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This page contains snippets from many different sources. These include
emails from lists, quotes read in books and on the internet, pieces of
Teaching Mission transcripts that I really liked, et cetera. Each
separate idea is bulleted or bold. The page begins with a handy
reference of topics covered. Please send
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 | Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock,
and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he
who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 |
| Simply put, God favors those who ask. He holds back nothing from
those who want and earnestly long for what He wants. |
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Prayer of Jabez
| If we know God, our real business on earth is so to live as to
permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives... |
- The Urantia Book, p. 1466
| To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does
it matter if all things earthly crash?" Temporal securities are
vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. When the flood
tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and
jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance
that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is
absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being
who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of
the eternal God.
- The Urantia Book, p. 1096
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| Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving
love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing his presence in everyone,
and having but one desire - for his constant presence in the temple of
your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
| Let the tremendous joy of knowing the Father
fill you entirely, so that optimism will pervade your reality and
overflow to others in your loving effusion for planetary
transformation. - Veronica |
| Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every
day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made
new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day.
This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I
shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth.
This is my day of opportunity.
- Dan Custer |
| 1) Imagine for a
moment that you were Bill Gate’s child. How would your life change?
How would you behave daily? Imagine how carefree your life could
become!
2) Now imagine that you’re a child of God. God the creator and
upholder of all that is. You don’t have to imagine this possibility,
it is indeed true. All you have to do is start behaving as a child of
God. Joy and happiness is your birthright, believe it, live it. Your
life can be more carefree than you can imagine. Don’t sell yourself
short.
Do yourself a favor and remind yourself of this life altering truth
everyday.
Post Script: Oh and don’t forget what follows #2 above, if
you’re a child of God then so is everyone else! Love everyone as your
true sibling! |
| Forgiveness is the key to
happiness: Things may not go as you expected. Plans may fail and
fall through, but whatever expectations that you may have for
yourself or for others, always keep this in mind, that if you
have a forgiving heart, life can be much easier for you; life
can be much simpler for you.
There are many challenges and obstacles that you will find and
having a forgiving heart allows you to overcome these challenges
and obstacles. It is very easy to get frustrated, it is very
easy to condemn and it is very easy to blame others for what is
happening in your life. It is simply an attitude which one takes
when one is frustrated. When you forgive, these frustrations
go away and then you open the opportunity for greater happiness
in your life. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiving
those around you, especially your loved ones and family members,
will go a long ways towards achieving true happiness. Forgiving
your loved ones will allow you to love them with a deeper love,
a richer love. Forgiving your friends will make them greater
friends. Forgiving your enemies will make them friends and
finally forgiving yourself will allow you to reach the height of
God, for God is forgiveness. He forgives all of His children in
all of His Universes, for He loves you. He does not wish you any
harm or any ill will.
It is in knowing God that you know forgiveness. It is in
becoming like God that you become forgiveness. Be an example for
all of humanity for what forgiveness can be. There is too little
of it, too much anger, too much war and too much blame. There is
not enough forgiveness in this world. Remind yourself always,
that those who surround you, those who care for you, and those
who spend time looking out for you do truly love you, they truly
care for you. Do not hold any ill will towards them; do not hold
resentment towards them. Forgive them as they will one day
forgive you. Love one another as God loves you.
- Teacher JarEl, 7/25/2005
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| On communicating honestly: There
are specific areas of the brain that are designed to be like an
antenna, so to speak. The more fit you are in body and mind—the
more receptive you become. Busyness in everyday living does bog
down the mind with trivialities. Quiet moments every day help to
clear a way for reception from those On High.
Anxiety from daily living takes its toll on body and mind. Many
mortals choose to deal with this by not dealing with it at all.
Some can color over an ugly picture and really believe it is
beautiful. This is damaging to the psyche and stifling growth.
We find that those who dare to communicate their thoughts
honestly have improved health in body and mind.
It is true that most people would appreciate knowing the truth
of your thoughts. There are ways to speak your truth so as not
to invoke negativity or perhaps offense. First of all when
dealing with your fellows you remember the fact that you are all
a part of the same family, not one is more important than
another. Take a moment to look within your heart and mind. Most
likely they will say different things.
When pondering some circumstance, you can view it with your
emotions, but balance it with your intellect. To take a moment
before you speak integrates the heart and mind to find a manner
in which to speak forth your truth as accurately as possible.
Many times your words will have no affect on another, but at the
very least you have released your thoughts that can begin
planting seeds. You are not pent up with emotion or that barrage
of thoughts of ‘I should have.’
Much of mortal anxiety comes from the feelings of being
misunderstood and feeling separate. To speak with honesty is to
allow others to know who you truly are, and the Master always
said, “The more you understand your fellows, the more you love
them.”
To withhold thoughts or words that would help bring healing if
spoken is in itself somewhat of a lie. It is damaging to you and
those you interact with. Speaking the truth need not come from a
place of ego, no, it should be intelligent and with love. When
you are honest with others they have trust in you. They will
surely seek you out.
This week think about those thoughts that should be brought into
reality through your vocabulary. How much is pent up and
damaging to you in body and mind? How open are you to receiving
others truth? Study on the Master’s technique of honesty. Many
times His sayings were apparently harsh, and yet it was the only
way in which He could get His message across.
- Teacher Abraham, November, 03, 2003
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| On loyalty, guilt and forgiving:
Today I will touch upon the value of loyalty. Most of you
think of loyalty in terms of political loyalty, geographic
loyalty, religious loyalty, fraternal and sororal loyalty—
loyalty of association with others. Yet at a deeper level, there
is the loyalty of yourself to yourself —not selfishly, not
egoistically, not self-righteously—but carefully and lovingly,
validating yourself, honoring yourself, caring for yourself—
consistently—neither diminishing nor denigrating who you are,
what you are, nor diminishing your capacity through past
actions, thoughts, or words, which are less than you truly are,
but which are normal in a growing situation where you were not
mature yet.
Your guilt soils your loyalty, does not honor who you are, or
adequately or sufficiently receive the forgiveness, which has
been given to you. Guilt says that the forgiveness that you were
given is not real. It says on a deeper level that you are not in
the mindset of your Creator…yet! Loyalty to yourself must come
first. Forgiveness of self must come first! Truly, thoroughly,
perennially, infinitely —that as you awake each day, you awake
to a new day, free of guilt, free of old harmful thoughts that
cycle and recycle in your mind. To be able to say in the
morning, “
That was then; this is now, this is a new day; I am free! I will
honor that forgiveness and not repeat the words, the thoughts,
the actions that caused guilt in the past.” And you can move
ahead freely. And your intention is to do so, to not repeat your
errors. Only then! Only then, can you truly, honestly,
knowingly— in the deepest sense of knowing—forgive others
totally and completely, and hold your relationship loyally as
new each day.
So many of your wonderful loving, caring, intimate, personal,
social relationships are sullied by harboring thoughts of guilt
or resentment. Guilt is about yourself, and resentment is about
others. When you forgive others, truly forgive them; do not
harbor resentment about what they did or what they said. And if
you are unsure of yourself in that, ask your brother or your
sister, whom you have forgiven and say, “I have forgiven you; I
hold no resentment against you anymore, and if you find that I
do, please remind me, for I want to forgive totally, thoroughly,
completely as an act of loyalty of my love for you, my
association and friendship for you, and ultimately for myself!”
Your path to godliness, to becoming not only “ like” God but
“as” God would act—you must thoroughly, totally forgive and not
hold in memory those injuries from others, and must not hold in
consciousness, guilt for the injuries you caused others and
particularly yourself.
This may be a new spin on loyalty, but it is paramount and
pivotal, to your own ascension and the ascension of others. If
you think in terms of humble social esteem, meaning that you
wish for the positive regard and love of others, how much higher
in their esteem will you be if you forgive totally and
thoroughly, as Jesus did? You will become brothers, another
Mother Theresa, a wonderful saint in living flesh. And it is
truly honorable to validate yourself through this means,
acquiring the ascendant attributes of a higher self. Loyalty to
self is truly a humble action, a humble state of existence.
There is not even a “however” about this, for you either honor
yourself in this deep humility so that you can honor others with
equal, grand humility, or you do not. The individual who feigns
this grand humility of loyalty to others, through this grandiose
forgiveness as a charade for self-aggrandizement and
self-embellishment, is easily seen through. And the truly
self-observing individual of higher consciousness sees that in
themselves as well. And only the pernicious maintenance of a
willful ego will allow that to continue.
- Teacher Bob, September 20, 2003 |
| Creating heaven on earth: For
the world can be as bright and cheerful and full of hope and
expectation as you elect or choose to entertain. This would
include those who would live in or within settings or
environments that any of you might consider less than desirable
or full of tension and unwholesome surroundings. It is true that
those who had inhabited, survived and often leapt heads above
others in their transmutation process during the Jewish
holocaust. There are those who, by election of will and their
internal being, were able to overcome and surpass the horrors of
their experience. It is true that such self-election is a
reality and probability, depending upon the way one accepts
their place within that world. In other words, not by your own
election or selection can you place mind over matter, as a
simple decision to overcome such travesty, but by the will of
God, which you will be able to incorporate into your
consciousness, would you be able to overcome such devastation.
This is what it is like and what is involved in making heaven on
earth. It is by choosing to adopt and be open to that spirit
which is inside of you. It is easy to say that it is simply a
matter of will and choosing to incorporate yourself within the
will of God. I can tell you how it works or how simple it is,
but it is up to you to experience if you have not yet
experienced what is involved in choosing to do the will of your
creator. It is simply saying that you choose to be a part of the
will of God as you understand it, and that the goodness and will
for other such beings that you encounter in your experiences
will be those which are best as intended by the creator with you
and through you. In this way you are bound to experience life as
it is meant to be, and not as the absence of such will-making
would demonstrate it to be.
One could say I am making light of or oversimplifying the
realities of your world. I wish to reinforce that it is a matter
of perception, as the will dictates. The will pre-determines
that which is the ultimate product or production that your movie
produces. So I invite you to incorporate the intention and the
script as you, the director, wish to produce with the producer,
and to get yourself a masterpiece, an academy award production
that you can be proud of.
It is simple, but yet takes a lifetime to incorporate and to
produce. But it is the Father’s will to allow each of his
creation to produce with the greatest of ease and beauty as is
possible for each of his creation. So, creators all, blend that
which you know to be true within your inner being and to bring
forth gardens of joy and truth and beauty. Be at one within
yourselves, now and at all times, for the joy and peace and
beauty that exist is here for your understanding and expression
right now.
- Teacher Anatolia, September 28, 2003 |
| How Jesus lived: Although the average
mortal of Urantia cannot hope to attain the high perfection of
character which Jesus of Nazareth acquired while sojourning in the
flesh, it is altogether possible for every mortal believer to
develop a strong and unified personality along the perfected lines
of the Jesus personality. The unique feature of the Master's
personality was not so much its perfection as its symmetry, its
exquisite and balanced unification. The most effective presentation
of Jesus consists in following the example of the one who said, as
he gestured toward the Master standing before his accusers, "Behold
the man!"
The unfailing kindness of Jesus touched the hearts of men, but his
stalwart strength of character amazed his followers. He was truly
sincere; there was nothing of the hypocrite in him. He was free from
affectation; he was always so refreshingly genuine. He never stooped
to pretense, and he never resorted to shamming. He lived the truth,
even as he taught it. He was the truth. He was constrained to
proclaim saving truth to his generation, even though such sincerity
sometimes caused pain. He was unquestioningly loyal to all truth.
But the Master was so reasonable, so approachable. He was so
practical in all his ministry, while all his plans were
characterized by such sanctified common sense. He was so free from
all freakish, erratic, and eccentric tendencies. He was never
capricious, whimsical, or hysterical. In all his teaching and in
everything he did there was always an exquisite discrimination
associated with an extraordinary sense of propriety. The Son of Man
was always a well-poised personality. Even his enemies maintained a
wholesome respect for him; they even feared his presence. Jesus was
unafraid. He was surcharged with divine enthusiasm, but he never
became fanatical. He was emotionally active but never flighty. He
was imaginative but always practical. He frankly faced the realities
of life, but he was never dull or prosaic. He was courageous but
never reckless; prudent but never cowardly. He was sympathetic but
not sentimental; unique but not eccentric. He was pious but not
sanctimonious. And he was so well-poised because he was so perfectly
unified.
Jesus' originality was un-stifled. He was not bound by tradition or
handicapped by enslavement to narrow conventionality. He spoke with
undoubted confidence and taught with absolute authority. But his
superb originality did not cause him to overlook the gems of truth
in the teachings of his predecessors and contemporaries. And the
most original of his teachings was the emphasis of love and mercy in
the place of fear and sacrifice.
Jesus was very broad in his outlook. He exhorted his followers to
preach the gospel to all peoples. He was free from all
narrow-mindedness. His sympathetic heart embraced all mankind, even
a universe. Always his invitation was, "Whosoever will, let him
come."
Of Jesus it was truly said, "He trusted God." As a man among men he
most sublimely trusted the Father in heaven. He trusted his Father
as a little child trusts his earthly parent. His faith was perfect
but never presumptuous. No matter how cruel nature might appear to
be or how indifferent to man's welfare on earth, Jesus never
faltered in his faith. He was immune to disappointment and
impervious to persecution. He was untouched by apparent failure.
He loved men as brothers, at the same time recognizing how they
differed in innate endowments and acquired qualities. "He went about
doing good."
Jesus was an unusually cheerful person, but he was not a blind and
unreasoning optimist. His constant word of exhortation was, "Be of
good cheer." He could maintain this confident attitude because of
his unswerving trust in God and his unshakable confidence in man. He
was always touchingly considerate of all men because he loved them
and believed in them. Still he was always true to his convictions
and magnificently firm in his devotion to the doing of his Father's
will.
The Master was always generous. He never grew weary of saying, "It
is more blessed to give than to receive." Said he, "Freely you have
received, freely give." And yet, with all of his unbounded
generosity, he was never wasteful or extravagant. He taught that you
must believe to receive salvation. "For every one who seeks shall
receive."
He was candid, but always kind. Said he, "If it were not so, I would
have told you." He was frank, but always friendly. He was outspoken
in his love for the sinner and in his hatred for sin. But throughout
all this amazing frankness he was unerringly fair.
Jesus was consistently cheerful, notwithstanding he sometimes drank
deeply of the cup of human sorrow. He fearlessly faced the realities
of existence, yet was he filled with enthusiasm for the gospel of
the kingdom. But he controlled his enthusiasm; it never controlled
him. He was unreservedly dedicated to "the Father's business." This
divine enthusiasm led his unspiritual brethren to think he was
beside himself, but the on looking universe appraised him as the
model of sanity and the pattern of supreme mortal devotion to the
high standards of spiritual living. And his controlled enthusiasm
was contagious; his associates were constrained to share his divine
optimism.
