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<P>DATE:</B> November 2, 2008<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Rio Rancho, NM<BR><B>T/R:</B>
Gerdean<BR><B>TEACHERS:</B> Merium and Andromadeus<BR><B>TOPIC:</B> "Angels of
the Churches"<BR><B></B></P>
<P><B>MERIUM:</B> [Greetings, salutations and introductory remarks were not
recorded]</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> "3. The religious guardians. These are the 'angels of the
churches,' the earnest contenders for that which is and has been. They endeavor
to maintain the ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe
transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the checkmates of
the angels of progress, all the while seeking to translate from one generation
to another the imperishable values of the old and passing forms into the new and
therefore less stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do
contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of ultra-sectarianism
and meaningless controversial divisions of professed religionists. The corps now
functioning on Urantia is the fifth thus to serve."</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> That was rather long. I'd like to break it up, and I'd like
to involve you somewhat more and so, Renault, if you would read the first
sentence only of that description again. Just the first sentence, please.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Okay. "These are the 'angels of the churches,' the earnest
contenders for that which is and has been." </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Those who contend for that which has been. Let's think on
that for a minute and discern its value. Today, we were watching through Gerdean
an antique road show. And in this portrayal of material value, it is apparent
that the quality of workmanship and the historic frame of reference for material
goods contributes greatly to the monetary and aesthetic value of <I>things</I>.
This same truth holds for <I>beliefs</I>. They represent value levels that are a
part of your inheritance that you in fact contribute to and pass on to those who
follow.</P>
<P>When we meet at Paula and Men-O-Pah's home, we are met with much of value in
terms of time and space, represented through the appointments of their home and
the many clocks ticking, keeping time with the mortal sphere, representing
decades of gracious living and family values. (Pause) What's the next
sentence?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> "They endeavor to maintain the ideals of that which has survived
for the sake of the safe transit of moral values from one epoch to
another."</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> As with the antique road show and Paula and Men-O-Pah's
noble home, and indeed, in and with you all here present, there are those
standards and values which you have had implanted in you and bestowed upon you
by those who went before you which you have opted to cling to as a part of your
value package. Throughout the course of a mortal life, it is possible to review
your accumulated possessions, be they material, mental, emotional or spiritual,
and divest yourself of those that burden you or weigh you down. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> I was thinking of an ideal that survives from one epoch to
another, is that of the Golden Rule. "Do unto others as you would have others do
unto you" is one that has come down for thousands of years. </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Indeed it is a value lesson that has been consistent for
centuries and cuts across barriers of nations and languages and cultures. It is
uniform in its ideal. Not all values have been so compatible to the whole of
humankind. In fact, there have been religious wars fought over the differences
and they continue to this day! Without meaning to call you barbarians, they
occur even among you here when and as you disagree theologically,
philosophically or politically, simply because that which you hold dear can be
justified as a part of your religious experience, thus adding fervor to your
commitment. Nothing adds more fervor than religious zeal. Even to battle. </P>
<P>There are some who never get rid of anything. They opt to keep every tenet,
every principle, every belief, every facet of religious dogma or scripture or
experience, every ort of history, and they become walking museums -- these, as
compared to those who hang onto nothing, who subscribe to nothing but the next
adventure. The angels who serve as guardians of these values, these religious
values, grace your stage with their discernment as to what continues to serve
and will generally allow that which no longer serves to simply be shoved off to
the side, there to collect dust and eventually to become lost in the shadows of
antiquity</P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> So
is it okay if I ask a question?<BR><B>ANDROMADEUS:</B>
Yes.</P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> Okay. After Jesus left the planet and all the apostles were
around, trying to [inaudible], were the angels nurturing and guiding them at
that point? Were they working actively with them, nurturing them to savor and
save and keep the best part of what would grow forward as knowledge of the
kingdom within?</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Yes, to the extent they were able to do so. Remember that
the seraphic planetary government that serves your world today was new at that
time, new effective the time of Michael's sojourn here -- Pentecost and after.
