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<P>DATE:</B> March 11, 1997<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Butler, PA, USA</P>
<P>Urantia Book Study: Paper 100<BR>"Religion in Human Experience"</P><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION<BR></B>More About Spiritual Names<BR>Hunnah begins T/Ring
Merium<BR>Mini Lesson on Faith and Trust</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Good evening. I am Tomas. There are many of us here this evening.
Since there appears to be no visible structure format, it fell upon me to greet
you, which I am always glad to do, and to perhaps bring this configuration into
some degree of focus.</P>
<P>It is the tendency of those who "sit at the feet of the teachers" to
anticipate that the teachers will guide each nuance of your development, and
while we are of course happy to provide guidance, the fact of our co-working
status allows for you also to divulge your needs when they arise. They are not
always known in the form of a question, but they always will be brought to the
fore if you are open and willing to engage in communication with those of us on
this side who are geared toward uplifting and directing your thoughts in a
progressive manner.</P>
<P>Well, that was my way of saying, "How would you like to proceed this
evening?" Are there any needs or questions initially to deal with?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I have a question. Anne was talking with me just before you
checked in and she said, "I would really like to know my spiritual name." And I
asked her about her background and we got interrupted. Because of my years of
experience in my spiritual journey, it has occurred to me that there isn't any
required background and any required amount of reading that, ... that that is a
concept we need to outgrow; that so much work has been done that it's being
allowed to step into student acceptance. Would you like to comment? I think
maybe I've gone far enough to get you going.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will step in happily, although I am not certain what I am
stepping into there, for you did bring up more than one subject. Your initial
recitation had to do with Anne desiring a spiritual name and I will respond to
Anne in that context, and I will give her an answer that you have already heard,
but for your benefit, Anne, I will tell you that different teachers have
different approaches to this issue of divulging spirit names, and I am inclined
to disallow reaching in to the files to find it, for I have found it more
effective when you develop your own identity sufficiently that I recognize you
and see you and your name is apparent to me by your personality.</P>
<P>This is different, I realize, than you are accustomed to, for in your culture
you assign a name to an individual, often before they are born, and that becomes
their identity; but in the spirit realm, your development creates your identity,
and you will become who you are throughout eternity and a name will grace your
personality as, in your human form, a dress will grace your physical person.
</P>
<P>The name can be accessed. That which you are to become can be found, for
there is a plan for you, but I prefer to wait until your personality is
sufficiently developed that you present yourself to me and I recognize you by
your personality, for then your name is an extension of your personality and not
an addition thereto. As you grow in the spirit, as your soul becomes
well-grounded, well-founded, well-rounded, you will begin to manifest your own
God-consciousness, your own divine aspects, and when I observe your reality in
such a way as to recognize it as a living being, then I will address you by your
spirit name.</P>
<P>It is perhaps unfair, for many have enjoyed having their name given to them,
but by the same token, many who receive a gift prematurely do not appreciate the
value of the gift, and so I, as an old fogey of sorts, am of what you might call
"the old school" and as I learn in this experience of interchanging with you
ideas, thoughts and values, I learn also, and I have learned this regarding
names. In any case, my dear, you are well known to me. I and others are aware of
you and happily call you Anne. You are well loved and you are on the right
path.</P>
<P>Now, Hunnah, as for your further remarks regarding inquiry into individual
backgrounds, as to their "credentials" or whatever as to how it is that they
came to be at this place of responding to and appreciating The Urantia Book
and/or the teachers, it is rather like growth in full bloom. We have often said
of late that the harvest is great, and that whereas at one time those initial
vanguard, who first awakened to spirit prompting, to frustrations in the mind
that lent themselves eager to delve into spiritual matters, we now have the
opening of the circuits and everyone is being impressed by the spirit pressure
resultant from these re-connections. </P>
<P>Those who are sensitive or in search at all will be more easily found and
more easily amenable to/responsive to, the truth that you bring. But do not
overlook, either, the social fragrance that you yourselves have developed as a
result of knowing God and aspiring to be like Him.</P>
<P>Indeed, it does not matter what the backgrounds are insofar as there are no
credentials required to come into the Kingdom. Sonship/ daughtership is a gift
available to each child from the Father, and regardless of whence they come, as
they knock the door will be opened. It is wonderful to have this garden that
opens into the fellowship of believers that we have enjoyed here. </P>
<P>It is wonderful now to embrace our newest member, our sister Anne, into this
fellowship, and I say, too, to become aware that the door is open wide, and that
many will come, so do not be surprised if you find your arena deluged with those
who have sought and have now found. The challenge thus is set before us and our
companion Miriam has arrived just in time, for the socialization of these many
diverse personalities will contribute to your understanding and appreciation of
community indeed.</P>
<P>Remember, too, that "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." In
the spirit we are all equal, and so while we may say, "Anne is new to us," she
is one with us; and those of you who have been around awhile, are also one of
us. What have I overlooked?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> You always do it right. But I thought that it was a good reminder
when you said that we had the cart before the horse here; we give the name ...
