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<P>DATE:</B> November 29, 2007<BR><B>LOCATION: </B>Light Line<BR><B>T/R:</B>
Gerdean<BR><B>TEACHERS</B>: TOMAS, ADAM and EVE<BR><B>TOPIC:</B> That Sense of
Failure</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Somebody indeed is here. This is Tomas. I will start. I will
begin. That is to say there are others too who are here. As you know, we are
many. We are all engaged in this advancing school of thought and application to
spiritual principles. Many of us have different interests, differing techniques,
even differing expertise, but you may be assured that we are all on the same
team when it comes to our presence in your lives, and that is to advance you and
your world in accelerating and elevating Reality.</P>
<P>Is everyone comfortable? I have a guest or two this evening. I will play
host. I am particularly keen on this first visitor because of a conversation I
overheard recently between my T/R and Monjoronson, wherein she (that is,
Gerdean) indicated some concern that she had failed … (bear with me, Gerdean) …
her mission. And so I would like to bring this guest in as a teacher to address
the topic of how it is that you sometimes feel as if you have failed the task at
hand, that which you perceive to have been your assignment, or your very reason
for being. I am rather sure that all of you can relate to that sense of not
living up to your commitments. One moment, please.</P><B>
<P>ADAM:</B> Good evening. This is your planetary Adam. I am here with Eve. We
are visiting Urantia as we often do, and knowing that a handful of you loyal
followers of this program of spiritual advancement are keen on knowing more
about what we think and how we feel about your efforts, we like to check in with
you on occasion and see how you are doing and on occasion also contribute to
your understanding. </P>
<P>There is hardly anyone familiar with the Urantia text that would not
appreciate that Eve and I have felt this consummate sense of failure. In fact,
we have suffered losses grievous to the soul as a result of our choosing -- our
erroneous choosing. To say that there is no such thing as failure is somewhat
transcendent, for the being who feels a sense of failure feels it poignantly and
terribly. It gives rise to emotions that are preferably left dormant, such as
guilt and grief. </P>
<P>But I am here this evening to tell you that there is no failure here. Even
Eve and I, if you will allow us this, did not completely fail in our task. Yes,
we did fail at several aspects, but in the whole, on the whole, our assignment
here was and can hardly be regarded as a failure. We did feel, in the beginning,
very contrite, in particular when we lost so many of our children who opted to
leave us on this troubled world in order to join their siblings on high. These
losses in the immediate instance are profound, personal and deep. And they do
leave their experiential mark on the soul, but they are not irreparable. They
are experiential. </P>
<P>As you have been taught -- although I realize it is hard for you to know and
understand this integrally -- even a mistake like the Lucifer rebellion has
garnered enough (where is the word?) … recompense from the double-duty that has
been put out from people like you throughout the ages, lifting yourselves up by
the bootstraps to compensate for the mistakes of your elders and your superiors
-- it has given you such profound consciousness as you are not even aware. Only
in time, well after you have left this world, will you get a glimmer of how much
these experiences, these unfortunate experiences, have contributed to the
dimension of your soul, of your spirit, of your very reality.</P>
<P>There is a Navajo custom, in the weaving of their carpets and tapestries, to
create a flaw, a purposive flaw, to remind those who come in contact with the
material, to remind them of the inherent imperfection, even in the most gorgeous
and well-designed effort. You have all lamented our error, mine and Eve's. You
have all cursed Lucifer. But I tell you, you must get past that. You must pull
yourselves up by the bootstraps, if you will, accepting it as an experience, not
as a failure. </P>
<P>This is what life is for you and for us: an education. All of the universe is
one vast school and your planet is no exception. It is not excluded, you are not
excluded from this value lesson. You are fortunate to have set out on your
journey with such conundrums, such challenges. You will be better for them. It
is not to say that you don't make mistakes, that you only learn lessons, for
everyone makes mistakes. No one does anything everything all the time perfectly
except those who are created perfect. But we who live throughout the universe
and participate in the experiential aspects of evolving reality are expected to
make mistakes, are not expected to do it perfectly. </P>
<P>Of course Eve and I wish that we had done it differently, but under the
circumstances, those <I>were </I>the circumstances of our lives, and our Parents
are and were wise enough to know and see within our hearts, and they saw that it
was good. We were not guilty of any insurrection, only a lapse in judgment. And
that is standard operating procedure for evolving life. </P>
<P>We serve now, as you do. We serve with others in dedication to the souls of
each of you and indeed the soul of Urantia, the planetary Supreme, the Evolving
