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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Northern Colorado TeaM, #78</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Loveland, Colorado</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Sondjah</B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Topics:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Preparation for the afterlife<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life
record is in your aura</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “stain” of
agondonters</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Order of
Light</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The strength of
your decisions</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take up the
challenge</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is life
really about?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Religion of
your choosing</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Negative
self-images</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Q & A:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Labels</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bestowal of
personality</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rules about
returning to native planet</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strong-willed
children</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>January 15, 2006</FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good afternoon, this is Sondjah.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group welcome.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your teacher, Rayson, is away at this
time, and so I am your teacher for today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I hope you will accept my presence here today.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Absolutely!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With pleasure!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As most of you know, my normally
permanent assignment is as a Melchizedek Teacher in the mansion worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So much of what I have to teach you has
to do with that, to help prepare you for that eventuality of you being part of
the afterlife, the afterlife of which, dominates 99.9% of your existence in the
infinite realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your time here is a
very, very small portion of your total infinite experience.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Yet, this small experience—this
brief experience as a mortal—colors the rest of your existence as an immortal
being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will follow you, be with
you, even as a Finaliter, after your embrace with the Creator, albeit it will
not be that strong or that pervasive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Nonetheless, it will remain in your records, in your aura, in your being
for others to see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When they hail
you and greet you, they will know that you have come from Urantia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will know that you are an
agondonter; you will bear that significant essence of a unique being – your
personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thus, you will be
a distinctive individual; your record of accomplishments, your passage through
the many life experiences that you will have as a morontial being, then as a
spiritual being, will be written for all to see.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will carry your proud record of
decisions that you have made over the eons; your accomplishments, your
challenges, your over-comings, your growth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it matters not how quickly you
accomplish all of this, for time is not of the essence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time is a substantial part of your
mortal and morontial existence, but lesser as a spiritual being and surely not
relevant as you passage on to become a citizen of Havona.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">My work as a teacher in the
morontial realm of the mansion worlds is made much more challenging by
individuals as you—who are agondonters who have come from the quarantine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And though you, who come from the
quarantine, are of a minority of a population of those who passage through the
mansion worlds, you nonetheless also color the classrooms with a significant
presence that other worlds do not have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I could say that many of you are a “rowdy lot,” and I would be
accurate!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even some of you who are
quite docile, have a lot of “backbone,” and this, my friends, is exceptionally
valuable, for it is individuals of character who truly become and have the
potential for advanced leadership and advanced followership.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">There are exceptional—truly
exceptional—individuals who attain these realms from worlds from outside the
quarantine, those which are not yet in the Days of Light and Life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truly exceptional individuals come from
planets that are still transiting through the evolutionary eras, but have not
been damaged, have not been in darkness for so many generations — individuals
whose genetic structure does not contain the darkness of quarantine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not saying that you are
blighted—surely not—but you are much like those remarkable cells under a
microscope, who and which are invisible until they are “stained.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you, my friends, have a “stain” upon
you—not a “bad” stain, not a “good” stain—just simply a “stain.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has made you from translucent-clear
to colorful, so that you stand out and are visible among others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">When you socialize with other
morontial beings in the mansion worlds, when you are in a group—let us say, in
the plaza—and others come upon you whom you have not met, they will instantly
recognize who is from the quarantine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you can receive this with equanimity, you could receive it with
shame, and you could receive it boastingly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though your world was in rebellion, with
all the other worlds, you as an individual, need not be a “rebel,” unless you
choose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you, the challenge is
to make the fine, discerning distinction between a person of character, a person
of backbone, a person of strong beliefs and a headstrong appeal, and one who is
a rebel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will leave that with you
as food for thought, during your mortal lifetime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now, imagine, if you can, a
parallel for my being here and you being here with me:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us say that I am your drill
instructor and you are part of my platoon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>My job is to help you become fine, strong, powerful soldiers of
righteousness, for my discipline is willing, heartfelt, generous and
courageous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of course, some of
you who are the strongest, could become—<I>will become</I>—the finest soldiers
in Michael’s army of light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us
call this army an “Order of Light.”<SPAN style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">How will you adapt to that, and
