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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>February 7, 2013</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Light Line</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean O’Dell</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHERS: </B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>0802-AB JACK, ABRAHAM and MARY</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPICS:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Assessments, Human and Divine; The Folly
of Predictions; Near Death Experiences </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Prayer:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Father God and Mother Spirit thank you again
for your being in our life and letting us be in yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s such an adventure, and we are only
just starting out. We have no idea what’s in store for us for the rest of
eternity, but I’m sure if it’s anything like what we’ve known so far, it’s going
to be challenging, exciting, rewarding, gratifying, and sometimes more than we
know what to do with, but that you are with us, and that what we are doing is
participating in the creation of the Evolving Supreme.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a privilege! So I trust we’re not
making too big a mess of things and if we do, you’ll know what to do about it;
you’ll know how to fix it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send us
a Teacher that will speak to our needs. Tell us what we need to know. Plant the
seeds that will grow into fruitful trees as they did through Michael’s life here
as Jesus, our great example, our great inspiration. In his name we pray.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>0802-AB JACK</B> here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the easy part.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now that I’m here, what’ll we do with
ourselves? That’s always the question and it’s been that way for many years with
many groupings of people. Eagerly we come together and then we go “now
what?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, we’ll think of
something; we’ll get there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
doesn’t have to be profound; it doesn’t have to be exalted. Just getting
together to share this camaraderie is worth the effort.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not everyone, after all, who has an
adventurous forum such as this in which to express yourself and expand your
faith. Having your eyes closed or allowing your mind to wander without undue
restraint gives yourself the chance to ponder the words, the concepts that come
through, regardless of the names attached to either the Teacher or the
transmitter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truth is truth, and if
it’s intended for you to hear it, it will be heard and if it is not heard, it
will go in one ear and out the other, nothing ventured, nothing gained.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><BR>Having
said that as somewhat of an introductory comment, I again ask you if there is
something you’d like to talk about or someone you’d like to talk with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know the mechanics of this set-up;
if you want to be heard, you need to press *6, which will open the line for you
to be heard, and then you do that again and you go back into mute range.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ineara:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Ineara.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Ineara.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ineara:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was wondering if Abraham is around
tonight.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I haven’t done a roll call but I’d happy
to look and see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did you want to
talk to him?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ineara:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sure!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just, in general, how the Teaching
Mission is going.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ABRAHAM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am Abraham, and I am here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am glad to be here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often, you know, we observe the efforts
of our fellows and avail ourselves when called upon for service. What can I do
for you my dear?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did you have a
question? Or did you just want to hear from me?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hearing nothing … </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ineara:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was just glad to hear from Abraham and
just wondering how he’s doing, how you’re doing, and how we are doing here in
the Teaching Mission.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ABRAHAM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I smile at your question and for some
reason these words come to mind, the words to a song:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“I’ve grown accustomed to your
face.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I smile because I have
grown accustomed to your asking, “How are we doing?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“How am I doing?” “Can we have an
update?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, of course.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Overall, you are doing as well as
expected.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Individually, some are
forging ahead and some are dragging their feet. It would not be fair to pick out
who is which but, overall, we are very pleased, pleased that you still hold high
the mission, you still attend our gatherings, you still bear with the
limitations of the human condition in good grace and in patience.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We observe
you dealing with humanity and have noted among ourselves the improvements that
have come to rest within you each and all over the years. Perhaps you yourself
have begun to notice the new ones that come along, how their inexperience in
these lessons is made apparent by their eager zeal … and who would be so foolish
as to discourage that youthful exuberance, for time itself will mature these
souls as you have been matured on the anvil of experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There was a
recent discussion about the character of Jesus and his rugged qualities as
compared to the gentle Jesus that so many are innately drawn to, especially
those who have been abused or hard-pressed in service to the needs of humanity.
