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<P>DATE:</B> October 3, 1996<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Allison Park, Pittsburgh, PA,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean</P><B>
<P>TEXTUAL STUDY:<BR>Urantia Paper 160: Rodan of Alexandria<BR></B>1. Rodan's
Greek Philosophy<BR>The three drives of life<BR>Problem solving and worshipful
meditation<BR>Prejudice and the recognition of truth<BR>2. The Art of
Living<BR>Socializing value of friendship<BR>The great value of marriage</P><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION:<BR>Undying Hope</P>
<P>Q&A: Jury Duty<BR>More on Names </P></B>
<P>TO<B>MAS:</B> I am Tomas.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Hello! Hi, Tomas.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> How are you this
evening?<BR><B>Group:</B> Full. Wonderful.<BR><B>TOMAS: </B>From my vantagepoint
you all appear to be well.<BR><B>Group: </B>Wound up, too,
Tomas.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> As you might say, "fat and sassy"?<BR><B>Group:</B>
(Laughter) Silly!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It gives us pleasure when we see you enjoy yourselves in harmony.
Even when you disagree among yourselves and banter about in your various
discourses, we are greatly heartened by the manifold work that has allowed your
diverse personalities and opinions to prance about and entertain one another in
comfort of knowing each other as a child of God, a fellow human being in the
ascent.</P>
<P>Once again it gives me sublime pleasure to embrace you, to welcome you to our
configuration of focus. We have been assembled here for a period of time in
observation of your gathering, your stillness, your socializing and your study
of Rodan's fine words. My words to you this evening are a continuance of our
more formal study of the fruits of the spirit. I am excited about your growth,
individually and as a community, as you take these fruits to heart and advance
them in your personal experience.</P>
<P>This evening I would like to call to your attention the fruit of the spirit
designated undying hope.</P>
<P>Hope is a quality of life that is a gift of the spirit. And a clear
realization of the value of hope is made evident in those situations where there
is none. </P>
<P>In your own personal experience it would be possible to call up moments
wherein hope was lacking, wherein you had aspired to attain some goal and found
at some point that the goal was unattainable. Hope was dashed, and tremendous
disappointment followed.</P>
<P>Sometimes as you lose hope, the door opens and the floodgates open, bringing
the results of your hope to bear, bringing you to the appreciation of the gift
of hope -- the gift of God that gives the results, the rewards that you had
hoped for.</P>
<P>Ponder for a moment the immature personality, the individual even who is on
the news frequently. Ponder the criminal, the battered wife, the molested child,
the drug addict, the alcoholic. Ponder the destitute widow whose husband did not
provide for her. Ponder the hungry, the poverty-stricken. Ponder the chronically
ill, the cancer victim.</P>
<P>How can they survive, endure, without hope? Many have no hope of hope. They
give up the struggle. They perish. Many take others down with them. Lack of hope
has caused a blight upon Urantia. Social ills, economic imbalance, disease, are
legacies disallowing the fruit of the spirit its own grace, its own space, its
own time.</P>
<P>When you, in your spiritual plentitude, pause to give thanks for your
Indwelling Adjuster, for the wonders which take place in your life and the lives
of your loved ones, when you count the cost and find you have change left over,
remember those who have no hope. Why? For a better understanding, if for no
other reason, of the value of this gift of the spirit, undying hope. </P>
<P>Now, in order that your hope stay alive and vital, in order that those who
have no hope can begin to ascend out of such a hopeless and helpless state of
mind and being, consider the merits of undying hope. Where does hope come from?
Yes, it comes from the spirit. But what of those who have cut themselves off
from the spirit so far that they do not believe that God will speak to them? …
that they have fallen so low that they cannot be smiled upon? </P>
<P>This is work not only for the angelic hosts and the Thought Adjusters, but
for the soldiers of the circles, to inspire hope in those who have lost it.
