WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)

Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.

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As you mature spiritually you find experience to not be so traumatizing, but adding to who you are now and who you are becoming.

There once was a boy who had a particularly strict teacher. She seemed to never let up on the lessons, and he found himself in constant striving. The boy grew weary of these lessons, but the teacher kept encouraging him patiently, going through each lesson step-by-step. Even though the teacher was quite patient with her young student, the boy found her tireless and almost to the point of her punishing him.

The good teacher taught because she cared about her place in the world. She genuinely loved and enjoyed the children. She cared deeply for the world's future and wanted to add to the world's success by the students lives she touched. She taught not for respect, prestige or for a show of power. She pushed the children enough to make them believe in themselves. She gave them faith that they were important, intelligent and had abilities.

The boy, who is now a man, thinks of his teacher fondly and is overfilled with gratitude and awe at her dedication. He recognizes she added to his experience, therefore participating in his abundance. He remembers the teacher never ridiculed and allowed him to make mistakes without fear. She allowed the children to grow at their own pace.

The teacher took such joy in the children's advancement and this increased her abundance. The children received the benefits of her knowledge and this increased their abundance. The man, who was that small boy, takes his valuable experience from that time with the teacher and passes it onto other children and adds to their experience, their abundance.

I cannot emphasize enough how valuable everyday experience is. You either add to others abundance or you deplete their energy source. You correlate experience with others that creates lessons and new soul growth. Even negative experience with others can create an abundance in knowledge — spiritual and otherwise. Many are afraid to be open to sharing experience, for their lessons may be painful and they see not the value. Some come to share experience for self-gain without thought of others needing to receive also.

In the mortal life you will most likely experience the full spectrum of the required experience. Even the Master experienced many bestowal's to gain full sovereignty of the universe. At some point in this life you will know every aspect there is to know, from extreme sorrow to supreme joy, from an empty cup to a cup that overflows, from divine love to mortal loneliness.

There is no escape from experience if you should desire to advance in things spiritual. This requires experience. Experience is your abundance. If you should bravely face all experience you are open to receiving those required lessons to advance spiritually. Remember that in sharing experience to allow
others to stumble. Make it not your duty to always correct, encourage — yes, correct — no, focus on the positive — yes, point out the negative — no.

Focus on abundance in experience. How much experience do you purposefully avoid because it will either lead to your disappointment and sorrow, or cause you to have to do too much work? Strengthen your connection with those you know and be a provider of abundance for them. I speak not so much of material abundance, but spiritual companionship and being a light of  encouragement. When you feel you are putting forth effort in service, do you hesitate to contemplate the cost, or do you serve for the strengthening between you and Father? Again, where are your treasures?

Abraham: Many individuals find it too difficult to put themselves out in service or have not the feelings of confidence that they can actually handle difficult tasks. Some choose not to put themselves out there in experience, and then they wonder why their life is neither here nor there — nothing happens. They
put forth no love — they receive no love. They make no effort to give service and find themselves alone when in need.

You that have chosen to live this mortal life to the fullest and drink the cup, come what may, will give and receive. You will experience and participate. You will be a designer of destiny, an architect of the future. You may have to take on a bit more responsibility. You have to exert less self and promote more Spirit.

Abundance is not gifts from Heaven to the favored. It is not being bestowed with the way of ease. It is not Father enticing you to do His bidding, no. Abundance is knowing you have responsibility to the whole, which you have to make effort towards the overall betterment of the Kingdom. We work for the good of one another. Your abundance is my abundance. My growth is your growth. You add to my experience and I to yours. Your joy is my joy. I know you each realize this life does require a certain amount of effort, but always should joy and happiness outweigh sorrow and tribulation.

This week when you are called to do a difficult task and you are apprehensive, pause for a moment to consider the spiritual ramifications of participating, be observant, consider the possible outcomes, look with the eyes of the Spirit. Is your participation bringing personal growth, growth to the Kingdom, perhaps growth of another?

Father's assignments are filled with intrigue and mystery and they are  either fearful to you or adventurous. You can participate and perform your responsibilities and add to the progress, or chose to wait on the sidelines and let life just happen around you. When you chose to forsake your own needs in favor of participating in other spiritual tasks, or tasks of any kind, then always does Father see to ministering to you. He does not let you overlook those important things that help you to move in this mortal world.

As you chose Father's work, He chooses to work for you. This is not to say He does not work for you should you chose to just stand-by, but the lessons are altered and you learn the same thing in a different way. I understand it is easy in this mortal life to become set in same habit patterns. It is difficult to move from your level of comfort. As you become more spiritized and comfortable with your status of a child of God, you gain more self-confidence to be seen, to be of service, to go forth and be assertive with your spiritual responsibility.

As you mature spiritually you do find that you have not traversed this life alone. Many have added to your experience and helped you to become what you are today — good or bad. All the experience was valuable. Be not afraid to go into experience, but be observant — take notes and help Father show you the values, meanings and abundance from the average mortal life. I do understand there are times when one feels closed off or not in a position to be outgoing, and this is acceptable. Take your rest and worry not. You will
regain your momentum and once again feel like plunging headfirst into experience.

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)

Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.

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Today brothers an sisters, we continue to study love. God is love, but as we have learned love is not the
only attribute of God. Today we turn our attention to a facet of love which is often not considered. It is
acceptance. Acceptance is self-tolerance. It is also the tolerance of the will of God.

First to the self. As we have learned, tolerance for loving, kindness, mercy, and compassion towards
others is necessary to love your fellows. It is also equally necessary in order to love yourself. For, if you
are not self-tolerant you can fall into the traps of negative thinking, encompassing judgment, criticism
and ego traps of self-obsessiveness.

You are the creation of God and the experiences and decisions of your free will and environment. All
the factors were created to foster soul evolution. You were not created in perfection, therefore you must learn to love your imperfections as well as your spirit victories.

Your imperfections will be the greatest source of learning you will experience. Many of your flaws will
take centuries and centuries of time as you know it to even understand, let alone transcend. How can you
experience the ultimate joy of perceiving the creator without the recognition of the validity and honor of the struggle for a godly character. These flaws must be perceived as blessings to humans, as markers on your path as ascendent children of time and space.

Self-tolerance is often a forgotten virtue. Without self-tolerance issues of morality rather than spirituality
take the fore, so to speak. You have been created in this fashion because it is the Father's wish for this
universe. It is therefore God's will that you be thus imperfect.

How do you understand the will of the Father? You cannot understand His will totally for He is the
creator and you are the creation. To understand His will for you, you should simplify:

1. you are created this way;
2. God creates good; 
3. because God has created you with love, who are you not to love this creation.

So, acceptance - self-tolerance - is necessary to evolve a truly spiritual human and not a judgmental human from which divisions must spring.

It is an error to approach imperfections with a vengeful heart or an arrogant intellect. Rather, weaknesses, imperfections, should be viewed lovingly as opportunities for soul growth, and should be viewed in long-term ways of their eventual outworking into more desirable or mature spiritual qualities. Every flaw has an evolution and can either be ignored, be rationalized into a good quality and therefore pursued into possible error, or can be seen as a lesson for soul growth tolerantly. If one views the final outcome to be not only the absence of that quality but the victorious spiritual shining of light which ensues from the struggle, that is the benefit that is permitted only to those who actively and lovingly desire to mold their characters into more evolved souls. 

Many religionists have made the error of thinking the moral struggle is between good versus evil within
the individual human. It is not. It is between acceptance of who you are today - knowing who you will
become with faith in God's will - and who you fool yourselves into believing you are. This is the
struggle of the spiritually dedicated mortal. So acceptance is necessary in order to perceive spiritual realities within your own evolving being, for without acceptance you will - rest assured, fool
yourselves, or judge yourselves too harshly, or misperceive your status.

There is no competition for first place in the spiritual race. There is only the motivation spurred on by a
thirst for God-knowingness that thrusts us forward to become better and better sons and daughters of our
eternal Father.

If God can love you unconditionally now, the way you are, why can you not love yourself? Think about
that in your daily meditations and prayers. For is it not an ungrateful act to not love what such a supreme
creator has made and loved so dedicatedly?

If you cannot forgive yourself, you cannot forgive others. If you cannot accept your humanity, you
cannot grant your brothers and sisters the same gift of this humanity. Self-acceptance, self-tolerance, is
necessary in order to:

1. be more open, and, 
2. to be able to bestow Divine love through your life and interactions with others. 

You cannot be loving in the world or to the Divine without also feeling love for the miracle of your beingness and uniqueness.

You are a part of the tapestry of time surging forward into eternity, the tapestry of imperfection
becoming perfect, the tapestry of the mortal creature becoming one with a creator. If you do not
celebrate and be humbled by such a gift, you will not fully participate in this wonderment.

Acceptance also encompasses the will of God which we talk much of when we pray “thy will be done,”
“It is my will to do thy will.” But do we really understand this? First, it is God's will that you exist or
you would not be here at all. So therefore, if your prayer is sincere to accept God's will, why not accept
yourself as you are today? This is God's will. Two, you pray to know God's will, but you cannot fully know God's will until you stand in the presence of the I AM. Until that day some amount of partiality is necessary in terms of understanding and acting. So, the idea of understanding God's will in totality is therefore unachievable.

Simplify again. Acceptance of the mystery of God is part of worship. There is no momentous handing
down of tablets of stone for us. There is only common sense, filtered through the desire to do good, be
loving, see beauty, speak truth, and continue to learn. How simple it is - when one rises - to thank God
for this day, to get out of bed, to love those around you, to have a cheerful word, to take time out to lend
a hand to others, to service. You can rest assured that when you drive in traffic, that it is God's will that
you smile rather than be angry or yell. If you simplify, it is quite easy to do God's will. Would God
prefer you to be kind and loving towards your family or to be withholding and mean? Would God prefer
you to take time to listen to another's suffering or to busy yourself with tasks? As you go through your
day look at the simple things. It is God's will for you to work and earn your daily bread or is it God's will
that you steal?

These are simple things. There is not confusion. Is it God's will for you to try always to reflect the
inspiration of Jesus in your daily tasks? Yes. This is not something one should meditate on for years and
discuss in forums.

Your will enters with choices. You are tired, you would prefer not to listen to a friend, but you do
service because that is the higher value. That, then, is God's will, and your free will is to accept it. God
in His wisdom, throws into each life millions upon millions of opportunities for soul growth, millions upon millions of situations to choose higher values. Rather than question what is the will of God, what is the will of God for me, which gets you no where, accept all of the opportunities that come your way as gifts.

The people who ask for your love, and kindness, and attention, are opportunities for soul growth. The will of the Father is for you to choose always to do higher values. There is no mystery here, or great theological discussion. Some days you may choose better than other days, and that is where self-tolerance enters. But always be dedicated to doing the Will of the Father, which is to shed more spiritual light as you go through your life in very simple ways. When the book says “love acts,” that is what it means. You need not have a
grandiose, dramatic, epiphanal moment for love to act. Rather, love acts in the tiny insignificant moments of time which all add up. So, you must accept God's will. Life is but a days' work. Do it well.

Your work is of a spiritual nature, and it is not involved in the historical moments that will be remembered here on Earth. It is involved rather in the moments which are recorded on high. The actions which constitute your survival and soul evolution, the things which you so often forget to pay attention to, this constitutes a life of loving service. That should be your highest consecration to God. When you look back on your life weave a wonderful memory that all the tiny acts of love will make. What a shining soul for the rest of the world to see. For this is what creates you. Acceptance is something you may pray for: acceptance of who you are, acceptance of God's will, and - between the two in the act of daily living - the birth and growth of your soul, and the metamorphosis from a physical mortal being into a spiritual perfecter. This is what it is about. It is a slightly new way to look at truth.

We can reject God's will. Therein lies soul insanity. We can pretend there is no choice - as many mortals
do on this planet - or we can actively choose in our actions to do the will of the Father, knowing that we
will not always behave correctly, and we will forgive ourselves for the lapses because that is part of the
Divine plan.

This is not a world for perfection; it is a world of recognizing imperfection and doing the best we can with our imperfectness. So acceptance, self-tolerance of yourself, first in your imperfect state, acceptance of God's will that you are created this way and what awaits you is perfection, and acceptance that you will never totally understand God's will, are part of living a spiritually dedicated and conscious life.

My advice again, simplify, for it is in living faithfully as tadpoles that we become frogs. You are tadpoles now, as I am, and one cannot expect your life to be more than it is. We make tadpole decisions and we do the will of God by recognizing what we are.

And that, brothers and sisters, is the formal lesson for today. Do you have questions?

Question: Yes. We talked about self-acceptance, and there are a couple of things I think you said, prayer,
and recognition of who we are, and willingness to live as a tadpole each day. As I think of ways to
achieve self-acceptance I find that I have particular intolerance of my flaws. That, I see is sort of
arrogant in the face of God. On a daily basis when things come up, do you know any ways or methods to work on that, you know, one day at a time?

Answer: To think of yourself as a child, which is what we all are, to apply the same understanding patience as you would to a struggling toddler falling and learning to walk. To understand that you cannot skip this stage, and that you will fall and become bruised, and bruise yourself many times, but will rise again to continue walking the path, that the love should come for the miracle of the human spirit in rising again, that although you are flawed now, look to each day for the moment when you acted in a God-like fashion.

And every day there are those moments: a smile, a caress to a child, an illumination or feeling of unity with God, a comfort for a minute inside yourself, a peace bestowed by the Spirit of Truth, observing the beauty of nature, putting your feet up and relaxing from life's anxieties - are all God-like attributes which humans overlook, concentrating only on the moments when anger or fear or doubt got the better of you.

Faith pulls you through when you have not acted in the highest fashion: faith in God's acceptance and
love for you, which you should mirror to yourself; faith in the fact that flaws are bestowed in order for
you to grow past and from; that there would be no growth without this struggle, and that if it were easy
and your flaws could disappear it would not be God's plan. Stretching your time sense to a more eternal
one will help you to develop acceptance. A sense of humor also eases the times when you grow critical
or impatient with what you see as regression.

Question: When you talk of faults and flaws in human terms, I guess that's just a point of view. It might be
other person's likes or dislikes would differ; a fault from another person might be a virtue to another
person. But I guess from a cosmic point of view, from the Father's, the main faults that we should be
concerned about are evil, iniquity and sin. Should we be tolerant of our own sin just as we are tolerant of
our own error?

Answer: We should forgive ourselves for sins if we feel we have committed them. Remember, it is not for
us to judge even ourselves, but merely to evaluate. If you feel you have committed a sin which is fairly
extreme - most people fall into error - you must pray to forgive yourself as you ask for the forgiveness of
the Father. But you must also ask for growth to learn from these sins and to resist them, to resist taking
those actions. Flaws are not errors or sins or evil, but can lead one into errors. Flaws are anger, fear,
faithlessness, lack of love - which are all relative - those are examples of spiritual flaws rather than the
actions.

It is the inner soul-scape, so to speak, that leads one into actions that would constitute error, sin, and evil. It first starts within the human, the conflicts, the trouble. It would help to read the analysis of Judas as he fell into grave error and sin. First started in his personality flaw of isolation, and then his inner conflict as his wrong thinking took hold, and then finally the action. Does that answer?

Question: Yes. So basically the flaws, once we learn how to deal with our flaws, then we will not enter into
evil or sin?

Answer: Probably not.

Question: But to do that, one has to be tolerant and resistive.

Answer: That is correct.

Abraham: We are each in a state of becoming, and how blessed are we that we have one another to share and expand concepts and ideas. One who is teachable is open to his fellows ideas. He may not agree with the ideas, but he can accept the fact that his fellows are his brothers and sisters in the family of God.

As you progress spiritually you find it your ultimate joy each day to dedicate yourself to the doing of Father's will. What a relief from daily pressure to hold up the day and offer it to Father. It will not always be a
struggle but a welcome release from pressures and a clearing of the mind and cleansing of intentions.

Being born of the Spirit makes you a new creature who strives to live according to will of God. You may fall short at times, but certainly you find you cannot return to the old ways. In this commitment there is acceptance of sonship with God. You are not so much losing anything but becoming a new creature and gaining endless possibilities.

Always remember the divine law of acceptance. It is quite easy to defer from Father's way to our own, to find our own understanding to be confining and limited — to where if we are aligning with the universal
law of acceptance we are in the ever flowing current of divine information. Your understanding, your everyday realities are expanded. So you do not find that this universal law comes with a cost, but certainly do you put self-mastery into practice.

In this area of acceptance I would like to elaborate a bit more on a personal level. We can accept the divine path and Father's perfect plan. We can accept our fellows for their unique personalities. We can accept our
present position in life, but so much of this is increasingly more difficult when one is without some degree of self-acceptance.

Father did not coordinate the mortal life so that you would be self-satisfied continually. He designed the overall pattern so that we may always strive and work towards Him. I speak not of self-satisfaction, but
self-acceptance. So many regret the past and harbor guilt and are self-loathing. So many cannot accept the fact that they have been but learning children in an ever expanding experiential universe.

There is practically zero tolerance when it comes to our own flaws or shortcomings. With the law of acceptance we can believe even in our mistakes Father has revealed to us the meanings and values, and has never punished us for our misunderstanding like we have punished ourselves. Many mortals continually focus on their negative character aspects while overlooking the personal strides made in their efforts.

As a small child learning to ride a bike a father would run alongside the child helping to steer the bike, and at an appropriate time when the child is ready, the father would release the bike and allow the child to go it
alone. Does the father know of the possibilities of the child's wrecking and falling — possibly becoming injured? Yes. Can the father continue to run alongside the child? No. Can the father give instructions and encouragement? Of course. Should the child wreck and appear to fail, would the father punish the child? Of course not. The father continues to guide and help the child to develop their own abilities, comforts the child when failure seem apparent, encourages the child to continue in their efforts.

Father knows you will fall and He stands ready to comfort, guide and encourage. He is not there to punish or ridicule you when you seem to fail. Why would you punish yourself? Can you not accept the fact that you were, are now and will be a learning child of God? You cannot go from infant to adult without the experience in-between. You must accept yourself as a learning child. To self-punish or think that God would bestow upon you bad karma is to block meanings and values in experience.

