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<P>DATE: </B>January 30, 2005<BR><B>LOCATION: </B>Rio Rancho, New Mexico</P>
<P><STRONG>TEACHERS: TOMAS <BR>TOPICS: Our Eternal Parents</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>TOMAS: </STRONG>Greetings.</P>
<P>Good afternoon, faithful flock. I am Tomas, your teacher and old friend. It
is good to be in your company once more and to observe your development and your
steadfastness to your faith walk in the face of the many difficulties life
presents and the many changes that come to pass in your daily lives. In all
these things, be assured of the watch care of the Eternal Parents on high who,
as you know, are mindful of your steps and tender of your feelings in your
experiences. </P>
<P>Our Parents want you to grow up, to be spiritual adults, but are ever mindful
of the fact that you are yet children. Many of you are even as spirit infants,
only learning to seek understanding of your environment, responding to the
stimuli of the colors and sounds that come into your consciousness, but always
and ever are you assured of the protection of the Father and the ministry of the
Mother -- the Spirit Parents that protect us in our path to grow up to be like
Him. <B></P></B>
<P>What does that mean, "to be like Him"? What does that mean to be like Him, to
want to be like God? God being so far-reaching and omniscient, it seems
virtually impossible to think about wanting to be like Him. And yet we encourage
you to learn about the God that dwells within you, in order for you to harness
your will, engage yourself in harmony with His will, and thus begin the ascent
into godlikeness and spirit identification such that you may develop the
everlasting, immortal and eternal soul that will fuse with that God fragment
within, rendering you thereby an eternal citizen of the Grand Universe.</P>
<P>Be patient with yourself and with others, for everyone has those days wherein
they revert to their less than godlike qualities. The nature of God is inherent
in you because of the indwelling Adjuster, and therefore you are like Him in
your compassion and your creativity, in your desire to express yourself and to
express his affections and give glory to that which serves to light the path and
lead those who suffer out of pain and darkness. These are all godlike qualities
which you share with the divine because you yourself are part divine. </P>
<P>Yet it is only part. For part of you is yet undeveloped and as the saying
goes, you have feet of clay. Indeed, the dichotomy, the conflict for each
mortal, is that while the spirit is a goal, the flesh is a fact, and the facts
of life must be dealt with on their own terms. Even as you in your ideals seek
to elevate those terms to reflect the tone of the divine as you understand it,
to represent goodness, truth and beauty, harmony, love and progress, peace,
safety and security in the spirit, all the while understanding that in the
material sense there is change and danger and insecurity at every turn. </P>
<P>This is our goal for you, that you learn to conform your will to the Father’s
will sufficient that even as you walk in danger, "yea, though I walk through the
valley of death I will fear no evil for Thou art with me." </P>
<P>This simple scripture constitutes the bread, the substance of our work with
you, our presence with you in your superconsciousness, even in your
consciousness, for through your own will to follow the divine will, you will be
able to master the mortal fears and mental patterns that presuppose the
supremacy of the material over the spiritual, when we who are your teachers and
mentors know full well and yearn for your understanding also that the supreme,
the divine, the spirit is far more powerful and predominant than the material
world would have you believe.</P>
<P>Rest in the spirit, not in the words, but in the spirit itself. Find that
divine spark of life that resides within you and hold fast to it, allowing it to
embrace you and uphold you, allowing it to confirm your perspective through its
guidance, that it may help you grow to be more than you are, that you can learn
to become more than mortal, more than spirit infants, but walk upright as
dignified sons and daughters of the living God, which is your birthright.</P>
<P>Let not the world pull you down. Let it not rend you asunder, but fight the
good fight of faith. Forge ahead in confidence of the supremacy of the spirit
over all. (long pause)</P>
<P>I and we are glad to have your association and your friendship. Are there
questions of you in your faith path that you desire to share with your fellows,
comments, questions, for your teacher or for yourself to hear, confirming your
willingness to learn and grow in the spirit, in comprehension of that which is
greater than we are?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, I would have a question. I have -- even from last fall or
late fall or early winter, whatever, -- been feeling like, you know, I needed to
pull back significantly and I don’t seem like I am very good at doing that. But
I’ve been drawn to that a number of times and am still drawn to that. Would you
comment on that, please? </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Tell me what it is you are drawn to. You are drawn to
withdraw?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> I have a feeling that I need to pull back from a lot of things,
and not set up such a huge task list, and busyness and things to do, and yet
when I try to do that, it doesn’t seem to be very successful, so … and yet I
still have the feeling that that’s what’s needed. But I don’t seem to be a whole
