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<P>DATE:</B> June 6, 1996<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Pittsburgh, PA, USA<BR><B>T/R:
</B>Gerdean</P><B>
<P>TEXTUAL STUDY</B>: Urantia Paper 38<BR>Ministering Spirits of the Local
Universe </P>
<OL start=6>
<LI>Seraphic Organization</LI>
<LI>Cherubim and Sanobim</LI>
<LI>Evolution of Cherubim and Sanobim</LI>
<LI>The Midway Creatures</LI></OL>
<P><B>TEACHER SESSION:<BR>Dominion; Heaven on Earth <BR>Visitor: Social
Architect, Damalia<BR>Radio Broadcasting </P></B>
<P> </P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> Good evening, my friends.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Good evening, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> My friends, I am here this evening with you to honor your being,
to acknowledge your aspiration to ascend to greater depths of perception, to
learn of your teacher and your spirit guides and from one another the arts
involved in living a spiritual life, a life which is rich in spirit as well as
emotional range, mental stimuli, psychic peace and material pleasure, for the
experience of becoming more Godlike is not to deny your material actuality but
to incorporate your material reality into your spirit realm of reality.</P>
<P>Many on Urantia have taught that the earmark of spiritual life is to denounce
the realms of the flesh, to set aside interest in secular things, to bridle your
desires and ambitions in the material realms, testifying that such activity is
unbridled lasciviousness and disdainful materialism that will destroy your
connection and association and usefulness as an aspiring spiritual being. Such
is not the case, or such is not the theory that 1 purport in my teaching
platform, for the material realm is your arena and as the Master said in his
prayer, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," it is to the end that
the spirit will reign on Urantia in and through your lives down to and including
your material plane of existence.</P>
<P>As the animal creatures of your realm fall under your dominion, so do you
follow under the dominion of the angels and other orders of celestial helpers.
Above the orders of seraphim are yet greater and superlative guides and spirit
companions. Each realm of existence is a creation born of perfection and in its
natural state carries a harmony and repleteness which only serves to testify to
the perfection of the grand scheme.</P>
<P>I will draw a picture for you of your environment, as was observed by Gerdean
moments ago, as she entered the arena of the outdoors to squat as a reptile in
the dense green of your planet Urantia in this geographic arena on this moist
and green spring evening. The comparison to a reptile of our friend here is only
to bring to your attention that from the perspective of a frog, all is well in
the universe. The water droplets are friendly and (they) moisten the soil, which
causes life to grow, which nurtures food, which creates fertilization and
humidity to support the balance of life in the arena of the reptile. It is
perfect. It is appropriate, as is your arena for you perfect and
appropriate.</P>
<P>If indeed you were to have the faith which is inherent in you by and through
your connection to divinity through your Indwelling God Fragment, if you were to
adhere to that faith which lives deep within you, even in your environment, in
your arena outwardly and not just inwardly, you would carry forth faith in your
environment and in your fellow beings, and you would find that your environment
is perfect, that all your needs are met, that only as a result of your fears and
your refusing to live up to the faith which you really have, do you lose track
of the perfection that is, and hope to secure some contrived version of
perfection which is illusion.</P>
<P>As a result of the cause and effect of Urantia, it is necessary that much of
the existing energy patterns be altered, be bridled, be reconfigured, but until
and as that occurs, each of you in your own way, in your own existential bubble,
has the aura of perfection at hand. When the admonishment came about to be
perfect even as He is perfect, it was not intended that you compare yourself to
the First Source and Center who resides in Paradise, but that as you manifest,
identify with, promulgate, belong to, abide in and bestow yourself upon the will
of God in your realm, you are to that extent perfect in the framework of a
mortal being on your planet of origin with all of its faults and failings.</P>
<P>You may stand assured of the status of sonship/daughtership in perfection as
has been commanded. To deny your material aspects, your physical aspects, is to
deny much of who and what your are. Only here and now can you experience the
perfection inherent in this world on this level of being, and so do not yearn
for some heavenly kingdom in the future and thus deprive yourself of the glory
of today. Rather, radiate your understanding of yourself as a child of God in
his perfect creation, this home which has been provided to you by those who know
every hair on your head and who will and do provide for your every need as you
surround yourself with the awareness of the Living Reality.</P>
<P>There is nothing shameful or debased about being of animal origin. It is a
noble beginning and through your evolution as a race, you have attained and
acquired God-consciousness, among other gifts and acquisitions. I invited you
last week to sing and dance and be merry and this week I will again ask you to
be joyful and I will ask you to incorporate your immediate soul environment into
your joy. Do not hold your joy quietly within; allow it to manifest on your
face, in your hair, in your walk, in your step, in your song.</P>
<P>My lovely friends, how good it is to be with you again. How have you
been?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Busy. Busy, busy.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We discussed busyness, did we not? Has your busyness been
necessary? Has it. been appropriate? Or have we just been busy?</P>
<P><B>Student:</B> Busy making a living.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> A little bit of both.</P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> Are there questions? (Silence) Comments? (Silence) Complaints?
