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<P><STRONG>DATE: </STRONG>
August 8, 2004<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Rio
Rancho, New Mexico</P><B>
<P>TEACHERS: TOMAS & ANATOLIA<BR>TOPICS:</B>
If God were to search you, what would He
find?<BR> Invitation
to Work with Personal Teachers<BR>
End of this "Anatolia and
Tomas Era" </P>
<P><B>T/Rs:</B> Gerdean and
Matthew<BR><B>MUSIC:</B> Elena on Piano: "Oh, God, You Search
Me"</P><B>
<P>PRAYER:</B> Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the
presence of Jesus, the Christ.</P><I>
<P>Master Teacher,</P>
<P>We come to you today with a full room of participants who are willing and
able and desire to be taught, as well as to teach, for we can only teach what we
know and as we become more fully aware and more incorporated into the
responsibility that we have to be and to share love as we acquire its meaning,
then we can be truly more like you. We can never be you, but only become more
perfect as you have encouraged us to be – more perfect like our Father in Heaven
is perfect. </P>
<P>We ask for the teachings that are made possible today through you and are
grateful for this gift of T/R and for the group that shares its worth and
receives its value. We place all of our needs before you, each and all, as you
know them to be, and we entrust their care and just resolution to you.</P>
<P>For this and all else, we are eternally grateful.</P>
<P>Amen</P></I><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We are eternally grateful to be your mentors and teachers, we in
the unseen realm. Eternally grateful that you are reaching up to Our Father to
seek His counsel and guidance on all things, for Him to make you malleable to
His will by and through your heartfelt yearning to please Him who is great
beyond compare. </P>
<P>This is Tomas, and I am here this joyous afternoon with my associate Anatolia
and your personal teachers, as well as student visitors, the loyal midwayers,
several seraphim, and may we become mindful of the overcare of the Melchizedeks
and Michael himself, who is always with us. And so we are, indeed, in a holy
place -- this place where we meet -- beyond the material covenants, to engage in
the new covenant with divinity.</P>
<P>Righteous Parent, it is our will that your will be done. Send us forth to be
your ambassadors, to bring peace in the face of strife and joy to overcome the
sorrow. </P>
<P>The path to your effectiveness in your ministry has a great deal to do with
your own maintenance of a clean heart and a clear mind. Here is where your
personal teachers are most effective, and here is where, today, I would like to
focus, in order for you to have a feeling for how these beings impact on you
personally. </P>
<P>How can you sit down and attempt to engage someone you do not know without
motive? Perhaps today in this exercise I will be able to lead you into a new
understanding of what service your personal teacher can provide, in order for
you to determine for yourself how it is that this teacher can and will, has and
does, help you in your own awakening to spirit reality.</P>
<P>I am not going to call on you individually or go around the room so as to
provide pressure for you in this exercise, but those of you who would like to
invest yourself in this exercise are surely welcome to do so and appreciated for
the examples you can provide for your fellows here in this group as well as in
the points of light beyond where you serve, and so, share your inner life and
your correcting time experience with your family. </P>
<P>I am going to ask you to abide by the reflections in the music played, "Oh,
God, You Search Me." If God were to search you, what would He find? What do you
know of yourself that is in you that is effective or ineffective? </P>
<P>Yes, we reach within to find that we are beautiful beyond compare by those
standards which hold us harmless (blameless) as we believe the Ancients of Days
will do, but the exercise includes also an appreciation of those personality
defects or shortcomings that you engage in, or bad habits that you have been
intending to do something about that may be impinging upon the better way for
you to go. </P>
<P>Let me ask you to ponder in your mind if you have an imperfection that you
would like to work on with your personal teacher. In this way you have invested
yourself. You are committing yourself to pruning your own dead branches so that
you may bear forth abundant fruit. Have you a dead branch in your composition
that you would be willing to present today that your personal teacher can help
you with, or that you would hope they can help you with? Is the exercise
understood?</P><B>
<P>Group: </B>Yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Are there questions about the exercise at this point?</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> No.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will disconnect from the T/R so that all of you may engage in
this mortal appreciation together. And I will insert myself at the appropriate
time. Take a moment and think about your configuration, what you will share, and
do this one at a time, soulfully, meaningfully, and I will ask you if you would
rather turn off the tape or would you rather let it run?</P><B>
