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<P>LIGHT LINE</B><BR><B>DATE:</B> May 4, 2006<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean, for
<B>TEACHER TOMAS</B> on the importance of group synergy and the effectiveness of
prayer in helping bring that about.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> This is your faithful
friend, Tomas, glad to be with you once more in this familiar format in service
to the King and the Kingdom, of which we are a vital part. Indeed, the realm is
radiant with joy this evening as many commemorate this Day of Prayer, and I too
will take the opportunity to lift my voice in praise and thanksgiving to the
Universal Father of all for the mystery of his many blessings. <BR><BR>How our
lives are touched by this thing that we know of as God. Even aside from the
personal relationship we enjoy with him as Father, it is humbling to be in the
presence of such energy and power as are expressed from the Central Isle of
Paradise where God lives. And the universe is filled with those happy and joyous
helpers who, like us, rejoice to know Him and share our joy with others "as we
pass by." <BR><BR>I greet you with affection, open arms, and invite your embrace
in the spirit of love attending our gathering, for in this we will find the
energy and the motivation and the zeal to go forth and tackle our manifold
problems of daily living in the uplifting work at hand. <BR><BR>It is so easy --
I have said this so many times it is like a mantra -- it is so easy for you to
become lost in the energies of the lesser reality, even claiming that this
lesser reality has preeminence over all other concerns, for it is <I>now</I>, it
is <I>in the now</I>, and therefore sacred somehow. Yes, indeed, "everything is
holy now," but from that point of appreciation, the energies wasted on pointless
passion is simply the gesture of the pressure cooker of your mind letting off
steam. This is the sign of immaturity. <BR><BR>I say this not to wag my finger
in shame and point to your childishness, but to put perspective on the truth
that when your mind is fixed on God, your passions are directed and focused in a
purposive way such that you will choose not to expend yourself in needless waste
of energy. You will choose to gather yourself together and gird up the loins of
your mind in order to prepare yourself for meaningful service - and this
includes conscientious consideration of the concerns of the daily life.
<BR><BR>What can you do to improve the lot of humanity? The opportunities are
abundant. There are many fields where you may strew your seeds, but the prudent
farmer will observe the weather conditions and the other factors that go into
his planting so that he knows to plant in season and when the rains are
expected, in soil which offers an opportunity for growth, where the roots may
take hold and grow. <BR><BR>We observe you, each of you and as a group, as a
race, a nation, a people. We study you. We study your ways and your reactions,
your responses, your efforts. We study how you approach your problem, how you
deal with your successes and your alleged failures. We learn so much from you.
Do you learn from yourselves? How much do you learn from observing others as
they go about their business, sometimes flailing their arms, sometimes with
blinders on, sometimes setting one foot in front of the other without having any
idea what they are doing or where they are going but in faith plodding on
nonetheless? <BR><BR>I point this question out, because there is so much
potential. The potential of you here now at this point in your global and
planetary history is so fraught with possibilities. The phrase "teetering on the
brink" is inadequate to describe the pulsing, surging energy forces that are
even now tumbling forth, falling all over themselves, running into each other,
butting heads up against each other, even as you are allies in your undertaking
to be about the Father's business, to fix the world, to solve humanity's
problems. <BR><BR>Your hearts are on fire with the desire to serve. And so many
times at the end of the day you feel like you have done only a fraction of that
which you had hoped to accomplish when you set out in faith in the morning. Some
of this has to do with the fact, yes, that you are time/space creatures, and
that while your mind is limited only by your own imagination and your spirit is
boundless, you are limited by the nature of your physicality and the limitations
set upon you by your culture, your finances, your strengths, and your ability to
prevail with others. <BR><BR>This ability to get along and to be workers in the
field is the next paradigm to approach and master. For always will you have
yourself to come back to and reflect upon. How to get along with others in order
to be effective is the next big question. We can see it taking place on so many
levels and in so many situations. It is exciting for us to behold and we hope
you, too, find it more exciting than frightening, more challenging than
overwhelming, more stimulating than frustrating. <BR><BR>We urge you to take the
time to focus your mind and allow yourself to be led in the small ways, for when
you are found to be trustworthy in the small things, greater things will be
given to you - even the opportunity to share in leadership possibilities - even
in those opportunities to effect eternal and permanent changes. <BR><BR>In the
interim, in the meantime, we have these precious moments together to share as
