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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Month="11" Day="26"
Year="2007"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">November 26,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL, Transcriber-Charlie
Hicks</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>(Giving thanks)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Making eternity your
own)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Personal and impersonal reality)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Evolution toward perfection)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Human being--conscious and
super-conscious)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(You are to yourself an object of
consciousness) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Ask only: what is
true)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Michael’s life as Jesus)
<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 Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight in this ages-old
season of bringing in and celebrating the harvest, we wish to thank you for all
the seasons of planting you’ve done in our souls with the good, fertile seeds of
hope, and inspiration, and insight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For now we are experiencing a wonderful harvest of goodness in our lives,
especially in our relationships with our friends and other acquaintances. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Above all we wish to thank you for the
most surprising and delightful discovery of all: what happy spirits the two of
you are, wreathed about with laughter and a deep, abiding joy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this precious gift we are most
thankful. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Michael. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me join you in your
thanksgiving. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank the Original
Source of everything--our Father, for He is the one in whom we all move and have
our being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I
thank you as well for your generous affection, and loyalty, and thankfulness,
for we too have the pleasure, the delight, and the glory of being the
intermediaries between the Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and all
of our children on both the architectural spheres and the evolutionary planets
of 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>(Giving thanks)
<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">It is our joy thus to be the conduit of personality,
of spirit, and mind to all of our children. We live in a continuous thanksgiving
for this outpouring of personality, loving spirit, and intelligence from
</SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
join you in your thanks for we appreciate, even more than most of you can, the
gift of our Father to you of your very own being, unique in all creation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This gift to you of yourselves is
endowed with the potential for being an active, creative personality, able to
introduce something unique and new into the stream of time and space out here.
<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>We glory in your endowment, my dear
children, as we see your indelible human experience being transformed into the
Morontia construct of your souls. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you could only see your souls as we
do, if you could only know and experience how tenacious is this life you hold in
your own hands, how endowed it is also with the potential for eternity.
<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>If you could only see all those who
have gone before you, what joy it would be to realize that almost without
exception, every individual who has ever lived on Urantia is still alive,
working their way up through the Local System, then Constellation, some here
with Mother Spirit and I on Salvington, gazing out at the galaxy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every historical personage, ever father
and mother, every grandparent, every great-grandparent, on and on, are all still
out here living, learning, and loving in all those combinations your beloved
Welmek once gave you for consideration: loving to learn, learning to love,
living to love, and so forth. <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>We tease you with your letting this
supreme fact--actuality out here, blow your minds for we know your minds cannot
hold this vision for more than a few moments. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very rightfully called back to
your lives here on Urantia with me, for I am here with you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is all well and good. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These day to day experiences are the
stuff of your souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These people
with whom you share your life are your true soul wealth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I give thanks for you,
my children, for the enormity you already are, but which you will not become
fully conscious of for a few more seasons of planting and harvesting, a few more
dawns and sunsets on your world. <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">Even on the beginning Morontia worlds of your local
system many days will pass as you grow ever more in touch with your own souls
and that co-author of them, the divine presence of your Father. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a celebration, what profound
thanksgiving all the way to </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> is that moment when you become one with the
presence of God who has been your faithful guide and even your servant from your
very beginning.<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>(Making eternity your
own)<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, My children, is what you have to
be most thoroughly thankful for, this promise of and potential for eternal life,
a life of endless expansion and unfathomable, unbounded discovery coupled with
your innate ability to grow into it, to engage and encompass it, to make it your
own. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul never dies, my dear
children, you become one with it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All that you are becomes conscious and
available to you in viewing your present moments with this fantastic enormity of
experience. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So your wisdom