<P>Group: </B>It can run, as far as I’m concerned. It doesn’t matter.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We will let it run, and as you suggest, Thoroah, if someone wants
to go off the record, we can do that. Very well. Take a moment to center
yourself and so be it.</P><B>
<P>Men-O-Pah:</B> I suppose that, like most folks, I have some dead wood that I
would like to be rid of. When I’m really very tired, I’ve worked hard, and I’m
tired and I’m hungry at the same time, my temper is very short. We are always,
you know, praying that we will be ready for our spirit to depart this body at
any time, that we will have clean hands and straight eyes. And also, under those
circumstances, my language is sometimes not very pure, and so I should like to
be rid of those things.</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Don’t forget, we’re aiming for 100. I’m not in any hurry to
die.</P><B>
<P>Men-O-Pah:</B> Well, of course you aren’t. But we don’t have an awful lot to
say about that, and it may be later than you think.</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Don’t say that!</P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> Well, the dead wood that needs pruning in my case is -- I
don’t know whether you’d call it lazy or inert, with too much inertia. I’m not
good with Stillness and I don’t persist in it. So I think it’s not something
that needs to be cut off, but it needs to be cultivated. I need to be more
diligent, more persistent, and try to contact Celene more. I know she is there;
I just don’t know how to get through to her, but it’s probably that I’m not
trying as much as I should. So that needs to be cultivated, I think. Probably
cultivation rather than pruning.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> The one I would like to look at, to develop, is -- I have a
driving force, and it could be pushy, wanting to get things done and keep things
on track. There must be a better way, not only for myself but for those that
know me. So it would be better if I were not so driven.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> I need help with procrastination. I am always putting off things.
Putting off doing things, putting off writing letters, putting off filling out
forms, putting off, putting off, putting off, until later and later, sometimes.
I would like to be able to get things done without conflict.</P><B>
<P>Myra:</B> I suppose the dead wood that I would be working on would be the act
of remaining with my inner thoughts and trusting that other people could help me
with that. I think that I just prefer to tune [indistinguishable].</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> I think I have problems with being hungry and cranky; I have
problems with inertia, and procrastination. (Group chuckles) The dead wood that
kills me, I think, is the curse of self-consciousness. I feel like I’m watching
me watching me watching me watching everybody else watch me, and wondering,
assuming what they’re thinking, and all this kind of stuff, and it’s a whole
bunch of stupid baggage to deal with. I know there’s a positive way to approach
that; I need to be aware of how I come across, but I would like to get control
of that.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> When I’m hungry and tired, I just cry.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Men would too but they’re not supposed to. </P><B>
<P>Matthew:</B> I have to admit to the same thing, although they usually don’t
occur at the same time, being hungry and tired; it’s one or the other. I’ve made
many changes already and quit smoking and a number of things. I’m as human as
anybody else and the list of things aren’t occurring to me at the moment, so if
you know of some that I don’t, go ahead and speak up now! (Group laughter)
Hearing none, … (Group: uproarious laughter)</P>
<P>I’ve been sitting here the whole time plotting that one.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> And they’ll probably help you get over that! (Group
laughter)</P><B>
<P>Matthew:</B> I have a mental block. But as the prayer that I started with, to
become more perfect like our Father in heaven is perfect, I remember several
years ago thinking, now isn’t that a little bit too much? Aren’t you asking a
little bit too much of us? But the more I thought about it or felt about it,
after a while I thought, "I could see that" because I believe the Urantia Book,
as Jesus had admonished, to become perfect in our realm as our Father in heaven
is in His. So from that perspective, it is a lot more doable, only because we
can perfect our own reactions through our emotions as we grow with it.</P>
<P>One thing that I am becoming more aware of, and I’m trying to understand, is:
I get upset – (as I think every one of us do) over politics, as we see things
that occur to us are just outrageously unjust, and the other list of
descriptions, and how it is upsetting and disturbing. And then, at the same
time, try to understand the motivations of others that would motivate them to do
the things that they are doing, that seem in actuality totally destructive. And
then to try to realize that God loves them at the same time that he loves us. So
I don’t know that my perspective or motivation is that I am better or more pure
in heart; it’s just that I cannot imagine doing that in a million years, but