Gentle he was, and gracious he is, but even so he is a man of strength, of
rugged character, able to withstand the vagaries of such a life on such a
planet, able to witness the sophistries of those who would trip him up, able to
glean the spirit hunger in those who don’t even yet realize it in themselves,
and thus draw them forth, draw them out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Sometimes we
joke among ourselves and say, My God, what have we done here by encouraging this
one or that one to come out of their self-imposed prison? For they come out
bounding and laughing loudly -- as you would say, a bull in a china shop.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But these indications of healthy,
youthful exuberance are really so short-lived, it is important that you
appreciate this phase that they go through, that all of you go through as you
become wizened in the ways set before you.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You must
never overlook the importance of such exuberance, such joy, as those who
experience God as a personal reality for the first time, those who discover
Jesus as a personal savior and mentor and friend.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is truly all-powerful an experience,
eclipsing all other human experiences. We must never scoff nor laugh at the
faith of young children. Time enough for them to learn the realities of
adulthood. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And how are
you in this assessment?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, you
are still very young. Many of you are still very immature, even as many of you
are what they might call ‘an old soul’.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Overall, however, you do well. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will not
spend time on the fact of your many disagreements, although we are certainly
aware of their existence and of the effect such disagreements have near and far,
but these are experiential lessons that must be learned through your own
actions, your own decisions, and observing the results of your own cause and
effect, rather than for us to tell you what to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How else would you learn firsthand, and,
as you know, experience is the best teacher. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Nor will I
go into the experiences I had, many of which were foolish, even hostile to the
kingdom. My training was something other than what was needed from me, but once
my mind was set on a higher track, I was able to develop my skills and put them
to work for a better cause than mere militancy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I failed a number of tests, some of
which are still being worked out today on your world. But overall, I have been
approved On High as one in service to God in more ways than I could imagine and
so I will not quibble. I will be grateful for the divine assessment, and it
would behoove you to adopt the same attitude, that being, you are probably
making mistakes, but you are also probably doing more good than harm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Mary is with
me and she would like to add a few words.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MARY:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, indeed, I would. I have been known
throughout the ages as one who had made many mistakes. Indeed, “they” seem to
take delight in pointing out the errors of women, as if women were defenseless
and could carry the burden of all humankind, inasmuch as men seem reluctant to
acknowledge their mistakes, as if to apologize or retract their position would
somehow lessen their power in the minds of other men. And yet, when all is said
and done, it is not really man that matters. It is what God thinks of you that
matters. It is what your Indwelling Adjuster thinks of you that will determine
whether there is a new betrothal on Mansonia or whether you are to fade into
obscurity. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>None of you
here have to worry about fading into obscurity. Your faces, some of them soiled
with the tears of your dirty hands, are none-the-less innocent and cherubic to
our devoted Parents who understand the circumstances of your life here and will
represent you will On High. And this is all by way of saying: it is your
assessment as much as ours that makes a difference, for when you begin to
understand this about yourself, then you will have the courage of your own
convictions; you will not fear your weaknesses nor be stifled by your ignorance;
rather, you will be emboldened by your faith and empowered by your confidence in
divine overcare.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I believe
our time has come to an end. I will leave you now, along with Abraham and return
you to your host, with thanks for the opportunity to visit and to shed our love
and our light on you this day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Shalom.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jack’s back.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funny thing happens, you know. I sit
back with you and listen to these teachers talk and I, like you, get questions
and yet when the opportunity is presented, it’s like my mind has gone blank and
I can’t remember anymore what the question was I wanted to ask. But I’m sure
I’ll have the opportunity again, either tomorrow or some other day. Every day is
an opportunity for an assessment. Each instance, each decision, each new venue
is another opportunity to ponder the effects of your cause, a chance to count
the cost of being his disciple. And when you yourself cannot see the forest for
the trees, call up a friend and ask them to give you a reality check, to see if
you have your feet on the ground even as you have your head in the air, as it
were.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there other
questions?</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question that related back to,
I guess, the Monjoronson site and how all that went down with R.B.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He seems to be in charge of all the
archives and everything, then with all the predictions that he made that never
came through, Monjoronson had made some statements that he wasn’t questioning
himself or his T/R or where his information was coming from, he was just
basically writing and believing everything he said, especially about the ABC
Summaries, and my question was that -- I think it was M.Mc., I guess -- had
asked Monjoronson in a prior time, a year before this went down; he had