Supreme. We have our tasks, as you do, and we have learned from our mistakes, as
you have and as you will. We serve on a council with others. Those others
provide us with the counsel that we did not have when we were on Urantia
(excepting Solonia). You have the good fortune of having the counsel of many but
you seldom take advantage of it. And you have not begun to tap the power of the
resource that you have among yourselves were you to organize yourselves into a
body similar to the Council of 24 that would provide you with others to hear
your ideas and your concerns. It is the isolation that has been the culprit
here. And that is just part of the circumstances of our assignment and of
yours.</P>
<P>There is so much to do and so much to overcome. Let's not waste overmuch time
and energy on regrets, on regretting the past or vainly looking toward the
future, but rather grasp hold of the day, seize the moment, take the spiritual
kingdom by spiritual assault. Make it your own. Make no mistake there. It is you
birthright. </P>
<P>I thank you, Tomas, for the platform and, in fact, those of you behind the
Light Line mechanism who have created this service which provides a prototype
for universe broadcasts in this interim time until the harp of God is fully
operable and heard by all. Our deep affection resides with and among you, we who
watch you, and care for you, and depend on you. Farewell.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> What a pleasant surprise. This is Tomas, back again, with still a
large auditorium filled with observers, student visitors, teachers in training
and other heavenly helpers; and midwayers, of course. Are there questions of
anyone this evening before we have any other visitors? Perhaps we can have a
visitor respond to your question.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Yes, Tomas. And also, Father Adam, I'm overjoyed to hear your
voice, your presence, and I hope that there is some consideration of your and
Eve's -- Mother Eve's renewed participation on the material level during the
Correcting Time or post- Correcting Time. Is that something you can speak
to?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This is Tomas and I will let Eve address that. One moment.</P><B>
<P>EVE: </B>Good evening, my daughter and friend. Indeed, we will and have been
actively involved in the reclamation of this world, having had a hand in its
isolation and isolating effects. Of course we are very concerned about it and
have been quite active in these Correcting Time ministries. The entire Council,
as you may know, is comprised of former Urantians (with the exception of certain
rotating visitors), but we <I>have been</I> involved and <I>continue</I> to be
involved.</P>
<P>We do serve from the Council. We are not based here, as are many, but it is
not difficult for us to make the connection. It is just like the telephone, as
it were, as compared to being there in person. But the fact is, we are actively
involved in Urantia's advancement. </P>
<P>I will tell you that there are channels in operation (and they have been
there for millennia already), those being the angelic corps, those twelve
divisions of labor, if you will, that oversee the work of the realm. We
contribute to that and we receive information through that body on a daily
basis, very much as if it were part of our briefing.</P>
<P>And so the angels of the nations, for example, or the angels of health, and
the angels of enlightenment, they are all active and have many helpers,
including yourselves, and they are the bridge between you and us and beyond.
There is order in the universe. And while the Master is gracious and can and
will spend time with you each and all, there are myriad personalities created to
fill these interim roles so that we all work together toward the same great
ends. </P>
<P>The angels of medicine and health have been diligent in their work and many
advances have been made in medicine in partial recompense for our errors but
also as a matter of course. Angels of the home life are working overtime to help
you adapt to the changing times as your world evolves and transitions from one
era to another. The 1950's, which saw the arrival of the Urantia Papers, were in
some ways the pinnacle of your civilization to date. As is often the case when a
new revelation arrives, it is at a pinnacle point of growth and development. Now
you see almost a crumbling of that idyllic state, and while you may feel it is
all deteriorating, that civilization is caving in, that the government is run
amok and that Urantia has "gone to hell in a hand basket," it is simply a sign
of the times that the new era is beginning. </P>
<P>Old scaffolding must be torn down in order to accommodate the growth of that
which is new and incoming. Just because the former dispensation had reached a
pinnacle of growth and development does not mean it had reached perfection, and
so in order to accomplish this next evolutionary leg of the journey toward light
and life, many of the things from the previous dispensation that were flawed
needed to be unhinged and need to be discarded. You are seeing some of this
unhinging taking place.</P>
<P>You must try to remember that your universe is being seen to. It is not alone
here in a remote outpost in the universe. It is being assimilated. <I>Even if
you were</I> still in quarantine and isolated, you were never forgotten!
