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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>June 6, 2006</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rio Rancho, NM, USA</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHER:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TOMAS</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enduring Peace</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Prayer:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Father God, wake us up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us get past the lethargy of
springtime and listen to Your voice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Send us Your voice through Your heavenly helpers who want to help us, who
are eager to help us, who have something to say to us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open our ears that we might hear. Open
our minds eye that we might see something new and invigorating, something we can
pass on. Amen.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am Tomas, your teacher, glad to be
here with you today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have been
called out of hibernation, as it were, and find myself enjoying once more the
soiree of yesteryear, when we would get together and pursue the course of the
spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are so many
diversions and distractions along the way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Of course, you have a saying about that, to the effect that it is not the
destination that is important but the journey itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is much to be said for that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The experiential path is what it
is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were to be touched with
a magic wand, immediately being made perfect, immortal and spirit, you would
have no experiential contribution for the Supreme, which is in some ways the
dues we pay, the price of a ticket for the journey home to the Father and
beyond.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Perhaps in the
lassitude of your atmosphere, this lazy warm early late spring day, lolling
around in peace and comfort, solitude and sanctuary, as the construct where you
go when you are at ease and at peace, is a good time to ponder the fruit of the
spirit Enduring Peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Enduring Peace is
not easy to come by, particularly for the querulous mortal who seems to love to
quarrel and bicker as squirrels will do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In many ways quarreling is a habit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is also a voice that breaks the silence, like chickens clucking in a
barnyard, providing companionship and sociability to other hens and chicks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These manifestations of lively
communications need not be considered hostile or problematic. They are simply a
part of your composition as mortals, but when this temperament is stirred up,
when it is offended, when it is severe enough to make you rise up from your
comfort zone and move out from your citadel of the spirit, it can be quite
bothersome indeed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can broach
hostilities and thus the peace is broken.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Enduring peace is lost.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>You look around your
planet at the world conditions in existence today, at the hostilities, at the
wars and rumors of wars.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not only
are nations rising up against nations, but the very planet is in turmoil.
Weather patterns are shifting. Radical action is coming forth from mother nature
in terms of hurricanes and earthquakes, torrential rains and uncommon dry
spells, or cold snaps. It’s very dramatic on your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is particularly dynamic on your world
at this time because of two things: one being </FONT></P>
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class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>communications have allowed you to see into parts of the
globe that you never could see before and the media is on the job, as it were,
with high tech cameras and so forth to bring you right into the lap of
misery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And </FONT></P>
<P
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"
class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>you have become more sensitive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have been spending quality time in
Stillness with the Master contemplating values and meanings, aspiring to a brave
new world where harmony and brotherhood reign.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The violence and conflict of the
evolving world is more distracting and more unnerving than ever before. For
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>There are times
when, in the course of geologic evolution, there are ages that pass before any
major change come to bring in a new age -- a new ice age, or something like the
age of fishes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You here are
entering into a new age as well, and there is geologic turmoil to go with it,
and it will be quite some time before it settles down into a way of life, a
pattern of life that will endure for millennia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an exciting time to live, but it
is also exhausting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fine for the
young folk, but more difficult for those of you who have begun to embrace your
approach to Mansonia, where you are slowing down, so as to better connect with
that train when it comes by.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Enduring peace comes
from appreciating your place in the universe and the time in which you live
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was chosen for you. You were
chosen for it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The configuration is
ideal for you. It is precisely what you came to do and what you started out to
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may rest in peace that
things are coming to pass as “it is written.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In that, you can enjoy enduring peace
even in the face of the temporary tumult. You can maintain perspective and
continue to have an appropriate degree of detachment, and appropriate degree of
compassion, empathy and mercy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are able to extend these because deep within you, you have come to know enduring
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are an extension of
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are the offspring of the
Prince of Peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>You have known about
war, war in heaven, war on earth, civil war in your nation and in your own
soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And having a perspective on
war, you are able to turn your full attention to the study of peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relinquish yourself to peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surrender to peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Succumb to peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest in peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more you are able to reflect this
quality of enduring peace, the more visible your presence becomes, the more
influence you bring to bear on your environment, the more your very presence
impacts those around you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
stop them in their tracks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
be an immediate reflector of the Prince of Peace and the value of enduring peace
and their own hunger to know peace and to dwell therein when you remind others
or each other of these qualities that are befitting our ever-peaceful Lord.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You bring a quality of life that is
refreshing to behold, to explore, to experience.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Enduring peace comes
only when you study war no more, when you no longer find battles appealing,
romantic, or justifiable. And look at the indignities going on in your
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it any wonder that people
rise up against such maltreatment? Is it any wonder that peace seems so far
away, so impossible to grasp?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What
a challenge it is for you then, my students, to go into the world as an
ambassador of the Prince of Peace and express your concerns about how humanity
treats one another and how it stewards the earth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Your character, your
strong character will give your voice authority, even as you are able to
maintain your enduring peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is wisdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Demonstrate wisdom.
