FW: Status and Security

[Russ Gustafson]

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From: 	Bob Devine[SMTP:devine at cet.com]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 12, 1996 10:04 AM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	Status and Security

April 1996

*    Aaron: I would offer a short insight this evening.  I am Aaron.
     Many often wonder personally, how they are progressing
spiritually in the eyes of the universe.  While we do not attempt to
define the spiritual progress of an individual, we always love to
utilize the question asked by the student and to take this opportunity
to further offer yourselves the opportunity for your own inward
reflection at higher levels.  
     As you go through life dealing with the encounters each day, you
may realize that there are numerous opportunities to either share
kindness, or love, or to look the other way.  As one is pondering
their spiritual status, perhaps we might take the moment to afford
this insight personally.  As you have split second opportunities
continuously to either share or not, one who is increasing in
spiritual status will, of course, share more often than not.  If you
recognize that the ever present opportunities are more often shied
away from, then the inward reflection to understand this consistent
reaction might be necessary to further bolster one's spiritual
enthusiasm and confidence to the point where they are less afraid or
reticent toward taking the moment to offer the light of love and truth
to both themselves and the one they would share with.  
     The attainment of light and life personally will be as the
uncovering of the lamp and its placement on the shelf, bright enough
to see in its full glory.  Strive continuously for greater exposure of
your 'light bulb', so to speak.  
     This is my offering friends.

*    Lantarnek: I would speak about security.  
     There are times when personalities become distressed over the
uncertainty regarding status when one feels inadequate or
insufficiently ready to reach new levels.  All unique situations,
local and specific conditions, are factors which you are, by needs of
the value of experience, required to solve on your own, but I
encourage you to establish the foundation of assurance in the
understanding of the great grasp that God has upon you that will
prevent your failure to achieve your spirit longings.  
     Two circuits engulf you, two dimensions which secure your
placement.  Firstly, if there were no planets, no energy systems, not
even minds, who you are, your personality, would be securely held by
the Father even if all infinity was a void but personalities and that
alone.  You are securely held by the Father.  
     Everything which is divine, valuable spiritually, the true, the
beautiful, and the good, are suspended in the energy fields of our
Son.  These values are, in a sense, magnetized and able to exist as
autonomously as you do in personhood.  For you ascending creatures,
the emergence of your being with spirit value experience doubly
secures your value in the universe and intensifies the reality of your
presence.  
     I say this in order to instill in your mind a reflex
consideration when you are, in your moment by moment life, perplexed. 
The simple faith realization of your sonship with God, your simple
acknowledgement of the reality, the ever eternal reality of divine
values, are your very balancing coordinators which will help you sort
the specific factors of the pressing moment.  You cannot stumble with
this assurance, for even in the stumbling you will increase your
wisdom and broaden your experience and gain in greater realization of
the significance of real and meaningful eternal values.  The divine
grasp of your being is certain and assured, making it possible for you
all to range widely the universe field of possibilities.  Take
confidence in this assurance as you make the great adventure across
the fields of space. 








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From: 	MR RICK P GILES[SMTP:DMNB85A at prodigy.com]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 18, 1996 5:00 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	Elyon 9/15/96

September 15, 1996
*       Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, your friend Elyon, as al-
ways in attendance.  
        I have presented you with the idea that this correcting time
is also a collecting time and a connecting time, and you have the
lesson recorded to review.  I would also like to change a few
words: the Teaching Mission is a transition mission requiring
continual movement, progress, release, and acceptance of old and
new ways.  This applies not only to oneself and personal growth
but relates to group function and intergroup functions.  It
under-lines the truth that conceptual beliefs, dogmatic state-
ments, will not contribute greatly to worthwhile advancement, for
often these beliefs are held fixed, when in reality this tran-
sition mission requires a continual expansion of your beliefs, an
enlargement of your concepts.  
        I would be clear at this point to state that it is not the
elimination of beliefs and concepts that we teach, nor the fixa-
tion, but the enlargement.  Beliefs that transcend your knowable
range of perspective and understanding, this is your goal.  
        You know I have demonstrated that a light in the darkness
illuminates only so much in front of you; the rest remains dark. 
Your conceptual beliefs can brighten a greater area with in-
creased lumens, broader understanding.  The edge of light and
darkness is our transition mission.  Those who see, no matter
their orientation, are clearly in the light.  Those beyond in the
dark uncertainties are those you seek.  But effectively only
those at the gray edge are in a position to receive ministry that
will have a lasting effect, for this is the dawn zone.  
        There never will be a time of settled mission status.  It
will continually move and grow until it is done and will cease to
exist.  It will not remain stationary; it will evaporate, for it
is the transition effort of correction.  At that point when
positive, progressive growth is the norm, we will declare it is
finished.  And as you sense and I know, we have a long ways to
go.  
        I will allow my teacher friends to speak.  We will also
receive your questions if you like.  
*       Aaron (Bob):  With your understanding of and further
enhanced revelation, we also would place emphasis on
strengthening your immediate relationships.  Regarding this, it
is hoped that you may see the value in building community.  This
focus requires no intent at ministry, rather social camaraderie. 

