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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Nebadonia--<st1:date Year="2009"
Day="1" Month="6">June 1, 2009</st1:date></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
<st1:State><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:State>--<st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>NEBADONIA--T/R--JL</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Universes of personal beings to experience, and embrace)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Wisdom
and a sense of proportion)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Allow yourself to have faith)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>(Different orders of personal beings)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The triumph of faith)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(The
creation of evolutionary planets)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>(Organized religion V.S. being on your own)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The illusion of selflessness)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Dear
Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We all here have an abiding thankfulness for the two of you visiting with
us this way so we can have lively conversations and just feel the warmth of your
presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We also thank you for
being the occasion for us to get together like this, and enjoy each others’
company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s been many years now
of a wonderful reassurance in our lives of just what complex creatures we are,
so unknown to ourselves, still so much sheer potential with only a few years of
life in starting to write that big book of our endless futures.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But then--I forget from time to
time--it’s our Father who is writing our souls, is it not?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you, dear Parents, and you too,
Father, for these lives, and for each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.</FONT></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my
children, this is Nebadonia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Michael and I are both happy to accept your thanks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do enjoy this relationship with our
children, though it staggers your human imaginations to wonder about just how
many children it is that we have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We ask you to have faith in what we say is true, that, just as with our
Universal Father being no respecter of persons, so too Michael and I see and
experience each one of you as an unbounded, unique being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We don’t compare individuals with each
other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, you’re all roughly in
that basket called “humanity,” but you also share this status with those on
millions of other evolutionary worlds.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Universes of personal beings to experience, and embrace)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>So
please have faith that we do experience you fully beyond how you can yet
experience yourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this we
have a faith in you more than you can yet have in yourselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have followed so many children, not
only through their first, human lives, but on through all the Morontia phases,
on to the System and Constellation levels, your training here on and around
Salvington, then clear across the cosmos on into Havona and, ultimately,
Paradise, before you return to us, finally Final--a member of the Corps of
Mortal Finality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And here, an eon
or two later, back with us for a visit, you’re still only just beginning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>This
should be in no way daunting, but a celebration deep in your souls, this
reassurance of an endless vista splayed out before you and coming to you in the
fullness and pace of God’s time, set before you by our Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So much you share of His nature: so much
of His own nature He has bequeathed to you so that you too can know, deep in
your heart, deep in your soul, as with Him: I am!</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>And the universe echoes with that joyous cry: I am!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then to look around and see--(Mother
Spirit laughs)--there’s a nigh infinity of beings somewhat like you, even
personal beings not like you at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They all--we all--share that essential great goodness of our
Father’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we have each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>I
teased you once before with the notion that every new order of personal being
you will meet will add several more dimensions of reality to you, because each
has its own relationship to time and space, its own distinct personal reality
that they enjoy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as they enjoy
meeting you and learning about all you‘ve come through, so too you will be
tickled to meet these fantastic beings so far beyond your portrayal of angels
and others, there’s so much wonderful delight out here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Your world is so very distinct, along with those others which went
into rebellion against Michael and our Father, in that God’s way, God’s truth,
is not so obvious in your individual lives and your societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what it means, my children, for
you to aspire to and become an Agondonter--one who can act on faith in the
absence of such obvious proof of God’s will active in the hearts of men.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On most of our worlds--almost without
exception--the Father’s way, and Michael’s, and my ways for you are really
apparent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is not quite the
same quality of faith required because the divine path, initiated and sustained
by a loyal Planetary Prince, and both Material Son and Daughter, is being
followed, reflected in all their institutions and relationships.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were suddenly transported to one
of these worlds of about the same age as Urantia, it would seem like
<st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Think of having every two parents on your world being what you call
saints, raising enlightened children, and this reflected in all your societies
and relationships.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Michael talked last time about having a deep respect, if not
outright awe, with what your forbearers have had to come through on this
benighted planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is true there
is so much of these evil ways, and just ignorant ways, arrogant ways,
continuing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You still read about
massacres of hundreds of thousands of people occurring on your world, here two
thousand years after Michael’s visit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Not only your news but more so your entertainment is filled with violence
just to get some little stir out of cynical, calloused, jaded personalities.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>What is all the more important for you is to perceive and forgive
with a deep understanding of all that has come before you and is still
persisting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It keeps you from
getting discouraged and cynical yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It also gives you a way to constantly renew yourself in an ever present
now, this living, dynamically changing now of a growing understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you have to come to some mature
relationship with all the evil in the world, and by evil I mean the deliberate
harming of others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let that be
sufficient definition for now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is what you are raised with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
your media-saturated society a person by the age of eighteen or so may have
witnessed hundreds of people being murdered in every way imaginable by the
script writers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>And so
let your hearts go out to those who feel so devoid of their own personal lives
that they, as you say, live in the tube, and get their notions of the world
outside only from that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s so
much melodrama it often masks the true drama in peoples’ lives--the loving,
