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<P>DATE:</B> July 29, 1996<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Buffalo, New York,
USA<BR><B>T/Rs:</B> Donna Painter and Gerdean O'Dell</P><B>
<P>TEXTUAL STUDY<BR></B>Urantia Paper 119: The Bestowals of Christ
Michael</P><B>
<P>TEACHERS ANDREA AND TOMAS<BR>"To Grow Spiritually"<BR>More on Loving
Service<BR>Assertive Conference</P>
<P>ANDREA:</B> I am so pleased to be with you. I look forward to a discussion
with you. On behalf of the many teachers gathered here this evening, I wish to
extend their greeting to you as well.</P>
<P>Tonight I would like to present a brief lesson on what it means to grow
spiritually. Based on your reading of the bestowals of our beloved Sovereign
Michael, we see that all life is a progression. It is varied, it is experience,
it is making decisions and experiencing the consequences of those decisions,
whether they are negative or positive, that contribute to your overall life
plan. </P>
<P>Beginning here is the first phase of your life, the first, phase of how you
learn to make decisions. Experiencing life as you do on this material plane is
very narrow; it is very circumscribed in its focus. It is based on what you see
with your physical eyes. However, you have been given a wonderful guide, a
spirit pilot, an indwelling God Fragment which acts as your compass to guide you
in a direction. This is our purpose of our presence with you. How you live now
colors your perceptions, your experiences and your decisions leading to serving
outcomes.</P>
<P>To put it succinctly, the decisions you make here and now color the success
or the lack thereof that you experience. Living here and now, living this first
life of mortal creature, the decisions you make here and now color the success
or the perceived successes that you wish to achieve in life. Living in the
material realm may produce those acquirements of material possessions if you are
able to get into a, so to speak, stream of material prosperity, but are these
the lasting treasures? Is this what will add depth and breadth to your soul?
Will this give you the lasting happiness that you seek?</P>
<P>I challenge you tonight to renew your commitment to the spiritual path, to
spend some time each day in spiritual, communion with your indwelling Thought
Adjuster, to commune with the Father Fragment, to renew and to refresh yourself
with the peace and the love and the comfort that you need to go forth in this
material life. I believe each and every one of you is fully aware of the many
challenges that the material life presents. You need much strength and much
stamina to endure the many vicissitudes that this life presents. </P>
<P>I encourage you to spend time seeking the stillness each day, finding the
love of the Father, drawing upon the strength in that relationship, to give you
the spiritual nourishment you require, you need each day, to help you meet the
challenges of life with more .joy, courage, tolerance and patience. You breathe
the air, you eat food, you sleep, you meet your bodies' physical requirements.
Now is the time to meet the requirements of your spirit, for this, my friends,
is truly the most important component of your being. It is the real you.</P>
<P>After a few days of not eating, you feel hungry and you go in search of food.
Your spirit is calling you to enter into this relationship with the Father.
Spend time each day, if you can, developing this relationship. Spend time
drawing in the love, breathing the love, the guidance, the nourishment for your
soul. True and lasting happiness will be yours, will grow. You will feel the
peace, which may sometimes seem so elusive.</P>
<P>This is the great lesson of our Master's life. This is the real significance
of his bestowal efforts. He, at each level, revealed another component of the
Father's love, and at the physical level he manifested the Father's love to all
with whom he came in contact, but first he was able to master the human life,
what it means to feel the love of the Father on a daily basis and throughout the
day. He lived in a continual flow of unconditional love.</P>
<P>This is the challenge of the mortal career. It is not easy, my friends, but
it is very worthwhile.</P>
<P>I will pause now and entertain your questions, and please do not be hesitant.
I am here to be here in this process of spiritual growth.</P><B>
<P>Leah: </B>Could we know the teacher's name that is talking to us
tonight?<BR></P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> I am Andrea. I have been here many times before. <BR></P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> Yes. Welcome, Andrea.</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Please, treat me as one of you. I am your sister. Although you
cannot see me, I am just as you were, at one time. I had the mortal experience.