And so for the most part the apostles were quite enthralled with the Spirit of
Truth, which rather stirred them up and, I might say, added a great deal of
impetus that the angels of progress found to be quite exciting. </P>
<P>The religious angels were not as active in the early days with the apostles,
although they certainly did and would stabilize the values that had evolved to
that point. But the real growth of the church ("angels of the churches") was not
really activated until "the church" became a part of Urantia culture. Prior to
the advent of churches, there were, yes, synagogues and other houses of worship,
and those were the receptacle of those energies, but the main thrust was not on
the evolving religions but on the revelatory religion in formulation. </P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> I'm not grasping this. So let's play like I don't know what the
church was that you
was it Puritanism? were they Protestants? That flavor of
church? Say for instance-- and here's what I'm hearing you saying and I'm trying
to understand. Say for instance that church -- let's say they were
Episcopalians. I don't know that they were, but
that burned witches at the
stake. And then the mind and soul of man changed and evolved and that church
stayed but it transformed into something different so they quit burning witches
and they got a little softer and a little kinder perhaps and the church still
follows through to this day, so is what you're saying that the angels try to
nurture the progression of a church to keep what's good and grow that, and try
to negate the evil minister stuff. Is that what you are saying?</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> I am saying that the angels of progress stimulate change in
the church, whereas the angels of the churches, the religious guardians maintain
what exists. I am not suggesting that the religious guardians maintain religious
ignorance. They maintain that which has value.</P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> They make sure the baby doesn't get thrown out with the bath
water. Figuratively speaking.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> The Protestants who fought against the constrictions of
Catholicism may well have been stimulated by the angels of progress and
certainly Byzantine art and Medieval spiritual practices are part of your
history -- almost genetic are they in the effect they have on you. These are
more recent, however, than when the apostles were here, as were the witch-hunts
of Salem, Massachusetts; that's fairly contemporary. I am not suggesting that
the religious guardians protect evil; they protect value that is cloistered in a
religious way of life. </P>
<P>There are examples in your life, I am certain. Any honor that you give to the
cross, acknowledgement of spiritual holidays, these are reflections of the
religious guardians. Adoration of the angels, the practice of teaching prayers
to your children -- these are gifts of the angels of churches. These are
traditions and values that are handed down and you are encouraged to hand them
down and embrace them because they keep the fact of religion alive. Religion
does not mean in and of itself that you must be stifled by these traditions and
values, no. The purpose of religion is to exalt faith. Houses of worship are
honorable places. They epitomize the relationship between the Father and his
children -- children who go to the Father for all their needs and all their
happiness. Yes. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> I presume they work as well in "churches" of Hinduism, Buddhism,
wherever you can find that yearning for a Higher Power.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Yes. Absolutely. They are not limited to Christianity. They
are not limited to organized religion. The religious guardians could also be
seen to work in and with the Native American tribes in their spiritual
practices. The
.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Certainly with the Dalai Lama.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Yes, and many others. Even in recovery groups, with their
Higher Power, there are traditions that are maintained and fostered <I>because
they work</I>. It is honorable. These are honorable efforts on behalf of
honorable and valuable principles and beliefs. (Pause) Is there another
sentence?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Several. "They are the checkmates of the angels of progress, all
the while seeking to translate from one generation to another the imperishable
values of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less stabilized
patterns of thought and conduct."</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> You have seen in your lives and have experienced as well
some of this, as you have observed the influence of the Urantia Papers coming
into your consciousness and stirring up your mind from its Christian moorings.
The angels who serve as religious guardians have stood by you and with you in
your efforts to glean what you would adopt and assimilate from the revelation,
gently buffering and maneuvering that which you still hold dear from your
original path, your religious roots, in such a way as to allow them to share the
same stage, so as not to abruptly cast off that which sustained you for years,
in times in darkness and in sorrow. Oftentimes these sentiments will gradually
become just that
sentiments. And now we have religious icons to deal with and
other religious memorabilia that hold a special place in people's hearts and
minds as humans are wont to do. And so you will your own graven images of what
matters; they become totems of your passage through life as you carry forward
the torch of your faith, even through the winds of change. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> There's one place where the angels of progress had a talent is
in the liberation of theology. The Latin American liberation and Black
liberation of theology, because it's sort of like changed or brought the goals,
let's say, of the churches -- in other words, it forced them to look at just
where are you putting your values: on the poor or on the rich.
