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<P>LIGHT LINE:</B> 1-26-06<BR><B>TEACHER TOMAS<BR>T/R:</B> Gerdean Bowen </P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> Good evening, dear friends. I am Tomas, your Teacher for the
evening. It pleases me greatly to be called to serve in this capacity. I am
always glad to work with those who are willing to work with me and it gives me
pleasure to work with Gerdean whom I have utilized in this fashion for many
years, although I admit I have enjoyed experiencing this process with others who
have been willing to take me on. Indeed, you will find the universe responsive
to the desire to be in relationship with the many life systems and personalities
available to you through your cosmic consciousness.</P><B><U>
<P>Cosmic Consciousness</P></B></U>
<P>I say cosmic consciousness in the terms of your being aware of your
citizenship status, being conscious that you are a citizen of the universe, not
merely this world, and certainly more than this finite existence. Granted, you
are rather limited in terms of your ability to leave your station here, your
experimental life station, but your consciousness is free to soar and your
imagination certainly is able to float freely among the universes where you may
engage in friendly relations with all you encounter for it is a friendly
universe.</P>
<P>I must remember, when I speak with you, that you are literal minded more
often than not, and so I can anticipate that probably half of you have
interpreted my words to mean something I did not say but that you wanted to
hear. This occurs often. It is one of the peculiar side effects of this format
of communication which, although seriously limited and faulty, is nonetheless
the best we have to work with at this point in your evolution and we do
anticipate it will improve. In particular, as you yourself begin to respect the
process and access intelligence in such a way as to make it your own.</P>
<P>And when I say "make it your own" I do not mean for you to create a
personality and presume to put words in its mouth. Nor do I encourage you to be
inspired by a concept and trust that the concept is infallible. Rather, I
anticipate that you will recognize the experiential nature of life as you live
it on Urantia and respect those marvelous liberties you are afforded, even as
you restrain your liberal nature to the practical matters of ministry.</P><B><U>
<P>Change vis-a-vis Growth</P></B></U>
<P>There is a saying that "Change is inevitable; growth is optional" and I enjoy
observing how many of you have taken the instigating words of Teacher Ham,
"Welcome to Change" as sanction to lunge into change for change sake. Alas, such
behavior only stirs the pot of confusion and chaos - that which we are
diligently applying ourselves to subduing, so that we might bring this world
round to a semblance of order and good orderly direction. Thus, look at what it
is that you are embracing as change and ascertain for yourself if it is bringing
about growth in your soul or is it simply change for change sake.</P>
<P>There are many who engage in what they call "lateral transfer" or a
"geographic change" simply because they have gotten bored with where they are
and are looking for a new perspective or another experience. And while you have
the right to do this, having free will, you will find that "wherever you go,
there you are," and so, have you advanced yourself by your choices or have you
retarded your path by going round in circles, finding yourself merely where you
started from at the outset?</P>
<P>Now, before you think I am scolding you for spinning your wheels, be assured
I am not. I am only once again being a "Dutch Uncle" and encouraging you to
advance. I know you have the capacity. I know you have the potential. And now
you have the fellowship of others whose souls are also being quickened by this
odd configuration of acknowledging the influence of your heavenly helpers. In
whatever way that may be interpreted, there can be little doubt that our
influence is abroad in the land, and whether we are recognized as a part of the
Teacher Corps, one of the Melchizedek receivers, one of the angelic orders, or
any number of other representations of the Ascended Masters or ascending life,
even Descending Sons, the fact is apparent that you have opened the door to your
universe neighborhood and have been beckoned out into the galaxies to play and
meet your neighbors, as we have been invited into your hearts and allowed to
touch upon your minds those concepts which we pray will benefit your development
as a soul in becoming and as a personality in full flower.</P>
<P>How I enjoy speaking to a new group of students, a fresh class. Each semester
in the Melchizedek University brings me a new array of eager minds and spirits.
