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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia—November 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Marin TM Group—Mill
Valley, California—U. S.A.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(The colored races of
Urantia) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Mistakes in the Urantia
book)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Collectives and
individuals)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Jesus’ emphasis on the
individual)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(The origin of the
error)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Dear Mother Spirit and
Michael,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again we
bid you a hearty welcome. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come be
with us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come fill our hearts and
our minds and our souls with your wonderful words. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do enjoy seeing things from your point
of view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps us see ourselves
and our situation in the light of your undying, beautiful life support.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Tonight I would ask you
to address a question that’s come up about the Urantia book.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems to rather baldly state that
certain of the colored races of our planet are superior or inferior with respect
to one another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you comment
on these statements?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They seem, at
least on their face, to be rather unmistakable and yet at the same time
incomprehensible if, from no other point of view, other statements that God is
no respecter of persons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also
states in the Urantia book that things like racism, or sexism, or
cultural-ism--any kind of hubris, arrogance, and looking down on ones’
fellows--only serve to produce social smugness in those supposedly favored or
luckily born, and a sense of social resignation in those who are made to, or
even feel themselves to be inferior. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we ask you to please address
this question. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this is Nebadonia, your
Mother Spirit. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I are
pleased once again to acknowledge and embrace your welcome with all the mind and
heart and soul that we have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
most joyfully welcome your request, and let it be known from the outset that I
am speaking for Michael and myself, for on this issue there is absolutely no
disagreement between the two of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However unique, discrete personal beings we are, we are also of a
spiritual unity with each other far, far beyond your comprehension. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve teased you to imagine an old
married couple who have been together now for some four hundred billion years,
and proud parents to nigh onto four million inhabited worlds somewhat similar to
your own.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(The colored races of
Urantia) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So let us look at the
colored races on an evolutionary planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you have been informed, the Life Carriers hailing from the
Constellation level of Local Universe organization and hierarchy of creative
authority, by the phenomena of universe reflectivity-spiritual communication
across dozens of dimensions of reality, are fully in touch with each other in
different Constellations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so
when life is started on an evolutionary world they have the history of the whole
Local Universe’s life-evolution riding along with them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What was initiated here on Urantia was
the culmination of all these billions of years of life experimentation and
result.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can use your
imaginations and get some feeling for what happens on an evolutionary world and
just how precious we consider this implantation of life to be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While not the only purpose of the
universes of time and space, the creation and evolution of your order of living
being is one of the major ones.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Indeed, you’ve been informed that a great deal of the activity out here
in time and space is devoted to your creation and your development on toward
Paradise. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So think of this
gigantic ancient context, my children, when you think of the Life Carriers
coming to a planet and starting that original DNA which, after evolving through
the plant and then the animal kingdoms will, after a billion years or so,
eventuate in a creature of will dignity very similarly on millions of
worlds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a controlled
evolution by way of the Life Carriers and my own Mind/Spirit Adjutants—the
dimensions of my own consciousness, so that when your first human beings, Andon
and Fonta, made contact with my adjutants of worship and wisdom and received
their Thought Adjusters, the fact registered instantaneously many light-years
away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet within this gigantic
context of consciousness and control involving so many dimensions of reality,
there is also the working of the Unqualified Absolute rendering each individual
planet unique and a bit unexpected in its life development for all our proposed
plans.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Potential within
Urantia’s original life implantation was the eventual segregation of the
aboriginal human beings into different races of color.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I.e.—this was fully intended and
provided for and is nearly universal on the evolutionary planets at a certain
stage of their human development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Different races of color will begin to emerge quite naturally, usually
taking place over thousands of years and under the guidance of a loyal Planetary
Prince and his corporal staff.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
each new color comes along with its unique essence and different qualities to
add to the planetary stock, these are foreseen, planned for, and welcomed, for
the essential purpose for these divisions into different racial characteristics
is for the variety and wealth of the whole humanity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each different color adds something
unique to the mix.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>But Urantia is—if you
will—extra-unique in that this diversion into different colored races did not
occur over thousands of years but within a single generation!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was somewhat, but not totally, due
to the fact that your world, Urantia, is a decimal planet, the one evolutionary
world in ten whereon the Life Carriers are permitted a larger degree of
experimentation in advancing the qualities of personal life in our Local
Universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so in one generation
you had all six colors emerging at once.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you’ve also been informed, once these different colored groups
multiplied to the large-tribal stage, an incessant warfare broke out that
eventually obliterated several colors as distinct types and lead to the
dispersal of the others across the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You recall our many lessons on the ferocity of these primitive peoples
and their innate distrust and territorial possessiveness with regards to their
neighbors, some of which still persists to the present day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On Urantia, as contrasted to other
worlds where each new color was welcomed and incorporated into the others, the
different races spread out away from the areas of conflict and more or less
self-segregated up until recent times in the so-called Age of
Exploration.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Yet also keep in mind,
my children, the original diversification was five hundred thousand years ago
and, except for rare bands who were early on totally isolated, there has been a
wide degree of inter-racial mixing due to not only warfare and its attendant
capture of slaves who were subject to indiscriminate sex and interbreeding, but
also through the peaceful intermixing of peoples due to travel and trade, and