        As you survey those individuals in your life that you relate
to, can you see the importance of developing strengthened
communication between each other?  Instead of forcing communica-
tion the emphasis would be toward allowing the relationships to
build without overmuch effort for specific purposes.  This
exercise and its implementation will not and is not designed for
your ministry in any way toward another. Instead the design which
we are throwing at you is for your own personal growth and
development.  
        It has been deemed important that we emphasize this
perspective toward you individually as an inner exploration and
development toward your own awareness and assurance of human fa-
milial community as well as your already existent awareness of
universal familial community.  
        The journey is yours; the development and institution of
these awarenesses will be yours.  The focusing of direction and
the making known of our perspective will be ours.  In short,
we'll let you know what we see you can work on.  You are quite
capable of taking the steps individually as you see fit, and
we'll keep letting you know. 
        I am Aaron.  Greetings to you today.  If has been a pleasure
to speak with you again.  I, as well, am open with Elyon and
others to speak with you.
        Jonathan:  In discussing ideas about next year's regional
conference I have some ideas I'd like to share with my human
associates that I will share with you celestials as well.  Maybe
we could dedicate each attending group a time slot to feature
their projects, transmissions from their TRs, music, etc. leaving
evenings open.  Have you been thinking about the conference?  I
was hoping for a specific theme so we could have focused meeting
time along with abundant sharing.  
*       Aaron:  I am pleased that you asked and would gladly offer
some thought in this regard.  Your suggestions are excellent yet
wholly dependent on the participating groups to follow through
and exercise their personal focuses.  Your developing of a
proposal of this sort of activity early, then engaging the
interest of the different areas to actually formulate
presentation with regard to their time slot would be necessary.  
        As far as how the communication process goes, we would like
to see development toward more interaction and specific presenta-
tion.  Let's face it, we love to speak, and several of you love
to speak for us and are quite capable.  With the continued focus
of gatherings such as this upon the free-for-all communication,
the particular development would not occur as rapidly as if you
are to work for the allowance of more directed efforts by
ourselves toward you and less emphasis on the need for quantity
and communication.  More of a process of utilizing fewer
transmitter/receivers each time will facilitate a lesson
development and interaction.  This may mean that trans-
mitter/receivers will utilize their talents less during the
gathering, but this is something that will further the
possibilities for growth of a group on a larger scale.
         I hope I have answered to your question in part.
        Jonathan:  Yes, I will review it for more creative ideas. 
You confirmed what I've seen that we have unique approaches.  It
would be fun to witness some of our uniquenesses that play out
weekly, the flavors, in these other groups...
*                          Aaron:  Thank you for your
question.  Know that a free-for-all or two are still enjoyed by
ourselves as well as you.  
        Evelyn:  When you say "free-for-all" what is that referring
to?  Transmitting?
        Michael:  Yes, free for anyone in the audience to transmit. 
        Evelyn:  About community, you said how important it is that
we communicate, not force it, etc.  But when you said "building
community", what did you mean?  Some might interpret building
community in a very physical way.
*       Aaron:  I was referring to the strengthened ties that result
from communication between individuals, and the community is what
you individually perceive as those personalities which you feel
comfort toward relating to and expanding that perspective and
strengthening your communication skills so that your individual
personal community will grow so that there are more that you feel
comfort in relating to in a  familial way, a brotherhood or
sisterhood way.  It is a personal focus, not that you must try
to, as a group, build up numbers.  More so individually building
community as it pertains to yourself by developing your
relationship skills.  I hope this clarifies.  
        Evelyn:  Yes, it does.  Thanks. 
        Bob:  I'd like to hear about the message we got Friday
concerning an awakening that is, this word I will use lightly,
"imminent".  Something will occur that we can prepare for by
practicing stillness, eliminating our insecurities, fears.  This
way we will be less disoriented by the awakening of the universal
broadcast circuit on a larger scale.  What was this about?
*       Elyon (Jonathan):  Elyon, again.  I will provide answer by
comparison.
        The change as we contribute to its development is intended
to be gradual.  But this graduality is not something that you in
your perspective of time will find to be gradual.  I illustrate: 
Continental shifts on your world happen continually, and the many
earthquakes occur in the gradual process of stabilizing the crust
of this planet, making it ready for the civilization of light and
life that will arise here.  But for you in any given year, even
one prepared for an earthquake will find the specific change
upsetting.  So, in a manner of speaking, it is both gradual and
sudden.  The transition will occur, and, as you observe from your
earthquakes, things settle back into normal processes with the
added enlightenment that some changes must be made for abrupt
transitions in the future.  This underlines my discussion this
morning about beliefs.  You did well in your reception, and
further review of this message will allow you greater illumi-
nation. 
        I will now address Philip.  My friend, you know the phrase
read last week about the difficulties of life being easier to
bear with a friend at hand.  I encourage you to be present and
compassionate with your brother.  This is a ministry that
transcends words and speaks to the soul, spiritual medicine.  You
have all the truth equipment to function superbly.  I acknowledge
that you are one of our conduits for healing, and we encourage
you to be ready and to engage yourself when so called.   These
are my words. 
        Evelyn:  The Urantia Book says so little about the psychic
circles.  I understand that you progress through them by balanced
personal development in physical, mental, and spiritual areas.
Could you comment particularly on the physical angle? 
*       Elyon:  The physical function in balance pertains to... - I
see many English words that don't fit well.  I will use several
in an effort to clarify.-  Your physical condition if good, ade-
quate, up to standards, functioning properly, as designed by the
Life Carriers, makes the mental and spiritual dimensions more
likely to develop higher circle characteristics.  Physical
development does not require super physicality, rather normal
expected function.  You know that spiritual growth is a soul
acquirement, and your body is a transient vehicle.  This should
help clarify that you need not seek a perfect physique but a
proper functioning vehicle.  
        Beyond the body in the physical environment, it is the
factors of your lifestyle that will aid or detract from your
inner growth.  You know that phrase where man is perceived to
think only when he is hungry, and you also know that when the ex-
ternal demands are light, inner development may proceed
beneficially.  Both illustrate the bearing that your environment
has upon you.  The physical factors are the easier ones to
stabilize because so much of your mental focus is in the external
realm.  You have spent years developing your skills.  
        This physical dimension of circle growth is a foundation
rather than a superstructure.  The scaffolding is your mind and
the structure itself is your soul.  
        Does this help?
        Evelyn:  At first I thought that was true, but then I
thought about people who have very difficult physical conditions
not of their own doing; diseases, accidents, etc.  I've met
people like that who must be really advanced circle attainers. 
To balance what you have said with people like that is that they
are dealing with their physical condition given what it is.  
        The way I've been interpreting it, rather than being so body
focused, I'd decided progress was based on how you deal with your
physical environment, for instance procrastinating, denial, bul-
lying, whatever.  Now I think maybe those are mental rather than
physical porcesses.   
*       Elyon:  I would add one comment.  The growth stages that are
named "psychic circles" include the word "psychic" which is
mental and soul.  You know how much you rely on your mind for
both spiritual and physical function.  So it is true that it is
how your mind deals with the physical that contributes to psychic
circle attainment.  It is the ideal of physical wellbeing that
contributes to the ideal of maximum growth at an expedient pace. 
It does not preclude that disharmonies will prevent growth.  It
means that such imbalances will contribute to greater effort in
growth and often results in remarkable attainments yielding
greatness.  
        Thank you for asking. 
        I will conclude this morning with a prayer.  
        To the one who overshadows us, the very One who upholds us,
and to this same One who indwells us, may we be for You what You
call us to become.  May we be for our fellows what You need us to
be, and may we perceive in our fellows Your gift to us as we
continually look within ourselves directly to You for Your
guidance and care.  Be it always.   






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From: 	Sonny Schneider[SMTP:sonny at ilhawaii.net]
Sent: 	Tuesday, September 17, 1996 2:41 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	TR Group at IC-96 on 8/6/96

Fellow TMer's

Here is the first night I have almost completly completed of the five nights
of TR sessions at IC-96. As you can see, there are serveral TR's who are not
known to me, plus I have misspelled several Melchizedek and Teacher names.
Any help regarding these or any other oversights would be greatly appreciated.

Aloha, Sonny*

8/6/96 at IC-96, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Will(TR-JoiLin) Love and light filters down from on high, filling our hearts
with joy and gladness, leading us in service to Him through the
interconnectedness of our hearts. The beauty of the Father surrounds us
would we but see it, and is reflected within each and every face upon this
planet. The light of the Father shines from within our hearts, leading us
into service through the brotherhood of man. Wherever we gather, He is.

Greetings Beloveds. It is I Will, your Teacher who loves you. It brings me
great joy to sit here among you and share this time of companionship, to
partake in this growing network of the heart as it is manifested within your
hearts. We who watch, and we are many, can participate in this community.
Have faith, have hearts that are overflowing, for as you give to each other,
you also give to us. As we see the living lessons expressed in your lives,
we are filled with thanksgiving to have been able to be a small part of who
you are becoming. 

Many who have come to this meeting, came here unprepared for what they would
find. They believed they were coming to a conference that would be a meeting
of minds, they did not understand that this network of the heart would be so
active in this conference. We give great thanks for you who came here to
share the Father's light and love with your brothers and sisters. For from
this conference will spread out to the far corners of this globe, the loving
light, the message of love that you live within the fabrics of your lives. 

Know always, dear ones, how blessed you are, how loved and cherished by we
who teach you, by Michael, Nebedonia, all of the angels, and every order of
being who has its understanding in the love of the Father, and the Father on
high Himself. 

