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<P>Central New Mexico<BR>TEACHING MISSION<BR></B>Santa Fe, December 19,
2004<BR>[T/R: Gerdean]</P><B>
<P>TEACHER TOMAS:<BR>As Celestial Spokesman</B> . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
</P><B>
<P>Topics: <BR>SEEK THE TRUTH </B>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2<BR>Second Revelatory Commission<BR>Rapture Eludes Orphanhood<BR>Truth of " The
Good News" <BR>Pursue Truth Through Love</P>
<P><B>SPIRITUAL INVENTORY </B>. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<BR>Spiritual Captives
Set Free . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<BR>Truth is True as Well as Truth<BR>Human
Dependence v. Detachment. . . . . . 5 </P>
<P><B>EMOTIONS AND TRUTH </B>. . . . . . . . . . <BR>The Source of Suspicion . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 6<BR>You Create You Via Thoughts</P>
<P><B>What Is Beyond Paradise? </B>.. . . . . . . . . 7<BR>We are Creating
Perfection<BR>Plod on With the Work at Hand . . . . . . . . 8<BR>Set Spiritual
Captives Free . . . . . . . . . . . . </P>
<P></P>
<P><STRONG>TRUTH GETS LOST IN DETAILS</STRONG> . . .<STRONG> </STRONG>. . . 9
<BR>Jesus Parable-ized Truth<BR>Truth Transcends Methods<BR>Changing Cause and
Effect<BR>Surrender to Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> As a T/R, I just want to tell you what an interesting experience
it is, sometimes, at these events, to see the parade of personalities who are
here. For instance, Machiventa stopped by, and Father Abraham also is present.
</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Welcome. We feel so privileged.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> Michael is here peripherally. Tomas is here and there are a
number of other entities that I have not seen before but who seem to be new
somehow, like, perhaps, the Soul of Wisdom ... those kinds of more morontial or
ethereal values than our minds are accustomed to.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Welcome, and Merry Christmas to you all.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> And Midwayer Jack is here as well, so it really does feel like a
full house. And I’m feeling too emotional, so I’m going to go off-line for a
minute.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Well, thanks for coming, you guys.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And we appreciate your attendance, as well. This is Tomas, your
"handy man and celestial spokesman" as it were. It is an honor to be a part of
this Association of Beings which seeks to embrace your consciousness and envelop
you in the divine embrace, inculcating you, as it were, into the universe. This
naturally requires that you occasionally dissociate yourself from the material
in which you are housed, in order for you to perceive and embellish, through
choices, that which will become enduring, lasting, eternal.</P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>SEEK THE TRUTH</P></B>
<P>There is much afoot in the local universe and on your experimental life
station, Urantia, of course, although not exclusively; there are other places in
the universe also requiring a great deal of administrative and service help.
Your sister planets in rebellion, for instance, are engaging in similar unique
and augmented assistance -- even those which are not experimental life stations
but which are controlled by pattern. </P>
<P>Another development is the news of the Second Revelatory Commission, the
attempt now, at this point in your evolving consciousness, that will allow you
and your fellow sojourners an opportunity to reach beyond your immediate and
daily lives into the cosmic fold of understanding more about your place in the
universe and, subsequently, how to convey that comfort and assurance to the
fear-ridden populace of your world. </P><I>
<P>Rapture</I>, you see, is a theory based on a need, a human need which arises
as a result of the sense of cosmic orphan-hood, which Urantia experiences in the
direct wake of rebellion and default, and we must deal now with the effect of
that cause ~ and, for (your) assurance, it will be required that this echo of
dissociation from divinity will continue diminishing, ever diminishing, in its
animalistic and selfish presentation.</P>
<P>The opportunity has come for you to propose questions extending beyond your
common sphere of interest into unseen realms, which may introduce to you ideas
and ways and means which have been proven to be workable throughout the universe
and which you might have the ability to employ <B><I><U>if</U> you have the
conviction</B></I> <B><I>that what you hear is Truth</I>.</B> People are hungry
for truth. While truth will frighten some people, it will also save others. For
this reason, we are happy to be associated with this, a planet which is
experimental in itself, yes, but which also provides opportunity for tremendous
experimentation of your own. </P>
<P>And while some very clever public relations can affect millions ~ over a
period of time, it is likewise true that appropriate ~ "good news" can be
ignited by the right ~ winds of change and spark of inspiration ~ that will
distribute a wild fire across the prairie of your lives ~ allowing all to see ~
your smoke signals of reality ~ that reality which satisfies the soul and