how will you adopt those disciplines?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now in this mortal lifetime, this era of individual soldier
training—which is a lifetime to you—you can go through many tactical challenges,
ones that will raise you to a higher consciousness, or ones that will break
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Each of you is exposed to the
same challenges of mortality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some
of you come from privilege, wealth and power; some of you come from
exceptionally humble roots, who are often powerless and impoverished.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who chooses to accept the will of
Michael and Nebadonia?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What efforts
will bring you to willing acceptance and eternal commitment, to the path of the
Order of Light?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will you choose a
lifetime of slogging through muddy trenches in training, under the barbed wire
of life, over the burning anguish of life’s experiences?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will you struggle to climb over the
hurdles that life brings to you?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I hope each of you has an answer
to these questions, for the answer is quite simple.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is anyone willing to guess?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or would you like me to provide the
answers to you?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do it with Jesus’ help?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other answers?)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do it with increasing communication with
our Thought Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Very
good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More?)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will do it by the very roots and
soil of your mortality; you will do it by your own self-will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will <I>choose</I>; you will
<I>decide</I> that you will succeed and you will overcome all of these
challenges, with the aid of your Thought Adjuster and the instruction of
Michael, and those beings of light who are among you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will do it through the very strength
of your decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">No one escapes mortality without
making significant decisions for their immortal life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or, if they do end up in the morontial
existence and have not made those decisions, they will be informed and be
required to make a decision, to follow along and lead their life in the Order of
Light, or to give it up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life
is all about decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Decisions,
decisions, decisions!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not decisions
just on Sunday, but every day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not
just in the stillness of your meditations, but every minute of your waking
day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you lay your head upon
your pillow at night, let your last thought be of a decision of willing
acceptance to take up the challenge that exists in your mortal life; the
challenge “of” your mortal life.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">On the lighter side, I understand
from your history that you have had evangelists, who came along in tents, then
preached and spoke and called upon individuals and exhorted them to come forward
and make a commitment to Jesus, pay their tithe, and be on their way with a
clean heart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is this correct?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Uh huh.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, forget the tent!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Much laughter.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not here to exhort you; I am not
here to cajole you, twist your arms and shout in your face—I simply wish to
inform you that this is <I>your</I> life; this is <I>your</I> choice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And your choice makes a great difference
in the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I can tell those who have made a
decision and lived that decision throughout their life, when they come to my
classroom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know that they have
begun that long journey—yes, inasmuch as I read their record in them, in their
aura—I do see that, but also outside of that, I see it in their mind activity,
in their presence in the classroom, through their “words,” through their
“thoughts,” through their dialog with their fellow students; through their
dialog with their instructors and master teachers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is quite evident that there has been
growth prior to the transition to the immortal life.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And as you have been told before,
there is no break between your growth here in this mortal realm, and your
morontial career, when it begins.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your spiritual growth, your spiritual career, has already begun!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You simply—just as in high school, walk
out the door and go to another classroom, next session.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A brief hiatus between classes; that is
death, and it is very brief.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exit
one classroom, and enter another; it is as though you had gone from a one-room
schoolhouse, K through 8 in the country, to high school in the city, with a
large campus.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when you complete
your morontial existence, you will go to Uversa University; and after your
spiritual career, you will enter into your post-graduate experience in Havona,
and later on in Paradise. But it has already begun.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a foot race where you are in
the starting blocks, and the gun has [just] fired.<SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>You have begun the onward
journey.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I wish I could put in a real,
existent form what I am trying to tell you today.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish I had some morontial golden
ribbon to tie around your wrist, to fasten it with a bow, so you would never
forget that you are on a golden journey — a golden experience, with yourself and
Michael, your Thought Adjuster and Creator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I would tie it with a bow because,
truly, you can untie this bow if you wish and stop the journey.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or you can tie it again, so that it does
not come undone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I know that you have made a
decision to join the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My
wish for you, with this golden ribbon, is that you would not forget the journey,
from moment-to-moment, minute-by-minute, hour-to-hour, through your lifetime,
that the decisions that you make about your thinking, affect your speech, and
your behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These all register
with you when you graduate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish
even more that I could reach out to the rest of your planet and tie ribbons upon
everyone’s wrist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They would wake
up in the morning and look at their wrist and see this golden, shining, dazzling