Watching as you reached that point of development that would allow for this new
and recent epochal revelation to come to your world and find a fertile furrow in
which to take root and grow, we all observed, we all could see clearly how the
living organism of the universe was operating like a master physician, placing
the cell of life into the womb under the right conditions, knowing that life
would emerge therefrom. </P>
<P>This is how we saw the placement of the Urantia Papers on your world. The
womb of Urantia was ready for the seed to be planted. And now we are seeing the
development of this egg. All of the divisions are active in ways that you can
and will be able to see and observe, even participate in and contribute to as
you become more aware of the many ways in which you are being cared for, the
many ways the universe conspires to help you. </P>
<P>Adam and I are devoted to you, still, today. We never once stopped loving
you. We never once stopped caring for you and what happens to you. We are
essentially still your Material Son and Daughter, your planetary parents, for
there will be no others granted to you, and so yes, yes indeed, we have plans to
assist, and <I>we are assisting</I>. </P>
<P>Many of the romances that have sprung up within the ranks of the Teaching
Mission have been stimulated by the romantic notions of the parties being smiled
upon as if they had been made in heaven, and indeed they are, even if they are
sometimes temporary in duration. If they are in existence to serve the greater
good and advance consciousness and spirit reality, then they are indeed a part
of our effort.</P>
<P>I can think of nothing that goes on in your world that we are not keenly
interested in, involved in, and apprised of on a daily basis. We are not
responsible for every detail. There are many others who are, but we do like to
be apprised. You are dear to us. Perhaps we even overcompensate somewhat because
of the dire straits in which you were left as a result of our early departure.
You cannot know the depth of my regret in my error. In particular, because of
the extra work it has required of you, my beautiful children, but as I have been
counseled by Adam and others, you are not alone; you will not be made to bear
the burden of our errors without help, and so here we are to help. And we have
not abandoned you. We have not left you in the lurch. You are <I>not</I> on your
own. [43:00] </P>
<P>But you must do the work. Do what you can. The act is ours, the consequences
God's. Be sincere and earnest in your efforts to grow and to give, to be and to
serve, and all will be well. </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Eve, and Adam, we love you and we appreciate what you have
accomplished and what you are accomplishing, and your message this evening is
rather fortuitous in that I have been reading Paper 114 on the Seraphic
Planetary Government in preparation for our discussion next Tuesday at our study
group, and I'm anticipating -- this is a light-hearted question, so there's
nothing real serious here, but as I read through it, and I feel I'm able now to
better address their concerns that come up, especially with your message here
this evening, but I'm anticipating a question that will come up, with all the
angels, the seraphim that are here, over one billion, and all the other helpers
and the department heads and administrative heads that are operating here on
Urantia -- where <B><I>is "</B></I>here"? Where is the location, if you
will?</P><B>
<P>EVE:</B> You want a physical address?</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Sure, I'll take that.</P><B>
<P>EVE: </B>Well, there is not one that you would be able to send a parcel to or
make a special delivery to because it is an architectural sphere outside of your
material vision, but it is "here." In fact, there are more than one, almost as
if there were a franchise. There are branch offices, you could say. You have
seen the discussions about gridwork, and [you have heard] that there is a grid
all across the planet connected by vortexes or points of light or whatever the
specific designation given. There <I>is</I> a gridwork in existence, a circuit,
if you will, and …</P>
<P>I'm getting a picture here of -- I don't know if any of you can see this, but
in the department stores in the early part of last century, they had these
little tubes that would travel over wires throughout the department stores with
money or receipts or information so that these wires were constantly moving
throughout the store, conveying -- like a harp of god -- conveying information.