[Indistinguishable].</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> I see what you are saying, however I think your point falls
more under perhaps another group of angels - political angels, angels of nations
- although it cannot be denied that these kinds of issues are a huge part of
organized religion. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Many times its not so much what those leaders do or don't stand
for or don't say that is harmful to the people. Not that they directly harm or
order them by withholding or not protecting. </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> The sin of omission. (Yes.) What's the next sentence?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> "These angels do contend for spiritual forms, but they are not
the source of ultra-sectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of
professed religionists." </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Yes. We mentioned that.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> "The corps now functioning on Urantia is the fifth thus to
serve." And I was thinking back on our history, wondering if the first corps
with Caligastia and the group that was trying to bring some kind of organization
to the humanoids on the planet and has the fifth corps served since Jesus' time?
Or has there been--</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> All of these have served only since Jesus'
time.<BR><B>Renault:</B> Oh! Okay.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> This administration is relatively new. And so all of these
changeovers have happened within the past two thousand years, and the progress
that you speak of has to be considered within that period of time. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Before Jesus came, I can see how people would be really lost out
there. Very little directing them. Difficult.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Primitive world, yes. It is a part of the evolving worlds of
time and space. Yet there are simple joys and real compensations for those who
make the journey. Although you are correct, prior to the spirit of truth, there
were limited sources. It fell upon the individuals to derive spirit value
through their own ambition, and as you can well imagine, many mortals' ambitions
are less than spiritual in nature. </P>
<P>And yet there are those who have had this temperament, who have been privy to
sufficient counsel and guidance as were given to Urantia in the first epochal
revelation, who did indeed receive Adamic stock through the second epochal
revelation, who have in fact benefited from the priesthood to which Melchizedek
belonged and the religion that he sired through Abraham, the Hebrews, who
provided us with a home for our Creator Son, who has provided for this more
recent influence, most notably that of the pouring out upon all flesh the spirit
of truth which has considerably up-stepped progress. But humanity was not
without, prior to Jesus. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Would there be a sort of spirit of truth that kind of helped
people along there until they could get more on the road?</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> The Divine Minister has always been with
you.<BR><B>Renault:</B> Okay. Good.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> The Holy Spirit is at home here and has been since life
implantation, and there are other ministers to the evolving races. Heavenly
helpers such as the seraphim whose job it is to guide humanity and protect them
in their ascent.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Could I ask a question? (Yes) We were studying about the angels,
the seraphim, and how there are a seraphim for a thousand people and seraphim
for a hundred people and seraphim for ten people and seraphim for individuals.
We were wondering, do they use these same seraphim for special projects? So when
like Miriam is going to have 2,000 people in Salt Lake at a conference, or where
we have Urantia conferences, or Teaching Mission conferences, are there special
angels of progress and religion and churches or something that attend to each of
us, aside from the other, regular teachers. Are those part of their duties
there?</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Attending such events, such gatherings --</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Yeah, where ten of us come together, or a couple of hundred of
us come together for specific spiritual purposes.</P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> There they will be in that midst. And they will attend
according to the sundry needs of those in attendance. </P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> So are there personal seraphim that go along? </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> Once you attain personal seraphic guardians, you have
somewhat more influence on you, but this is the way it is with advancement. The
more you acquire, the more is expected of you. And so, those who are attending
certain events, such as the one Miriam is planning with others -- this will be
attended by virtually all the angels for different reasons. For some it will be