Everyday negative self-talk is energy depleting; it is spiritual stunting, soulfully abusive. To be so ego-bound that you cannot accept that you have made mistakes is a waste of experiential time that could have been used to discover new meanings and values. There has to be a point in mortal life where you have passed all external aspects of the total person and have a true acceptance of the growing soul that you really are.

Father loves you beyond your own ability to comprehend and accepts you in your becoming. Do not make that mistake of self-bantering and close off new spiritual possibilities and soul growth. Do not be weighed down by the fact that you still have so much to learn, rather be uplifted by the fact that the learning is an adventure that carries you to possibilities far beyond the mortal life.

This week be watchful of self-punishment. Ponder the difference between self-satisfaction and self-acceptance. How would you gain confidence through self-acceptance? What new possibilities might come from this?

Abraham: I realize events in daily living might lead you to believe that life works against you, but you that carry a deep and abiding faith know the reason for such occurrences and don't usually feel a mortal desperation or anxiety.

In a fast paced world such as this we are always overlooking the small blessings. Many mortals tend to look for grand occurrences that say God is at work, and in the process become discouraged when their expectations are not met. There are conditionings of the mind that seem to help you keep up with mortal living.

Societal stimulants and ever-striving to just survive, take the focus off of the small blessings. Just in noticing small blessings is your focus set on Father. In this focus are you better able to handle situations that cause inner-turmoil. In noticing the small blessings you learn to recognize Father's fingerprints.

We have been discussing the universal law of acceptance and the doing of Father's will. We have also covered self-acceptance. I would speak a little on acceptance of your fellows.

I feel such comfort each week when we meet. You welcome me as I am. You know my personality and you welcome it. I feel at ease to speak my mind without fear of ridicule or rejection. You accept me as your brother, friend, teacher and fellow sojourner. You may not always agree with what I say but that has no bearing on my level of comfort because I know you love and accept me as I am, as I also do you.

We meet various individuals daily and as we learn about them we can draw closer to them. Some personalities we clash with and have not commonalities. We may even dislike their character. As we travel the world we will meet various individuals who will be different from us. We are in understanding that each one is no doubt a child of God and also on their own path to Father.

I think by now, we are understanding we cannot force our own way on others or lead them in a way that we see fit. We can express our opinion, we can encourage — but really, at no time should we attempt to change another. We are all Father's children. Not one is with more status than another. You can have acceptance of that and have love for your fellows without the difference in personalities creating conflicts; although conflicts are not really that bad because they can create growth from new understanding. 

Some individuals you know are perhaps not so loveable, but certainly we can accept the fact that they are growing individuals on their own path and will learn according to their own ability. I truly believe that most people have the best of intentions and try to do what is right in their eyes.

The "holy wars" in the Middle East are groups of individuals who are attempting to force their beliefs onto others. You see, each group has the best of intentions and believe they are only doing what is right. Perhaps they are blinded by the fact that every child of God has the same intentions. They are only attempting to do what they believe is right.

There are so many divisions in religion, government, and even families because there is no acceptance of diversity. "If they are not with us they must be against us", is a familiar saying. Why cannot individuals allow for others to grow in their own time? You cannot force growth or fit a quart into a pint. You can, however, learn to have acceptance — that everyone is a child of God. They need not look to you as their savior, but how beautiful it would be for them to know you uphold them in their differences. How can anyone look down upon a brother's blindness when they themselves are also blind?

We can be more accepting of our fellows through learning patience and allowing for unfolding. We need not agree with our fellows but we can respect their right to learn and grow in their own time.

As a side note, there are new concepts born every day — new ideas to ponder. It would seem as if everyone has the answer. I would remind you that you have your own Indwelling Father Fragment, and the Spirit of Truth (the Comforter) that helps you discern truth. In trying to apply the law of acceptance in your lives, know this does not apply to new concepts or fads. You need not accept every idea that happens to cross your path.

I mean to say, that the world's growth is moving so rapidly that we must be clear-minded enough to discern truth from falsehood. You can contemplate new ideas; you can pray and do stillness, but certainly you are equipped to judge for yourself which ideas you will hold true and those you would let go. In this day and age new things will come and go. I suggest, be open-minded but cautious in accepting all you see.

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)

Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Elyon: As you know, to achieve something is to master it, to attain it by your own efforts. It is not something granted to you as much as it is something you have worked towards and through your efforts you have gained a control over, a mastery of. Your lives are filled with all manner of achievements. You have achieved
adulthood; you have achieved material possessions to surround you. You have gained these through your own efforts, and these, as well as many others, are your tangible results of these efforts. You achieve the mountaintop through your physical efforts, and the vista you view at the top is your achievement. It is your reward for having pursued this goal to its completion. Once having achieved this success, you then possess this as an achievement as part of your composition, your resume, in this life.

We all now can agree that no achievement is made without prerequisite effort. I would go so far as to add that all effort meets with certain success, certain achievement. The end result may not be the original desire of pursuit, but the pursuit provides you with the achievement of its own description. Spiritual effort when expended also meets with certain achievements once you have put in the required effort you then possess the achievement from that effort. Spiritually you build one success upon another. Each one adds to your resume, your foundation, upon which more achievements may be assembled.

It is right and good for you to occasionally take stock of where you were and where you are and even where you may be going, to see this as a progressive movement through effort to success.

You are also aware that larger accomplishments require larger efforts, but the fruits may be sweeter. Your success at long term efforts is all the more satisfying when you reflect on all the effort that was required to arrive at that success point.

I suggest as an exercise for you to count the achievements: tally up the efforts, the successes, the rewards; the ambitions of future undertakings, the expectations. Take stock of this ever-flowing pattern. At once you are resting on the foundations of many previous achievements while at the same instance you are providing the required effort for future accomplishments to be yours. In this cyclical pattern it is helpful to step outside and view it as a pattern, cyclical, and see where you fit in. Note what you have accuired and the effort you still offer. Grow to expect that this effort now in cycle will come to completion as will your achievements.

Merriam: The idea of achievement is one which enables you to access your capacity to consider yourself as a child or as an adult and calls to mind the need for balance. While you are urged to put away childish things and grow into spiritual adulthood, you are also encouraged to remain a child in your faith, always open to future learning. Adulthood is a lure, on the one hand, because of the acknowledgment to the self that one has gained sufficient self mastery, insight, appreciation of the fruits of the spirit, and so forth, to feel effective and a part of a growing global community from the vantage point of the spirit and the flesh.

You feel like a contributing member of your society whether it is a material society or a spiritual society. It also brings with it a sense of responsibility, a knowledge that the courage to clarify advancing perfection is
an opportunity for you to embrace as a service or as an adventure in, not only your career, but in the eternal career of your fellows. Engaging in mindful intercourse in the many arenas provided gives you an opportunity to exercise your skills, your accomplishments, in such a way as to prevent stagnation in yourself and others and to enjoy the stimuli that comes through associations, a mutual stimulation of the imagination as well as the energetic charge coming from the exponential aspect of community. In particular it entails a recognition of your individual voice in matters that concern the masses, the whole of mankind, many of whom have made great material and educational advancements but remain spiritually unaware, ineffectual.

So you recognize a responsibility in being that might daunt the timid soul. Be advised that your inspirations come from on high and your "callings" are heard from that still, small voice within. Thus, when you are called to active duty in the arena of humanity, you are also provided the materials, the rations, the backpack, and the uniform that will enable you to fulfill your assignment, rendering another and mature accomplishment in the advancing tide of humanity toward Light and Life. That too is your reward, for that is your great accomplishment individually and communally, that you in your recognition of our Father have embraced Him and your fellows as brothers and sisters. Your individual worlds are illuminated, but this accomplishment, while being realized for you, is still only potential for many. As you assess your accomplishments also look you well to our goals of introducing our Father and His ways and mercies into the hearts of those who remain ignorant of His blessings, His personal hand in yours. Even while you grasp your responsibilities and recognize maturity and assess your accomplishments, remember your childlike nature that allows you to err, that allows for laughter, that appreciates rejoicing, that embraces goodness, beauty, and truth as its greatest happiness.

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When you think back over your lives you can view the various stages and changes that has made you who you are today. You would all agree that these changes came with some difficulty and a bit of mindal frustration. There is a long journey from infanthood to adulthood. As you experienced you learned new and better ways to live the mortal life.

Being reborn in Spirit opened up all new possibilities in mortal life, where you have learned to integrate the two worlds. Growth can bring growing pains, but like the transformation of the butterfly, you cannot live a full experiential life inside the cocoon. There are many stages the butterfly must travel to become its intended divine purpose. Should the caterpillar protest having to become enclosed in the cocoon? No. Father has a set plan and purpose for all His living creatures. The best that the caterpillar can do is to become adaptable. After the darkness — the hard lessons — there is a beauty unfolding.

As you travel this mortal path there are untold adventures to be had. This mortal life is about becoming adaptable. One who moves from the desert into the mountains adapts to the new changes and must make provisions therefore. If this traveler could not adapt, surely he would face the consequences. Being adaptable means accepting change and working therefrom to the best of your ability.

Mortals do tend to like things to stay the same because it is without turmoil and the need to make effort. Of course, this is not bringing growth. This is not experiencing the full spectrum of the intended divine purpose. Being adaptable means not you are forsaking free will, no. It means only that you are accepting certain circumstances and putting forth your best effort to work within Father's overall divine plan.

As you have entered into the spiritual life you have allowed yourselves to be changed and made adaptable to spiritual principles. Evolution will change all things. When you can be committed to adapting to mortal circumstances, then incoming divine information is more clear. Spiritual poisons are decreased and the feeling of the presence of our loving Father is increased.

Your books, your printed lessons, your thoughts and ideas of today will all change. This is a natural divine process. In being adaptable we can accept these life changes and work from what we know. In the serenity of being adaptable we are open to new revelation — that is instant divine communion. It is having experience, being made stronger through adversity, breaking through the cocoon of darkness into becoming a creature of spiritual beauty.

In all your changes, can you contemplate the fact that these changes could possibly be a divine lesson? Can you remain observant and open to living revelation? Can you accept change, become adaptable to mortal circumstances and work from whatever level you are on at the time? These times are changing fast and you need to become used to these changes so you can aid others in adjusting. Our heavenly Caretakers are even made to adapt because they have given us the gift of free will. They can adapt and promote the most highest good for the whole.

Adaptability is not mechanistic. It is not giving over your core beliefs to be non-resistant and not make waves, no. Adaptability is quick acceptance of circumstances that are occurring and being able to be calm to receive divine revelation, curb spirit poisons and take action from what you think Father thinks is best.

Elyon: All effort made to acquire a skill results in you becoming adept at that skill. In order to become adept you must learn to adapt. Adaptation implies flexibility in order to release from previous patterns, to be open to accumulating new patterns and skill. But it also implies application of that which you have attained to new methods of expression. This is part of a cycle that can yield insecurity or uncertainty, but it is also a time of excitement, the thrill of new territory, the chance for new expression or to express what one's ideals held but one's abilities could not express. When you have become adept there is the sense of accomplishment, that gratification that one is capable of growth and accomplishment yielding skill and ability that beforehand were not a possession, at times of doubt appear to be unattainable and yet in reality are now part of you.

But every great skill teases the one who has acquired it to find avenues through which that skill may be exercised. No talent is satisfying to just be part of your portfolio. True satisfaction is in the continual outworking expression, the hunger for the discovery of new methods, new applications, and the cycle begins again wherein you adapt.

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Question: Financially, for me now this is a very frightening period. And instead of the usual panic that I feel - and in the past when faced with a situation like this, I used to get frightened by just the idea of lack of abundance - and now that I am experiencing it more on a daily basis I find that my panic and fear has been replaced by a peacefulness and a stillness. I don't know if that is a function of the spirit of courage, the fact that I really understand that everything is really okay and everything is taken care of, but whatever it is, it’s not what I expected it to be. I really expected this to be my flip-out time. And it turned out to be kind of a beautiful experience, and I'm enjoying it. And I know that the angels at times teach through adversity.

One of the lessons that I have learned has been my friendship with [a woman with AIDS] and watching
how she handles what I considered to be an unnatural human burden. So I'm enjoying this challenge - I
think. But I do understand and feel the terrors that - my usual panic has been replaced with something
that money couldn't buy even if I had it.

Answer: Well stated. Yes, yes, your perception of peacefulness as an aspect of personal spiritual growth is
most accurate. Why attribute it to a Angels when you have done the work yourself?

Question: Well, I've killed so many bugs I want to give credit where credit is due. [Laughter.] You know
come judgment I get a little bit of leeway.

Answer: Even bugs have bad luck. [More laughter.]

Question: I just need to rearrange the financial aspects of my life. They are such a burden and pressure.

Answer: Every adverse event that occurs during your universe existence has a lesson in it for you, and part
of your mission is to find those lessons. At times they are readily apparent, and at other times you must
dig deeply and search hard for meaning. But it will emerge if you are assiduous in your search.

Question: I'd just like it to change. I ask for help from the other side, just in terms of maybe a bit more
strength or something to do what I need to do to clean up my life. Sometimes I just feel like I don't have
it all by myself to balance that cheque-book or to do those things. Could I have some inspiration, please?

Answer: We ascendant mortals are much esteemed throughout the universes for our great capacity to adapt to changing circumstances, a necessary quality to have in order to survive. And most survive. Non-survival is a very, very rare event. Change is an inevitable fact of existence and is multiplied by many orders of magnitude when one is created imperfect. From the moment that you came into being you have been undergoing change with every fragment of time that has passed. As you read to this lesson you are changing. It is an inevitable and irreversible process. And we call ourselves ascendant because as we change we also ascend simultaneously. There is no turning back.

The change that you seek is difficult to measure by your standard physical means, for you cannot put it
on a yardstick, or hold it in your hands, or leave an impression on a film with it. It is measured instead in
terms of peacefulness, confidence, awareness, that ability to be in the world but not of it, joy in the
creations of the Father that abound so wonderfully on your planet. That is how you can discern the
change within. And also by an increasing awareness to the promptings of your Thought Adjuster, which
you, in particular, are very well attuned to. 

Amanson on Adversity

"Adversity" is the only means of  creating an experienced end, polishing a personality that has been, shall we say, battle tested. 

Adversity creates determination, tests your resolve, measures how deep your desire for that which you declare you are determined to achieve. No one truly appreciates what has been too easily acquired. It is only after a series of setbacks and the person has been prepared, ripened, to take full advantage of their reward that the prize is fully appreciated.

Adversity comes with the territory, all part of the system. It seems to originate randomly from without but adversity contains the lessons — the prepared lessons — you will have to meet in order to bring your prize home. The desire, the plan, the execution (thought, word, and deed) and the adversity they will face were all born at the same moment.
 
Adverse conditions are as much a part of the scenario as the initial desire. It's all one. And the tougher the adversity the more power is born in the person who overcomes it. It is a game, of sorts. At least it benefits a person to approach it that way, in that spirit. The Oneness pervades all. The Oneness is all — so there's really no need to bemoan what is essentially a complete package. It is your gift to face snags, hitches, bumps in the road, and place yourself in a position of problem solving. It exercises your mind, exercises your character, and in its deepest recesses (and usually in the direst circumstances), it will force you to call on the unseen realm, that Spirit connection within a person that in turn connects directly to the hub of origination — where all creation originates — affecting the situation at its point of origin, before adversities became adversities.

It is this last lesson for which we can be most grateful. Grateful to, and for, Adversity.

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Aggression or aggressive tendencies are, in some respects, the antithesis of fear, for fear is nothing more than self-doubt projected inward. Aggression is self-doubt projected outward. The cure, if you will, for self-doubt is an enhanced realization of how much you are loved. For if you can crack open your heart even slightly to accept the love which is flooding this planet, then the self-doubt which lives in the dark recesses of your heart has fewer places to hide.  

An exercise for this week, which is completely voluntary on your parts, of course, is whenever you are in a tense situation where that clutching feeling occurs in your chest and you think of nothing but the potentially disastrous outcomes of the situation, I ask you to stop, take a deep breath, and with that breath imagine your heart stretching and opening, just a crack, to allow the light and the love to flood in, the knowledge that you ARE a child of God, and that as a child of God you are loved regardless of the outcome of that situation. An adverse reaction in another person in no way diminishes the beauty you hold in the eyes of God.  

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Many feel anxious concerning the perception that others have of them, especially specific people, often family members. Others have anxiety concerning the perception of their peers and colleagues. You all fear the worst, that another's perception will confirm your own lowest conception of yourself, that you are somehow a failure.

This anxiety causes you to keep up a front towards these people, a front of calm coolness, of having everything under control, a front that says that you know exactly what you are doing and don't need any help or advice, and especially don't need any concern or, heaven forbid, pity. We encourage you to explore these feelings, explore why they occur with the people that they occur with.

There is always in each person concerns that they would be embarrassed for another person to see. Each person is concerned with their status and their prestige in life, it is beyond what they really deserve. Each person is concerned with defending that status and level of prestige that their authority should not be breeched or undermined. This is all natural human feeling and it is universal. It is one of the things that makes true communication difficult, and true team work difficult.

Life is very complex and it is built around a complex web of human interaction. Business life is built around transactions that are partly postures more than reality. Everyone has to pretend to be expert and not sow doubts telling the truth at times if it is warranted. Your society is so full of these behaviors that reality is very blurred all the time in thousands of small ways and in order to fit into this society requires countless bendings of the truth and countless poses of authority that may not be entirely comfortable. It is as though you all are so afraid of exposing vulnerability that you are willing to sacrifice truth to that end. This phenomenon is world wide and extends to national life as well. This is intolerance.

You want perfection in all your dealings from the waitress that brings your breakfast to the mechanic who fixes your car to your political leadership, you want them all to be experts. You don't want them to display any hint of not knowing or inefficiency. And this intolerance stems from having to hold up this facade yourselves all the time.

