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<P>DATE:</B> February 15, 2009<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Albuquerque, NM,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean<BR><B>TEACHER:</B> TOMAS<BR><B>TOPIC:</B>
Loyalty</P><B>
<P>Music:</B> Elena on piano: "Holy, Holy, Holy"<BR><B></B></P>
<P><B>TOMAS:</B> Good afternoon, my friends. I am Tomas, your
teacher.<BR><B>Group: </B>Hey, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Before we commence I would like for Merium to lead us in prayer so
as to be focused for our purpose this afternoon.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Let us lift up our voice in praise of Holy Trinity -- Universal
Father, Eternal Son, and Infinite Spirit -- the Holy Family, indeed. With them
reside all the secrets of the origin and destiny of all the worlds of time and
space. They uphold the universe and at the same time, they know the secret
places in our hearts. </P>
<P>We look to our Eternal Parents as children look to their earthly parents, to
provide our needs, answer our questions, heal our wounds and relieve us of our
cares. We ask their guidance as they continue to nourish us and cultivate us as
the sons and daughters they would have us be. May we all be focused then, this
afternoon, on that Spirit that prevails in and among them, and as it reflects in
and among us here gathered. Amen.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Amen.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I would like to talk a little bit this afternoon about loyalty.
Loyalty is a quality that often seems yet even more tenacious than love itself.
Once you establish a loyalty to something, it is very hard to get you to break
that loyalty. Loyalty comes from custom, as well as from decision. It can be
cultivated and developed through habit and it can be solidified by affirmation.
</P>
<P>Never underestimate the power of loyalty. It is possible for people to be
loyal to their ignorance as well as to that which edifies. Loyalty is a
tenacious attribute. Changing loyalty can be very difficult, and sometimes
people will remain loyal to a principle, a relationship or a belief even when it
is foolish to do so; even understanding that it is foolish to do so, they
continue to do it. Loyalty is understood to be a quality of love, and indeed it
is, but it may not be the highest interpretation of love available. </P>
<P>Many communication problems occur because one will hold fast to their belief,
even as someone will come along and argue against those beliefs, disdaining that
loyalty to an outmoded belief. What this does, rather than incite the person to
change beliefs is to incite them to clutch even more vigorously to their
premise. Loyalties are not relinquished easily. You were discussing the idea of
creationism, for example as compared to evolution, and the high percentage of
people on your world, in the Christian faith, that hold tenaciously to the idea
of creation as it is set forth in Genesis, even as there are many indications
that expand that principle to include the fact of evolution. </P>
<P>Similarly, there are those who, having grown up with organized religion and
Sunday church services continue to espouse a loyalty to that agenda, even as the
material world grows up around them like tares among the wheat, driving out the
need for many to attend formal services as they embrace other concepts of
divinity and discover that nature provides a very adequate cathedral for worship
and the daily activities of hearth and home and happiness are adequate to
express the joy in living that one can credit as having come about because of a
relationship with Paradise Trinity.</P>
<P>And so what would seem to some as unfortunate change may seem to others as a
fortunate change. We today in this configuration are enjoying what many are
calling these days "home church" even as this morning many of you enjoyed formal
church services at an official house of worship. But a religious life is similar
to marriage between men and women; it is not going away. It will always be there
in one form or another because humanity will not do without it. They simply must
have their spousal relationship, they insist upon family life, and they insist
upon a religious life. And in fact one which they can share with others, be it
in a building or outdoors, be it organized or haphazard, be it formal or
informal. Humans spend a lot of time worrying about form over substance. Perhaps
if you were to develop more loyalty to the substance and less to the form, you
would have less difficulty extricating yourselves from the negative effects of
tenacious loyalty to those things which do not deserve loyalty -- those things
which are now icons of earlier beliefs, even superstitions, but that get dragged
into the current mores because of some sense of loyalty to the past.</P>
<P>I bring this up today to remind you that there are those who will hold fast
in courageous loyalty to that which they hold up as the ideal that all men
should follow. Even when you find it ridiculous, absurd, outdated, or
immaterial, they still find value therein, and to renounce it without regard to
their devotion is to exacerbate the situation, is to alienate those you would
embrace. You cause them to dig their heels in deeper to that of which they will
not let go.</P>
<P>And so it is essential that you be tolerant and tactful in dealing with those
who -- out of a sense of loyalty -- hold onto beliefs that no longer serve the
greater good. As long as they are serving that individual, that individual's
beliefs need to be respected
or, if not the belief itself, the individual's
right to believe, for to them that is humanly sacred. As religionists and as
teachers you cannot go around pulling the rug out from under others without
giving them something else to stand on first. As they have been provided
something of substance upon which to stand, if they have their footing and a
hand to h old, they are more likely to step out from the timidity that keeps
them in a state of resistance to higher truth.</P>
<P>This is the meat of the mota about tact and tolerance. You simply must have
tact and tolerance; without it, you are ineffective. And yet, it is a practice,
a discipline to learn how to apply yourself to the cause of advancement without
that charm of personality that will enable you to garner the support of others.