Undying. <I>Undying </I>hope. </P>
<P>You all have had hope of some thing, some attainment, some acquisition, some
radiant manifestation of your worth, or your effort, or your vanity. Oftentimes
these hopes are not met. Your expectations are flattened. What went wrong? Are
you not taught to have undying hope? Do you not believe that you maintain within
your soul a God-given right to have undying hope?</P>
<P>Let us look at undying hope in a pure and spiritual light. It comes to my
mind the adage, the mota, that the disappointments hardest to bear are those
which never come. (Urantia Book, pg. 557, #19) "The disappointments hardest to
bear are those which never come." Perhaps that disappointment, then, is that
which you have hoped for but which is not of the spirit, but which is of your
own mind, your own desires, and thus you experience disappointment for that
which is truly of the spirit, that which is His will, will never disappoint you.
It will always be provided. It is always forthcoming.</P>
<P>Ponder undying hope and realize that it is not the same as chronic yearning.
Many of you chronically yearn for things, for relationships, for riches, for
luck, for automobiles, for good health, for peace on earth, for Republican
victory, but these fall short of the fruit of the spirit undying hope which is
born of that which can never die. </P>
<P>And so, the ideal is to trust that hope which is based on our Father's
destiny for you. And when you hope for another, let it be that they, too, will
discover the illumination of that Core Reality which provides not only undying
hope but eternal assurance.</P>
<P>If you know someone who is scheduled to die of cancer, for example, do not
put your hope in the mortal tabernacle which is finite and temporal, but place
your hope in that personality, that it will traverse the spheres in life and
light, for <I>it</I> is undying.</P>
<P>When you see a battered woman who is covered with bruises and finds herself
entrapped in a life of hell out of which she can find no path, instill in her
undying hope <I>not </I>that she may live to experience more hell, but that she
may live anew in the hope of the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven … as she is
loved, as she is respected by the Great Friend Michael and by her true friends,
brothers and sisters in Christ.</P>
<P>When you see devastation brought about by drugs, and other substances
designed to provide relief and escape from the reality of life as it is found on
Urantia -- in some neighborhoods, on some levels of existence -- instill undying
hope by sharing your own hope, by sharing that you have known also a feeling of
being lost, of being separated from the Divine, of feeling not blessed, of
feeling unworthy, of feeling impure and outcast. Instill this undying hope by
sharing it with the God fragment that indwells the lowest and most humble of his
creatures.</P>
<P>Undying hope is not a passive condition. It is a call to service.</P>
<P>My friends, how may I serve you this evening?</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Tomas. This is Ruth. Thank you for my name.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, my child. I am so pleased that you have received your true
nomenclature. I would like to (1) apologize that it was not given to you in
person, but it was ripe for plucking and so it was; and (2) I would like to say
that your name acquaints you with/ associates you with a charmed order of women,
the Order of Ruth -- those being those similar to the baby sister of Jesus of
Nazareth who have always loyally and unquestioningly believed in him, have never
needed conversion, have never needed convincing, but have always known, always
loved, always believed in the Master. The Order of Ruth is a fine fellowship and
it is an honor to have one of that Order in this family of believers. My
daughter, I welcome you and bow to your grace.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Well, thank you. I hope that I can always continue to live up to
those things that are representative. What I would like to talk to you about is
(and I think that you are aware of what I am talking about) -- tomorrow I have
to make a very heavy decision, and there is a lot of controversy, and I can
identify with this person, I can understand exactly, almost, what ... Almost
exactly. I can't understand everything, but I can understand a great amount of
what this person has gone through and to some extent why the actions were taken
that were done towards another human being. And I need help. We make a decision
tomorrow and the effect of our decision will be on this person's life for the
rest of this person's life.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS: </B>Yes.</P><B>
<P>Ruth: </B>And I really need a lot of help.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> So I would request that you help me, and guide me, and guide all of
these people that I'm involved with, and help this person regardless of what
decision we may ... and the rest of the family that is involved in this.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I must say at the outset that you have given me far too much power
here. I am a teacher and I am pleased to counsel you, my student, but I cannot
guide and direct the individuals in the jury nor the defendant in the case. You
are correct in your emotional assessments, however, and I will redirect them to
higher authority than myself.</P>
<P>The question which you present to your teacher is related to the rules and
regulations of your civilization, and you are in an enviable situation. I
realize you do not feel that it is, but it is. It is a singularly private
experience you are having, in spite of your peers, your fellow jurors. I am
going to remind you of Michael's admonition to his apostles having to do with
Caesar and with the rules and regulations of the day, of the government. </P>
<P>I will also add, with his approval, that you in this position are in a
position to abide by the law. These are the instructions you will be given and
as a citizen of your country, entrusted with this responsibility, you can
relieve yourself of some distress by abiding by the laws of the country as will
be set out in the jury instructions.</P>
<P>If you feel that the laws of the land are infringing upon the laws of God,
then we perhaps ought to have another conversation, but for now I will say that
you have empathized and sympathized and felt understanding and indeed learned to
love in this experience. You are becoming wizened in this process.</P>
<P>Remember that the mature civilization has a duty to uphold its civilization.