I thank you for allowing me to speak. Take my love with you and know I am
available. Shalom.


Nancy-(Minearisa Melchizedek)

Hello friends and students. I am Minearisa Melchizedek, instructor in
residence with this T.R. and what is known as the Daniel-Pocatello Teacher
Base. My classroom is much broader than Pocatello, I know of all of you
here. Some I know intimately, have visited with you in your living areas.
Others of you, I have yet to develop personal knowledge of, experiential
knowledge, but I know you through your Teachers, your guides, your angels. I
am familiar with all of you and consider you all to be my beloved students. 

It is with great joy that I make this address to you this evening. It is
with great joy that I put my name before you to be considered in your
thinking of other Melchizedek Sons whom you are already familiar; my
brother, friend, colleague, Rantarason and I, and others have been busy
weaving over this near past time frame, and I am now blessed to be in your
conscious presence. My words for you this evening are brief. You have the
wisdom of many, you need not my words at this time. Friends, students, keep
your minds and hearts open to the newness that springs ever forth. Change is
in the offering. That is all.

Welmak(TR-?). Good evening my friends this is Welmak. It has been some time
since I have addressed a group of this number. But I am mightily moved by
the participants in this conference and your efforts to become closer as a
family. 

Your  topic for the conference intrigues me, for family can have many
meanings and yet tonight I would like to share with you a suggestion or
perhaps my own thoughts on this topic. 

What is it that makes a family? Is it blood ties in the mortal sense? Is it
a likeness of mind? Is it a communion of the heart? It is all of these but
more. It is the sharing of lives, of experiences of all these things among
yourselves. We as teachers observe how many of you live very lonely lives at
times, for you have no one with whom to share some of those most intimate
thoughts and feelings. 

As you go forth from this conference with new concepts of family and
relationships, seek out those who have no one with whom to share themselves,
and share yourself with them. This is what makes a family. It is a shared
experience. In the mortal lifetime it may be in the nuclear family or your
intimate mortal family relationships. On higher levels of universe reality,
it encompasses much higher levels of intellectual and mostly spiritual
brotherhood. But always is it identified by the sense of sharing with each
other. The difference in ideas or feelings is not so important, as that they
are shared. 

It is this sharing among you that brings reality in Supremacy, and quite
incidentally, will enrich your lives beyond your expectations. And so my
friends, as we watch you throughout this conference, we are much moved by
your efforts, and our prayers go with you. Take with you from this meeting
that sense of sharing which is what identifies to my mind, a family. My love
goes with all of you. Goodnight.


Michael(TR-?). We compliment you on the success of your wonderful
conference. We share your joy, and watch with pleasure your growing faith,
your love, your sharing of your experiences. We wish you well and tell you
to take this message of hope and joy to all whom you meet. Your efforts will
be rewarded and this message is needed by a hungry world. 

We are glad you are together, sharing this experience of shared love. Love
is eternal and will transfigure all the lives that you will touch. Your
children's children will read of these events in these momentous times. We
have long planned this Teaching Mission and are gratified that our actions
indeed are being fulfilled. You have no idea of the extent of the planning
that has gone into this mission. I was on your world two thousand years ago
and even then I could not even imagine the depth and breadth and the form in
which this Teaching Mission would take place. All of you are individuals,
and each work on doing the Father's will in their own way. This way is
glorified by God, by our Father, who is indwelt in you.    

We greet you with love and joy and great pride. Please continue. Be not
discouraged. You have heavenly hosts to smooth your paths and nothing will
stop the spread of this message of hope and joy to the world. I bid you
Adieu. You all are greatly loved.

                                                                            
                                                                   
Elyon-(Rick): Greetings friends, I am Elyon, a Teacher and a guide to
understanding. It is an honor to be in service with our Melchizedeks and an
even greater honor to be in the presence of our Sovereign. It is a cherished
experience in my career to be in service with you for this world. 

You know of the dry sands of knowledge. Knowledge of itself does not support
life. My purpose is to help you compress this knowledge into understanding,
a bedrock upon which you may stand. But here is where my work ends. You must
allow the river of truth to reveal the layers of wisdom buried in your
understanding. You must allow the sunlight of divinity to bring new life
upon your walls of enlightenment, life which could not live on the dry
sands. Living love. And let the winds of worship draft through you, and rise
to meet the one who has bestowed upon you the potential for knowledge, for
wisdom, and for love. 

In my career, I have never tired of the pursuit of the Devine and the
mysteries there in. All phases in your adventure to God will unfold
incredibly new and unconcieved patterns, wherein you may experience the
Supreme. Important as this experience is, it is not complete without the
addition of your own contribution to this pattern. Allow yourselves the
acceptance of your worthiness to contribute to this pattern, which the
Father has asked you to do. That is all.


Rantarason (TR-Bob)

Greetings. I preface this talk by exclaiming that I have been present for
many minutes, and through the noble desire of this contact, been thwarted
from speaking, since he has spoken before, but rules, suggestions are not
necessarily standard, and at times we Teachers have an order of things. And
in jest I say that delaying the inevitable sometimes produces added duty. I
am Rantarason, been known as Andranason, and the names are irrelevant. We
utilize these names because we attempt to bring a personal nature to this
mission. It is not required, it has been our choice to do so. One can
perceive just as well without knowing any name of any entity. If you
perceive the spirit of God, the form of ministry in which it takes does not
make the truth any larger or smaller, for the truth stands as it is in all
of its glory. I, at this time, would love to receive from you any thoughts
or questions and would like to offer you any advice that I can to you.
Welcome here this evening, as we feel so welcomed to be with you.

Question: Any particular goals for the group to focus upon?

Rantarason: Your efforts as individuals are glorious. We cheer, we applaud
each child's efforts to perceive truth and love. What more could we desire?
You have chosen to gather as a unit to share and to allow us to share with
you. We appreciate this, knowing that it is not require. We also know how
you chose as brothers and sisters to bring this into the open so your other
brothers and sisters may witness and perceive this interaction. That is down
right blessed in its intention. 

We love you, and all the feelings of joy and all the tears before your eyes,
have their multiplication here with ourselves. Continue as you feel lead by
the spirit of God to share. You have done well.

Question: Would you care to comment on the status and progress of the
Melchizadek universities?

Rantarason: The efforts to establish centers for educating people in the
ways of spiritual growth and enlightenment in all areas is proceeding quite
well. Centers for these efforts have already been established. They are
there. Can't you see? They are whirling outward, touching and they will
touch as they have been touched, and it will grow. Look in your mission, at
the areas of strength, the regional efforts, and your south and your
north-west and your south-west and your East and your south-east. These
centers for spiritual enlightenment stand now in spirit and you feel it,
this is great. I know this is not necessarily your specific intent of the
question. We begin with what we have, and you as ambassadors. Through your
understanding of higher love and light, will determine how the centers for
enlightenment manifest. You and your activity and your perceiving the
understanding coming to you and acting upon it will develop what develops.
Tomorrow is tomorrow, today is now. What can you do now to perpetuate the
one center of light and life for this planet, for this universe. That is all.  

Question: What have you and Minearisa been up to these days and what did
Minearisa mean by changes at hand?