questions about his ability to transmit and come up with all this information
about the Summaries and how he didn’t quite believe it and it didn’t jive with
what everybody else was saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My
question was: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why wasn’t the
authorities stepping in before all of that occurred?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And let it go on for as long as it
did?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was there a reason for
that?</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, first let me
go back to the beginning of your discourse as to the results of his, Mr. B’s,
predictions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There have often been
occasions when events have been predicted that did not come about. There have
also been occasions when they <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">did
</I>come about but you were not aware of it because they did not come about in
the manner that you perceived they would come about. This is one of the things
about morontia reality as compared to finite reality, and even though I am
invisible, I am considered a material being, so I don’t completely understand
morontia reality either, except to say that things go on in realms outside our
vision that may be in keeping with the prediction but it has not gotten to you
yet. It may be in the process of coming down even now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And then,
too, for example, the prediction of an end of an age or the beginning of a
dispensation. These are huge cosmic events, as I understand it, that do not
happen in an instant of our time frame.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It would not be possible to say it will happen on December
30<SUP>th</SUP> or April 14<SUP>th</SUP> or October 9<SUP>th</SUP> because it’s
not that specific, and what do they care about our calendar? They operate
altogether differently with time and space than we do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can be assured that ages end and
dispensations begin, the specificities of which may not be clear to anyone.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah, I kind of agree with that, too, to
a certain extent because some of the stuff in there that one individual – just
like the article that was on the ultimaton, and although I have some engineering
background, I found it quite profound that the – I don’t know if he could have
come up with that out of his own mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If it is, he’s really a genius. That was hard to dispute some of that
information, although, as you say, it might not be happening at a certain time
or a certain date but some of it had to be – maybe he got caught up in – and
maybe he wasn’t supposed to be receiving it or however he received it, like you
say, you can’t put an exact date on this stuff.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The students in the Teaching Mission
have never been encouraged to predict anything. It is really not a good idea,
because there are so many opportunities for them to fail.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I agree completely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we don’t need failures!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We don’t need failures <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">particularly</I> that come about through
your will, or the will of those who believe that if enough people believe in
something, it will happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Maybe </I>it will, but you cannot force it
to happen on Thursday afternoon or Tuesday evening. It’s just not that
specific.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It might not happen, in
fact, for 20 years, or 250.000 years. We just continue to work in that direction
and trust that when the good things come down, they come down because it’s
TIME.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There are a
lot of different kinds of mind in service to this mission, and here I speak to
Michael’s mission of expanding the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of
Man.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Within that mission there is
the Teaching Mission, the Monjoronson Mission, and myriad other missions, sacred
and profane, that come about when people of like minds get together and attempt
to do something. And so inherently they are ‘error waiting to happen.’ This,
again, is how you learn, and this is why no one is stopped from doing what they
intend to do or making the mistakes that they are making. None of them, you see,
rise to the level of rebellion against the Father’s will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They may be rebellious against a lot of
other things, including the status quo, but in general there is nothing wrong
with that. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Rebellion in
and of itself is not a bad thing. You’ll have to talk to Teacher Paulo about
that; he has spoken more than once about the value of rebellion, but it’s a
natural part of tearing down the walls of what was in order to create what can
be. Tearing down what was is an act of rebellion against what was but you cannot
build a new shopping center where the old tenements slums used to stand. They
must be torn down first, even though there will be many politicians and
residents of the tenements who will feel it is all about rebellion and they may
rebel against the developers, but if the end goal is a new shopping center where
the tenements once stood, then eventually that will take place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>That’s a
crude example, perhaps, but it serves to illustrate that there are many ways of
looking at these things. It’s when you get in a glitch of opposing perspectives
such that the polarity loses flexibility, that it becomes problematic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even there it will eventually erode;
time itself will take care of that. Perhaps everyone will eventually die and it
will need to be rekindled or perhaps something will occur that will cause one or
another key member to change their mind, to suddenly see it from another
perspective, and so the gears of progress can commence once more.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But there is
no point in stopping the gears of progress from turning, even when they are
seemingly, temporarily stuck.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes that stuck place is there for a reason, so that one or the