lot closer to doing that at all.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are undertaking a tremendous exercise in self-mastery. You
have, like a willow branch grown in a certain manner all of your life, and now
the circumstances are showing you that your branches have been crowded and are
able to release their constraints on how they have grown to how they might grow
were you to have the opportunity to embrace the freedom that would best serve
your branches. I want to add that if you, as a willow tree, have been pressed
against a building, your branches have been restricted because of that
structure. And now you are feeling the need to allow that structure to be taken
away in order for you to grow into your potential. </P>
<P>It is a trauma to anticipate that armature, that structure might be taken
away, leaving you to stand alone in the elements. And yet, on the other hand, it
is inhibiting your own growth. This sense of anxiety for the future is based on
the security you have found in that support in the past, but your yearning does
not abate; it continues to tell you that you do not need that structure to
uphold you, that in fact, you would do well to do without it. </P>
<P>You must recognize where you are in your growth. Understand your point of
development and decide, one day at a time if you must, how far you can go on
your own without that structure. It is as if you were weaning yourself from a
dependency. And you know you are getting to the point in your development as a
spiritual child that you ought not have to depend upon that substance or
structure any longer, and yet it is still unnerving to think of having to do
without it. </P>
<P>On days when you are feeling weak, you will rush to that structure even
though it holds you constricted from your potential. And when you are feeling
strong, you will dash out, away from it, exhilarating in the sense of freedom
you have from those constraints. Eventually, you will understand your own
strength, your own ability to operate without that to uphold you. You will know
that the spirit upholds you in and through all the vicissitudes that the
structure had for those many years. In this way you are being given eyes to see
the temporary nature of that scaffolding which has served, but which you are
outgrowing, and which you will be able to eventually master through your
decisions to depend more upon spirit and less upon the material. </P>
<P>It is as if you were to reach out your hand and say, "God, take my hand. Let
me hold your hand. Uphold me in my path." And you begin to walk upright, as
compared to he who has a stake in the ground upon which he leans, or a cane upon
which you lean to support yourself. Eventually you know that by doing so, you
are allowing yourself to continue to be weak and frail, when if you were to
trust that hand that holds yours, you would be able to let go and thus spring
out and away from a paradigm of reality that once served but which no longer
serves your peace of mind. This is spiritual evolution. </P>
<P>Does this help?</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Yes. I’m not exactly on the initial steps or what next step to
take, but it reinforces my general feeling or concept about what I am feeling
pulled toward, I think. Does that make sense?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes. I am glad that you feel bolstered and reinforced in your own
perceptions. Your spirit within will not mislead you. The divine guide within is
looking out for your interests – your eternal interests. And, as I said, while
the spirit is a goal the flesh is a fact. You may have felt that these material
scaffoldings have been essential, and indeed they have been, but as the spirit
conveys to you that you no longer need to depend so heavily upon that
scaffolding, but that you are able to depend more and more upon your living
faith. You are then giving yourself an opportunity to perceive as spirit
perceives, to have that farther view which gives you a greater perspective. And
while that is at first somewhat unnerving, not to say terrifying, you will
gradually grow into the confidence of knowing what you know, based not on your
human understanding, but upon your understanding as it comes from the Spirit of
Truth. </P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Okay.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It’s a process. Be patient with yourself in the process. And do
not allow others’ opinions or judgments of how you are carrying your pack
influence how you walk the path. It is <I>your </I>choice to walk the faith path
and to go the second mile. </P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Thank you. </P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> I hope, Tomas, that I’m not a part of that structure that is
giving Dorenda a problem.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS: </B>I cannot conceive that you are a problem, for you love Dorenda,
and you love this entity who is your sister in ascension. You have provided
structure, certainly, and value that has served and will continue to serve if it
is a part of her value also. If, however, she lets go of any scaffolding which
no longer serves, that is not a reflection of any lack on your part or any
rejection of you, but rather, an acceptance of herself as her own entity, and
this is the desire of any loving parent, that their child take the advantages
the parents have lovingly given in order for them to grow up and develop their
own wings to fly, their own tools to forge their way, their own heart to follow.