Rantarason: We two are actually many Melchizadeks, not just us. Montarnek,
Malvantra, Mantuba, many Melchizedeks are coordinating to follow up on the
vast recommitment to the Correcting Time by human individuals. After a
period of trial and tribulation, this period of time quite necessary for the
humans to understand their dedication, where they would center their lives
in spiritual growth, what they were seeking. Some have fallen away due to
insecurities, doubts. Some have fallen away due to a lack of materialization
of desires in human channels. This creates uncertainty for a period of time.
Many have reevaluated to the depths, to the core of their being, what they
are doing. Many have made a new commitment to follow through on the Father's
will as they perceive it. Many continue to believe in the truth of this
Mission, this Correcting Time. And so we have gone forth to shore up the
troops, to strengthen the wings, to reinstill purpose individually,
collectively. It is time to act on what you believe with the highest
conviction you can muster, with faith that truth and love will guide you in
your sincerity. 

This is a call to arms, the arms of love, not battle. The unfolding of this
ministry will be determined by your willingness to proceed. This seems easy
to do. "Yes, I will follow the Fathers will, just so long as I don't have to
do that!" or " I will do it, but that's scary."  It is time to break the
barriers of fear, it is time to act in the face of insecurity, it is time to
exercise faith, and only the individual can decide what that means for them.
The collective in its greatness should always be determined by its
individuals, its individual's desires to come together. This creates harmony
rather than uniform desire. I hope this has amplified your understanding my
friends. 

Group member: That was a beautiful, very thorough and complete answer, thank
you.

Rantarason: Thank you for asking, it is a good question.

Question: Can you give me something personal, advice that would help us in
our personal relationships, meeting new people. Its kind of scary, talking
to somebody you don't know. Can you help us get over the fear of the stranger?

Rantarason: A wise man once said to picture them as though they are wearing
underwear. It is difficult at times to share spiritual intimacy, even when
you feel so much love within you. It is a result of a disconnected world. A
disconnected world can only have citizens that are disconnected. But now we
are reconnecting, and we are reconnecting you, as slow and painful as that
process may seem. I would say one step at a time. Calling yourself to do
something different. Make eye contact and hold it a little longer as you
share a sense of warmth with another. Go out of your way to help another to
pull up a chair, to touch them on the shoulder, to just smile from across
the room. Each step brings a little more inner security in knowing that
something will not blow up in your face by being loving. And sometimes
people cannot return it, so don't be devastated by its lack of return. Most
times, and I say this from witnessing, they have been touched by what you
offered, they were just incapable at the present time of adequate return,
but they do most often reflect on the fact that someone recognized them and
reached for them. Look how you were just a few short years ago, dear. You
are much more intimate than you were then. You just see the ideal, and you
want that now. Patience is hard when you see the light ahead. 

You will most certainly achieve your goal for you have dedicated yourself,
you have consecrated yourself, made a whole hearted decision to know the
will of God and be it as well as you can. It is only the time between here
and there that you are grappling with. Continue to take the steps. Try not
to fall into patterns of comfortability and security which can breed
crystallization. Challenge yourself to do more personally, not what another
wants of you. For each can know their own little risks. God sees all, and
you know that you have the greatest fan in that source. 

Questioner: Thank you!

Rantarason: I am overwhelmed with feeling and simply want to say, our God is
a great and glorious being, beyond all imagination.  How graced we are to
have been an idea in his vastness. Yes you may speak friend.

Question: Are we as individuals and as a group, the Teaching Mission,
accomplishing the outreach necessary to get the truth of the Teaching
Mission across to the Fellowship here at the conference?

Rantarason: The truth of the Teaching Mission, and it's efforts and it's
results will never be witnessed by you in its entirety. The Teaching Mission
goes on without name throughout the world at this time and many of you who
have been under the banner of the title have created these waves of force
which ripple towards its ultimate destiny. There is no way for you to ever
perceive the entirety in what has already been accomplished, and as you do
not care so much about status, it is not necessary. Your efforts are many,
individually and collectively. The specific designation, Teaching Mission,
as you perceive it to be, has risen, subsided, and as the tides go, what
comes next. Arise, have faith and do what you can to further the Father's
will each day and the tides will create a tidal wave in time which will
cover everyone. 

Questioner: Thank you, thank you very much.

Rantarason: I have enjoyed this. I know there may be others. Other speakers,
other sessions. My time has concluded. It has been my honor to be here.
Another Teacher, one of the first will conclude this meeting. And may you
all go in love and serve God in your best capabilities.


Unseen Friend(TR-?): Multitudes of super universe personalities are watching
your conference with great delight. What were once brief points of light are
now a huge mass of light which is literally surrounding your globe. We wish
you could see the range of colors from your various personalities, you would
be awed by the beauty that is emanating from Flagstaff. 

We are happy to be with you. We watch with delight as you grow spiritually.
We are eager to see the effects of this worldwide conference and we know it
will not fail. We have watched conferences in the past and each one has been
a step forward in the evolution of mankind. We are greatly pleased, we
commend you, and we look forward to working with each and everyone of you.
Your Teachers are all here and they are overcome with bliss and joy. We love
you, we thank you for the opportunity to serve and we will be with you
always.  We love you, adieu.

Daniel (TR-Nancy): Greetings, I am Daniel.

I have been given the supreme privilege to bring this nights session to a
close. As Rantarason has said, I am one of the earlier teachers. One who is
known to many of you in a similar way to my sterling colleagues; Welmac,
Will, Rayson, and of course Ham. It is my delight to be in personal
attendance at this conference. I have left my dear friend, Deborah, in good
hands. She misses my personal presence but I am of course available to her
over the circuits. 

This is such a joyous time for me as it is for the many group Teachers who
are also here present. Those whose groups are formed at this time, and those
group Teachers whose groups are yet to come into being. As many of you are
aware, group Teachers undergo training that is different than that of your
personal Teachers. And although we can serve in a personal function as well,
our training is somewhat different and somewhat more broad, and so I delight
in the company of my fellow group Teachers and in the company of the meriod
personal Teachers who are here at this time. Do not think my dear friends
that only those of you who recognize the banner of the Teaching Mission have
personal Teachers. All who have given their true desire to know the nature
of our Father in heaven, our Mother in heaven, have been given that
assistance to come into that higher understanding, to know that will, and to
do that will. There are meriod personal Teachers present at this conference,
and all are dancing in glee and in joy of the light that goes up and flows
out. It is the love that you spread here among your brothers and sisters
that will be remembered. It is the personal sharing heart to heart, it is
your realness that matters. The joy, the spark of life, the fun. 

I ask you now to go forth tomorrow into your many busy activities and allow
that joy in living in that realness in being, to be your signature. Until we
speak again,  I am your beloved and grateful friend,  I am Daniel.

Group: Thank you!

   






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Subject: FW: TR/Session : Michael and Gavalia
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From: 	Daniel Megow[SMTP:danielm at cet.com]
Sent: 	Monday, September 16, 1996 8:52 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com; majordomo at lectra.virtualbiz.com; devine at cet.com
Subject: 	TR/Session : Michael and Gavalia

Special Session - Jill, Daniel and Bob 
Thursday, Sept. 12, 1996


Jill described the setting, as follows:

	We are here at Hayden Lake in our wonderful cottage and we've got a major 
storm outside with lightning and thunder, and rain, and its incredibly 
beautiful, incredibly wonderful.  This is Thursday,
September 12, 1996, a special gathering, a true family circuit here of Bobby 
Devine, Daniel Megow and Jill Poole.  We invite our teachers to come through 
and help us grow relative to what seems to be common lessons we
are all undergoing at this time that are challenging us to the very "nth" 
degree.  Come in, teachers!