too--your growing ability to bring all that you are and all that you have been
to bear on the present moment--knows no bounds either.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how this present moment expands
beyond your wildest imagination. <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 how meaning and value creep
into every tiniest particle of your experience. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you can embrace an ever more
fantastic detail of living reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Mother Spirit and I have been teaching, you can grow endlessly deeper
into your true self, exploring your unique potential and experience, yet at the
same time not be isolated and cut off by overly focusing upon yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Actually: the opposite.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You learn how to will yourself out of
your own light and allow your larger self to swell forth of its own initiative,
for your soul yearns to play a more active part in 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>This real touch of soul, this real
confidence in the growing existential reality of you gives you the supreme
ability to forget yourself, to trust that you are and that you always will
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let yourself go and turn
outward to embrace all those other children of our Father, and Mother Spirit,
and mine. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Someday when you will
have become one with the presence of God within you, you will be able to look
about and share this supreme experience with all the others who have gone
before, and whom you can now greet--consciously--as one of them, another
ascendant son or daughter.<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>We tease you to say this is when your
eternal life really begins, when you become a cosmic citizen; but you are really
already started. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The gift of life
started for you from the moment of conception, from the moment a uniquely
created personality of our Father’s became coupled with a unique living
manifestation on Urantia, the gift from your biological mother and father. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was into this estate you grew as you
grew older.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we say be not
afraid.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may righteously know
fear as a beneficent caution from time to time, but you need not be afraid.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accept all aspects of yourself,
even those fleeting illusions that come and go, even those only partial and very
temporal aspects of yourself that need to be constantly relinquished in your
stillness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let the more enduring
and abiding aspects of your soul swell forth in joyous anticipation of
union.<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 how we join you in your season
of thanksgiving. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we
call worship, this thanking our Father for all His creation, but most
especially, deep in our hearts, right from each one us to Him, we say: Thank
you, Father, for me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you that
I am. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>If you have any other questions or
comments this evening, Mother Spirit and I thank you for them, for these too are
our delights.<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>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, you speak about oneness
with our Father, and the presence of God within and without. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could it be said that everything is God
and that we too are manifestations of God?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are we already one with God; and
that is all that there is; and therefore the oneness is already inherent?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do our perceptions and beliefs and
points of view kind-of color or cloud our perceptions of this reality?--but as
we rest, or become still, or go into stillness, we become more and more familiar
with this innate reality of who we are, of our oneness with God and His
perfection?<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>(Personal and impersonal reality)
<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, that is nearly correct as
far as it goes: it is true that it is in God that we move and have our being.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is also true--and here we run
into what your Urantia book says is the supreme paradox to human beings--that
Total Reality is at one and the same time both absolutely united in God, and yet
by His will, infinitely diverse--both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Of course on a purely physical/mental plane this would be a
contradiction, and even spiritually there appears to be a paradox in your trying
to get some human handle on this fact. <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">You are immediately confronted with other paradoxes
on contemplating Total Reality that have puzzled human thinkers from the very
beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we come up with pure
poetry and talk about eternity events that never happened wherein the primal
division of reality is into personal and impersonal manifestation; or to put it
more crudely--persons and stuff.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This segregation is exemplified by the first derived personality--the
Eternal Son, and </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--the pattern of all impersonal matter/energy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Impersonal reality is not God but only
His creation which follows what you humans think of as mathematical, absolute
cause and effect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It contains no
innate ability of personality to in and of its own self create some original
effects to the causes that gave rise to it.<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>Whereas personality, flowing directly
from God the Father, is made in His own image with a relative ability to create,
to not be absolutely bound by the laws of antecedent causality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God is personality and its origin.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As personal, living beings created by
God, by His will you are endowed with the potential ability to depart from
preexistent reality insofar as you can create for yourself a unique alternative.