ribbon, and say, “What is this?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>My!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It wasn’t here yesterday.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And perhaps they would become curious to
know more about it, just as some followers of Jesus were curious to know
earnestly, sincerely what his message was really about.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The question is, “What is this life
really about?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oddly, it does not really make
much difference which religion you are from, or which religion you use, as long
as you are sincere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost all
religions are God centered, have an aspect of them that looks to the
afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No religions that we
know of that are God centered call upon you to have a riotous life, a licentious
life, one of wanton destruction of yourself, your morality, and those around
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The religion that you accept
is really none of our business; it is your business.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You choose what feels comfortable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we adjure you to commit to following
it through, to examine your feelings about your religion, and if you are not
comfortable with it, understand why.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Make a decision; find a religion that feels comfortable to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Follow easily; Jesus never said
the yoke is heavy or impossible to carry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are reins upon a bridle, upon a large horse of faith; you simply
lead yourself into the future of your life, knowing that it is good, that you
are loved, you are wanted, you are needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Knowing that, you will be more at peace in your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, on another hand, it matters not
what religion you have, as long as you are comfortable living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes living comfortably has nothing
to do with your religion—it is simply your basic beliefs about your life and
your process of living in this world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Some of you were not treated well
when you were raised, so your outlook is dim, your anticipations, expectations
of treatment by others is harsh and negative and you have come away with your
experiences during your formation years, with a negative self-image, negative
self-esteem, and self-worth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t
accept that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>That is a
choice</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will not change in
your mind until you refuse to accept it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It will not change until you refuse to accept and adopt, [the] loving
presence of Jesus in [your] life, the true understanding that you are
loved—<I>simply loved</I>—because you exist.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are simply loved by him and
Nebadonia because you are living evidence of the eternal, undying faith, of your
Creator in Paradise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoFooter
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Each of you carry that spark of
eternality within you — your Thought Adjuster.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an investment of immense
proportions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are loved,
appreciated and accepted; you truly do have a place in the universe that is
reserved for you and you alone!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are loved, because you “are.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To
put it in the singular, grammatically incorrect state, you are loved because you
“is;” you always “is;” and you always will be “is,” because you exist now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are joined as one personality, with
your Thought Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when you
think of yourself as “are,” think of yourself as a plurality of two—yourself and
your Thought Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You “are”
important!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You may be familiar with this—you
recall Morley’s ghost, don’t you—clanking around with chains?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are those chains?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those are the dead weights of unloving
childhood experiences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my
friends, those experiences that you developed, most of you, as adults, have
accepted for yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Choose to
drop them away, and become beings of light.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Join the Order of Light.<SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Rayson regularly has a time for
questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any
questions regarding the lesson today, or any other topic that I may address?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have one based on Rayson’s lesson last
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was talking about being
stripped of our labels, except perhaps the one about being a child of God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What about labels or aspects of our
experience that have spiritual significance, like being a parent or a caregiver,
or a philanthropist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are those
positive labels worth keeping, or do we need to get rid of all labels
altogether?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would recommend that you get rid of
all labels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not the labels
that are important, but of the growth that you received through the activities
under that label.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not a
philanthropist, but you are a generous individual.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, that does not stop with your mortal
existence, but goes on to be a part of you as a morontial being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What I am getting to is that you are not
“beings of doing.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being
generous is a state of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“Doing” generous is an activity, which is outside of your being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">To label yourself as a
philanthropist or a parent is to “do” that; but to “be” a parent you understand
the activities of doing parenting things, and through doing parenting things,
you have come to appreciate, I hope, the wisdom and discerning factors of
“being” a parent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This aspect of
“being” is most important, because it will follow you and the labels will fall
away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Your teacher, Rayson, has taught
you well to leave these labels behind, to let them go now, not to be a “being”
doing nothing, but to be a “being” in service, without recognition of what it
means.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be your best at whatever
you do is the most important thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To be an individual of great service in all aspects is what you will be
seeking to do through the duration of your immortal spiritual existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You “do” to learn to “be,” and you “be”
to learn to “become an I AM.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
the “I AM” of your being you are an immortal being; you are that which is God in
expression in the eternal realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You can truly be useful, an