diversion and recreation; for some it will be on behalf of enlightenment; most
certainly there will be those who are interested in progress; and some that will
be interested in keeping alive that which has existing value. </P>
<P>There is plenty of room for them all. They don't take up the same kind of
space humans do, and there is room for energies to work together in ways that
you would recognize as a cable, perhaps, an electric cable. One copper wire as
compared to ten copper wires or 100 copper wires bound together to create that
one powerful cable. That is why some of these events seem to be so highly
charged. They are! Not only is your energy invested in it, but so is seraphic
planetary government energy on behalf of the spiritual hierarchy that oversees
the development of the participants. And as you well know, each one is at their
own particular and unique point in comprehension and spiritual development. </P>
<P>Furthermore, one individual may benefit from the services of all twelve
sectors at one time or another within a fairly short period of time. And we will
see more of this when we discuss epochal angels next month.</P>
<P>I wanted to spend just one sentimental moment more on these angels of the
churches, in terms of the beauty of their music. The spheres are indeed alive
with the songs sung on behalf of spirit
not simply the church choir that you
are here familiar with, and the precious hymns of your forefathers
but the
inspiration and thrill that goes beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary. And
this exaltation of the spirit that is in large part a gift of the angels of the
churches touches all of us. We all bow down and worship when we hear these
psalms of praise. Indeed, such melodies reach all the way to Paradise.</P>
<P>Are there any questions?</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Yeah, do you think there's anybody who really believes there are
angels that go fluttering around like the one in the picture up there, with a
couple of wings there, and everybody is flying around bumping into everybody
else. I don't think that's what the good Lord meant. We just-- Maybe there's
something else that happens to us when we die, but we certainly aren't going to
be angels flying around with our little wings bumping into each other. </P><B>
<P>ANDROMADEUS:</B> You will not be angels for angels are a separate order of
being. You are ascending sons and daughters with your own destiny path but as
for what others believe, yes, we are aware of the assortment of mental
constructs that humanity brings to their spiritual table. And while much of it
is laughable, perhaps, and much of it is sad, it is also a fact of the
relativity of your development. </P>
<P>You will not need wings; neither do angels have wings. They have energy
fields, as you now have energy fields, and so it goes, on into infinity, a life
ahead of eternal adventure and so let us be on our way.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Thank you so much. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> This is Merium, back again with you, and I would like to spend
some time with you personally on your own issues, on your own adventures -- in
particular, your perception of religious life, your spiritual life. It always
gives us something to consider when you share with us where you come from. We
cannot read you with a crystal ball. We only know you as you share yourself. And
so we have these periods of discourse between us not to simply kill time, but to
learn more about each other and share the inner life -- the inner life, as it
stems from your true Source. Not that your expressions need to be perfect or
well formulated or even refined but just that they be presented.</P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> I was just thinking. I like the term spiritual growth better than
religious growth. One thing that I have done is change what I believed as a
child. The structure that I was raised in is certainly not the same that I have
today. And when I began my spiritual path rigorously, or when I really started
being intentional
when I started it was just life, and you know, one thing led
to another and I got to cultivate a relationship with a loving Father, and I got
to realize Michael as my brother and father in a very helpful way. That healed
issues I had since childhood, so
and I continue to grow and to change. In
fact, that's why I love the Urantia Book. I get the awareness that we will
always be growing and always becoming part of all that is, and so [inaudible]
</P>
<P>I am told that I can let judgementalism go. It's hard for me to understand
why people can't fix that other people's beliefs just because it's their belief.
Because it isn't the same flavor as mine doesn't mean it's wrong. If there's
some light and love in it, and Father or Mother or Michael or whatever you want
to call it is in it somewhere [inaudible] people on this planet will start to
see that and know that. I think Buddhists call that "Meta" or "love your brother
as yourself." </P>
<P>I don't know if that's what you wanted to hear but that's what popped out.