This man of Galilee was not a man of sorrows; he was a soul of
gladness. Always was he saying, "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad."
But when duty required, he was willing to walk courageously through
the "valley of the shadow of death." He was gladsome but at the same
time humble.
His courage was equaled only by his patience. When pressed to act
prematurely, he would only reply, "My hour has not yet come." He was
never in a hurry; his composure was sublime. But he was often
indignant at evil, intolerant of sin. He was often mightily moved to
resist that which was inimical to the welfare of his children on
earth. But his indignation against sin never led to anger at the
sinner.
His courage was magnificent, but he was never foolhardy. His
watchword was, "Fear not." His bravery was lofty and his courage
often heroic. But his courage was linked with discretion and
controlled by reason. It was courage born of faith, not the
recklessness of blind presumption. He was truly brave but never
audacious.
The Master was a pattern of reverence. The prayer of even his youth
began, "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name." He was
even respectful of the faulty worship of his fellows. But this did
not deter him from making attacks on religious traditions or
assaulting errors of human belief. He was reverential of true
holiness, and yet he could justly appeal to his fellows, saying,
"Who among you convicts me of sin?"
Jesus was great because he was good, and yet he fraternized with the
little children. He was gentle and unassuming in his personal life,
and yet he was the perfected man of a universe. His associates
called him Master unbidden.
Jesus was the perfectly unified human personality. And today, as in
Galilee, he continues to unify mortal experience and to co-ordinate
human endeavors. He unifies life, ennobles character, and simplifies
experience. He enters the human mind to elevate, transform, and
transfigure it. It is literally true: "If any man has Christ Jesus
within him, he is a new creature; old things are passing away;
behold, all things are becoming new." |
- The Urantia Papers, Page 1101
| On Loving Anyone: Of health and
sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized
very little. The highest happiness is indissolubly linked with
spiritual progress. Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which
passes all understanding. In physical life the senses tell of the
existence of things; mind discovers the reality of meanings; but the
spiritual experience reveals to the individual the true values of
life. These high levels of human living are attained in the
supreme love of God and in the unselfish love of man. If you
love your fellow men, you must have discovered their values. Jesus
loved men so much because he placed such a high value upon them.
You can best discover values in your associates by discovering their
motivation. If some one irritates you, causes feelings of
resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his
viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you
understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this
tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.
In the mind's eye conjure up a picture of one
of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times--a short,
misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread,
club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely
just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man.
But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this
animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman
and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture
stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the
human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only in the
second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein
discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude
becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only
fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would
understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would
eventually fall in love with them.
You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love
is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor's
motives and sentiments. It is not so important to love all men today
as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being. If
each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of
your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are
certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality.
Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise,
love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish
love is truly contagious. If each mortal could only become a focus
of dynamic affection, this benign virus of love would soon pervade
the sentimental emotion-stream of humanity to such an extent that
all civilization would be encompassed by love, and that would be the
realization of the brotherhood of man.
- The Urantia Papers, Page 1098 |
| On Expectations: All of you at
one time or another have been told your expectations are too high.
If you do not succeed, lower your expectations. I would tell you if
it seems as if you are expecting too much your expectations rather
need to be raised. You need to expect more. This is not to
say the expectation of material things, but indeed raise your
expectations into the level of spiritual expectation. Your
expectations can never be too high. |
When you are expecting the outworking of Father's will, expect
the greatest, expect the best. Put your expectations into the
spiritual realm and raise them to your highest ability. Expect
Father's will. Expect goodness, and you can be assured that you will
receive Father's will. Remember only that our Father loves you for
exactly who you are and that He individually guides each one of you.
Keep your highest expectations for yourself alone. Try not to
have high xpectations for others, but by your example show your high
expectations. Let your faith shine before you like a light, and
let others see your expectations bearing fruit. They may then begin
to build upon their own higher and more spiritual expectations.
Expectations on the material level are destined for
disappointment in some manner or another. This is indeed as it
should be, for many, through the crash of their material
expectations, begin to switch them toward the spiritual. When you
expect truth, beauty, goodness, and love you are an avenue of their
release. When your expectations are high in spirit your hopefulness
attracts, your faith shines, and your love emanates from you. Set
for yourself the highest goals of spirituality. Expect that your
highest good will be accomplished according to the will of and with
the help of your Father within. You will be as a lighthouse in the
fog. You will provide guidance by your demeanor alone. The words are
unimportant. The true words come without thought just as in these
transmissions of ours to you. Transmit love, transmit hope, transmit
faith to all who are around you just by being of eternal hope of
saving faith and in Father's perfect love.
Set your expectations at their highest, my dear ones, and allow
them to unfold in your path. Set them only for yourself, and truly
will you be rewarded.
- Teacher Solonia, 8/24/03
| On Relationships: I would
like to take this opportunity to expand on certain themes that have
been discussed here tonight. One of these themes is the obvious
imperfect nature of man and the countless mistakes that one makes
during his or her lifetime. What I would like to express to you, is
that it is OK to make mistakes. These are all experiences in your
lives that may or may not make you stronger. It all depends on how
you look at it. It all depends on what you take from it, what lesson
you learn. One must be receptive and open to understand the message
that is coming through. Many times these lessons are overlooked and
yet again the experience is repeated, again and again. Either that,
or it is projected in some other fashion, but in each experience
there is a lesson to learn.
That is the same in each relationship that you experience. Every
person in your life, whether it be a brief experience or a long term
relationship has a purpose and a meaning for you. Nothing is by
accident. It is entirely up to you to derive the meaning from that
relationship. If you do not learn it from that person, you will be
given another opportunity to learn the same lesson. Many times you
may be disappointed with other people. Everyone seems to have high
expectations from their friends or family, but these expectations
only lead you to fall, for when people do not meet your
expectations, you become disappointed or depressed. I am not saying
to lower your expectations, but at least give it leeway. At least
give it a chance, so you can say it is OK if someone does not reach
your expectations, I will forgive them . If you say that enough you
will do away with much of your unhappiness and bitterness.
These lessons you have to learn on your own and they must come
within you. For within is where all the answers lie and from within
is where you project your goodness and kindness. These lessons must
be learned from your experiences in life, from your interactions in
different relations. It is not something to be learned by yourself,
for it is in the friction of the dynamics that you mold your
character and in turn help others.
If you are kindhearted and good you should be set atop a hill so you
may inspire others. So others may see your light and want to be like
you. If you desire to be kindhearted, you must learn to forgive, you
must not judge others and you must not have so many high
expectations of people. The one rule that you must learn is that no
one on this earth is perfect, that you are all learning, growing and
evolving as human beings. One day, yes, you shall be perfect, but
not now, not here. There is so much imperfection on your world that
you cannot put yourself high on any horse and call yourself perfect,
for then you blunder. You must forgive your brothers and sisters for
being imperfect, just as you are imperfect yourself, so others
should forgive you as well. Would you not like others to forgive you
when you make a mistake? I know that you have made many mistakes in
your life and I know many have forgiven you. That is why you must
forgive others when they make mistakes. To learn to forgive is to
learn to find the road to perfection. |
- Teacher JarEl, 7/20/2003
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More on Love: I am going to
speak on the subject of love. It is perhaps the most important
subject to address, for it is the best representation to the
human mind of the highest quality that can be used to
describe God, for while any other qualities may be used
to help describe God to limited creatures, many such qualities
becomes far too remote from human conception to be of great
benefit in contributing to your understanding. Love, on the
other hand, by its nature is extremely relatable, because it is
a quality of relationship.
First recognized when discovering love is the emotional quality,
an overwhelming attraction, the preoccupation toward the
adored. This feeling element begins the quest
of the soul for the experience of the love of God. Initially
love attracts one indiscriminately to another being, and this
reaction teaches the personality that love is desirable and that
it is rewarding. There are times when such an application of
love brings heartbreak, for one's sense of worth is overly
invested in another personality's loving response or withdrawal
of that response. While this is an experience of hurt, it does
teach a personality to invest love more wisely and to invest it
on a level less transient. Love, therefore, begins its exposure
to you as a form of inspiration, a level of
feeling, an energizing experience. It is a love that causes one
to feel as if one were floating on the clouds. This love
inspires new behaviors, for admiration entices an individual to
adopt those qualities that are admired to become like the one
that is loved.
Having undergone an experience of love and having encountered
the breaking away of love in the temporal sense, the human mind
begins to question love to determine its merit,
to establish conditions whereupon love may be expressed for
beneficial return and to safeguard of love lost. Thus begins
the development of the philosophy of love, and the result is
illumination in relation to humankind, the level of mind and the
level of thoughts. Soon there develops the
understanding of love unconditioned that is bestowed
upon the good and the bad, the worthy and the unworthy. When
this insight dawns upon the mind one then can love others and
remain free of attachment, an attachment that
often is the reason for heartbreak. Love becomes now an
expressive action rather than a sought-after reaction to the
acceptance of others toward you.
As the development of the concept of love progresses, it becomes
apparent that divine love is bestowed with no
requirement of return of love by any creature. This
understanding stimulates a spiritual inspiration, a rise of the
feelings of worship and adoration of the divine, it causes one's
mind to crave the qualities of the divine, to love with no
thought of return. This process was demonstrated by Jesus, and
his statement, "Follow me" was his request that those who
believed in him live like him as one who knows the love of God
and gives that love to all.
The apex of the experience of love is when love has gone from
inspiration, through illumination, to identity. When you have
drawn so close, become so enmeshed in the divine presence, love
ceases to be an exchange and becomes a possession of your own;
you are a source of love, not just a receiver and transmitter of
love. While it is confirming of the reality of the value of a
personality to receive love, the response of any personality is
to begin to love in response, and it is the
expression of love that the personality finds most
fulfilling, for love received must be trusted, and love
received contains the risk of love withdrawn. But love
expressed is wholly in your control, and you can give
it regardless of condition. While one may wish to absorb love
for the comfort it brings, by radiating love one not
only brings that comfort to all you are engaged with, but it
releases that same comfort in oneself, for your
identification with God, your source of love, is an infinite
supply, never to be withdrawn, forever to be felt as you express
it. Soon the condition of love establishes itself as an
ever-present state of being.
- Teacher Jessona, 7/27/2003
|
| What is Love: My topic tonight
is a return to the most fundamental reality. It is once again
another lesson, discussion, of the meaning and purpose of LOVE. As
you are acutely aware, the word love is a multi-dimensional word,
with meanings which vary according to the context of its use. The
English language is not as sophisticated as some other languages on
this planet that have different words for different aspects of love.
I will review just for a moment, with you, three of the meanings of
the word love, which are not my major concerns this evening,
although they are important realities in your lives.
There is the love which denotes affection, strong liking. You say: I
love chocolate and I eat it at every opportunity. You say: I love my
automobile and I love to show it off to my friends. You say: I just
loved that movie and the performance of the actors and so forth.
Strong affection! That which pleases you!
There is the love of another person for their kinship connection.
You love each other as brothers and sisters because you are blood
related. You love your parents and parents love their children
because they are of the same flesh and blood.
And then there is the love of passion, of strong romantic and sexual
attraction, the love of the Hollywood movie, the love at first
sight, which when you think about it, has to be basically a reflex
reaction before you actually know another person. This is the love
which drives the reproduction of the species. It is all a part of
the intention of the
Life Carriers,
to do this intense bonding you often refer to in the concept of two
halves coming together into a whole which is complete. This is the
love of the sexual and romantic attraction.
In all three aspects of love: strong liking, strong affection, the
first; the second family attraction and caring; and third, the
strong romantic sexual attraction, there is a reciprocal
relationship. The partnership between family members is obvious,
doesn't need me to elaborate. Families are essential to the
continuance of civilization and so there is that give and take.
There is the obvious give and take of the erotic romantic
relationship where the two complement each other. And in the first
aspect the word love is probably a poor choice, a better word would
be some other designation that does not use those letters L-O-V-E.
For in that case the relationship is one sided, the object that is
of affectionate value provides some need for the person who desires
it, whether it be the vanity of a beautiful car, the pleasure of the
taste of chocolate or whatever. Here the reciprocation is
non-personal.
The love of which I speak more about is the
fourth meaning. It has been designated in the Greek language
as 'Agape'. It is a different concept, for there is no ingestion of
value from the loved object to the person loving. The love here is
an overflowing, a giving purely for the wish to give, the cherishing
simply because the giver finds that other person to be of great
value in themselves and not in what they can return to the giver.
This is unconditional love; this is love with no selfish component.
This is the love which powers the universe.
Philosophers and theologians have speculated as to why God created
His universe. Some have said God was lonely; others that He needed
other beings to worship Him and to express their appreciation so it
would satisfy His heart of the need to be appreciated. Of course,
these are what you term anthropomorphic notions of motivation. They
think of God as though He were a person of human stature. But even
some of your artists and musicians, playwrights, etc., have caught a
sense of the motivation of the God of Universes. They have
experienced the pure pleasure of creating something beautiful in
itself. They understand the notion that they don't do their art or
music in order to be applauded, to be rewarded, to be paid. At those
moments of high creativity they share the feeling of pure pleasure
in the doing of a beautiful, noble, and unique thing.
We are taught that the
Paradise
Trinity, after creating a perfect universe from eternity, which
reflects their nature in repletion, decided to share creativity with
other personal beings. And so, this time-space universe that you
live in, that we live in, is an opportunity for others to co-create
with God, both themselves and the environment that they live in.
Your reason for being is to become God like and share in His love,
which is expressed in one facet in creativity. It was Gods' desire
to share His creation with other personal beings that He brought
into existence, this universe. (The Trinity did not personally
create this universe. It is the creation of their Sons and
Daughters, the
Creator Sons, and Creator Spirits).
The Trinity decided to share their creative power with others so
that they could experience the joy of co-creation with God, bringing
into existence the perfected status as a result of their long
struggle to control all the factors of the environment which are
chaotic, and all the factors of temperament and character which the
personality desires to unify and bring into cohesive balance.
Love then, is partly expressed in creativity and in the sharing of
creativity. The other part of Love is the desire to serve others, to
do good to other people. It is that urge you feel to help another
person learn and progress, and achieve, and feel good about
themselves; not to do it for them but to assist them when they
desire it in any way that you can; to serve them where they are in
need of service. This desire to share with other people, this desire
to serve other people, and this desire to co-create your self is all
an aspect of love.
You see, within each of you there is a piece of God, a
Fragment
of His pre-personal essence, which seeks to blend with your mind.
