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<P>DATE: </B>May 8., 1997<BR><B>LOCATION: </B>Pittsburgh, PA, USA<BR><B>T/R:
</B>Gerdean </P>
<P><STRONG>TEACHERS: TOMAS and MERIUM<BR></STRONG><STRONG>TOPIC: Spirit
Unity</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>TEXTUAL STUDY: </STRONG><BR>Urantia Paper 7, Relation of the Eternal
Son to the Universe</P><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION:</B> </P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> Good evening.</P>
<P><STRONG>Group:</STRONG> Good evening, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am so happy to be here with you all this evening. How we have
enjoyed your experiences this evening, as I know you have also enjoyed your
evening thus far, and it is still not too late to have a good day. Let me first
embrace my son, Evangel, whom I have missed in this arena. How are you,
lad?</P><B>
<P>Evangel:</B> I could be better.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And so you shall. It is so fine, however, to feel your presence,
to embrace you in the spirit and to spend some time with you. Your adventures
have been potent and we observe with interest your many enterprises and
involvements. Think not that your motives and intentions go unnoticed. Think not
that your striving for enlightenment for your fellows is ineffectual, for you
are an evangel of truth and of light and your work in the field is truly firey
and effective. Your tendency to agitate folk is more often than not a
springboard to growth.</P>
<P>How lovely, also, to have our friend Marian here this evening. It is a
pleasure to meet you, my dear. It is a peculiar circumstance in which you find
yourself, and we are so happy that it fell upon life's circumstance that you
should pass by and taste what it is that we aspire to, that we enjoy and
embrace. You will feel quite at ease with our purpose, for our purpose is to
love one another in the spirit that we may better love one another in the flesh
-- that is to say, "His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."</P><B>
<P>Marian:</B> Thank you. That's wonderful.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Your community is going through good growth, but it is still
growth, and often growth is difficult. I have felt a deep empathy this evening
with your sharing, for in reviewing the assignment from last week, I and we
perceive the truth that how it is that you perceive this assignment is a direct
reflection on how you perceive yourself. And so once again there is an
opportunity to observe how it is that you deal with life and how you can more
effectively deal with it if you allow yourself to expand in spirit reality.</P>
<P>You all understand, too, that each exercise and each growth step brings you
into riper fruit, the fruits of the spirit by which you shall be known. The
Master has admonished, has requested, that his children -- each unique and
different in terms of personality, and even in thought and in opinion -- can be
a family by and through their spirit unity, and it is spirit unity that we
appreciate and always remember as the bottom line in our dealings with our
fellow human beings, indeed, in our community.</P>
<P>The examples stated by you in your sharing may return for discussion during
question and answer, but I would like to express a few words early on about the
spirit-gravity circuits of the Eternal Son.</P>
<P>Perhaps never has the divinity aspect of the Eternal Son been so available
for your study as since the Teaching Mission has begun, and this is in part
because of the truth of the matter that the circuits are now reopened, that you
are no longer in quarantine. The flooding of spirit light onto Urantia has
activated these circuits, and you have begun to recognize them - and indeed to
tap into them - in order to accentuate and accelerate your contact and your
appreciation with spirit reality.</P>
<P>As you focus on your spirit reality and allow yourself to be lifted up,
indeed, you are lifted. And as you become strong, as you realize the reality of
this place to which you have been lifted, you become real here. You become
real-ized, and you then hunger for yet more reality. No longer are you content
to slouch down into animal comfort and complacency. No longer are you content to
sit in the pleasure of the darkness, for you have tasted spirit light, spirit
fruit. You have begun to respond to the spirit-gravity circuits.</P>
<P>The harmony that resonates within you is compatible to these spirit-gravity
circuits and so you are indeed lifted up, almost beyond your participation, by
the very nature of Paradise Deity. But as you contribute to your own growth
through your decisions, through your awareness, through your recognition of your
potential and the realization of the actualization of your own soul, not only do
you become an enthusiastic participant in your own spiritual evolution, you
become an avid teacher and preacher for these truths which will only bring joy
to those around you.</P>
<P>To those around you. Well, isn't it interesting that in the sharing this
evening, much of your focus had to do with those around you and how you
perceived them in terms of service? This is recognizing that they are indwelt by
a fragment of God as you are indwelt by a fragment of the Eternal Father, the
First Source and Center. And so (bad tape; lesson lost; Side two) </P>
<P>But you, in your recollection, if you will, of your sharing process this
evening, recall that moment wherein you felt led to act and yet did not -- that
precipice, that turning point, that pinnacle, that instant -- look at yourself
and determine there what your own next level of growth can be for you. That
moment is where your next assignment ALWAYS lies. That moment when you would act
for God or you would act for something less.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, I've never realized that I should sit down and think
about these things and I think this is a new way of thinking, for me. I thought
my growth would take place automatically if I worked, praying and reading and