caring giving of life to each other.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Wisdom
and a sense of proportion)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>One of
the most difficult things to convey to our children here on Urantia is the
proportions we see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From our
viewpoint seeing the full personalities, and then the souls of our children, all
that they have come through, all they’ve been conditioned and indoctrinated to
believe, still and all the love and the caring so totally overwhelms the evil a
hundred to one, a thousand to one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is that enormous glow of love, and human sacrifice, creative spirit,
caring and sharing; this is the enormous spiritual glow of humanity on
Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we
see.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>If
I might tickle your fancies with a vision, my children, this is how you will be
able to see yourselves upon awakening on your first Mansion world--just that one
step further than where you are now in your ability to see each other’s souls
and character, and even your own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will be utterly amazed, so don’t think I’m in any way spoiling the
surprise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>In spite
of all these persisting evils and bad adaptations to reality; in spite of all of
that, see if you can detect this enormous family of man.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the evolution going on and how
your major cultures are inextricably being shoved together in the next step
toward learning how to live together as one interconnected and highly
communicative peaceful world; the dream of the ages.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see it happening so fast compared to
any time, even the recent past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
gets down to individuals having to adapt to these foreign cultures with their
different meanings and values impinging upon them now. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be not dismayed with what your more
mass media presents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, know
from your own deep inner experience the true measure of humanity, and how, way
deep down inside, if you could only see them as we do, you’d see all these
strange folks have their God-given uniqueness in common.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>I’m not talking about some homogenization of culture, but just the
opposite.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s how your whole
world is mightily struggling as it comes into intimate contact with such
differences, struggling to keep their cultural identity while being open-minded
toward others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only way out of
such an impasse is to grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
keep all that you have been, and all that you have done, and revel in the fact
your personality and your mind are intrinsically limitless.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You just keep growing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You keep adding to all that has come
before, and in this, my children, we are all alike in the Supreme Being of
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the true story
of what is happening here in this constant evolution of experience and
understanding in everyone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>So let
yourself be thrilled with the spectacle that you are a part of.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will, in time, come to encounter it,
and take it in, and make it your own; another dimension, and then another, to
those you already inhabit.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Allow yourself to have faith)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>My
children, allow yourselves to have faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Let yourselves see with the eyes of spirit this fountain of creativity,
personality, and character in all your fellows.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are all in one way or another, in
each your own way, earning this realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s all preparation for those to come.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Michael says, be of good cheer--even
when the adventure gets rough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have
faith and trust in the One who created this adventure for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And think of us from time to time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just think: Hi Mom!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello Dad!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks for me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>If you
have any comments or questions this evening, we delight in them as
well.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi, Mother, you
mentioned the other orders of beings having a different kind of reality than
ours and that we’ll learn--be able to appreciate their level of reality?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there any way of explaining
that?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, let me
take an example of, shall we say, a seraphim.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of their different
makeup--literally--their form, their consciousness and the way they are
minded--the more vast extent to which they can contact impersonal reality--the
stuff of the universe; they literally inhabit a different subjective reality
than you do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve been informed
of some of their powers and their abilities which, to a human being, seem rather
fantastic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only way your
common, shared experience approaches this is in your science-fiction, for even
that enables Michael and I to speak in terms of dimensions--which would have
been completely incomprehensible a few centuries ago.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But as you meet seraphim when you are finally able to perceive them
and relate to them on a personal basis, you will have expanded, yourself, just
in order to do so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All your senses
will have been enormously heightened from what you know now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then as you live with them day to day
you will absorb their perceptions and come to understand how they see
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will become a part of
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though throughout all time and
space you will still have this human touch, you will still be able to see
yourself and other human beings just as you see yourself now--you are earning
this realm for all time--there are yet hundreds of dimensions before you, to
encounter and make your own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>This is
about as far as I can go in describing these other dimensions because they are
there in your future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t
simply put you in them or bring them to you now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have to earn them as well, one
at a time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your soul, the
repository of your life experiences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As I said, there will be no dissembling your surprise when for the first
time you stand in the presence of an angel and are able to see and hear and
fully experience their reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your universe will have expanded.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this at least give you some notion of what we mean by each order of
being having their own distinct reality?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kind-of,
Mother.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s more like an
introduction to a very interesting journey.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the
essence of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will encounter
them; you will grow to meet them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you will, little bit by little bit, earn and appropriate their
reality, just as they will get a deeper appreciation for yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the wonderful sharing you have to
look forward to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
love.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening,
Mother.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your
words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really appreciate what you
were saying about our ability to grow into the situations we have by exercising
our faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For me it’s a lot of the