The result is a
soul,
which is growing and which will survive death, so that your personal
existence is not limited to this short mortal life. Depending on
your choice, You will continue to go on and on as you grow and
expand and become part of the completion process of all creation in
its personal aspects, as they, in turn, bring under their control
the remaining environment.
Love is the desire to do good to others; and
love is the desire to serve others; and love is the creativity and
co-creativity, which empowers your lives.
Assuming there is a God and assuming there is a universe of meaning,
and not simply accidental causation, assuming there is purpose, then
what is my purpose in life? Or what is THE
purpose of life? Is there a larger purpose that I would like
to become a part of? This is the question that addresses its self in
adolescence. What shall I do with my life? What do I want to become?
What are my goals? You know what answers your culture offers. For
many cultures there aren't a lot of choices. In the primitive
cultures, it is simply to become a good tribal member, to raise a
family, to sustain some sort of living and so forth. But in your
culture you have quite a bit of leeway.
The issue of this question Jesus often addressed in His parables and
stories. He once told a story about a rich farmer, who was very
prosperous, and whose barns were not big enough to hold all his
crops. So he decided to build bigger barns and then he could retire
and enjoy his life and rest on his laurels. In His story, Jesus
said, but that night his soul was required of him, in other words he
died. And what was the outcome of his life? Today we say one who
dies with the most toys wins. It's the same idea. So that's one
answer. The purpose of life is to make money and use it to do what
ever you wish.
But, another answer is the one that Jesus gave, and He said, and I
paraphrase, "Make it your first priority to seek the Will of God and
all these things that you need will come to you naturally, and even
some that you desire". The words in the New Testament rendering are
"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these
thing shall be added to you. For what shall it profit a man to gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?"
Why is it important that we be connected to
love? Because it is love that will guide our values in the
right direction. Jesus did not say to become a monk, to give up all
earthly pleasures, to torture yourself with asceticism, and you will
achieve heaven. Nothing of the sort! Put first the will of God in
your life! The will of God is that that you love Him, love yourself
and everyone else as yourself; that you value the personalities that
you meet; that you realize that people are the most important value
in the world, not things; that your relationships matter the most,
not what you own and possess. That's why love is important. It's the
juice that runs the universe. It is the motivation of God to create
this imperfect universe so that we might have a share in its
perfecting process, so that we might learn to become God like and
reach, eventually, the same perfected state by our own efforts in
partnership with God's indwelling, guiding Spirit.
The two things that I want you to remember is that one of the
aspects of love is your freewill gift of personality, which allows
you to co-create yourself and be part of a society which is
co-creating itself; that is the first thing. The second thing is
that you can let that love flow through you to other people in your
service, and in that flow movement you are feeling God in you. You
are feeling God's feelings of LOVE AND SERVICE. And you do it
because this is the heartbeat of the universe. |
- Teacher Daniel, 07/01/03
| Doing God's Will: To be
integrated is to weigh and factor both the human and the divine in
all you do. And this is doing the will of God. Consciously. It is
being mindful of every step of the way. Every decision you make,
every response you give. If it is not in you to remain conscious of
your contact with the divine in all you do, you are resorting to the
able but incomplete perspective of the
seven adjutant mind spirits. Remember that Jesus used to walk
apart from his fellows in conscious communion with his Father,
having in this way the value of the divine perspective. You put
great faith in yourself and in your fellow human beings when you
fail to counsel with Our Father or His ministers in making your way
through the worldly experience. Begin in every transaction. Every
negotiation. Insist upon the divine perspective as well as the human
perspective. Take counsel with the
Father. Take
counsel with his agents. And ask questions. Ask questions until you
have found the core of the question. Ask questions until you have
the answer that resonates with your integrated self. In this way you
have weighed every factor and you have your path clearly laid out
before you. When you walk in faith, and when you act in faith, as
they say: "blind faith"… be not naïve. But be faith-filled.
Insist upon the highest standard, not only for yourself but for your
fellows. For this is how you want your civilization to develop. This
is the foundation of your domestic reality and the reality which
resonates throughout your realm. You are the dimension of divinity
that we have trained and taught, that we continue to nurture and
correct and cultivate, for you now to enter into the arena of your
earth origin and demonstrate the divine nature, through these
encounters with the life existent on
Urantia now … in order to raise
it up and bring it forward into the new epoch toward
light and life.
- Teacher Tomas, 6/22/03 |
| The Meaning of Service: Tonight I
will discuss with you the meaning of service to others. At times it
may seem insignificant the small acts of kindness to your fellow
human beings, it may seem your little acts goes unnoticed. That is
not so, every single act of kindness that you demonstrate towards
your fellow man or woman is recorded down in your Book of Life for
later evaluation by you and others. The importance of serving others
is far greater than just being recorded in your book. It is a form
and method of learning and growing spiritually. It is a form of
knowing God; becoming lesser so that you may become greater. When
you serve another human being you demonstrate an act of kindness
towards that person. Even though you may not know or feel it, the
person receiving your act of kindness may feel extreme gratitude for
such action. Service to others is not common for everyone. Many are
accustomed to receiving payment for these services. That is not the
service of which I speak. The service that I speak of is given to
you freely and unconditionally. It is given when it is not asked for
and when it is asked for. It is given without question.
Service on
Urantia is just the beginning. It is the training ground for
later service that awaits you in your
Morontia
career and into your Spiritual career. To be of service here only
gives you greater responsibility when it comes time for you to be of
service on the
Morontia Worlds. The more practice you get here, the greater the
responsibility will be given you when you arrive on the next world.
There are many who have been of extreme service to this world who
will serve as dignitaries and representatives in the Morontia Realm.
Some are given high honors and high positions in the Morontia
Government. It is only fitting such serviceable people receive such
honor, for their whole lives they have dedicated themselves to the
service of others. Being of service is something that you should be
getting accustomed to. If you are not doing it now, you should
consider being of service.
In the Morontia
Realms you are asked to look after those below you. You are asked to
go back and teach those below you. Most do it with great joy and
pleasure, for it is an honor to go back and serve others. It is an
honor for me to come and serve you, to come and educate you. It is
not a burden but my pleasure to be here. I look forward each time we
meet. It gives pleasure to feel your presence and the energy you
bring to this room. It also gladdens me when I see the majority of
you growing, becoming more spiritual each day. That is what service
is really all about. It is so you can bring something into a
person’s life which they may not have received otherwise. You have
that gift, you have that possibility of giving this service to
another. The service that you give may be what is needed to help
them to become a better person. By planting a seed into a person’s
mind, by your act, by your service or by your example, fruit shall
come forth in their life. From your service they may become an
example to others. Service is about changing people’s lives and in
the process you change your own life for the better. In the process
you grow, you listen and you learn. This growth is not just physical
growth, it is spiritual. It is all inspiring and it helps to
transcend your soul to eternity. That is what service is about. It
takes you into this long process of growing and evolving. It is not
always easy, there are many challenges and obstacles. It is how you
deal with these challenges and obstacles that bring forth true
wisdom. Is wisdom something that is desired? Service is a tool for
that wisdom. Service is the instrument by which you will shape your
soul into a wise and spiritually enlightened being.
You may view service as something that tires you out at times and
you may not have any time for service. Stop and think of how many
people have served you during your life time? How many people have
given up their time to help you out? I know there have been many
people who have been of great service in your lives. Just imagine
how your being of service adds to the brotherhood of man. Imagine
the people who are affected by your wonderful service to them. In
their minds they view you as a wonderful person who took your time
to help them. If service is a tool to shape yourself, then God is
the fire by which your soul is softened in order to be shaped.
When you are thrown into the fire, when your life is in chaos and
there are challenges left and right, this is a great test that you
must pass. This is a great challenge you must bend your will
towards. At times like this it is foolish to think selfishly, it is
foolish to lament over one’s own misery, for it brings you nowhere.
In those times, if nothing else, be of service to others. In your
service you may find the answers you are looking for. |
- Teacher JarEl, 6/16/03
| Forgive all: Let your hearts be a
well of forgiveness. Forgive those who misunderstand you, who
despitefully use you. Forgive those who take advantage of you, who
steal from you. Forgive those who lie to you and condemn them not
for the Master looks after all his children and knows their inner
hearts. Gradually banish fear as you move forward in your lives.
Remember, the Father’s great over control in all things. |
- Teacher Ham, 6/29/03
| Be open to life, make
decisions: Most of human life is built upon this precarious
equation of experiential memory to anticipated outcomes. You assess
the situations that you are in about what you have known from the past
and what your desired goals and objectives are. So, in coming into
this new relationship or in any of your opportunities that present
themselves, regardless if it is personal relation or work relationship
or service relationship, be in that place of openness of heart. And
ask to see the truth and beauty begin to emerge from the experience
that you are enjoying. Then, after you have amassed a certain amount
of experience in this opportunity, you will begin a greater
appreciation if this is the experience that is going to nurture your
soul or one that will not bode well for you.
But must be in that place of openness of heart and not assessment at
first, so what is true and what is true and what is real and what is
good has time to blend in your soul, and give you a deeper meaning and
a deeper appreciation of what is actually occurring. If you bring this
dynamic into all the experiences as you live your life, you will find
a new way of living and dealing with your life's situations. This is
the cornerstone of building your soul through life's experiences. So
as you find that openness within your heart, be of the idea that new
meanings and values will emerge if you can be clear and not having any
agenda or expectation and just letting the emergence of the Father's
will create these new associations of reality within you. I am not
suggesting that this will be altogether easy, so in that place of
openness, you may invite me in to help you maintain this posture of
clear reception. In time you will grow more confident of your own
ability to maintain that openness throughout all of your experiences
of daily living. Do not hesitate to invite
me and the
presence of your
Mother into that place within your heart, so that you can be as
clear and receptive to the truth as possible at your particular stage
of development. |
My little ones, you are all growing and this pleases me mightily.
This is all we ask-that you continue to grow; that you continue to
make decisions that stimulate your growth, that move you into new
opportunities for creative expression of the Father's movement and
life essence through you. Each day see yourself less and less on your
own, for you are in reality in a dynamic partnership with the very
Source of all life. Each decision can be a collaborative undertaking
if you are so fortunate as to remember that this partnership is
yours-every moment of every day.
I understand the difficulty of remembering. I know that your intention
is to increasingly use this dynamic partnership in service to your
fellows and for your own soul growth. More and more expand your
moments of stillness into those moments of
the day when you wish to choose, when you are in those experiences
that give you the capacity to do one thing or another. Compose your
thoughts, quiet your mind and ask the Father's thoughts to emerge.
Right or wrong, let yourself move from that place of honest inquiry of
sincere loyalty to letting the Father's will move you into that
decision.
Practice this. You are not to be so concerned about whether this was
the right or wrong decision. That is not the essential lesson of this
evening. All we ask is that you make decisions in conjunction with
your Father
Fragment, and you increasingly come into that place where it would
be unthinkable to do this without your Father. This is all we ask of
you. We are here to guide you and to support you as you move forward
and gain greater enjoyment of living a dynamic and interesting
decision-rich life. Grow strong, grow confident as you make these
decisions, for your capacity to increasingly interact with the Father
is what is expanding your awareness into the beauties of living in the
Spirit; in being with me and being with your Mother. This is the life
of the universe child that we know you are becoming. So as you feel
our love descend upon you this evening, know that the container of
your mind that makes decisions will continually yield new thoughts and
new meanings and new appreciation for how beautiful you are becoming.
- Christ Michael, 4/21/03
| How to be Wise: Contrary to
the accepted beliefs of many, it is not the person who jumps into the
middle of an argument, or tries to loudly tell others how to live
their lives, who is blessed with great wisdom. The truly wise are
short on advice, and altogether non-judgmental.
The wise know within themselves that valuable experiences have taught
them to be humble, and for them to wait for God to show them the right
directions. A wise person has learned to listen attentively, and talk
sparingly. These are people who draw others toward them, often by some
innate quality that may be hard to define.
To make sensible decisions, and to carry them through, requires a
process of clear reasoning about the opportunity or the problem at
hand, from beginning to end, and before a final decision is reached. A
wise person always finds inner peace - that tranquility of the soul -
and is never anxious to gain fame or fortune, but realizes that God
has not placed them on this earth to tell others their opinions on
anything.
The 'know it all attitude' must wave a red flag of caution for you, in
that the individual who brags is usually the one that you shouldn't
listen to, because their sole aim is to impress others with the
cleverness and wisdom they do not really possess. The wise person
knows it is usually God's will that they say little and remain humble,
which they truly are.
Watch and listen and wait for the Creator to play His hand in whatever
the task to be decided, or the project at hand. It is possible for men
and women to acquire great wisdom in their earthly lifetimes here, and
as you evolve into a more spiritual way of living, you will indeed
pick up much wisdom along the road of mortal hardship and suffering.
Ask Him to help you make your decisions, and learn from His eternal
loving ways.
Go forth you all, with the 'insight of knowing' that He will always
have His input and that you have little to do but be aware of what He
teaches with words of encouragement and kindness. Remember it is
appropriate to only give advice when it is asked for, and for you to
always let the other person steer his or her own craft upon these
turbulent earthly seas.
- Teacher Machiventa, 5/17/03
|
| On Joy: Tomas has named "Joy" as our
topic this evening, and it is one of my favorite things. Some of you
have been reading about happiness. And Joy and happiness are awfully
close, in understanding. Our Joy comes as a natural result of being in
harmony and synchronicity with the Love of God, which is the Will of
God, which is the Flow of the Universe. To be in harmony with the
direction of progress; to have a life which has meaning greater than
merely the squandering of moments and the pursuit of temporal
satisfaction; a life whose meaning is focused upon doing the Will of
one's Creator, one's Source, is a life which has the flavor of most
profound Joy and happiness. While all people seek happiness, as you
know, it is, for many, a wearisome and discouraging endeavor, for
their Treasure is not in the right place and their goals are
disrupted, even as Jesus said, by thieves breaking in and stealing,
and by moths that eat the fabric of their commitments. But you are
fortunate, in so many ways, that you have the word of Truth. What does
it matter what a person acquires? What shall one give in exchange for
their Soul? Let your Treasures be in Heaven and there your Heart will
be also.
Yes friends, I don't have to lecture you on these realities, for you
know from your own experience, that if one does seek to do the Will of
God first, that all necessities will be added to them. All their needs
will be met. Not just temporal and earthly needs, but ALL their needs,
throughout Eternity. And so, you do know this Joy. For you have placed
your Treasure - your Highest Value - in seeking to understand God, to
know God and to be like him: Perfect in your Human realm as he is in
his Divine realm. The Universe is a vast educational system. Your text
(The Urantia Book)
gives you much information about this, so it is not surprising, that
we, as your older brothers and sisters, share our information and our
knowledge and our experience with you, so that you also may share your
knowledge, your experience with others. But as Tomas has said, it is
not so much in proselytizing as it is in the overflowing graciousness
of the Spirit which fills your lives that impresses others, that there
is something about you which is very appealing and which they don't
see a lot of. Yes, indeed, you ARE the Light of the world. And your
Lights shines forth for you have chosen to keep it uncovered.
