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<P>DATE:</B> August 21, 1997<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Pittsburgh, PA,
USA<BR><B>T/R's:</B> Gerdean and Hunnah<STRONG>URANTIA BOOK STUDY GROUP
<BR>REMEMBRANCE SUPPER </STRONG>with readings from: </P>
<P>Paper 179, THE LAST SUPPER, Page 1941<BR>#5. Establishing the Remembrance
Supper; </P>
<P>Paper 180, THE FAREWELL DISCOURSE, Page 1944<BR>#1. The New
Commandment<BR>#2. The Vine and the Branches<BR>#3. Enmity of the World<BR>#4.
The Promised Helper</P><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION<BR>TOPIC: Spirit Reality</P></B><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Good evening, my children. I am Tomas.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> [Elyssia, Mrs. McD., Wendy, Jane, Hector, Bruce, Abram, Ann,
Iyana, Hunnah, Gerdean, Linda, Beatrice and Celeste]: Good evening, Tomas. Thank
you for coming.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is wonderful to be here! Your celebration has been joyous for
yourselves and for those of us in the spirit realm who observe your activities.
It has been a hallmark Remembrance Supper for your and our community.</P>
<P>I am here this evening, as is Merium, in loyal obedience to our assignment.
It is our primary duty and most sublime privilege to foster your growth and
spirit awareness and so we are honored this evening to share this
acknowledgement of Jesus' birthday with you here in our own home base.</P>
<P>I would like to speak briefly this evening about spirit reality, and in order
to approach spirit reality, I would like to embrace first your reality, your
human reality, and I speak to you as believers and participants in a spiritual
way of life.</P>
<P>Your perspective on things is perforce limited by your material composition.
Your thought processes are limited by your imaginations and your inabilities to
go too far afield of what is necessary for you to maintain a functional
existence here in your mortal realm. But spiritually, there is no limit on how
far you may experiment and investigate. Even so, there is a limit as to how much
you can endure.</P>
<P>The reality of spirit is so far-reaching and so perfect that your perception
can only be garnered as you strengthen yourselves to absorb more of what spirit
reality is. Although you may have spirit understanding or comprehension, the
existence of the actuality of spirit reality far transcends your ability to now
reach its ultimate potential. And so, in this limitation, this perforced
limitation, you have a sphere of operation that is made comfortable by your
ability to handle those things in your sphere that will make for a rich life for
you in your associations and civilizations. </P>
<P>Everything that you need for perfection in your sphere is prepared for you.
Even though it is not <I>ultimate</I> perfection, it is what your sphere is
capable of. Accept your capacity to reach this degree of relative perfection.
Embrace this knowledge and apply yourself to it. Since spirit is so vast and in
so many ways so much beyond you, allow spirit to <B><I>be</B></I>, to do its own
thing. Trusting this spirit, you are qualified to create your mortal existence,
your world.</P>
<P>I am not perceiving clarity. My message has not been received.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> May I assist?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, my able colleague.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I'm going to fluff it up a little bit. Good evening.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Good evening, Merium.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Before I get into this realm of invisible light, I would like to
tell you that I've let Hunnah have a sneak preview of what it felt like,
watching your party tonight. If you are a gardener, then perhaps you can relate
to my metaphor. Have you ever gone out on a beautiful evening and in your
leisure gone down to see how your vegetable garden or your flower garden is
faring? Well, in a sense that is what we have been able to do.</P>
<P>It is as if you were a beautiful garden that had been planted and we see
everyone is prospering and it makes us feel so good because we know that the
riches that are within all of you, as they develop, will affect the lives of
many. You are going to be able to share yourself, and what Tomas is trying to
explain this evening, is this invisible -- </P>
<P>Oh, how you wish you could get your hands on the word! How you wish you could
take what we talk about in this new reality and get a hold of it and apply it.
And that is exactly what cannot take place. Because what we are talking about is
the essence within yourself that permits you to become the beautiful creature
that you are and it slips out when you least expect it. It is the human
condition to want to control and to design and manipulate and plan, but let me
tell you, this that you are becoming is not, has not anything to do with human
administration.</P>
<P>For we are about the Father's business. And in this new reality, you will
find it coming out and splitting the seams of the suits that you have outgrown
with your mindset. The clothes you wear are not clothes, they are limitations of
your humanness and you have a wealth of them and they are going to be set on the
shelf with casual reference because you are going to flow forth in this new
living way.</P>
<P>For those who are uncomfortable because they do not feel that they have had
enough personal experiences that they can relate to, they are going to be
surprised, too, because they are going to be able to reflect and observe their
actions in a way that they did not know that they could. And as they discover
this ability, it will billow forth in confidence and an understanding of "Oh!