have already done wrong and will probably in the future, and my motivations in
doing wrong weren’t evil or ill intended; they were just plain wrong.</P>
<P>So perhaps the dead wood needs to make room for other people to be human,
even gargantuanly human, to the detriment of others’ lives and livelihoods, and
to allow room that somehow they – I mean, they too are children of God, but to
allow for that pruning or correcting to occur in their individual lives and that
I am not a judge nor jury of theirs, so that is what I think about that.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> And I have the same old retinue of co-dependence issues, which
are that others’ people’s happiness means more to me than my own does, to my own
detriment. People-pleasing and listening to other people’s opinions as if they
knew more than I do instead of trusting myself to know that I know what I’m
talking about. I want so much to be taken seriously and yet I don’t know how to
give myself that self-esteem that I crave, as a result of being whole, which I
feel I would be more perfect if I didn’t have these emotional shortcomings. I’m
not saying I don’t want to be supportive or gracious or any of those wonderful
qualities, but I am sure there are negative side-effects from my pattern, and if
they are detrimental, then they need to go. If they are dead wood, they just
don’t need to be here, so, help me be all that I can be and trust that that’s
good. That’s what my potential and my right is, to be the best that I can be,
and just accept that. And then I would probably realize that other people are
probably being the best that they can be, too, so that is something I could
probably use some help with. </P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Well, it isn’t always easy to see somebody else’s viewpoint when
you have your own ideas, and I can remember when I was a little kid my cousins
lived across the street from me and he was a little monster. He was always
trying to get me in trouble and a lot of times he did. I got a few spankings I
wouldn’t’ve gotten otherwise if he hadn’t opened his big mouth. And this one day
we were quarreling about something and of course he knew my folks at the time
always voted the Republican ticket. So he said, "Well, you’re nothing but a
nasty little Protestant Republican!" and that was about as mean as he could get.
And I couldn’t think of an answer. That was my trouble!</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> What’s wrong with that?</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> I wish I couldn’t come back with something really smart.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Are we concluded with this soul-searching exercise?</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well done. Each of you have reached into your basket of
personality patterns and found one, like a rotten apple, worthy to hold up so as
not to ruin the rest of the apples. It is most gracious of you all in
recognizing the qualities within that you are eager to expose to the light of
the sun so as to clarify and heal that imperfection en route to greater
perfection -- yes, Matthew, here in your realm, which is all you can do anyway.
</P>
<P>However, if you live each day loyally as a tadpole, you will become,
eventually, a frog and you will eventually attain Paradise. In fact, you will
stand before the Father and be one with him for that eternal priceless moment.
That will alter your course forever, enlisting you in the Corps of Finality of
those who have attained perfection, even unto the Father, and thereby set out
upon a career unending and untold.</P>
<P>Your efforts in this undertaking are not immaterial. They are an essential
part of the cultivation of the spirit, which is the only solution, not only to
your personal conundrums but the political picture as well. As you have all
heard from the Teachers many times, love is the answer to all the questions. It
is simply how the questions are interpreted and responded to that reveals the
kind of love that will be necessary in order to heal the wounds and advance this
great state of being. </P>
<P>These now are on record and testified to in the presence of witnesses and
your work with your personal teacher may now commence in full understanding of
how this process works. You have acknowledged a need and they have committed
themselves to your adjustments of personality that will render you perfect.
Follow their guidance. Bring to them your lamentations. Accept from them their
praises. Allow them, in conjunction with your divine indwelling Adjuster, that
shard of infinite perfection which indwells you, to provide to you the divine
perspective that is enshrouded in love that will see you reach for that which
you may will is the higher path, the better way. Even so, it will in time become
your pattern of behavior, the modus operandi of your existence, and in this
process, your perfecting renders you fragrant in ways which are conducive to the
work of the spirit. You will find yourself of value not only for your material
realm but for the spiritual reality which depends on you to nurture and foster
these realities, even as you tread the material soil of existence.</P>
<P>Now whenever these thoughts come to mind, recognize the work of your helper.