Well, I just like what you had to say about getting acquainted with what we
really have, to express it and then naming it. I like that.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> Tomas, I have a question about the teachers recognizing
different names. One recognizing one and another recognizing another name. It
doesn't sound appropriate and yet after a while it does have a ring of truth to
it, but why do different teachers call you by a different name? Is it tones or
...?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> If I understand your question correctly, which I am sure I do not
....</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> For instance, Andrew, while under the influence of very strong
spiritual forces, recognizes one name, then Judith, my personal guide, comes in
and recognizes another name (that I wouldn't even accept for years), and I see
the tonal qualities, as she said. Why would God recognize one name and not
another?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will give you a response that should satisfy your curiosity, and
that is that we indulge, for our own purposes, in what you would call
nick-names, or different names for different purposes. Handles, titles, if you
will. I would suggest that Judith, your personal teacher, chose to address you
as "JoHanna" because she would like to meet you on that level of operation that
you admittedly do not like and are not happy with. It is probably for that
reason that she knocked on that door of your awareness. It is no doubt also,
probably, for that reason that you and she are not conversing fluidly.</P>
<P>Now as to why Andrew would give you a different name, is a question you must
ask Andrew. I will say, however, that for me, since you have so many names
already, I have not assigned you a name, nor do I, for your reference, recognize
any of your names that you have been given thus far as your true self. But, all
of the names that you have are indicative of an aspect of yourself.</P>
<P>My response to you is an indication to you of my belief that you are still a
pearl-in-becoming. I truly feel that many of these identities that have been
named, which have been real in your life, will be evaporated in time.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia</B>: Then the first transmitter was true when he spoke, that there
are many names, without end.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You speak of "without end" and I cannot go that far because I have
not gone there yet. I do not know what the Gods have in store.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> As far as names, or more names coming up?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will not deny the truth of your teacher.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Are you looking for verification or are you challenging?</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> I was just trying to figure out why one teacher will see one
aspect and one will see another, and why ... I assume each individual teacher
and guide has their own level of understanding that they came from beyond, is
that correct? Until they have reached that experiential level? Sort of like we
are?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am not answering that at the moment. I am focusing instead upon
your belief in having had previous lives, and as long as you maintain that
belief ...</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> I believe there is only one life. I'm only aware of this one,
and some aspects of others.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I repeat: as long as you maintain a belief in previous identities,
those beliefs crystallize in your beingness as an identity which then can be
named.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> It's a little bit confusing to understand. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I understand completely. How can I help you?</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> It's not important; it's just something that I have wanted to
know for a long time.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Very well.</P><B>
<P>Loreenia:</B> It's not that important. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well done. And I also am going to respond to an interest of
Gerdean, who is over-anxious perhaps to experience co-teaching in the way that
she and Debbie did in transmitting myself and Daniel in Pocatello. She thus has
aspirations for Hunnah's newly acquired ability to act as
transmitter/receiver.</P>
<P>I am going to withhold my own anticipation until I am certain that it is
appropriate, but I will exercise Hunnah in her capacity this evening if she is
amenable.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Absolutely.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I would like to ask you, my dear, without intending to apply any
pressure, if you would like to make contact with, or have Miriam make contact
with you? Or would you prefer, for now, to maintain your singular relationship