	**Michael:  Dearest Father, I thank you for these, my children, and I pray 
that you may give them a short season of respite from their difficulties.  
Their sincerity touches my heart and the
heart of my consort.  They are being about our will for this planet and I 
would make request for their sustenance to be assured through that which 
they are about to undertake.  Your will, Father, is supreme in all matters, 
and if
you discern a level of wisdom higher than my own in this request, then by 
all means I defer to your Will even though you have placed in my hands the 
power to make this choice on my own.  

	Good evening, my dear ones.  

	Jill - Good evening.  Thank you for your love.

	***Michael:  And I, in turn, thank you for yours.  You are amazingly aware 
within the depths of your struggles, that it is for your own growth that 
which you are each now experiencing.  Life on this
planet is not without its testing as I am so well aware from my life among 
you.  But know this, my dearest children, you are so very close to that 
which you seek.  You are within reach.  It is there for the taking.  I know you
each intimately.  Your mother and I share your thoughts, your true inner 
desires, and your spotless motivations.  You know from personal experience 
our Father is very much a part of who each of you are.  He is who you truly
are.  Yet you still retain your separateness to a degree, but you have 
chosen to be the vessels whereby our Father may communicate with His 
children who have not yet attained a personal awareness experientially of His
Presence as a part of who they truly are.  Remember also, dear ones, that I, 
too, am there; not so much as a literal part of you, so much as my spirit 
within you is the everlasting companion of your soul.  It is my supreme desire
that you indeed attain all of those aspects of yourselves which you so truly 
are, yet have not consciously realized yet in totality.  You are correct in 
your assumptions for the most part that something big is relatively imminent. 
And for this, do you now so heroically struggle to relieve yourselves of the 
last vestiges of your pre-morontia selves.  It would be non-productive were 
I to expound further on what is so soon to come.  Just trust, dearest
children, that all that you are going through right now is for the greatest 
good; not only of yourselves, but for the unfolding of what is to become.  I 
dearly love you each and am ever-growing in this deep affection which I have
for you.  Together we will be triumphant.  I will step back for now, for 
there is much more for you to learn this evening which will give you great 
opportunity for much contemplation.  Good night to you, my loves.

	**Gavalia transmitting the Trinity Teacher Son to us:   When we gather 
together with you and share our insight into the development of personal 
potential into actual expression, we would
emphasize the perspective that you can share truth best by being willing to 
possess it as a temporary translation of realization, thereby releasing the 
need for continuous possession of concept, rather realizing conceptual flow
and allowing the diminished resistance by continually seeking new 
expression, greater realization, enhanced understanding.  You cannot contain 
your truth and keep it as such.  You cannot utilize self will separated from 
spiritual
will of God to produce beauty and truth in expression.  
	Your level of control over your lives is directly reflective of your 
incapability to draw into continuous embrace with spiritual reality.  As you 
give up control, as one trusts in the powers that be, as you
allow the real purposes of God to present themselves, then a reflective 
choice toward the development of purpose (TR:  this is tough, I don't have a 
clue about what just came out of my mouth.  He receives encouragement to
keep going) will be instituting of a procedure role process which propels 
you forward without having to know all nuances of the progression.  The 
control becomes God's.  The effort is yours.  Your reflective choice is the
simple following of that which lays itself before you.  
	We begin here to understand your desires for substance.  We recognize your 
questioning of your experience.  We know you yearn for real purpose and 
knowledge thereof and that you want the
power to present itself so that you no longer must question the worth or 
value of your struggle in this mission for Michael.  The relative factors 
which symbolize the strain of patience would be the internal desire to make 
things
happen, the desire to control.  You have witnessed expansion, deepened 
awareness, heightened sensitivity, and then you have been faced with 
questions, struggles, and real preparation for being able to sustain 
yourself in the
midst of all this uncertainty regarding the waning enthusiasm.  As the 
immediate attainment of spiritual goals are not attained, rather unrealistic 
hopes and desires go unfulfilled.  
	The struggle pursuant to this is healthy, albeit difficult.  The danger 
would be the attempt to create your own goals aside from the patience to 
allow the real goals to make themselves manifest before
you.  Take what is present and available, utilize the talents you have, and 
you will most certainly achieve goals undreamed of.  If you believe in, have 
faith in, trust in the efforts of Michael and his ministry, then live faithfully
today with what you have and allow the control to be that of your Spirit 
resident who will certainly illuminate paths of high potential for you to 
follow.  If you feel that something needs to be created, or that something 
is lacking,
or that you need to make something happen, then you might want to reflect 
upon the driving force which motivates this desire and see if it truly finds 
its place in spiritual reality or personal impatience.  
	We foresee you having the greatest impact in your lives as you live more 
faithfully in each moment, and as you present yourselves before life, before 
God, and before each other with less criteria to be
fulfilled and more of an openness toward experiencing and understanding -- 
learning.  Your attitudes will reflect these perspectives more as you 
proceed in working through the difficult issues of personal will, and as you 
fall into
the new phase of development you will find it characterized by longer term 
goals, a relaxation of need, and a sincere, humble, honest desire to live 
life fully in the moment as a mortal who is focused toward the development of
relationships and committed to strengthening ties and interconnecting with 
more substantial personal commitment toward remaining present and 
functioning as a mortal in society.  We could only hope that you will find the
elimination of your struggles and the patterns developing before you which 
carry you toward more of a following of the obvious and less of a 
manipulating of circumstance, drawing in patience and creating perspectives 
that will
develop into long term functioning units in your societies; less glamorous, 
but surely more effective as the generations proceed toward Light and Life.  
Anything of glory which occurs is generally recognized as glorious and
miraculous in retrospect, certainly not previous to its occurrence.  So your 
efforts at plodding along in the light of love will certainly find its glory 
in its own way and the greatest record of this achievement will most likely be
witnessed as you receive the records at another level of existence.  
	So live now faithfully as the enlightened and enhanced mortals that you are 
becoming.  Don't force it.  Allow it to occur in step with faith and trust 
that what plays out before you is certainly called upon,
created, and planned by a power higher than yourselves.  This is the grand 
mystery and journey of faith.  We need your endurance, your patience, your 
effort to follow the Will.  Each mortal that can achieve these perspectives
creates another island, another vast channel for increased spiritual 
understanding which will naturally reflect out toward those present, willing 
to pick up the reception.  I'm finished.

	Daniel:  Is this Gavalia?

	***Yes and no.  It is not my message.  It is my presence which transfers 
the message.  I serve as a channel, a bridge, a liaison for the Trinity 
Teacher Son.






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Subject: FW: Veronica on Thankfulness
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:32:13 -0700
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From: 	Sonny Schneider[SMTP:sonny at ilhawaii.net]
Sent: 	Sunday, September 15, 1996 3:24 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	Veronica on Thankfulness

VERONICA - OCTOBER 6, 1994 - 9:45 a.m.               THANKFULNESS
Volcano, Hawaii - #23

Loving students and interested friends,

Each day we have the wonderful opportunity to recognize the wondrous gifts 
of life conferred on us by our merciful and infinitely generous Father.  
We readily and anxiously grasp the abundance of His blessings and 
benevolence but all too often remain unmindful of their divine source.