time I know I’m experiencing spirit, and being in it and acting on it, and then
there are other times when all I can do is remember it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like just beyond my grasp.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I try to take the next step--just going
forward, and it is like going into the dark, especially when it seems everyone
else is doing the same thing--just floating around.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s an odd and peculiar experience to
know that the light is there and you to have to act as if it were--something you
have to grasp for and hold onto.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
my world the physical stuff is so approachable, so there or not there; you
either have it or you don’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
the times when the spirit is so real, and the times when it’s just right out of
reach; it’s really nice to know it’s what you expect us to go
through.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The triumph of faith)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my
daughter, what you’re describing is the reality of the adventure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One short definition would be: when you
are in a situation where you can’t know what is going to happen next.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be a minor one of walking along
a line laid out along the ground, or walking along a tight rope one hundred feet
in the air.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s why we reassure
you the adventure is real, with real consequences.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is this chasm of the unknown that
is the very stuff of human life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is no absolute assurance that you are going to get home
tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>As
a material being you face a particular kind of threat that Michael touched on
last time, and I mentioned tonight how often the real drama of the adventure is
lost to so many stuck in the television tube and inundated to the point of
drowning in melodrama.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They miss
the real drama in their own lives that is potentially there for them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the cold and hard saying--get a
life--yet for so many it’s a sad truism.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They are bulking at what you just described.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They live their lives in a retrospect of
cloying nostalgia and sentimentality that wipes out true sentiment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>In
this you are lucky for you are grasping for the essential spiritual nature of
the adventure and how all the rewards of faith are only precursors to the faith
that will be required of you tomorrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so, my daughter, you are closer than you think--(Mother Spirit
laughs).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least you are beginning
to understand that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you say, it
is just beyond your fingertips at times, but you do know, or can sense that.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are realizing how you have to
let the doubt go, and exercise your faith and step off.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is a sad fact to some is a
possibility for triumph to others: there is that in human life which can only be
known through faith, and it does have its own particular reward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rejoice that you are beginning to
comprehend the essence of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are getting some hard-earned appreciation for the adventure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For some in terrible pain, or
uncertainty, the ultimate faith is to love God, even though He set up human life
where such things are possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
this is what the situation asks of those who are in it: to love and worship God
with all the thankfulness in your heart--despite what befalls you in this
intense first life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>So
carry on, my daughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You‘re
learning how to let go even those triumphs you’ve known, and their definition of
spirit, to stay open to the fact your life is a growing, changing thing for
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for keeping faith in
me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep feeing my love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll keep beaming it at you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve mentioned
before how this planet was created for us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Could you explain that?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(The
creation of evolutionary planets)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son,
the pattern of creating evolutionary worlds, as contra-distinct from the
architectural spheres, was not new or unique to Michael and myself when we came
out from <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Ours is one of the younger local universes and we had many others to
learn from.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The creation of
planets, and then the implantation of life on them with our Life Carrier Sons,
is the only way to bring about your order of beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not only Urantia but all of the millions
of evolutionary worlds in Nebadon were definitely created to evolve and support
your kind of life, living beings with free will dignity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I was
expecting a different answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much
laughter)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If this world was made
for us, how does this come about for each one of us?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is our reality really real or only
symbolical?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your
mind, my son, all your experiences have both these qualities of being literal
and symbolic, for you know things directly all in and by themselves, and yet you
also know them in relationship with other things by comparison and
contrast.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that symbolical,
contextual/meaningful relationship of things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you know both ways, and they go
playing leapfrog over each other, each reflecting the other in recognition.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I know
things by comparison to other things--differentiating one thing from
another.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But also, my
son, you have direct perception, the intuition that I actually augment--the
innate ability of yours to recognize and relate to something directly. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can get such a wonderful familiarity
and companionship even with stuff, perhaps with those tools you’ve used for
years and years that seem to have acquired their own individual character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s that direct relationship with
things you can have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you’ve
been paying attention to our lessons, you will have noticed that no two things
are exactly alike.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(No, they’re
not)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the hallmark of God’s
creativity that everything, not only personalities, but every grain of sand on a
beach, every snowflake, is at least somewhat unique, and has identity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>So
we tease you to imagine this heart of yours, you can feel directly, beating
forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Make that part of your
understanding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll go for
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Mother.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re very
welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep feeling my
love.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Next
student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What about organized religion and the
benefits of working in churches and other groups like that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Doesn’t this give a person the
opportunity for ministry and expressing themselves, and loving others?--as
versus not doing so and being sort-of out in the world free and on your own,
expressing your spirituality as you pass by--spontaneously?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you can update what the
Urantia book says about organized religion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes a lot of warnings that might
