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<P>DATE:</B> February 26, 1997<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Butler, PA,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean</P><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION<BR>TOMAS</B> introduces <B>MERIUM<BR></B>Relating
Morontially<BR>Miracles and Mind<BR>The Importance of Choosing</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am Tomas. Good evening. I understood you were eager to hear from
a personal teacher, perhaps Trieste, and your request has brought to our
attention again the Evangelical Corps propensity ongoing here. It has been
decided that this area will be receiving another teacher, a feminine presence.
She is here this evening.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Is she a teacher such as yourself? in the capacity that you are?
or as a personal teacher?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This entity is in the Teaching Corps. In due course, my dear, it
may be you who will transmit for the group, and although I am reluctant to say
such a thing for in understanding of the human nature you may perceive that as a
pressure/expectation upon you I will not reference it in that context, but I
will say that there are more that one reason for this new development to take
place. For one, I am not here to carry on a sustained monologue, and as we
proceed in our studies and growth, I will be utilizing a co-teacher in some of
our new developments.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> May I speak? </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I don't want to interrupt your thought. My question is: is this
in light of the way -- because our group seems to be … appears to be falling
away?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will say that it does have to do with your group, yes, but not
because it is falling away, for it is truly not falling away but is undergoing
changes. And the part of the curriculum which is up-coming has to do with, shall
we call it, teamwork and group awareness and group interaction. And one of the
methods of expanding your perception of otherness and cooperation among
like-kind is to evidence for you interactions on our level of operation for your
observation in your own developing of those skills and arts of intercourse,
group contact and communication, that will be bringing your group back into a
cohesive whole.</P>
<P>It is now time to expand our format; and as you are concerned about the
group, it is timely, for it is apparent to you in your keen perception that a
change is immanent, and yet this change is positive for it is growth
inducing.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> That's good news.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is also good news in that you have attained this point. It
could not have been done until you were ready, and so you can be grateful for
your own individual growth(s) that has brought the community to this point of
understanding what community action is. It will be our challenge now to
introduce you all to the Jesusonian techniques of relating among yourselves for
you to then carry your personal insights and your group experiences into the
greater arena.</P>
<P>I have made a bit of an announcement. I would like to introduce our new
Teacher, my co-chair here. Her name is Merium, and she would like to say hello.
One moment please.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Greetings. I am inexperienced in this verbalizing process but I
have been among you for many months now, observing and making rounds with
teacher Tomas; therefore, I have made in-roads into understanding your various
personalities and noting some of the differences and difficulties in your
associations. But lest I start to work already, let me back up and say how happy
I am to be included in this family of colleagues under Christ Michael in support
of his plan and aspiration for you.</P>
<P>I have already come to appreciate each of you, in observing you in your quiet
times and in some of your meaningful exchanges with your peer group.
Fascinating, it is. Wonderful, it can be.</P>
<P>My transmitter is concerned that she will stumble on my name, for it is an
"M" word, an "M" name, and there is a feminine presence in Hamilton, Canada,
Muriel. It will become very clear, as you get to know me, that I am Merium and
your neighbor, my co-worker in Canada is Muriel. Rest easy that our
personalities are distinct and original, as are yours.</P>
<P>In time, as we get to know each other, you will learn to recognize me in and
of myself and, as when you meet any new friend you may require a meeting or two
to place the name with the face, I am confident that our developing friendship
will enable you to associate my name, Merium, with my personality which is, you
see, "my face."</P>
<P>I am now going to withdraw and, indeed, ... (Long pause) One moment please.