Practice your expressions of deep appreciation and learn to generate 
tender gratitude continually, for all your abilities originate in the 
divine compassion of the First Source and Center.

Take time every day to acknowledge the bountiful endowments you unceasingly 
receive, and share your expressions of appreciation with the extensive 
personal sources of His blessings.

Realize the treasures you possess in your immersion in the sublime splendor 
of His creation, and be ever thankful for the unlimited flow of His love 
that reaches you through the many instruments of His omniscient richness.

Take time daily to enlarge the state of gratefulness in your heart and 
fuse this profound appreciation with the love you convey to others.

Arouse your deepest expressions of joyous gratitude with the realization 
and comprehension of the exquisite eternal future you behold and the 
timeless experience of exhilarating passage towards your blissful encounter 
with your Creator.






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Subject: FW: When That Time Comes (T/R Session)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:31:52 -0700
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From: 	Bob Devine[SMTP:devine at cet.com]
Sent: 	Sunday, September 15, 1996 2:09 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	When That Time Comes (T/R Session)

Hi all, here is Friday's session in Spokane.

September 13, 1996

*    Rantarason: Good evening, this is Rantarason.

     When you begin to perceive the presence of the influencing
factors for the regaining of mental perception of universal broadcast
information, the resultant effects have the potential to be earth
shattering and many personalities will be disoriented as this occurs.

     We are here to prepare you as liaisons for ourselves, to be
ambassadors of understanding, yet even you who are on the edge of
perception, striving to hear, have no real basis for understanding
that which will occur, presently soon to be.  We realize the
importance of preparing you.

     The experience will be as an angel from heaven descending with a
shout, calling forth all souls to rise up and hear the proclamations
of a new day.  You will be jolted with energy and your attunement to
these happenings will resurrect many feelings of inadequacy within you
to know that what you perceive now as an invisible kingdom, stands
presently aware and resoundingly clear to you.  The communication
network will be less one of perception and more directly one of real
sensory reception, utilizing even physical senses.

     What you will be commissioned to do is to go to the flock and
feed them information, calming them, bringing them understanding of
that which is occuring.  It is important that many individuals be able
to react favorably with a minimal period of shock and hesitancy.

     You can provide much in your roles as ambassadors.  We look to
you for support and we have faith that you can rise to the challenge
and proclaim the good news with assurance, poise, and balance,
reflecting security and trust in that which is transpiring for the
welfare of your planet and its final inclusion into the universal
family, the last vestiges of quarantine and isolation having been
removed.  

     This will be the first step in a series of developments upon your
planet that are ordained by our Father Michael and Mother Nebadonia.

     Our asking for you this evening is to work to prepare yourselves
for that which is unprepareable for, to be ready for the transpiring
of this awakening and to respond as quickly as you can muster your
courage and understanding, to be a calm voice in the midst of a crowd.
     I would be open for questions this evening if you have any.

Ann: This sounds like it is going to be in our lifetime the way you're
talking.  Is that correct?

*    Rantarason: At this point in time it appears that this is so. 
Without giving actual time or date, which is impossible, I can say
that in all likelihood, you are going to be needed in this role as
material ministers for this awakening.

Ann: Could you give us some guidelines as to how we can perhaps on a
daily basis prepare our hearts and our minds to be in tune with that
Creative Spirit so that when the time comes we will know of a surety
that the spirit of God is with us and that He will work through us and
He will show us how to prepare ourselves?  I guess I asked a question
and partly answered it myself.

*    Rantarason: Yes... I would comment.

Ann: Thank you.

*    Rantarason: You have already been in preliminary preparation.  An
integral part of the Teaching Mission, as it has manifested itself in
various groupings of people throughout your world is this preliminary
belief and effort to work in relationship to celestial forces.  By
having done this you have a first step toward realizing the nature of
what will occur.     
     Your continued effort at calmness regularly, through meditation,
the stillness, will help you to stay in tune to the spirit residing
within you and be more readily able and capable of receiving assurance
and insight as the time comes.  Once again, do the stillness.  It is
important.  
     My announcement to you this evening offers you another awareness
that it will happen and that you can prepare yourselves for that
sometime day where, when you are disoriented and perhaps unnerved, you
may look to this moment in time and remember what I have said and
hopefully react favorably.

Ann: Will this disturbance... is that a result of energies coming into
the planet?

*    Rantarason: Yes, most definitely and there will be a reconnecting
of circuitry, almost as a light switch being turned on that can seem
blinding to those not used to this sort of light.  
     It is deemed important, however, that the reinstatement of the
broadcasts shall occur relatively soon.  It is important to understand
relatively to mean a frame of time, not to expect it to occur right
away and yet to know that it could occur very soon, but that it
may very well be years, perhaps even a decade or more.
     We cannot pinpoint time very well, being spiritual, for a
material realm.  What we see happening tomorrow may very well be as
much as a century in your realm.  That gives you some idea of how
difficult it is to accurately project occurances.  So our difficulty
in even relating this information to you is the timing aspect of when
it may occur.  
     It might even be important in some way or manner to prepare your
young ones for such an occurance, much as those who created the garden
for Adam and Eve did so for many generations waiting for them to come. 
Thus if you pass on, the awareness will still exist within new
generations.  Do you understand my meaning here?

Ann: Yes.  This call that goes forth, is that going to be like you
said, as an angel?  Or is this information to be given to those on the
planet to give forth the information?  Or will it come from both
sources?

*    Rantarason: The entire nature of this occurance is impossible of
relation to you.  It is possible that it can utilize actual
personalities relaying information, preparing either spiritually or
manifested materially.  It is also possible that it will be simply
like a musical concert striking up next door.  What you can be certain
of, is that it will be as no experience you have been privy to before. 
This is why the element of disorientation.  
     Many things can happen in combination with this event.  The event
itself does not require personalities, rather circuit enhancement, the
allowance of energy flow, information transfer in lines that have not
been utilized for multiple millenia.

Ann: Do the polar shifts have any significance as far as we're
concerned?  Do the polar shifts affect us?  I hear talk of this, but I
don't quite relate to it, nor do I understand it.

*    Rantarason: I would tell you that the physical shifting occuring
now is not a manipulation by spiritual forces.  Yet some of the
expected geographical... geological changes, will certainly influence
events on your planet.  Of course this is nothing new. 
     Specifically, these shifts that you speak of, are not relevant to
our purposes here, nor yours.

Sheila: I'm feeling kind of prepared in an unprepared kind of way and
I have a tinge of excitement that goes along with that.  Is that how
you guys feel too?

*    Rantarason: We would try to downplay your excitement, for this
emotion tends to produce impatience as the expected does not transpire
within a "satisfactory" (Note: quotes are teachers emphasis.) amount
of time to your mental framework.  We are certainly excited and have
been longer than this mission has been occuring, for what will
transpire, for what we are able to be a part of here, but this
excitement does nothing for the actual preparation and actually can
impede and produce distortion and delay of development.  So do not
focus upon the excitement.

Sheila: I'm probably just more thankful to be a part, to have an
important part in the whole scenario rather than anticipating its
arrival.