still apply, but may be getting out of date quite a bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know, it’s sort-of the benefits of
having all the traditions and symbols of churches--the rituals and sacred arts,
the music.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You don’t get that if
you go off on your own without participating in tradition.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I wonder if you have something to say
for us in this our post-modern era?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>(Organized religion V.S. being on your own)</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, my most direct advise
is: do both, if this tickles your fancy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’ve drawn a nice distinction between what you do on your own
initiative out in the world, and how you volunteer with a number of other folks
to get together and, ideally, share your inner spirituality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is very much of the divine
nature--this sharing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m just
pointing out that the sharing can take place in both realms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>The
religious experience--the relationship of an individual to God--is somewhat
independent of the group experience insofar as the church experience can be, and
is as you look at the unique individuals, everything from the most deep
spiritual exchange of ultimate values, to, at the other end of the spectrum, a
mere social event that can be quite un-spiritual in the sense of only helping
prop up some fundamentalist beliefs that ones group is the sole possessor of
truth and righteousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often
there are both kinds of practitioners in the same organization.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>So, speaking in these galloping generalities we caution you
about--(Mother Spirit laughs)--we could say that the most deadening effect of
the socialization of the religious experience is a kind of laziness, a falling
back from the sharp and cutting edge of the present moment’s really being open
to God’s presence within you, falling back into some kind of dogma, some lazy
attempt to encapsulate and hold as a possession His living truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then come all the dead, fixed
philosophical and theological arguments so devoid of living challenge.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though not consciously intended so, it’s
as if dogma were actually created to protect the self-righteous person from such
a disturbing, living reminder of their Creator’s infinity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Dogma,
in this light, is just another species of intellectual denial, denying the
essential living nature of truth and love by trying to capture it and hold it
still and impotent in intricate formulas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Its attempt at inner security is so unnecessary.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can learn to take a break any time
and rest, rest fully in your God-given absolute existence, your moment-to-moment
completeness, for this is real and of the spirit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It leads to connection with your larger
self and your Creator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dogma leads
inevitably to exclusiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Right)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s part of its
purpose, to separate the so-called holders of truth--us, of course--from the
uninitiated--them.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>In
this case, my son, what every church needs is for all of its members to have
that other part of their life, that going out and relating spiritually to all
the people who are outside their specific, shared understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the true spiritual
challenge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then when they get
together on their Sunday mornings, these are the fresh and invigorating
experiences each can bring and offer the others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>I see
these two phases as very complementary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you point out, the organization, the socialization of religious
experience has evolved over the years enormous traditions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that cultural conditioning we’ve
given so many lessons on how, at one and the same time these traditions give
meaning and value to life, they hamper your free will if they’re held
unconsciously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If not consciously
seen as being limited, human creations, but are mistaken for the literal word of
God himself; that is fundamentalist dogma.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is taking human traditions and saying they are so fundamentally
God’s word one needn’t go outside and relate to all that other world out
there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a self-centered
shame--to miss so much of the rich heritage of all the world’s peoples.
</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Seek a
good, healthy balance of these different phases or modes of religious
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have your own,
unique personality’s inner, direct relationship with your Father in which you
can share even that which is impossible to share with another human being--that
inexpressible essence of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
then you have all the…comparative life--(Mother Spirit laughs)--you share with
your fellows.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals out
there totally alone and by themselves can be missing all the rich tradition of
thousands of years of evolving civilization.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s good for your soul to have
both.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
Mother.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s very
helpful.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The illusion of selflessness)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I might
mention one other bogus ideal, promulgated by organized religions as the best
way to deal with human reality and relationships, is to go around selfless, as
if your true, God-given self were only an illusion to be abandoned.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that is really just another maximum
illusion which renders individuals powerless to do good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia books puts it, far
beyond the seemingly selfless notion of--Let God’s will be done--is the greater
responsibility of--It is my will that God’s will be done.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For here God finds His helping hand on
the end of your arm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here you
acknowledge your God-given self in order to be responsible for what this self of
yours is doing, or failing to do, not only to yourself but to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>All through your history, my children, devout men and women, seeking
only the greater good, have gone astray and have evolved very bogus notions of
how to be truly loving and caring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These too you still have with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is why you need to come back to your own personal experience in
meditation and reflection, and open yourself to what is really working, what may
have worked once but no longer does, and what are those bright, shining ideals
of what might work even better tomorrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>It’s all here, present in a dynamic, living balance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the tenacity of life itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we thank our Father for such a
deep and abiding mystery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His
transcendent reality, of which your personality too is a part, is like a
fountain bursting forth right out of nowhere, right out in the middle of the
air, all coming from Him moment by moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Michael and I thank you, Father, for these precious children of
ours.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do watch them stumble and
fall, and see the terrible abuse they heap upon themselves and others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet we also see them returning, in time,
from Paradise, glorious beyond this sun in their sky, beings of finality who
have crossed a universe and the billion worlds of Havona, now returned to us
with a smile I can only tease you here to imagine.<SPAN
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