This societal intolerance and shading of the truth is a recipe for ultimate disaster. Individually, it leads to heart attacks, strokes, depression, mental illness, and so on. As nations, it leads to intolerance of weakness of the unfortunate and between nations it leads to armed conflicts as everyone wants to see their side as white and the other side as black. You all want to be assured of your rightness, your innocence, that you were certainly right to lose your temper over the dry cleaner losing a shirt or something.

This society is taking a cardboard perfectionism to extremes. In part, it is said to be due to the congestion of people, the masses of people living in close proximity, that little things tend to cause greater perturbations. But, I contend that it is the strain of keeping up appearances, the strain of maintaining this cardboard perfection in yourselves, that causes you to jump on others for their slips because you are afraid of your slipping.

When we speak of tolerance as a fruit of the spirit, we are speaking of it extending to your whole, entire life. We are speaking of you tolerating yourself to the point that you can tolerate others and tolerate others seeing your imperfections and it is this that decreases anxiety. If you can allow others to see your faults, to
see your fears, then you can easily, very easily, tolerate seeing fears in others and imperfections in others.

It takes some work to identify your anxieties and to counter act these by openly expressing your true feelings. In some ways it is a measure of your cultural maturity. You all remember going through the adolescent phase where you answered every inquiry with "I'm fine" and you remember all the anxiety that that was hiding.

Socially, this planet is still in its adolescence. Despite the cultural and professional pressures to the contrary, for your own spiritual growth you must learn to be more openly exposed. To say at times, "I don't know", or just to express hope or fear or any number of human emotions without the fear of falling into a black hole that you will never come out of again, this won't happen and believe me you will feel better. Say, "I don't know but I am going to try", or something like that.

You are all in places in your careers where this is very difficult, but it is not impossible. It is the equivalent of letting down a piece of cardboard, you will still be standing, you won't disappear.

Question: At first pass I find it easier to apply to business situations than personal situation, but I suspect it does apply to both.

Ham: Especially being a parent tends to reinforce this role playing. Because, for a child to see you weak or indecisive or frightened is for some intolerable.  

Question: It works with the child too, when the child learns to feel like he or she has to put up a good front when they see weakness on the part of the parent. This can make children feel anxiety.

Ham: Yes.

Question: I found myself saying, "I am bad at accepting imperfection in myself and better at accepting it in other people, and I wonder if I am kidding myself in saying that?

Ham: It is usually the case that one is the reflection of the other. So, if you are intolerant of allowing others to view your imperfections then you are usually intolerant of other's to that same degree. Deep within each person, there is a critic, and that critic is pretty accurately cataloguing your imperfections. You can take the critics job away by acknowledging and accepting your own imperfect humanity. But, mostly humans fear the critic and he goes on working for years before you can accept yourselves.

Question: This critic, is this the same imposter that we call the ego?

Ham: Yes, it is an aspect of that same identify creating entity. Because mankind is a will creature, he can choose between reality and unreality and there is aspects of both in every evolving creature. There are always areas where the person sees reality slightly skewed out of their ego needs. The ego is a mental
construction that is unreal itself. It is a way for the mind to self-identify, to identify itself as separate from universal mind.

The truth is, however, that mind is not separable, it is one mind originating in the third source and center. But, being material creatures who are individually packaged personalities, the mind that is utilized must adapt to that phenomenon and so the ego identity is born. Spiritual growth and the process of becoming increasingly spirit identified, entails the gradual relinquishing of ego separation. Personality remains your unique connection with the Father, but there is a gradual lessening of the ego mind identification. This is a process extending on into Paradise. As you know, Lucifer himself was not exempt from ego identification.  The ego says, "I am" or I am part of or I am partial, or anything of the sort.

Question: So the fear beneath all this is the fear of loss of identity?

Ham: Yes.

Question: Of not being?

Ham: Yes.

Question: So we become anxious because we are trying so hard to defend this unreality, this ego identification of mind as self and the need then to defend this self?

Ham: Yes.

Question: And, denying this fear.

Ham: Yes, absolutely.

Question: So if we can get to a point where we become more accepting of how things are and the things that happen instead of defending the idea of who we think we should be, we would become less anxious?

Ham: Well put.

Question: Acceptance of partiality?

Ham: Acceptance of life.

Question: I Find that when I am involved with someone who is equally perfectionistic that we get involved in trying to maintain our view of being perfect and then when we aren't, we blame the other person for making us imperfect. I find this harder than admitting to a colleague that I cannot do something.

Question: Does this stem from childhood tapes, of being told we are no good?

Ham: That is where it starts, but it's not always unconscious or repressed memories that trigger these things.

Question: Did you have any insights into when two intolerant perfectionists butt heads.

Ham: Humor, humor will save many situations. Because, humor can make you see the absurdity of the situation.

Question: And the kinship?

Ham: Yes.

Question: The other patterns I see in myself is when someone threatens to knock over my cardboard perfection, I get angry at them.

Ham: Yes. 

Question: It is like a validation of your inner condemnation of yourself. And so, the antidote for this, is it to become as a little child, in your own view of yourself?

Ham: Yes, that is one way to put it. You have to grow more tolerant of others seeing your imperfections.

Question: It would also help to live more in the present moment and worry less about future consequences.

Ham: Yes very much so. Do not always think in terms of fairness for yourself. There are other more important issues at stake. The Master sought to be fair whit those around him, but never sought fairness for himself. It is human to react to a perceived injustice whether it be to secretly resent this or openly confront it. But sometimes, the small issue of justice in a small particular situation can be irrelevant to the overall greater picture. In relationships, if two people are always contending for fairness over every little thing, then they would be fighting all the time and the greater value of the relationship is imperiled. Be generous and light hearted over trifles.

Alkon: Anxiety is a form of fear response, which is more subtle in its emotional tone and often pervasive in its duration. It is characterized by a heightened physiological response including blood pressure, heart rate, sensory cutoff levels, and other measures. It is understood emotionally as a sense of unease, tension, of foreboding, and general discomfort. Sometimes the object of anxiety is clear cut and understood, and at other times it can be generalized and floats freely from one mental image to another coloring all thought with an unpleasant, mildly fearful arousal flavor and tone. Physiologically it is part of your animal make up, the nature of your nervous system. It has been placed there by the Life Carriers for the purpose of arousing action for anticipated dangerous situations. Its purpose in evolutionary terms is to make sure the organism, the human mind-body, is prepared for the eventualities which could occur in the environment.  

As evolution proceeded and human will evolved to the point where Andon and Fonta exercised true human choice, as contrasted to merely animalistic choices, the role of anxiety was complicated and has further evolved in its complication so that much of what is experienced as anxiety today has no connection with truly life threatening circumstances. The anxiety of modern times has spilled over into many other areas other than physical danger anticipatory functioning. It has become to many people a permanent condition. The anxiety is often at an unconscious level until there is some triggering stimulus to make it aware to the consciousness of an individual.  

When Jesus spoke to his apostles and to the multitudes to let go of anxiety he was referring to the generalized, free-floating dis-ease, which even in the comparatively simple environment of his times was nevertheless a slave master of the mind. Jesus was not simply a mystic advising a humanistic solution to anxiety. He did not prescribe anti-anxiety medication, nor did he suggest that this anxiety could be controlled by an aesthetic withdrawal from life's interactions, as has been practiced in some religions.

Rather he prescribed soul trust in the over-care of a loving Father-God. While he pointed out that anxiety does not lengthen one's life or result in any action but merely wears out the physical mechanism through the stress induced by elevated physiological reaction, his main point was that anxiety of this nature is totally unnecessary. He stated that the God of all the earth and the Creator of the heavens was so on top of it that he had not only named the stars in their courses but numbered the hairs of your heads; that he knew the falling of the most insignificant bird and therefor was ful! ly competent to take care of the more important needs of his mortal children.  

Because Urantia has been so cut off from much of the spiritual nourishment that would have been its due many people today remain in a state of cosmic orphan-hood. They regard themselves as bereft of any intelligent, loving over-care, whether or not they call themselves practicing atheists. My friends, you have discussed what it means to let your light be seen to illumine the paths of others. I suggest that one of the greatest ways that this light will show in your lives is by your peaceful trust in the over-care of a loving and fully capable Deity. 

Let us speak a moment about forethought. Thinking about the options of the future does not have to be done in a spirit of anxiety. To be free of anxiety does not mean that you throw reason and planning to the winds. No, rather does it mean that your mind is clear, free from the unbelief that clouds it, that make it difficult to think, so that you can look at your choices and options full in the face. At that point you then reach for that light switch. After you have turned it on, the light, the power of God, will light the options before you, so that you can see which one is God's way, as contrasted with which one might be your way.

Our blessed Master Son made his decisions after his baptism when he had clearly understood there were
always two ways, his way or the Father's way. While he could have chosen his way, having already achieved his sovereignty, he deferred and therefor chose the Father's way.  

What will impress your acquaintances, in addition to the many aspects of service, is the way in which you conduct yourselves when you are truly free of anxiety and have finally decided that God's will is the most wonderful thing that you could chose to do. Then you cannot help but be a magnet of love, of peace, and a tower of strength to other people. You will not make their decisions for them but you will assist them in seeing clearly what the paths are that lie before them. You may not assist them with words, but you will show them a better way. There are of course many other aspects of this, but this one thing I felt would direct itself in a useful manner for your thinking. 

Daniel: I have one thing to add to tonight's lesson. In your weekly planning as you consider the days ahead anticipate that there will be periods of anxiety. It is the nature of mortal existence. So when it arrives do not be surprised, and welcome it in and analyze it. Consider its causes, and its place in your thinking. If it is a cause of much distress, then it must be put into perspective. You all have the capability of dealing with this situation, and should a situation arise in which you find yourself at a loss for solution, you know what to do. You all have resources readily at hand whose response is just a beckon call away. 

Bobbie: Are you saying then that if you are a person that is anxious or has hypertension, that it should be controlled other than with medication, say for example in relaxation techniques, that sort of thing? 

Daniel: Thank you for that most intriguing question. My response is this. You know far more than your question elicits. While I cannot speak in specific detail, in general I am allowed to say a great variety of assistance is open to all those who seek assistance. Do not rely totally on any specific area of assistance, but avail yourself of all those things, which are in the repertoire of your society, and of availability to you individually. We regret not being able to speak in specifics. Those issues must be dealt with privately with one's own resource base as you are now most fully appraised of.

Loretta: I wish to talk about letting go of anxiety. I struggled with this natural propensity to defend myself and try to control my surroundings. I was on guard for signs of danger and was something of a worrier.

Indeed, it is important to exercise your mind and face your fears head on. It has been said many times before; it is a wisdom known to your enlightened ones. Nevertheless, it is practiced by very few people in its full reality. Many people do not begin to face their anxieties and worries, (which are all milder varieties of fear), until they become so crippled with this pattern that their lives become dysfunctional. What I wish to touch on is that wonderful, graceful, acceptance of God's true love which is understood to be a greater control and a more wonderful assessment of your life than your minds can possibly engender.

When Jesus said, "Have no anxiety", he reminded his disciples and Apostles that the Father knows your needs before you ask Him. Indeed, the Father dwelling within each of you knows your needs better than you will ever know them in this mortal life. But He cannot arbitrarily work in your behalf unless you grant Him that permission. God loves you enough that He will not coerce or manipulate you in any fashion.  Therefore, the answer to the problem of anxiety is entirely in your hands. It is up to you to decide to allow God this overcare. His intention is always there, but until you take the reins out of your hands and give them into the hands of God, you will still be guiding the horse, which is your life.  

Finally, in talking about letting go of anxiety, I am not at all referring to letting go of discernment, of planning, of careful and thorough work. None of these things are indicated by letting go of anxiety. The anxiety that I refer to is the result of self direction. Its cure is to turn to your divine Pilot within and give him permission to provide you with the guidance that will march you forward from one victory to another over your carnal nature, as you evolve more and more into that splendid being whose survival of death insures your Paradise ascension finality in its greatest and most complete form.

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Elyon: Oftentimes in the development of character an individual will not recognize an attained quality until the individual is able to label, to categorize, that quality, to transform it into a tangible perspective. As the
character develops, it emerges in what appears to be a nebulous way, for the events of life are not linear when it comes to growth. Events must transpire, and when a subsequent event is needed, that may have to wait for years, and quite possibly it had occurred years prior to the primary, the first event, and it requires time for you to associate the secondary event, which in time occurred earlier, for the growth to be attained.

Once you have made the association and recognized it, then you take on bonafide possession of this status. You grant yourself qualification. You continually practice the development of morontia high-sight. Though you will be reminded continually that your world is largely physical and oftentimes distracted from the spiritual pursuit, let yourself believe fully that you are transforming your being into the status of a morontia
being.

Consider the realm of your next life to be as a mirror, that as you grow now and look up into that mirror, it will reflect back to you your attainment. Just as you use a mirror in your daily life for grooming, to set yourself aright before you make your entrance into your daily affairs, use the morontia mirror for grooming, for that perspective of oneself that you may adjust your tie, that you may straighten your hair, that you may reflect the morontia into your daily life.  Stillness is sitting before this mirror.

Malvantra: Yes, indeed, you should look into this mirror often to see how your morontia selves are appearing so that you may groom them for optimal performance. I would remind you at the same time that you as budding morontia individuals will also be using this mirror to mirror outwards to others what it means to live a morontia life of soul. Your individual lights will shine out, and the love of our Father and of
Michael and of Mother and your teachers will reflect off your mirror so that others may see and be attracted to a life in partnership with our Father. The morontia mirror is a two-way mirror. If you will look at it closer yourselves you will discover that indeed it is a three-way mirror.

As was said previously, much of what you have truly become you do not yet see. Let go of your ego fear and allow yourself to see the beauty and truth of your own intentions and the reality of your personal spiritual growth. It is not egotistical to recognize that which your soul has accomplished. You have accomplished it with cooperation with your fragment of our Father. Your soul knows that this is so, that you have not accomplished it alone, all by yourself. It is because you have each come closer to your Thought Adjuster that you are beginning to become brilliant reflectors of our Father's life.

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Question: As I walk the spiritual walk of my life I notice that sometimes I feel really moved, filled, and
close to God and Jesus, and sometimes it feels like everything withdraws and there is sort of a still quietness out there. Is that my imagination? I know God doesn't go anywhere. What happens then? Is that something real that happens to people? That there is an ebb and flow of their spiritual receptivity and constancy of the ministry to them.

Answer: It appears to us that this is quite normal for you humans. Of course, God is constant. Your consciousness is not. And for many reasons. Some growth takes place beyond consciousness in higher mind realms. Much reality takes place on a spiritual level, which you would never, never see tangibly or be even aware of. So, sometimes when you feel you are not spiritually centered or tuned, you are indeed experiencing growth. There are also rest periods, plateaus, spiritually as well as intellectually, physically. A being can only work so hard for so long then must rest. So this seems to be normal and, of course, the constancy of the human will varies. Although we have all made the ultimate commitment to do the will of The Father, the acting upon this decision involves constancy of spirit in actions and varies, which is not extraordinary, but is the condition of imperfect beings. 

Abraham: It would seem at times people are so quick to define the world around them that they give little effort towards being observant. In these fast paced times the attitude seems to be 'the more--the better.' It is as if everyone operates at top speed. There seems to be no slowing down to be watchful.

Sometimes we need a reminder to be calm and observant — wait on your definitions; wait before you make judgments. The rash definition is quite likely to miss details and choose a poor perspective. We all need a time to release and be open for receiving the new.

You can view your surroundings and see that it seems everyone cannot receive enough information, enough news. It is as if people know there are new things occurring, and they look towards their material technology to receive any and all information.

They say knowledge is power and yes, it is, but so many think not to turn inward towards a spiritual source of information. There is this awareness, a new awareness that is somewhat unsettling to many, but also comforting to some. You can feel as though you know more but do not know how or why. Being so aware you are in a searching mode and with a questioning mind. This openness leads to receiving revelation, that is information coming from a divine source.

There are many forms of revelation, many ways to receive. We are endowed with awareness and an easier, more understandable technique to receiving revelation or divine communication. Sometimes what
you have criticized others for, you have been caught doing yourself. This is a form of revelation, a form of divine communication that aids you in your own self-correction. Yes, this is on a personal level, but does this not also add to the wellness of the whole?

The churches in today's world may speak of revelation as if they receive information because they are looked upon with favor by God. Many of the so-called prophets were deemed prophets because they seemed to have received divine revelation. It is as if these seemingly chosen individuals were the only ones that can receive. This practice is quite outdated and everyone, even the smallest child, has equal opportunities to receive divine revelation. Divine revelation is not the thunderous voice of God that tells
great things to come or new commandments to obey, no.

Most revelation is personal and aiding you in your journey Paradiseward. Many individuals can receive the same revelation simultaneously or varying bits of information that choreograph spiritual experiences to bring about certain results to incorporate a common universal knowledge. We have to be observant. We have to refrain from defining. We have to believe that some circumstances are being woven into a greater
universe fabric.

Back to personal revelation and correction, I would admonish you to not become discouraged by these seemingly ugly facts about your behavior, for it is the very whisper of God into your ear. He is your loving, devoted Parent, not a stern judge who looks for your every mistake so He can chastise you. This week practice being observant. Note the new levels of awareness in yourselves as well as your fellows. How can you better deal with the correction from personal revelation?

Simon: Abraham, I have a question about choreographing spiritual experiences that bring about results. Sometimes I feel like we are left on our own to see what will happen and wonder if that is the case? I know in my heart that applying faith and then escaping fear or escaping with fear sometimes and not applying myself to full faith. As Father does the timing of assistance in our lives, are we at times left alone waiting?

Abraham: Yes, it would appear sometimes as if you are left alone to make decisions, and that is true to a point because your free will cannot be infringed upon. Father can only do so much before it is up to you make a decision and take action. The problem is time. While Father sees time as only an eternal forward momentum, you see time as the enemy. It does create great impatience. During these impatient and frustrating moments you especially need to be aware and observant, and take action from a calm state of mind. I understand the world does not agree with this theory, but you must realize while you are never left alone by our divine overseers, they are greatly devoted to your progression and too much involvement could take away from your opportunity to progress Paradiseward. Choreographing, yes, we each know well that synchronistic circumstances that lead to growth. 