Many, many people, without necessarily voicing these thoughts to
themselves, are seeking for real and authentic happiness. Not the
froth of temporary satisfactions but the deep and abiding, meaningful
Joy and happiness which you have. And so you do well as you share your
time together, for this is a recharging of your spiritual batteries,
it is a confirmation of your Highest Values. It is an important time
to take in, through your connectedness with each other, Spiritual
Energy. But always must we give what we have received. For the Love of
God cannot be contained within us but must flow through us to our
brothers and sisters and then back to the Supreme, as we, through our
service, help co-create His Supreme Reality. Joy, in a sense, is
different than contentment, or rather, how 'happiness' is defined by
Culture. For many people, 'happiness' is a fluctuating experience
depending on circumstances and is not a continuous, underlying
reality. The Joy of which we speak is akin to the Peace of God. It is
a constant underlying bedrock, which supports your emotional
well-being. Sadness is possible at the same time as you have the
bedrock of Joy and Peace. Other emotions can, like the waves on the
ocean, fluctuate and move you up and down -- but underneath is the
solid foundation of Joy and Peace. |
- Teacher Daniel, 02/02/03
| The Father's Love: The
Universal Father is resident on Paradise at the center of all known
creation. He is the first source for all things and beings. He is the
upholder of an almost infinite creation. He is the maker of all things
seen and unseen. He is the source and the destiny for all that is.
Our Father has also taken up residence in your hearts and within the
realm of the mind. In this he is a true father. You are not orphaned
on a tiny planet alone in the universe but rather, surrounded by an
unseen support system of angels, midwayers, and dozens of orders of
beings who carry out the will of God upon the worlds of time and
space.
But more than this, the Father personally experiences with you your
lives. He is with you through all your decisions, all your experience
acting always to steer the mind toward ever higher spiritual levels of
understanding and integrating this spiritual understanding within your
personalities.
The Father sees every single being in his creation as precious. So
precious that he himself watches over every step and every misstep.
Many philosophers through the ages have postulated a first source that
is remote from his creation. A father is never unfeeling, he is never
remote.
When you as parents experience something with your child - a first
step, a first word - how magical and fulfilling are those moments. The
Father dwelling within you experiences all, every nuance of feeling,
every determined action, every joy and every sorrow. The Father then
experiences an even higher level of oneness with his children than you
as human parents can imagine. But you can imagine that his experience
is full, complete, fulfilling.
Our Father acts and reacts through love. His experience is based in
love. He is love in your experience. The Father is never jealous,
vengeful, punishment seeking, or judgmental. The Father does not act
as a bank account from which you must deposit funds in order to
withdraw them. The Father acts through love. He bestows himself upon
you and as you turn to accept that love you are turning toward all
that is real. The Father asks only that you accept his love and in
doing accept your place in the universe.
It is said that the Father clothes his sons and daughters in the robes
of righteousness and it is true that righteousness is the natural
flowering of the soul when it is fed by the waters of love.
A child does nothing to deserve his status as child. You are created
as sons and daughters of the living God. You have an eternal place in
his world. You are so precious that you will never be lost or
extinguished or forgotten for the Father himself dwells within you
pulling you toward him like an earthly father embracing his child. You
cannot do anything to make yourselves more deserving of this love. You
exist and you are loved. That is all.
You cannot earn a higher place in the Father's love for the Father
loves all his children infinitely, eternally, completely. What you can
grow in is the intelligent recognition of this love, and as you give
love to the Father in return your very capacity for love is enlarged.
A wise child is grateful for the Father's love. And in that love,
there is no requirement on either side for more.
Knowing, as you do, that the Father's spirit dwells within you,
knowing this great miracle exists, you must in turn continually turn
toward him to receive that love, to receive the divine embrace, and to
receive that perfect peace that this knowledge eventually brings.
Imagine the Father's rejoicing when first you turn away from the
pitiful diversions of selfish pursuits and make that first gesture of
turning toward him. Each of you in your lives understands that this
has occurred at some point. There was some time when all the wealth of
the world became as ashes in your hands when you needed God and you
turned to him. I tell you now, that the heavens rejoiced and the
angels sang at that moment even though it may have been a low point in
your lives, it was the high point of the Father's indwelling
experience.
Eventually, you will rejoice in selflessness. The pursuits of self
will be forgotten as the pursuit of greater value, grander morality,
and enduring truth take their place. Rejoice and be glad for the way
will be shown. The Father's voice will speak when you are doubtful and
discouraged.
Be unafraid my children to put on the robes of righteousness, to
change your lives, to become new in all ways as the Father renews you
from within. |
- Teacher Ham, 3/2/2003
| The Simple Truth: What I
wish for you to do, in your own time alone and in your own
conversations, raise the level of consciousness to reinforce the
Message that God is Within Each and Every Individual and wants a truly
intimate relationship that guides that person's life, being and
presence. With that, all else becomes moot. Argument, persuasion,
attempts to influence, are all moot because there is no other reality,
no other presence, no other convincing beyond that simple and supreme
truth. |
- Michael, 2/16/2003
| 3 Questions by Leo Tolstoy:
 | When is the best time to do each thing? |
| Who are the most important people to work with? |
| What is the most important thing to do at all times? |
Please read this entire story here: http://koapp.narod.ru/english/tales/book6.htm
If you don't have the time to read the long story, here's the short
version:
"Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The
present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most
important person is always the person you are with, who is right
before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other
person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person
standing at your side happy, for
that alone is the pursuit of life."
|
| Faithfulness and Living with Uncertainty:
All life is a journey of faith. When you see your life from this
perspective alone, you may begin to appreciate that always will the
outcome be unknown, unseen, perhaps unexpected. This is the great
mystery in overcoming the challenges of human living: To view your
life as being the revelation of the unrevealed in time as you gain
experience through daily life. More and more will you appreciate the
joy and freedom in this faith-dynamic as you recollect how it has
impacted your life over the course of your growth. See those
experiences as faith-lures to magnify those qualities that you have
that serve your potential development and personality harmonization.
These times of faith for you will become the greatest undertakings,
and give you great enjoyment as you begin to anticipate living in
uncertain times and dealing with uncertain outcomes.
I say these words to you, very carefully and slowly tonight, because
the human being does not relish living in faith; does not seek to live
in faith at this point in your overall planetary development. You want
to know where you are going. You want to see what lies ahead, and you
want to get there now. My friends, I say to you that this is not the
way of life in the universe. Fullness of faith begins to swell within
you, the more you desire to live with uncertainty and to cherish those
opportunities where you cannot know and do not see where it is that
you are being taken.
Ask yourself this question, "How much do I desire to live in this
way?" Ask yourself this now, and be very honest and sincere, with what
is your response. And you do not need to express this out loud to me.
But I wish you to pay close attention to that which you feel in your
answer - for that is the limitation that you place upon yourself in
your ability to trust. And it diminishes you. It keep you from
becoming all that you can be, and all that you desire to be, and all
that you sense within you can be.
The sense of being full of faith is directly proportional to your
ability and desire to live with uncertainty. The uncertainty colors
your perception by casting this shadow of doubt on your abilities and
propensities to perform the tasks you must, to achieve the goals you
desire.
When you live in faith, you allow that expansion of self to propel you
into new arenas of experience that always add depth and breath and
height to who you are, and to add new weight within your soul. Think
not that the uncertainty is there to harm you, or to make you feel
error-prone, or doubting your abilities. It is there to creatively
enforce and to capture those abilities that you have to make them more
powerful and dynamic within you.
How much beauty of self-expression do you wish to achieve in your
life? If you begin to attach yourself to that idea that you are
becoming only more glorious and magnificent, you will begin to
appreciate that it is because you are a child of a loving, devoted,
tender and affectionate spiritual overseer that allows this to happen.
This is not an aggrandizement of self as it is an aggrandizement of
spirit. And the more you identify with this, the greater you become,
the greater you allow the God within you to blossom and enrich and
ennoble all of your life. Faithfulness creates the way for you to be
that which the Father has planned for you. Why would you settle for
anything less than this? |
- Welmek, Celestial Teacher, 10/3/2002
| Correcting
Time and the Teaching Mission: The "Correcting Time" is a
designation, given to an effort by (Christ) Michael, to actively bring
this planet Urantia, the earth you live on, into its rightful
spiritual heritage. This is a tremendous task and undertaking, since
most of the administration and direction of this task takes place in
the unseen world. All of the action for this program takes place here
on the planet in the lives of you mortals who are here today. This is
not the first time that spiritual action has been awarded to this
planet to increase the spiritual dimension of its inhabitants.
Concurrent with the adjudication of Lucifer and the edict from the
Father in Paradise to bring about the progressive spiritualization of
Urantia, Michael has taken it upon himself to more or less be here
personally in Spirit, and with the action of the Melchizedek receivers
resident on your planet, of which there are twelve, headed by
Machiventa, my supervisor, the spiritual administration and
headquarters for Urantia has been established. |
The bringing down to the planet of the text book revelation called
the
Urantia Book, has been the initial stage for the Correcting Time.
First of all, this book was given to this world so that there would be
an accurate account of the spiritual history and destiny of this
world; that members of your society, now and in the future, would have
a reference for the global administration of authority which will
eventually take place on this world. The global brotherhood, and
global religion of the one family of brothers and sisters loving
together in the one family of God.
One of the first things that Michael did, was to establish what was
called a "Teaching Mission". This initially started through contacts
with mortals and celestial beings. When I use the word celestial
beings, I am talking about a large number of personalities under one
heading, basically beings which cannot be seen by mortal sight
contact.
Most of the teachers who have volunteered to come here, not unlike
myself, were at one time mortals from an evolutionary world, who are
now at some part into the ascension program in the universe of
Nebadon. They have volunteered to come to this world and assist
Michael in helping the mortal in-habitants of this world get a grasp
on basic spiritual truths. The plan is to bring this world to the dawn
ages of light and life, and to prepare fertile ground for some point
in the future when a Teacher Son or Michael may again appear in the
flesh on this world. It is rather foolish to bring such a high being
to a world that has no spiritual foundation. So the Teaching Mission
was initiated so that mortals could have contact with spiritual
counterparts; those of us who are a little ahead of you. In a sense,
this is metaphorical in that when you leave this world and go to the
next worlds of ascension, you will notice that those right above you
pass information and teachings to you, and you, in turn, have the
opportunity to pass information and teaching to those right below you.
This is an ongoing process of education throughout the universe of
Nebadon and the Superuniverse of Orvonton. This is the way in which
knowledge is gained and knowledge is earned. Through experience first
hand, through sharing and passing on these experiences to those right
below you. In this context, Urantia is taking part in its rightful
spiritual heritage. It is getting information about spiritual matters
in a way which is non-invasive; the free-will prerogatives of each
mortal are not in violation. You are not coerced to be here or to
listen to us, and definitely not coerced into action.
I would like to talk a little about the goals and purpose of the
Teaching Mission and the Correcting Time. There is a tremendous amount
of work to be accomplished to bring this world to the dawn ages of
light and life. The reason why the metaphor "Correcting Time" is used,
is to designate the fact that basically all social systems on the
planet need some form of correction, modifying, incorporating the good
to benefit the whole; as opposed to the effort of the whole for the
benefit of the few.
We are not here to drastically change anything overnight or in a
designated period of time. We are here to transform this world of
confusion, frustration, bigotry, or racial and religious antagonism
into a world of a kingdom brotherhood with God as the Father, and love
as a way of life. We are here to transform one person at a time. It is
not important for you to feel responsible for changing the world, nor
is any group responsible, but you should begin to discern the
importance of changing yourself.
One of our primary concerns is to teach of the Spirit of God which
lives within all men. How to focus in contact, and how to access this
spirit, which is love, into your daily lives. It is by small acts by a
few, which will eventually create the momentum to encourage dramatic
and swift acts among men. So do not be impatient; that spiritually you
must first crawl to establish a vocabulary and foundation upon which
to build your spiritual life.
Let it be known, on Urantia there is tremendous opportunity for
spiritual service and spiritual growth. I know it is not much
consolation, but there are many of us who are envious of the position
that you mortals are in. Not in that you live on a confused and
backward world, but that there are many, many opportunities and
situations in which to bring the love of the Father to another human
being; to one who is vagrant and wanting of such love; to one who is
spiritually misshapen from lack of love; spiritually vagrant souls
searching for nourishment on this world.
As a person who comes to this group, this Teaching Mission class,
there is no special attachment of any kind to this activity. It is
only hoped that as you begin to access God and begin to see yourself a
little clearer, you begin to access God's love and begin to give it a
little more to others. That you begin to find ways to access the
spirit in others. To see another as your brother and sister, no matter
how they appear, how they act, what their attitudes may be, and even
if they are your enemy. Treat everyone as a child of God, and not to
confront them, but to build a scaffold, a bridge if you will, over
their barriers. A bridge of love, a blanket of love to cover this
whole world. We are not here to tear down. It does no good to tell
someone they are wrong or not correct. There will always be one thing
which a person believes in which you may share something in common. It
is important to find this one thing and develop this aspect of belief
into a relationship with another.
Belief is only as important as you are able to act. You meet a person,
you start talking, you have a disagreement, you argue, and wind up
leaving, and saying things which you don't really mean. They you are
wound up in a very unproductive situation. Rather, from a spiritual
stand point, you meet some-one and you find something that you can
relate to with that person, no matter what it is. In respect and love
you attempt to find a way to listen and make contact with the spirit
of that person. This not about being a missionary, or walking door to
door with the Urantia Book, or Teaching Mission transcripts, and
telling everyone that you have found the greatest and most awesome
information in the world. This about being beacons of light. About
being a person whose love alone draws that person towards you, whose
love alone will lighten their hearts and ease their burdened mind,
will give them something to hold on to.
We are not unaware of the human condition on your world, we know how
challenging and difficult this simple task is, for we have all been
through it ourselves. We hold you in love and respect, like Father,
unconditionally, no matter how many times you may stumble or forget,
how angry, impatient or frustrated you may get. When you get your head
back and balance yourself out, we are here, and God is ready to fill
your heart with love. What we are trying to teach is a mind and heart
connection. Spirituality is not mental calisthenics.
Yes, the Urantia Book is a very intellectual tome. It is wonderful to
study and go through the mental gymnastics and understand the deeper
and more pervasive concepts in the universe. But when you open and
connect to heart, you realize that spirituality is a living act. It is
how you act. It is how you act and treat each and every one you
encounter. This is our basic message, that the Light of God dwells
within you. You can access this light and presence by beginning to
spend ten to fifteen minutes a day, quieting your mind, sitting in
stillness, and being in God's presence.