</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Indeed, it came pouring forth. There's more than one topic in
there, actually. I am reminded of the fact that I left my native world when I
was your equivalent of about age 18, and so I never really experienced much
adult life. I was basically a child for my mortal experience. And I didn't need
a lot of stimuli to keep my spiritual wonder alive. I had a good life. I was
well loved; I was comfortable; and I had the company of many neighborhood
children that I took care of. And so I had all my needs fulfilled and no real
problems. And then, abruptly, I was whisked off to my next level of existence. I
daresay, the experience for me was that I had a spiritual life, more so than a
religious life. I don't recall any dogma or any religious teaching from my
original experience, but I know it was filled with joy, laughter, awe and
abundance. Those are indeed fruits of the spirit. </P>
<P>I sometimes observe mortals such as yourselves who have experienced hardship,
genuine hardship, and even though you had no real proof of God, have been able
to grasp hold of some semblance of spirit reality such that you have been
sustained. Many of you have grabbed hold of the church of your forefathers, or
married into religious beliefs. Some of you have sought and found a philosophy
that you feel improves upon that which you previously knew, and there remain
many mortals who still have no use for religious philosophy but life as if they
were children -- one day at a time seeking joy and abundance, even in a simple
life. </P>
<P>But those who have relied upon belief structures to help them over the
hurdle, or through the lonely night, or past the dark night of the soul, or out
of the abyss, tend to clutch this as religious, as something to believe in, and
they are quite reluctant to let it go. I can understand this, even as I feel
sorry for it. But I do know that in the end it will all work out all right, and
so those who have to hold on so tight today, will have wisdom to show for their
choices, just as will those who were willing to fly on wings of faith, sometimes
even prematurely. </P>
<P>Yes, it is always wonderful to see the many different kinds of people living
in harmony together, and this is entirely possible if and as one is not
attempting to press their own perspectives onto others. This is difficult to do
because when you believe something and it gives you such joy you want to share
it and it hurts when your gift is rejected. </P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> [Indistinguishable} we have a perception that someone is going
to change for us, and we love in a way we can and if it isn't accepted, we feel
rejected. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Indeed, it is the key to all relationships. Expectations have
much to do with that. And yet, agreements and compromise are a part of how
people find harmony together, be it a marriage, a partnership, or a
civilization. Establishing ground rules, discussing emotional responses, putting
trigger points out on the table to identify, drawing forth the best in each
other, and when the worst in each other appears instead, diverting your
expectations from that which you wanted to what is necessary to deal with
becomes opportunity for mutual development, bonding, and further growth. Not
only for the immediate relationship but also for the entire community. </P>
<P>The more you evolve and advance the more you will see how tremendously
connected you all are, and there is nothing hidden from On High. We can see your
methods, your games, and your maneuvers. It's very evident in the energy
patterns that you control. And you may be assured that there will be an eager
seraphic helper at large to pounce upon such an opportunity to bring the light
of truth to the situation. You might call them cosmic tattletales. "Oh, look!
There's someone being selfish! Can I go do something?" (Group laughter) </P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> In planets of light and life
like Urantia is a whole bunch of
flavors or religion. If all of us could accept each other for where we are, for
whatever flavor it is, regardless. Let's play like that's possible. And then
when we're all harmonic and love each other and said you can be you and they
said I can be me and everyone agreed that everyone was fine and we all had truth
and beauty and goodness and all of it -- wouldn't that be light and life? So are
worlds in light and life, do they get to keep their flavors, only they just
ascended to a higher place? Or planets that live in light and life are all with
first, second and third center awareness of belief? You know what I mean? Does
that make sense?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> The state of light and life is when all the citizens look to the
divine source as their Creator and mentor.</P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> No matter what we call it.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Right. The fact that the evolved religions have sprung up in
different parts of the world under different circumstances, using different
scriptures and having Gods of a different name, does not mean that the
proponents of these religions differ at all in their ability to pray and
worship. It's very much like cultural differences. You can go to a party and
have a <I>piρata</I>, dance the <I>hora</I>, enjoy cake and ice cream with
candles, in an igloo, while burning sage, and so forth. If you treat one another
with the fruits of the spirit, all these differences don't matter. They are
social color. They are really more cultural differences than anything. </P>
<P>Would you try to inveigle someone into celebrating Seder with you? If you