friends, which "friendship is an end in itself." And in some quarters, it is
springtime - another opportunity to pause and reflect on the ever-giving font
that is creation, offering always anew opportunities and moments to behold and
to cherish. And so we have a focus for our prayer on this [National] Day of
Prayer. Amen. <BR><BR>I would like to hear from you. I would like to hear from
all of you. I do understand that some of you take longer to formulate questions
than others. I do understand that the nature of this process is that you are and
have been listening with a superconsciousness that must be refocused into the
conscious mind in order to put forth questions, and sometimes the process of
moving from the superconscious to the conscious mind renders the question "lost
in space" or moot. <BR><BR>There are those also who keep questions in a jar to
pull out when the occasion presents itself, without having to worry about
formulating the question but merely setting it forth. And there are those who
have no idea what their question is but their soul yearns to express it, and so
they talk, and somewhere in there the question of their soul is revealed. It is
the soul that I have come to teach. It is your soul that I am commissioned to
reach, so that you can get to know it better and help it help you on the way
toward becoming all that you can be, all that you are. And thus I open the door
for your questions and for your presence. <BR><BR><B>Simon:</B> Tomas, this is
Simon in Salt Lake.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes? <BR><BR><B>Simon:</B> I am looking
forward to your personal words to me on how to unlock the doors I've been hiding
behind, to be more effective, and to also sustain and be in faith to be my
higher genuine self.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes. You suffer from
self-consciousness. This is the problem with most of you who would like to step
out but don't. And from this point of self-consciousness, it is so very easy
then to observe, intellectually and academically, all the reasons why you would
be foolish to step forth, or all the reasons why they wouldn't hear you if you
did speak up. And these are mere excuses and mere contrivances to avoid
overcoming the self-consciousness from which you suffer. <BR><BR>In terms of,
for example, T/Ring. Most of you who T/R or who have dabbled in this process,
experience a moment of
shall we call it "trepidation"
when you quiver on the
brink of opening your mouth and allowing words to come out. Most people freeze
under the veil of self-consciousness and thus deprive themselves of the
thrilling opportunity of working with celestial energies and personalities to
help uplift humanity. <BR><BR>You miss that opportunity that Gerdean, for
example, experiences of being so close to me that she is learning from my way of
dealing with you how she can better deal with you. The intimacy of the learning
is well worth overcoming the trepidation that would stop you from taking that
leap of faith and opening your mouth and saying what needs to come out. It's the
same thing. It's the same thing exactly. <BR><BR>It's self-consciousness that
someone will laugh at you, or that you will make a mistake, or that you will be
ignored. This is the human person getting in the way. For what will happen, in
the ideal (even if it is an eventuation) is the spirit will come forth. It is
the spirit of truth -- the spirit of understanding, the spirit of courage, all
of the adjutants that come to support the spirit of truth -- that will speak for
you. You need not worry, Simon. It is not about you. It is about ministry. It is
about allowing God the opportunity to express himself through you. <BR><BR>Look
for the opportunity and when you feel your lips tremble, when you feel your
heartbeat, when you feel your hands get clammy, when you feel the hot flash or
the cold flash -- but when you see the opportunity, seize the opportunity and
the rest be damned. Let it happen. Eventually and gradually your
self-consciousness will recede into the shadows where they belong. Let God take
center stage. Is this helpful? <BR><BR><B>Simon:</B> Thank you so much. That is
well-expressed and taken to heart. Thank you so much,
Tomas.<BR><BR><B>Recca:</B> So Tomas, it seems to me that you are reiterating
what you said at the beginning of your speech, your words this time
that when
we are sowing the seeds, as farmers, we are looking for fertile ground, we are
looking for ... actually we're reiterating the parable of the sower and we're
going to believe that the seeds are going to fall where they may. But you might
even be saying here that to be courageous enough to speak sometimes means that
we don't even worry about what the seed that God is going to sow is. We might
not know what it is until it comes out of our mouth and we sow that seed and we
pass it along.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes, and this is what happens when you are
not self-conscious! You don't stumble over yourself on the way to plant your
seeds. <BR><BR><B>Recca:</B> Right. It is not our seed; it is the Father's. We
are just the sower.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Precisely. Just the sower.
<BR><B>Recca:</B> Thank you.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> But let me add to what you
said, that being, you have the confidence about yourself that allows you to
gesture and speak in such a way as to effect seed-planting. You have already
girded up your mind. You have already organized your soul for dynamic service.