<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 it comes to God’s will we can
truthfully say that it always has and always will determine the larger creation,
but does not always determine the individual heart and will. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is, if you will, God’s absoluteness
of creation: He can create beings like this: you’re one of them. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The purity of his gift of you to yourself
is in the trust He puts into you when He says to you, in effect: You are my
beloved son, my beloved daughter: do what you think
best.<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 free will of yours allows you to depart from
God’s will. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, as we have
said, God’s will is something you have to seek out and choose to be aligned
with. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not forced upon you
aside from what you call Natural Law--the absolute obedience of all
matter/energy to </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> pattern.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your self-determination is as a tiny part in a vast, living, dynamic
universe of forces, things, and personal beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From God’s absolute point of view you
are correct, my son, there is no separation. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there can be from yours. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This does not pertain to your soul, the
co-creation of God’s presence, but merely to your conscious self which, as you
know, can be highly self-destructive in defiance of God’s love and will for
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia book puts it,
the endowing of imperfect, immature beings with even this relative degree of
freedom leads inevitability to tragedy. <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; tab-stops: 1.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be seen as ignorance for if
people are making choices without understanding the underlying reality of God,
of His perfection, His vision, His truth, then they’re making their choices out
of not understanding that there is so much more to who they are, who we all are,
and to the universal scheme of things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But if we allow ourselves to dive into that ocean of God’s harmony, and
perfection, and flowing effortlessness, then that is a choice coming from
understanding and discernment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
many of us make choices not from that place.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much, my son, which is why we gave
our lessons on factors which condition your free will. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is just another example of
immaturity and imperfection, the state from which you all begin.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your Urantia book delights in informing
you there is a whole inner universe of a billion gigantic inhabited worlds
existing from eternity in perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is not that God cannot create perfect beings, because He does. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But He also, if you will, conceived the
idea and set into motion another gigantic creation of time and space wherein
each personality, starting out in imperfection, is given a part to play in its
own evolving perfection.<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>(Evolution toward perfection)
<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 time and space universe will
continue to grow both physically with the creation of new matter/energy, and
personality-wise in the number of unique persons of all orders of being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will also continue to evolve in
perfection--meaning: the ever more perfect control of matter/energy by spirit
through the mediation of mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is what is happening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The destiny
of the whole is never in doubt; never has been, never will be. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the destiny of each individual
personal being is largely in their own hands.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you just pointed out, each one starts
from not-knowing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each one starts
out needing to discover God’s will, God’s goodness, God’s absoluteness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the adventure you are all
somewhat willy-nilly--(Michael chuckles)--dropped into. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can only implore you not to--in any
way--make light of the genuine suffering that is part and parcel of this
immaturity and imperfection, but may be nonchalantly dismissed with the notion
that everything is God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pain is not
an illusion. <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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just had a thought about free will:
that the more we become familiar with and gain confidence in our understanding
of our true nature, and allow ourselves to live God’s reality for us--His
will--then in a sense we are allowing our will to be free, free from the
confines of ignorance and fear, misunderstanding and misperceptions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is ultimate free will. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our will becomes one with God’s.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is ultimate free will and what we
do with that, as co-creators, then that is our free will as
well.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet as experiential beings, this is an
ability you must earn through living experience. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul will always be truly yours
because you will have earned it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
you know, this concerns the limitations the spiritual community puts upon
itself, not doing for you what we know you are capable of achieving for
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why neither
Mother Spirit nor I will tell you what to do from the standpoint of our own
wisdom, for we are one with God’s will in a way that will take you a while, my
son, to achieve. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will not
become a truly existential being, a member of the Corps of the Mortal Finality,
for some time for you have an enormous universe out there to earn, and you have
but only one moment at a time. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are still the most extremely time-limited personal beings there are. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re still here in your first, human
life.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does that mean, because I’ve
actually been pondering the idea of timelessness, that the underlying nature of
our being, our awareness, is actually timeless and non-dual. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So what does that mean that we are
time-limited?<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>(Human being--conscious and
super-conscious)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, out of love and respect I am
addressing the conscious part of your being, and not talking through or around
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, your personality, a
creation of God, is outside of time and space, but it is a greater you, if you
will, this conscious you cannot know directly as an object of consciousness.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are presently limited by your
consciousness, which is still dependent upon this physical/mental vehicle of
yours in time and space, and extraordinarily conditioned by it in terms of