(Laughter)</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yeah, a complaint. I took a day off and I enjoyed it so much I
wanted to take the next one off and couldn't.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Perhaps you can arrange your life so that you could take off two
days in a row. I am not going to feel responsible for this complaint. I do
understand.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Don't worry. I am my own grandma. (Chuckles) But I am going to
take off three days the Fourth of July.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well done. Independent, indeed. (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> I had a question about the Morontia Companions and the legions
of angels, of beings to help in our growth. What would be some appropriate
requests to help in the immediate future of spiritual growth, to ask the legions
that are there to help us? Could you help me and us?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let us generate an example. You are an imaginative young woman and
have an abundant love for many individuals. Find in your mind's eye an
individual whose understanding of her life or his life does not incorporate the
concept of perfection. Find an individual who is in the darkness, in the despair
of not living the life of light and life which is possible for each individual
to do today, Visualize one individual. Take this individual in love to the
Father.</P>
<P>"How," you say, "do I take this individual to the Father when it is that
individual's free will that will open the door for the Father to come in?" You
may assist by loving the individual with the Father's love and focusing and
directing the Father's love from Him through you to her, to her face, to her
heart, to her very being. Wash her, or him, in the love of the Divine. Allow the
Divine to encompass the individual that you see.</P>
<P>Those are prayerful energies. The visualization has embraced a personality in
the universe. If the angels know every hair on the head of every individual,
surely they know the face you have presented to the Father for His love. As this
is a well-governed universe, as this hierarchy of divine countenance is in
existence to glorify the Source of love itself, all beings who are on hand to
help the creation of ultimate perfection work together in their prescribed roles
to bring about extension and reflection of perfection, and so it is understood
throughout the working universe, that this individual has been prayed for.</P>
<P>It is helpful, as you already know, when the individual that you pray for is
aware that they are being prayed for, for that sets up an awareness, a
sensitivity, a reaction within them that a Thought Adjuster can work with, and
although the mortal may in fear recoil or in anger resist, the Indwelling Spirit
is ever ready to lure the individual into greater happiness and greater
awareness of its destiny, of its own path to perfection.</P>
<P>That, is one example I would suggest in your prayerful practice for it does
indeed activate other energies and personalities in bringing about more and
greater spirit reality through consecration of choice, consecration of will to
do the Father's will. The same method can be utilized in praying for
institutions and governments.</P>
<P><B>Student:</B> Well, how do we tell them that they are being prayed for?</P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> No doubt there is a Republican or Democratic
headquarters.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Oh, yeah.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Also, you can attain a list of your legislators.</P>
<P><B>Student: </B>Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> While you're speaking, would you include Elaine Farmer, who has
just been put to the task of overcoming cancer and wants to do it?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let us then all exercise the option of devoting a moment to caress
the human being and potential immortal soul of this individual. Embrace her in
the light of love. Call upon the Father. Immerse yourself in the Living Water,
and focus now the Living Water upon this woman and let the Water wash over her,
washing her clean of stress and fear and infirmity, giving her, through your
prayer, divine peace, cleanliness, health, happiness, wholeness and hope.
Embrace her in the Father's love, in the name of Michael, who has said that you
have the power to do this as he has done this, if you but have faith. And in the
exercise of group prayer, your energies are magnified, your spiritual realities
are amplified and confirmed and energized by the glue which holds you together
as fellow-religionists and faithers together. </P>
<P>Prayer is very powerful. It is helpful, when you pray, to be specific. What
else? </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Hold me in your prayers, Tomas, in this physical body, that I
may be physically well and continue the work until it's time for me to leave.
