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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Nebadonia—</SPAN><st1:date Year="2007" Day="12"
Month="11"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">November 12,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group—</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA--T/R—JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Being Mother
Spirit)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The interconnectedness of all personal
life) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Becoming both more individualized and
sociable)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The social function of character and
soul)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We welcome you with the bright eyes of
our souls and the yearnings and hopes of our hearts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us feel your subtle presence here
with us as we hear your inspirational, insightful words. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We especially enjoyed your last series of
lessons on what you mean by us being creatures of free will dignity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You taught us how to grow in that dignity
through realizing and then transcending with creativity, reflection, and
courage—spirit, mind, and heart, the limitations that condition our free will.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So continue on, dear parents. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you tell us a little more about
what you mean by this being a social grace contributing to others, as well as a
personal spiritual achievement? Thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my dear children, this is
your spirit mother, Nebadonia--daughter of the Infinite Spirit, spirit mother to
the whole host of inhabited worlds here in Nebadon.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Being Mother
Spirit)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Tonight, before I answer your question
directly, I would like to take you on a mind journey. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just breathe deeply and relax; let
yourself expand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ride along on my
voice or, for those of you who will come to read these words, maybe read a
sentence or two and then close your eyes and say them over again to yourself,
for I will be here with you. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Imagine yourself expanding out and out
into thousands upon thousands of cubic light years of space. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Out you go beyond the architectural
spheres of Salvington, past the one hundred constellations of Nebadon and all
their architectural spheres as well, out to the ten thousand local systems with
their capitals and satellite architectural spheres.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Imagine all the teeming life on them of
the different direct orders of sons and daughters of Michael and I, and then
peopled with all the trillions upon trillions of ascendant mortals working their
way in towards you from what we call the Nurseries of Time and Space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine the thousands of new worlds,
some only a few billion years old, being implanted by the Life Carriers, where
your own spirit will be guiding their living evolution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then also imagine, my dear children,
those worlds on which animal life is crossing the threshold to humankind, where
all of a sudden with an individual, or two--as happened on Urantia--a certain
quality of decision is made and instantly your Spirit/Adjutants of Wisdom and
Worship find response in their early human minds; and immediately their
experience becomes part of you own consciousness.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Expand that consciousness to almost
four million evolutionary worlds with all their endless trillions of human
inhabitants, all their lives being part of your own, tenderly held within the
space of your own being of those thousands upon thousands of cubic light years
of space, with millions and millions of blazing suns, solar systems,
evolutionary worlds, all those architectural spheres.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what it is to be the Mother
Spirit of a Local Universe. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Now with all that, imagine what a
delight it is to be able to tune into a single human being as he or she simply
sets their own personal response aside for a while so I can talk with you this
way, address my children directly, and interact with them--carry on
conversations. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine worlds only
slightly more advanced than yours where this ability to communicate out loud--so
to speak--is held by almost all the adult citizens of those
worlds.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The interconnectedness of all personal
life) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So: you can see I’m quite a social
creature. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our lives are totally
intermingled. Yours is mine from the moment you personally cross that same
threshold and become a creature of will dignity, a fully human being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Also from that moment on Michael and I
can come to you consciously in so many different ways, directly and even
indirectly, with a whole spiritual family, if you welcome us into your
life.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Your Urantia book delineates in great
detail, and we have mentioned occasionally, the fact of Universe Reflectivity, a
kind of instantaneous communication promulgated into the realms of time and
space by the Infinite Spirit--of whom I am the daughter, and whom I help by
relaying to my own Local Universe. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight I hope to give you some inkling,
some feeling of spiritual dimensions, particularly ones that allow for
instantaneous communication that transcends time and space to link all the
personal, organized life throughout the seven inhabited
galaxies.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You could think of this as an extension
of all the electronic media just zipping right through your body as you sit here
listening to me or reading these words. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fact you can use your cell phone
inside your house or vehicle means those microwaves are vibrating right through
that material, even your own body, without disturbing that material or you.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though it is not accurate literally
but only somewhat by analogy, you could understand spirit as a much higher
vibration that transcends and interpenetrates the slower physical frequencies of
time/space. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>These are the real dimensions we tease
you with, the ones you will have a much greater experience of in your next
Morontia state.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For as you grow in
the Morontia life through hundreds of personality-manifestation modulations,
this is what gives meaning to that growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’ll be encountering more and more dimensions of spirit as you go along
and your Morontia body is re-keyed, as it were, to pick up ever greater numbers
of these dimensions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So as Michael
says, just let it blow your mind a bit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Enjoy a bit of awe that all this, which is so far just a part of your
imagination, all this really exists out here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s all going on, all these endless
trillions of lives of so many different orders of beings, all concurrent with
your own human life. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is part of the potential you have, my children,
that this will be yours to enjoy some day as your personality constantly grows
and modulates. You are made for this. You have the potential to expand, to grow,
to encounter and encompass all of this without limit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just think: after the billions and
billions of years it will take you to reach </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> up through the seventh Superuniverse and Havona,
you will still have six more other Superuniverses to explore. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So can you get some feel now, my
children, of the inter-connectedness of all of this personal life, some real
sense of the living body of the actualizing Supreme
Being?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I know it’s hard to conceive of some
kind of personal reality, some real Person who encompasses all of this, yet
still is distinct from God the Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and
the seven Master Spirits of Paradise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are just hints of all these other dimensions you will encounter;
but all this is real: it’s all really happening.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It’s an enormously social group out