were Jewish and you knew they were Southern Baptist?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Sure, if wanted to join.<BR><B>MERIUM:</B> The question was,
would you try to make them? <STRONG><BR></STRONG><B>Renault:</B> Oh. Extend an
invitation.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> If the invitation is extended and then whosoever will let him
come. That is not the problem. The problem is when people try to force their way
of life and their beliefs on others because they feel for some reason it is the
superior way. </P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> I think we all ought to just jog along the way we are, with our
particular type of religion and not worry about it, and one day we're all going
to be dead and buried then we'll go up to heaven, I believe, because I don't
believe that angels have a bunch of wings flapping around back there, but I
think we're up there and we have to account for ourselves.</P>
<P>Now, my dad was an actor. He was on the stage for about 15 years, traveling
all over. Had a ball for himself. And in our church-- It was the Depression days
and everybody was walking around with a long face because things were so rough,
and once a week we had a meal and every lady brought a covered dish and boy
everybody ate really well. Some of them for the first time all week. And Daddy
was killed in an accident, but I figure one of these days -- I'm getting so
darned old I'll be up there myself, and I'll be tickled to death to see him
again because he and I got along just perfect. He always wished they had another
baby but they didn't. And so he lavished all his stuff on me and we had fun. And
we were in a 90 million plays at church and made people laugh who were having a
rough time. You know, because the plays were funny. He said, "Never mind all
that religious stuff. You get that in church every Sunday" and so we did funny
plays and stuff like that. People's morale was down and they needed a good
laugh. And I'll bet he's having a ball up in heaven! And probably he and my
mother are together and -- of course, Mom used to say, "Oh, Charlie!" You know.
She had enough. Because he would tease her, and after a while she kind of
rebelled against it, but I can still remember hearing her saying that, "Oh,
Charlie!"</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> It sounds to me as though Charlie may have been working for the
angels of diversion.</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> I think so. It was a ball and all my girlfriends were crazy about
him because he would tell each one of them how beautiful they looked and how
"you gotta do your hair in this way and you gotta put your make-up on this other
way, the way I've been teaching my daughter to do it," so I grew up that way,
having a ball. And going to church all the time and so forth so my spiritual
part wasn't neglected, but we had a lot of fun with it, too. Because I can't see
these people that are so religious that they walk around, you know, looking like
angels before they're dead. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> And then there are a lot of people who walk around looking like
ghosts while they are still alive, or zombies.</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Yeah! Some people don't know how to have fun. And my Dad -- it's
like -- of course, I liked him anyhow. You can tell the way I-- But I grew up in
Depression days and we had to watch every penny and so it was good that instead
of going over to church and Daddy being the religious guru somehow, instead he
was making everybody laugh and forget how bad it was. And after awhile it got
better. Because he told everybody. He said, "One of these days it's going to
turn around and everything will be quiet." And it was. Well, I'll bet he's
having fun up in heaven. I'll bet he's got all the other angels laughing their
heads off. And it's a good thing because some of them are too gol-darned pious
when they were here. I don't like people that are so religious that you don't
dare say 'Damn!' </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Well said. I can see by the energy configuration that it is time
for us to leave you to your own amusement. </P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> Before you go, thank you for telling us a little about you
today. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Well, like most folks, I like to talk about myself. It's just
that I didn't have much of a life to talk about, so that is also, of course, why
I felt so comfortable as your babysitter. That was my task. </P><B>
<P>Miriam:</B> You say you were whisked away at 18? Was it an
accident?<BR><B>MERIUM:</B> [Silence] <STRONG><BR></STRONG><B>Gerdean:</B> I'm
not getting a response here.<BR><B>Renault:</B> Are you the Merium that was
there when Moses troops went a cross the Red Sea?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> No, I did not live on this planet. None of us have. I lived on
another world, quite well established in light and life. It was very peculiar
that I was taken so soon. But
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<P>Renault:</B> Have you had other physical incarnations?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> No. I have had no need to. My adventures have allowed me to
venture forward, not backward. Perhaps when I am a Finaliter I will have that
experience, but I don't anticipate it nor do I need it. I have more than enough
to do in the morontia estate.</P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> We're glad you take time out to stop and visit us.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I am helping to compensate for my lack of adult association. And
so you have provided for me a great service. I'll see you next month.
Bye-bye!</P>
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