quenches the thirst ~ quells the appetite, soothes the savage beast, and
prevails with all mankind. </P>
<P>That is what we all seek for and yield to ~ that is what we are joined
together in ~ that transcends all the differences: philosophies, theologies,
even worlds. Seek Truth. Ask out of curiosity, but seek Truth. By pursuing new
truths, you are given new obligations and responsibilities to apply yourself in
promulgating such truth to others. Assume the source of your strength to be in
the Spirit. Otherwise, this work cannot be done. You will burn out, like the
prairie fire without wind. </P>
<P>What is most essential and yet what is hardest to convey is how this is
entirely shrouded, upheld and expressed by and as and through Love. You must
invite divine love into your heart. "Knock, and the door will open." "Seek and
ye shall find." "Abide therein." "Be in the world but not of it." "Be of good
cheer." Amen. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Amen.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Thank you, Tomas.</P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>HOW HAVE YOU BEEN, </B><I>AD INFINITUM</I>?<B> </P>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am at your service. I am here to serve you in your ambassadorial
efforts to bring light of understanding to your world. How have you been about
the Father’s business? How have you seen the Father’s work working through you
and with you? Have you seen the Father’s light come alive in the minds of others
as a result of your efforts with Him? Has your consciousness of God indwelling
others accelerated light and life for Urantia? Have you extended the embrace of
the family of God into the arena where you work and play? </P>
<P>Will you have made a mark? What kind of mark will it be? What have you done
for God today? What have you given to Him in creation of the Supreme? Has your
intent been good? Is your righteousness based on what you know or what you are?
How are you made more in conjunction with God? How have you been relating to/ in
association with the God who dwells within you? Are you becoming more aware of
Its presence … more mindful of Its guidance … more accepting of Its direction …
more cautious of Its advisements … and more accepting of Its affection? </P>
<P>Are you becoming able to acknowledge your will, while it is engaged in divine
co-creation? Are you able to see how God works through you, even when your own
will is compelling you to act or react? Are you able to hold onto the hem of His
garment in the face of fear, and thus refrain from panic? Are you then able to
forge on ~ in faith of overcontrol and destination ahead ~ even while you
remember to be still, and experience the oneness of perfection in the
obliteration of the self into the full self of energy and might?</P>
<P>I recite poetry as your hungry hearts seek expression. How can I make up for
my Self interjecting upon your Self? Come forth and be with me. Show your Self,
that we may show others the truth of our being.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Thank you, Tomas. I had a feeling you wanted us to say something.
</P>
<P>Do I know if I touch people everyday? Am I aware of God-consciousness all the
time? I’m not sure. You just do what you think is best at the moment in time.
Sometimes it turns out that it feels like it’s okay. You hope that you are. Your
intent is always that you are. So… But-- being dramatic things, we have no idea.
Not that we know of.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are allowing God to operate through you, even unconsciously.
Yes, it is often better that way, than those who take up the banner of Truth and
clobber their following, beating them upon the head and shoulders about their
inabilities and insignificance. This, of course, is anathema to the spirit,
which seeks expression. Those are held captive. This is what is meant when it is
said that Jesus came to set the spiritual captives free.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Well, sometimes you see spiritual captives, but you really can’t
intrude upon their way of thinking -- and wanting to pray for their loved ones
and expecting miracles where honestly there won’t be one because physical bodies
give up, as they do. You know? You sort of want to try to correct them but
without intruding upon their already established religious beliefs, et
cetera.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There is always ‘undying hope.’</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Yes, there is, and that’s what you don’t want to ever intrude upon
that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Although, as an ambassador of the living God, it is to everyone’s
advantage when you can reassure everyone of the fact of everlastingness, which
is potential within the hearts of all the King’s men. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> That’s a touchy subject to—</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> You have more of an assurance of the safety of death, I
guess.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> I guess.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> The problem seems to come from the fear of the unknown, as well as
the sense of loss.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is an indication of how dependent mortals are on one another.