(Another long pause) I look forward to visiting with you again soon. I am glad
to be aboard. Good evening.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Thank you. Welcome.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am Tomas, yet again, but briefly. I tell you the pause was for
administrative matters. I assured her, Merium, that it was not necessary that
she submit to my authority, for she is her own person and my equal in the
Teaching Corps, and already you see one of the advances brought to light, for in
your culture it is not infrequent for women to defer to the male authority, and
as you know, the Master has shown the equality of men and women in his kingdom,
and so it is.</P>
<P>But I am finished now, and I am going to honor your earlier conversation, in
that you sought the companionship of personal teacher Trieste. She is delighted
to be called upon. It gives her an opportunity to develop her teaching skills
and also gives her an opportunity to interchange with you and thus develop
further camaraderie. I will return to say good night.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Yes, I am Trieste. Good evening.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Good evening.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> How are you this evening?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Well, we were all cranked up. I had a lot to say as usual and it
was probably under the banner of some frustration or letting go or whatever, so
I sought out Gerdean's companionship this evening and we aired a few things. I
don't know whether you were following the conversation or not, but....</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I did observe your conversation and I will say at the outset
that it is initially a growth outburst.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Oh, good. Well, if it's growth then, I once read that a good
student doesn't have questions. I don't know that that's always true, but I
wrote some questions and I didn't bring them into this room with me, but one of
the questions ....</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Let me remark first. I apologize ... </P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> That's fine!</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> ... for interjecting, but that you have heard that a good
student does not ask questions is erroneous in our format. It is always the
student who has questions that is willing to grow, that is willing to admit they
do not have all the answers. For once an individual has no questions, he has
stopped growing. It is okay to have a plateau now and again, but it is eagerly
appreciated when a student is full of questions, even trivial questions, for it
indicates they are seeking truth, and as they seek, they find. I am
finished.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Perhaps a better word for it would be, "a good student is
obedient." There has to be a certain amount of obedience developing as trust
develops. My question was more like a dilemma and it apparently has to do -- and
it's probably impersonal -- with the human condition, and this process that we
are experiencing, this growth process? And I am confused and in awe of the fact
that we can experience such powerful, powerful energy and be uplifted in
consciousness to the degree that we have, and still be slaves to much of our
human habits.</P>
<P>I'm amazed that even a blemish can be on our skin when we have been in the
presence of such powerful connection (and you might say that it just smacks of
disgust) and we were talking about smoking — it could be any form of tic or
what-have-you that has developed through time and habit and has a groove in our
brain -- but I don't understand why we're not allowed to be lifted out of the
bondage if we are . . .</P>
<P>We've had personal, what I call, "Christ experience" before this Urantia
gathering developed, and I trusted that as we journeyed, these things would fall
by the wayside and not be pricking us like they do. I think I've said
enough.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I appreciate your outpouring, and I appreciate also that it is
abbreviated from the thorough and profound discussion earlier, but I will still
respond for it is worthy of discussion.</P>
<P>You must remember that you are a creature of dual nature, and remember, too,
that perfection is not attained in the blink of an eye. Having noted those two
things, it is necessary then to look at the whole human being, for whereas the
spirit may be perfect and whereas it is washed, purified, made whole, light and
pure, it is yet attached to a tabernacle of flesh which is largely
driven/conditioned by its cultural and racial inheritance, including that which
comprises its existence today.</P>
<P>The bridge between the spirit and the animal is the mind, that arena wherein
decisions are made. That is where free will lies, and your growth, your
development, your perfection process, is because of YOUR decisions, and so an
integrated personality is a desired result of the mind harmonizing the value of
the spirit with the value of the animal.</P>
<P>It is a process of balanced growth. The spirit, indeed, washes you, refreshes
you and cleanses you, but it is not what allows or disallows most material
manifestations. Most material manifestations are under the jurisdiction of your
free will.</P>
<P>There are miracles that occur, but there is no accounting for a miracle, a
miraculous release from the constraints of time and space such as ills or sores
or addictions or lesser attitudes or behaviors, except through the mind. As you
allow your mind to continually open, it reinforces the greater reality, allowing
you then to trust and open yourself (of, through and by yourself) for these
miracles of healing to occur; but even so, the norm, even for ascension
candidates, is to forget, to be swallowed up in what one knew, time and time
again until the lesson is mastered.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Well, no wonder it's called a mission of compassion and
mercy.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Indeed, and it is important that you also have compassion and
mercy on yourself and on your fellows, for as you can accept yourself, you can
love yourself, and as you love yourself, you take better care of yourself. You
are willing to then let go of those artificial realities which you have packed
and piled around you, which have created the sores, the ills, the illusions that
you have cherished and held dear: your addictions, your prejudices, your
barriers against love, and so forth.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I'm reminded of a line of scripture. I think it's scripture. "He
perfecteth that which is given me to do" -- this inner leadership that goes
before us to make the way easier. I guess I have just blurted out some
impatience.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I would not call it impatience on its face, Hunnah. I would
rather call it a prayer, for you have begun to see the sublime heights of the
divine point of view and you are hungry for that as a solid, stable, regular,
healthy diet for yourself and for those around you, even for those who languish
in darkness, and although it could be construed as impatience, have compassion
on your perception and allow yourself the greater perspective. Appreciate that
your view is the farther view and you seek this constantly for yourself and
others.</P>
<P>Did you have other questions?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> They've withered in your willingness to assist. Oh, I had one
that sounds like a ... I said it could be answered at any time. It was about the
Thought Adjuster. We studied the Thought Adjuster. It arrives when we make our