I understand the difficulties that life can present.</P><B>
<P>Satya:</B> I have a question. I have been experiencing headaches on a daily
basis and the lower- part of my head and down my spine and I want to be able to
function at top capacity and physically so I can do what I'm here to do and I
would like to know if you could help me understand what is the nature of that
and how 1 can heal myself.<BR><BR><B>ANDREA:</B> Healing is a natural process of
the body correcting certain energy patterns, certain thought, patterns, certain
living patterns that have not always produced a state of health, a state of free
movement and mobility. I encourage you, my sister, to spend some time each day
in focus on the experience of the Father's love. Love is a healing energy. It is
a healing presence.</P>
<P>Envision yourself, as you may, surrounded by a field of light. If you are
able, envision your hands, loving hands surrounding your head, as if they are
feeding energy into your head, into your whole being. I encourage you to spend
time with the Father each day, asking for His healing presence in your life,
asking for His guidance to help you find the answers that you seek regarding the
alleviation of symptoms.</P>
<P>It's not for me to say the nature and cause of this problem, but I encourage
you to seek out those who offer energy rebalancing and techniques whereby you
can relax yourself and allow the Father's healing love presence (to) overtake
your system. I encourage you to meditate on a daily basis, to surround yourself
with the love of the Father and let His love be the healing presence in your
life. Is this helpful? </P><B>
<P>Satya:</B> Yes, thank you.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> I have a question, Andrea. I have tried to practice the
stillness on a regular basis and the name Marius has come to me and I seem to
have thoughts that I am not sure are my own, like a continuing dialog, and I
wonder how I can tell if it 's coming from another source or what is in my own
mind. How can I be sure?</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Does this information help to enhance your ability to understand
the Father and His love for you? Does this seem to broaden your perspective, the
nature of reality? Does this seem to fill out, as it were, an understanding that
you may have previously? Does it seem to ring a bell of truth within you?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> It has helped me change certain attitudes and realize certain
priorities and look at things differently, yes.</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Then I would encourage you to continue this conversation, and do
not dwell so much on "is this me or is this another being." Focus on what is
being said, and in time the distinction whether it is your mind or another
being's attempt to communicate with you will become more pronounced and you will
be able to better discern the difference. Do you need further
clarification?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> No. Thank you very much.</P><B>
<P>Julie:</B> I have a question and it has to do with the T.R that a lot of
people are experiencing, and is the way that this information is coming across,
is it necessary for everybody to have this kind of experience or are there other
ways that people experience this information without this phenomenon? Do you
know what I'm saying?</P><B>
<P>ANDREA: </B>I believe I understand, and jet me clarity -- this question has
several components to it. Let me address the T/R component first. We are here to
present a level of instructions heretofore unrevealed on this planet. This is
based on the curriculum that the Melchizedeks have prepared for us and it is
intended to help to prod (is a word I shall use) the mortals of this world into
being more attentive and more stimulated to seek spiritual guidance.</P>
<P>Your minds are naturally active. It is difficult to seek the stillness,
therefore we have come to encourage you to walk you as you would, hand in hand,
step by step each day in this process. We teachers are here to assist you, to
guide you, to direct you, to answer questions about this process of spiritual
growth and to also encourage you to share this message with others, to encourage
them to seek this path also. Had you lived on a normally developed planet, this
intervention would not have been necessary for there would have been those
habits cultivated from an early life that would have encouraged you to spend
time communing with the Father on a daily basis.</P>
<P>There are many ways to serve. Having or acting as a T/R is important in the
sense that these words can reach many people; however, you can and many people
here do have personal instructors who are able at times to convey certain higher
impressions on your mind. You also have your Thought Adjusters.</P><B>
<P>A Child:</B> I have a question. If children practice meditating, will they
also see the light?</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Yes, my dear, and I am glad you have asked this for this is
something that children are very receptive to; children are very open to spirit.
Encourage them to spend time with God, to seek the stillness. You will see the
light for you have a light within you. Spend time talking with God, just as if
you would when you are talking to your best friend, for He is the Best Friend
you will ever have. He will help you with all of your problems. He will help you
find the true path in life.</P>
<P>Getting back to Julie's question, I would also like to add that each of you
has a life path that your Thought Adjuster presents to you. How you wish to
serve, how you wish to develop yourself and your gift in your personality
potential is your free will. When you spend time in communion with the Father on
a daily basis, you are more receptive to listening to the impressions that this
Most Marvelous Monitor presents to your minds.</P>
<P>The diversity of expressing God's love is infinite; it is boundless. Seek
what your role is. Allow the Adjuster to guide you. Whether or not you wish to
serve as a T/R, whether or not you wish to serve in this Mission, is between you
and the indwelling spiri. Do what you can. Find those ways to allow you to
present your gifts and you will be very blessed indeed.</P><B>
<P>Julie:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> Andrea, I'm very happy that you're here with us. I realize that you
have been with us, but to hear you audibly is a very (?) for us. Based on what
you were saying to Julie, we had a transmission recently that had to do with
loving service, and when you spoke of presenting, you know, do what you can when
you can present your gifts -- I feel like I'm in the Transportation Corps.
(Group Laughter) But there are times when I don't feel like I want to present..
Generally, I'm 99% willing to present that aspect of myself. I also think that
I'm a. malfunctioning copier/copyist, but I do the best I can on that to
disseminate information. </P>
<P>But, would you say something about when you feel the impetus to do something
but you really don't want to do it, would you say something about that? I mean,
I know that we're supposed to care about our brothers and sisters, but there's
times they -- speaking for myself -- I just feel like, um, -- I Know this can't
happen unless I allow it, but I feel I am being taken advantage of. Actually, I
don't feel so much that way anymore, but I'd like to hear a little bit more
about it. </P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Michael and the Father do not expect you to do that which you do
not want. Never is your free will superceded, nor are you judged for not
performing a certain task when you feel you should. This is the balance of life,
the balance of giving and receiving. You must learn how to walk this fine line.