You have, as a civilization, come far from the days, as you discussed earlier,
of cannibalism. Granted your government has a long way to go before we can truly
say that it is ruled by the Most Highs in all regards, but as a citizen of the
realm, it is your duty and your responsibility and your privilege to uphold your
society.</P>
<P>As an individual you may have feelings -- compassion, passions and so forth
-- but these are a personal matter. In the context in which you serve, you are
representing your government, your people, your civilization as it has evolved,
as you hope to continue to evolve to maintain peace and order for all. The
results of your decision are then consolidated with the decisions of your peers
and the results will be presented to the judge who will follow the law as it
also is presented to him.</P>
<P>When you remove yourself emotionally, as Rodan discussed, and look at the
problem facing you for solution, and look at it objectively, according to the
law, without the emotional involvement, you will be able to make your decision.
As an individual you may utilize all those emotional feelings and apply them in
personal prayer, in grieving, in anger, in joy, in service, in many, many
capacities. Has this been helpful?</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Yes, it has. It's been very, very helpful. Before I give up the
floor, I would also ask you: I have a client you probably know about. I was
talking to him just yesterday evening. And we discussed a number of things from
the Book, and he's a professional man. He's come up to a lot of spiritual things
and a lot of -- he realizes now there are means of care, and health, and he has
problems in his life and I would ask for guidance when we talk so that out of my
mouth comes the right things. I gave him some information last night. I'm going
to lend him a Book and I would appreciate if you would help me and help
him.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS: </B>Again, my daughter, you give me too many flowers. I feel that your
asking me to guide your words is something you should ask Michael to do. It is
He Who can speak through you, not me. I can teach you how to open yourself that
He may speak through you, even that I could serve in that capacity as a Teacher
through a T/R. Are you asking that of me?</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Very well, we will have some conferences in this realm regarding
your circuitry. I want you to know that your earnestness and sincerity will not
let you down, that you well understand that you have a host of helpers, that we
are all on hand for you, and that with your faith you will prevail. Your friend
is indeed a lucky man that he is under your ministry in more ways than one. Let
us all join in with Ruth's prayer that the words will be provided to stimulate
this man's appetite for further truth.</P>
<P>How is your niece?</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> I'm not sure, Tomas. From what I've heard, she's not going to
school and she's been staying away from home. I don't know. I've not been in
contact with my sister this week because of jury duty, so I'm not quite sure,
but she is not behaving herself as I see it.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Do not give up hope.</P>
<P>Ruth: I don't. Are you a father or a parent? I have no idea if you've been a
parent.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I had four sons.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> He's been tested!</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Oh. Okay. I think sons are easier than girls.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Perhaps that is why Michael assigned me to this group where I have
so many daughters.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Well, that might be true. I don't give up hope. But I just keep
searching for a way to reach her and I don't feel I've done that yet.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> May I ask a question?</P>
<P></P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Hunnah.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Oh, you love questions anyway. I was reading that transcript and
some of the people in the group here haven't read it yet, where you have
counseled Ruth, and I thought it was very good, of course, but I wonder if it
would be proper to let this young person read that discourse, because it
occurred to me that if it were to be so, you would be honoring the girl's
ability to make judgments, even if you were only seeding that. </P><B></B>
<P>The counsel said, 'I care about you so much that in my prayer life, I have
consulted Jesus,'. And the reply was true. Counsel is never for just one person.
Ruth received so much wonderful counsel from that and it helped to objectify the
situation, I thought. I benefited from that, and, once again, we're reminded to
trust and to not judge -- she's been concerned for the girl's safety, but even
if they get in trouble! It's like that, "If you cut your finger, it bleeds."