the enormous migrations back and forth across the face of the
earth.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Mistakes in the Urantia
book)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Within this context of
original life-implantation intent and subsequent world history, the statements
in the Urantia book about inferior and superior races are more than unfortunate;
they are grievous errors, absolute mistakes with respect to the connotations
given them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each colored race has
something special to offer, and this is the main purpose for racial
diversification in the first place.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are no inferior races just as there are no inferior personal
beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You as a human being are
not inferior to a midwayer, or a seraphim, or a Melchizedek.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not some random mistake of
nature but a part of not only God’s plans, but of Michael’s and my own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a hierarchy of abilities and
perceptions of reality across the different orders of personal beings, but
referring to differences within the human order as inferior or superior implies
a qualitative differential of personality itself that is indeed not only—as I
said—unfortunate, but open to endless misinterpretations of historical/cultural
differences in the human family as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>We would also like to
discourage any notion whatsoever that this mistake was deliberately put in the
book to test you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While we applaud
those of you who more or less disregarded these statements, or saw them for the
mistakes they were—so much in conflict with what you noted in your introduction,
you can trust that these were not in any way intentional falsehoods if only
because of the entire rest of the book; i.e. a hallmark of wisdom being a sense
of proportion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Beyond that, any
deliberate inclusion of a falsehood in an epochal revelation would be a terrible
mistake on a whole higher level of intent and one that, frankly, would never
have occurred to the spiritual authors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In addition, the Urantia book itself states it is not to be considered
some kind of absolute truth, some lifeless dogma, but on the contrary; every
written expression is limited to its unique moment in time and place and the
development of language and concept in which it appears—in this case, late
1930’s America.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its purpose was and
is to expand as best it can those very limitations by introducing new words and
concepts in a trustworthy, cosmos-broad context that will resonate with the
mind/spirit sensibilities within you as valid
information.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>The greatest damage of
this unintended mistake is that it has discouraged folks from continuing who
might otherwise have gained a deep soulful resonance with the rest of the
book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the dozens of human
disciplines of thought and spirit that were included in order for the book to be
self-validating.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We were fully
aware when we included so many things from theology to geology, to cosmology, to
physics and chemistry, to philosophy and planetary history; on and on through
the evolution of life and humankind, the family and government, culture and
religion; the day-to-day, year-by-year unique account of Jesus’ life among you
and the world in which he lived: you would have to trust not only us but your
own deepest instincts, understanding, and values to realize why we would never,
ever, deliberately include a falsehood in what was and still is meant to be an
epochal revelation to all of mankind’s races—literally inaugurating a new epoch
of understanding somewhat comparable and allied to the four previous: the coming
of your Planetary Prince, Adam and Eve, Machiventa Melchizedek, and Jesus of
Nazareth.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>As Michael said in his
last lesson, there has been a long historical evolution in terms of the
specialization and concentration of authority and power along social-cultural,
political, religious, and territorial lines; yet these authorities are slowly
giving way to a wide-spread blossoming of individual liberty and
responsibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We gave a lesson
one time on how this progress is contra-distinct from your familiar saying, “You
can’t see the forest for the trees.”—i.e. you can’t see the whole—the forest,
for all the individual trees in the way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whereas each of you—individually, personally—evolved your understanding
of people the other way, from a limited number of close individuals but from
your immediate culture’s notions of human differences.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For while you were born into a specific
cultural encompassing, only one at a time did you meet and include more and more
individuals into your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
progress was from the cultural attitude you were given, to each individual; from
seeing in terms of inexperienced adolescent generalities to being able to see
individuals through screens of prejudice and outworn cultural traditions and
relationships; i.e. you couldn’t at first see the trees for the forest.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet your soul-reward was and remains
those very people you came to know as individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>You’ve only to think of
the obscene horrors and spiritual slavery that have been committed in the
justification of these generalities of race, sex, and culture to appreciate what
it takes to see and accept, to wholly relate and respond to whomever it is
standing right in front of someone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Ironically, with respect to race, it’s only recently that people in
general have been able to perceive the spiritual unity of humanity within each
person across these prejudiced differences.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the initial contacts between peoples
of such different cultures based on vastly different technologies, locations and
climate, there occurred a near maximization of the illusion of racial
superiority and inferiority.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost
all of what were considered differences in race were only—but
profoundly—differences in separate cultures evolved over tens of thousands of
years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Add to this the universal
assumption that might made right, that whoever was more successful in warfare
was unquestionably the superior race with the superior deities at their
back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even this too still prevails
among those who resort to violence to demonstrate—they feel--the
superiority of their faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So, my children, Michael
and I invite you to see in both ways of looking at the present human
situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See the differences
between cultures and beliefs for their intrinsic uniqueness, for this is the
wealth of your entire planet’s history.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your modern technology permits you to capture these intrinsic qualities
for all future times even as they are profoundly changing due to increasing
contact with each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glory in
the enormous diversity of the human race.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yet while you see these various collective associations of people—the
forest in our analogy—strive also to open your heart and your mind to register
the soul and character of the individual or individuals you contact, either
personally or through your media.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Be able to relate as individuals of spiritual equality for all the
soul-wealth that this promises.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Collectives and
individuals)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Whenever you contemplate
people in any collective sense—politically, socially, religiously, culturally,
racially—whatever—be humbly aware this perception is largely your creation from
your own point of view, however it may be shared with others of a like mind and
position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Obviously such
perceptions change with the point of view: from within or without, in contention