I am truly humbled to be a part of this experiment sanctioned by our planetary
administrators and our Sovereign Michael. </P><B><U>
<P>Question and Answer Period</P></B></U>
<P>And one of the things I like best is getting to know you. I am professorial,
but I am also filial, and so I have an open door policy. Come in! Sit down. Ask
questions. Let’s get to know each other. [Long silence] Do you have questions
this evening? [Another long silence] </P>
<P>If you do, don’t forget to release your voice by pushing No. 6 on your
telephonic device. [Silence] Aren’t these contrivances interesting? They have
launched us into another dimension where our conversations can not only take
place but can be recorded for posterity, distribution and review. Of course,
they can also be utilized by the detractors to ridicule our efforts and yet this
is part of the risk we take, just as the Revelators indicated in presenting the
Papers, they too took a risk that universe truths would be diluted, but it is
worth the risk to reach into your hearts and encourage you to embrace the great
reality of the indwelling God fragment and the divine plan that is yours for the
taking. Once you have accepted... </P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Hello. This is Marty in Massachusetts and I would just...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, of course.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> ...just would like to say it's probably such an astonishing
experience that we're going through here that it's hardly possible to come up
with a question to say oh that's I want to know. I guess I want to know
everything. Perhaps we could just sit down and have a cup of coffee together and
talk things over.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> That would be fine with me. Tell me, how are you?</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well I'm just spending my time networking the Teachers on the
computer and the world events in the Correcting Time and it's just astounding to
see the whole picture that's what I say I'm doing. I'm just astounded by all of
the events.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You have a marvelous perspective because of the nature of your
interest, yes. You have not limited yourself to a small sector of the movement,
but seen a broader expanse.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well I'm thankful to have learned with the help of the Teachers to
keep myself open to everybody and this is something I am very thankful of. This
really was started by Midwayer Gorman when he was working with you and meeting
with us and he encouraged us to be open-minded, take everything in.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, otherwise you become too specialized and you exclude people.
And what we don’t need is spiritual snobbery.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> And then you get the picture of the expose, all of the darkness
that's coming out of our world and how the people are just aware of it and
helping it to dissolve, I feel that you know.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, you among a liberal lot and so you are seeing those who are
in the renaissance, so to speak, those who are in the light. There is still a
majority in the dark, who is by habit thinking, acting, and responding in the
old ways. That is where the work is. Even as you broadcast the good news -- and
that is legitimate labor for the kingdom -- there is also the element of taking
the light into the dark in order to bring forth those who have been submerged
for so long they cannot see the difference, and bring them forth graciously and
gently, so they are not blinded by the light, and so that you do not develop a
savior complex, but rather, operate as an extension of the Master who would
simply gather the sheep safely into the fold.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> The prayer exercise you proposed to the Andover group is something
I feel is really wonderful to think that we could have such an influence through
our prayers.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, I am sure you have seen prayer groups before this one. The
worldwide prayers for peace have been on going for some time, but it has not
been incorporated as an exercise in the various teacher groups, and so it is an
idea whose time has come. You will find, with "herding cats" that they will not
tolerate much of this people or teachers suggesting what to do, but if a bit is
attempted and no one is damaged and the effects of such effort is made manifest,
it becomes then an instance of proof, as it were, and thus you are
encouraged.</P>
<P>It is also a bonding exercise, as the various groups have discovered, and as
has been taught from the beginning: if you pray together, you stay together; you
bond. And when you pray for your supposed enemies, you come to love them because
you learn to understand them when you direct prayerful energy in their direction
since, in order to do that, you need to be in the light yourself. And so you
shine God’s light on them and in that process you come to love them, and so
prayer is a very effective tool, and it will be interesting to see how we do in
this experiment next month.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Thank you for shedding that wonderful light on praying for your
enemies. [Yeah, that was good] To be able to love them because you're praying
for them really says what prayer is; it's really wonderful.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, I learned that from Welmek, my co-Teacher in this
mission.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> Tomas, here is my cup of tea, this is Stefan.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Stefan.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> It seems to me that everything that we do is unsustainable these
days, the fossil fuels that we burn and killing the planet, it's what we use
everyday to get around and the food that we eat is generated...there's too many
people on the planet and the way we have to generate this food is unsustainable,
feeding the animals completely the wrong things and even the way we sustain our
relationships is unsustainable because everything seems to be driven by power
and money.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, I agree with you.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> How do we turn this whole thing around?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Turn yourself around, and as you do you will find others walking
in the same direction. It is very possible that the system, as you have known
it, is going to be destroyed. That is not something you should lose sleep over.