We'll patch it up later. Yes, you could fall in the hole, yes you could this,
this, and this. I thought it was excellent advice and would it be good to have
her read it?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I certainly have no objection in distributing our sessions
together for I find them (to be) quality communications and (ones which) might
induce others to engage in conversations in their own arena, if not with us. I
would allow Ruth to make that determination. Since she and I are old pals, if
she feels that the transcript would be received by her niece, that is yet
another jurisdictional decision she might make.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Well, I was thinking the girl might take it and share it with her
friends!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> That may be the case ...</P><B>
<P>Hunnah: </B>Oh, yes! because they want to be on their own ...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> ... but</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> ... and when they read it ...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Hunnah.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I appreciate your enthusiasm, but that is a decision that
<I>she</I> would make.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Oh, I understood that. I was thinking of the benefit of them, to
solve their own problems! They like to think they're on their own and maybe that
would certainly give them something to talk about.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> They might take the exact opposite attitude if you give this to
them. If they pick it up, that's one thing; if you hand it to them, they may
...</P><B>
<P>Evangel:</B> They may rebel.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> The only reason I said that was because Ruth is taught to
trust.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Well, that's all she has to do.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> No, no. But it's telling -- when ... (Let's see if I can say this
right, and I think this is very valid.) If I -- it happened to me, even. If you
get counsel for someone because you love them, and then you get counsel for both
of you, you're saying to that person, "I took a chance and took my fears about
you into my prayer..." No, but you're saying to them, "You're all right. You are
allright.''</P><B>
<P>Student: </B>But they don't understand it that way always. Remember you're
talking to people who are not progressed as far as you are.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I don't know. From the looks of that transcript, this girl is
just like everyone else. She has a wonderful Thought Adjuster. Okay. I've talked
enough. But this can be applied in so many directions, that's why I was thinking
about that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you, Hunnah.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> May I ask? I will not be with you next week because I should be
in Orlando, Florida. I'm supposed to leave on Wednesday and return the following
Wednesday. Do you see this as a successful trip? I'm flying.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have to polish up my crystal ball. (Group laughter) </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> You don't see anything dark around it?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Honey, you are a blazing light. Any darkness near you would be
quickly extinguished by your dazzling personality.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Thank you. I appreciate that. I know it's from your
heart.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> When you are in Florida, some of us will be also away and
ministering joyously and so we will reconvene in two weeks in our normal
configuration with everyone in attendance and establish our Autumn itinerary and
compare notes on holiday activities, travel plans and so forth. When we dance,
we dance. When we plow, we plow together.</P><B>
<P>Frank:</B> Dear Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, my son.</P><B>
<P>Frank:</B> I'm the new kid on the block.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, my son.</P><B>
<P>Frank:</B> And I guess you know that sooner or later you would be hearing
from me.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am glad.</P><B>
<P>Frank:</B> I've had a problem. I'm under a lot of stress lately, with a move
that I plan to make in selling my home and moving into the Pennsylvania area
where I can be ... where I became acquainted with the Urantia Papers and the
Urantia readers who have meant a great deal to me, and with the help of Gerdean
I've come to love these sessions that we have. What I want to ask is, I wonder
if I am going about things the right way in liquidating my home. I don't care
about the monetary end of it, but what I want to know is if I am making the
right steps and the right moves. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you for your confidence, my son. I would like, however, to
say that you are not, truly, such a new kid, for I have known you for a long
time already and we have done much work together. We have truly been associates,
colleagues and comrades in many regards. I appreciate your male presence; I
appreciate the companionship and sense of security you have provided for my
friend, Gerdean; I appreciate the courage that it has taken for you to set aside
your lifetime's conventions in order to seek out and confirm for yourself this
reality which has grown in your heart, in your mind and in your soul.</P>
<P>To leave behind that which is familiar and launch into that which is unknown
is an exciting experience but one that, unfortunately in the human animal, is
highly fear-inducing also. You are well trained in your mind as far as material
concerns and so you will not shortchange yourself in that context. Have no fear.