-JarEl, Celestial Teacher, 07/18/1999
More on the Teaching Mission:
The Teaching Mission that you are about to experience is a recent
phenomena going on throughout the world. Many of us teachers have
volunteered to come to your planet and put forth revelation and help
for those who are blossoming into the Father’s Will. Many of these
Teaching Mission Groups are comprised of Urantia Book readers who
have endeavored to take a step forward and go beyond The Urantia
Book Revelation opening themselves up to receive messages from the
Universe. I, like many others, am eager to bring forward available
information to the citizens of Urantia in order for its people to
mature into the coming Age of Light and Life. I, like many others,
look forward to this wonderful Age which is about to happen on your
world. This Age, the Age of Light and Life, is something that is
inevitable, it is a progression of human existence and will
eventually come to be. Those who look forward to this Age are
conscious of the world’s progression and make a concertive effort to
bring it about.
Students of The Urantia Book are diligent in bringing about the Age
of Light and Life. The Urantia Book espouses personal religion, but
it also espouses involvement in one’s own society. The Teaching
Mission and The Urantia Book encourage citizens to be involved with
your world and your surroundings, to make an effort to bring about
change to your planet, most of all to leave a lasting positive
impression on your earth.
Reading The Urantia Book does not automatically qualify you to the
status of a societal participant, but those who come to understand
its true meaning naturally evolve to this status. For it becomes
their desire to be participants in their society and to bring about
positive change to the world. The Teaching Mission and The Urantia
Book both put this forth as their primary mission. We all look
forward to bringing this group into Light and Life and by doing so
we reach out to each individual citizen so that he may contact the
inner working of God which exists within each and everyone of you.
We encourage you to go into your stillness and meditate and
contemplate your existence and the meaning of God. By so doing you
come to a natural realization that you are connected to one another.
If you decide that the existence of God is a fact, then you
naturally progress to the belief that you are all brothers and
sisters. That is among our primary goals to bring to this
war-tattered earth. If all humanity were to wake up tomorrow and
realize this fact, that you are all brothers and sisters, you would
be slow to go to war with one another.
The Teaching Mission is also designed to bring forth new information
that has not yet been revealed in the Book. Since the Universe is
alive and events are constantly happening, new information is always
readily available to its citizens of this Universe and of other
Universes. There is no other formal way of bring forward this
information to you. Therefore, through the commission of the
Melchizedeks we are authorized to reveal any new information that is
pertinent to your world and to your Universe. For example, we
revealed the future plans of the Magisterial Son who is soon to
appear on your planet. This information we found to be important for
all of you to know for the mere reason of preparing you for this
coming event, just as Van prepared humanity for the coming of Adam
and Eve. In the same fashion do we prepare all of you who are within
reach of listening to the Teaching Mission Lessons or reading the
transcripts. With this information, which we find very important for
you, the Magisterial Son is set to arrive very soon. Preparing for
his arrival is a very logical step to take. Just as the Urantia
citizens prepared for the arrival of Adam and Eve, so must you
prepare for the arrival of the Magisterial Son. This is among some
of the Revelations which we have been authorized to reveal to you.
Many of your friends have also been contacted and have been given
very vital information.
- Teacher JarEl, September 15, 2003
| Art of Living: There are many
techniques to live the mortal life. Those that stay spiritually
connected are open to new techniques and solutions. Life becomes a
work of art. There is beauty found in the repetitive old daily
chores--the average becomes a work of art. In your attempts to see the
beauty in all things, and live an artistic life, you really are living
fully in each moment, definitely appreciative of Father's hand in all
things. This is certainly improvement for the attitude and
strengthening your ability to fully appreciate even in times of
difficulty.
In enhanced attitude self-mastery becomes a natural part of your daily
living. Your awareness is magnified beyond a material level. A true
artist always takes notice of those details that are not usually
noticed. The artist sees with the divine eyes. The artist comprehends
to the soul level.
Any good artist knows that the creation cannot be rushed or hurried
through. Where is the joy in that? Where is the beauty?
- Abraham, Celestial Teacher, 11/10/2002
|
| Stay in the Present: As we are poised
between the past and the future years, it is a good time to discuss
the present, for this is where you are. This is where you receive
God's love, and where you give it out. All this happens in the present
moment. It is good to go through certain rituals of letting go of the
past year, and I encourage each of you to drop any fears of supposed
shortcomings that you have given power over you. And for the future,
it is quite natural to make plans and to have goals, and to create for
yourselves high standards that you desire to live up to. But never
lose sight of what is involved in the present moment. All the good
that you do happens in the now; the love you create is generated in
each moment.
Your ability to remain focused on the present is, in large part,
predicated on your faith that all things in the future will work for
the best. So rather than project into the possible calamities that may
await you in the future, you are more capable of reposing your
attention into the current surroundings. This does not indicate that
you should fail to plan or arrange your affairs to assist in the most
beneficial unfolding of circumstances, but you all must acknowledge
that much of what will happen in the future is outside of your
personal control, and as such you must have faith that the experiences
that are provided to you will be beneficial to your spiritual growth.
By inhabiting the present you can more easily give of yourself to
those who you encounter. If you are not focused on the present, you
will tend to miss opportunities that may be presented because you are
wearing blinders that do not permit or encourage your peripheral
vision in the present. For those who are constantly worried about the
future, there is no end to your anxiety, for when you eventually reach
the point you have been concerned about, you will undoubtedly fail to
live in the present at that time, looking only to the future for what
additional calamities may befall you. So there is no benefit to unduly
fretting about things to come.
Enjoy this moment, it shall never be here again. Enjoy your family
while they are still with you. Enjoy the beauty of a balmy January
day, enjoy your friends, and laughter. Enjoy the stories you tell each
other, the hugs you give each other, your health, a new year. There is
so much in the present to be thankful for, for you all know that you
are beloved children of God, and with this knowledge you are each
called to become lights and to shine this love on all you meet. |
- Will, Celestial Teacher, 1/4/1998
| Why balance is important: Often we
have talked of balance: the importance of work, the importance of
service, the importance of stillness, the importance of healthy
habits, the importance of rest and sleep and the importance of
recreation. It will always be a challenge to you, as long as you are
mortals, to keep these things in a stable balance. Remember Jesus was
not always serious. He laughed a great deal. He was joyful. He
talked easily with His friends and took a young lad with Him on a
lovely hike. He talked just as you might speak with some young
friend: of family, of loyalties, of fun things, and of things that
interest and fascinate. Spiritual growth is predicated upon a
balanced life. It is not the result of an extreme focus, which
neglects other areas of life.
Indeed as I said before "let us enjoy the now, the moment" and not
miss the colors of the trees, the aroma of flowers, the beauty of the
colors of nature as they balance each other. Develop, almost a
photographer's eye, as you look around you, so that you can see what
is there to see. Even as you develop ears to hear the words of your
brothers and sisters, develop the eyes to see the glory of God in His
creation. |
- Daniel, celestial teacher, 10/4/2002
| Your purpose in life: You venture
forth with an array of helpers, invisible to you, yet quite real, who
purposefully present difficulties and relationship problems in an
effort to promote a learning environment and an opportunity for you to
experience creative decision making in areas where it's apparent
there's been negligence, or slothfulness, or, perhaps areas that have
not been nurtured or tested, areas in which you have not pushed
yourself, areas that are soft. Your purpose in life, aside from
developing a well-honed personality, is to be accepting of the
angelic
intervention and the
Midwayer
ministrations as you're presented with the challenging crossroads of
problem solving to propel you to the next level of awareness. Be open. Be
receptive and have a willingness to experiment for change. |
| How we can serve: There are so few,
relatively few, humans who are devoted to loving service and so, as we
find you, we must nurture you and help you to enhance your service in
fortuitous dimensions. The business of Urantia is the growth of souls.
It is a finite time to grow your soul, and the sooner you discover
that this soul growth is fully enraptured in service, service, then
your soul will grow more rapidly. As you give freely of yourself, your
talents, your love, your mercy, your compassion, you grow in strength,
and your assistance and support from the celestial side grows ever
more powerful. Grow your souls. Make them
beautiful. Make them loving. Make them defenseless. Be magnetized.
People will see that they can talk to you without you getting
disagreeable. They can talk to you and you will listen to them,
without continuing to find opportunities to throw things back and
state your own. Service is listening. Service is listening and
hearing. Service is hearing fluently and responding with the best
possible response. As you are enraptured and spirit strengthens you to
service, you will grow more beautiful to those who will receive, who
will appreciate your defenselessness. They will appreciate your open
heart, your open mind, your loving and caring disposition, and they
will often think, "I should be that way, too. Why am I so hassled and
bound, and frustrated, and confused by all these myriad of problems
that beset me every day?" You put these daily woes of Urantia behind
you and step forward boldly in the knowledge of your Sonship, the
knowledge of your uniqueness, knowledge of your duty, knowledge of
your deep and abiding aspiration for Supreme Goodness. You will grow
all of these good qualities and be a great teacher. Grow your soul in
all things, in all moments of the day. Hearing a powerful ministry in
a stadium full of people can grow your soul. A quiet contemplative
discussion with one person in a lonely corner can make a profound
difference in your life, as well, or in the life of the person you are
ministering to in humility and grace. Only one thing, only one thing
that you might say to this person with your open heart might be
something that that person remembers deeply throughout their life, and
will respond to you by becoming a better person, with a purer soul.
Truly the words that you speak very often can be powerful. And as you
learn to attune yourselves to the spirits, those words will come to
you more readily, and you will not be encumbered by having to defend
yourself or be more right than the other person, having better
perspectives than the other person. |
- Malvantra Melchizedek, 9/28/2002
| Why God brought forth creation: All
of God’s creation is a loving creation, from the perfect and sentient
beings of Paradise down to the slowing emerging and evolving animals
of the evolutionary worlds. Every rock, every plant, every drop of
water and all the gases which make up the atmosphere are all part of
God’s loving Universe. God has created the universes in the mind of
love with the intention that slowly love would bring correctness,
truth, beauty and goodness to bear upon each imperfect situation, that
it would bring it into line with the Paradise Directive: “Be you
perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect.”
What exactly does love have to do with it? Has there ever been a
situation that you have applied love to that did not benefit and how
many times have you tried to deal with a situation and not bring love
into it? Did it benefit? Everything was created for you personally, to
experience within your own heart and mind the quality of love and to
begin to nurture your own life and the lives of those around with this
love. Everything was created just for that! Hundreds of millions of
years were taken to prepare this world, just so that you could come
here and experience the fragment of the divine essence of love and
eternity right here and now, this very short life on this very
challenging rock. You have been blessed in this Age with a Revelation
that beyond any shadow of a doubt continues to show forth and unfold a
much larger pattern and picture in which this world and you in your
local universe contribute a tremendous and overwhelming importance.
Most of you have heard this before, our intention in this Teaching
Mission is to activate the
Thought
Adjusters and the beings which the Adjusters indwell, to activate
the source of love within the human heart and to create a situation
through conscious and intelligent effort in which you continue to show
forth and hold love in the place of confusion, doubt, suffering,
illness, anger, fear, jealousy and hatred. With the whole world
crushing down on your shoulders, to be able to smile and open your
heart and know that it is God’s Will that you love everything,
especially that which you do not yet understand, those people that you
have not yet met, especially those that you do not particularly like,
for whatever reasons. It is your responsibility to find any way
possible to hold forth this presence in a space of love and for each
individual it is an individual solution, many will see it in different
ways. Some people pray, some people meditate, some people intend, some
people talk about it and some people just put their lives on hold to
be of service to a much greater understanding of God’s Work in the
world of God’s People. You are each indwelt with a life, a purpose, a
direction, opportunities, especially you who live in a country that is
overwhelming in opportunities and availability of even the most basic
of necessities.
Be careful of what you take for granted, there is only one truth. That
truth is that you are loved, you will always be loved no matter what
you become, how you choose to become that and what you have to do to
grow, you will be loved. You are not judged, but loved. Through wisdom
you are given mercy, grace and strength. It is the one thing that you
can count on until that eventful day when you enter upon the eternal
shores of Paradise that you will be lovingly guided, personally
escorted. |
All of this has been created for a garden of beauty. I will tell you
right now that your astronomers in the centuries to come, when they
begin to discover planets around suns will seek to find the water worlds
and will find very few. You traveling on in your lives and worlds to
come will also recall this planet of your initial habitation as one of
immense and extreme beauty. There are very few worlds like it in the
Universe of Nebadon. You have no idea of what you are living on, an
absolute jewel of a world. The Master Creator Son himself came to this
world. Yes, it had been distraught by two defaults, spiritual defaults:
the Lucifer
Rebellion and the
Adamic
mishap. And yet it as claimed, redeemed at the price of one human life,
a life lived in greatness and grace. Each one of you, a son and daughter
of the Spirit of Truth itself, have the same responsibility to live that
one life in grace, in beauty and in righteousness, with all the strength
and all the trimmings that are yours as a son or daughter of God. Do not
doubt, belittle or otherwise condemn yourselves or your efforts. There
is no wasted effort in the kingdom, if all else fails, a simple smile
will do.
| How the Master lived on Earth: The
Master of the
Universe lived on your world. He lived in your world as one of
you, as an example of how one of you could actually be great. His
greatness was not in that he had a prestigious position, a tremendous
wealth or a large following of friends, but his greatness was that he
had deep wisdom and the ability to hold the presence of God within his
heart and mind. In that presence he could meet another human being and
approach them in a position of understanding of love. He had an innate
ability to read a person; to just look at them, see and know what it
is that they longed for, what was the heavy burden they were carrying
and offer some kind words of encouragement and support, at times
clarity and truth. How many times you will read that Jesus went out of
his way to attend to a person who was ill or a person who was in need.
In Iron Jesus went into the mines and worked as a laborer that he may
bring the presence of God wherever men and women were .
The work of God never changes. Human conditions will continue to
impose challenges, as it is so doing now in the world, but the work is
the same. There is more fear to calm down, more hearts to gladden with
good tidings and more confusion to sort out. So if you are such that
you would bend and brake and snap by the overwhelming complexities of
human issues and human emotions you will not be able to hold forth in
the presence of God and show forth for God. You must be grounded in
the presence of Spirit, connected to that Divine Presence within, so
that no matter what comes down you are able to show forth the Kingdom
within your heart. It is true that there were many people who met
Jesus and they were not impressed, they could care less. There were
many who where frightened by him, frightened by his self-assuredness,
his knowingness, his somewhat insensitivity to criticism or probing.