You should, rather, be about the business of living in the light and that means
all the practical applications of what you can sustain, not living on blind
faith that providence will provide, but making intelligent decisions as to what
you can depend upon.</P>
<P>I am not suggesting you go out and build a bomb shelter and stock it full of
canned goods, no. But I am suggesting that you begin to create sustainable
communities of like-minded people outside of the mainstream so that the
civilization can survive and sustain itself in the new paradigm that is coming
in, even as the old world is passing away. The more you identify with this
system of things, the more your life will be disrupted. Remember, the Master
said, "My kingdom is not of this world," and so don’t put your eggs in this
basket; put your eggs in the basket of the Lord," (if you will tolerate my
scriptural reference) and allow Him to lead you into those pastures that will
bring about light and life for you and your loved ones.</P>
<P>It is a matter of turning yourself inside out, allowing Him to make decisions
with you as to your way of life. And then trusting those decisions you make
together as being a part of the advancement of those changes which will be
necessary for humanity to make after it awakens from the illusion it has created
from the old values of self will.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> These values of self will, are they reminiscent of the values of
the rebellion or is this something every planet has to go through?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Every planet goes through it to some extent, as teenagers go
through a rebellious state as they break away from their parental influence to
find their own footing and their own identity and their own path, but yours here
are more problematic because your civilization’s infrastructure was lost in the
Rebellion and your parental influence was aborted with the Adamic Default, and
so, in essence, you have pulled yourselves together as best you can without much
to go on but learning to survive.</P>
<P>And so there is an inherent survivalist mentality that has created tremendous
competition and strife. A certain amount of healthy competition is desirable,
but you are saturated with it on this world, and it has cut into the framework
of fellowship. It interferes seriously with the idea of helping your fellowmen
and they helping you. Instead, it is a Catch 22 of self-will, where everyone
seems to be every man for himself, even as every man for himself plays the game
of sociability in the framework it has developed under impaired standards. We
would like to revisit those standards and instill God-consciousness in every
walk of life, in every way of life, so that the Father is an active participant
in your lives, even in your socialization, for the presence of God alters
everything.</P>
<P>Those of you who have been with one another and recognize the presence of God
within each other understand because you recognize him in each other, and there
is such a thrill of recognition therein, you would do anything to sustain that
relationship in order to be of service to your fellows. You are inherently a
Golden Ruler because you are God-led, spirit-imbued, instead of survival
oriented in the most crass and common terms. I say this even as I understand
that there are sophisticated institutions and highly polished mores and fashion
and technology that would indicate an advanced society of sophisticated,
intelligent and "God-fearing" people, but if they look at you and don’t see you,
then who are they? The Father says He recognizes two kinds of people: those who
choose to do his will and those who do not. " Those who choose to do his will."
How many do you know who overtly come to you in faith of your Sonship and
without words convey to you through the God within that you desire to be of
service to one another and to God himself? How many of you can speak these words
to one another without being scoffed or jeered?</P><B>
<P>Marty: </B>Then I would say if you asked that question of a lot of people
they would say they are trying to do that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, they would. And we wax philosophic.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> I would just like to say that almost everybody that I know really
seems to care that they're doing the right thing and because of the training
that we grow up with in regards to religion, people don't really feel
comfortable talking about God's will because the mention of God brings up so
many different trainings. We all have different sources of training, but people
do really care about each other. I feel as though just being with other people
is just a blessing and I hardly ever run into a ... although I know Gloria
doesn't feel that way, she feels that hardly anybody is trustworthy. I guess
that is the human experience.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed, it is perspective.</P><B>
<P>Gloria:</B> About what?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Trustworthy about what, is that your question, Gloria?</P><B>
<P>Gloria:</B> Yeah, trustworthy with my money? Trustworthy with your own money?
Trustworthy with my life? Trustworthy on the likes of my way of living...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, I will not … I understand. I will not leave it as if there
were a handful of mortals on the planet that God recognizes and the others are
riff-raff. That is not what I intend to say, and I hope you understand there are
degrees of consciousness inherently built in because of the fact of evolution
and the adjutant mind spirits that contribute to the attainment of the seven
psychic circles. It is those who have attained the final circle who are able to
talk more intimately with God, but all of those individuals, including everyone
on this planet, are involved in the process of being brought forward; even
though they may have one seraphim to 100 people, they are nonetheless looked
over, and so I am offering a perspective of degree.</P>
<P>Yes, if you scratch any one of these human beings you will find God within.
My point is: to what extent do they consciously keep him in mind as they go
about their daily lives. I am not bashing the human condition, but you must
acknowledge that most people do not pay attention to God until they are
stressed, until there is trouble, and then they look to him to save them. This
is human nature, until such time as they come to love God with all their heart,
and then they come to God because they love him, and this is my assumption with
you, my students, that you come to God because you love Him. You know Him, and
you choose to do His will in all your affairs, that your light may so shine as a
representative of Him, you are able to bring the light into the darkness, even
as that may mean you become embroiled in scenes and situations that require
mediation and negotiation, that engage you in competition and conflict. These
are the ways the mortal evolves.</P>
<P>But recognizing that much of what is going on today in your world, as Stefan
introduced, much of it is not going to be sustained. It cannot be sustained as
it is. And so what are you going to do? You need to think of alternate methods.