This is the purpose of charm of personality, which is the result of
graciousness, which emanates from the love-saturated soul. It is the substance
of the principle that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,
even though vinegar is perceived to be deliciously biting and cutting the face
of such cloying and saccharine beliefs as would hold you in the quagmire of
yesteryear. </P>
<P>And so again I wish to say how much we appreciate your efforts, for advancing
humanity does require effort, even if it is simply holding your tongue when you
want to cut through the shadows to the light of truth. You encounter this kind
of perplexity often in your lives and I cannot say what to do under any specific
circumstance; only you can determine that as you work with your own Adjuster in
seeking to express divine values. But we are always willing to support your
efforts to improve your consciousness of this teaching technique.</P>
<P>That will conclude my little lecture for the afternoon, the formal portion of
our gathering. I would love to hear from you. There are others in attendance,
and there is time on the agenda to investigate your concerns, if you have any
you would like to share with the others. The floor is open.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Before we go too far, let me say "Happy Birthday" to Paula. It is
not everyone who greets the sun on a 90 year anniversary of life, and so a doff
of the hat to you, dear daughter, for your dedication to the art of living such
that you have been rewarded with longevity all these years, and good
cheer!</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Thank you very much.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> There are a lot of things in that lesson that were apropos to
today, Tomas, and I thank you for that; I really appreciated that. </P>
<P>For the tact part in the loyalty about trying to get something through or to
improve things, I'm looking at my experience and frequently, at work for
instance, people think that I'm too nice about comments, etc., so tact is
important, and over the years, I think it's the only way that group could have
gotten to a better place -- and I do think it is at a better place -- but I
would like you to talk a little bit more about tact in that respect. </P>
<P>All things, I guess, in moderation, right? Or if you are trying to increase
your progress, tact is really important, but I am very often tempted to not be
tactful, and from people's comments that I'm too nice, I think maybe I should be
more forceful, or commanding, so any further discussion about that particular
part
</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Certainly. Let's investigate. You are in a position of authority,
and therefore you are given tasks to perform and it falls upon you to motivate
those under your command to perform such that the job gets done. It is rather
cut and dried, in your case at point. It is not so much an emotional issue as a
production issue. What have their beliefs to do with the job?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, it's interesting that
maybe I should make it more cut and
dried. I don't believe it is cut and dried, however, because with the unions and
personal feelings and personal health situations and all of those, it seems
anything but cut and dried, but maybe I should make it a little more cut and
dried.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> (Indistinguishable question) They will want to leave work, or
what?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, there are people with health situations that keep them from
producing as much as others, and that gives rise to resentment that some people
do more than others, and somebody will be consistently late but with the
economic situation, we lost a person and so there are fewer people and so there
is the situation of trying to motivate someone and still maintaining a pleasant
place to work, rather than cracking a whip.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Is someone cracking a whip over you?<BR><B>Elena: </B>No. Not yet.
<STRONG><BR></STRONG><B>TOMAS:</B> Are these people making excuses for
themselves?<BR><B>Elena: </B>No, they are just not performing up to the
norm.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> And who has established the norm?<BR><B>Elena: </B>I
guess that would be an average of all the performance put
together.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Are you Human Resources?<BR><B>Elena: </B>No, I'm
not.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> Is there a Human Resources department?</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Yes, but they're very
so far they have not been very active or
supportive of new departments and we're not there yet. But back to tact. That
was what I was kind of curious about. About measuring that tack with
forcefulness.</P><B>
<P>Men-O-Pah:</B> I noticed that comment Tomas made about honey over vinegar for
catching more flies and I believe that's true. Vinegar never catches anything.