health and acquired mental abilities, or their lack.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also what we mean by saying that
you can only know momentarily a dedication to doing God’s will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot begin to know it in any kind
of real duration. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to
continually rededicate yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can’t even remain conscious without needing to rest deeply in
unconsciousness on a regular basis. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You don’t even have control over your own
thoughts yet. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re bound up in
extraordinarily profound, complex, inexorable motions, both within and
without.<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>Timelessness is just a fleeting
experience you have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
experiences of it are very short lived and must give way in the next temporal
moment when you have other things to think about. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It all boils down to your being an
experiential being, my son, so I address the consciously experiencing part of
you that is, as we have said, very distinct from your personality and soul.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even your memories, the experiences
you can consciously pull up and relate to, are extraordinarily conditioned by
your current state of mind. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As soon
as you reawaken in the first stage of your Morontia life, the senses of the much
more subtle body you will have will be greatly expanded from what you know now.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your spirit will be much more
perceptible and your whole feeling of time, of duration and the future, will be
enormously enhanced. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your free will
will have taken a little quantum leap--(Michael chuckles)--as it were, because
of this. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will be able to
control your subjective experience of time a lot
better.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do have moments when, like, I’m in
stillness, or finishing work, or where I feel--and I’ve commented on this
before--this impatience, this desiring to be who I am without all the methods,
without all the extra things we think one has to do to be one with our
Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a part of me that
just gets tired of doing, of discerning what is going on within me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it is my true nature to be one with
the Father, then let it be so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or
why is it not so?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I feel a sense
of frustration and it’s hard for me to overcome that, or even be left with
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I feel like I’m… <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to use this word, but it’s
the only word, of--ought to be--doing or being more of who I
am.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, the moments of timelessness you
have experienced are those times when you allowed, either intentionally
or--(Michael chuckles)--accidentally, your soul and your Father Fragment, the
presence of God in you, to swell forth into consciousness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your Father Fragment is eternal. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a pure spirit reality of God, and
your soul is this enormous construct of all your life, all those years and years
of childhood, and youth, and adolescence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So this is a true realization, this timelessness.
<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>But your frustration is that the
experience is not enduring; it too passes away.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not yet one with this timeless
presence of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That union is a
real event you have to look forward to. <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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s here though, because it’s here
now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The experience of that is
here. (student laughs)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s not always, or why the
frustration?<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But God is God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like maybe that’s my own illusion,
who knows?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do feel, I guess, what
you say: I’m not one. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t feel
unified and hence that’s the frustration, that’s my anxiety: I don’t feel
unified.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have what I perceive as
misunderstandings, or these ideals… But I really do want to live the fully human
life that God intended for me to live.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then let me ask you, my son, what gives
you the notion that you aren’t? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
were created imperfect and immature with all these yearnings for perfection and
maturity, for being one with the will of God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But, as we say, you can’t--(Michael
chuckles)--you can’t accomplishment all this instantaneously. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to earn it, and you can only
earn it so fast.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are still time
limited, moment by moment. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s
no way you can jump in some kind of time machine and zip ahead and be who you
need to earn to be. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For yes, human
life was deliberately set up this way.<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>(You are to yourself an object of
consciousness) <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>I don’t think you fully comprehend yet
what we mean by saying that, as you sit here talking with me now, you are this
momentary, fleeting/changing<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>consciousness that is humanly self-conscious.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are self-aware and so you can know,
can remember, both the extremes of blissful, momentary oneness with your Father,
and yet too the frustration that you cannot completely, and in duration, be
aware of this. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes: God is God, and
is right within you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there is
also a way of joining eternally with this presence of God that is still only
your destiny, your potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not yet actual. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
dimensions, and dimensions, and dimensions yet to encounter and encompass before
you can even begin to approach the enormity that is your own soul. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no way you can have this soul of
yours be entirely conscious now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is so gigantic, my son, there is no way your present, immature consciousness can
begin to experience it all.<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>Just do your best by being still
regularly and let whatever of your soul wants to, pop up to enjoy, for that was
part of my lesson tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
Thought Adjuster, the presence of God in you, as well as your soul, both are
playing an active, if very subtle part in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can will yourself out of the way by