This, too, is an effect of the Lucifer rebellion and Adamic default, for without
the confidence instilled within you from before your inception of a space
created for your safety and development, you will cringe at the apposite
reflection of that promise, and thus cling to the other (lesser) representations
of reality which present themselves. And when family does (cling to fear), when
loved ones do (cling to lesser reality), we seek to enhance the value inherent
in the association rather than the inherent weakness of the cloying, for it is
understood that this is part of your conditioning. ("It’s only human!")</P>
<P>The antithesis of that, which is detachment, is often mistaken for <I>not
caring</I>, as it is <I>unemotional </I>in its presentation. But there are ways
to care for each other that have not been developed, not discovered, identified
and developed in ways which would be helpful in the future toward creating light
and life which you could do as a collective new consciousness, a
superconsciousness, united in purpose, if all circumstances were held …
auspiciously. And this is what will come about as a result of your seeking for
Truth. </P>
<P>Truth is not cruel. It is elevating. Allow yourself to feel safe in the
universe, even as you may become more and more mindful of how vulnerable you are
in the material sense, for the fear-mongering of the current global paradigm
will be presenting fear as something from which to hide, but the Father will not
grow if He is hidden, if you encourage Him to hide. Rather, be of good cheer --
and not in the emotional sense so much as in the spiritual sense ~ that which
you know to be true <I>as well</I> <I>as Truth</I>. It is the <I>essential</I>
Truth.</P>
<P> </P><B>
<P>EMOTION ASPECT RELATED TO TRUTH</P>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Tomas, you mentioned earlier in your "way" moment of ... ‘do we
know the difference between what we know and who we are’ and just then you
related to the truth ‘as we know to be the truth’ ~ and intermingled within that
is the <I>emotion</I> aspect of everything. And you talked about the emotion as
it relates to our feelings and emotions (or what we know), and our emotion as it
relates to our spiritual nature. </P>
<P>I’m wondering about this emotion part, if emotions as we know them are part
of the experiment. Is the spiritualizing of these emotions we have...? Because I
take it [that] these emotions are one of the big challenges we have to deal with
because everything in our whole life is based on our emotions. We do
<I>everything</I> emotionally, and all of the depictions I have seen of
creative, extra- terrestrial activity with us, our emotions are always a part of
that equation, part of the curiosity of this particular race. </P>
<P>I’m wondering if other people in our [galactic] neighborhood have the same
kind of emotional things to deal with as we do, or if it is something that is
unique.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> "Unique" is the quick answer, because your emotions are/fall under
the mind’s authority. How you think is how you act; and, therefore, your
thinking will reflect your responses to your experiences. </P>
<P>As I talked about in <U>Fruits of the Spirit</U>, in the nurturing of
character, you can study yourself by observing your own emotional reaction to
your environment. For example, when you reflect judgment through a reaction to
an idea, through righteous indignation or intimate comprehension, you have
assessed and reacted <I>because of</I> <I>how you think</I>, how you
<I>perceive</I> the situation, [or] the information that came <U>at</U> you.
