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<P>DATE:</B> <A name=July5></A>July 5, 1996<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Butler, PA,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean<BR><B>TEACHERS:
</B>TOMAS<BR><STRONG>TOPIC:</STRONG> Extracted from "The Joy of
Learning"<STRONG>Archived No.</STRONG> Vol. IV, Part 1 of 13<BR></P>
<P align=center><STRONG>*****</STRONG></P>
<P align=center> </P>
<P align=center><STRONG> </STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> We can encourage you as you become strong in
yourself. As you come to know yourself, including your failings and foibles as a
result of your background, your life's experiences, that wisdom which you have
garnered as a result of your sleuthing around will enable you then to have more
tolerance, more patience, more understanding, more fortitude and more wisdom in
dealing with your fellows as they, too, are going through, hopefully, the same
process of correcting. It is an accelerated course because of the tremendous
spirit which has been given of late.</P>
<P><STRONG>Hunnah:</STRONG> Then all I have to do in my case is ask that I be
allowed to experience the joy of life. Because, by asking, I have opened myself,
voluntarily, to allow this miracle of joy of the gift of intelligence to, let's
say, for the highest good to manifest itself.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS: </STRONG>Yes, but let me take that a step further and
establish a "what if" that on your first day of school someone made fun of you
and, therefore, throughout your life you have rejected learning because someone
made fun of you, even another six-year-old or five-year-old. Are you angry with
learning or are you angry at that that little child who affected you for a
lifetime? For you to say, "I am open to learning" without finding out in your
personal core, in your DNA of understanding yourself, what it is that has made
you behave this way throughout your life, you will not understand and you will
not then be prepared to face learning joyously.</P>
<P>Only by realizing through delving and seeking, or asking that it be revealed
to you, can you open the door, turn the page, or whatever, to see that child
face-to-face and forgive that child through the Father, therefore forgiving
yourself for having listened to that child and believing that child throughout
your entire life, therefore depriving yourself of much of life's joy, you see.
That, then, can heal. And when once that is looked at, when once that personal
forgiveness is sought and given, you are forgiven and you may go on. Do you
understand?</P>
<P><STRONG>Hunnah:</STRONG> I hear you. But it seems to me that if that's the
system that we are going to have to use, then it will take another 2,000 years.
I just can't imagine. I've been through all that! And I'm not tying up this
topic anymore. </P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> If you have been through all that, why are you still
angry and argumentative? </P>
<P><STRONG>Hunnah:</STRONG> I'm not talking about this particular episode. What
I'm trying to say is that we will be forever mopping up our traumas!</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> But you do not understand ... </P>
<P><STRONG>Hunnah:</STRONG> No.</P>
<P><STRONG>TOMAS:</STRONG> … how quickly this can transpire when once it is
realized that these processes of correction yield such fruitful results and that
the painful experience of exposure to imperfection and the righting, the
correction, is so effective and quick. Once you get rolling, it doesn't take
long at all. We are, in the Teaching Mission, very impressed with those who have
grasped the reigns, how quickly they are galloping across the fields. If does
not take long when you beg in to work, for the spirit is working with you. Other
individuals begin to work with you, and for you. It gains momentum. It's that
teamwork thing that you can do ten times more things when ten of you work
together than if you each work alone. </P>
<P align=justify>And that is also one of the reasons that I work diligently to
provide you with one another, that you learn to trust one another, that you
learn to speak to each other and hear each other, that you learn to care for
each other, that you begin to have certain loyalties to certain truths, beauties
and goodnesses, that we can work together as a team that we might create a
pinnacle of perfection in our own little local universe.</P>
<P>The effects of it are so great, are so effective, it will truly turn the tide
of your communities. You will be able to see it as it happens among and between
yourselves. The reward of seeing the Spirit of Truth come alive around you is
worth any cost, any price, requisite for its having.</P>
<P><STRONG>Hunnah:</STRONG> I believe you. </P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>