There were people who saw him as a threat and there were those who
sought to destroy him and the work he was doing.
Jesus really did not do many great things did he? When he lived his
life here, he did very simple things. He listened, he touched them, he
said a kind word, he avoided confrontation. He tried to find ways to
get groups of men and women to learn how to work with each other and
show some respect for each other. Yet those simple things still have a
profound and dynamic effect upon the lives of the humans who live on
this world today. I would encourage you to study those
papers,
to really begin to see and understand how the man lived. What would
Jesus do in this situation? When things got really heavy, look how
upset Jesus got, you would be hard pressed. He was much more upset
probably by the rejection of his people at the end when he was in the
garden laying on a stone and crying. He asked Father to forgive them
because they didn’t really understand and he prayed to strengthen
those who did understand, so that others would continue to understand
because of their lives. He was not disheartened because he could not
change the whole world, but he mourned because there was a tremendous
opportunity that was being wasted, that more than anything upset him.
It was not the hatred or corruption that upset him. He was able to see
how small-minded attitudes could move masses of people to do the wrong
things, that is what he saw. He knew it would take a long time for
these same masses of people to see righteous men in their true life,
and yes, he was distraught with that.
- JarEl, celestial teacher, 9/16/2002 |
| How Michael (Jesus) worshipped Father:
Within each living human is a spirit of the Universal Creator - the
One in whom all things exist. We have the same spiritual Source and
Center. And when we gather to worship and commune, the sum of our
consciousness elevates each individual into an increased awareness.
Let us now begin our communion by centering our thoughts in being a
little child. Think of the trust and the openness you had as a young
child. Think of the beauty and the openness as you looked upon the
world with the eyes of the innocent. "Father in Heaven I wish to see
you with these eyes again. I ask that my eyes be opened to see you
with these eyes of spirit." Spend a few moments in communion with your
spirit to sense your inner Divine-Presence.
The Spirit of our Father speaks within the human heart in many voices.
The subtle impressions of spiritual current within your mind cast a
giant illuminating beam shining the Father's light and love and
goodness and truth to every secret shadow within your being. This
light is yours for the asking. His love is yours to receive. Ask now
for this love to emit its signal into your heart and reverberate
deeply - pulsating from the very core outward to all those places in
your life where you harbor doubt, apprehension, or mistrust.
In the life I lived as one of you, this form of communion in practice
is what I attempted to make each day as I grew in more conscious
awareness of who I am and who I was as Jesus of Nazareth. So, too, do
you have the capacity to achieve this heightened awareness of your
status as children of God, and to become aware within your mind of the
greater potential of who you can become as children in this Family of
God.
Fear not the idea of surrendering into this presence. It is your door
to true spiritual liberty that lightens your load in life and quickens
your heart with gladness and joy. Use me as your inspiration to seek
and achieve this heightened level of spirit-consciousness, for I paved
the way in my life for you. I am the bridge between time and eternity,
and in me lie the secrets to life-everlasting. |
-
Michael, 9/30/02
| So what can we give God: In the
experience of divine contact there is to be discovered and withdrawn
all the energy and power and motivation you need to be about the
unfoldment of God through time and space. The discovery in your
personality of reality- ness, your own discreet being, this is the
greatest gift any one of us can make to the Father. It is our passion
as creatures to discover the Father. It is the Father’s pleasure to
discover the child and to see the replication of all that is God in a
discreet, other-than personality. |
You are, as I note, keenly aware of your frailties and faults, your
quirks and shortcomings, and you know with a true humility how foolish
it would appear to state that you could absolutely replicate God. That
is not what the Father seeks, for that is not the feat He wishes to
perform in this medium of time, for He already is Himself, and He has
already replicated Himself in the Eternal Son. What He desires in the
divine passion is for your unique, discreet, and aware replication of
Godliness defined in your being, not conformed to a standard. It is
difficult to present this idea, for it is paradoxical in nature. How do
you acquire a divinity status if you do not define the divine nature
based on the qualities of God? How do you stand discreetly divine if you
do not in some way approximate or attain God? My friends, the secret is
in the divine gift that dwells within you. The Father has already seen
to it to bestow within you that divine distinction. The
Father Fragment
is its own entity even though it is God. Each of you has one that is
other than the other’s. All the while it is the Father. You will evolve
to be a brilliant spirit being, and it is this Divine Fragment that will
cement all the variability, all the variety of your experience, into
that single revelation of Creator and creature. If you have God involved
in your life you will be successful as you spiritually evolve through
life.
- Melchizedek Lantarnek, 9/8/2002
| Love
is the answer: At some point in every person’s life they have
loved or have been loved and when they feel love they recognize it
immediately. This is your key to people’s hearts. Love one another,
that is all that is required. Love transcends all human thoughts. It
transcends every idea that man has ever thought up. Love withstands
the ages of time, the criticisms of men and their ambitions. Love can
be felt by everyone and can be understood as well. When your
communications fail you, love can speak for you. That is, if you
allow love to speak for you. Love is an answer for all human
frailties.
Love conquers all. When you allow God to enter your heart you are
allowing love to permeate your entire essence. In just such a way
that you love those around you, you are loving God in all his glory.
To love God is to love one another; to love your enemy and your
friends. It is not a difficult objective to reach, to love everyone,
to love God, to love your enemy and your friends. When you learn to
recognize that we are all connected, we are all one, you begin to
realize how important it is that you learn how to love.
For within each person exists a part of you, and when you hate, you
are hating yourselves. In fact, you are finding things in that
person which you hate about yourself. When you learn to love, you do
not see any faults that your brother may have. But when you do see
his faults, you begin to see the importance of helping him to grow and
you can only do this with love. Any other way will fail.
When you begin to show your love to others, they respond within and it
makes them feel good. They go away with a tremendous feeling within
their hearts and they project this love to others and so forth and
pretty soon you have created a domino effect that has effected
thousands without you even knowing. All you did was to smile at
someone or help someone. Love is contagious and that is a good
thing. Don’t hold back because you feel afraid of being hurt. Love
unconditionally, give of yourself unconditionally and allow others to
see how beautiful you are so that it may inspire them to show their
beauty as well.
Imagine that everyday is your last on Urantia. How would you like to
spend that day? Do you just want to hurry through that day and hope
you don’t have to say hi to anyone? Or do you want to stop and greet
them and listen to them and share something with them, trying to soak
up every bit of emotion?
When you live and love, when you allow love to enter you, when you
allow yourself to make decisions based on love, your life becomes
sharper and more real. It is no longer a dreamlike world where
everything fades in and out. It is sharper, crisper, clearer and full
of life and energy. Everything you touch becomes ignited and everyone
you speak to responds from the heart and from their souls. When you
do this, you transform your life from a vague and dreamlike life to
something real and vibrant. Then you begin to feel more alive, more
full of energy because you love and because you are loved. |
- JarEl, celestial teacher, 9/2/2002
| Ask your Father: Which of you who is a
father, if his son asks unwisely, would hesitate to give in accordance
with parental wisdom rather than in the terms of the son's faulty
petition? If the child needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just
because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you
give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net
with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you,
then, being mortal and finite, know how to answer prayer and give good
and appropriate gifts to your children, how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the spirit and many additional blessings to those
who ask him? Men ought always to pray and not become discouraged. |
- The Urantia Book, Paper 144
| How to tolerate anyone: As you grow
in the spirit also, there is a growing love for other people. Each
person must eventually come to terms with that fear of others which so
plagues one's heart in the early stages of life. As you grow in the
spirit, that fear of people starts to diminish and is replaced by
sympathy, understanding, and a kind of loving tolerance that allows
for all manner of ill behavior on the part of others.
What have these erring children done that you have not done? Have you
not been dismissive or intolerant of others just as they are with you?
Have you not been rude or angry with others as they are with you? Have
you not been gruff or unthinking and made some kind of social gaff in
your lives as others have with you? You know the reasons why you
exhibited such objectionable behavior so it is easy to sympathize with
someone else who is feeling that same way. |
| How and why to be humble: The person
who desires to be the most God like must be the most humble, the most
kind, the most generous, understanding, and sympathetic among you. The
higher you climb in the hierarchies of your professions, the more
important it is to exhibit these qualities to those coming up behind
you.
Rather than holding a position and bludgeoning those around you with
the arrogance you are allowed just as you have seen those before you
do, be the opposite. Be entirely kind, open, generous and loving with
the most humble petitioner. Many people find a false arrogance which
they feel gives them the aura of power. But how brittle, how shameful
this posture is in the eyes of men of God.
Maintain spiritual grace. Remember that as you grow in the spirit, you
are spiritually fragrant to others and they will be drawn unto you.
Having spiritual grace is that confidence, that spiritual essence
which does not allow for intimidation but rather allows for a gracious
manner with all. |
- Ham, celestial teacher, 9/8/2002
| THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS AFRAID: While
they were up in the mountains, Jesus had a long talk with a young man
who was fearful and downcast. Failing to derive comfort and courage
from association with his fellows, this youth had sought the solitude
of the hills; he had grown up with a feeling of helplessness and
inferiority. These natural tendencies had been augmented by numerous
difficult circumstances which the lad had encountered as he grew up,
notably, the loss of his father when he was twelve years of age. As
they met, Jesus said: "Greetings, my friend! why so downcast on such a
beautiful day? If something has happened to distress you, perhaps I
can in some manner assist you. At any rate it affords me real pleasure
to proffer my services." |
The young man was disinclined to talk, and so Jesus made a second
approach to his soul, saying: "I understand you come up in these hills
to get away from folks; so, of course, you do not want to talk with
me, but I would like to know whether you are familiar with these
hills; do you know the direction of the trails? and, perchance, could
you inform me as to the best route to Phenix?" Now this youth was very
familiar with these mountains, and he really became much interested in
telling Jesus the way to Phenix, so much so that he marked out all the
trails on the ground and fully explained every detail. But he was
startled and made curious when Jesus, after saying good-bye and making
as if he were taking leave, suddenly turned to him, saying: "I well
know you wish to be left alone with your disconsolation; but it would
be neither kind nor fair for me to receive such generous help from you
as to how best to find my way to Phenix and then unthinkingly to go
away from you without making the least effort to answer your appealing
request for help and guidance regarding the best route to the goal of
destiny which you seek in your heart while you tarry here on the
mountainside. As you so well know the trails to Phenix, having
traversed them many times, so do I well know the way to the city of
your disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions. And since you have
asked me for help, I will not disappoint you." The youth was almost
overcome, but he managed to stammer out, "But -- I did not ask you for
anything -- " And Jesus, laying a gentle hand on his shoulder, said:
"No, son, not with words but with longing looks did you appeal to my
heart. My boy, to one who loves his fellows there is an eloquent
appeal for help in your countenance of discouragement and despair. Sit
down with me while I tell you of the service trails and happiness
highways which lead from the sorrows of self to the joys of loving
activities in the brotherhood of men and in the service of the God of
heaven."
By this time the young man very much desired to talk with Jesus,
and he knelt at his feet imploring Jesus to help him, to show him the
way of escape from his world of personal sorrow and defeat. Said
Jesus: "My friend, arise! Stand up like a man! You may be surrounded
with small enemies and be retarded by many obstacles, but the big
things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your
side. The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the
most powerful and prosperous man on earth. Look -- you have a strong
body and powerful muscles -- your physical equipment is better than
the average. Of course, it is just about useless while you sit out
here on the mountainside and grieve over your misfortunes, real and
fancied. But you could do great things with your body if you would
hasten off to where great things are waiting to be done. You are
trying to run away from your unhappy self, but it cannot be done. You
and your problems of living are real; you cannot escape them as long
as you live. But look again, your mind is clear and capable. Your
strong body has an intelligent mind to direct it. Set your mind at
work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you;
refuse longer to be dominated by fear like an unthinking animal. Your
mind should be your courageous ally in the solution of your life
problems rather than your being, as you have been, its abject
fear-slave and the bond servant of depression and defeat. But most
valuable of all, your potential of real achievement is the spirit
which lives within you, and which will stimulate and inspire your mind
to control itself and activate the body if you will release it from
the fetters of fear and thus enable your spiritual nature to begin
your deliverance from the evils of inaction by the power-presence of
living faith. And then, forthwith, will this faith vanquish fear of
men by the compelling presence of that new and all-dominating love of
your fellows which will so soon fill your soul to overflowing because
of the consciousness which has been born in your heart that you are a
child of God.
"This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of
faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God's sake. And when
you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise
readjusted to the universe; you have been born again -- born of the
spirit -- and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious
accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you; disappointment will spur
you on; difficulties will challenge you; and obstacles will stimulate
you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and
fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh
as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on
earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in
eternity."
- The Urantia Book, Paper 130:6.1
| How to obtain your personal celestial teacher:
[Editor's Note: Begin practicing
Stillness first :)] Today I would
like to speak to the many hundreds on these lists about acquiring the
services of Personal Teachers. We have here, waiting in the wings, an
inconceivable number of Angels, Spirit Beings, and Advanced Former
Mortals, who have all trained to become Teachers in a one-on-one
situation with every person on the planet.
A Personal Teacher is sometimes called a Guide, or Spirit Guide, and
that is exactly what they would like to do for you -- to guide you in,
and to enhance, your spiritual life, and to help bring about positive
happenings for you -- the person they are assigned to assist if
requested. Personal Teachers will walk with you, and even know you to
the extent of their going through the emotions of your every-day life
with you – the joys and the heartaches. For you to be granted the
services of a Personal Teacher is almost as simple as for you to
recognize that you indeed already have one.
These Teachers have all volunteered to assist in person-to-person
tutoring, and they are truly anxious for you to begin to include them
in your daily life. Many among them who now wait, once actually lived
on planet Earth, and better than anyone they understand so very well
the ups and downs of life on this sphere. However, in addition to all
that, they can see the bigger picture so much better than you can, and
they can bring about positive happenings that will enhance the quality
of your life, for they, in turn, are in touch with the Specialists of
the Spirit Worlds. Frequently, also, they will call on other Teachers
or Advisors who are there for you to consult with, or for them to
consult with on your behalf, and in such varied matters as your
physical, emotional and spiritual health. They can also assist in many
other, more practical ways. |
Imagine! You will have a Teacher that can be there for you, and is
always very willing to be there for you, and to guide you through
finalizing the decisions that you must make! By your recognizing this
great and wonderful opportunity, and by your utilizing their extensive
knowledge and wisdom, much of your life can and will turn out for the
better. You must ask for your Teacher for one to be appointed, and in
your quietness or silence one will introduce herself, or himself, to
you. And therefore, at that very moment, that brand new relationship
will have begun, and you will be able to sense their guiding you, and
you will be able to feel their love for you.