You are not alone in the process of perfecting yourself. Your personal teacher
is your guide and counselor in the process of weaning yourself from that which
does not serve so as to be more aware of, appreciative of and focused on that
which matters, in truth. I am finished. If you are still with us.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> We’re with you!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Anatolia, would you like to engage?</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> Welcome, friends and family. It is my pleasure to be with you
again in this fine land of enchantment. It is a pleasure to be with you, both in
person and in the presence of your teachers as we continue on the topic of
personal teachers and the need for personal effectiveness. You know that so long
as (the old saying goes) "where there is a will there is a way", provided you
have a will to desire more for yourself, there is a way to accomplish it. It is
not material desires that I speak of, but desires for yourself to know more, do
more, be more. </P>
<P>These are not goals that are even accomplishment-oriented, for one who is a
wretched individual inside where he or she truly lives. If you desire to have
more, be more, do more, then it is truly possible that your inner world may
become a Shangri la. Not out of delusion or escapism, but rather true knowledge
of who you are, for there are many ways to approach this. As it has been said,
there are many paths to the Father and each will lead there. All one needs is
the desire to find one's way on that path. It is only he or she who is
recalcitrant or ambivalent, or simply does not care, who is in danger of losing
themselves - not in a judgmental or ‘fire and brimstone’ perspective, but losing
him or herself in terms of the internal will. </P>
<P>The will to survive is primary. The will to thrive is your choice. It is my
desire for each of you to acquire the development of an internal Shangri la, a
chamber or temple that you could live in for all eternity. For it is in this
internal working that you are building your future, for your consciousness is
where you will perceive your future. It is your consciousness that enables
whatever you desire to become reality. For surely you could not disbelieve that
you will do something and yet do it unless it is through change of heart and
your will, for seeing is believing, doing is creating -- as the reverse is true,
creating is doing. I believe you get the picture that it is entirely up to
you.</P>
<P>Now for the topic of the disengaged, those who have quit, surrendered, given
up - these are the individuals to be pitied, for they have relinquished their
will to that of the four winds, who lie subject, waiting to be tossed or turned
as if an object in the seas. This is, effectively, a living hell, for without
the desire to create a perfect will, a perfect world, one that is full of
righteousness, justice -- what is good for you is good for me and what is right
for you is right for me - these things they will not know until their
consciousness is perked and reminded that they sit wasting under a tree, for
fruit that is not picked up and utilized, simply lies rotting, waiting to be
buried.</P>
<P>I wish to bring you good news today instead of the contrary, for my purpose
in presenting today is to reinforce within you that everything is based upon
your willingness and your desire to see it through. The old saying, too, "God
helps those who help themselves" was not a discussion of petty thievery, but
rather one that places faith where it truly belongs, for so long as there is a
desire to go forward and walk straight and to move calmly with your God, it is
up to the individual to do so. </P>
<P>The Father could have avoided the inconvenience of creation had it been his
choice to share parts of himself that were already perfect, that had no choice
but perfection, for in reality no choice but perfection is no choice at all, so
you have the ultimate in opportunity, the ultimate choice of whether to become
your true selves and to reunite with your Creator in eternity, or to simply lie
dormant, as fruit, to be buried at the bottom of the tree.</P>
<P>I place this with you not as a burden but as a reminder that it is up to each
of us to choose life, to choose light, and to choose the life that we are
entrusted with and born to live. Are there any questions this afternoon?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, yeah, because I'm trying to think of all the people I know
and I think that most of them are in one shape or another trying to see the
light. I mean, I can even think of some people that I would put in the category
of having to go light years before they could even get a glimmer of light, but I
think they might even be fine to do that, so, what's an example of somebody who
is <U>not</U> choosing the light? I mean, everybody thinks that they are trying,
I think. So I don't get that part.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA: </B>It is primarily those that are not trying, who are simply
waiting for the light to be turned on as if they are going to receive
motivation, ambition, desire, win the lottery, whatever it may be that may be a
ready-made program for them that they will only have to choose between, rather
than those who are engaged in life (whether they are fully conscious of it or
not). In effect, one who is engaged in life and who is not full of vehemence,
ill-intention and otherwise what you would perceive of as evil in their
purposes, are engaged or are doing the best that they can and, after all, what
else can they do but to do the best they can?</P>
<P>It is those who are not engaged, not participating, and waiting to have the
answers provided them that are in the truest of need, for this is the purpose of
my presentation today, to remind you that it is all within yourselves and the
purpose of growth and perfection is a matter of choice; it is not a matter of
"becoming" through some dispensation that enables you to become perfect. It is
always a choice, for the saints, as you refer to them, were not born as saints,
but acquired within themselves the ability to rise above, become greater than
their emotions allowed, and even enter into the shared responsibility of light
and life of the spirit that enabled them to do super human things. It is this
internal consciousness that I am speaking to. Does this help any?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> I think so, yes.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> And then there are those who are truly seeking, but don't know
they are seeking and seek in all the wrong places and directions. And - I'm
talking about the drugs and alcohol, where they - I feel they are just lost;
somewhere along the line got on the wrong train and couldn't get off. But still,
if they had been given proper guidance or choices would not have chosen those
directions, but don't know any other way to go. And so many of them I find are
desperate, way lost, not because they are evil but because of circumstances, you
know? And so those people, I think, really need - really are seeking the light.