or agreement, inherited or personally acquired.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take responsibility within yourself for
own position and how it may be affecting your vision.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strive to be truly independent, what you
call being your own person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
spite of what consensus your group may be inadvertently or deliberately trying
to enforce, your own self-conscious and humble opinion, derived from your own
unique history, is what is needed the most.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s what your world needs now, this
blossoming of individual liberty and responsibility, especially with the
destructive power such collectives as nation-states, or even smaller groups,
possess.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>This is what is
happening now with the coming of international, instantaneous communication and
response across the oceans and continents, across the hundreds of little
mini-cultures, across the races and the sexes, across societies, political
parties, economies, and religions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Michael teased you with the idea of the Renaissance which is upon you,
it is indeed a topsy-turvy time of all this new interaction.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But my children!—if you could only see
the spiritual glow of the earth beginning to blossom like never before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where your perceptions of each
other as individuals, each a unique creation of God’s, each with a unique
background and experience, and soul, and character: this is the promise and the
fulfillment of the ages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
the world’s soul-wealth being presented to you, yours for the response-ability
you bring to it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So joyfully respond, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fill your souls with each
other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glory that the potential for
these different races of different cultures was part of the Original Plan—the
variety of humanity that has eventuated for you to embrace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel my presence deep within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Heal yourselves of all the fear, as well
as the arrogance and hubris you might have entertained once upon a time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Grow out of it into an appreciation and
respect for all that is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in
my love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>If you have any comments
or questions this evening, this is my delight.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Mother, for clearing up that
one point in the Urantia book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That’s all I have to say.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Jesus’ emphasis on the
individual)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It needed to be put in context and
stated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I, as Mother
and Father Spirit who oversaw the book, do apologize most sincerely for all the
harm those few, terribly mistaken sentences gave.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One purpose of Michael’s teachings as
Jesus was just this, this emphasis upon the individual at a historical time in
which what you were—what tribe, whether slave or free, rich or poor—was so much
more important than who you were. This is largely why his teachings were so
immediately taken to heart and welcomed by those who had so little social power
or material wealth; to know that though they might be a slave or menial worker
being treated as an animal, they too had a soul and eternal prospects just as
the emperor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my
love.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
Mother.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know what the error was.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was it human, or
what?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(The origin of the
error)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was a combination of both human and
spiritual author, not human as it was originally given but as it was later
wrongly taken, yet also that the authors did not catch it in the reactions of
the first people to read it in time to correct it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They were just too easily glossed
over—the statements of inferior or superior races.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>The degree to which
individuals are more or less blessed in innate abilities with respect to racial
heredity has been misinterpreted all throughout your history across the enormous
divide of different cultures and customs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Within a few generations, if not immediately, the native intelligence of
any race can adapt itself to a completely different set of social/technological
circumstances.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Beyond this, the
differences in abilities between individuals within any one race--whether
physical, mental, or spiritual/creative—overwhelm by far any differences between
the races.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet historically this
has been a very recent, and not altogether accepted, discovery just in the last
century or so when there were more and more individuals of different races born
and raised in cultures not originally their own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>In your own country’s
history, look at pictures of the first European settlers as contrasted to the
Native Americans they met and consider the differences not only in appearances
but also in language and customs that derived from vastly different notions as
to what was real—no less.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now
contrast those pictures with ones of individuals from both European and Native
American backgrounds when both are wearing identical, modern suit-and-tie with
the same hair style and accessories, speaking the same language equally well and
sharing the same assumptions about reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You might wonder: where did all the
racial difference go?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>The associations and
connotations given those unfortunate words in the text are pure mistakes, and
recognized as such by most readers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Our mistake was in not anticipating the wrongful conclusions these words
could engender, especially in those who would consider the book to be an
immaculate pronouncement wherein one mistake would invalidate the whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perfection is something we all aspire
to—even Michael and I.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is part
of the general evolution of the cosmos.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But it is the better part of humility to see it as a goal rather than a
possession.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again: every
manifestation in time and space is conditioned by those very uniquely occurring
dimensions which give each living event its equally unique signature and
glory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are learning to evaluate
events from the point of view of their own time and place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the further evolution of wisdom
we see coming into fuller bloom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>In this critical time as
previously isolated great cultures of the world come into ever more intimate
contact, we see the hearts and the minds and the souls of people all over the
world opening to embrace their planetary neighbors and perceive what has always
been there: their transcendent common humanity right in each and every one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So rest well, my
children, with something to sleep on, something to look forward to tomorrow: all
those folks out there all so strange, so different.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you see that great one thing in
their eyes?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you see the
character in their faces?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you
feel your own heart reaching out to them?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then you are truly blessed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Either way: you are in my love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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