You are already there, waiting for the opportunity - if not in a conscious
teacher/preacher mode, at least as a soul you are there eager to see where you
can help. <BR><BR>Here am I Lord, send me! What shall I do? I can do this. I can
lift that. I can sew this. I can cook that. I can carry that. I can say this. I
can sing that. All of these gestures of service are ways that allow God to speak
through you. And as this is a way of life for you, there will come those
opportunities to teach and preach, when questions will come, just out of
nowhere, it would seem. And because the environment is conducive to the
planting, your seed will be placed in the fertile soil which has opened itself
to receive the seed. And there is no fear in that. <BR><BR><B>Recca:</B> The
confidence is two-sided there. The strength of confidence, but that comes from
confide with faith, so doing with faith builds confidence
within.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> It also has something to do with your perception of
yourself. If you feel unworthy, if you have some false sense of humility, you
are not allowing yourself the opportunity to feel that you have something to
give, that you are a worthy vessel. There are stories. There is one here about
the cracked urn that the person carries along the path that water dribbles out
of all the way down the road, who feels like a failure at the end of the path
because there is so little water left in the urn at the end of the road, but it
has watered the pathway and the plants along the way, so whereas the pot felt it
was unworthy, it still served. <BR><BR>Imagine how much more you can serve if
you feel you have something to give! -- if you happily and gaily splash your
water along, out of the cracks and crevices of your own existence in joyous
recognition of being, rather than trying to conserve yourself 'til the end of
the journey -- and so there is much to be said about feeling good about
yourself. <BR><BR>And this is part of what we reiterate and insist on coming
back to, and that we so love to see in you, and that is the realization that you
are indeed a part of God, a living reality that is a part of the divine reality
- eternal and good. Understanding your part in this cosmic scheme of things is
where the true satisfaction comes from, the true sense of belonging.
<BR><BR>There is just nothing more thrilling or satisfying than knowing that God
loves you. Knowing that for all of your faults and imperfections, you are
precious to Him. When you are loved, you stand taller; when you know you are
cherished, you are quicker to smile; when you understand that you are cared for,
you are more likely to care freely for others. And this, of course, is the point
of stillness: to drink deep from that well, understanding that you are of God.
<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Hello, Tomas. This is Marshall. Very fine to hear your
voice and it's a pleasure to be in your presence tonight. <BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B>
It is good to hear from you, Marshall. <BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> I have a
question. Let's hear more from you, Tomas, if you will, about empowering
ourselves to become true and effective masters of manifestation through
connecting to the light anchor in merkaba with our unseen celestial teams to
utilize and employ the process of energy management. More specifically, the
ability to manipulate and transform this pure energy of love, say, to manifest
our noble ideals.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes, well, indeed. This does get to what
I was speaking of in my lesson, and which we have already followed up with in
terms of the personal connection, but to gather our energy together in some form
of paradigm is a way of compounding the energy to accomplish these things
What
things? Well, that's another subject. But the empowerment that is derived from
fellowship is worthy of discussion, indeed. <BR><BR>Already in these few years
of the Teaching Mission there are those who have done more than they thought
possible because of the energy that they derived from not only their
relationship with God or his helpers, but with each other in the flesh here as
coworkers. Many, many projects have been undertaken in the understanding that
when you work together you are more than you are as independent workers (that
zooidal concept that Gerdean loves so much, and which is pointed out in the
Papers on the development of civilization), that through effective leadership
ten men together can do more than that ten men apart. It is that exponential
thing. <BR><BR>And indeed, it is important that at some point (and the sooner
the better) this kind of dynamic can be effected because there is much work to
be done. Yes, of course, it could be said that the urgency is to get it together
so as to counter the negative effects of the Cabal or the Illuminati or the Bush
administration or the immigrants or the terrorists
and certainly there is a
mortal propensity to want to gather your forces against some visible or
invisible foe. <BR><BR>But the real juice behind such a conjoining would be
found in the desire do something <I>for</I>, rather than <I>against</I>. It's
like the Ten Commandments. Who wants to follow something "thou <I>shalt
not</I>"? You want to follow something that "thou <I>shalt</I>" and thus
institute the positive effects of such religious principles. So, I reiterate
"what shall we get together <I>for</I>?" and this comes to unity of purpose.