</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Child, you are in my prayers on a daily basis, and yet I will
honor your request by even now calling forth Our Infinite Parents' merciful
ministry to your being, to envelop you in that divine love which you know to be
whole and pure and of which you are a part. In your association with spirit you
are strengthened and it is through your reliance upon spirit that your patterns
are brought into alignment, that your molecular structure is put to peace arid
wholeness. It is in the divine love and healing grace of the Mother and her
ministers that these vicissitudes of the mortal existence are found to be a
radiant testimony to the living love of the Universal Father. Rest in peace of
divine overcare, infinite and eternal.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> We were reading about the supernaphim and I had a book called
"The Kingdom of the Gods" and I figure you probably read it because I understand
that you can read very fast, and I thought perhaps you could say -- was there
any truth in the presentations in that book of the angelic spirits?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You have put me to the test for I have not read the book. It is
very possible that the angels are familiar with it; they have not discussed it
with me. What is it particularly that they have purported that you would like
confirmed?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, there are pictures throughout the book and Jeffrey
Hodgeson, I think, says that he was allowed to, basically, "see" angels, so that
he might describe them to a painter and she painted them, and I thought that
they were quite lovely and I thought that it seemed very true to me that they
would be that way in their appearance to us - after we can visualize them, or as
we can see them - and so it seemed to me ... and it was so very long ago! … but
it made a very deep impression on me, because I felt that it was quite well
done. I just thought perhaps you could give us your point of view. Perhaps not
tonight, but perhaps some other evening when we get together, I'd be so pleased
and would like to get out the book and have everyone enjoy those pictures. I
think they're enjoyable and beautiful.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is difficult for me to respond to your question without
inadvertently inducing disappointment, but you see, angels are yes beautiful,
but the actual representation of an angel must be reduced to your understanding
of what is beautiful.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Oh, yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And so the angels, as they have been portrayed and conveyed --
having beatific attitudes and strength in delicacy, physical beauty, radiance,
flowing lines, magnificent wings, halos -- these are representations which
satisfy your emotional appreciation of what it surely must be like to be an
angel. This is not to say that the interpretations are incorrect, you
see.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Um-hum.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Because they do speak to your aesthetic appreciation.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> This is shown in the various descriptive angels of various
artists. They differ materially.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Tomas, I'd like to express gratitude for your attendance and
patience and love and lessons and messages, and also to extend an invitation to
you. The western New York group, especially the Buffalo group, would like you to
come and visit with them. They have enjoyed your words.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you, my daughter, for your kind words. It is a deep pleasure
and privilege for me to be given this opportunity to teach and to become your
friend and associate. I am quite honored by your presence here as well, and I am
delighted to have been invited to speak with your friends, our associates in
ascension, and I eagerly look forward to that occasion and will speak to my
principals as to getting there. Thank you. <BR><BR><B>Student:</B> Thank you.
(Long pause)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I think I have already detected a new trick you have learned, and
that is that if I do not receive questions or comments within a certain length
of time, you will expect that I will turn the platform over to a visitor. Have I
guessed you right?</P><B>
<P>Students:</B> No, but that would be a delight. (Titillated laughter) It's a
thought! We've enjoyed this.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I hesitate to bring another on-line as we have been chatting
already for some time. How are your time constraints?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Our time constraints are fine. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have a friend who would like to meet you. You have read of his
order in your lesson recently. This is Damalia, a social architect. Let me see
if I can get him to make his presence known to this group. One moment.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA</B>: Greetings.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Greetings, Damalia.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Not to be confused with "demolish". (Laughter) No. I build, I
construct, and, like you, I aspire to ascend. I work in building things but it
is not uncommon that certain scaffolding needs to be torn down at a certain
time. Let me not get too far afield with my "shop talk." I am glad to be here. I
have spoken to mortals before. I am not important but I am helpful, and so I
greet you.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, we're so happy that you came. It's going to be exciting to
enlarge our understanding by our chance to know you. Have you been on the planet
for just this recent Correcting Time or were you here before that time?</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> I have been busy since perhaps 1948 or so. But I am only
speaking for myself here. I have been active as a seraphim for much longer than
these past few decades. It has been interesting, however, watching the
development of the new dispensation coming on, the many preparations that have
come to pass in readiness for what you experience now in many ways, many ways,
many ways which are not familiar to you yet, but the teachers, the Correcting
Time is one of the things we worked toward, as you can imagine.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Social architects work with groupings with individuals and it
was quite a challenge bringing together and holding together the configuration
of individuals that could sustain the work without becoming unbalanced or
fanatical, that could represent the importance of the Fifth Epochal Revelation
without bringing it down into the common realms of psychism and so forth.