with your personal teacher?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> May I comment? </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I am anxious to have Miriam come through, but I feel the same way
about her as I did with Jasmine. I would like some form of cue so that I will
know when to go ahead and not just sit here. In regard to Jasmine, I was
listening to a tape where she was speaking to my friend, and her sound is so
much like the sound I had in my private thoughts when I call a focused state
that some of my -- there only being one.</P>
<P>But back to Miriam, yes I am absolutely going to do this, and like I said, I
would like to have some kind of something.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let us have some structure then. </P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will, with the permission of you others, with your indulgence,
embark upon an experiment for the benefit of us all. I am going to outline the
experiment for your benefit: I am going to step aside and observe. I am going to
allow Miriam to access the circuit of Gerdean. I will ask Merium to then address
Hunnah and move over to Hunnah's circuit board and see if Hunnah can
acknowledge/ recognize her energy pattern.</P>
<P>If Hunnah can access Merium, we will proceed then to emit a greeting. And
following this initial greeting, Merium will return to the circuitry. I would
like then to begin anew and issue a brief lesson, and I would like then for
Hunnah to be responsive, for when I ask Merium to add her contribution, I would
like Merium to respond and to deliver her words through Hunnah.</P>
<P>Whereupon, this brief lesson/session/experiment concluded, I will take the
reigns and wind up our evening and perhaps field a question or two. Has that
format been understood and is it acceptable to everyone? (Group assent.) Very
well, I will withdraw.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM</B> (Gerdean): Hello, my lovely friends. I am Merium and it is
wonderful to be here with you again. Of course you know I have been here all
along, but it is good to verbalize my personality to focus myself such that you
can begin to ascribe a personality with my name.</P>
<P>I am most delighted to have this opportunity to help Tomas and to help you -
actually to help in any way I can! It is more fun than I figured at first, but
you see we take these assignments very seriously. The work is truly very
important. Even so, how can I account for how glad I feel in your company?</P>
<P>I understand, Hunnah, that you are going to avail yourself, and perhaps we
can make a connection. Is this your understanding also?</P><B>
<P>Hunnah:</B> I understand that there is a place for you here.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM</B> (Gerdean): How gracious of you, my dear, to invite me so. Let me,
with those choice words of invitation and seduction, then come to your sphere
and see if I might access your language center. Here I come.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM</B> (Hunnah): Apparently a smile is the expression of our hostess. I
do believe this is going to go very smoothly. My words have to be spaced because
these cheeks are way up in the air again. Hunnah's only clue is that her feet
feel very grounded, and for now she is going to use that as a cue and is
suspicious that the smile is good will that comes with our message in our
intentions.</P>
<P>I think this will be a comfortable fit, and that we will have a wonderful
time together. I think Tomas is going to be able to take over now. It looks as
if it will be agreeable.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS</B> (Gerdean): Indeed, Tomas is back at the helm and I and others have
most enjoyed how effective this technique is. Those of us who have been on-line
for some time are not so astounded as you who are only beginning to trust the
energy circuits, the spirit circuits. We do have reality, and more importantly,
YOU have reality, and that reality grows in you each day.</P>
<P>In time, you will look back at your growth. You may even look back and wonder
whatever happened to those teachers that used to come and hang around on certain
evenings, and engage in that interesting T/R practice, but you will have with
you for eternity those growths, that spirit reality, which has come about
because of the association we share today, that experience of commingling in the
spirit, of seeking greater spirit reality.</P>
<P>This remarkable practice of setting out to find God in our lives and actually
finding Him, and then seeking to do His will and actually doing it -- these are
real, my friends. This is the true reality, and so it matters little about the
teachers or about names or places, for in time we will all be part of a greater
reality that doesn't even resemble where we are today or where we perceive we
might be going.</P>
<P>I am not going to ramble. I have promised an experiment and I am eager to be
disciplined in this context, and so, with some apology, allow me to then get off
my soap box and back at my lectern. Let us approach the lesson for this evening.