Unity of purpose has not been decided. <BR><BR>That can be for a group, a group
of three or four, a group of ten or 20, a group of 50 or 100, a group of 1,000,
a group of 10,000. The purpose for which a group gathers together is what will
motivate that group to act, and you as religionists, you who would draw upon the
power of the spirit itself to infuse you with the necessary energy to do
something, must have some pretty high ideals as to what to do with it, other
than to feel good and powerful. <BR><BR>Earlier, I spoke of overcoming
self-consciousness so that you could be ready to do something for the Father, to
speak for Him. It would be so gratifying to see groups of individuals preparing
themselves similarly to be ready to speak for God. But so far, we have not found
the synergy necessary to hold it together, and so we continue to tremble and
shiver on the brink and practice what we can with what we've got until we step
up our pace through our own evolutionary development to the next step. <BR><BR>I
am not discouraged. As I say, we observe with fascination to see how you succeed
and how you allegedly fail at your myriad efforts, all the while your hearts a
thumping in the hopes of being able to do something for the Father, or for the
cosmos, or for humanity, or for whatever it is that appeals to your higher
nature. This could be any of the services required by the angelic orders, or by
the midwayers, or by your own local government. The opportunities to serve are
endless. <BR><BR>But yes, I do understand and see the yearning to move as a
group and to function as a well-oiled machine in the establishment of the
Kingdom. I do appreciate the study of the merkaba energy and the recognition of
how much energy there is available in the universe if it could only be tapped
into and mastered. <BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Yes Tomas, I perceive this is
beautiful. I perceive that through globalization of, say, focus groups with
unity of purpose, utilizing this merkaba, that indeed united as we stand to be
early days of the dualistic separatistic mentality of the fear based ego-animal
mind are coming to a gradual close upon the--<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Are you
reading from an encyclopedia there, my friend? <BR><B>Marshall:</B> I'm just
looking at my notes here.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Your words are too big. If you
want to contact humanity, you have to join with humanity.
<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Well, let's put it this way, Tomas. Through the
mobilization of focus groups, groups with unity of purpose, utilizing merkaba, I
perceive--<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> "Utilizing merkaba." You mean cosmic energy?
<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Cosmic energy in synergistic circle with unified groups
with let's say pinpoints of light. Say there are 1,000 of these groups
throughout the planet and these groups get together on a weekly basis or even on
a daily basis in their mind as they hook up to the merkaba, but they only get
together physically once a week and through this practice of hooking up to the
merkaba in their group physically and also daily, even though they are not
present physically within their group of mortals and
unseen--<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> And what are they going to do?<BR><B>Marshall:</B>
They are mobilizing with a unity of purpose for whatever ideals that they
have.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Well, let's see what their ideals are. The reason it
doesn't take is because they don't have anything <I>to
do</I>.<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Well, my point is that focused groups of
individuals that have come together with a unity of
purpose--<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> I am sure, Marshall, that there is not one
individual here present this evening that <BR>would not also like to participate
in a group that was focused and dynamic. There is not one of us who would not
like that. The question is how to effect it.<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Okay. That
was not my question, but I'm with you. I sense some contentiousness in Gerdean's
demeanor here so I will just be quiet, Tomas, and maybe I'll hear you
talk.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> This <I>is</I> Tomas talking.<BR><B>Marshall:</B>
Okay, good.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> This is not Gerdean being contentious; it is me
saying that you cannot just get together and feel good and expect people to join
you night after night after night and come back a week later and say 'wasn't
that great, we felt good all week.'<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> Well, specifically,
I've been in a group for over 15 months now. We get together weekly. This group
has gotten together with a unity of purpose through intentions to actually
effect what we have been led to synergistically focus on.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B>
May I know what that is?<BR><BR><B>Marshall:</B> You may know if you ask your
superiors (and I'm sure they will tell you), but it has to do with co-creating a
whole new living energy system. I will only take it that far. It's much more
extensive than that, which has been birthed. Now, my point is that others will
be coming into these groups as we evolve throughout the planet, and coming to
effect what we have through their co-creative efforts effected. Now my point is,
is that -- through such focused intention will not these groups as whole be able
to take the new paradigm and bring it in with the wholeness of Jesus' teachings
and along with new aspects of the morontia mind increase the cosmic insight and
the depth of
?<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes, of course. That is why we are working
with groups as much as possible, why we encourage group loyalty, why we
encourage the concept of family, why we have established teacher bases with
teachers and students so that the paradigm you speak of can come about. This is
part of the plan. The fact that we are on the telephone speaking in a community
without finite grounding is not to say we are not a group, and certainly we have
bonded synergistically in the concepts that were delivered to the soul of our
community here this evening. It is a process. <BR><BR>Some groups that have been
meeting regularly, weekly, for months even years have developed true power. Some
have actually done things, not just created organizations or soup kitchens or
buildings but have addressed issues and impacted society, have affected culture
and saved souls. And the fact that they have done this as members of a community
can only cement the community further. It's like marriage. </P>
<P>When you come together in marriage you come together as separate individuals
but over time you experience the birth of your children, the sale of your house,
the wreck of your car, the broken arm, the windfall, and you are no longer two
people you are one person. You are one family because of these experiences you
have shared together you have become an institution.<BR><BR>The same is true
certainly for groups of believers, and since we have such great hope for these
believers who have been spawned by the revelation and fostered by the Teacher
Corps and the Melchizedeks and others to recognize the assistance that is being
offered to those of you who are looking at the future with open eyes and faith
of an expansive tomorrow, are being cultivated and nurtured and fostered to
become a part of just this kind of synergistic energy. In fact, there is no
holding back. There's no holding back any of these individuals who have felt in
their heart the touch that God has planted in them to serve humanity, to serve
God, to do something for the Supreme. <BR><BR>How can we empower this further?