Your mind, therefore, controls (to a great extent) what comes at you, in terms
of ideas, as they are expressed through behaviors. </P>
<P>Here is the source of suspicion: when someone’s behaviors are unfamiliar or
foreign to that which you have known; therefore, your mind essentially controls
all of how you feel and emote about your existence, with the priceless potential
expression of the spirit, which was seeded within you when you first responded
to life’s situations from a moral standpoint -- that standpoint accounting you
now as able to make those decisions which can and will enhance or retard your
advancement into eternal realities. </P>
<P>Your consciousness sets out under your direction and <U>you create</U> that
which will be known as <I><U>you</I></U> … in conjunction with your pre-personal
spark of divinity … so that your efforts together will eventuate in an entity of
survival status; thus, the value of true awareness. And this super-consciousness
enables you to see how you handle your own awareness and how it -- being greater
than your original and mortal animal self -- will become identifiable as that
greater reality which will eventually learn to transcend the compelling energies
of the material world in such a way as you will be able to align yourself more
with the divine than you do with the human race, even while you are poignantly
and painfully aware of what the human race does, individually and collectively,
as it seeks to conform itself to its handicaps, so that it might re-program
itself through a different decision, a different direction than it did the last
time it made a decision.</P>
<P>Trust me when I tell you it is a very big undertaking. From the human
perspective it is unimaginably complicated, and overwhelming perhaps, but it
will be done because it is in the divine plan. It even transcends my
comprehension and I have a far greater perspective than you do. And I tell you
this not to indicate how much more I know than you do, or that you are inferior
in any way, but rather to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you in the realization
that we do not know all the answers in the universe, but that we will advance
together in the search for all that is to be revealed in the experiential
adventure ahead, traversing the spheres and the universes into Paradise and then
beyond. </P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>WHAT IS ‘BEYOND PARADISE’?</P>
<P>Linda:</B> What’s beyond Paradise?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Look at your environment, daughter, and tell me what is your idea
of Paradise?</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Actually, what you see right outside my front door there.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> That is precisely what I hoped you would say, for that is what I
wanted you to see. At one time you began with your own consciousness and a piece
of real estate, but over time, you have developed and created paradise, even as
we now are developing and creating Paradise in our efforts, on a daily basis --
to enhance the reality that is eternal. You add a room as we add a mansion
world. You add a fence as we add a dimension. And ultimately you find yourself
where there are few improvements to be made; it is complete. It is perfect. And
that is how we advance, too, into Paradise. </P>
<P>We are creating perfection as we go ~ and as we stand in Paradise ~ knowing
that we have done all that we have been required to do ~ in the creation of this
sublime place ~ we rest therein ~ in full knowledge of the cyclical nature of
divinity ~ and we consciously, deliberately and ultimately ~ set out upon a
further extension of the original ~ striving for perfection ~ incorporating more
and more of the greater universe in the process ~ <I>ad infinitum</I> ~ into
eternity … new worlds, new extensions ~ unfolding and unfurling as the rose bud
in spring ~ ullness being replaced by yet greater and more fullness – a constant
cycle of relative perfection ~ advancing into more perfection. </P>
<P>Always ~ in the face of our aim ~ our eyes will be encountering ~ the
imperfections of the process ~ but rather than that being fearsome or
overwhelming ~ you need to develop the confidence of the Father ~ for that same
power and authority of His might ~ is within your own grasp ~ and as you grasp ~
as you become ~ you will be steering the craft of your advancement ~ and those
of your fellows ~ as they, too, navigate their craft ~ forward ~ into the unique
and unending adventure ~ of the divine will.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Sounds pretty exciting. I think it is pretty exciting. Because I
think whenever you do the Father’s will, whether you are conscious of it or not,
there is a resultant good feeling that you have, like a positive thing that
would make you want to do that again. It’s a positive feeling, or
emotion.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is the feeling that is a result of your association with the
spirit, as compared to your emotions which are a result of your experience with
the mind – the mind that has been loaned to you in your life here. When you
resurrect with a new mind, your identification with emotions will be those
feelings which are a result of the higher mind, the Universal Mind, with its
utter cooperation with the Universal Father – that which indwells you – in the
completion of your being.</P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>PLOD ALONG WITH THE WORK AT HAND</P>
<P>Linda:</B> Meanwhile, back at the ranch, in our day-to-day, mundane little
life here, we plod along having to deal with …</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> … the work at hand. </P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> It’s a process, isn’t it?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It certainly is.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> A work in process.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> A huge process. And that is why I ask about your results. If you
are aware of the results of your efforts, you will be more confident of your
ability to input those causes which will eventuate in the effects which will
reveal the divine way, which will represent the Master’s methods that he chose
for your world before it was taken from him. He will be setting it aright
through you and through your conscious acknowledgement of your ability to
orchestrate the symphony from your podium. </P><B>
<P>Linda</B> (Chuckling): So to speak.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is a natural dimensional uplift from being merely one
instrument in the symphony. Now you are conducting a symphony that needs to find
harmony with the other music-makers in your midst. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Look for the Truth. Stand by the Truth. Represent the Truth.