They just kind of lost any direction of where it is or how to get it. Is there a
reply to that? Though it's too late sometimes.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> I was speaking in generalities, of course. Whenever light is
discussed, it does not preclude that there are shades of light within the
darkness. I will not nor do not, generally, speak in terms of total darkness,
but have often spoken in terms of wherever a ray of light meets the darkness,
the darkness is no longer, so that darkness is no longer as dark as it was, nor
light as light as it could be. So this did not include the realms in which you
presented, so it is appreciated that it is not black and white.</P>
<P>Certainly those who are seeking within their own lives, given the social or
other conditions that they are living within, are not lost, are not forlorn and
unforgiven. It is a realm that is frequently fraught with very difficult
circumstances, for which those who are unable to escape or overcome, are not
thrown away or wasted. I was speaking of simple terms in order to reinforce your
understanding within yourselves as to your ability and responsibility, knowing
what you know and being able to help where you can help, that it is up to each
individual, for those that you can inform, who are caught in a world of vicious
cycles, that knowing there is a better way, one that is not subject to addiction
and being caught in a dark vicious cycle, that you may be able to share with
them where it is at all possible that their decision to change the hellishness
that they experience is up to them, as it is up to you, as well.</P>
<P>Does this make any sense? (Yes) Anyone else?</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> I have a question about something that seems to affect us as
humans. You talked about it earlier, about being tired. It doesn't matter
whether you are doing physical labor or mental or emotional labor, there is a
fatigue factor to life that is sometimes able to color everything and color it
darkly. Fatigue is a killer. I think it ruins us, hurts our relationship with
each other and with life in general. I am wondering what we can equate the
fatigue factor of life with, in a spiritual analogy, so maybe we could be better
able to handle fatigue.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> It could be likened to "the poor in spirit" for the poor in
spirit has been discussed from many perspectives, but my perspective offered for
the moment is those who are fatigued, those who do not have a sense of who they
are, who are simply vestiges of their former selves, who need to be reminded
that they live and, therefore, have opportunity to rejoice. It is those who need
to rest and to become reacquainted with who they truly are who have been
discouraged or led astray, for lack of another term -- dissuaded, duped,
misdirected -- in terms of what their time, talents and worries ought to be
about, for the effort to live and do more than survive (which is sometimes all
that some can do, given their circumstances).</P>
<P>There is more to life than simple living or surviving; there is true living,
which can be done in poverty and in squalor if one is rich from within. I am not
an advocate of that, mind you, it is just that it can be done. The secret is to
be able to know who one is, to rest, to get things into perspective, and to know
that reality is beyond the four walls or the physical world that one may
experience, that after rest, replenishment can enable one to once again carry on
with their inner knowledge intact and their recommitment to living life fully
may be regained. Is this helpful or does this sound more pious than time and
reality permits?</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> I guess I can become fatigued from being happy! I can be
exuberent to the point of fatigue in this life. It's hard to get away from being
fatigued because of the many demands in the physical sense of we have to sleep,
we have to get our rest, we have to take care of ourselves, and we have to do
all these things that we are trying to cram into a 24-hour a day -- which I know
is not 24 hours anymore. I'm getting older and slower and time is going faster!
</P>
<P>So, it makes me wonder. It's just a matter of trying to equate the fatigue
thing and the age-old thing that you've got to take care of yourself. I think I
would like to get a perspective on fatigue. It's like gravity, but gravity is
more obvious than fatigue. There is just something about it and we can't escape
it. Whether we are positive people or lost people, it doesn't really matter.