So I urge you to be nice, the way you are. Going to the other extreme doesn't
motivate people any more, and probably less.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I would suggest that being kind and gracious is a tactic worth
keeping, but you can be straightforward with these people, especially when you
are addressing them one on one. Since you are personable, if you were to talk to
them as if they were your teenage child, helping them understand the adult
perspective and gaining their loyalty to the project, in terms of what their
efforts mean to the group as well as the project, such that you have cultivated
and developed a team spirit, it helps nurture the community aspect for, as you
know, ten people working together can do so much more than ten people
individually applying themselves. That synergy has great power. </P>
<P>Some tact and tolerance in their personal quirks might garner some benefits
in terms of the ability for them to overlook some of those personal
eccentricities in the interest of the project at large. See if you can cultivate
in them some kind of loyalty to which they can assign themselves. You are the
coach. You have a team. You want them to win the game. You want them to be the
best they can be so they can win the pennant and go home victorious. Incorporate
the concept of play along with work so that they come in with an attitude of
"can do" and "want to." </P>
<P><BR>When you have a thread or a theme such as this, it's easier to be tactful
because you can address them in allegorical terms. You can speak to them in
terms of parables or illustrations instead of specifics, and this will speak to
something deep within them that will stir them on to perform for themselves. It
is something bigger and more important within them than it is for you or the job
or the coworkers, thus they personally have an opportunity to embrace a loyalty
to an urge to act in a way that brings out in themselves things that they might
not have sought to see and find and fulfil without your assistance. </P>
<P>And always and ever remember to give them an "Atta boy!" "You go, girl!" when
you see them applying themselves with focus. There is so much animal training
involved in dealing with humans, in situations that call for them to perform in
a certain manner. And mistake not, working on a job for a living is not that
much different than working on a job for the development of civilization. Good
work habits are good work habits, whether it is working for the home team or
world peace.</P>
<P>Tact comes from having a sense of affection not only for the whole but for
the individual parts and each part is important to the whole. Try to cultivate
some of that sense of loyalty to the mutual unified effort and get to it through
their own integral contribution.</P>
<P>Remember, too, you are a woman, and you will need to perceive how it is that
your strings are being played because of that fact. </P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> I don't understand what you're saying. I understood all the other
part, but
</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Well, I did open up a new can of worms there. If you understand
your people, you can see/perceive, perhaps, how they deal with you
professionally and personally as compared to how they deal with their mother,
their sister, their daughter. Have they found women to be easy? To be
manipulate-able? Have they known women to be hard nosed and difficult or soft
and easy, for even though they may not be conscious of the way they approach
you, they may be approaching you in a way they have been taught, in which case,
you need to apply some tact in edifying them as to how it is that you are the
same or different from who they like to think you are.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> That's interesting. I'll think about that. Okay. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> The tact that I use with my co-workers -- at the end of a shift,
I always thank the aide or the secretary, "Thank you very much for all your
help," or at the time, "Thank you for helping me." If I have to correct them on
something, I try to do it straightforward as to why we needed that blood
pressure or what was going on with that patient or why we need to watch out for
this or that.</P>
<P>I think the aides really like it when they are treated with that knowledge
and respect that they are not just dumb idiots, but are actual co-workers. And
that plain level of respect inevitably goes to all my patients and their
families in a sort of "love precedes me" in dealing with them and I have found,
over 30 years of nursing, we are all the same. There is nobody more or less than
anybody else. It's leveling the playing field, which means "Doctors are not
gods, they are only people and they deserve respect but--" or "You can go up and
talk to the CEO of the hospital; he's just another person who cares," and the
response from all of that is that my patients all love me, my co-workers all
think I'm great, everybody asks for me, so I don't really get a lot of guff,
except maybe from my supervisors but
you know? And I try to tell people shit
rolls down hill so if they are being squeezed, it all comes down to us so just
ignore that part; we're just being squeezed from the top, so just let it go,
dont' take it so personal.</P>
<P>There are always rifts between people and co-workers and so I always try to
avoid getting into any issues or anything like that. </P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> An important thing, at this time, when we go through politically
difficult times without educating people and trying to make a positive
difference in that respect, kind of shaping the way that you're going to deal
with people and get them motivated to plug in and part of the whole thing -- I'm
not against tact. I think nourishing and all those things I use hugely, maybe
even too much, but it's better to be that way and it's my choice to be that way,
but we go into a new era now and trying to reach across those people who are in