Is this not what Jesus took many years to perfect in his life? The giving and
receiving? Freely he gave to others and then he would retreat into the bosom of
the Father to commune and receive the spiritual sustenance he needed to go out
and give again.</P>
<P>This is your challenge. You will never be asked to do what which you truly do
not wish. If you find there are times when your mind says one thing and your
heart says another, pause, still your mind and ask for guidance. If you feel
that you do not have the strength or the courage to do something, but yet you
want to, draw your strength from the Father who will give you the tools, the
ability to do it if it is your desire.<BR><BR>This is not easy. Walking this
fine line takes much mastery, it takes much persistence. But truly, it is your
will, it your decision to make, how much you wish to serve. This is another
reason why the stillness on a daily basis is so important, because it refuels
you, it restores a feeling of rejuvenation, of new life, new energy. You cannot
expend when there is nothing inside to give. Let the Father fill your cup with
love and courage, strength and fortitude. Allow those moments for quiet time,
for reflection and renourishment in your life so that you can perform at a level
that is more compatible with your heart's desire. Is this helpful?</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> It's very helpful, very helpful and reassuring. I think part of my
problem is that my ideal is that I just don't want to say "no" to anything, and
I know that I have to say "no" sometimes, I just don't know how to do it.</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> Still your mind and ask the Father to give you the words, with
graciousness, with compassion, with respect. If you can do this, you will be
surprised to hear the words come out of your mouth. You will not believe that
with such poise and gentleness, but truly you must make that decision in your
mind if this is something that you wish to do. There are gracious ways of saying
"no". Let your spirit lead you to them.</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> Thank you. Those are very comforting words.</P><B>
<P>ANDREA:</B> You are welcome.</P>
<P>I will pause now and ask, if there are no more questions, I would like to say
thank you for the opportunity of speaking with you tonight. Our friend Tomas is
here and if Gerdean is willing, I believe he would wish to address this group
for a few moments.</P>
<P>Thank you. I visit you frequently and I extend my love to each and every one
of you here. Good evening.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you, my co-teacher, for your presence this evening, for your
words, for your kind encouragement and invitation to us all to administer
ourselves in such a fashion as to spiritually progress. I have enjoyed, as has
Gerdean, the experience of savoring the flavor of your personality and basking
in the fragrance of spirituality when it is allowed to waft its scent in the
atmosphere. </P>
<P>Of course, this is made possible most poignantly by the method of stillness,
through repeated experience in stillness, to appreciate the pace and poise of
relative perfection. How much more sensitively we hear one another, we listen
more graciously to that which is between the lines, to that which the soul calls
forth.</P>
<P>"The young man who was afraid" might never have been stimulated to progress
in his own spirit reality, were it not for the assertive conference which
Michael brought to their relationship in discourse as he passed by and as he
asked for help. And so as you progress and as you seek to serve and as you seek
to augment and encourage the spiritual reality of others, it is well to learn to
beseech aid, to ask for help, to submit to being available. </P>
<P>Not that you will be walked on, no. Not that you will be taken advantage of,
certainly not; for you have your will dignity, your se1f-respect, your
sonship/daughtership to afford you strength and fortitude -- but that you can
and may humbly appeal to the soul of' your brethren and elicit their trust,
thereby calling forth their own understanding of their own indwelling deity
reality; waking, yes, their own spiritual progress.</P>
<P>And so it is not too difficult. It is not impossible. It is certainly not
necessary that you have the skills of a Creator son (although I would suspect
that that would be a great advantage), but we do have each other, we do have
frequent visits and opportunities to investigate this elemental interest in our
lives, and so as you anticipate more and further contact with teachers and
believers, prepare in your heart and in your mind inquiries of those facets of
life that have intrigued you, that have aroused your curiosity, those
intellectual probings, those emotional responses, those gut reactions which are
fodder for the service mill. Do not be afraid to share your inner life.</P>
<P>How lovely to have a literal child attend this evening. I was certainly
reminded of the Master's tendency to stop even a serious discourse to attend to
the needs of a. child, and it has been a privilege for us here to be witness
again to that character which allows for love on many different levels at one
time.</P>
<P>It is wonderful for me, Tomas, to be in your presence again. As Andrea has
said, there are many beings here this evening. On behalf of them and Michael,
and in the interest of the Teaching Mission at large, I will close my remarks
for the evening. I would ask that we hold ourselves in stillness for yet another
moment of prayer and appreciation for the thrilling enterprise upon whi.ch we
nave embarked: the gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,
in living color, on Urantia. Farewell.</P>
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