Trust your feelings when you begin to discern that a friendly new Entity
has arrived to work with you. Strike up a conversation with this new
arrival and listen for the responses you will get. You will surely be
able to feel the effects of ‘your getting in touch with a Spiritual
Friend who unequivocally has your interests at heart’. I say this is all
easier than you may think it might be. Just ask for the Teacher.
Basically recognize that one is already there for you. Simply accept the
help they can give you. This can be a enjoyable exercise. And, although
you may at first, or quite often, think that it is only your overactive
imagination, you will soon recognize that a Personal Teacher is in
actual fact with you, to help you to more enjoy, and give direction to,
your day-to-day life.
- Machiventa, Emergency Son, Idaho, 9/5/2002
| The Correcting Time: The
time you live in is the time of the
5th Epochal
Revelation, which is more than the publication and dissemination
of the Urantia Book. It is indeed the Correcting Time, which is
designed to bring the evolution of this world to the threshold of
Light and Life,
the very beginning of its first stages. That's the basis of the
similarity with the events of 2,000 years ago for that was our
4th Epochal
Revelation to Urantia in its most dramatic form, the very Bestowal
Son himself, Michael, who also, as Creator Son, established a unique
bestowal experience. So you see the times are of the same nature. They
are epochal moments in history. Major revelation has come again to
Urantia after 2,000 years where the 4th Epochal Revelation has been
distorted, side-tracked, institutionalized, codified, solidified, and
frozen, yet not totally destroyed, no, no.
It was recommended originally by your permanent citizens, the
United
Midwayers, that your time was ripe for a re-presentation of the
4th Epochal Revelation in the "Life and Teachings of Jesus", now to be
disseminated in print form since the printing press had established
its communicative expertise. And we anticipated the coming of the
Internet, the electronic telecommunications explosion, that would
further enhance the communication of the text. But like the 4th
Revelation, the Fifth Epochal Revelation also has to be communicated
from one life to another.
Another similarity is that some in the original company of Jesus were
waiting for dramatic events to establish the kingdom, as they
understood it; and there are many in your world today, part of whom
are in the Urantia movement, who look for dramatic events to establish
the kingdom at this time. They look toward heavenly intervention of an
apocalyptic nature, and in doing so they may, and often do, miss the
actual dramatic intervention which is occurring.
Now there is a new thing, so that the 4th and the 5th Epochal
Revelations are not exactly parallel. The Correcting Time has begun
following the adjudication of the
Lucifer
Rebellion. That is finished, and the notions of the presence of
the devil and his angels are a hangover from previous times. They are
a distortion even of the 4th. So strong are the shock-waves of the
Lucifer Rebellion on this planet that they still reverberate with
great intensity, but their source is gone, and therefore the waves
will, of their own energy, gradually diminish.
However, we will not wait until the energy diminishes of its own
accord. We will and we are providing a push against that tide of evil
and sin. Along with the adjudication has come the re-connection of
this planet to the System. Not yet do you sit at your television set
and view universe news, nor will it ever be provided in that
impersonal manner; but you are hearing from us, and we have been
telling you things in this form of communication for ten years, and
even longer in some cases. We have announced to you the Spirit
connections which you may tap into. We are telling you that the
potential has never been so great for spiritual growth and spiritual
transformation as it is right now, today, on planet
Urantia. |
How to commune with Michael: Michael has repeatedly offered
to you His intimate companionship, and this is through the Spirit of
Truth, the Spirit of the Father and the Son combined, the love of the
Father expressed through the mercy of the Son. It is not idle words
that are spoken when we say you can commune with Michael as intimately
as did His first Apostles after His ascension. If you have not done
so it is not because He does not offer His hand to you. It is because
you are reluctant to grasp it. You are all worthy to grasp Michael's
hand! He has been a man. He knows what it's like to be human. He can
walk with you and talk with you just as He did with his Apostles, two
by two, on the shores of Galilee.
- Aaron, celestial teacher, 8/30/2002
| How to determine the God's will for you: Your choices now
are important to your spiritual growth. The walk of faith is
predicated upon your ability to choose that which is the Father’s will
and the Father’s way. But if you are unable to know what that is, how
can you possibly choose that? Would you say that is something that you
have struggled with in your own inner lives?
And so, my friends, how do you overcome this? You overcome this by
asking to see yourself from the Father’s eyes. To begin to see your
life from the Father’s perspective, and what He feels and knows and
wants for you, that is actually carried within you in the loving
embrace and the careful guardianship of your
Thought Adjuster.
Your spirit has your ideal and divine life plan that was given to you
as a gift, for you to enjoy life in the universe, and for you to reach
Paradise perfection. It is in you! It is all within you.
Continuing to see your life the way that you envision it will be fine
if you feel that you are making strides and affording your level of
satisfaction that you want. But if there is something else within you
that says, “There must be more. I am not completely happy. I want to
feel better,” then would it not be advisable to see your life and your
self from the higher perspective of the one who knows you better and
loves you more, and can guide you infinitely, perfectly, so that you
can feel and achieve the happiness and the success that you desire in
your soul?
The Walk of Faith, my friends, has within it this intrinsic component
– of attaching yourself to the idea of following the plan that God has
in store for you – and to lay down your plans for your life and
exchange them for His plans for you. He will show you where you are
now, what you can be, and what is important for you to understand now.
There are those endowments within you that will help you achieve
certain understanding and to experience a fuller depth and richness of
life.
Career paths are narrow, and rigidly confined so that you fit into a
certain economic position in your society. But life in the spirit is
much greater and more satisfying, and you do not need to limit
yourself to such rudimentary and undefined mindsets the way you have
been so conditioned by your culture.
So I ask you now to take this idea into the
stillness and say, “Father, I have had my own ideas about life.
And some have worked out and some have not. But now I am very
interested in learning about what Your plans for my life are, right
here and right now. I am not so concerned about the future as I am
concerned for this moment and where You want to take me in the
unfolding of my life.”
You can do several things, and try in your quiet moments of meditation
and in your active moments of the day to be silent in your spirit, and
to say, “Father, it is Your will for me at this moment.” It is more
palpable when you are in a relaxed mental state. And you can certainly
practice this in the active state, but it might take some more time
for you to feel this the way you might feel it now when you are far
from the stress of daily life. But I certainly encourage you to
continue to try this both in the quiet and active states, for this is
how it becomes more fully integrated into you, so that it becomes an
active habit to remember that you have removed yourself from this
state of grace, and this simple, heartfelt prayer, as you say, that
will restore your spiritual equilibrium.
The Father does not see you as ill. You do. The Father does not see
you with some of the burdens you have been carrying. But you do. Would
it not be advisable to you then to see yourself how the Father sees
you, as well and whole? What picture of yourself will you attach
yourself to and come to fully appreciate: yourself or the Father’s? It
is not so much that you understand what the Father’s plans for you
are, as that you begin to see yourself how the Father sees you. And
there is a very large distinction here that I am making so that you
can come to understand better in your mind that it is who you are and
not what you are experiencing that is important.
Do you think the caterpillar wonders about what life would be like
when it becomes a butterfly? All you can do, my friend, is ask for the
Father’s will in this moment. You have the plans. You have the
destiny. You have an incredible span of experience to amass in your
life. What does it matter how it unfolds if you know that what the
Father has in store for you will be beautiful and thrilling and
rewarding and satisfying. Staying true to His will for you, in the
moment, is the best you can do. Projecting your energy into the plans
that you have, as you know, has scattered your focus. When you address
your idea to the Father of how He wants to enfold your life, you will
begin to lose your taste for this endless speculation and projection
of where you think you need to go, or you should be headed. All you
can do is know, and trust, and sense that where He is taking you,
right here, right now, is where you need to be, to experience, and to
learn and to grow into where your life should be going in alignment
with His will and your divine plan.
Did not the Master Himself say, “Not my will, but Yours, be done.” And
so He did this in the moment, and that is what gave him His strength,
His courage, His patience, His compassion, His understanding. The more
you assert your intention to live in the moment, the greater will the
Father have to bestow to you that which you need to live more
successfully.
On patience: Patience is something you must exercise, and you
get that by allowing yourself to be in the moment and not to expect
anything other than what you are
experiencing. I know this sounds a bit disconcerting to you, but
patience is an exercise that you must practice. And you must at some
level be willing to let the frustration of the moment be acceptable so
that the patience you need will be able to gain a greater foothold
within you. Patience comes by acceptance. Patience comes in
increments. You
build on it, each decision that you make. Yielding to the sense of
frustration will diminish your feelings of patience and leave you
dissatisfied, disquieted, disheartened. Acceptance will grow your
ability to be patient, and eventually, in that patience, that which
you seek will begin to emerge within you.
- Welmek, celestial teacher - WALKING IN FAITH, 8/22/2002 |
| What to expect after death: You will be provided worlds
appropriate for your development when you leave earth. You will begin
on the realm of Mansonia known as The Resurrection Hall. You will be
awakened and immediately greeted by those who have most closely
attended to you in your life in the flesh. The guardian seraphim, who
have guarded you throughout your mortal sojourn, will help you adjust.
You will see your
God-fragment,
as it were, face-to-face. There will be many entities enabling you to
adapt to your new morontia body and help you to learn your way around
the morontia spheres. There will be more color than you are accustomed
to and this will be, at once, dazzling and overwhelming at first. It
will make you giddy, perhaps.
Indeed the experience of resurrection is a sacred and celebratory
event. Imagine the sense of saving grace that will be experienced by
those of you who are agondonters, that is to say, you who believe
without seeing, who have faith without knowing, who awaken to discover
that your faith was not in vain and that your hope of an after-life
was not for naught. There is much worship in this awakening. Much
spiritual weeping for joy. The universe administrators have arranged
for you to have a small holiday at the outset of your next phase of
living, this phase of morontia life that will go on for many eons as
you become less animal and more spiritual, as you learn, in attending
the many mansions that are a part of the natural ascension of life.
You will have an opportunity to meet and greet those of family members
and friends who have preceded you. Thus you are allowed an opportunity
to rest from the experience of the transition, and within a short time
you will be ready to begin your ascent in service to those who have
served you thus far.
The music of the spheres is one of the more enjoyable aspects of
awakening in Mansonia. The phrase "music of the spheres' is just a
phrase until you really hear it. The echoes of these notes are
far-reaching and the clarity of the experience is truly sublime. You
will enjoy heightened senses and increased awareness and you will be
glad.
And this is the beginning of the butterfly phase of your existence,
you who have only been a moth, thus far. I myself have not yet been
all the way to Paradise. I myself am en route and thus I, like you, am
looking forward to those priceless moments when I stand perfect before
our Father. And yet I am being made ready, and I am enjoying the
process of being made ready. I'm not impatient with what is required
of me to learn that I might let go of all my animal vestiges and
attain total spirit reality. This will come to pass. But since I am
enjoying my life so much, I am not impatient. I would give the same
advice to children: to enjoy your childhood and not be impatient to
become a teenager or an adult. I would offer the same advice to
adults: do not be impatient to transcend to the mansion worlds, but
rather enjoy the material life as you have it, for never again will
you know the splendors of material existence quite to the extent that
you have them now.
The majesty of your mountains, the dynamics of your electrical storms,
the power of your raging rivers - these are going to be mere memories
for you in your next existence. The intimacy that you share as
husbands and wives in your sexual nature, will also not be possible in
the morontia life. The smell of homemade bread and freshly brewed
coffee will not be available to you there. Those things that you enjoy
here, enjoy them as gifts, such that you will treasure your
appreciation of them forever. For although there will be the
equivalent of great and "natural things" to enjoy, values to be
shared, experiences to be known, this is heaven for you right now.
Here is where God is, in you and in your fellows. And he can be
realized as fully and completely for you now as he will be when you
awake in the 'Resurrection Hall' if you have in you the faith-filled
wonder of the child who seeks to grow into Father's shoes. |
Heaven is a real place, certainly, but remember, too, that the
Kingdom of Heaven is within you! And so while we in fact aspire to
attain Paradise and the presence of God himself, it is possible, too, to
let heaven on Earth be revealed in and through our appreciation of love,
divine love, and it is possible to be revealed in the material
existence.
This, again, is an opportunity to speak to you of the practice of
Stillness, for as you begin to sit and listen, seek and find the
presence of the God-fragment that indwells you, as you begin to identify
with that power, that spirit, you begin to step out of the limitations
of the present environment and feel the divine embrace. The strength and
enthusiasm that is garnered from such an association with your own
indwelling divinity is enough to allow you to see your world as
relatively perfect, given the nature of all things. And you can go about
doing good in your natural state as God goes about doing good in his.
The concept of leaving here and finding perfection is illusory, for it
is necessary that you grow into the ability to withstand the power of
perfection. And yet, in the far-flung universes, that you are, as well
as millions of others, engaged in climbing the ladder of perfection in
company with those like yourself, enjoying the rigors of the day and
attaining the satisfaction of soul-growth along the way, enjoying the
continually developing aura of perfection that embraces you, the
pageantry that will be available for you to observe, the association of
the angelic hosts and other celestial over-seers, the opportunities to
work with artisans and find out more about creation, gives you a
tremendous opportunity to live more. Indeed, you may live for eternity,
but you will grow into it as a result of your conscious effort to become
one with God and his purposes.
You begin to take an active part in your own soul-growth. So when you do
attain those levels of spirit-accomplishment, it is because of your will
which has testified to its need and desire to do his will, as that is
what will give you greatest happiness and greatest fulfillment. And that
in the true sense, is surely heaven. If the kingdom of heaven is within
you, you cannot be separated from it. It can only be made greater and
the spirit light, spirit illumination, brighter, as you traverse the
spheres en route to the Central Isle of Paradise, the eternal dwelling
place of the infinite God of all creation.
Intelligent men and women enjoy having something to do. Haven't we got a
wonderful Eternal Parent who sees to it that we are always progressing,
always involved, always amused. It would be dreadful to be bored for all
eternity, wouldn't it?
The eternal career. The greatest adventure of all. You have no idea how
much wonder is in store for you beyond the veil, as it were. You're
hovering on the topic that is most challenging for me, that of
exchanging a fear of dying to a challenge of transition. An idea of
letting go of this life and embracing the next, consciously, is an
experience I wish for all of you. And it is the fear of death, because
of a lack of understanding of what awaits you on the other side that has
held your planet back in so many ways. The idea of a fiery hell has been
a thorn in the side of those who have yearned to augment the work of
Christ Michael as Jesus, who resurrected and appeared visibly to
hundreds of followers, never once, never once, threatening them with any
such fearful retribution as is wrapped up in the concept of a fiery
hell. This is absurd. And yet humans, being so fear-ridden, are
reluctant to accept that they will die at all much less approach it
joyously, as an opportunity to step out of this earthly original
existence into the realm of morontia reality which is an extension of
life, a fuller and richer realization of sonship. For you will have
within your grasp, in your sight and sound and other senses, the full
realization of the infinitude of divinity. Everywhere you look you will
see the radiance of God, without the body to curtail your joy.
