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<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Ham 4-25-04</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Greetings, I am Ham and I am grateful
to have you here this evening. This evening let us discuss how to move always
toward the Father’s light. You are each going through things that will strengthen
your faith over time. You each have the intention of making steps toward
the Father. This is not simply a matter of the mind or a matter of the will.
It is the whole personality which must continually adjust in thought outlook,
attitude and deed towards the Father’s loving gaze. You cannot move one
part of your personality without moving your entire personality. And the
personality is your whole self, the sum total of your character, your thought
patterns, all the different attitudes you carry in life, all the ways you
think and feel. So spiritual growth is not simply a matter of reaching with
faith, it is also a matter of complete change and continuous change. Reaching
with faith is the first step, but then the entire person must make the adjustments
necessary to move forward in faith. All these adjustments must be make with
love. Those parts of yourself which perhaps you do not love are the most
resistant to changing. Love is the catalyst for change and true spiritual
progress is attained through and measured by love. Love is the yardstick
by which you may measure your growth. Growth is created first by forming
the intention to grow, then by allowing spiritual change to take place within
you, and thirdly by manifesting that love toward others. Spiritual growth
and increasing portions of love are one and the same. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">You certainly can facilitate growth by
making the conscience decision toward love. If there is a person who irritates
you or bothers you, consciously make the decision to find something lovely
about them, then you will find something lovely within yourself as well.
Love is goodness, truth and beauty at once. Love is the experience of God
unified. Loving God and growing in his love is the greatest human experience.
Nothing can compare to feeling yourself uplifted, embraced and consumed
by His love. Loving others does not blind one to their faults or alter the
truth in any way. Loving others allows you to receive the truth concerning
them. Hatred is always blinding, love is always illuminating. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">The Master’s loving understanding of
others did not prevent him from denouncing error or exposing evil. But even
this was done out of love for the world. The Master was clear sighted in
his admonitions and in his rebukes. He was careful not to condemn people
when he was denouncing their errors. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Human beings must always and continually
choose between truth and error. The only way to choose truth is to choose
love first. In choosing love, truth will follow. One cannot find truth within
fear. Fear of God leads toward error. Love of God lead toward truth. The
love of God leads each soul to embody the truth, beauty and goodness that
is love. Fear of God leads to the protection of truth and truth that is
protected is not growing, and if it is not growing it has died. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Indeed, fossilized former truth is the
seed of error and evil. The Master gives of his spirit so that his truth
shall remain living, and his love be reborn in every heart in every moment.
Do not be discouraged when you find fear in your hearts for once it is recognized
it can be expelled and that place filled with love. I say to you my friends
expel fear from your hearts as soon as you identify it. Move that part of
your personality toward love. In this way, growth is assured. Fear is like
a weight holding you in place. It is only by cutting your ties to fear that
you can soar on the currents of love. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">The sons and daughters of God fight willingly
on the side of truth against error and on the side of love against fear.
At every time that fear threatens your peace of mind, conscientiously ask
for help and you will have love enough to overcome any fear. Be completely
at ease my friends, continue moving toward love with all your might. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: Ham, I have felt that I should begin
rereading the Urania Book in more depth when I recently came across a reference
to a book called the Oahspe and a comparison to the Urania Book. Is this
a book that we should look into, meaning will it give added value in addition
to the Urania Book, or is the Urania Book sufficient unto itself?.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Yes, let me say this unequivocally.
The Urania Book is not sufficient unto itself. The Urania Book is the clearest
and most complete revelation to date, but it is not in any sense the final
word. It is always fruitful and informative to read other works as well.
In all cases, there is truth and some error mixed, this is so with the Bible
and it is so with the Urania Book to some extent. The Urania Book has few
errors, but it is not perfect. You must read the Oahspe and make you own
assessment. Each work must be weighed in your own heart.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: May I have a message, Ham?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: You are beginning to stabilize emotionally
very well. This is due to your spiritual growth. You are gaining greater
balance and increasing positive outlook. Through your embrace of love in
greater measure. Human beings are generally afraid to give themselves over
to love completely. Love is transforming, all encompassing. Human beings
are afraid to be swept up on something so uncontrollable. It is only be
losing oneself in love that one finds oneself. Your true identity lies within
love, no where else. Love can be contented. Your are doing very well.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Daughter, you are doing well. Enjoy the
task before you. Lose yourself in the joy of the work without thought of
outcome. Allow the master to guide your way. Pray for this and it shall
be so. Focus your intention toward his will and it shall be so. That is
all.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Jarad?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Yes my son, you also are finding ever
greater joy in your work, let there be no pressure, but rather the joy of
discovery. Find ever greater joy in the act of self expression, let this
be a song of joy, of hope and of comfort. You will have all that you need
as you move forward. Do not worry my son, have total faith, total. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: Do you have anything for me Ham?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Certainly, you do well my son. You
are increasingly finding love within your heart for yourself and this is
as it should be. Do not shy away from loving yourself. The love that is
constantly streaming toward your heart from the Master’s soul must be increasingly
felt, tapped into if you will. As you grow in the spirit and become increasingly
like the Father, you must also partake of His love for you. And do not reject
this love or push it aside, but rather begin accepting divine love and understanding
it. Understand that you are lovable, this is not overnight, but you are
beginning. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: Any counsel tonight?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Yes my son, you are growing rapidly
in the spirit. You way has not been easy not was it meant to be. The way
you have traveled has been a slow but steady process of grounding and growth.
You are constantly growing upward toward the Master and also sending roots
into the ground to stabilize this growth. Gradually you are coming into
greater and greater self-acceptance and self-love. In this you are grounding
you life to reality. Human beings can be deluded into thinking they are
either too much or too little. Self-acceptance and accepting the Father’s
love grounds you in reality. Your work will come. For now, concentrate on
loving yourself just as you are, that is how the Father loves you. See yourself
through his eyes and you will see yourself truly. </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: Do you have anything for me tonight,
Ham?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Certainly my dear. You also have had
a long period of self rejection. You have wanted to change yourself by yourself
and then present this new, improved person to God. This is not the way forward.
Moving forward requires self-acceptance, it requires a sense of purposeful
love, a sense that love and only love will provide. As you grow in your
own self-acceptance, then you will not be compelled to push others away.
Love is the reality of your soul and the reality of the world. Allow you
soul to be bathed in love, to be made pure and to be embraced by love. Accept
into your heart love in all its forms from all different directions and
do not turn it away. You are deserving of this love, my dear. Gradually
you will realize this.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Until next week, contemplate this lesson.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Q: Health advise for Frankie?</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">A: Yes my son. It is wise to do some
exercise every day. Be conscience of your diet as well. Your body will tell
you what it needs if you learn to listen. Walking thirty minutes a day will
make a great difference. That is all.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New" size="+1">Until next week my love and my prayer
are with you.</font></p>
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David G. Schlundt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
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Nashville, TN 37203
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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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