Your primary concern is the element of unsurefootedness, and this will pass as
you place one foot in front of the other and find, on a daily basis, that you
have not fallen, that in fact you have climbed to a Pennsylvania hillside which
has offered a farther view than you had believed possible.</P>
<P>We here in this teacher base welcome you and will support your presence among
us. I know I speak for all here present and for those of this flock who are
meandering the hills this evening. Have no fear, my friend. It is good to see
you present yourself to me this way, that we may share our relationship with the
others, that you may share your inner life also with them.</P>
<P>How our family burgeons! Your faith is new, but it is determined, as you are
determined. I will call you Jude. Welcome.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Welcome, Jude.</P><B>
<P>Jude:</B> Thank you, Tomas. Thank you so very, very much. I'm inspired by all
the words that you have told me tonight. I'm very encouraged and it makes me
feel stronger to keep pursuing what I'm after now and thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, you are welcome. I will remind you that many, many moons ago
Teacher Daniel spoke to you and encouraged your persistence in these odd events
of the Teaching Mission in this time for Urantia and in your association with
Gerdean. He promised you would be exposed to many new adventures and that you
would grow from these experiences, and my brother Daniel was "right on" for he
knew you well. He had faith in you. He had undying hope that today would come
and it has come.</P><B>
<P>Jude:</B> Thank you, Tomas, once again.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, my son.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Tomas, everybody has a name but me. What's mine?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> One moment. You have asked me to reveal to you your name and your
name is still in formulation. Your name will change again but I will give you a
working name, one which will evolve into a fuller name as you grow into
awareness of your potential self. Will that suffice?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yeah.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Hester.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Oooh! Pretty! Different!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> As you are different. (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Does that have any special meaning?</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> I don't know.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Your name is spelled H-e-s-t-e-r for now but it will develop that
your name will evolve farther. Hester is an ancient Biblical name. I am not
inferring that you are ancient, my dear. . . (Outburst of group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> I am! I am ancient!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> ... but in our group and with sincere respect, you are the ancient
one. You are the grandmother, the esteemed and honorable elder. (Group
laughter)</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You laugh but you show disrespect in your laughter.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> You didn't see what we saw.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> My point is that your sojourn here is one which provides the
invaluable aspect of experience and those who have experienced much of life have
gained wisdom and have attained endurance more than you have yet seen, and so
the wise culture is the one which honors the elder. The Native Americans honor
the Grandfather, the Grandmother. The Chinese also revere the elderly; their
women are respected and not turned out to pasture. Your society's custom of
disregarding the strengths of the elderly is a disgrace. The elders have seen,
witnessed, suffered, endured, taught more than the average mind can hold, and so
it is a privilege to honor Hester.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> Hester for now.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> We can call her Grandma, can't we?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> She'll have us cuttin<SUP>'</SUP> her grass.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We are getting to know each other. The thing is we have an
external/exterior facade which we show to the public, but the real you
underneath is the true you that we will urge to emerge in time. Your own
strengths, your own radiant personalities are indeed honorable and respected. It
is expected that you learn to love and respect yourself and each other. I am not
suggesting that laughter is not important, but laughing at each other or at each
other's expense is a paltry and shoddy imitation of genuine affection, unworthy
of God-knowing sons and daughters.</P>
<P>Have I put you all in the corner?</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> Yes. Yes, we'll be good.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Are there other questions or discourse?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I have a question. Do you recommend that you refer to each other
by these names, or think of each other by this name? It's not just our code of
acceptance in the gatherings?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is an identity. It is an understanding of your true self. As
anyone knows you and loves you can tell, they know the difference between Bev
and Hunnah. Bev is liked, certainly, and silly and fun and a great cook, or at
least a great hostess; but Hunnah is abundant and generous and lavish in her
affection and mirth. It is a difference, a subtle difference to some, but a
significant different to others.</P>
<P>I see you as you are. Sometimes you are your lesser self. Sometimes you are
your more evolved self. And as I have said before, I love you both because I
know in time you will become your higher self, and so I like the higher self but
only if it is acknowledged and honored thus. I do not cater to making light of
these names, like we would not call Gabriel, "Hey, Gabey" and I have admonished
Gerdean that my favorite form of greeting is not, "Yo, Tomas!" (Group laughter).