being still enough to feel this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome your experiences of timelessness, but then let them go for the
next temporal moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No
clinging.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can’t hold time
still.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For your own sake you cannot
live in timelessness yet. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
just beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a long way
to go.<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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess what’s prompting these feelings
is my own fear of my future, of my survival, of what is going to happen to me as
I expand, as I try to set forth to take those next steps beyond what is known
and into a different paradigm of being, of existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think that is part of the
motivation behind my desire to live the fully human life that God intended me to
live, and intended for me right here and now.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we congratulate you on this
spiritual ambition, however frustrating--(Michael laughs and the student joins
in).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life would be so much
emptier of value to you otherwise.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess I just want it a little easier
sometimes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(both laugh) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess I just want desires; I don’t
know--beneficial things in my life and in the lives of those around me. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just want to benefit others, to be of
service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is kind-of like my
beneficial intent, to be of service to others, to their
souls.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why, my son, we have given our
lessons on how to get in touch with your own true, deeper self so you can
present this most wonderful gift to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then, being in a broader, more subtle
and profound reality yourself allows you to recognize, right through their own
pretensions, and projections, and posturing, and camouflage, and all that; it
allows you to see their true selves, to see them as children of God, sometimes
in spite of themselves. <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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know we need to close, but…since I do
feel this sense of not being unified, and I know I need to rest and be still
with this need, but still get the sense of not being unified… <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Isn’t this sense prohibiting me from
fully experiencing the beneficent intent of the universe--that my life could be
so much better, more fulfilling?<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>(Ask only: what is
true)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, ask only: what is true?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your sense of not being unified is a
true perception.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re not
unified.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no way you can be
perfectly unified yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you can
learn how to let this valid feeling/awareness give way to an appreciation how
much you already are--unified or not. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also a true product of your
stillness, letting this larger self of yours swell forth. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s still only momentary, as an
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s something you can
enjoy, but then need to relinquish to go on to the next moment of your
life.<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>Yes, feel the spiritual ambition that
you need to take another step towards becoming more unified. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you go forward: by pulses of
striving, and then relinquishing that very striving in the deep worship and
appreciation of how much you already are, the enormous soul you’ve already
accumulated. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cherish those moments
of oneness with God you have already achieved: have another.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then off you go again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another new day dawns full of work and
striving, joy and laughter and tears, and all of
that.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It sounds so like paradise. (both laugh)
<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, my son, there is some true, genuine
suffering beyond any one individual’s
comprehension.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah, I know. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thank
you.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is this thankfulness that we share
most deeply with you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is truly
Mother Spirit’s Spirit/Adjutant of Worship. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was also the event, this
thankfulness for being, that marked your childhood transition into becoming a
fully human being--this appreciation for your life, this impulse back to the
Source of life. <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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I keep on getting this message that I’ve
got to live my life from my own inner teachings to be who I am, to be fully
human.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just think of all the various studies
and suggestions you’ve had to wade through--(Michael chuckles)--sometimes up to
your waist through thick glue, to get to the realization that there is within
you that which supersedes all ecclesiastical authority, all other teachers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s even right within your mind
Mother Spirit herself as a kind of differential urge, a kind of nudge, an
augmentation of your own innate powers of worship and
wisdom.<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>(Michael’s life as Jesus)
<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"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">And I am right beside you, very distinct from Mother
Spirit and the presence of God. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
am Michael, a Master Creator Son who had the supreme glory and adventure of
being a human being myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had a
real physical heart beating in my chest, and hands to hold those tools I so
delighted in using to make a better boat for the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Sea of Galilee</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
was such a joy to take a break from all my humanly ungraspable, imponderable
problems and just carve a good plank to fit--as perfectly as I could make it,
anyway.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(then, with much emotion…)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></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>What this human life is that you have,
my children!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I only wish I could
somehow convey to you all the more what these souls of yours are. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can only suggest a way for you to let
them swell forth and amaze you with all their precious detail the presence of
God himself vouchsafes for you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be
in my peace and thanksgiving. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
evening.<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>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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