These circumstances are not always peace promoting, but rather agitating to create reactivity. Therein lies the importance of being aware and observant and not taking rash actions. You can see from past experience that time really does take care of many matters. Just the waiting is a bit frustrating to the mind. In this society hard work leads to productivity, but many times we find that rash actions lead to mistakes. There are always many factors to consider like perhaps from what foundation would you make your decisions? Is it a worthy place? Is it pure? Is it ego induced? Is it out of fear? What is the basic mind-set in which you would be acting from is a good question to ask yourself during these times. 

Rayson: In self-consciousness you can live life actively, inter-actively, co-creatively! And that is the most powerful place to be for overcoming your issues. 

You have seen many people in society you can call "couch potatoes," who watch TV all the time and are really not in their body or in their mind, they are out there in the screen. They are not even living life vicariously — they are being entertained. They are "smoking on the opium pipe" of modern society. And so it is a very harmful, deleterious habit to get into, to be unawake, unconscious, un-self-aware, to be living in an alternative reality, which has no reality to itself, other than the fiction, or even the news on TV. 

So these notes are to help your self-awareness, they are little "pinpricks," as your mother or grandparent may have done at church-they would pinch you a little bit in church to awaken you to listen to the sermon, to listen to the service, not to fall asleep. Of course, grandpa may have gotten pinched too, huh, as he was falling asleep. This is to live life, being awake. Living life unawares, as some philosophers have said, is not to live at all, but a life that is wasted; this has been said by eastern and western and middle-eastern philosophers for centuries. Live a life that is conscious, moment to moment.

Yes, I do know that some of you have jobs that are very distracting, which require production, continuity of thought, from one task to another so that you have a chain of tasks throughout the day. We would hope that you would take time to turn away from your computer monitor, and turn your chair to face a window, look at a bird outside, to pay attention to another reality. Some of you do this at stop signs. Some of you do this at coffee breaks, where you take time apart to disengage from your work life. This produces a life that is very productive for your employer and earns you a good living, but does not really contribute to your spiritual development and the higher skills and talents that lie dormant within you. 

And how many of you are conscious and aware while interacting with your fellow workers when there is a problem — to be self-aware as a child of God, to look at this exchange and reflect on it in a spiritual manner, for spiritual benefit, for its soul-growth? And that is what this is all about: how to augment the development of your soul in ways that are far more productive than living life unconsciously. When you live this way, you become aware that there are ethical decisions to be made many times a day. There are moral decisions that you need to engage in or contemplate. Perhaps you do not have to make decisions concerning that, but in your mind if you suppose that you were in that position, what would your intent be for an ethical decision? Whether it is helping a clerk make the right change and giving them back what is truly due to the mercantile firm, or whether it is dealings with labor and management, whether it is with customers and policy. If you engage these issues, these areas, with ethical and moral consideration, what you can learn from it? Then you will gather much growth from this. 

And dear ones, if you live your life for 30 or 40 years working for others, task to task, minute to minute, and learned very little through this process of self-consciousness, what will you do when you retire? Do you think you will learn this automatically and quickly? I think not! These are skills that are developed, much like tennis, running, handball, hockey, flying an airplane — these are skills that are developed and these are skills that can be lost. These are skills that you must maintain. So use these little pinpricks, little jabs in the ribs to wake up, to remind you. And if you have lived a life that is unconscious from minute to minute, then when you see these, these are reminders to wake up. "What am I thinking?" "What is my agenda?" "What is my intention for this moment?" You are not here for entertainment, for this is not entertainment, this is hard work! This is some of the hardest work you will experience as a mortal.

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Balance is a word with which humans feel comfortable. You feel, perhaps, you know this concept well. As children you learned what the word is defined as, and you learned balance. For example, when riding a bicycle without the training wheels. But you have not really learned balance as humans, individually, because your planet is so out of balance. So let us examine what balance really means to each of us and to the world.

On a universal level, the first rule of balance is physical. There are dark islands, which exert balancing influences on physical matter in space. Without these islands entire universes would implode, explode, or simply leave. On Earth, in our local universe, the Master Physical Controllers are in charge of the energy balance, which keeps your planet afloat - rotating, spinning, revolving. Of course, the Isle of Paradise exerts a physical balance as the universes breathe inward and outward.

Your scientists have recently discovered evidence of creation. They are on the right track but fail to grasp the concept of physical over-control of balance. Physically, Earth is balancing even as you who live here perceive an imbalance, upheavals, tidal floods, earthquakes, or volcanoes - are all physical signs of the rebalancing of the planet. As Earth approaches Light and Life status these physical manifestations will calm.

So balance is first and foremost a physical phenomenon. How does this translate to the individual material being? You must pay attention to your physical being. If the physical is unbalanced it repercusses on every level. Like a universe, the physical may cause you to implode, explode, or simply float away. Physical balance on this stage or arena of beingness definitely affects spiritual growth. It can enhance or retard Adjuster control. It can whip up false emotions causing despair, anger, depression, paralysis, false enthusiasm, euphoria, hysteria, fear, phobic reaction. All are manifestations of a physical imbalance. Some you can correct. Others you must learn to live with and overcome mindally-spiritually. Simple things - proper rest, nutrition, lack of abuse to your bodies - constitute the goal of physical balance. When your body is balanced you have the advantage in other areas.

In our universe, mindal, intellectual, rational, thinking balance is achieved through a system - although
different in degree, upon every level - is basically the same. Of course perfected beings have no need for
these considerations as they are created in perfect balance for that is what perfection is. We are more fortunate than they. We earn and learn perfection.

In our universe we have a system of teaching. The slightly more advanced teach those behind them. They teach those behind them. We are all teachers and students. Our guardian seraphim help us maintain rationality and perspective, which fosters sanity. If one were to study a minute portion of a painting one may think it insane and meaningless. When one pulls back you may see the whole working in harmony and sanity and balance.

Your guardian seraphim see more than you at every level and have given you - and will give you - the gift of intellectual, mindal, sanity. Here, for you, - keep your seraphim close, fear is distancing to your angels. Consciously request your angels' help and they will be overjoyed to give it to you. They are your constant, faithful companions. If you invite them they will help, but you must allow them the opportunity to serve in their appointed roles. Do not deny these loving beings their service.

The human is blessed-cursed with ego. Ego, in and of itself, is not good or bad. Unfortunately, it is mostly in control in individuals at this time on this world. Ego can imbalance mind. Mind is a bestowal of Divine Mother and is spiritual, progressive, growth oriented, God advancing in nature. Adjutant Mind Spirits are at work as well as the Mother Spirit, but human ego can interfere, and should not be confused with mind properties - the sanity, spiritually sane properties - that each one of you has.

Ego can be identified as self aggrandizement, self-involvement, over self-analysis, when your self becomes more important than the spiritual goals, concepts, you know to be true or when yourself becomes the center of the universe instead of God. Or when yourself becomes more important than your fellows, resulting in hurtful behavior to others. This is ego.

We cannot be perfect here, brothers and sisters, so do not make another ego error of self punishment for
past and present mistakes. We are all learning together. We are becoming together. We are going through a process together. This is what ascension, evolution, experiential beings do. Just be aware of the difference so one may achieve balance.

On a planetary level, some geographic locations suffer from lack of mind as groups, others suffer from
over-much ego. We are not in balance mindally on this planet. There are few rational group voices on the planet now, but that will be corrected, and there is no need for despair.

Third, and most important element of balanced personality integration, is of course the spiritual. This is both simple and complex. You are all indwelt by a fragment of The FATHER. You have access to the Spirit of Truth, and the ministering Angels, and the Divine Mother. You are co-creating your morontial souls with the Adjuster.

But how does one use these tools? Review Thought Adjuster - Spirit of Truth lessons for more technical in-depth explanations, teachings. But for day to day practical usages, I continue to stress a spiritual habit of daily prayer, worship and thanksgiving, a spiritual time to center in God inward and outward, the integration of spiritual principles into thought, word, deed, whether doing trivial, mundane chores, professional chores, or in one's personal social interactions. When spiritual considerations become as
important as political gain, other considerations, you will be in balance as an ascender.

One must not devote all one's conscious time-thought to the spiritual. Unconsciously or super-consciously that is the reality. But for balance you must pray and then put those prayers, answered prayers - into action in your lives. This is balance. You cannot exist in a vacuum. We are interrelated, and it is a disservice to your own progressive path to bury your talents.

Brothers and sisters, you are all spiritual ambassadors in your own lives. That is why balance is so important for you. Rest, relaxation, fun, loving partnering relationships, friendships, prayer, worship, thanksgiving, proper nutrition, doing a good job to retain your material existence, all are necessary for you to be the very best spiritual ambassador that you can be.

Your planet is unbalanced most spiritually. There is a lack of understanding of your cosmic place, of your future, of many very basic concepts other planets have. You are off center, but not abandoned, not at all abandoned. Earth is most cherished by our Creator-Father-Brother MICHAEL (also known as Jesus of Nazareth when He was incarnated here), and most looked after on high. Some day Earth will be the crowning planet of Nebadon (that part of the galaxy where Earth is located), and shine brightest, and the
tale of your struggles will inspire others for aeons of time, even into eternity.

If you achieve balance, mind-body-spirit, your cosmic awareness must increase. Part of Spiritual intellectual growth is cosmic citizenship awareness - our place in the grand scheme as individuals, ascenders, and perfecters, as well as our planet's place in the cosmos. As you become more integrated you will be aware of more spiritual beings surrounding you, your angels and Midwayers, teaching corps and assistants, Life Carriers, Thought Adjuster internally, Spirit of Truth externally, and you cannot help, then, but realize what the cosmos will be like. You can actually experience cosmic citizenship here, today, in material form.

Question: What happens to us physically, mindally, and spiritually when the physical body is asleep - in
terms of balance?

Answer: Physically, of course, sleep is a restorative in terms of a shut down of the senses, or a slow down of the senses. So physically, sleep is a necessary recharging mechanism. Mindally, dreaming is a mindal release dealing with emotions: stress, fear, processing, feelings, etc., takes place during dream state and physically the brain is altered to release toxins.

Spiritually, sleep is quite important for that is when your Adjuster or Controller broadcasts the ideal plan for you to you. Sometimes Adjuster communication is partially distorted with dream states. But whether Adjuster communication reaches the unconscious sleeping mind is not as important as the fact that higher mind is receiving undiluted Adjuster communication. Also you are receiving Adjuster broadcasts, which are beamed to your Adjusters throughout this universe.

Question: Many of us are having difficulty, earning a living currently due - in part - to the state of our economy, but largely due to our newly-acquired perspective of the material versus the spiritual. In other words, making money is no longer important to us. Spiritual growth and service are. Can you help with a balance here?

Answer: You must maintain your material existence. This is a priority for you on this planet. I do not know how to say this any clearer than that. While you recognize your dual nature as animal and spirit, you must maintain an existence in both realms. How is it that you can grow in spiritual awareness if your body suffers? If your family suffers? You must find this balance on your own. I can tell you that, as our Master did in His life, take care of your priority needs first, then engage in those activities which will add to your over-all well being, both physically, mentally and spiritually. I am aware of the situation. I understand human nature. When you get a taste of the divine - of that which is greater than the material - you wish to give up on the material, to go into the greater part. Do not leave behind the recognition and consciousness of the fact that you are material beings.

The left and the right side of a scale require the other to function properly. To those who enjoy the solitude of worship and contemplation and to those who enjoy the activity of service and ministry, hold in view that when one is doing the other, one is actually accomplishing its opposite. They do go hand-in-hand. If your days are full of activities, your list of things to do is long, a few moments spent in solitude will bring balance. If you find yourself looking for a means to be helpful to your fellows and they are not there, and that you have spent time, and time is ample to study and to contemplate, that this study and contemplation will contribute to the time that you will be busy. If you seek to find in your day one minuscule service instant, you will find that the ample time given to the comprehension of the Father will rush forward to infuse that moment with all the truth and the goodness and the beauty that you have come to know.

Jesus knew his apostles well. He knew that when they wearied from his pressing public ministry that it was time to take them off into the hills for refreshment. He knew that when their anxiety rose from too much revelation, he sent them back among the multitudes that they may relieve themselves of these new realizations by passing them on, by road-testing them, thereby balancing the intensity with practicality. You can rest assured that the Father within you is equally doing this for you. Be patient when you long for an occurrence. The Father is fully aware of your desire and is equally aware of circumstances and will stimulate you to act when the two coincide. But I also ask you to develop this skill yourself, to know when to retreat to the hills and to know when you must hit the streets.

Minearisa: Part of your dilemma is the tendency to truly take your work very seriously. In taking the work seriously, you have a tendency to also take yourselves seriously. It would be hard not to. If a surgeon is not paying attention to what he is doing, taking his work seriously, he could mis-step and lose a life. And this work he performs is truly creative. It's possible for a surgeon to listen to rock and roll music or grand opera while performing surgery, as a reflection of the creative aspects of the work.  

Thus, the performance of performing surgery in a life and death situation, can also be portrayed as an extension of the grander senses because the surgeon's mastery over his toolbox has afforded him the luxury of the dimension of the creative artistry of what he does, even while what he does is important. What God does is very important, but it is also full of beauty, full of light.
 
The creative nature is worth embracing as a counter-part to the expression of loyalty and devotion to duty. The light-heartedness of youth is to be enhanced and solidified by substance but the seriousness of study and discipline also does well to be amenable to a light-hearted approach. More balance, you see. Tip the weight of the scale toward beauty and joy and play.

Abraham: Celebration always includes worship and exhibits our deepest gratitude for those that make our joy possible.

With all our work, our struggles, our efforts, we become very business-like in mind. It is easy to overlook those small things that bring us rest for the mind and comfort to the soul. We find this time to drink deeply from the well of spiritual serenity. We find this time to breathe in deeply the satisfaction of our spiritual status as a child of God, and for a few moments think of nothing and just be, just rest and feel not that anxiety to produce, to fulfill promises, to be insulted by time.

The mortal life is difficult, yes no doubt, but it is also a source of joy, a sense of accomplishment, a producer of spiritual values and a unifier between time, eternity and the living God. To celebrate your mortal sojourn
you respect all the five senses. You make it a point to be fully aware in each moment — be it bad or good. You face the difficult trials and you take comfort in knowing that you do not ever give up.

My friends, find time to be in celebration of all of life. Do not awaken dreading the duties of the day, but awaken your inner-selves to the possibilities of the day. Where will Father have me go today? What will He
be trying to show me? How can I be a cog that turns the universal wheel of life? Being mindful of celebrating life you are in an attitude of creating joy, not just your own, but for all. You become a part of the whole and join in the healing, not just another mortal struggling up the spiritual ladder.

To find time for a few moments of celebration everyday re-focuses your mind from handling matters in a business-like fashion to handling matters by joining a forward moving circuit that travels far beyond your knowledge. You are not so exhausted then, you are not so drained. Your countenance is lightened and quite an attraction to others. Find time to celebrate and show your gratitude; speak with one another; laugh and feel Father moving among you.

In being in a state of celebration keeps the low times from becoming too low, too spiritually crushing. You take not yourselves so seriously and you are finding direct spiritual contact. In acknowledging this, life is not just about running the race of time, but about having those moments when you feel the hand of God upon your shoulder, leading you to new and better ways. Joy is a source of power. You can do a great many wonderful things by spreading it.

This week utilize your power to change dark situations. Lighten your own burdens by finding time to really notice the wonderful things of this mortal life. Feel how there is not room for fear when there is hope and joy. Feel that spiritual contentment as you move among your fellows with an attitude of self-forgetfulness, with a gratitude for having the honor of fully living the mortal life. Journal how this affects your personal ministry to others.

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Beauty is much needed by beings of imperfect creation and yet its true nature is subject to considerable misunderstanding. Therefore I shall offer a simple definition of beauty. Beauty is that creation of Father which heightens the awareness of all who behold of true spiritual meaning.

When you, for example, behold beauty, your Thought Adjuster is made aware of your perception because beauty is a creation of Father and, as with all things, imbued with Father's qualities. Awareness of beauty sends a direct meaning and signal to your Thought Adjuster which is in turn transmitted to Paradise, as are all Thought Adjuster signals, for recording and sometimes direction, guidance, answer.

Does this mean that animals do not perceive beauty? Yes, that is correct. And indeed those mortals with
indwelling Adjusters who turn away from Father's works will have little, if any, understanding of true beauty and, instead, substitute self-created definitions of beauty. These, of course, will be easily seen through by the spiritually uplifted and aware, such as yourselves.

Behold beauty and you are closer to God. Behold beauty and you gain wisdom. Behold beauty and you
possess a bit more truth. Behold beauty and you share Father's love. Behold beauty, and you step forward in your spiritual growth. Behold beauty and become yourself beautiful, as was Jesus and Melchizedek and his visitation to this planet. Behold beauty and you will recognize it immediately upon representation and always will know it as different and special and not like anything of mortal creation.

Does this mean that beauty should be worshipped? Worship is not quite the right action to undertake for
God's qualities. It is God that you will worship, should worship, are invited to worship. God's qualities are for you to emulate, to hold close, to share, to revere. Truth, beauty, goodness and love are qualities of Father that all are His gifts to you, and each in its own stead contributes to your spiritual nourishment. Enjoy Father's gifts, they will enrich your lives immensely. Share them with your neighbor. It has been said that there is nothing of Father's creation that is not beautiful. You may wish to ponder this a bit. It is essentially true.

And, of course, it is the answer to the developing adolescent who is tempted to ridicule his neighbor as
ugly. And yet, you may say, “but are there not ugly acts?” Yes, there are choices that freewill creatures are permitted to make which can lead to adverse outcomes, sometimes quite unpleasant. This is ugly. The one who makes a freewill choice to reject the Adjuster's promptings and turn away from Father may be perceived by the spiritual self as unpleasant to gaze upon or ugly, and yet, even this one is beloved by
Father.