And unless and until these are adopted universally, you need to think in terms
of the future – your grandchildren, and the planet in light and life. How to
progress and grow instead of merely consuming and using as is the propensity.
Even as people choose to do His will, nonetheless, the way it’s set up, they are
abusing the resources and the human resources, because they are not doing it as
wisely as they could be if they had their values in order … in a different order
than we find them.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well, Teacher Tomas, I wanted to ask a question. It seems to me
that we are doing our best and by being able to bring the light of God into our
social situations it will bring people's hearts to want to try harder and I feel
as though we're all doing our best and it's very positive. We are Agondonters
and we don't have a material presence here of a celestial being and we just have
to do the best we can with the way things are and I feel that people really are
doing their best. I feel very positive about the way things are going from this
murky existence we have here. I just feel that everything is moving ahead and I
would like to say we won't mind one bit if a celestial being who can help us can
actually materialize and it's something that I ask, that they help us. If we had
a Planetary Prince here and His staff we wouldn't have these problems. We would
all know what the right thing is to do.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You don’t understand, my friend. The Planetary Prince and his
staff are here. They are here now. And the angelic orders are at work. And the
midwayers are scrubbing the floor on their hands and knees. The efforts are on
going even now. I invite you to take up your staff and work with them to create
the new order rather than worrying about that which is passing away, including
the abuses to the planet for as you do forge ahead you will be giving off your
light energy and it will affect the world as you pass by.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> I believe that the will of the people that are with us are working
together with the celestials and with the Prince's staff are doing it...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, you are doing it. Did I imply you are not?</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well, I'm trying to speak for the human race to just say we are
doing our best and we really are wholeheartedly doing it and very thankful to
know that we have all this help here with us, something that you can imagine
that not so long ago that we didn't even have an idea that we had this help with
us.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I take my hat off to you, my friend, for your attitude is even of
better cheer than my own. I see it differently but I don't mean to pass a pall
upon your good cheer for God knows it is necessary to keep your faith afloat in
... well, you don't feel these are troublous times evidently.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> I do. I just feel as though its been trouble ever since it's been
going on, ever since we've been in quarantine, since the rebellion and I know
what the Midwayers have said what they went through here and all I can say is
these times are all coming to a head and just very, very, very, very thankful
that it's coming to a head now, finally, and that's really what I think is going
on. And I don't think it's the best of times, I think it's really a tremendous
transition taking place and everything is coming out of the woodwork.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, you're absolutely right, you taught one of my lessons in
that paragraph: it is a critical time and this is the emergency nature of the
Melchizedek involvement here during this transition time. I merely came in to
point out that as you are going through changes, make sure that you are growing
and not simply moving around just to be moving around.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> I would like to add one thing. Man will have to solve his own
problems. Even though you can materialize as many celestials as you want here,
it's clear from all the lessons we've learned from them that they will never
tell us what to do...and then we will have....</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You're absolutely right, it is necessary for you to gain this
experience for you eventually to master your own universes. This is your
experience.</P><B>
<P>Stefan:</B> Thanks a lot.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed, and I will alienate myself one more time before I call our
session to a close and that is to suggest that many of you remain seekers of
signs, and while there is a difference between those who literally see the hand
of God working in their lives and in the lives of others, and those who look for
symbols in order to sustain their faith or prove their premise, be mindful of
whether you are a seeker of signs in this generation or are you ready to pick up
your bed and walk. I say this to encourage you for I know the road is rough.
There is work ahead. It is worrisome to see the world in such disarray and the
air polluted and the students in turmoil. There are many problems on the planet
that must be, can be, and will be dealt with. </P>
<P>I am not discouraged. I am encouraged, like you, Marty, that these times are
upon us, for they will result in the brave new world we anticipate, where spirit
reigns supreme. But this will be brought about as a result of your efforts, not
because we have made it possible. Otherwise, you will not have had the
experience necessary for you in your schooling in this Melchizedek University
that you are [enrolled in] and in which I am honored to teach. I was a cultural
anthropologist when I was a mortal and so these issues interest me greatly. I
have a tremendous passion for the topic and so I have gotten carried away, and
perhaps have had too much coffee as we sat and chatted together, but I have
certainly enjoyed myself and I truly hope you have as well and (that) I have not
bored you all to tears.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well, we're not going to let you down Teacher Tomas; we're not
going to let you down.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, you're a good kid and a good student but it is not me that
you need to worry about letting down.</P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> Well, if you're one of the fans then we want to keep you cheering
for us.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let's keep each other happy. Yes indeed, let us be on our way.
Blessed students, blessed children of God, and beloved brothers and sisters, I
bid you farewell.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>