other does not go off half-cocked and cause untold damage, just like in
government there are checks and balances. The Most Highs sometimes set it up
that way so that there is a little bit od traction and a little bit of grease,
and that by working toward the end goal, progress can eventually be made.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I think the
problem with the mission as it is perceived here is that there are no real
goals, aside from the goal of light and life which is very nebulous and very far
off.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some short-term goals might be
helpful. I know there are short-term goals like publishing a book or putting out
a CD or putting on a presentation at a meeting hall, or these kinds of things
and those are good. They are individual efforts, to be lauded and encouraged,
but as a group you have so few, if any, mutual goals. That might be something
you can think of. Perhaps that could get the gears turning again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then again patience, I guess, is
something that I/we really have to learn.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, patience does come with age, and
it goes back to the earlier discussion about youthful exuberance. And I tell
you, someone with a bright idea can manifest youthful exuberance even when they
are 80 years old, so it is not necessarily a matter of chronology.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there’s still hope for me then? </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Undying hope.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gary:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay, Jack.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks a lot. That helps a lot.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B> Glad for the chat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How are we fixed for time? It’s about
time, I think, to wind it up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is time for one more question. Anyone out there with a question?</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, Gerdean, hi, and hi everybody.
This is Eva and I have a question but mine don’t ever take less than five
minutes to express.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll try.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you don’t want to give me an answer
this week, I’ll tune in again next week. But thanks for validating mistakes,
Jack, and reminding us there’s no need for finger-pointing and yes, the wheels
of progress turn. It all comes out in the wash.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Goals would be helpful. I think
Gerdean’s publication of a newsletter helps in that respect. Maybe we could all
think about questions all week or maybe we could all think of a forum where we
could share our experiences or our successes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If we won a soul that week, or thought
we did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But here’s my question:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Sometimes I
hear about experiences that occur, usually in an operating theater, that lead
to, oh, floating into the ethers and floating through a tunnel and it’s a
beautiful translucent-- It never talks about our awaking in Mansonia where we
are going to be betrothed with our indwelling guide, our indwelling spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that ostensibly because we will not
have a ride yet, when we are sent back in these cases? We hear of people having
these out of body experiences but they are sent back. Their mission has not been
fulfilled.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that because we have
not matured?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has nothing to do with maturity. You
will remember that these are called “near death experiences.” Near death is not
the same as complete and total death. There is a process to dying, yes, and
these very viable experiences that are in the borderland of light and death do
indicate the life that exists beyond the mortal frame, and the light at the end
of the tunnel is the holy grail of immortality that awaits, but it is not
attained as long as the Adjuster remains on earth with the body, and so it is
only when that final pronouncement of death is made that the Adjuster leaves for
Divinington and the seraphim embrace the soul to depart for the resurrection
hall, or to that place where they will sleep until they are called forth in the
roll call. </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Therefore,
these stories that you are very real but they are not true resurrections. They
are certainly a glimpse, a peek of what you can expect, and very encouraging for
their messages, which are usually to return and give testimony to the further
existence once the body is removed from the picture, and the message to love one
another and to share that message of love which seems to be the overpowering
desire of those who have returned, is to tell their story again and again, and
to love their children and their circumstances with a newfound divine
affection.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Absolutely. Thank you so much Jack.
Wonderful. Not only did it answer my question but it reminded me of one time I
interviewed a person, I was thinking of this man, who came back 180 degrees
different, didn’t have a reason to live before, boy does he now! His whole life
has changed. He is telling everyone life is precious, love is all that matters.
His family, his children, his spouse, absolutely, has given his life a new
purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He’s always saying
“Something happened to me over there.” But it’s amazing, and I … Thank you,
Jack, for explaining it to us.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome, Eva, and thank you for
joining us.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, my pleasure.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, this has been a most enjoyable
evening. New personalities and an assortment of questions unanticipated. Well
done, class. Thank you, Abraham and Mary, and we look forward to our next get
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Next week, as it happens,
Mark Rogers is host and we’ll tune in to hear what visitors and teachers he
provides.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Blessed be art thou, kids.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Later!</P>
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