Should you only retain what you believe is beautiful, and expel – destroy - the remainder? This is a decision reserved for the Ancients of Days alone and not for us. However, in participating in the difficult work of uplifting a world that has fallen into darkness and chaos, necessary social adjustments must be made, and recognition of that which is less godlike is certainly helpful in this regard.

It is difficult for me to comment further on this line. But your Urantia book offers further guidance, if you wish it. Lucifer stated that man was too weak to live in a world in which beauty was marred. Do you think that is true? I do not believe so, either. When new arrivals come to the mansion world, there is often the comment that the beauty there is overwhelming, spectacular, awe-inspiring, comforting, loving, peaceful, truth containing, inspirational, worship-inducing. This is true, all true, and yet this is but an early step in your long journey. You are right to believe that the heaven of your ancestor's stories is a beautiful and wonderful place, and yet when Light and Life arrive on this world, the same will be true here, even more than is presently the case.

My friends, beauty abounds on this little planet. It is all about you. There for your enjoyment and comfort. You have only to extend your perceptions and try them. That is the end of our lesson today.

Question: Thank you, Rayson. I've always thought of beauty as being harmony, that is, harmony of colors or harmony of notes of music, or lives lived in harmony. If you would comment on the relationship between beauty and harmony, I would appreciate it.

Answer: Yes, that is an excellent question. All which is in accord with Father and Father's qualities is, of course, harmonious in the cosmic sense. You know that that applies to truth, do you not? (Yes.) And love? (Yes.) And goodness? (Yes.) So, too, with beauty, and yet it need not be a specific assortment of colors or sounds or spatial configurations even, instead it is the spiritual quality of the artist that imbues an object with its beauty. That is why it is so true that no creations of Father are anything but beautiful and indeed harmonious. Does that answer?

Question: Yes. I do have a follow-up question. Would you comment on why it is that some people think
that things are beautiful which others think are very unbeautiful? For instance, art, the drawing art and
even in music. Do we see different qualities in it, or just what is the explanation for different tastes in art
or music?

Answer: Do you know of any time that Jesus commented on the lack of beauty on anything on Earth?

Question: Well, I know that He was very unhappy with the conduct of the leaders of the church, the spiritual leaders, that is, but specifically in terms of beauty, no.

Answer: Perhaps the differing value in terms of beauty assigned by differing human observers is best explained in terms of selective perception, that is, what observer A sees is filtered through certain expectations that he has, while observer B has different expectations, yet if seen through the eyes of
Father or Jesus or a mortal from the time of Light and Life, it is unlikely that there would be perception of ugliness, particularly in terms of material structures. I understand that there are different tastes among individuals and that what is pleasing to the senses of one may not necessarily be pleasing to the other, yet there is no place in the definition of beauty for physical pleasure, so perhaps this is part of the misunderstanding.

Question: For instance a noise that is considered caterwauling by some can be enjoyed by cats.

Answer: Yes or by an avant guard musician.

Question:  Or artist

Answer: Or tone deaf neighbor.

Question: Yes, I think I understand.

Answer: The idea of beauty as that which is physically pleasurable is not a spiritual definition. This is more in keeping with catering to animal drives. Again, I refer back to the example presented in our last lesson about the teenage boy who would call the neighboring woman ugly, assuming that his adjective was chosen on the basis of a lack of sexual arousal afforded by the woman's countenance. I would say that such a definition of beauty and non-beauty is not in keeping with spiritual qualities or their lack. Does that help?

Question: It helps. Is there's a distinction between physical beauty and spiritual beauty. I know technically
what the answer is, but I would like for you to comment on it.

Answer: Physical beauty and spiritual beauty can be the same when perceived by the one who is spiritually attuned with Father and, in the case of Earth mortals the indwelling Adjuster, I mean spiritually attuned in the sense of a high level of development close to fusion, not mere contact.

However, failing that, there will always be some discrepancy on the part of the observer between what is understood as spiritual beauty and what is understood as physical beauty. This is not meant to be a criticism, but merely a marker of one's growth and progress. You certainly would not be expected to understand complicated mathematical principles before you had mastered addition and subtraction. So too with the complexities of spiritual principles and qualities.

The animal is attracted by, and sees beauty in, that which satisfies animal drives: a comfortable place to
sleep in satisfies the drive for rest, a tasty morsel to chew upon satisfies the drive to eat, a sturdy genetic
product of the opposite sex satisfies the need to mate, and all three examples are representations of
beauty to the animal mind. But do you truly believe that a soft mattress leads you closer to Father?

Answer: Not always. I would say no.

Rayson: Of course, you need to sleep, but you understand my point.

Answer: Yes, I understand your point.

Question: Then, if I understand your lesson, if the object seen, the sound heard, the scent perceived arouses a sense of gratitude to Father and appreciation of His creation, then that is beauty in a more spiritual sense and not just in a physical sense?

Answer: Yes. All of you present have been increasingly awakening to the promptings of your Thought
Adjusters over the last interval of time, and even though it is difficult for you and the perception most
fragile and delicate, with great effort you can at this stage see that spiritual beauty. I urge you to work at
this. You will find your work rewarding.

Beauty, though prevalent universally, is an experience of the individual. It is important while appreciating the expressions of another, their spiritual attainment, their character development, their wisdom, their serviceability to their fellows, that you do not eclipse your own worth. The order of an English garden is strikingly different from the order of a Japanese garden, yet the two manifest beauty nonetheless.

 Therefore, not only is it beneficial to apply yourself to the extent that your energies are capable of accomplishing your goal, but it is also worthwhile to orient yourself on a specific goal and do your tilling and transplanting with that goal in mind, being inspired by, but not necessarily driven to becoming like, another.

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Amanson on "Belief / Beliefs” December 3, 2023

'Belief' is that from out of which a life is woven.  Belief is your hall pass to all that the universe has to offer. It is the one intangible reality that is ultimately tangible in ways no one could have foreseen but the believer. 'Beliefs' are fabrications suggested from without, but Belief is a fabricator manifesting from within.

The difference between 'belief' and 'beliefs' is primary. The one - 'Belief'-  is an engine, a creator of worlds. 'Beliefs' are simply choices made within a questioning mind, choices that ultimately manifest as questions themselves, until they can be replaced by a larger recognition of That from which the questions sprang in the first place.

Belief is the human side of creation [i.e. the act of creating]. Belief is the mechanism that links you up with and locks you into the (Holy) spirit that is Creation, that is Energy itself. Nothing gets done without purpose, and nothing of purpose gets done without Belief.

And yet 'Belief' is often maligned as being synonymous with 'beliefs' plural. This is a mistake. Look at Belief as the trunk of a tree, and beliefs (plural) as its leaves and branches. They are not the trunk, the organizing principle, but they do thrive and grow and, just like leaves, will change with the turning of the seasons. The trunk [Belief itself] remains ever connected to its source, in fact its roots sinking deeper and deeper; while our beliefs, once blossoms, soon enough decay.

Nothing is activated without Belief  -- neither simple endeavour nor  realization of the framework of Creation. In both cases what Belief puts in motion is the turning of a key and the unlocking of a door, a door which, without the  element of Spirit-suffused Imagination (i.e. Belief), will remain closed -- the endeavour lies dormant due to lack of individual volition, the exponential power of dedication; the realization of Cosmic Industry remains ungraspable due to the refusal to recognize it on its own terms, the very Belief that is creation itself: Spirit in its working clothes.

The individual has a choice in this life: to follow life to its roots, the engine room, so to speak, to discover for oneself the wheels and gears, the very Mechanic in charge! ; or to wallow in, remain simply satisfied with, the trappings of a life, disregarding its most powerful tool - a tool that ironically strips away the mere comforting furniture of 'beliefs' - the all-powerful Gift of Creation --gifted you by its Creator -- the game-changer: Belief.

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Amanson on The Casting of Blame

'The Casting of Blame' is an attempt to get out from under the shadow of your own guilt, or at least the shadow of your own unconscious suspicions. Blame is an irritating thing - it taints both the blamer and the blamed. It seeks to — or rather, purports to — offer a solution; it appears an attempt to find the truth, to ascribe responsibility for a situation, but what it actually does is add another layer of disruption onto an already fraught confluence of events. 

When one blames another, blame acts as a sort of bludgeon, used not to relieve matters but to keep the cacophony going, and, as I've said, in hopes of getting out from under the shadow of one's own insecurities. But it will always fail. How could it not? It extends a web that would be much more useful as a web of inquiry into the origins and ramifications of the incident, how it might have been avoided and how its consequences might be better dealt with now, rather than the superficial and ultimately meaningless casting of blame. It's useless, although in the moment it might seem useful, even justified. 

Blame is tossed about like so much confetti at a parade these days. It rains down like ticker tape on to the passers by, although this particular confetti is anything but celebrational. That is where the metaphor ends, a metaphor used to underscore blame's unfortunate prevalence in your modern world, at least in your present day society. 

How much good work, how many fortuitous answers, helpful solutions are lost to the casting of blame? All the energy, the ingenuity used in the concocting of excuses and "passing the buck" that could be beneficially put to use in the constructive approach to a problem - the participants free of blame, free from the need to defend and explain themselves, able now to buckle down and work out a solution to a mistake that somebody made. Who cares? There's a problem - let's fix it. As you're so fond of quoting, "Difficulties only stimulate the children of the Most Highs". 

This is the beauty of disagreements - they demand an agreement of some sort, a creative meeting of the minds, something original to accommodate this new situation the quarrelsome parties find themselves so fortunate to be faced with: a new problem! Let's delve. Let's explore. Blame? Why would I blame you? We've a situation here. Together we can get to the bottom of it and most likely learn something about ourselves in the process. That's how to successfully cast blame - you cast it out!

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Amanson on Buoyancy

Do not worry about what’s to come. Your concern should be how to keep the present moment buoyant. Now, ‘concern’ is an odd word here for that is precisely the mental activity you want to do away with in cultivating buoyancy. The lightness of living (‘Lightness’ in all its meanings) demands a deft approach to the catalogues of information incessantly thrown at you, information hoping to be received as worthy of admission to your inner citadel, when most of it is so much noise — distraction — designed to keep you from the calm required for making ‘heads or tails’ of the current situation. 

I come back to the Oneness. When the Quiet that pervades your stillness is found and held, kept close, basked in, if you will, the fragmentation you perceive in the outside world goes away. It no longer assaults you as so many sharp edges but fades, melts, into a dream-like landscape, and what was previously ominous, threatening, is now a kind of symphony of sights and sounds under the baton of some conductor or other (you know Who!), fading into the background as music does in a movie. The sights and stories you see become reminders that others too have the opportunity to view life this way, if they only would. All the sounds would turn symphonic, the music sweeter, the stories kinder, passions less amplified, more down to earth.

We are not above being quiet in this roundelay, but the opportunities pass us by as the news of the world pulls us in and creates its own cycle of violence within the consciousness of each of its readers. It is difficult not to be caught up if the passions are given half a chance. But there is much more to life than the shadow play — all this acting out — on the surface of things. Smile, bow, prayer your hands and show these difficult times that your mind, your attention, your passions, cannot be bought ‘for love nor money.’ And then dive deep into the Oneness, feel the Unity behind this grand majestic pageant and do your best to lead others in Spirit, if only by example of a quiet heart in the face of great and very loud adversity. Buoyancy moment to moment is the goal, and oddly enough this buoyancy is achieved by diving deep into a quietude born of stillness in Spirit. True Buoyancy — lightness of being — is made possible when a heart and its mind are anchored in the calm truthful waters of spiritual awakening.

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Quite often there is a tendency to see spiritual challenges and spiritual exercises as a work challenge in which you may proceed into these experiences with a feeling of rolling up your sleeves and knuckling down to gleaning all that is possible from a given spiritual teaching. I would bring to mind the picture of spiritual calisthenics, as a game, an endeavor in which there is much fun to be had and in which all who participate will certainly be benefited. We speak of spiritual climbs, ascents, of the stages in your spiritual growth, and these terms imply struggle. Indeed, it is not without effort that you as individuals reach your achieved levels, but this effort is not necessarily grueling or uncomfortable. In many cases it is possible, even at the time of encounter, to so orient yourself as to see the next spiritual hurdle before you as a joyous thing in which you will proceed with a light heart and the recognition of the inherent fun value contained.

To think of spiritual progress often conjures up memories and ideas of serious struggle and uncomfortable progress you have encountered in your lives. As these hurdles you have successfully vaulted become part of your internal library, you begin to realize that these exercises, while they may be strenuous at times, need not be unduly serious, to proceed forward to your next spiritual challenge with the same attitude you would proceed into a lively game of tennis with an associate, to look at these spiritual interactions as simple exercises. Once you have become familiar with the exercises, it is far easier to forget the exercise and concentrate on the fun value.

At first when you learn to play a game you must concentrate seriously on the rules and the procedures
for executing the game.  When you become well versed, you then can let go of the apprehension of learning a new game and begin to enjoy yourselves more fully. The same is true of your spiritual encounters. At first they are intimidating, scary, unknown, and uncomfortable. After you become familiar with these encounters, you begin to see past the expectations and through into the enjoyment derived from these encounters. Soon your familiarity with spiritual matters will be so well versed that you will seek out with joy all future encounters, and the sense of apprehension attendant with your previous encounters will have completely dissipated. You will come to truly understand that there is nothing to fear in the spirit world. You are simply growing, learning, gaining, being, and none of these experiences is harmful to you.

And so, you will learn to play this game of spirit with much more joy as time moves on, and the excitement
and joy of playing the game will be the factor which draws you into the encounter.

This does not mean that the game is necessarily without your effort. You must each time commit yourself to the game, to the encounter, to the growth inherent in the game, and you will not be disappointed when you thus orient yourself.

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Be The Change

The antidote to hate is love; the antidote to chaos is calm.  The world you live on is beautiful, rugged, with peaks and valleys, wonders of nature and architectural developments. Astounding vistas abound.  And yet, within and among all of this, there is doubt, there is fear, uncertainty, troublesome occurrences, unintentional and deliberate evil.  There is also love and kindness, cooperation, resolve, and the intention to do what is right and good.

The antidote to negativity is positivity;  the antidote to darkness is the light.  If the battle between dark and light was going to be easy then the need to develop personalities that can withstand such trials and tribulations would not be necessary. Our suggestion when you begin to falter, become exasperated, to doubt or fear, is to break it down into smaller segments than what you are currently perceiving and find what you can do in those moments to be different from what you fear, to be responsive from a positive viewpoint. Can you be a faith filled child of God in this moment and then make it last a moment longer, and then a moment longer?

There are times when looking at the big picture is necessary and there are times when getting focused on the smaller perspective is necessary. Usually these correspond to your level of doubt and despair. As you feel these emotions come to you, recognize that you may need to narrow your viewpoint and find a focus.  Sometimes one thing at a time leads to larger occurrences that are more fruitful.  Therefore, we encourage you to start each day with the centering stillness and invite the cooperation of your Indwelling Spirit to help you see those little things you can do to help turn the drops into the trickle into the stream into the river which becomes the oceans.

While you may believe, sometimes, that the black patches of evil have become larger than the white background of goodness, the white background is still larger and goodness happens more often than evil, although it can seem so difficult to see when contrasted with what you hear about, read about, and see in the media of various forms. But look around outside of the news and see what your family, your friends and neighbors are doing for each other and their communities.  Trust that other neighborhoods and communities are doing the same, often going unwitnessed by the media which operates in the sensational.  Perhaps reminding each other and others about this core of goodness more often will help to broaden perspectives and bring hope and build resolve toward producing more acts of kindness instead of dwelling on the evil.

Trust me, we do see what you see. We just have the fortune of more experience and a larger network of resources built into our awareness at the current time so that the happenings on your world do not seem quite as distressing as it may seem to you.  Sometimes out of chaos new possibilities emerge quite rapidly and what you think may be leading to fall and ruin can ultimately be a temporary recognition of what it is that you do not want before realizing what you do want, what can be and what will be, if you work for it.

So have faith. Lean on spirit as needed. Reach toward the spirit within you, who will certainly be reaching back, and from that connection, your perspectives will find some clarity and perhaps open the possibilities for you to become more representative of what you would like to see in the world.

Being alive, aliveness, means encompassing changes. Change is not in itself a negative occurrence, rather, look upon it as a sign of growth. Does the seed not change into the flower? Does the child not change into the man? There is a sameness to the core of the being. There is also a change, reflecting God's good and holy plan. Many do not understand as they cling to the familiar that the rungs of the ladder on which they roost are only illusionary. They will be threatened by a change, and not even know why in their own hearts. We must be patient with these children and try not to let their fear, which will be masked often as anger, upset our own equilibrium.

I would like you to be aware right now with your entire beings, of your bodily reaction to that word - change. How many have tensed, winced, clenched? How many have turned heads? How many wished not to hear this word? I think that each of you have reacted psychologically, emotionally. You have probably had a reaction of pushing away, for the sad state of humans is - physically, emotionally, psychologically, mindally - to resist change. No matter how sorry your life may be at the moment or what areas one wishes to improve, one does not really wish to change. You wish life's circumstances might change, or relationships - friendships might change, or finances might change, etc., but you, yourself, resist change. It is only through the spiritual that you can truly understand change. Spiritually, for you - children of time - change is not something you have a choice over. It is the very fact of evolution for you. It is built into, and the basic building block foundation of The Father's plan for the evolutionary worlds and children of time and space. You cannot NOT change. Lack of change equals non-survival. Nor can you say this is a good change and this is a negative change. Change simply IS.

It IS. It is not good or bad. It is the very basic idea and will of the Universal Father for his creatures of time and space - is change. So, so much energy goes into resisting change - as if you can somehow control this - you cannot.