Indeed, some of the prospective configurations met and fell on their own accord.
All the many adventures in preparing for Correcting Time have been in some ways
similar to how it must have been on Urantia when they were preparing for the
arrival of Adam and Eve, another Epochal Revelation which involved tremendous
preparation prior to the actual event.</P>
<P>Yes, it has been interesting working here at this time. Our work is not
completed at all. We are only beginning now to truly stack up those potential
groupings of individuals that will wheel and deal most effectively in whatever
project they undertake. As you read this evening and as you can understand, two
is a pair or a partnership and three is a problem and we deal almost entirely
with problem areas, for it is the social grouping that can bring about great
change, great growth. You have heard it said that ten individuals working
together can accomplish ten times ten times as much.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yes, we remember that from the book, Damalia. Thank you for
reminding us of that, so that our group here which is . . .</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Ten.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> ... ten times ten. Has that much power. Is that correct?</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> At this point, my friend, it has that much <I>potential</I>. It
is, I will say, one of the reasons that Tomas is always trying to whip you into
shape in terms of being a working community, for .it is only as you can work
together that we have created an effective architectural sphere that can be the
scaffolding for yet another bridge into the future for Urantia and into light
and life for your souls.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, Damalia, the network that we have been able to be part of,
which is the Teaching Mission, has a tremendously wonderful feel, for me, that
we share our transcripts, we share our events, we share our problems throughout
the country and we're looking forward to being in Arizona in that very high
place as a group and I just had the feeling that you'll be there and you're very
definitely preparing that then, is that correct?</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Oh, yes. We are engaged in all these building blocks. We are
actively involved in your efforts as a community at large and also in other
individual ideational situations which constitute working formulas of
individuals for forward-moving actions and ideals. We are not exclusively
devoted, you understand, to the Teaching Mission. Correcting Time extends
planet-wide.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yes. Yes.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Many -- most of whom are not even aware of the Urantia. Book --
many that are not even aware that a spiritual renaissance is taking place except
in their own auto-revelations or configurations of individuals that spark and do
certain exciting things.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, certainly when I listen to some of the spiritual messages
that are on the radio now, and on our television, I am thinking that would be a
powerful tool for bringing about the consciousness of the changing spiritual
atmosphere on the planet. It's been an amazing thing since talk radio was
brought about. Would you comment?</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> I will comment, though I daresay this entire subject of
broadcasting might be more appropriately addressed by yet a different seraphim
who specializes in such, but, since it is indeed part of the scaffolding and
communication and bringing of like minds together for activity, it could present
a challenge for even this group or any other group of beings, for communications
are as you understand the key word in our work, and broadcasting is of course a
front runner, radio being effective in that it is more directly addressing the
ear of the individual, more subliminal as well as direct, as compared to the
television which creates a competition with the visual.</P>
<P>What I am saying, I think is that the radio could be used to much better
purpose than it is used, particularly with the talk shows as they are. I have
not yet heard a talk show where individuals called up to talk about the Urantia
Book, followed by another individual who called to say, "Yes, I read that book;
I agree with you," and yet another individual to call to say, "And what about
this that it says on such-and-such a page?" and incorporate your belief system
into the standard, common routine of talk radio as Christianity as done, as
capitalism has done, as atheism has done. Are you afraid of your own
work?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> No .</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> It was only a suggestion but it well might build some contacts
and some interest in finding out more about this Book which certainly more than
one individual, now they know, has heard about.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, there are these people who are now militantly seeking to
find any religious philosophy that differs from something that's traditionally
accepted, and they spend a lot of time on the radio talking about heresies and I
am always somewhat concerned that the Book will be discounted before it is given
a chance. That was my impression years ago; now I know that there seems to be a
change that's taken place.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> The Book is making its way around without benefit of the
television or radio.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> This is true.</P><B>
<P>Student: </B>And it's going solidly, whereas it's very possible with radio
and television, both of them, to mess up a good thing. </P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> I will defer remarks, understanding that I am in the midst of a
very conservative community. (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> This Pittsburgh community is indeed that. I was just back from