The baser aspects of you, the more childish aspects, enjoy "Big Mac" yes, but
there's a difference between childish and childlike. A child of God honors the
magnanimous Machiventa. These are perhaps moot points, but since you asked my
opinion, I gave it.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I appreciate it because I was seriously considering asking to be
addressed as Hunnah under certain circumstances, simply to keep building that
reality, so I think I'll go ahead.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes. It has been observed that when individuals are addressed by
their spiritual name, they have a tendency to respond spiritually. This furthers
the cause. It reinforces the spirit reality of the individual and their
identification with their evolving soul. It helps to elevate the mind from the
petty troubles of the day. It adds sensitivity and even romance to an otherwise
prosaic experience, rather like the mota. It is a part of you. It is an
identification of the real you. Some individuals dislike their spiritual name
until they learn to like their Self. Some people hear their spiritual name and
it causes them to respond at once, powerfully. Various individuals handle this
in various ways. It is a new development, as you know, as part of the Teaching
Mission, as part of Correcting Time.<BR><BR>It was not intended that you know
your spiritual name until far, far later in your spiritual career, after leaving
Urantia, but since the administrators have inducted this accelerated program in
order that you might bring yourself up, out of darkness and into light following
the adjudication of the Lucifer Rebellion, there were many among you who would
respond well in advance of your peers, and so this was one of those inducements
to help you identify your greater reality, to give you a sense of actual
spiritual solidarity in the work at hand.</P>
<P>You could equate it perhaps to an army that provides titles like Corporal
(background giggling) or Major or General, and these are titles which evoke a
response and a respect, not that you need to salute each other but that you
greet each other as fellow patriots in the work of the kingdom.</P>
<P>I take it I have caused great, amusement among the men at the table. (Group
laughter) I must say I am delighted to hear the men laugh.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Us, too!</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> I have a question.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Lean.</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> I was wondering if you could give some validation to --well, when I
was listening earlier, I kept seeing neon purple, or neon violet little "clouds"
in my mind. Sometimes I see a neon green color, and other times -- particularly
when I sense that my teacher is around (and I'm sure she's around nearly all the
time), I sense a neon pink. I just wondered if you could tell me if there is any
significance to this or am I hallucinating here.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have no idea, except perhaps something has raised a red flag.
How it is that you see things in your mind, in terms of color, is a facet of
your brain that I am not tapped into. I do understand that there are humanoids
that are very impressed with color, with auras, vibrations, sounds and the like.
I have heard it said that certain humanoids hear angels sing and, indeed,
Gerdean reads words out of her mind which translate to be lessons from Tomas, a
teacher in the Teaching Mission, and so how can I confirm or deny those things
which I do not experience myself. I know I am real and she reads my words so I
must assume that your purple neon lights represent something of significance and
potential value to you and to others, but I cannot determine that for you. We
have discussed color briefly in former lessons, but I cannot equate your color
interpretations to various word phrases.</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> Thank you. I was wondering. I know that when humans close their
eyes very tightly they sometimes see blood vessels or little lines. It's more
like something passing through; just a color but I probably equate it to a
cloud, but it's something I never experienced prior to this Teaching Mission;
that's all I want to say.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I would also like to know more of it if, as you say, it is new
since the circuits opened. If you would keep me apprised of any new developments
in it, I would be interested. I would suggest you not press hard upon your
eyeballs (Group laughter).</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> There is a new color prognosticated, to my knowledge, and has
been for several years. What it is I have yet to hear. Maybe you'll be the one
to see it.</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Tomas, do you think sometimes that your little group is a little
loose upstairs? (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I must tell you that, yes, I do. (Group laughter) But I knew that
in advance of arriving. The truth is: I was chosen to come here ... (Group
laughter)</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> Because you'd fit right in.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Because I would fit right in. (Group laughter)</P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> Well, thank you, Tomas! What a high compliment! You fit right in
with us.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> What a delightful sense of humor. </P><B>
<P>Ruth:</B> What a charming gentleman.</P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> Remember that laughter is the antidote for exaltation of the
ego and we have some very wholesome, healthy and colorful egos at the table. It
is refreshing to let down our reserve and our facades and laugh and bask in the
comfort of knowing each other in the lack of negative judgment we place upon
each other and just being divine children together.</P>
<P>Divine children, I will make my departure. I would like to say in good humor,
also, that our Lord Michael is truly a wondrous Creator, for he has such Undying
Hope for us. Farewell.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Good night, Tomas. Thank you. It's so much better than watching
boring TV.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>