*    Rantarason: Everybody wants to be part of the game.  It is
natural and it is not an admonishment, rather a real reach toward you
because we deem your efforts to be important, that you focus upon the
preparation and let the excitement be, rather than feeding the
excitement and neglecting the preparation.  My reach to you is in
love, as I know your gratitude is much in the same spirit.

Sheila: When you talk preparation are you meaning being more in the
moment and more aware of our contacts or are you talking of a physical
preparation?

*    Rantarason: Being aware, keeping to the stillness, remaining
perceptive, working through your difficulties.  The level of
insecurity and fear you have remaining in your life can be a barrier
which tends to overamplify the disorientation and uncertainty that may
occur rather than facilitate the regrouping and outworking we hope for
from those of you that understand what is occuring.

Sheila: Then stillness and listening within would be the message that
we would give to the young ones?

*    Rantarason: Go to your daughter and son and tell them a story. 
Say, "What would you think if someday these "aliens" came to help us
and what if they took over a big radio station and sent messages out
to us all, sharing with us information about what is occuring in other
places and how we can further develop ourselves?" 
     Work to introduce the ideas and tell them perhaps that it
probably will occur someday and that they too can prepare.  It doesn't
have to be so freaky.

Sheila: In order not to scare them.

*    Rantarason: Exactly. ...But yet if you make it out to be fiction,
it may not impress them to incorporate the thought in their mind.

Ann: Is it a possibility that there are those aliens who desire to
come to our planet to set up, take over, to have a place for
themselves?

*    Rantarason: Are you talking hostile?

Ann: Yes.  I have heard this elsewhere.

*    Rantarason: This is not allowed.  It will not occur.

Ann: Very good.

*    Rantarason: It cannot occur.

Sheila: And when you say aliens, do you say that because we call it
that?

*    Rantarason: Exactly.  When I used the example for your children,
"aliens" was a quoted word, rather a familiar symbol to share, to
better reflect an angle that you could approach.  You could also say,
"What if angels and spirits came..."  
     It does not necessarily mean that there will be people from other
planets involved in this outworking.  It is simply preparing people
with the idea of something occuring that will awaken the planet to
higher ways and to relationship with other systems and within this
system.

Ann: So the purpose of it is the awakening as you stated.  Is that
correct?

*    Rantarason: Most certainly.  This is what will occur as a result
of the broadcast circuits reopening.  Even some of your structured
religions will fall apart very possibly, for their doctrine will no
longer hold true in the light of what is occuring.  That is why the
uncertainty and instability and fear could occur.  That is why your
calmness and higher perspectives are truly needed in such a time as
this that might occur.

Sheila: They're actually just our brothers and sisters, just from
another planet, right?

*    Rantarason: Exactly, but again, do not focus that personalities
will necessarily be involved with this manifestation.  It is the
opening of the circuits which is the actual occurance.  Other actions
may occur in combination with this happening, but that is not decided
at this point in time.  That is why your preparation for just about
anything to occur.

Ann: I feel I understand a little better when I focus on that, that
these are going to be circuits and I can understand with that energy
coming in, those that do not have the understanding that we have will
be very confused and the fear will rise up within them because their
foundation is literally shaken.  I have been in the church.  I
believed.  I walked that path so I understand how they will feel.

*    Rantarason: It could very well be seen as the end of times...

Ann: Yes, very much so.

*    Rantarason: ...and yet it is truly, really, a beginning of
things.

Ann: Yes, that's very encouraging.  Thank you for sharing and
explaining more fully to us.

*    Rantarason: Realize also that that is a very good approach to
take when being as the calm voice, to do away with the ideas of the
end and let them know that it is simply a beginning of better things,
of higher ways.  And do it with a smile.

Ann: Hmmm... wow.
Sheila: Thank you.

*    Rantarason: Thank you for listening to this, this evening.  I
know that Simeon is rather uncertain about all this and yet it was
definitely needed to share with you and others.  I have enjoyed the
opportunity to share with you again.  
     We Melchizedeks look forward to the times ahead with enthusiasm
and yet work to diminish excitement and be patient for the outworking
of the Father's plan.  
     Michael has a handle on this universe.  Doubt this not. 
Everything is going as planned.  That is all.






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Subject: FW: Elyon and friends 9/08/96
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From: 	MR RICK P GILES[SMTP:DMNB85A at prodigy.com]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 12, 1996 5:00 PM
To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com; tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	Elyon and friends 9/08/96

-- [ From: Rick P. Giles * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] --