Let me clarify - you will have a body. You will have a morontia body.
But it will not be subject to the same aches and pains that you have
known in the physical body. In fact, you will be rendered youthful, and
beautiful, as if you had remained forever in your prime.
But let's not get in any hurry to leave before your time. Enjoy your
life here as was said. For this is the opportunity for you to get a
handle on your potential self and nurture it consciously, even now. For
in knowing yourself, in and of and as spirit, it will strengthen you for
the transition to come and it will also help you appreciate the life
you've lived , how you've come to be who you are. And in the joy of
understanding yourself as a conscious child of God, you will in truth
radiate as divine parental affection on those who surround you; those
other children of God who are not yet aware of sonship; not yet
grappling with the realities of mortality and immortality, such as you
have embarked upon in your experiential journey.
- Tomas, celestial teacher, 7/28/2002
| How to find that peace and serenity within yourself: Let
us have a talk today about peace and serenity within yourself. As you
seek to be at peace, you, and so many others, have at times been
mistaken in believing that your surroundings need quieting down, and
that this alone will give you a chance to become quiet and for you to
forget about your ‘busyness’ for a while.
You are partially correct, of course, in that you need to find a
quiet place in which to practice your Stillness. I do say, ‘practice’,
because it is not something you achieve by snapping your fingers for
it to instantly happen for you.
Having found a suitable place, you must then become aware of the
quietness around you, and let it fill your mind and body without your
trying to force it. As you become quiet try not to let your thoughts
distract you. When they do, just let them pass through your mind and
allow yourself to ease back into that quietness.
When you meditate and your mind is quiet, let it be. Let the Father’s
love surround you and be at peace with your life. The Father has given
each of His children the ability to comprehend the meaning of, and
recognize the experience of, quietness. At your time of Stillness,
many Celestials soon surround you, and, especially, so do your Destiny
Guardians who know everything about you. They know of your hopes, of
your dreams, your challenges.
Spiritual growth will greatly accelerate for you, if you will allow
your Destiny Guardians to function as a very real part of you. Let
them work with you today and be aware of the peace and serenity they
will help you attain. Follow through with this as your day progresses.
Let the peace and serenity flow through you in a way that you may
become quiet and you may become more aware of your Celestial Guides,
who will help you in this ongoing endeavor.
Experiencing this improved tranquility will be a new feeling for you,
and for many. So, let the peace flow through your minds and bodies,
and into the surroundings that you have placed yourselves in. Just for
today, ‘let go and let it happen’, and be aware of the never-tiring
Helpers who will assist in teaching you this important lesson. |
- Machiventa, Emergency Son, Idaho, 8/19/2002
| What's your Primary Focus? I would recommend that your
primary focus be that of allowing the Fathers' love to flow through
you, and to let it overtake your being so that you can share this love
with others, in loving service, so that you complete this circuit that
you are living in; in receiving the love of the Father, in loving
others, and in letting others receive that love from the Father. When
you spend time in the stillness, open your heart and just ask the
Father to lavish His love within you.
In time, all of the manifestations of the Spirit working within you
will harmonize. It is important to keep your process simple so that
you do not diffuse your attention in too many areas. In your stillness
practice, ask to receive the love from God. Spend time each day in
loving others. It is this simple. |
- Welmek, celestial teacher - WALKING IN FAITH, 8/16/2002
| On God's Love for us: The Father knows in the rush and worry
of your every day lives that you may be unthinking toward his children
and forgetful of him. But, the Father does not forget you,
he knows every thought you think, the very hairs upon your head are
numbered, that is how valuable you are. Everything about you was
fashioned with his love. Your trials, your worries, even these are given
with love in order that you may grow strong and true in your spiritual
bodies.
It is said that life is but a day's work so do it well. And in that day,
you serve the Father in all you do. There is no escaping the Father's
love, he has you firmly within his
grasp. You can't change that. No matter how self-serving or lost you may
be in your lives, you are only lost as far as you are concerned. The
Father knows where you are every moment. |
On God's Manifestation: You are perceiving God in his
manifestation when you look at a flower and place upon it the highest
value because you perceive its beauty, you perceive the
goodness of the hand which created this beauty, and you perceive the
truth of the Father's love in all things. The Father is not an idle
bystander in his creation. He is an active participant in every blade
of grass. The Master said, "Not a sparrow falls from the sky but that
my Father perceives it".
What God wants: The Father has no requirements but one,
that you love him sincerely and that you show his love to his other
children. The Father's arms are always open. He longs for you to come to
his as a child to a parent in weariness, confusion, when you are
disheartened and lonely and even more when things are good, when you
feel fine about yourself. In all times, in all moods, in all ways, the
Father stands ready to receive you. There is nothing you can do which
would close this opportunity.
- Ham, celestial teacher, 8/18/2002
| On Love and Acceptance: The Father wishes for all of you to
have happy, productive lives. But be careful not to leave him out in
your work and worry and daily toil. Always does he stands ready to
give you an added dimension to your thoughts. As he works in your
mind, he endeavors to spiritualize your thinking so that the everyday
trouble
itself takes on a spiritual meaning and dimension. |
The master said time and again, "love one another". Love implies
acceptance. When you love someone, you accept who they are suspending
judgment, letting go of criticism, and most importantly when you love
another you love some part of yourself as well. When you criticize
another, you are criticizing yourself. All people need love and you
yourselves need it especially for love will be what sustains you. Let go
of petty criticisms. Be large enough to allow love in to all sides of
your hearts. Let go of your pain and do not use it against others.
Release your anxieties and do not burden others with your fears.
Embrace the Father fully and completely without reservation, without
hiding anything for this is salvation. This is being reborn. Let the
Father's love roll over you like an ocean. Let it wash away all your
pain and fear and doubt. You are just another swimmer with no extra
burden, no deformity which will not be cleansed and straightened by the
Father's purifying love.
Accept your status as children of the universal Father. Take not the
role of teacher or seer or prophet. Always be child/student open to
learning, open to changing.
Realize that you have nothing to give the Father's children but that
which the Father gives you and that great gift is love. Accept it for
yourselves and you will be able to give it to others.
- Ham, celestial teacher, 8/11/2002
| The Fruits of Love: To finite man truth, beauty, and
goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality. As this
love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of
God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity:
intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual
joy, and cosmic wisdom. The advanced mortals on a world in the seventh
stage of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing
in the universe—and they know that God is love. |
- The Urantia Book, p648:3 56:10.20
| On Marriage: When you make this solemn vow, your lives will
change, yes.
Being in the married state is a source of great joy and happiness. The
building of a life together with all its ups and downs, with all the
pain of growth and the struggle of living is a great adventure and a
wonderful endeavor. Always leave room for growth. Grow together, allow
each other their own freedom to change and to expand in life and you
will find a long and
wonderful romance. Allow the security of marriage to give you a basis
for increasing your vulnerability with each other. Let your love for
each other deepen and grow strong in the firm rooted nature of the
married state. As close as you are now, know that you will become
closer over the years and time will deepen and strengthen this
relationship which is your sanctuary. Support each other and always
pull together as you move forward in life. Seek the best for the other
person. Seek their happiness and you will find happiness yourself. Have peace in your hearts as you go forth in
life. Lean upon each other. Give each other strength and face the
world together in all that you do. |
- Ham, celestial teacher, 8/11/2002
| On Guilt: I would caution you on the use of the word guilt,
for it has a somewhat devaluing notion in the human psyche. It is good
to reflect upon past behavior and to evaluate it. But if you judge
yourself, which is part of the makeup of guilt, then you will diminish
your sense of self-respect. And while it is always good to be
objective about your shortcomings, the best way for you to re-evaluate
and re-establish your sense of self-respect is to ask to see yourself
from the Father's eyes. |
For He does not judge you, and He in His Love understands the
difficulties that you face. And when you see yourself from this
perspective, you will realize that your mistakes are understandable and
correctable. And there is no reason to assess yourself so harshly as to
produce those guilt feelings that so demean you. Do you understand?
- Welmek, celestial teacher - INSPIRED LIVING, 8/1/2002
| On Handling ANY Project: When you attempt any task, and you
are not sure how to accomplish this, you can always go directly to
Jesus and ask Him to assist you. You have the dual benefit of
divine-human experience that will give you a twofold understanding of
the best way to do things. The human Jesus was very adept at
organizing and executing his work. He was a highly disciplined and
skilled craftsman, and so he well understood the demands of big
projects and how to complete them in a timely fashion.
And then, of course, you have the perspective of the Divine Michael,
who is the Creator of the universe, and is very well equipped to
handle all of the problems inherent in running a large organization.
So with all of this assistance at hand, you only need to go within and
ask Him, "Will you give me a hand with this? I do not know how to
tackle this project", and He will gladly show you. He will hold your
hand, guide your hand, and give you the stamina and the fortitude you
need to move through the project with ease and good cheer. You will
find that the task is completed quite within an efficient time frame.
And you might find yourself even enjoying yourself immensely while you
are doing it. |
- Welmek, celestial teacher - INSPIRED LIVING, 8/1/2002
| On Stillness and God Within: A part of what I'm speaking of
is part of the feeling of loving warmth and acceptance that you can
feel inside by being triggered in any number of ways. This feeling of
loving warmth and acceptance is primarily you receiving and accepting
the warmth that is within you, and accepting that. That warmth, the
living glow, the fire of life, the breath of life, if you will, that
is alive and well within you, that gives you reason for being, as well
as animation and life to your being, is that which is presented to you
from On High, from the living standard of life itself.
It is this life within that I wish for you to treasure perhaps even
more than you already do. Only in respect of that light within, that
you, at a moment's notice, can recognize and can give homage to, as
you, being a receptacle, a place where Christ and the Eternal Father
live and dwell within. So when you think of it that way, it is a
hallowed place, is it not? The Holy of Holies, the Arc of the
Covenant. Many other sacred vessels and locations on your earth and
beyond, were totally awe-striking vestiges of the living presence.
Your presence is nonetheless striking and awe-inspiring as well for
your vestige of the eternal God that lives and breathes within your
being has no less a wondrous and mysterious place or object than were
hallowed in your working world.
This I wish you to recognize as a truth beyond all truths: that, that
which is, is the consciousness that is alive and well within you. This
consciousness which is given breath and life and dimension within your
being is that which originated within your heavenly Father's creative
presence and that which is given light within you.
This too, I wish to reinforce, is that with all of the personality
that is uniquely yours and made known to you as the 'operational
vehicle,' that is your power-plant within is that life-force that the
Father shares with you. So it is not as if you were simply an
automaton, or some kind of a machine that is made ready and willing
and able to accept a life-force, that is put in it simply for the mere
operation or functionality of that which can contain a life-force, but
rather it is a life-force that is uniquely you, made known to you and
your heavenly Father as the unique expression that you are, sharing
time and space with your Creator Presence at the same time that you
yourself occupy that space with your Creator.
I wish for you to have some improved appreciation for that life-force
that is within you and perhaps give it more respect and recognition
for what it truly is. A gift of all time and within all creation made
itself known as you and your unique expression, here and now, at this
time and in this world, when it could have that is, the creative fiat
could have chosen to have made your conscious that of anything else
but instead made itself known within you as an ascending being to
rejoin in consciousness that from which you originated. This, my
friend, is the greatest of all gifts. It is the gift. There is no gift
greater than that which we speak.
And it is the unification of this within your heart and mind, to know
that centrality of your being, and for you to likewise know the
interrelationship of all else that exists, as a result of creative
fiat, that is simultaneously existing at the same time that each and
everyone of you are. This, in fact, could be enough to make one
awestruck, to make one stand like a pillar of salt in absolute
amazement at that which the Father has made. Start within yourselves
as the tiny speck of light. Just one speck of life-force within you is
enough to fuel the eternal life cell for all time hence. This one
life-force speck is enough to last for an eternity.
So be ever mindful of the uniqueness and the glorious presence that
you share here in this space, in this time, in this presence with your
life-force within and the heavenly presence that shares this space
with you. This is, in part, what the stillness practice is meant to
reinforce, and to give recognition to and to give homage to: that
which is alive and well within your living presence. |
- Anatolia, celestial teacher, 8/4/02
| How to have a child-like faith in God: In the earthly life of Jesus, religion was a living experience,
a direct and personal movement from spiritual reverence to practical
righteousness. The faith of Jesus bore the transcendent fruits of the
divine spirit. His faith was not immature and credulous like that of a
child, but in many ways it did resemble the unsuspecting trust of the
child mind. Jesus trusted God much as the child trusts a parent. He had
a profound confidence in the universe -- just such a trust as the child
has in its parental environment. Jesus' wholehearted faith in the
fundamental goodness of the universe very much resembled the child's
trust in the security of its earthly surroundings. He depended on the
heavenly Father as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and his
fervent faith never for one moment doubted the certainty of the heavenly
Father's overcare. He was not disturbed seriously by fears, doubts, and
skepticism. Unbelief did not inhibit the free and original expression of
his life. He combined the stalwart and intelligent courage of a
full-grown man with the sincere and trusting optimism of a believing
child. His faith grew to such heights of trust that it was devoid of
fear.
The faith of Jesus attained the purity of a child's trust. His
faith was so absolute and undoubting that it responded to the charm of
the contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe. His
sense of dependence on the divine was so complete and so confident that
it yielded the joy and the assurance of absolute personal security.
There was no hesitating pretense in his religious experience. In this
giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child reigned
supreme in all matters relating to the religious consciousness. It is
not strange that he once said, "Except you become as a little child, you
shall not enter the kingdom." Notwithstanding that Jesus' faith was
childlike, it was in no sense childish.
Jesus does not require his disciples to believe in him but
rather to believe with him, believe in the reality of the love of God
and in full confidence accept the security of the assurance of sonship
with the heavenly Father. The Master desires that all his followers
should fully share his transcendent faith. Jesus most touchingly
challenged his followers, not only to believe what he believed, but also
to believe as he believed. This is the full significance of his one
supreme requirement, "Follow me."
Jesus' earthly life was devoted to one great purpose -- doing the
Father's will, living the human life religiously and by faith. The
faith of Jesus was trusting, like that of a child, but it was wholly
free from presumption. He made robust and manly decisions,
courageously faced manifold disappointments, resolutely surmounted
extraordinary difficulties, and unflinchingly confronted the stern
requirements of duty. It required a strong will and an unfailing
confidence to believe what Jesus believed and as he believed. |
- The Urantia Book, Paper 196:0.11
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