Fatigue is just a matter of life in the physical world. </P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> It is a diagnosis for depression, as well, so that it need not
be purely a physical experience, but can speak to the inner life, or soul, as
well, and therefore I invite you to consider the nature of the discussion today,
which is to help you realize and to help you help others realize, that their
inner life is a matter of choice and to entertain the possibilities that
encouragement and achievement of progress is a matter of desire and work, but
that it need not be stressful and burdensome. The things that are achievable in
life far outweigh the objects or millstones that can detain but not defeat
accomplishments. </P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> So we create a lot of our own fatigue by going about things in
the most indirect manner.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> Or, perhaps, what is the motivation? What is one working
for?</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Yeah.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> If you are on a treadmill and are working for "the man" then
not having your own life and being a slave to your environment or society is
truly an invasion and a war with yourself against those outside influences that
keep you from being the inner being that you are entitled to appreciate and to
live. Therefore, your Shangri la is a shambles and it is up to you to regain the
focus, that you may rebuild. </P>
<P>That really is the good news, in terms of what I alluded to earlier, in that,
one's life is not limited to the opportunity in the physical, and, therefore, if
not perfected is therefore unacceptable. It is not up to me to say what is
unacceptable anyway, mind you. It is a matter of statement that the opportunity
for further development and growth lies before you. Nevertheless, it is as if
you were attending a sporting event that is your life. Why not play the game
when the time is presented for it, rather than get suited up, go to the event,
and decide to not participate? Now is the time to learn the plays and to play
for fun, unlike any other time that may be. Does this help any?</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Yes. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>ANATOLIA:</B> Hearing no further concern, I hope that you may be able to
celebrate with me the idea that God is within and waits for your care and your
concern and to know that you care for his or her spirit as much as he or she
cares for you. This will keep you going for awhile, if nothing else will,
knowing that your Creator waits for your loving touch, your care, your concern,
as if everything waited on it, as it does. But, perfection being what it is,
<I>is </I>already. Welcome to your share of it.</P>
<P>Peace be with you, and know that all is well.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you, Anatolia.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Tomas returning to ground us all again in the configuration of our
comings and goings. I understand, speaking of comings and goings, there are
innumerable highways and byways ahead for our group and its members. In terms of
your calendar, is there yet one more occasion for Anatolia to conjoin with you
here?</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> [Discussion] Probably not.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Then we are entitled to a celebration -- not of closure, but of
accomplishment, for we have entrusted to ourselves and each other and to God
this portion of our lives which we have known as the "Anatolia and Tomas Era."
It well may return. It is a magnificent future ahead of us all, and when we have
occasion to, most assuredly my companion and I will re-engage in our co-creative
effort as colleagues in this Teaching Mission to further the light of truth, as
is our injunction by Machiventa Melchizedek.</P>
<P>Also, are summer celebrations for the Master's birthday as Jesus; and the
culmination of the season of singing hymns, psalms and praises to the Lord. It
is the celebration of the Urantia Book and Teaching Mission annual conference,
at Bogus Basin second time around. It is a second honeymoon cruise for the
honeymooners who, even now, are on the eve of their second annual celebration of
lovers, as Mr. and Mrs. Bowen also will celebrate their fifth anniversary this
month. (Group applause)</P>
<P>We thus have much ahead of us to celebrate and rejoice in -- not to overlook
the triumphant accession by my friend and helper Matthew, who departs from our
presence to attend to his advanced studies in the seminary, in order to prepare
himself to better serve in the realm of Christianity, in order to bring together
the many concepts that precede us in this effort, as well as those which now are
being woven into the fabric of Urantia consciousness, those being the precepts
put forth through the epochal revelation in the Urantia Papers. </P>
<P>We do indeed celebrate the progress all of you have experienced in our work
together. As we now have a break in our formal activity, let me commend you all
to a high-falutin’ time of it, in whatever the manner of your engagement, and I
will welcome you back to our humble and happy family grouping again at the close
of these weeks, in order to be again grounded in the process of returning to
school, to returning to the application of the mind and spirit consciousness --
as we have, as we do and as we will, in fostering this mighty effort: Michael's
mission for Urantia.</P>
<P>Blessed be art thou, beautiful students and friends. Rejoice in the spirit.
Be of good cheer. Peace be upon you. Amen and farewell. </P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you, Tomas. Thank you,
Anatolia.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>