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<P>Certainly the human parental influence plays an important role in the
development of their offspring, the primary gift, perhaps, being that of
character. Dorenda’s character is of the utmost, and this integrity of hers,
built upon that scaffolding you provided, is material that her divine guide can
use to pick and choose now what can continue to serve and what can be given up
as the scripture, again, conveys: "When I was a child, I thought as a child, and
now as a woman, I put away my childish things." </P>
<P>And so this is possibly some of the construct that Dorenda grapples with
because of its impressions and the conditioning that provides. Eventually we
must all sacrifice the temporal conditioning to take with us into our spirit
adulthood those values which serve not just in this world but in all the worlds
to come. </P>
<P>Encourage the best in her and in all of your children – not only your
biological offspring, but all those younger brothers and sisters who long to
become all they can be in the spirit, not limited to the things of the flesh,
for then when the flesh falls away and they stand alone in the resurrection
hall, have they had enough opportunity in this life to develop the soul, such
that it will be rejoined by the adjuster and the life can commence undisturbed.
</P>
<P>Building souls for eternity is the job of the spirit, and as you in your own
personal faith path align yourself with spirit, you will see the value of
relinquishing your hold as well on the material life, so that you and those you
mentor may begin to take those faith steps into the dimension of reality that
will live and thrive beyond this mortal sphere. </P>
<P>The beautiful thing about the Family of God is that it so nobly incorporates
the family of man. And in truth, you are sisters. More so now than mother and
daughter. Even though you will admire each other anon for those gifts of
personality that you have forged in your relationship together, you, Esmeralda,
may permit yourself to be the child, that your daughter may teach you. And you,
Elena, may feel privileged to be your mother’s parent, that you may teach her,
now, those things which she had hoped that you would come to know. </P>
<P>And in this way, you continue to assist each other into the next world and
many worlds to come, as sisters -- both daughters of our Eternal Parents – ever
making life more beautiful and abundant for each other and for those you touch
in your path as you pass by, as you serve and as you give glory to God on high.
</P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> Thank you, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is a privilege for me to have a set such as yourselves in my
class – a pair of biologically connected students. It gives me an opportunity to
perceive the value inherent in the Father’s divine plan of allowing the
Parent/Child relationship to glorify those values which He imposes in the scheme
of ascension, that we can indeed parent each other and comfort each other, that
we are indeed one large family – sisters and brothers connected by the human
experience en route to the shores of Paradise. </P>
<P>It is a testimony to your strength of character, both of you, that you fear
not the spirit, but that you rejoice in knowing your Universal Father and in
your acknowledgement of our Father/Brother Michael and his consort, the Divine
Minister, Mother Nebadonia. They are the mother and father we look to in this
next phase of our development, to see how it is they would have their children
raised, how they would us behave, and comport ourselves with each other in this
large family. What a privilege we enjoy!</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Amen!</P><B>
<P>Elena and Esmeralda:</B> Thank you, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is my pleasure to observe your soul-searching and your yearning
to be the best you can be in all things and on all counts, particularly to that
aspect of divinity which is the thing that lures us forward. Even in the face of
obstacles and difficulties and setbacks, we still seek to know the spirit and be
more like it. Thank you, for your efforts in this regard. </P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> It sure is nice to have—to be with you again, Tomas. Thank
you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am heartened to hear your testimony, and gladdened to be back in
your embrace. Change is inevitable on this path, and with change comes a certain
amount of emotional and psychic upheaval, but having confidence in the spirit
and trusting in the spirit of you each and all, I am able to bide my time and
wait for those maelstroms to pass, for I know that the Father’s will will
prevail, and the spirit which lives within you yearns to express itself, to know
more about itself, to become more of what it is destined to become, and that it
enjoys the association of other like-minded souls en route to the divine Father
of all. </P>
<P>This is something I have learned over time. And it never ceases to gratify my
soul when I see others grapple with this and come out spirtly triumphant.