incredible resource to the Creator in the eons and eras of the universe of
universes to come, through your capacity to be of service.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These concepts may be difficult to wrap
your mind around, but this is the essence, the very “being” of what you will
become.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will not only be
emissaries of God, but you will be God as emissary through you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your “being” nature, and “I AM,” will be
with you throughout the universe in this close identification with the
Creator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The label I would suggest
you seek to embrace is to “be” and live in the “now.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accept your activities of “doing” as a
process of becoming greater, to learn those roles of “being” that will assist
you to become of immense service in your lives to come.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">A more simple answer I could have
given would have been to say, “Yes, adopt positive labels,” but I challenge you
to release those to the higher level of your existence, to be in peace, to be in
service, to be a great parent, to be a wonderful, uncompromising philanthropist
of service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your
excellent question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank
you.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you tell us at what stage of
beginning that personality is bestowed?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Is it before, during or after birth?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not so much important to know
“when,” as it is to know that you “have.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you dear child, know that you are a Child of God?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you have personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that sufficient?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems that when babies are born, you
notice a distinction between one and another, of your own children, or other
babies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems that they
certainly vary.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most certainly, and it is a wonderful
experience to behold the variations between individuals, but you will know that
there is personality when you behold an on-going temperament of that individual,
that will follow them throughout their life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will know that some are generous,
and uncompromising in their love of others, not because they are thoughtless,
un-deciding infants, but because they have chosen this is how they express
themselves. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not so much a matter of time; we
can say that they are given personality upon conception, or at the time of
birth, though that is non-essential for personality bestowal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we could say it is bestowed when the
Thought Adjuster arrives, but you know yourself, that a personality is in
existence before the arrival of a Thought Adjuster.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am trying not to lead you astray into
the larger morass and tar pit of when there is personality and when a child, as
embryo, might be terminated or aborted.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are not discussions we care to go to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality is not a political issue,
and it exists and perseveres whether the individual lives a full lifetime, or
experiences passage before birth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have another question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have been told repeatedly that people
do not return to their native planet after our passage to the mansion worlds,
but I am wondering if it is possible on the mansion worlds, to sense, visualize
or know of some progress, what’s happening on our home planet, say particularly
of those we leave behind, those we value, those we care about?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There has always existed a capacity of
those who have passed to project their presence similarly as celestials and
angels can project themselves to another location.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is difficult to explain—the
capacities of personality, the capacities of will, capacities of love—are quite
boundless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your guardian and her
supervisor thoroughly take into account your intentions when you are in the
afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your capacities to do
good and to learn from those experiences are taken into account.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">How can I explain to you that
there are rules, guidelines of the universe and of the mansion worlds that are,
as you might call them, “campus rules.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes, some of you nonetheless, even without willing cooperation of
your “house mother,” or “house father,” go outside after dark, do you not?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The universe is not arbitrary; the will
of the Eternal Father, First Source and Center, is magnanimous!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have self-will that is
God-like.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How you express it is
your choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that your angelic
celestial supervisors will not condone or assist you in doing wrong in the
afterlife; neither will they hold you back from expressions of love and service
that are consistent with your training program.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I cannot answer your question in hard,
definitive terms, but surely, if you read between the lines, you will know what
I am saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you!)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A little while ago, you spoke of how
strong-willed some of us Urantians are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Over Christmas, when I had all of my grandchildren with me, I noticed
that that was a characteristic of every, single one of them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any suggestions on how to
both live with children who are very strong-willed against what their parents
think is in their best interests, without squashing their self-concept?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SONDJAH:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will defer your question to a Nursery
Supervisor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you ask again in
another session, this same question, ask for the Nursery Supervisor, and one
will be there to assist you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you for your question.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">My friends, I wish to thank you
for your presence today, your intentions for being here, your decisions for
being here, and your commitment, which is evident in your on-going
attendance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not forget these
three essential elements of living:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The proof of life and your will is evident in your intentions for living,
your decisions to live it, and your commitment to follow-through on those
decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will answer you for
now that strong-willed children are a wonderful blessing, but only at twenty
years hence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Laughter.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group gives thanks to Sondjah and to
Daniel.)</P>
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