasing self-understanding, and listen to the wise words
of your partner and helpmate. She will help to guide you on firm ground.
Be at peace my son. You are doing very well. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Ham do you have anything for me tonight?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Yes of course. You are doing well my dear. Think
about the Master’s gentle self-forgetfulness. Think about his continual
laying aside of his human desires for each person must come to that point
where even in the small things one prays your will be done, Father. This
laying aside of one’s selfish desires goes in all areas of life, not simply
certain ones. It is hard for human beings to submit themselves to the gradual
wearing away of the ego impetus, the ego requirements because these things
feel like they are the self. But, the ego is not the self. The ego desires
must gradually die for the true self to be born. Is this making sense to
you?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Yes, kind of? How do you know. Sometimes there’s a
question of whether it’s the ego or if it’s real?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: You will find as you grow in the spirit that you
can see the difference, but in general Jarad’s comment (It’s all ego) is
correct. Human beings are greatly enslaved to ego, by and large. The Master
put it very simply. I do these things not for my own glory, but for the
glory of him who sent me. All his actions, all his words were to glorify
the Father not himself. Sometimes is it is easier when you can see the goal
way ahead to move toward it rather than the thing right in front of you.
Is this helping?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Yes, thank you. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: You are welcome my dear. Questions?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Do you have anything for Rebecca?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Yes my daughter, you must be at peace. Do not worry
concerning your work or your personal efforts. Rely on the Master’s hand.
Take each step deliberately and above all do not rush. Little by little
the way will open. Have patience with yourself and you will have patience
with others.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Jarad?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Yes, my son. You are doing very well. You have great
skill and talent. Be completely at ease as you move forward in your work.
Take your time and do not rush. All things will come to you. Move forward
with great deliberation. You have oriented yourself properly with respect
to your spiritual life. Now it is a matter of walking forward. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Could I have a message Ham, please? A lot of transition
in my life now. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Of course, my son. Yes there is transition, but also
a definite movement toward love. Love is that wonderful thing that takes
you out of yourself and son, you have been too long a prisoner within yourself.
The time has come for reorientating yourself with respect to the spiritual
life. For a while, the intellectual life has been most dominant. Yes, but
the spiritual is coming back and reasserting itself in your life. Your heart
is opening and with growth it will continue to open like a flower. This
flower is the seat of your creativity. Love is the kernel of truth from
which your intellectual life is born. Continue to open your heart for only
in this opening is beauty perceived. Only in this opening is truth appreciated
and only in this opening will goodness invade your life and transform your
soul. Gradually, you are being healed. Allow the Master to heal your soul
and your heart. Allow his forgiveness to be completely accepted by your
soul and your mind. Have complete faith in the power of his love. Accept
his healing, accept his love. All else will take care of itself. Is this
helping?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Yes, two questions. Is the stress I have been feeling
a result of this growth, kind of a growing pain? </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Stress is suppressed fear. Ask yourself, where is
this fear coming from. Am I afraid to experience love? Am I afraid to let
go of the intellectual constructions that have limited my world but kept
me safe within that limitation? </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: IN this relationship I am in does if figure?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Of course.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: You are saying to trust that?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Yes. Can you allow yourself to be happy? Is this
making sense?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Yes, thank you.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: You are welcome my son, you do very well. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Do you have a personal message for Charlie B?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: Let me say that for our members who are not here
this evening, including those overseas who cannot be here, listen to the
words I have spoken to others for they also apply to you. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Q: Do you have any feedback for me this week?</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Ham: And for you my son, you are doing ever better. By
that I mean, you are continually taking steps that lead you to an ever more
God-experiencing life. The pressures of your work life are great and so
it is incumbent upon you to seek the spirit whenever you can. Even the quick
prayer, Father help me be patient, this can make the difference in your
day. Consciously make the effort to connect with the master’s spirit, even
if it is very briefly because this connection will grow ever more strong
as you do this. Sometimes the last thing human beings thing of is to ask
for divine help, but this was the first thing the Master did before any
action. Try to develop this habit. It will serve you well. </font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Are there any further questions? My friends, you do well.
You have each come very far. But this has not been without effort, without
pain and struggle. Gradually this life becomes easier and less full of conflict
as you progress in the spirit. Go then in peace. My prayers and my love
are with you each. Farewell. </font></p>
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David G. Schlundt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
301 Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615)322-7800
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Many of the temporal troubles of mortal man
grow out of his twofold relation to the
cosmos. Man is part of nature -- he exists
in nature -- and yet he is able to transcend
nature. Man is finite, but he is indwelt by
a spark of infinity.
The Urantia Book - page 1221
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