Encourage the Truth. Including its reflections of Beauty and Goodness -- in the
spiritual sense, not merely the mindal/emotional sense. This will help take it
to the next level.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> I feel like I do reach out to people, to be nice to people, to
help people, to – you know – do my work or extra bit of kindness or … I guess
that’s all you can do from day-to-day or moment-to-moment, as it says the
opportunity or occasion arises. They say we’re a world of great opportunity
--</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> -- for service, there, in that way.</P>
<P></P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, you minister as you pass by.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And you have that ministering spirit of the Mother, which is so
recognizable and so appreciated by the human race, which longs for Her gentle
touch and yearns for her warm embrace. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> Um-hum. We hear a lot about the Father, maybe not enough about the
Mother, huh?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> The Mother has suffered from [mortal] thinking; however, there are
improvements being made as she begins expressing herself through the new age
monologues. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> She is, after all, creator of and in charge of the angels, which
do so much for us and constantly hovering around.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Her children, Her ministering spirits throughout the universe
are under Her wing and jurisdiction. </P><B>
<P> </P>
<P>THE TRUTH GETS LOST IN DETAILS</P>
<P>Thoroah:</B> When you talked about ‘knowing the truth’, Tomas, I reflected on
a conversation Gerdean and I had, I believe [it was], earlier this week about
how the Truth gets lost in details. That there are some general truths that this
world needs to understand, and right now those general truths are all lost in
the details. And expressing ourselves, other than in just passing by and being
nice and all of those expectations, the thinking that Jesus had and the way he
turned a situation into more than what it was rather than detracting from what
it was with ‘the Truth’, he parable-ized everything, so that the detail was all
smoothed over in a concept and I’m thinking that’s what we need to learn to do,
is to take these very formatted and patterned beliefs and parable-ize them so
that it opens it up more in the mind of the person that we’re talking to, a lot
like humor can make somebody think newly about a situation.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are talking about changing the way you think.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And this truly is the method of changing cause and effect, for
rather than the mind thinking methods, the Truth transcends methods to being
what is. The difficulty then is to bridge the gap between that which is, in the
sense of the Truth, to that which is perceived by and through the mind and
through fact.</P>
<P>It is a major cosmic leap! Sometimes it can be made through a flash of
revelation, but more often it is necessary that the masses be spoon fed, cajoled
and parlayed into some kind of submission ~ rather than outright enthusiasm for
that which is new. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> (Guffaw/Chortle)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is the creative part that you would enjoy doing together if
you knew how to build a new paradigm of reality. As it is, your mind stumbles
with nowhere to go and instead, focuses on the myriad details and facts of what
is apparent, what is literal. While it does occupy your mind, it leads nowhere.
Rather, when you wear yourself out, running around that treadmill like a rodent,
you begin to surrender to the plan that is in existence and has been in
existence for eternity already ~ and which you merely need to tap into as a
being responsive to the divine will ~ as a far greater representation of what is
Truth, beauty and goodness than any philosophy or theology or organization or
movement than has so far existed. </P>
<P>It is in this way that the reality of God will keep advancing, even though
you know it can only advance so far before it must bring everyone along with it,
or die trying. </P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> Thank you so much for your time today, Tomas. </P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> And Gerdean.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We have all treasured our experience here today with you. We have
all input our Selves into your psyche ~ through the avenue of your heart ~ into
the consciousness of your being ~ for the Father to affect your desire to do His
will ~ in such a way as it becomes a part of you ~ as his noble sons and
daughters ~ alive and abroad on planet Urantia ~ and the worlds in association ~
with their place in the universe. </P>
<P>Peace be upon you. Farewell.</P><B>
<P>Linda:</B> May we all have a very happy new year coming up, then, peace be
with us all. Thank you for coming.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>