Change is part of who you are. Change will get you Godward. And change should be welcomed by each of you. Immobility - consider it - what a horrible fate! Even the angels - created perfect - learn through experience and change. Immobility is probably the worst thing that could become of you at any stage - not because you are first graders now. So, do not spend your energy thinking you can resist, control, or mail-order what types of change you wish. Because all of this is fantasy and generally to do with your outer environment and not your inner landscape, because when it comes to the inner, you are all resistant. Now, spiritually, if you can truly understand that change is always a step Godward, that not only should change NOT be resisted but should rather be embraced, sought after, prayed for, blessed. When you can recognize this event, you will have the adventuresome attitude of the spiritual soldier, evolving being, towards change instead of a material coward hiding-from-something, the unknown. For there is no unknown to you, your destiny is to "be you perfect even as I am perfect" as our Father has promised you.

What is so unknown and frightening? Yes, the path of evolution has prickly patches full of thorns, rocks, sunburned places that burn our beings. Yes, true. These are the events, which shape our characters and force change, and while going through them it is sometimes painful and difficult and disappointing, etc. However, do not make the arrogant mistake of putting down or hiding from The Father's plan for you - for there is a plan for each of you, a divine destiny - because it is hard at the moment, difficult, and because your vision is not wide enough to see the ultimate perfection and goodness of The Father's plan for you. One life, is not nearly enough time to glimpse destiny. You must on faith believe that whatever befalls you is to the ultimate goodness of your own being - and that of God's. God will not leave you naked. God will not let you, like the serpent; shed your skin before you are ready for a new one to grow.

Would a benevolent loving parent do this to his most helpless child? No. Therefore must you trust and with a faith-filled heart embrace the adventure of uncertainty. It is only uncertain in linear time. It is not uncertain in eternity. Whosoever will, may run the race Godward. Whosoever will join the adventure is welcome, and legions of helpers will be sent to you. And you have already begun to run this glorious race of time and eternity. Change is God's gift to you, the gift of experience is change. But you cover yourself up and root yourself in and dig holes and, like stubborn little frightened babies, refuse to leave your cocoon. The world, the universes, the ascension plan is glorious. The calluses you burn on your soul will some day turn into a being who can be god-like, god-like in terms of experience, in terms of every stage of creation, in terms of service, in terms of perfection, in terms of goodness and love. This is the stuff - these calluses that you are experiencing now - that will create the god-like in you.

All glory is to God. God has created all glory and all glory should go to God. Have not in your hearts fear or sadness or anxiety or resistance to change. Whether it comes in your own personal hearts and souls, or whether it is fear of losing. These are all illusions, for the teachings come from God, we come from God. Nothing can ever be lost in God's plan, his magnificence.

The making of decisions is allowing change, encouraging growth, and therein you find that the life which you knew has become a new energy pattern.

Even as one of you may enjoy a new relationship with another, the molecular characteristics of your arena alter to accommodate the new relationship, and yet again as you become a group and emerge into teamwork through three and four and more, each time your environment alters to provide for the energy 
patterns of each other. When you disallow another's energy patterns, you invite chaos. 

I speak to you as if you were all enlightened. When you are invited to know yourself, it is the emerging soul self which we refer to. In this way we become a part of the organism of life, the spiritual organism. We've become connected. There is appropriate self-forgetfulness as you embark upon the pattern of working together in unity of purpose. The advantage of an ability to work together in this way is that you begin to follow the guidance of the greater reality, and as a number of you together are enjoined in this synergy, you gain strength exponentially.  

And so, even though there may be few of you of like mind, even so, the power that you potentially have may, through creative order, bring about that impetus to alter the course of destiny. Love is more contageous than hate. Light is more powerful than the darkness. When you begin to work creatively 
within the divine order of the universe, your chaos makes sense.  It's a part of the reconstruction or the reassimilation of those energies which combine together to exalt the purpose of the infinite, and thus inherently the universe is working with you.

If you think about it, you can interpret that the Pope has already endorsed a galactic neighborhood, in that he has acknowledged the existence of angels. And the thing that holds you back, as a race of people, from embracing the cosmic neighborhood as your own back yard, with all its particulars, is the residue fear and ignorance that the universe may not be a friendly place after all, and that is based upon your mortal experience as having shown you that your immediate environment is not necessarily always a friendly 
environment, but putting these perspectives into your overall comprehension of where we are in terms of planetary evolution, epochal development, it will give you additional impetus to encourage the concept and to even assume the faith of others as being not too far removed form your own. It's when you look upon each other as enemies or as on opposing teams that your obstructions become tangible and problematic. Lead the way. Pave the way, then, into the new dispensation by revealing your relationship with the universe.

The marriage of science and religion will come to pass when we are able to feel comfortable that what intelligent life in the universe is, is an extension of Paradise, and not an extension of the baser nature of unevolved chaos.  

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THOROAH: I was thinking along the line of chaos, that it's also a part of a perception and perspective 
sometimes, is it not? I mean, we can go along in an very orderly fashion and then something comes in and disrupts that order, which is basically change, and without realizing it, it is probably a part of a new order that we are going to be moving into but we just don't recognize it as order, at first. We recognize it as change or chaos at first, but  then it evolves into order, and then something else will come along and try to disrupt that, and it's a sort of a flow. But our perspective sometimes makes something seem like it's chaos when it might not be.

DOLORES:  It is mota, yes. These lessons are only learned as you ascend, even as you ascend in this experiential existence. For what else is growth but to assimilate a farther view, a greater grasp of reality? I'll call attention to the story of the flood. In that time the records indicated the world was flooded except for Noah and his family and this legend has survived through centuries of retelling and still today they search for the remnants of the ark, and we know that the world has not been flooded since it has been inhabited by man. And we only know this through revelation. And the appreciation dawns that what was true for a certain mental framework serves until such time as the capacity for a greater mental framework is constructed, and then the message is broadened to expand your perception, even the perception of the universe. So you see how it is that as you pay attention, as you seek to know, you will be given answers, you will be broadened, your perspective will be increased, but this causes certain chaos in the mental realms until such time as the situation is such that the change is appropriate. And then the old structure falls and the new structure takes its place. What chaos that brings into the mind will depend upon how far aroused the mind has become to assimilating spirit values. Part of your eternal career is in allowing the ignorant and the untested to fall away, to be replaced by that which is tried and true in a bigger reality.

I'm going to go so far as to say that in one of your human strata stages of development you may have enjoyed the perception of Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, for a moment or two, but you grew away from that understanding of icon to the more sublime realization of the Gift Giver and the Resurrection.

It's just a matter of soul growth, spirit comprehension, and certainly while in the beginning it creates great havoc, as you pursue your faith path, the chaos is lessened because you have experienced time and again that the order that you have come to regard as divine order will resume, in fact has never been out of order, but only has changed scrims in order for you to enact your next plateau of human drama.  

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"Character" is the space between the divine and the human. It leads all the other faculties in their pursuits of excellence, be they financial, corporate, artistic, sport, education (teaching or learning). Even a simple handshake with a neighbor or new acquaintance, when offered with honesty and a genuine interest in the other personality, is the function of character.

Personalities differ radically. Some, as you know, are out-going, ebullient; some are withdrawn, reticent; others surly, combative, arrogant; but this will have no bearing on their character. Character is the truss rod, the steel spine down the center of the aggregate of personal traits and propensities. A person's immediate characteristics often belie a person's character, not circumventing it but over-riding it, confusing the impression given to the outside world. Character is the gift a person gives to the Creator, the Creator who gifted the person with a personality.

Character is the sum of the wisdom gleaned from experience. Little experience results in a shallow harvest of life's riches. With no one-on-one contact with the different facets of life there is little to draw on in the building of character. But when a person is plunged into the heat of life, the push-pull of the current of social fraternization and has to negotiate developments caused by the clash of personalities, or navigate the rapids of unexpected developments requiring a functional outcome, character is built by and in the decisions made.

And in the end it is character that brings us through, as each decision made, each kindness offered, each noble cause honestly espoused, each moment in a life lived earnestly and thoughtfully, compassionately, gathers momentum and racks up its life-enhancing toll, building an ever-expanding edifice honestly acquired in the face of an often dishonest world, a world in hiding, one frightened of the very qualities that build character.

When one has effectively faced this test and emerged steadily with an ever-unfolding character, life has lived its purpose through you and shall continue doing so until the Father of Personality can welcome the passionate son or daughter of Character and the circle, the Holy circle, is complete.

Character is that which leads the way — follows wholeheartedly in faithful anticipation — as one graduates toward the Light.

Character is that which realizes the pitfalls inherent in a freewill system and their beneficial character-building attributes, as mayhem is consciously left behind for beauty, truth, and goodness.

Character is the rock upon which one's personal civilization is founded. It acknowledges progress and builds from there, step by step, considered choice by considered choice.

Compassion rules the roost in a good character's make-up. It is the door through which all other qualities and considerations must first enter.

Selfishness is not a quality of character, it is the residue of fear in a thin and noncomprehending relationship to life. Character sees through that.

Character is your connection — and your response — to that which is calling you onward.

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You must continually make choices in this life, and you must choose based upon the highest ideal you are aware of. If you continually seek guidance from the Father your ideals will be elevated, your principles will be raised, your expectations will be enhanced. But choosing to act upon your highest thought of how to conduct yourselves in a given situation is the gift you give to the Father. Your making your every choice based on the highest ideal you are familiar with is the truest gift you can return to the Father; to act in wisdom, to act in peace, with harmony.

You are indeed very active, constantly making choices, constantly reevaluating your positions, reexamining your stances. This provides you the opportunity for continual reexamination of your principles and provides you with continual opportunity of either recommitting yourself to a previous choice or altering a choice to be more perfect. But it is the choosing that keeps you active. To not choose to choose causes stagnation.

So look about you and seek out choices, seek out opportunities, each one there for you to express and unfold and manifest as yet another expression of the Father's characteristics indwelling your very life.

Mary: You can look at choosing from several different perspectives. Choosing affects longterm goals and future plans. There are also choices that are made in the moment. I need to make a greater effort to be aware of the choices I am making in the moment, like the choice of language I use, the tone of voice, attitudes I choose to have. I'm not always alert to the fact that I am making choices in these basic modes of going about my business. When we talk about the spiritual significance of choice, I tend to distract myself with thinking about longterm choices. I think I need to recognize the significance of choices I make daily like attitude, language, approach.

Elyon:  Indeed, it would be well seen if all of you were to realize that your lives are one continual series of choices. Every aspect of your material existence is a choice you have made. From when you rise to what you ingest, to what you wear, to who you see, how you speak, what you devote your time to; all of these are choices which can have a spiritual impact as well if applied appropriately.

The fact that you all make all these choices routinely can become habitual, can go unrecognized as the potentials that they are. But I would point out to you that, from when you first open your eyes to when you shut them at night, you are in a continual process of choosing. I would then suggest that if you are in this process continually it might be helpful to access the choices being made and attempt to spiritualize these choices whenever the option presents itself, whenever the possibility exists to change the dynamics of the choice to include certain spiritual gains or benefits. Again I would say that each time you seek the Father, you may not be aware, but your highest goals and values will be enhanced by contact with the Father.

When you return to these high spiritual ideals to make your next decision or choice you will find that you will be operating on a slightly higher premise each time, almost unnoticeable at times and at other times obvious in your spiritual growth.

Lantarnek: You have a game where you place cards face down and flip two up at a time in an effort to match the face of each. Choice, when coupled with direction, amplifies its value in your life, for you know the skill required in playing this game is one where you recall from your past an association that applies to your future intent. Random flipping of cards will not win the game. When you begin to perceive choice as a matrix you will encounter less difficulty, less dilemma in arriving at a conclusive avenue in which to apply yourself.

Two of your religious phrases: "Seek the Father's will" and "Strive to be like Him" appear vague because of the reality of individual choice. When the Father initiated the creation of the universe He established principles through which all things operate in harmony to fulfill His purpose. You can count on, with assurance, continuation of the universe scheme because it is designed and conforms to these principles.

When you encounter the crossroads of choice, assurance can be had in your moments of doubt by faith-grasping the longlasting qualities of the principles the Father has established by which reality configures
itself. You do not choose to wear a coat on a hot day for given reasons. In matters of spiritual import, of crucial impact upon your personal destiny, there are given parameters by which you can discern and thereby choose.

But I must remind you that coupled with choice is creativity. This is a reflection of the Father Himself in your
own personal life. He chose and creation is. You choose and create. Creativity is choice with direction; it is choice where the personality applies itself with a purpose that does not merely react to environment but intently pursues the outworking of a cause that may augment, rather than respond to, the environment. To become more like the Father is to become creative in your decision making processes, to project situations in your life that are based on realistic parameters and deep personal goals. Every choice is like hand-over-hand in a rope climb to Paradise. In order to become skilled at the tantamount decisions of eternal import, make every little decision of seemingly trivial matters with the application of the ideas I have presented, that both given parameters and personal projections combined, made in good choosing, you will be prepared for those momentous decisions for the soul. 

Bill: I am in a situation where I have choices I need to make where I have no idea what the answer is because there are very divergent pulls. I'd like some comment on how to live in the uncertainty without getting fearful or hasty.

Lantarnek: The complexity of your situation reveals a threefold nature that is evident in so many factors of life, in this case it is involved with your desires and potential choices, the desires and choices of others, and the will of the Father. You are capable of the Father's embrace and receive the assurances of His will. You discern the desires of others. When you encounter situations as the one you are in, human beings discover the limitations of their realm of choice power. With sensitivity and your discernment of others and their wills, you have all reason to value your will with equal import.

Sometimes it is required for one to choose and resolve firmly to hold to the decision and patiently await the point of arrival of decision making that others must attain, knowing full well the Father is willing to wait upon His children. This resoluteness is valuable, but you also have the ability to refrain from choice. By this I mean weakness is not a factor in the suspension of drawing conclusion if all situations and evidence are not present. Where I indicate you might be forceful to decide on your own and proceed with some independence of the volition of others, you can equally be as powerful in withholding choice during the interim in which others must undergo the process of choosing such that you might better integrate with
them in the matter at hand.

You know the phrase that conditions the value of any experience, that is, "Does it draw you closer to the Father?" I also provide a corollary, "Does your decision allow others to draw closer to the Father?" This can help clarify whether you need to patiently wait before deciding or to decide and proceed. This perhaps does not give you a specific thing to do, but I hope it provides you with leverage whereby you may make our decisions.

Elyon: Choice is of supreme importance throughout the evolutionary ascent. The Supreme is a vast ocean of potential time/space experience. It is alive, ever moving. The tides ebb and flow and create the energies wherein you may derive growth, while at the same time your ascent contributes to the dynamics of the Supreme currents. There are three elements to choice that I will focus upon today. The first is freedom,
the second firmness, and the third fixation.

Perhaps it is easiest to address fixation from the standpoint of stagnation, choice which has eliminated future potential. Let us consider ourselves each as a boat upon this ocean of the Supreme. You, as a vehicle, may choose your course of journey. If you fix your choice negatively, it is as if you had dropped your anchor and you are unable to sail forward. However, if you allow freedom in your volition you can roll with the tides; you can adjust your tack to achieve your destination.

But freedom must be accompanied with a firm hand at the helm, and that is your strength of conviction, your determination to reach your destiny, come what may, whether your journey is extended, having to adjust to the fluctuations of time, or whether your course is as direct as you first perceived. Firmness
guarantees your arrival. Freedom allows you to adjust so that you attain your goal.

Fixation provides a temporary harbor wherein you feel secure, but it must not substitute for firmness. Ever be ready to drop anchor, to cut anchor, and to sail forward.

You know of the most important choice of your mortal career: the Supreme decision to survive the temporal life and to enter upon the eternal career of finding God, becoming like Him, and revealing your Supreme origins to all creatures throughout eternity. This is a choice of firmness. It is not a choice that is fixed. It has permanent repercussions, but you today are at the beginning of your journey, such a decision will meet with constant fluctuations, and you will choose forever firmly the same goal, all the while freely adjusting
and projecting your course.

I have spoken in the past of the levels of choice and decision. Choice is a power of personality; decision is an act of mind. Understanding this mechanism will greatly aid you in the quandaries you face, the dilemmas of discernment. Decisions can be likened to tossing your sail from one side of the ship to the other in order to pursue that which you have chosen. Fret not over a decision, for they can be remade, and they can be altered. Be ever safeguarding of your choice, for that will bring you to your destiny.

Jada:  Is fixation a sense of taking a rest from progression?

Elyon: I have attempted to illustrate that a decision that is firm allows flexibility where a decision that is fixed removes the potential for adjustment. A decision may be permanent but it must not fix. It ought to be firm and accommodating to the variabilities that face you in life.

Mark: Would I be off base to say that is the resolve of a person, that you are resolved to a mission wherever it may take you?

Elyon: Good observation. Your resolution will accommodate adjustment. Your eyes are on the other shore, though you may have to make your way around islands to reach that goal. Your determination to make your journey will not change, though your course may have to adjust.

Mark: That determination often comes from our faith that, even though there are stormy seas requiring adjustments, the storm will pass and we will make it. That gives the strength to face the storm head on and do what needs to be done to make it to still waters again.

Elyon: Indeed. The fundamental of evolutionary life is constant change, dynamic interchange. The only thing constant is your ability to continually choose. Without change choice is irrelevant. It is not the Supreme purpose of the Father in this universe age to eliminate change; that has preceded the Supreme
experience. Now the currents flow; personalities evolve, and, as you say, the storms will rise and fall. The days will be clear and stormy. This is a dynamic universe.

Evelyn: Could you say more about fixation?  

Elyon: The purpose of my focus upon these words "fixation" and "firmness" was to underline the importance of flexibility. A boat will take on water if it is not allowed to sail freely. However, a directionless vessel will likewise lose its course and be blown afar. I would ask you to make this a test as you face decisions. Are you reacting in a static, stubborn way to conditions that confront you? Or are you holding firm, able to adjust and yet stay the course dynamically? I desire only to provide you with a technique that will help you during the difficult times of choice. It is good to be firm in resolve. It is not good to be fixed and stagnant. 