Each of us can ask that and offer suggestions, overcome the self-consciousness
and project our ideas and ideals -- What is it the bumper sticker says? -- "even
if your voice shakes." In time, groups will merge, form, fall apart, reconvene,
reconfigure and ultimately we will prevail. Be malleable but be
persistent.<BR><BR><B>Marty: </B>Teacher Tomas, this is Marty here. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Marty. </P><B>
<P>Marty:</B> I want to thank you for this talk that you're giving this evening
and I'd just like to add that I'm very satisfied with the developmental progress
that is going on, on our world here. I feel the synergistic energy of all of the
people who care and love and I feel as though it is just coming together, and I
feel as though we're just doing the best that we can and that we are succeeding.
I want to thank you for all of those words.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Yes Marty, you
are more than welcome. You are one of the more diligent workers in the field of
communications and networking. You plant seeds freely, not without regard but
freely, and they feed people. They help people determine what they believe and
what they want to believe. You help people realize that they are not alone and
that their thought processes are not unlike others'. You help people recognize
like-mindedness so that certain groups can indeed formulate and empower one
another.<BR><BR><B>Marty:</B> Looks like you are in touch with the things that I
am working on. I don't really send out my own opinions, I just try to share the
intentions of all of the different groups and they just reveal such a
togetherness, and when I pray I have really not been praying my own prayers. I
have been asking Father to give me the prayers that He would have us give to
each other in this group prayer. I was hoping to hear you say something about
that one.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> When I think of prayer, Marty, I like to think in
the simplest of terms, for man is a complex creature. He likes to <I>think</I>
he is, at any rate, and to complicate matters that need not be complicated.
Prayer is a simple gesture, a simple soulful expression, an act of thanksgiving,
a petition for peace. Prayer often loses people because it is so simple. They
want their minds troubled and clamoring. They want to fight with something and
argue with someone. Prayer is too easy, and so prayer is often glossed over and
lost in the more complicated and sophisticated<BR>guises; however, there is
nothing more effective. What is more effective than one tear? What is more
effective than one smile?<BR><BR>At the right time, in God's time, the
simplicity of the relationship between the parent and the child is the heart of
the prayer and the relationship between the Father and the child is one
of<BR>enduring peace. We go to our parent to be comforted, to be directed, to be
guided, to be reassured. This is very simple. It comes very simply into the
heart and into the soul because you have allowed the mental clamor to shut down.
You have allowed your spirit to open to the Great Spirit and become one drop of
water in the boundless ocean of infinity.<BR><BR><B>Marty:</B> May I interrupt
you for a minute? I just wanted to say that I have two things to say to that.
One is that to me prayer has become holding Father's hand, being with Him and I
don't really have anything to ask Him for. I feel totally cared for and
satisfied. But one of the things I have been wondering about is, I think
Marshall has been raising this question of the group and I'm thinking of it in
terms of group prayer and I was wondering if we ought to have our supernal
teachers joining us in our prayers for the welfare and betterment of our world,
peace on earth and the end of devastation and poverty here.
<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> You may be assured that when you pray we pray with you.
</P><B>
<P>Marty: </B>Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is not always that we pray the same prayer, but we join with
you in praying and add our energy with yours in the act of praying
itself.<BR><BR><B>Marty:</B> That's what I would expect. I can't imagine even
two people who are mortals having the same prayer, but joining our energies
together is what I'm speaking of and I think that being a part of the Teaching
Mission and becoming familiar with our celestial cosmic family makes it such a
different relationship than it would be without that. Just to have the family
praying together is just phenomenal.<BR><BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Indeed, and
remarkable. I am going to close this session. It has been far more replete than
you realize. We have planted many seeds, not the least of which is the
importance of group synergy and the effectiveness of prayer in helping bring
that about. I thus leave you with my best affections and look forward to our
next time together. Go about your lives being happy and doing good. Until we
meet again, farewell. [Thank you]<BR></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>