Let me see. What shall it be? One moment.</P>
<P>I rather like these. These are quite good for short lessons and experimental
types such as we are indulging in this evening, and these lessons I call "two
sides of the coin" and I flip the coin and I will take one and my co-worker will
take the other. And this coin that I am flipping now relates to faith and trust.
I have found the one marked "faith."</P><B>
<P>MERIUM </B>(Hunnah): I have trust.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will ask you, Merium, would you like to go first? or shall
I?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I can accept the invitation. It is an act of trust that permits
me to speak, and because my hostess is the talkative type, she is squirming with
a begging for me to describe the fact that trust permits me to speak, and that
she is feeling a connection in her heart and it is for you a clamp on her lips
while Tomas speaks and it is trust that is constructed.</P>
<P>You are developing almost like a structure. I see, like in a shipyard, you
build a hull, because you anticipate going on a journey and you work very hard
to build this hull and this facility that she has here, has been developed as an
act of trust and we have gone ahead and allowed our work to be done here so that
we can speak to you.</P>
<P>I hope that these few words that I am speaking will build your own trust in
allowing you to apply this light tether to you which you might be able to
express and develop your own development.</P>
<P>I trust this is sufficient, Tomas?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am most appreciative, and I will respond in faith, for in faith
of the process is trust made possible. I have faith in the Father and in the
universe that there is a divine plan, that there is a divine family. Although I
am part of it, and see it, and know it well, I invite your faith to embrace it
as well. As you develop greater and greater faith, you are therein in a position
to develop greater and greater trust.</P>
<P>Faith need not be large to begin with. Faith the size of a mustard seed will
pull that ship across the ocean like a tugboat, but as you begin work in the
spirit realms and move not boats or mountains but souls toward the Father, your
faith is made greater in Him, in them, and in yourself. Your trust, likewise,
will become greater.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Trust is very much like developing a strong muscle. You must use
it to develop it. Trust thrives of usage. It is part of your foundation and it
cannot be constructed unless you are willing to use what you have in order to
make it stronger. (I am at a loss for words here) It must be acknowledged and
identified.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Trust is an act of the will. It is your decision to trust, for
whereas faith is a gift, trust is something you develop within your own mind. It
is your gift back to the Father, for being a faith son, that you should trust
Him to lead you where He would have you go.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Faith is part of the dialog that develops from acknowledging the
Father. As you acknowledge your guidance, this trust is like a by-product. It is
part of the treasure that you have reached. You have anticipated that it is
there and accumulated.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am very grateful to Merium for being here and working with me. I
cannot tell you how her presence here will enlarge the capacity of this
community and enrich you as you begin to see the functioning of two and more
together in the work of Kingdom-building.</P>
<P>I am impelled to relate, briefly, in honor of our co-worker Jeremiah who has
recently ascended to the Resurrection Halls of Mansonia, that at one time the
joy was so great in Gerdean for Jeremiah's gift of faith to her and in her, that
she needed to stop transmitting me midstream for an emotional outpouring of joy
and gratitude for his friendship, and she is experiencing a similar emotional
outpouring even now, as once again, she is experiencing the connectedness of
co-working in the Kingdom.</P>
<P>The joy of the reality of this spirit family in the spirit and in the flesh
is so enthralling a reality, it is ever luring us onward. I believe I have
conveyed Gerdean's gratitude. I am now going to join her in conveying mine, not
only for Merium, for joining us with her wonderful personality presence, but for
my young sister Hunnah who in faith and in trust has become such a pillar of
strength in this community, and my gratitude as well for all the community here
that I have had the privilege and the pleasure of knowing and working with, of
praying for and worshipping with. I have concluded my formal lesson. One moment.