One of the more difficult decisions to be made is that which entails the leaving behind of something once cherished. It brings a sense of potential loss and, if not appropriately addressed, can make some feel that perhaps what they were leaving was once wrong to have held on to. You know through the course of your growth that every stage is a stepping stone to another level of attainment and valid. Walk firmly. Do not become fixed at any step. Step strongly at each point. Be who you are as you are today, each day. And ever be ready to roll forward.

Mary: We don't realize how often we make choices. A lot of choices are reflexive. We could be more conscious of choosing, that things aren't inevitable, like the choices of how to react in a situation. We think of choosing to act, but we also choose our attitudes. It would help to be more aware of our choosing when they aren't momentous choices.

Elyon: Good point, and I would draw upon a word you said, "reflexive" and compare it to "repetitive" and parallel those with "fixation" and "firmness". Reflexive can occur almost without your ability to control. Repetitive is a decision to choose once again the same choice you made beforehand. That you have control over and can alter if the need arises.

Mary: Choice can interrupt a habit we may have seen as reflexive. By engaging consciously we can interrupt a cycle in need of change. Now may be the time to interject choice and make it current and appropriate.

Machiventa: I would offer you what may be a helpful, quick, flashcard type examination, when one is interested in discerning what one's fixation point may be in a given situation or what the anchor may
be. One might simply ask yourself the following;

"I would do great things if it were not for ____."  

That is, "I would do lofty things; I would be idealistic; I would follow my visions if it were not for ____".

Therein you will find your tether; you will find what binds you to your fixation point. It could be a variety of
things, but the urge to follow your loftiest ideal may be reined in, may be anchored, at a specific point. If you follow that back to the anchor you will find the source of your fixation. So, next time inspiration comes to you, say to yourself, "That is a great idea. I would do that except for ____", and then you have something to work on.

Jonathan: We can be firm in saying, "I would (such and such)" and notice where we fix it, and then address those two points, what is desired to be accomplished and what we are using to thwart the purpose.

Machiventa: Even to take it one step further, rather than, "I would, if it were not for ____", "I will even if if I have to overcome ____". That is the difference between the long range, "I will conquer" and the short range, "I would if it were not for ____". One denotes determination to conquer, the other denotes defeat at your anchor cable point.

Tom:  That's where we find our freedom.

Machiventa: Well said. Cut the tether if it does not serve you. You are entitled to cut the anchor cable.

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Abraham: How beautiful it is to behold individuals helping one another, upholding and supporting. It is wonderful to see that your level of compassion is the measure in which you receive compassion back. To be truly compassionate we must stand in our brothers shoes. We must look through their eyes. We must find a heart connection.

The compassionate soul longs to create lasting solutions for their brothers and sisters in need. To perform compassionate acts for the sake of being guilt-free because your fellows are in need is misunderstanding. To be compassionate because you feel pity upon your fellows is also not quite right.

Compassion is a heart and soul connection that says 'I am feeling what you are feeling. I see you could use some help.' Compassion asks you not to sacrifice begrudgingly, but happens naturally without hesitation. Most of the time most people only wish to be listened to and understood — not pitied or pressured into various solutions, but just to feel that they are not alone.

The compassionate person listens without underlying agenda's or intentions. The compassionate person is not tempted to bestow their wisdom to have others look upon them with awe. True compassion is feeling that you truly want to help without anything in return. It is wanting to help because of your expanding love for Father. The compassionate person inevitably grows closer to Father because of their pure intentions to be open to His words to help their fellows.

You can be encouraging and uplifting in your compassionate ministry without showing forth pity and dis-empowering individuals to feel unconfident and hopeless. You can validate their difficulties by relating to them your personal experience. If you have not personal experience to draw upon, then certainly can you at the very least show you are interested in what they are saying.

In your desire to want to help without personal recognition will you be connected to Father's words, His instructions for your fellows, His mind. That is ministry, my friends. That is active ministry.

Abraham: To create a compassionate balance in the world everyone will need to participate. Every child is gifted in one way or another. Those who are mostly intellectual will be brought into balance by those who are emotional and vice versa. Where one is lacking the other can fill. To have fellowship amongst you eases the everyday stresses of living in the world.

Knowing your fellows are at hand makes the adversities of life more bearable. You strengthen one another. You uphold and promote faith for each other. Logical compassion brings about a balance among mortals that will carry them into Light and Life. Your genuine concern for others, or self-forgetfulness, brings more divine communication that guides and serves the whole.

While self-forgetfulness is honorable, I would remind you of the scale that has balanced self-compassion as the middle mark, and self-loathing on one side, and self-aggrandizement on the other. Balanced compassion for self means that you need not constantly reprove yourself for mistakes. Self chastisement is acceptable as long as it leads you to desire to make more effort. Self-loathing remarks leads you to give up and not even make effort because the feeling of inadequacy is overwhelming.

Many neglect to feed the Spirit, the element that makes you a distinct child of the living God. It is understandable that life is busy and there are many mortal tasks to complete. There are many goals to
achieve that makes you successful in the world's eyes. When one has neglected the Spirit the balanced compassion for self leans toward self-loathing, self-disappointment, losing confidence, yes.

A few moments a day in quiet reflection, or observing the wonders of nature, gives one mindal clarity. A small amount of time lost in the beauty of music brings one to a spiritually centered point. An awareness of Father's works, leading to a moment of supreme gratitude, connects you to those spiritual circuits you need to have balanced self-compassion, in that you forget not to care for the body, mind and soul.

How easy it is to neglect the physical needs, which in the mortal life can disrupt other areas such as mental and emotional. Poor habits or diet can lead to imbalance and that disrupts the mind and distorts the perspective. How much time is spent in unproductive stimulation of the mind? In this age of technology it is easy to get carried away with external stimulation, mindless entertainment.

All that is required for balanced mindal clarity is a few moments a day in the silence. There is much more to gain in stillness than in the midst of chaos and over-stimulation. Reversion or entertainment is wonderful and you should find a healthy balance for that. Remember to feed the Spirit as well. Remember to allow yourself the gift of a few moments with the First Source and Center. He brings you back to a center of balance and realness where there is not room for fears or imaginings or doubts or hopelessness.

Compassion for self is allowing time for you to regain your spiritual, physical, mental and emotional momentum. In this balance you are in top form to fulfill your ministries. You are able to cope in chaos, stay clear in confusion and provide assistance when and where it is needed. In a state of imbalanced mentality or emotionality your physical body begins a cycle of deterioration which leads to many illnesses. In remembering to have compassion for self you are returning to Spirit and allowing Father to put you back to where you should be.

This mortal life is complicated. Do not become discouraged with your shortcomings because this is a difficult world to live in now. Shortcomings are to be expected, but they cannot dominate your life purpose.

In caring for your growing soul you are also taking care of the world. We tend to the soul to be also productive in the Kingdom, that is usually our focus. We do not tend to the soul to fix broken hearts or bruised ego's or to allow ourselves to lay down before our troubles. Patience and balanced compassion for self is what we are speaking of.

This week find time for quiet moments, rest, eat for life, not to fill an emptiness where Spirit should be, play, find time to go outdoors, work, be diligent in your responsibilities. Do you see what I am saying? Find
balance, find ministry for the self so that you can also minister. 

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Elyon: A certain element to confidence is a sense of stability, fidelity, trustworthiness, as would be the case if you step upon a bridge you are confident it will sustain your weight and carry you across. Naturally confidence is gained through experience by having exerted in an unfamiliar arena and witnessed for yourself success, to have witnessed attainment where beforehand you were uncertain if you would be in any way capable of accomplishing the goal.

But there is another aspect to confidence besides an experiential exposure and the trust in yourself that results, and that is the ability to seek counsel, to receive wisdom in the advice of fellows, to receive coaching and encouragement. This confidence is the precursing confidence to successful attainment rather than the confidence that follows after the experience of success. It does no one well to struggle through uncertainty, to apply oneself in a manner wherein one is unfamiliar both in skill and in knowledge, by oneself.

Support, counsel, is vital to bringing that sense of fulfillment, worth, and ability when your goal is attained and the task is over. To approach uncertainty without confidence indicates, or should, to you that you have some preparatory work ahead of that which you seek to do that is bringing this uncertainty.

It is not the time for a false confidence, a blinded pursuit, an aggressive push without the use of wisdom or insight. It is not a weakness to present to another your frailties, for they are not false but rather are markers of areas of need that can be filled with the help of another, can be addressed in preparation that you may work around the lack if you are not situated to replace that lack with the required mechanism to accomplish your task.

Too much self-assertiveness can cause much strife and hurt at the expense of others. It is important in the times in which you live now to modulate the drive to excel with a connected and interconnected reliance upon counsel and a broad stance through cooperation with others.

You know the value of teamwork. Teamwork in itself is not the effect of merely the whole, the team, but rather the excellence of each individual in coordination.  So, you are not to lose self identity in belonging to the team, but rather as a team you are each encouraged to rise to your highest potential. When a ball player enters the field and knows his team players trust him, he has confidence, though at any moment standing at the plate he may not have the confidence that he will hit that ball. Having placed a homerun he now has the accomplishment of experience and knows, even though he may fail many more times at bat, he can hit a homerun.

Faith plays a great role in your sense of being capable, and fraternity also is a large factor in supporting your faith.

Lastly, always remember the Father who has such confidence in you that you have been blessed with His divine presence surrendered to your sovereign will, dedicated to your welfare, allowing you to choose your life course, ever ready to adjust you as you accept the adjustment. Your divine presence within is a guide,
but this guide will not pull you along. This guide waits for you to choose and then shows you how to proceed. That is a great confidence that the Father holds for each of you, trusting that you are capable of finding your way to Him on Paradise.

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This concept of contact has many different levels and many different effects.  For sometime now you and I have enjoyed a different level of contact than either of us had ever experienced before. This contact we have between us serves on many different levels to strengthen awareness, to inspire growth and action, to refresh and support each other with confirmation of our ideals.  All these expressions of our contact and many more are instigated by the contact we have with each other.  

If you would, now for a moment step back and realize that the contact you share with each other and with your brothers and sisters around you has the very same potential for growth, for support. This service you can provide to those with whom you come in contact. Every contact is latent with potential for a variety of positive effects. If you would view your daily contacts with each other and with those around you as having the same potential as the contact we share here today, you might gain awareness that potential for the same benefits exists.

Contact is unique in that it is pursued and desired by the individuals involved. There is an underlying commitment when any contact occurs between the individuals involved. This is the first step, the opening of the door, towards trust and acceptance of the benefits of this two-way communion. You may come to realize that all contact is beneficial to all parties concerned.

This is easily exemplified by the fact that individuals who lack contact with other individuals or any force outside of themselves often wither and starve for this contact. To deprive a human of this contact is considered punishment in your culture. You are social creatures, and therefore it is a basic requirement to interact with those of your kind.

I would encourage you to elevate this level of contact in your minds to a more spiritual level. In doing this you elevate those around you to a more spiritual focus even if the words you use at any given time do not necessarily reflect a spiritual cause. Your attitude, if spiritually attuned, prevails no matter what exchange
you may have.  

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Today's lesson will be an important subject, a very important subject, cooperation. Cooperation is a major force binding together all creatures in the universe, perfect and imperfect, mortal and immortal. Cooperation among beings of the universe approaches the importance of worship in terms of serving our
father. 

It is a critical time for the peoples of Earth at this time, for you have attained much technical expertise and yet lag far behind in some very important respects, socially. Competition is the order of the day. And this is not an altogether bad thing, for competition has been a great civilizing force for the beings of the planet. Nonetheless, taken to its present extreme level, competition does certain harm to those striving for spiritual growth and development when not accompanied by a proper spirit of cooperation. We must all strive to promote cooperation among our fellows. You will do this through your own living example, primarily. Your example will be that of good will and cooperative interaction with others as you go about your work and rest. This is not to say that you may not compete, for at this stage of development - and indeed for some time to come for you - competition helps to spur you on to your finest performance given your own unique abilities.

However, the spirit with which competition is entered into can be tempered by adding the desire for cooperative achievement and the desire to effect good and follow the footsteps of Jesus. When you cooperate freely, willingly, it becomes that much easier for your Thought Adjuster to lead you. Your Thought Adjuster has a difficult time breaking through the strong animal urges and high emotions which still rule, to a large extent, man on Earth. However, by your experience in spiritual self-development, by exercising the virtues and practices presented in these lessons and in the Urantia Book, and through the promptings of your Thought Adjusters, seraphim (angels), and others, you can strengthen yourself spiritually and focus the sensitivity of that part of you which is most receptive to the Thought Adjuster - somewhat like tuning in a radio or television to its best performance - fiddling with the dial.

What might happen if you choose not to adopt a cooperative attitude? Well, you may not perceive much change consciously in the direction of your life, however it will be that much more difficult for you to work toward a measure of inner peace and that level of self-fulfilment which is attainable during your material existence.

Yes, you will have opportunities beyond this life for spiritual growth and development, infinite opportunities, and so may not wish to eagerly, assiduously, pursue the path of spiritual growth, for it is
an arduous path. Time-consuming, in a sense, and man has always been a procrastinator. If you consult
your inner selves you will find the truth and the truth will help to lead you.

Cooperation is a way of multiplying the strength of your individual effort even while in the flesh. It has been said that cooperation among two affects the strength of four, cooperation among ten the strength of a hundred. Can you imagine how effective the cooperation of a thousand, or a million beings would be?

When Earth is on the threshold of Light and Life there will be no difficulty with cooperation among all living beings, and that will be a wonderful day. But it must start here. Like the other spiritual exercises, your efforts at cooperation - each act in fact - sets off a chain of benefits that go far far beyond your immediate circle, like the ripple in the water that travels for thousands of miles. That is the answer to the questioning mind that asks “What can I, one person, accomplish in my own small way?”

All of us, every single being in the universe, we are all connected to one another. And it is the Father's will that we work together, that each unique individual add his or her cooperative effort to the grand total. This is not at variance with achieving your own personal level of excellence. In fact, it is in harmony with that very goal. The result of cooperation is harmony, harmony among beings, the unification that is achieved when all strive for the common goal. Such a bright and strong purpose that is! So I urge you to strive in your lives for cooperation with your fellow men and women, difficult as it may be. Use your wits, your cleverness, your special abilities, to achieve this. And let your faith help you to realize the importance of your own personal efforts. 

There is a concept in your language called “synergy” meaning, loosely, that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. This applies to all the spiritual abilities, but particularly to cooperation. Are you not eager to find out just how much you, as an individual can accomplish? The challenge lies before you. That is the end of this lesson.

Question: It seems to me that the business of cooperation is resolution of conflicts. Have you any particular
guidelines for that? I know that in my secular life, the change that needs to come; there will be a lot of conflicts to go through. That's in a social arena, and I wonder if that's paralleling the spiritual realm.  What do you do to aid in that?

Answer: Yes, you are correct. It is conflict that acts as the strongest barrier to efforts at fellowship on Earth. Remember again the example of Jesus who, rather than beating a door down, instead, would find the key to unlock the latch. That is the way with conflicts, not easy.

Beyond the material life there is yet conflict, and I, myself must work on the same problems that face you. There are tools that are helpful. To name a few, are compassion, willingness to be honest, desire to do good, and above all a remembrance of the golden rule. Remember the proverb that we cannot understand a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes.

Much conflict among beings arises from misunderstanding as well as greed, envy, fear, anger, the spiritual poisons. Fear, in particular is a source of conflict. Animals fear one another because they are afraid of mutilation or death. You are not animals. Be not afraid. When your fear is effectively put aside you will find that a significant amount of conflict will ease away.

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Courage is the ability to persist in a noble endeavor, to continue with a propitious project, to do the right thing in the face of fear, fatigue, anxiety, and worry. This ability to endure fear, worry, anxiety, fatigue and so forth is a byproduct of faith, faith in the overall goodness of the universe because it is the creation and field of operation of a good God. There is also the need for faith in one's own worth, in one's value as a creature, as son and daughter of God, and one's basic competence, to accomplish that noble endeavor or project, as well as the moral courage of one's convictions.  

Courage requires that a person's character be congruent, that there not be a division within the soul or in the mind, that there not be a war raging within. If the mind is confused the heart is compromised. Then the person is incapable of courage for they lack the faith in the rightness of the project, in their ultimate ability to carry it out, and they are paralyzed by the inner conflict.  

Courage of the physical sort is best known to you, and this experience comes to all mortals as it has come to all of you. The strength to go through with something that is both fearful and possibly painful requires courage on the physical level. And then there is the courage of the mind which is the willingness to search for truth, and when it is found, to apply it to life. This courage is greater than the physical courage although it may not seem so. Nevertheless, there are people who can endure the physical challenge but collapse intellectually because they are lazy and unwilling to consider the enlargement of their understanding.  

But the most important courage of all is moral-spiritual courage. It is the courage to do that which the heart knows to be the right thing. It is the strength to do what may not be popular among one's fellows. It is the
strength to keep commitments, agreements, regardless of the temptation to set them aside. It is ultimately the willingness to say to God, 'it is my will that your will be done.' It is the leap of faith in the goodness and
the trustworthiness of God that forever removes the need for the self to pretend to be God; it is the surrender of sovereignty over to one's Creator; not the loss of free will but the willing submission, and in fact joyful acceptance of higher reason and greater love.  

Courage is fostered as a result of the small steps of faithful obedience, based upon the faith already alluded to, and from a mind and heart that is undivided and not conflicted. It is the kind of faith that Abraham
experienced when he obeyed what he thought was God's will to offer his son in sacrifice, and discovered to his great relief and spiritual enlightenment, that when he was willing to do the most painful thing that his mind could conceive that God might expect of him, that God's will was gracious and the lamb, the sheep in the thicket was substituted. People lack courage who do not believe in a loving God. For them, they only have themselves and other humans as models of strength. In a world of disillusionment this is no certain bastion, this is a floundering fortress, a sinking ship.

You understand that your security and the course of this world are not blown about by the winds of chance, thrashed by the meaninglessness of a chaotic, mindless universe, but you know that the hand of God is everywhere present. This gives you courage on all three levels, physical, mental and spiritual. And with this courage you shall overcome all obstacles.  