[Spiritly. Is that a word?]</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Huh-uh. We know what you mean anyway.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Spirit is not always personality, even though it is known through
relationship. Spirit is also energy, and in those times when you are in conflict
and have no sense of relationship with spirit, you are even so mindful of
energy, and whether it is there for you or not, whether it is a valuable energy
or an artificial energy, whether it is something that will see you through or if
it is something that will burn out at day’s end, spirit is eternal. </P>
<P>Are there other questions or concerns? (silence) I am happy to see the
progress being made in terms of the group coordinating a convention of souls in
the near future, for this represents a triumph in spirit advancement for us.
While I have been a faithful steward of this area for some time, even with my
many travels, I have great joy in recognizing that my family of fellow workers
in the Teacher Corps are being given another opportunity to shine, as it were,
in presenting the reality of our mission for Michael on your world in this area.
</P>
<P>We will be your hosts and hostesses. You are all our guests. This will take
away the sense of responsibility for everyone’s well being. The midwayers have
been working and will be happy to work through the weekend of having all these
guests, as will the angels and all those who enjoy a coming together such as
this to refuel their own sense of service in the invisible realms, for you see
you are our proof that we are being effective and doing what we came here to do.
</P>
<P>You are the living testimony that Michael is succeeding on his world. You are
still our hands and feet, eyes and ears, and in many ways, the hope of future
generations, just as any parent looks to their children as the hope for
tomorrow. You are not alone in your efforts, and we aren’t either.</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Tomas, I wanted to ask you something about that. Was it
presumptuous of us to – in our planning, when we were talking about music, and
to presume the participation of the artisans, or by selecting certain pieces to
kind of plan on them kicking in at the right moment?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let me assure you the presumption was appropriate. If you were a
child at a birthday party, would you feel you had imposed upon your parents to
provide napkins for the cake? (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>How about the cake? I’m relying on you guys for the cake!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am ice cream.</P><B>
<P>Group: </B>(Laughter)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Michael is the cake, and our Father is the candles thereon that
illuminate the room and your bright faces gathered around to celebrate birth in
all its aspects, to celebrate life in each of its phases, and to honor growth,
even growing pains, as we grow up to become that which is our destiny. (Pause)
Anything else this afternoon? </P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>I don’t think so. Anyway, that does it for me, thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We very much appreciate your efforts. There is no effort to small
or too great that can be done for the betterment of the human condition in terms
of its place in the scheme of universe design, easing pain, easing stress,
providing ministry, giving comfort, offering understanding, being tolerant,
loving, merciful and hopeful, even in the slightest degree is a contribution to
the whole. Let us rejoice and be glad in our place therein and give thanks to
God on high for his acceptance of us as we are and his undying love for us in
his patience as he awaits our fullness of purpose. Be of good cheer. Amen and
farewell.</P><B>
<P>Group: </B>Amen. Thank you, Tomas.</P>
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<P>T/R:</B> Gerdean</P>
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