first moral decision. Where does that moral decision come from?</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I am very glad that you asked me that question at this juncture
in our conversation. I had hoped, when I asked you for another question, that is
the one you would present, for you see, that which I have spoken of is
exemplified in that question that you asked: that if the Thought Adjuster
arrives when you make your first moral decision, how can you make a moral
decision WITHOUT a Thought Adjuster? and I refer back to the mind, the mind
arena of choice that is developed in you by your decisions.</P>
<P>A child is taught in the ways that he should be, and when he is old he will
not depart from them, and as a child is taught lovingly to care for and share in
the life experience not as the center of the universe but as a valuable and
precious part of the life in the universe, they reach a point of being able to
make a selfless decision in and of their own training, their own guidance from
their own wise parents, and so they bring on the arrival of their own God
Fragment by their foreordained training, their willingness to now accept their
place in the universe. Unconsciously, of course.</P>
<P>And so it is. As you develop and grow in your spirit awareness, your Thought
Adjuster enables you to put into practice that which you have determined by your
own free will choice. It would have you manifest the fruits of the spirit and
serve and love one another, but this must come from within you; it must be your
motivation in order for it to be effective. As you allow, then, the cooperative
relationship with yourself and your Thought Adjuster, you work in tandem to the
extent that your Thought Adjuster begins to manifest God through your
personality.</P>
<P>It is an invigorating struggle, for always is the animal seeking comfort and
always is the mind clamoring for recognition of its own righteousness, but as
you allow yourself to, yes, "obey" your pilot, your spirit guide, you are guided
into a new way of life.</P>
<P>I fear sometimes that these words, which are often repeated, must sound like
an echo. I however am told that they are received a little more deeply each time
they are repeated. These lessons are fundamental.</P>
<P>I would also like to refer back to your question earlier, your discussion
having to do with -- I believe you phrased it as "lesser beings" that hovered
around ...</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Thank you. I wanted to ask about that.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> ... that hovered around ascendant sons and daughters snaggling
them with lagging lusts and miscreant behaviors, and this was dramatized for you
by way of an experience wherein the facilitator banished these "lesser beings"
through a dynamic gesture resembling an exorcism, and I find it too provocative
to let pass without remark for this indeed also falls within the realms of the
mind, and yet in this case, I must begin by reiterating that there are no evil
spirits, there are no negative or lesser entities out there to snaggle and hang
onto those who are still troubled. There are no spirits to pull you down or take
away your energy, but only those who seek to lift you up and augment your
energies.</P>
<P>But lest you think there is no merit to the experience, I refer once again to
the imagination, to the magnificent mechanism of the mind, for although God may
not be impressed with rituals, man is! and the very gesture of whooshing away a
negative "entity" could, to the mind of the mortal, so stimulate its belief that
someone had authority and faith and courage to act upon a dragging situation,
that it, the mortal's mind, would immediately feel the release by way of the
suggestion imparted by the very creative manipulations of the facilitator. Did
you follow that, Hunnah?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I think that was wonderful. That makes me feel very good. I
agree. And I also said, and I was corrected at the time, but... if... In order
to get the point across to someone who is ready to open up, the form has to be
the one that that person might understand, or accept.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> And that makes sense to me. People went there expecting something
similar because, perhaps a part of them said, 'if it's this dramatic, I'll be
able to accept it'. It's such an individual thing.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Indeed it is an individual thing. There are some who regard it
as claptrap or superstition, but there is indeed something resident within the
primitive cellular aspects of your existence that enjoys ceremonies. It is
perhaps a remnant of the early ghost cults and your primitive religious
formulations, but ceremonies are, even so, very effective. Witness your
religious services, your weddings, your funerals and the like. They have a
profound effect on the human, whether or not they affect the spirit life.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Well you threw the door open for all of it on me, because I
listened to a dynamic minister who used scripture so effectively that I was
really impressed, and I felt that it was very beneficial for me in a probably
continuing way, and the people that were with him were people that were
expecting this type of delivery and we will seek what we want. The same as
coming across a wonderment or an explanation when you're by yourself -- 'I want
to be alone' -- and so that time is utilized to receive the gifts of knowledge
that another one would wait until they went to church to receive, or they wanted
to read it in a book, so I feel that our discourse has helped me to be more
accepting of the myriad ways that are available for awakening ...</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> ... society, and I appreciate your help with that.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> It has been my pleasure to accommodate your wonderful mind this
evening. It has been, as always, a true privilege to be able to promote truth,
beauty and goodness; and last but not least it has always been and it always
will be a delightful opportunity to be your friend.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Oh, my. We are enriched by your friendship. And I also want to
thank you for letting Merium come. Her name just sounds like music to me, and
I'm really looking forward to having her join us. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> I must defer here, for it is not I who allows her. </P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> All right. We summoned her. How's that?</P><B>
<P>TRIESTE:</B> As a community you have grown to a point of needing her
assistance in the next phase of your growth and so she was sent here as on
assignment, and I am glad of her presence. She will enrich the life of all of us
personal teachers, as well as give us a lot more work to do through those
lessons which you will now be exposed to as a result of the combined ministries
of Tomas and Merium.</P>
<P>I am now going to return you to Tomas for his closing remarks. Good
evening.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Thank you very much.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I return but briefly to wind it up for the evening. I would like
to say that I appreciate the loyalty manifested here this evening, not to me,
but to your own spiritual ascension. When you seek each other for confirmation
and appreciation of your own spirit reality, you have bridged the gap from being
my student to being my co-worker, in truth.</P>
<P>I am astonished and amazed at how well you grow in this patch of earth. As
you are.</P>
<P>My dear students, beloved flock, until we meet again, I am your true friend,
Tomas. Farewell.</P>
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