September 8, 1996
*        Aaron (Sandy TR):  Hi, friends, I am Aaron.  I have been
standing back not talking much with your group, but I do watch
the dynamics going on. =20
         I think sometimes you get a feeling of being overloaded,
and this is opposite of what should be felt.  You need to feel
the lightness, the taking away of your burdens and the fun of
playing at friendships, based on the learning experience that
we are trying to give you.  The heaviness is your putting the
load on your own shoulders.  We need to shift that
responsibility back on to ourselves.  If we do not know how to
be free, there is something stopping that, as it is not the
real way of life.  Of course, we all want a purpose to our
lives and we feel like we need to ahng on to the personality
and to the dudgery..., drud...  (Sandy: I can't say that; they
will have to give me another word.)  All of the work you need
to do to just survive is just that; it is work, because an
attitude that we have so much work to do, and we need to be
responsible, and that just isn't correct. =20
         Look at your burdens and decide if they are really all
that important to you.  If they are not, just walk away from
them.  Why you still feel guilty for something that you did
thirty years ago is beyond my imagination.                             =20
     You are my dear
friends, and I wish you well today. =20
         Sandy:  Aaron is still here if you have questions.=20
         Evelyn:  I don't have any questions, but I thank you for
that reminder that we can choose our battles.  We don't have
to feel so burdened.
         Ginny:  Do you have any suggestions or techniques for
when we can catch ourselves going into these times when we
slip so easily into old patterns and choose not to think a
certain way.  How can we notice these things coming up before
they happen?
*        Aaron:  Yes.  The way we do things most of the time is
from habit.  If you can say, "Oh, I did that again" and try to
break that with a new, positive thought over and over again;
we need to be aware that it's a habit instead of reality.=20
Just like someone who has left the kitchen doors open all
their life and now they have to go back and shut the door, to
make that into a habit.  A good question to ask is: Is this
reality?  What is the problem here?  Identify the problem.=20
Sometimes there is not even a problem. =20
         Does that help?
         Ginny:  Yes, thank you.  Another idea would be is when
you are not in a particularly negative space to deliberately
do something that would be a positive thought or action.  That
would help to change the habit, because it is already
partially changed when a new situation comes along.  Make it
like a game, a special project.  Deliberately call someone on
the phone, or do something out of the normal routine.=20
*        Aaron:  It is very difficult to try to change yourself. =20
*        Elyon (Jonathan):  I am Elyon.  I greet you again as
always with love and help you in your growth. =20
         This day I would address you concerning the differences
between intention and decision, choices.  The dilemmas enco-
untered in your life wherein decisions are necessary yet un-
derstanding appears inadequate to accurately choose, it is
helpful to evaluate intent.  Intention is an overriding
qualifier for every decision.  If, for instance, your
intention is to relax, engage in recreation, certain decisions
aappropriate and beneficial; others would be wrong decisions
to meet the intended purpose.  Yet should your intention be
character growth, mind training, those correct decisions under
playful intention may be incorrect decisions under the
intention to work on yourself and grow.  It is the intention
that conditions the appropriate use of choice.  Decisions
themselves are not right or wrong but relative to intent. =20
         Now having considered decisions, the question arises the
value of intentions, their relative right and wrongness.  It
is, in a sense, pyramidal; for if your supreme purpose is the
Father's will, intention will clarify itself due to the
spiritual value contained within each intended purpose.  Any
particular intention on your part has a multitude, a myriad,
of decisions that are potential.  Yet your intentions can
number far less, all under the single purpose to do the will
of God.  When confusion arises, confusion in the multiplicity
of choices, work on the level above your intentions.  Sort
them for understanding, always compared against the background
of the will of God.  It is easier to work on boxes of apples
than all the apples scattered uncontained.  Your decisions are
the apples, your intentions are the boxes.  As Aaron has
addressed the point of habits, intention goes a great distance
in establishing a habit far more than does a single decision,
for you all realize that a choice must be repeated many times
before a habit conforms to your intention. =20
         I am through with my comments.  Thank you. (pause)
         Addendum:  The Father's will is the truck in which you
may place your box of apples. =20
          Evelyn:  The Father's will seems so broad.  It's been a
relief to read in the book how the will of God is your
willingness to share your inner life with Him.  That just
isn't confining at all.  When you try to narrow down a lot of
choices, somehow the will of God opens up even more.  I
suppose it eliminates some obvious poor choices.=20
*        Elyon:  It helps to align a choice under appropriate and
inappropriate based on the intervening level of intention that
exists between Father's will and a specific choice.  Much of
what the Father wills is for you to intend to maximize the
gifts and talents bestowed upon you.  As you have pointed out,
great latitude is given in choosing how.  This mechanism
itself when consciously applied is the Father's will for you.=20
It is the same mechanism which transforms belief into faith
and faith into lifestyle. =20
         It is recognizable that lifestyles vary even under the
same faith umbrella.  The will of the Father is to enact
faith.  The breadth of the Supreme engagement for yourselves
allows the multiplicity required for each human being to uni-
quely live in a manner in which no other human being could
live.  This process is also the will of the Father.  God's
will does not choose for you in the specific but asks that you
function according to the principles and processes that define
the universe that you are currently living in.                         =20
             Does this
help you?
         Evelyn:  You have said it all.=20
*        Elyon:  In a way it is the Father's will that apples
grow.  It is the conditions of time and space that determine
the ripe ones, the bruised ones, the wormy ones, the juicy
ones.    *                unidentified (Ginny):  As with anything you
want to learn, practice makes perfect.  Lessons in the spirit-
ual realm have the same requirements as lessons on your
material world.  You are a spiritual athlete, so to speak, who
needs to train in this way of being with many, many hours of
practice and training.  You are already doing much to increase
your spiritual athleticism, to strengthen your spiritual
muscles, to develop endurance, flexibility and strength.  This
is a daily task.  We do encourage all of you who are intent on
increasing and developing your spiritual muscles to work out
daily so that you can perform your task with ease.  Great
performers are great because it looks so easy.  Yet, behind
this ease of performance are thousands of hours of practice.=20
If you wish to perform easily individually, then you must
practice.  A daily routine is a good idea.  Also remember that
you have within you a companion who can guide your choices and
who can help you have greater insight.  Your indwelling spirit
is always eager to communicate with you if you but prepare the
way with your intentions and with your time and with your
attention. =20
         Keep up your good intentions of improving.  You have much
assistance if you but ask.  We bless all of your efforts; they
are noted, each and every one. =20
         Ginny:  I'm not sure who this is.  Norson? =20
*        Michael (Jonathan):  I would direct your focus now for
the purpose of spiritual contemplation and communion. =20
         The Infinite Father encompasses all things, encompassing
the personality absoluteness of the Eternal Son, who likewise
encompasses all with the spirit gravity that he bestows.  And
I, your Creator Son, am encompassed within this sonship, while
I encompass all of you with my presence, my Spirit of Truth.=20
As you are bathed in this energy, you encompass the very
Father within you.  Thereby is the cycle complete, all into
one and one with all.  This is the kingdom, the brotherhood,
the family. =20
         My love to you always. =20
         Ginny:  My love to you, too. =1A




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Subject: FW: "Hopefulness" by Olfana
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:31:05 -0700
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From: 	Christensen/Kimsey[SMTP:hmbtm at coastside.net]
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To: 	tml at urantia.cforest.com
Subject: 	"Hopefulness" by Olfana

Hi everyone. Here is a lesson from Olfana on "Hopefulness."  Russ Gustafson
and I were doing a TR session together when we got this lesson.  Afterwards,
I remember asking Russ if he thought the lesson sounded "ok" and if it made
any sense.  (I'm usually rather "fuzzy-brained" for about a half hour after
I tr.) Since then, this lesson has become one of my very favorites.  I hope
you enjoy it, too.  Love, Susan


A lesson on "Hopefulness" from Olfana          Oct. 15, 1993

Hopefulness is a condition of the heart and mind combined in trust that
God's Love inhabits the plans of your life.  Hopeful actions are those done
in trust that God's Will envelops the outcome of your efforts.  Hopefulness
is a state of mind which can be conveyed to others, by encouraging their
increased perception of the benevolent, tender, supervision of our lives by
those who serve Deity.  Such trust springs from the innocent and sure faith
we have in God's Love for us.  Being deserving of this Love, we develop
expectations of its evidence in our lives.  Demolished hopes are those which
have fallen prey to the belief in our unworthiness for such Love from the
Father.  Efforts on your part to encourage this sense of innocent trust in
God's Love help create the environment for such innocence to thrive or grow,
unobstructed by cynicism, doubt, and harsh perceptions of life's struggles.
"Hope Reigns Supreme" is a statement which conveys much truth.  For, indeed,
hope is the crowning gem worn by the Supreme Being in the evolving display
of mortal efforts to know and understand God.  Let your thoughts turn
hopeful with intention!  Allow all possibilities for God's Benevolence and
Beneficence to flow throughout the experiences of your life.  Trust that
there is a protective design to the natural outworking of events.  Strive to
perceive the good that occurs, and remain hopeful of all which  has not yet
been experienced.  Allow for the possibility that angels work with you, as
you strive to do what you consider to be rightful actions.  Trust that your
decisions, your choices, can be made with the loving input of the Thought
Adjuster.  These perceptions create a frame of mind which we identify as
hopeful.  It identifies you as one who perceives yourself as a valued Child
of God.  This is sufficient effort on your part to then allow the workings
of other beings in your life.  We thank you for your attention to this lesson.

Half Moon Bay, CA Teaching Mission Group

Note:  When I heard "hope is the crowning gem worn by the Supreme Being..."
I had a brief vision of a magnificent king standing in a huge castle grand
hall.  The king wore a crown with a giant pearl in the center that glowed
with iridescent, rainbow-colored light.  His robe was a deep maroon velvet,
embroidered with golden thread.  The embroidery was of human figures, in all
possible postures of dance, laughter, embrace, prayer, worship, and
exhaultation--"hopefulness" personified! Where his robe touched the floor,
the figures seems to flow from the robe, and become real people, who
surrounded the king, and filled the grand hall, all continuing to dance,
laugh, embrace, etc. as the king smiled down on them with immense enjoyment.
Neat, huh?  






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