Teach people what wisdom looks like, feels like.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a fruit of the spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enduring peace is like papaya; ripe
papaya is smooth, creamy, sweet, nutritious, without lumps, very palatable, very
comforting, very exotic, and very easy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Today looks like a papaya kind of day, feels like a papaya kind of
day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Have you enough
energy and will to engage in conversation? Or would you rather just watch the
clouds roll by?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Group:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No questions or concerns, only
geological or environmental concerns.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, yes, I can understand why you
would have geological concerns.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
world is watching and it is going to be quite a learning experience for all of
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stewardship is a
responsibility that ought not be taken advantage of.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The oil spill was not planned, of
course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was not deliberately
brought on. Indeed more precautions could have been taken.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They certainly manifest caution when it
comes to curing certain diseases, but no matter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accidents happen in the finite world and
although some accidents are quite serious, for the most part life goes on and
something will have been learned from the distraction.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I cannot predict what that might
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>One would hope it
would be a more profound reverence for mother earth, but even that must be
cautiously approached because you have only recently come out of an era of
nature worship; there are some of you who would say that you still worship oil
and other minerals or goods that come from the sea, the air, or the fields,
although it is really more an appreciation for what can be gotten than a fear of
what should be worshipped.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the
most part, what men worship is still what they fear.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the most part it has not occurred to
people to worship what they love, in the divine sense.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They don’t know God well enough to
worship him out of gratitude for the gifts of life that He gives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Your classes that
you take, the Jewish class, the first four chapters of Genesis have shown you
how much you have <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">not </I>changed since
Adam and Eve lived on your planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You still have commitments and betrayals, temptation and triumph, guilt
and shame and so forth -- adultery, murder, and envy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are just so many more of you now
than there were then; you cover more territory so it has simply multiplied
manifold, sociologically speaking, but individually speaking you still are
dealing with the same personal problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Amazing how so many
people, knowing that they are only going to experience these same things, choose
not to engage in experiential living anymore but choose to live in their
intellect instead. This is a way of slowing down the progress of an evolving
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Living in the mind
crystallizes the energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes
of your world a mausoleum or a museum more than an amusement park or a shopping
mall or a place of social interaction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>They had some
trouble in their day, too, though.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They had plagues, drought, famine, just as they did in Oklahoma in your
lifetime have the dust bowl.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Ecological events occur, social events occur, each new age provides a new
backdrop in which to learn the same fundamental lessons – all the while
advancing the unseen, unknowable dimension of spirit that becomes the
experiential God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is like each
lifetime, each generation, tills the soil, plants the seeds, harvests the crop
and stores the grain that goes into the sustenance of the next generation and
even the next, and so as the years go by, you add on to this store of
experiential wisdom, able to borrow upon your forefathers but never able to
completely side-step the necessity of the experiences themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Renault:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every year I have to pull weeds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They never go away.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It just becomes a new configuration of
how to deal with the challenge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Well, it’s good to see that there is such enduring peace in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">this </I>environment.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Renault:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we certainly have beautiful
flowers.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you do have a beautiful world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even with its trouble spots, it is still
a beautiful world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Invite me back
again sometime.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Renault:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anytime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love to have you back, Tomas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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