Colorado and I can tell you, Damalia, that is a whole different world of youth
and acceptance and flexibility and so on.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Truly, daughter, it is the same world there as it is
here.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Oh, is it?</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> The only difference is in perception, and you may contribute to
the density of the perception of your neighborhood in comfort for as long as you
like, but in time, those forward-moving steps will come here also.</P>
<P><B>Student:</B> Um-hum. I certainly hope so. </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> But they have to take their path.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> When one steps out in faith, an entire universe is there to
help.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> Have we not discussed this, indeed, earlier in the session this
evening?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yes, we have.</P><B>
<P>DAMALIA:</B> I feel as though I have gotten sawdust all over the dining room
table (Group laughter) and I am eager to return to visit you again for the
subject of social architecture, the bringing together of certain individuals to
benefit our spiritual program is my work, my love, my joy. And I enjoy sharing
it with others, particularly when they are also workers and find that we can
bounce ideas off of one another. I have enjoyed my brief visit. I thank Tomas
for the opportunity. I wish you well in your days to come with your building
blocks of spirit and soul and heart and mind and truth.</P><B>
<P>Students:</B> Thank you for coming, Damalia. We're glad we met you and
enjoyed knowing you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And I am Tomas, your teacher, to wind it up. Were there any
dangling participles? (Group giggle)</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, I wanted to ask how Damalia -- can you give us an example
of how Damalia brings groups together? I don't know. I know there's a restraint
on the beings to not interfere, but they evidently do, although ... I think --
so could you give us a homemade example? These examples don't exist in the book.
We have wonderful descriptions, job descriptions, but home-made examples would
help me, anyway.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> I could say something, just a feeling I got when you brought up
the talk radio, when we have, you know, bringing groups together, it crossed my
mind that I listen a lot to talk radio and find that it is really directed to a
very kind of juvenile, immature type of mind and it's like, "We're a teen-age
gang; let's get on (the radio)" and the words and the things that the person
running the show, they direct it in such a way to make it antagonistic and
aggravating. </P>
<P>And a lot of times I always hold back and, like tonight in hearing this idea
of, not so much that we could get on there and have our own group, but I'm
thinking there are probably a lot of people like myself that maybe is out there
in some invisible way that, you know, you don't bother calling because it's so
ridiculous to get into that level, but maybe you should call because then other
people will hear and you will have some kind of a connection, even if you don't
physically come together as a group, just to show that there's another kind of a
mindset listening out there, but is maybe not heard. Now, I don't know if they'd
let you through.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> That's a big question.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> I don't know, but on the other hand, maybe that's where the
spiritual helpers would come in.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is in the individuals' combined desires to affect a cause and
effect that is the earmark of the work of a social architect. Bringing these
individuals together is their challenge. Availing yourself, investigating where
you may be of service, networking, if you will, to find out who else is
stimulated by what you are stimulated by, can help bring about the kinds of
teams that can accomplish things. It is like a quilting bee. When you know who
the nimble fingers are and you provide the cider and cookies and gossip,
everyone will show up to create this quilt. And when you have workers who are
activated and stimulated by the same sorts of social service or merciful
ministry or political activation or whatever, you will be drawn to one another
and herein the social architects work to bring this about.</P>
<P>So in the broader sense, do keep your radio dialed to those communications
(over and above the regular radio communications) that will direct you or clue
you as to who may be working on something in which you would like to become
involved. There are many interest groups formulating, even within the Mission,
and this is an invitation to become involved, not in a competitive fashion of
course, but in a contributory way in terms of scaffolding for the Mission, that
as we all begin to work together as a community, with branches in Pittsburgh or
Pocatello or wherever, then we are working as a united network toward light and
life. I am not excluding anyone or any other interest group, I am addressing
those of you who understand the common language of revelation. </P>
<P>Well, I have given you more than enough of an assignment. </P>
<P><B>Student:</B> We will think about that and try to act on it somehow.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will refer you back to our earlier discussion on conation, that
rather than attempting to strive to do something, allow yourself rather to
conate and allow your divine Director to guide your path, for in the end it is
our Father who knows the way, the path. He has created you. He knows your
capacities and has a destiny plan for you, each one splayed out like a field in
the summer sun.</P>
<P>My friends, my loyal students, my companions in the spirit, good
evening.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Good evening, Tomas. Thank you.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>