different camps, and I think that it's worth talking about how that's going to
be done, and tact, yes! And that clarity, yes. All of these things. But I think
it's important how to use the Supernals' suggestions on how that can be done. I
mean, the loyalty
that's why I brought this thing up today because you were
talking about loyalty to things that maybe shouldn't be
maybe it's outdated
loyalty and maybe that needs to be reconsidered and changed, so I think tact is
particularly important in that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> But again, you cannot force people to change. If you try to
manipulate them or coerce them into changing, you will often get them to dig in
their heels and make it worse. When you encounter resistance or someone who is
working against the grain, or who has blinders on as to what you feel is needed
for the overall good, take them aside and in good faith ask them what they are
thinking when they approach the task -- not to judge their actions, but to find
out what motivates them, what compels them, what inspires them. Why did they do
it that way? And when you find out, when they tell you why the did it the way
they did it, then you have a foothold on how you can move it along or turn it
around to work better for the needs of the current situation. </P>
<P>Perhaps their tactics, their techniques, are not wrong for general purposes
but for this specific purpose it doesn't work, and so trying to get them to
change <I>en toto</I> isn't necessary; perhaps they only need to modify for this
specific, and therefore they can hold onto their loyalties in most things, but
as it affects the task over which you have some authority and control, you need
to have it understood <I>this</I> way, and specify how it is that it needs to be
done in order to work for the project you are undertaking with them in tow.
</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> But, you see, I am looking at this not only from at work but in a
much wider perspective, too, so it's not just work. It's other arenas, so I
found this session helpful. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are welcome. What else is going on in your material world that
you would benefit from some divine counsel or supernal wisdom?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> I need divine intervention. I need a renter for the apartment.
Soon. The right people.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I have heard you, over the years, being impatient with the
universe and it has always, always come through --</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> I know. I know.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> --with the right timing, the
right job, the right builder.<BR><B>Renault:</B> Right. I know.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B>
It always happens.<BR><B>Renault:</B> I'm so grateful.<BR><B>TOMAS:</B> So, fear
not.<BR><B>Renault:</B> Thank you. Okay. Okay. I know you're working
hard.</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Well, it's a critical time, with all the political stuff going on,
and I wonder if -- if the topic, just on what you said to Renault, you know,
it's always come true. It's always been alright. I keep telling myself that,
too, actually, regarding the President, and the Congressmen, although I pray
every single day for the right combination of wisdom, courage, commitment,
loving understanding, openness to Father, those are all things I pray every
single morning, going out of the house, and so I suppose the main thing is to
maintain our knowledge of what we have had in our own lives to know that
everything will be all right, although, you listen to the news and this is
almost unprecedented in its scope and capacity and so one wonders sometimes, is
it different, or is it just another instance of
I don't know. I can't describe
it. Is this something totally new? Or not?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There are some things that are totally new, yes, and some things
that are as old as time itself. There have always been disasters of one kind or
another. They weren't always known to you, to humanity, because there was not
the mass media you have today, and there was not always such an interest in
global events. Until recently the populace really only cared about its own turf
and were happy to let government take care of things as long as it didnt
interfere with their own life style. Now that has been blown wide open and
people are interested in what's going on in their government; they are getting
an eye full of what has been prevailing in the country and abroad and so there
are new perspectives, a new sense of alarm and this has given rise to renewed
emotionality in the broadcasting. </P>
<P>Also, technology has contribute to the melee because cameras and reporters
can go into places that were off limits even ten years ago, making the news far
more immediate and ferocious, in fact, actually in the "good old days" your
imaginations were left to carry the disasters to the nth degree and now you have
cameras doing that for you. And so it might seem to be worse but it is not
worse. It's the same old thing.</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>I'm glad to hear you say that. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>Men-O-Pah:</B> I remember the days of FDR. His program was a bail-out, only
not on such a grand a scale as the one now. But it put people to work and
trained people; they gave out food stamps and-- never money, but fed them
somehow so (inaudible) so this experience that we are having now is on a grander
scale, and yet it's not altogether different.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Furthermore, throughout time, civilizations have come into being
and faded away; they rise and fall, and that will continue until such time as
civilization is settled all over the globe in a relative state of light and
life. They who are our enemy today will be our friends tomorrow and vice versa.