</P>
<P>A primitive example, yes, but if you can see these cylinders holding
information, traveling over the wires that make up this gridwork, then you will
perhaps be able to see that while there is - as the book says - an archangel
circuit, or a midwayer circuit - they are the same as this gridwork, so that
information and data can be conveyed from one spot to another fairly quickly and
with great order. </P>
<P>The same is true for "bodies" -- heavenly bodies. They can travel across
these wires, these avenues, and be in other places very quickly. It would be an
adventure in science fiction to try to convey some of these realities that are
common to us but futuristic to you because you are earthbound and cannot see,
cannot even perceive in some cases, what goes on right outside your vision, but
they are increasing. They are picking up speed and developing as we speak. This
is part of the re-connecting. Weaving you back into the fabric of the System,
and the same thing is transpiring on the other worlds that were isolated. In
time there will be connecting venues between the worlds, as well. And so it
goes, advancing. But let us not go too far afield of our session this evening,
which is an end in itself.</P>
<P>Indeed it is fortuitous that you are beginning your studies along these
lines, or reviewing these subjects, for they are not there for amusement. They
are there to utilize as a textbook that describes to you as I have done, the
technical aspects like this gridwork, like these tubes on wires in department
stores of yesteryear -- a greater reality. This greater reality is in existence,
and can only augment and enhance your consciousness -- and eventually,
ultimately, the world on which you live. This is the task at hand. </P>
<P>And so even though I am not there in person, I am still very engaged, very
much involved, and I have a lot of help now. I want you to know that you do,
too. You have a lot of help. You are not alone. You are not doing this by
yourself. Do not despair.</P>
<P>Thank you. </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Thank you very much.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Tomas here and [54:00] it seems we have made short shrift of our
time this evening with these two welcome visitors. Are there other questions for
them or for yourselves, for your own work, in your own sphere, in your own
growth? </P><B>
<P>Student:</B> If no one else has something, I have something. And I'm having
two pictures here in my mind. One, a reference that Mother Eve made to the
Council of 24 and the suggestion that it would be … I don't know … did I hear
useful? or emulative? or something like that to set one up on the material
level? I somehow feel would be a bit pretentious to set up a Council of 24
shadow government, but I'm interested in using that image also in making a
connection to this work that's going on above us, beyond us, and I think that if
Michael has given us the opportunity and the encouragement to be more
co-creative with the leading of our Adjusters, that we should be learning,
apprenticing to the broader reclamation levels. And yeah! Let's-- Do we need an
address? [56:00] Yes! We need to send a parcel somewhere. I don't like to think
of us just playing in the sand while other people work for us. On the other hand
I think we have a lot of emerging adults, some adults in the works to
contribute.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let's think about this for a minute. This is Tomas.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Thank you, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There are half a dozen personalities twitching to come talk to
you, but I tell you it's too late this evening to bring in another guest,
unfortunately. It is however, a topic, obviously, of great interest, and this is
very exciting! It is perhaps a reflection on the work of Monjoronson, but it is
also a reflection on the development that you have attained through the work of
the Teachers and the Melchizedeks that have prepared you to want to be of
service.</P>
<P>I will suggest that it will not be an administrative body as much as a
council for your own … here we go: "strengthification!" If, let us say, for
example, -- and I don't mean to get in trouble here, but if for example the
Center for Christ Consciousness, which is an entity, the Harp of God, the
Association for Light and Life, the Church Within, Mind, Body and Spirit,
TMArchives, the Daynal Institute, Light and Life.com and others that are
existing entities were to connect in some kind of conscious gridwork, within
which they operated <I>as if</I> they were a connected body, as does the Council
of 24. </P>
<P>Then they would not be autonomous and alone and struggling by themselves but
they would have others with whom to consult and confer. And in this there is
strength, as Eve indicated, and Adam. It is the isolation that enervates. As
Teacher Rodan taught in his Paper, being around others is stimulating.
Stimulating the creative imagination of others is fraternal. It helps keep the
wheels of the mind lubricated such that ideas can move slick across the wires,
stimulating yet new growth, more commerce, other activity -- as long as you have
your common purpose</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> I think that would be a powerful assemblage for a merkaba of
prayer, for strengthening gridwork, and I'll be interested -- I am interested to
contribute to that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Be mindful that there is the human element that takes an
opportunity for empowerment (as it should) and sometimes gets a little off
balance before it settles into the pattern of effective, efficient, effort. We
have seen some of this in the Teaching Mission, where individuals become
empowered and go a little off balance until they regain their footing. This is a
natural part of evolutionary growth, even among cultures and people and nations.
</P>
<P>It is valorous and gracious to allow these missteps to occur. And once the
entities have regained their footing, once there is balance, then to advance
slowly but surely in the company and with the full support of those others who
are also interested in advancing the truth, beauty and goodness that we have
come to represent. </P>
<P>Ah, but that is where the challenges lie, where the experiential learning is,
and so I have no fear, only fascination with the endless possibilities inherent
in you mortals as you pursue the course of divine destiny on such a unique world
with such original problems and with such a sterling culmination in view. </P>
<P>I will leave you now on this precipice, quivering on the brink of new
adventures and new opportunities, in good faith that my peers in this mission
will companion you and me as we pass by. Amen and farewell.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Student:</B> Amen. Thank you.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>