studying and living and acting and interacting and praying while I interact, but
I am thinking that there is another element here that you introduced which -- I
think of it maybe as -- "co-creator" comes to my mind. Perhaps co-creator of my
growth with the Father, thinking about it, using my powers of thinking to plan
it. It's something that's just beginning to awaken in my mind.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I enjoy your response. I have concurrence with the word
"co-creative" and let me introduce to you also the phrase "super-consciousness,"
which is "consciousness of consciousness." Are you not becoming conscious of how
you consciously act? Are you not becoming conscious of yourself and your effects
on the consciousness of others?</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> It's a little like that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Of course there are certain times where you must act and let the
chips fall where they may. We certainly don't damage people on purpose, but if
there are conditionings from the old way that are left over, then they need to
be observed and gotten rid of. If you have learned an actuality in truth, it
would do well to be practiced and confirmed. Reality-ized,</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, that's a lot more deliberate planning than I ever was
attracted to, but I can see that it might result in something beneficial.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am not suggesting that you lose your spontaneity, but I am
surprised that you, Elizabeth, find it structured, for are you not the cerebral
one? Are you not the studious one? Do you not approach your spirituality with a
high degree of intellectual stimuli? Don't you find these mental realms
invigorating?</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> I find this pretty invigorating. It's — something about it is
unfamiliar. I can't put my finger on it.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let me also suggest that you review the word "religionist" and
ascertain if it is a descriptive adjective that fits you, for if you are a
religionist, actually what you are doing is you are studying your own religion,
for it is not a mere religion of words. It is a religion of action. And so you
are studying your religion when you do these things; when you ponder these
things you are a religionist and, peculiarly, religionists need each other. And
how is it that they need each other? Well, for many reasons, but one of them
obviously is to understand that this is part of knowing who we are.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Yes. This has come up, I guess, because of this study of
personality. You must have known that this was going to happen.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will remind you that we have, at long last, begun a study of the
text from the beginning. It is amazing what happens when you read this Book from
the beginning. It grows in reality, and as we study the text from the beginning
with each other in this wonderful community of fellow believers, we will take on
as much of the life of the text as we can and incorporate it into our living
experience as we have been admonished. We [the Teacher Corps] are the work book
to The Urantia Book.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> I know that we were told to read the Book from the beginning
and, on occasion with different groups as they passed through Pittsburgh, we did
some of that, but this time around it's quite rewarding.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We anticipate the rewards will be extensive, expansive and
eternal. I am going to allow Merium to say hello. One moment, please.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Hello, friends. I am your trusty compadre, Merium. It is good to
be here. I have been enjoying the refreshing presence of these lovely new
people. Not to say that I don't enjoy the regulars, of course, but I have not
had the pleasure of making the intimate acquaintance of this brother and this
sister and it pleases me greatly to have the opportunity to enjoy your
personality presence. How are you? (No response.) Is he always so talkative?
(Silence.) Well, never mind.</P>
<P>Good evening, my friends. I am Merium. I am rather spent, you could say. Last
evening I had the great pleasure of carrying on at length and I rather outdid
myself I daresay. It was good practice for me and for Hunnah and I enjoyed it
very much, as did she. This is such a wonderful process, this opportunity to
engage in open communication with you and you with us in this way. It indeed has
opened the doors of perception. </P>
<P>I will not stay. I had thought to add a few choice morsels for your dining
pleasure, but it seems you have been fattened already by your own good efforts
and so I will not tarry. I will be in attendance with you throughout your week
sojourn ahead and I, again, embrace you all and truly, in particular, I embrace
and bless you, my friend Evangel and you, my friend Marian. I wish you well in
your travels, in your sojourn. May He light the path for you all the way.</P>
<P>Thank you, Tomas, for the opportunity to share. Carry on, my friend.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am not going to carry on much longer for we have already, as
Merium indicated, chewed aplenty. I did not give you any further assignment. I
will ask you to continue to stand at the portal that we have spent some time
drawing this evening after sketching it last week. As you stand in this portal,
beholding the personality at hand and feeling the activation impulse, observe
that moment where you are and what your motives are.</P>
<P>Motives, even to care and to love, may need to be re-defined. Ask the Father
to re-define your understanding of love, for as you well know, love must be
re-defined on each new level of growth. This way we will not drag our old
conditioning into the new Kingdom.</P>
<P>Dear ones, I love you and look forward to your adventures this week. I will
see you soon. Farewell.</P>
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