Those who are empowered today will be slaves tomorrow and vice versa. This is
part of the churning and mixing of the human condition to allow ways of change
to come and go, ever and anon improving circumstances for greater and greater
numbers of people. </P>
<P>Those who want to settle down and avoid change are in for disappointment
(group laughter) because it is a very tumultuous time and it will continue to be
for some time, but it is also a thrilling time, a very exciting time. It is not
simply bad news and disaster. It's just that bad news and disaster is what is
publicized. At the same time, there is a groundswell of humanity reaching out
and up to embrace one another in the spirit, such as we are doing here today,
such as you do in your efforts, in your outreach efforts, and it too is greater
than it has ever been and yet it is still the same, for there have always been
those who seek to help others, who depend on God for their livelihood and their
mental health, their peace of mind, their motivation.</P>
<P>Try to remember those who, like yourselves, are working for enlightenment of
all, who are working with the angels in planetary development, for one of those
many fields of endeavor that you discussed with Andromadeus last year. Those
efforts are ongoing, unabated, ever active, cross-fertilizing with the workers
in the field such as yourselves. This is the reality upon which we ask you to
focus and give your loyalty. It is the heart of today and of tomorrow. It will
last beyond nations; it will endure beyond centuries; it will sustain beyond
tomorrow, it will endure beyond next door. It will provide for you the
foundation upon which you may stand as you seek to serve in the fields that you
are shown, where you are led, by those On High who rule in the kingdoms of men.
Establish your loyalty on this foundation and you have nothing to fear. </P>
<P>Are there other issues?</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> In spite of it all, I remain optimistic. I just don't let them
get me down, you know? And there was saying in Jesus' day: "This too shall
pass." I try to ignore the bad news and listen to the good news and there's
quite a bit of that around, so I'm optimistic. Of course, I am a
Pollyanna.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are a faith child.</P><B>
<P>Paula: </B>Years ago I worked in a big office. We did mortgage loans. There
were 20-some of us working with that department and somebody said, when I went
there to work, "Oh, you are not going to like that because of all the petty
little things that are going to go wrong and people will quarrel." That never
happened! And I worked there for, oh, I guess four years before I got married
and I had a lot of friends there and we got along beautifully. We really
did.</P><B>
<P>Renault:</B> Did you give out a lot of mortgages?</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Oh, yeah. And those were tough times, too, and people were having
trouble keeping them up and paying each month, but somehow, someway, they
managed. And we had some of the men who handled it, you know. We just helped
out. They did the big job and they managed beautifully. They would talk to these
people and kind of buck them up a little bit and make them feel a little better,
a little stronger, and I enjoyed it there. I learned a lot and I wasn't
enthusiastic about it, but I enjoyed working with these people. We stayed
friends for years. And that was a long time ago! I don't know where they all are
now. Probably not in the land of the living anymore. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I'll spend one moment on that note, attempting to buck up those of
you who tend to flounder and flail about with one mortal failing or another, all
of you grow weary. All of you are vulnerable to the flesh. Each of you has an
Achilles heel and emotional soft spots. All of you grow weary. Everyone gets
discouraged. All of you have an opportunity to reflect on what you don't
have, and yet you have the will to turn that around and recognize what you do
have: the courage, the knowledge, the understanding, the instinct, the
intuition, the wisdom, the will to persevere, to ride it out, to see it through,
to ride the wave, to fly the flag, to do the deed, to see the job done. You have
the capacity to turn it around and be of good cheer, for even when you can't
there is one in you that can, and will, if you succumb to that strength, that
enduring strength within, that is our origin and our destiny, that uphold s the
universe, that surrounds us, that assists us and loves us. Holy, holy, holy.
Amen and farewell.</P>
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