</P>
<P>[Arrival of Ruth.] </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> It is always a pleasure to have one more in the room.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> Since Tomas has backed off for the evening, I guess, and more or
less let you hang out to dry in our company, let me confirm: this is you,
Merium?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> How wonderful it is that you are here. Boy! I don't have any
questions. Like Tomas, I'm just very, very grateful for your being here to help
him and to help me and to help us learn about teamwork and community and
connection.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I will comment. This is such a unique experience. Gerdean has had
the honor of being our recipient of our joy and our messages these many years,
and a new T/R frequently cannot comprehend the quality of the gift that has been
handed to her. It is frequent that in maturity we look back to see where we have
been and they think, "Oh! I could not realize the value because I was a child."
</P>
<P>A new transmitter/receiver is indeed like a child who is learning to walk,
who is learning new skills, in spite of their apparent silence; they're stepping
aside, they're sharing their facility, and their comprehension of it is still
very much of a worldly nature.</P>
<P>What we are experiencing here this evening is indeed a celebratory situation
that is so vast that you cannot comprehend it. What you may not understand is
that when I speak my words are resonating their intention in each of you. The
intention, of course, is to nourish your potential, that secret ticking,
ticking, ticking of what is to be for you.</P>
<P>We have spoken about truth, the truth, that admission of faith and trust, and
they are the environment for the new reality. It will be interesting to see
these words typed, because you are visual here, most of you, and once again when
you read the words they will be nourishing and cultivating that part of you that
truly understands and is anxious to develop.</P>
<P>So I hope you will take this reminder of faith and trust home with you this
evening and truly consider it as a reminder of your true intent. It is free, in
a sense, of human definition. It is, in a sense, a new code, but it is for the
highly spirited and you have, on another level, consciously accepted this
assignment. It is part of your destiny.</P>
<P>Recently in Hunnah's experience she spoke to a woman who had traveled to
China, and as the conversation developed, Hunnah had this almost sick feeling of
her first sense of what darkness really was. This is definitely a mission of
mercy. You are accustomed to your neighborhoods, but it is a world that we are
addressing. There is such intense need. Let me encourage your thoughts, to allow
our teachers to come and raise up the Christ in you, that His promise may be
brought into fruition. Thank you so much.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> Thank YOU so much.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I love you all already. Even more.</P><B>
<P>Anne:</B> Merium, I have a question.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Yes?</P><B>
<P>Anne:</B> Do faith and trust have anything to do with love?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Love. It's as if love were all that is. It's as if love were the
water that you float your little boats on, and the little boats could be called
faith and hope and integrity. They are like the qualities of what love is. Love
is your on-going life and its appreciation. It is that which brings birth to
you, it is that which sustains you, and it is that which holds all the on-going
experiences, enriches them, and embellishes them.</P>
<P>We connect with the word 'love.' Most of you have. It's as if to say, 'I
heard the word love and I received it as acceptance'. Truth. Let yourself be
taught of love, the new definition. I encourage you to write, Anna. Sharpen your
pencil. You are a quiet one, but you are spilling over and you deserve the
companionship of the written word. You will thrive on it. </P>
<P>This is very satisfying. Do you wish to close?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am Tomas and I am here for our concluding moments. It has truly
been a feast. It is wonderful for us to behold Merium flourish in her new
garden. I will not give her away, however, for I hold her close to me as my
co-chair person. I guess I am feeling somewhat of an emotional condition known
as possessiveness and jealousy, for she has already endeared herself to me so
fully, but this is also by way of showing me what lessons there are to be
learned in the new configuration of two teachers in the place of one, for where
there is two, there are issues that were not there when one stood alone. And so
it is with the human condition and that which we deal with in the next leg of
the journey together in our community here.</P>
<P>Indeed, this week ponder and appreciate love, faith and trust, for that is a
foolproof combination; that is a trinity indeed. Ruth, it is good to feel your
presence here again, as it has been with all of you. Are there any further
matters?</P><B>
<P>UNKNOWN</B> (Loreenia): There was one who once led incorrectly and those that
followed him made terrible error; they followed their hearts and were fallen. I
trust that all will prevail in the end and I have faith in the long term. It
pays to learn from past lessons.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Amen. And farewell.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>