here, all connected instantaneously right through time and space. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their natures are most profoundly
different from that of human society and human cultures by the more mature free
will dignity of all the component personal beings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as you grow into your free will
estate as you mature, so the spirit realm is just a fantastic extension of this
where the key words are spontaneity and creativity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a limit to which we can push
your words and still keep your understanding somewhat coherent and unified
without becoming simplistic. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I
can say that our experience of reality is much more instantaneously detailed and
spontaneously creative, just fantastically expanded from what you know
now.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Think of your beloved ascendant-mortal
friends who can transmit to you much as I am doing this evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even they who have not yet gone beyond
your Local System, their spirits can be in what you would think of as many
places at the same time, while they have a discreet body much more subtle and
real than the one you inhabit. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
all this sounds fantastic, good! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is my intention.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my delight to tease you so to
stretch your imagination and take you out of yourself for even a few
minutes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relax in your human space,
then come back to yourself and feel all the more solid and real because your
“now” has expanded just a little more. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Becoming both more individualized and
sociable)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so you see, my children, how the
members of the spiritual community are both more individualized--since each soul
is much more self-realized in its God-created uniqueness--yet at the very same
time more sociable, able to interact across all the different orders of personal
beings--ascendant mortals, Melchizedeks, Seraphim, Cherubim, all the student
visitors from other realms, then all the Paradise origin beings intermingling in
amongst everyone. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is the way you too can grow, for
ongoing human life need not be a zero-sum game. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spiritual growth allows you to become
ever more aware of your uniqueness, and embrace it, without going off on what
you call an ego trip, some mere illusion, born of insecurity, that actually
diminishes who and what you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The security gained in touching your real self, your own soul, allows you
to forget yourself in this newfound confidence, let go, and become more
sociable.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Some years ago your beloved Welmek gave
you an exercise of beaming love at every person you see, without exception.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you who really, soulfully
tried this have experienced how it introduced you to all the unique individuals
all around you, you were theretofore screening out through any number of subtle
prejudices.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Having this strength
and courage of character, this desire to love, to beam your love and your good
wishes to everyone, has made you more soulfully wealthy by allowing all these
other individuals to register. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>To answer your question this evening,
this is what you have to offer others, this increased sociability along with a
clearer and more sharply focused perceptible character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you call character, my dear
children, I think you can realize now is only, but no less than, the perceptible
aspect of your souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have
said before, it’s not so much that some poor individuals are cursed with a bad
character, as simply a lack of character. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’re still being driven too much by
general animalistic and primitive human tendencies and have not yet grown into
their full, mature human estate and potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael recently went into how this
immaturity affects even ones perception of time and the reality you call the
future, as one feels relentlessly driven along. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Again: this can be the most wonderful
social responsibility that as you grow in your own character and soul and are
able to beam this out to share with others, you enrich their lives too with this
extra…dimensionality--I’ll call it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You offer them the liberation of
soul-wealth to the very degree you’ve achieved it for
yourself.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The true faith sons of God, those
individuals who are able to realize so much of the next Morontia/soul phase of
life while still being human on Urantia, through their power of faith, through
their courage of realizing and expressing their true uniqueness of selfhood:
these are the persons who serve as shock absorbers within the general
population, cushioning all the wild egotism of others’ over-exaggerated and
extravagant flights of fantasy, corruption, and predatory behavior. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their contributions are expressed in your
ever growing institutions of democracy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also the necessity and the glory
of free media wherein almost any viewpoint can be expressed. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those with the greatest soul, the most
developed characters, serve as shock absorbers offering those with more limited
viewpoints and perceptions the ability to recognize a broader, deeper view--as
we’ve been expressing it, an enlarged present
moment.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The social function of character and
soul)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is the social function of
character and soul. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
literally the glue that holds your societies together right up from the family
to the neighborhoods, the cities, the states, the nations. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the true selfhood that gives life
its flavor and forms the basis for the social conventions that allow folks to
interact immediately, today, until something better is created tomorrow. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you see, my children, this is how, as
you grow in your free will dignity through creativity, through reflection,
through courage and decisiveness; this is how you contribute socially the most
essential elements of flexibility and growth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is happening. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a general, worldwide evolution
taking place, not in any way mechanically inexorable, but inexorable because you
are each of you a child of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
were created with this potential. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social evolution does depend upon each
one of you, for society is no other, in reality, than each one of
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The whole world is evolving ever faster
and more comprehensively as your planetary wide communications tie you ever
tighter and tighter together, and your ever expanding and maturing democratic
institutions allow for greater individual response-ability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be of good cheer. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome, enjoy, thrill in the glory of
playing your part in this enormous, real drama. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot literally be a Mother Spirit
such as me,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>but you can parallel my
loving outreach, and delight in socializing with my children.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>When you consider all those about you
your brothers and sisters, your siblings in the fatherhood of God, realize if
you can this planetary evolution taking place--even as you seek to address those
immediate, necessary, practical political considerations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep the ideals of democracy and freedom
of communications bright in your mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Consider all the necessary stages any particular culture or society on
Urantia must go through to reach those bright ideals. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the best way for you to play a
part and contribute your uniqueness, and enjoy the uniqueness of all those
around you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We invite you to join
this great game of cosmic evolution that has been Michael’s and my own from the
very beginning. 38.16<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Questions and answers to follow. <SPAN
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