That's what they were talking about!"</P>
<P>The spirit that is coming forth in me is of my new design. It will be
frequently out-shouted by old habit, by conversations of those who are about
you, or the pressure of the working day, but it will not go to sleep. It will
never slumber. It is constantly with you, and you will enjoy it more than your
full or empty wallet.</P>
<P>I have approached this conversation in a manner that is very unlike Tomas'
but if you were to set them on the scales of justice, they would be of equal
weight because they are partners, and in partnership there is a contrast,
frequently, but there is an agreement. And I hope that you will find that this
agreement that is rising in you, (but that will confuse you occasionally because
your habit of wanting to know how everything works), will be pressing hard in
you. It will not want to be put on the shelf.</P>
<P>Yet, as you pursue your Source, and as you drink of the living waters, this
that you are will come up through your very cells. You will hear yourself
speaking rather than being the speaker. You will hear conversations in reply and
they will go through the filter and lose their controversial overtones or the
contrariness or the powerful duality that is present in the world. You will be
able to accept the nugget of goodness in conversations. You will be collecting
them and giving them back.</P>
<P>I will pause here. I'm sort of on a roll. But I think that Tomas is more
comfortable now.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am very grateful to my co-worker for her ability to reach her
children -- as compared to my sometimes over-striving to educate my students.
Even so, that is the purpose of our team, that where one oversteps, the other
uplifts; where one falls short, the other compensates. Let me continue, then, in
a vein that is perhaps a compromise, perhaps more readily understood.</P>
<P>It is very much like the garden that Merium has planted. You are the flowers,
and you must trust that the soil that has been prepared, for your bed is
appropriate for your growth. The nutrition of the soil has been prepared by the
Master Gardener. The amounts of nitrogen and so forth are well balanced and
perfect for your growth. The flowers that you are planted next to are
complimentary in color and in composition. Your environment is well suited to
accommodate you. The growth comes, the spiritual reality comes from the natural
powers of creation, comes from Paradise that the sun falls upon you in the right
amounts and the rain falls upon you also in the right amounts for your perfect
growth, for you to be this flower garden.</P>
<P>All things considered, you here have the perfect nourishment available to
you. You have the perfect growing conditions available to you. If you appreciate
your garden, you can flourish within it. It is not necessary to begrudge your
flowerbed. It is not necessary to complain that there are too many stones or
that the rain falls too hard, for these are all within a natural framework as
you allow yourself to be led by the spirit.</P>
<P>In times past, even in our teachings, we have spent much time discussing the
recovery of the individual, the recovery of the planet, the many ills brought
about by the Lucifer Rebellion and the Adamic Default. There are all these ills
and all these things to overcome. We are now addressing you in terms of the
richness that is, that you have everything now that you need in order to
flourish, and as you expect to flourish, having the Master Gardener over you,
you <I>will </I>flourish, you <I>will</I> reach new realms of affecting and
influencing your environment. People will come by and see the flower garden and
be amazed at how well the flowers grow.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I would like to address those of you who have difficulty relating
to this conversation or the form of this teaching. I would like to take you back
to the time when you were young and you were learning an activity. It could be
balancing on a skateboard, tying your shoes or hitting a ball. There always
seemed to be friends that hit a ball better, could tie a shoe faster, or excel
in an area that you really wished you had for your very own. This is an outer
feeling; it's perfectly normal.</P>
<P>This evening Hunnah had a chat with her friend about feelings and emotions.
The other night we had an excellent discourse on feelings and emotions. And it
is an emotion that says, "I can't relate to this" but it is a feeling that
"there is something about this that is genuine and I feel frustrated because I
can't seem to bring it together." This is perfectly normal, and as you -- if you
will recall, you are continuously surrounded with a spiritual support system,
and that support system is so strong that when you have these moments of
disgust, openly saying, "I don't get it. I don't want it. I'm not doing it,"
this support system allows you to feel perfectly comfortable with protesting or
doubting and we just simply want you to know that this is all going to come
about regardless, and if you're here, it will happen. If you have ever been
here, it will happen. But it's going to happen faster because of you, because
you have allowed this part of yourself to respond and you have acted upon it, in
spite of yourself.</P>
<P>There are many light groups gathered everywhere and in these groups, whether
their language and their dialog is different than ours, there is the same human
feeling of needing to keep up and a bewilderment of what is new. I want you to
feel more comfortable with it, more objective with it, because in that you will
receive the gift of patience. We don't talk much about patience here, but I
think it is time, and it will be a gift that is given to you as a birthday party
treat to take home. You will be patient and appreciative in a way that you have
never been before. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Are there questions?</P><B>
<P>Wendy:</B> Sure. I have a question, if nobody else is going to ask a question
and I don't care who I direct it to; whoever wants to answer, but when I work my
pendulum and I talk to my spirit guides, who am I talking to? ...</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Take it away, Merium. </P><B>
<P>Wendy:</B> Who's answering me?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> You are being answered by your totality. There is ... remember
your expanded awareness. I like to use the word "expanded awareness" that knows
what is coming close to you. Let me give you an example in nature. There are
plants that will pull its petals up if it senses something that is not
harmonious. It does not necessarily have to be a mindless plant, but all
throughout nature there are ways of recoiling from something that is not
agreeable, and what you simply have accessed is the part of yourself that senses
what is right and appropriate for you.</P>
<P>Hunnah uses the pendulum with amusement, because it's as if she said, "I
think I'm operating this myself," and she has tried to fool herself and
invariably it is consistent. I don't feel that you are using -- it's simply a
tool that taps in on a part of you that is going to deliver information to you
in that manner.</P>
<P>If you were to put a blindfold on and hold your pendulum and your friend
placed a rotten tomato underneath it and you did not notice, that pendulum is an
extension of your seeing self and your emotional field, and it will indicate to
you that it would prefer not to have it. If they placed a fresh carrot below
your pendulum, you would find that this tool or instrument that you are holding
would indicate that it would be an appropriate food for you.</P>
<P>This can also be done in other ways of guidance, but if it is not dealing
with the truth of your being, for your welfare, then you would not be serving
yourself with honesty and integrity.</P><B>
<P>Wendy:</B> Thank you. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I would like to make one more comment here. In the addition of my
speaking, along with Tomas who delivers the information and references to the
books with such expertise, it looks as if I am wandering out onto the stage of
New Age, but I must remind you that this is an expanding awareness that you are
developing, and that when you embrace your world in a positive manner, and you
ask to have it all serve you -- as they say, the rocks will even cry out; they
will rejoice in their kind vibrations -- it is a friendly universe and a
friendly earth. You are the friend. </P>
<P>There is a statement -- I don't know if it is biblical, but it states:
"Wherever I stand is holy ground." You create the holy ground, and if there is a
part of you that is not cleansed sufficiently and has not developed a purer
focus, has not been lifted up, and you are playing games, New Age games, you are
trying to solve people's problems and tell them what to do -- (the list goes on)
-- then you are just limiting yourself. So if you offer everything to the Christ
of your being, you serve for the good of all, you will find your traveling much
smoother.</P>
<P>It is not easy to travel into unfamiliar waters. There will be opportunities
for you to expand your appreciation of the myriad forms of enlightenment that
are taking place today. This information has its place, but it must always be
brought before the Father, this higher place of definition, and if it is not
appropriate for you to be in that area, you will be removed, and this goes for
people who come into your life. They will be removed if they are not responsive
to the light.</P>
<P>It's getting very quiet here, for a party mood.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Perhaps we are "party poopers," Merium. [Group laughter] We have
obviously been in Boulder, and even now are in spirit with them, as many of you
are also. The conference is, as you would say "a success," as they too are
rejoicing in the fellowship of Christ consciousness, and basking in the presence
of Michael, as well as his myriad helpers. You may rest assured they will be
chatting with their spirit friends into the wee hours of the morning and they
will festival for days and return refreshed to their native spheres to begin
again the process of following Him wherever He may lead.</P>
<P>It was, as I said earlier, a fine birthday party you had and a momentous
memorial supper. We are proud of you here. We are impressed with your growth and
development. We have been praised for our efforts and we pass on that praise to
you, for what good is it to us without your experiencing it also, for without
you we would not have a job here.</P>
<P>It is so wonderful to have you as friends, and even though sometimes it is a
challenge for you and also for us, it has been a situation where we have all
persevered and have grown and have illuminated our sphere significantly enough
that we have drawn the praise of the Master and have gotten a gold star from
Melchizedek, so I tell you we are doing fine. You are doing well.</P>
<P>I am very grateful to the Melchizedeks for sending Merium to help me here in
this teacher base. It has immeasurably helped us as a group to function as a
group rather than a configuration of individualists. The team aspect of
brotherhood and fellowship cannot be disregarded, for when you work together,
when we work together, we are united in spirit. Otherwise we would fall flat.
And so we know we are being led by spirit when we share our unity as we shared
and you shared this evening.</P>
<P>I usurp the Father and say, "God bless you." I know you are blessed, yet it
is often good to be fed, and that is a phrase that connotes God's goodness.
Merium?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I was just enjoying listening to you talk. I would like to
dismiss class, to have recess and be playful again.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I do hope that you will enjoy your gift of patience and
appreciation and that you will come again and, if you are a guest, if you have a
friend who needs encouragement, do not hesitate to embrace them and to let the
spirit flow. </P>
<P>Blessings to you all. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And farewell.</P>
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