When Jesus drank His cup He was sustained by an angel. He was given the necessary help He needed when He prayed for it, and you will be equally provided. When you feel that you are reaching the edge of your
courage, it is time to ask and more shall be given. 

Virginia: Is it courageous to follow the unrest that we sometimes feel with the status quo, the experiences that seem to be so traditional and accepted? I'm thinking in terms of my own unrest and how difficult it was for me to search.

Alkon:  This is a two-sided coin, my dear. Sometimes unrest is caused by a rebellious spirit, desiring to break free of God's plans. Other kinds of unrest come from the prodding of the soul by your Indwelling Monitor, by the work of the angels upon the minds and souls of individuals who are receptive to higher truth, to greater loyalty, to more perfect obedience; and there the unrest is with the status quo, with the limits of knowledge and achievement hithertofore gained.  

So to answer your question without making this distinction would be confusing, for all unrest is not necessarily virtuous, it requires discernment to locate the source of that unrest and to analyze it. Certainly to swim upstream against the current, to walk and step to a different drummer requires the courage of enduring the displease, the ridicule and the rejection of some people. It is certainly a type of courage that our Master was conversant with, indeed struggled with, in fact, felt great loneliness in the whole experience for He had no peer to share with.

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Creativity is most fully aligned with the personality; preservation finds itself in the realm of the human ego.   In this dual perspective expression of the human being takes place. The goal of a mortal being is to integrate the activity of the personality and the ego so that they function in alignment with one another, so that when the ego manifests it is fully consonant with personality in relationship to the divine, your inner spirit. To gain this freedom you would find that the relationships and the systems that you function within to be transformed, to be representations of true intent and purpose, the real of one interacting with the real of another and with all others. Let us take a moment and examine the expression of each.

The desire to not be egotistical is egotistical. The desire to do good to another is, of course, personality led. So often human beings are motivated in a desire to control themselves from manifesting something which would find discouragement from another. This is all ego based. The personality creates; it expresses. It is not bound. The ego places boundaries, provides limitation. Functioning in a healthy manner, the ego creates arenas wherein the personality can function safely without being hindered in its expression. It is the goal of human society to progress in such a manner that will allow the individual safety to express personality.

As you provide the safety for one another, you find great creativity being expressed through art, music, in your voices to one another privately, in your willingness to be a voice for another. As you can take these groupings and expand them into other systems, as you can gain the courage and the sustenance from these relations to strike out in the other areas of your lives and build similar relations with those around you, these systems will build toward the eventual goal of Light and Life. As you can see, this begins with the individual relating to another individual, relating to other individuals.

The relationship between creation and preservation is where you will find integration. As you can recognize that which is ego, that which is personality expression, you then have the basis for forming a healthy relationship within yourself. Thereby you will find the freedom to relate in a healthy manner with others.

Honestly, one cannot come before the other, although it is in your relations with others that you are to find
witness to the characteristics of your being. In an isolated manner you cannot understand personality and ego and all of the nuances therein.

Delores: Are you talking about trust in sharing who we are? How do we get this trust, to be honest? Is it faith?

Norson:  Yes.

Delores: How do we get this trust? is it an acquirement?

Norson:  Yes, through faith, through courage to risk, you build stamina of cosmic qualities. You realize that the failures do not identify the entirety of your being, that the efforts at relating are always positive when you understand that you are in an effort to find integration of personality one with another, that all effort is for growth. The Supreme experience is the personality of all relating integrally with each other. The path
to this realization is fraught with trials and errors. Trust is only gained by faith and through experience.

Dolores: How creative is Our Essence, and the universe in which we live!

In the abundance of possibility is the horn of plenty — colors, tastes, sounds, smells, textures — senses are all a part of a pattern of your lives — much like a box of crayola colored crayons or a sewing box of thread/cord/twine/yarn and other textiles — to weave into the fabric of your lives.  

Expand your sense! Examine your understanding of sense. A dark cloud, a gloomy day, is akin to a grey attitude, one without color, one without enthusiasm. A crowd of people also can represent a palette of color or sensation. There is so much to be learned about the universe through the senses. These powerful influences on your sense of well-being will be a part of your personality composition forever, even as it 
expands to include an explosion of yet more and varied senses as you climb the ladder toward perfection.

But for now, little ones, like children larking on a summer day, plunge into the sense of wonder which is your mortal life.

If you have found your mortal life to be on such an even keel as to depict only neutral colors, change some of your patterns in order to bring in some accent. A monotone may on one hand invoke a meditative state, as intonation of chanting, but it can also be an indication of a tediously dull mental rut of brown and morose depression. Thus, add a little tinkle, a little toot, to your monotone.

In embellishing the pattern of your lives with a sprig of peppermint here or a branch of fruit blossoms there you have altered your environment, and often in altering your environment in your mind you are impressed again with your environment as you live it, seeing anew the common everyday miracles of life.

Our Divine Parents are the quintessential Creators. They are the ones who are having fun, and they have even created those points of gravity and power that uphold the universe, much like your inventions and high-technology in fact uphold your many soirees into creativity, thus allowing your mind/ heart an opportunity again to probe around in the recesses of reality in order to come up with yet another greeting card for your fellows or a post card of the Supreme for your own enjoyment.

Just as a sprig of the current blossom or the taste of the fruit in season will give you a sense of continuity, so will an exotic off-color or abstract tone lend new dimension to that which has become familiar and customary.  

As an exercise, I'd like for you to consider the associates of your immediate era, your current sociology, the people you interact with: your family and friends, your contemporaries and associates. How many of these individuals are you able to communicate with readily? And to what degree? To what extent? To what depth? To what purpose?

The Master used parables often in his dealings with his associates in order to convey a reality essence in the face of the incredible differences in each individual's psychic composition. You can add another dimension to your relationships by breaking out of the mold of logic and linear reasoning, the typical responses of custom and convention, by adding a creative touch that will change the look of the environment you share with your associates, even in the environment of your mental rapport or your emotional connection. You 
thus give new life to your environment and bring new and refreshing vistas to the mind's eye of your associates, even new dimensions of awareness, by your use of adding a dimension of the senses to your routine mental exchanges, social exchanges.

The sensitivity of your new perception invites a knowledge of otherness, other views, of infinity and finitude. You thus can learn to see with eyes to see, as a result of hearing and being stirred within. Your vistas are 
altered now because of the perspective you are able to grasp and sustain as you go about your lives.

It is often difficult, it is sometimes impossible, to introduce a conversation, a concept that will bring relief, ease the fears, soften the edges, appeal to the childlike nature, of the people you encounter. Even emotionally individuals are frequently unavailable, and so the common, human touch of empathy and compassion is thwarted, and so we look farther and deeper for still other ways to make a connection, to reach our fellow men, to let them know the Father is in their lives if they but notice.  

And sometimes the simple act of touching another is a way of making supreme contact. A tone of voice is able to speak volumes. The color you choose to wear is a message. The flavor of your attitude is able to be tasted by those who you encounter and so you will be recognized as to how you feel, and if you are bitter, or sweet, if your attitude is salty or creamy, it will be an effective method of communicating to another sentient creature what words may not be able to convey.

I offer a new understanding of your senses as language, as creative artistry. If you can begin to express yourself in and through your personality you may find that you your Self are a master, an artist, a skilled artisan, in ways that only you and your Divine Guide can realize, but that all who pass by you will retain as a part of the creative expression of you in conjunction with Divinity.

Our Creator has no limitations on possibilities. I invite you to expand your appreciation of your creative possibilities and take authority over your Self, your approach to service, to ministry, to personality expression, by giving yourself permission to be an extension of the Creator in and through his creativity as it can be understood by the mortal creatures of time and space — your children, your spouse, your neighbors, your co-workers — bringing the reality of divinity even further into your arena through 
conscious effort, conscientious effort in awareness and artistry.

I would like to engage with others. I would like to have a classroom filled with students, each having a box in which his and her creative tools are brought into company with others, for in this way it is possible for 
stimulation to occur such that each of you can look to your friend and neighbor and see there, in their box of tools, a perspective on the contents that may not be apparent to its owner, and in fellowship of sharing, it is exciting. It is pink and yellow! It is lime green! To see how a simple idea can ascend to new heights of ecstasy and excitement in and through the creative imagination.

Have you been conditioned to believe that creativity is for a certain type of individual but not for you? Have you been conditioned to believe that it is an impractical pass time? Inefficient, ineffectual, impractical? Have you been taught that your creative nature is frivolous? Superfluous? Childish? That it is an attempt to avoid responsibility? A good excuse to be a perpetual player? And that creativity is not work? Is without value?

What a travesty! This is tantamount to saying that God is not loving, is not joyous, is not radiant, but is indeed a stern judge, a hard task master, a jealous and demanding disciplinarian. But none of those descriptive adjectives are my Parent! I do not resemble such an entity and I am my Father's daughter. I recognize when I am like my Father, when my nature is in tune with the harmony of the spheres. I recognize how my energies are compatible to the Divine in the exquisite dance that we engage in as we brush upon the air of our union.

I urge you to see beyond the veil of your culture and your training if your training has taught you to "grow up!" and leave your childlike nature behind. It is as essential to learn as it is to learn to parent, in terms of 
understanding how the nature of God is visited upon His sons and daughters.

Once you have learned to play together, it will be possible then for you to learn how to work together. Communication is such a critical art form, and your rational minds, your adult intentions, and your assumption of your own maturity — not to mention your perception of your own authority — are enough 
to cramp your toes as your feet grow out of the shoes that were fitted on you for ages long past. Your creativity has become crippled by the binding of restraints upon your childlike nature with its plethora of creative potential.

Minearisa: Extend your awareness of our universe into the hearts and minds of others.  

This adventure in spiritual exploration is unlimited in how you operate to fulfill your own capacities in service. Such a perspective is useless to you until you are able to grow into the perceptions of it. Hearing words, even feeling the sensation of the Spirit of Truth, is ineffectual until your will commits itself through your decisions to take hold of those concepts and make them your own in accordance with your own light of truth.

You learn to walk the second mile, to develop stamina, and become an inspiration to the many who can see how your energies affect everything you touch. The story is told that when the Melchizedek materialized on 
Earth, he manifested himself to a mortal whose astonishment was so great he was rendered speechless. He was indeed afraid. And some of you, who have such power of the spirit at your command, are likewise frightening to those whom you encounter, who are unaccustomed to such energy as you bring.  

The Master had power also, but he was approachable. He did not submerge his power or his energy, but he mastered it such that it did not overwhelm those he met as he passed by. And yet everyone who met Jesus had occasion to be permanently impressed by his wisdom, through his graciousness. This, too, is a part of creativity, the creativity of a gracious Creator, who has, at his command, all the tools in his box.  

Your authority, your command, is that which you have been given. As you use your materials to create your presentations of your Self in your destiny path, you are able to stimulate and inspire others. It is this enthusiasm, this creativity, that is appreciated and yet does not induce overt fear, but rather, perhaps, respect. It's not remuneration for our creativity we seek, but a place to show our offering, a place where our co-creation with divinity can be upheld, displayed, revealed.  

This is the gift of creativity. This is the drawing that you parents tape up to your refrigerator that shows the scrawled drawing of the child, smoke coming out of the chimney, trees, billowing clouds, indicating home and family — this is the precious gift of creation that Our Parents enjoy. 

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Patricia: A friend has chosen to walk in darkness. Is it ever futile to attempt to — I hate  to say "save" — guide someone towards the light? I've been advised there is nothing I can do because this soul has chosen to walk that path.

Elyon: Your friend may be making the mistake of eternity, but then again, being a finite creature, may only temporarily be walking through the dark shadow only to emerge on the other side enriched through the error and more advanced as a result. However, it is a risky process and can lead to perils which the soul may not withstand. Your best method of ministry is the demonstration of light that you contain to stand in contrast. In a sense it is the turning of the cheek to allow the view of another way. Until the desire is kindled within the heart of this individual, only your demonstration can feed the initialization of this desire.

 Standing for who you are and what you believe in independently, without a coercing effect upon this person will allow the room for this soul to reach out and leave behind this chosen path. To attempt, as you put it, to save, this may cause hardening and withdrawal. But if you exemplify for yourself what you hold to be beautiful and true, it will tempt this person to seek to understand the peace and the confidence that you have.

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Amanson on Death, 2022-11-18

Death is the most misunderstood rite-of-passage in your world today. Its accomplishment can occur in so many different guises – grisly, peaceful, mysterious, welcome – that understanding its significance can be a challenge. The truth of the matter is its Simplicity: it’s merely shedding one set of raiment for another, as the original raiment, the one worn in the physical reality, when it becomes worn, stretched to the point of no repair, has to be abandoned – what suit of clothes wouldn’t? So, the subsequent raiment, that which replaces the familiar body of flesh, blood and bone, is of such a finer material as to be unrecognizable to its former eye, [which is] the present eye of the mourners and attendees to the newly arrayed but now invisible subject. But just because one set of circumstances is too subtle to be perceived by those in another circumstance does not mean there is nothing to this new unperceived reality. It merely means it cannot be seen, recognized, addressed.

Death is the one universally acknowledged event in the process of living that holds all feet to the fire – it cannot be circumvented and yet it is an illusion, so the joke, as you might say, is on circumvention itself. To boldly question the very notion of ‘death’ is the first step in seeing through it. There are two modes of disbelief, though only one is the true one, the fruitful path. You can deny death’s existence by asserting [that] it’s entirely too real –  the proverbial ‘final curtain’ (as Hamlet put it so succinctly, “No more”); or you can disbelieve the very notion of an end stop – which is the true way – and find the Light now that continues on then – the Interior Illumination providing Life itself within each of us living - who then, when the time comes, shall step effortlessly across as Life continues its flow, you being part of it – you practiced it here, and with nary a bump or hitch you now practice it there.

And is there an order of hierarchy at play? Does one need to be amongst the ‘Anointed’ to take advantage of so Royal a treatment? No! Those who have an inkling of the process, who practice its foreknowledge consciously now will likely have an easier time facing ‘the great transition’ but the transition’s amenities are afforded to all: the frightened; the prepared.

As I say, ‘death’ is probably the most misunderstood aspect of the long ritual of living on so rough-and-tumble a planet, and yet in the end (which would seem to be what we’re talking about, but understand – it isn’t!) it is far Simpler for the disembodied than for the bodied - those fellows, colleagues, friends and  family left to imagine where their cohort has gone; although were their eyes sharp enough, their imaginations rich enough, their faith strong enough, their grief would be assuaged instantly and their confusion lifted, lifted higher than their understanding of earthly things had ever been. For how much here can really be understood other than there’s a grand agenda, a far-flung curriculum at play, which death, in all its misunderstood grandeur, actually represents.

Follow the path as it’s laid out lovingly before you and know that it is all for your benefit. Which benefits all. It’s quite a system.

Question: What is death like?

Answer: We prefer to think of it as birth. It is not frightening. It is quite spiritually beautiful. In my opinion as one who has died, it is the spiritual, the culminating event spiritually, of life in the flesh. It is to your lives as a concert is to a song. It is expanding, it is the only time mortal eyes - or one of the only times - with few exceptions, the mortal eyes can behold celestial presences, and there is much angelic help, Thought Adjuster communications, Midwayer manipulation - to allow the fear to be displaced by the love, and joy, and faith recognition of what this experience really is: the birth into the ascendent corps of pilgrims marching ever onward to Paradise. This experience will forever change the mortal being. No longer will surviving be at issue. Now survival depends on action, choices, faith, but not blindness. No question of the body, no animal primitive feelings of holding to a world that is, for the moment, sad and dark. We rejoice when a being joins us. 

Death should not be painful to the God believer, but is painful in some cases where the material takes precedence over the spiritual. When the material body is believed to be the definition of life, death is often painful physically and emotionally, for it reflects the inner struggle of the human who is confused about reality. But to the believing soul, to the sure ascender, to the true child of God, death is a celebration and not painful, but a most profound, moving, and beautiful experience as the human vision becomes morontial, and as the spiritual guardians and the celestial beings are for the - most cases - first time visible to the newly emerging morontial child.

Euthanasia, Life Extension

Question: In western culture now we have the capacity to keep many people alive into advanced age. This means that we see a fairly high percentage, compared to past ages, of persons who develop dementing diseases, particularly Alzheimers disease. In these disorders there's generally disease of the frontal and prefrontal areas, and one sees clinically disintegration of the personality as well as loss of capacity for self maintenance. Now there's a very great moral dilemma developing in western medicine presently about - is it right to keep such people alive? Because the expense of keeping them alive is very, very high. There is much grief in the family as these people become further and further detached from family and friends and reality. And these people seem to have much fear, much pain, and much illness in general. I wonder if you could comment on this, and - if you are allowed - if you could comment on how this would be handled on another world such as the one that you come from?

Answer: In the cases where the deterioration is in the prefrontal lobe it is my opinion that the Adjuster has left. What is alive is a physical body. As for the ethics of maintaining life, it is irrelevant spiritually one way or another. In terms of my world we had in place a spiritualized and accepted ritual for graduation when the physical was an impediment to the spiritual soul growth, which is, of course, the only eternal reality. When the mechanism housing the soul-Adjuster no longer functioned, it was not of any consequence to terminate life. In fact, it was a cause of celebration, being the Father's will that the soul move on to the next growth level.

You down here have much more irrational and emotional reactions to this practice since - as a world - you do not truly understand what life is, and define it solely in terms of the physical. As you grow as a world spiritually, you will learn to temper life extension with actual life growth of the soul. And many diseases will be eliminated which interfere with the mind-soul connection. Until that time this topic will be reacted to irrationally and I can only pray for your enlightenment as a world culture since many mortals suffer needlessly, and suffer delays in their universe career because of the mere sentiment, which is attached to the material body.

Question: I read about a man in this country who is on trial for murder, a physician, who attempted to help such a demented person to graduate, and it hurts me every time I read it, but it seems to be at present an insoluble problem in our culture.

Answer: Also, one must abide by the legal system one lives under, no matter how primitive. 

Student: How do you explain physical death to a child of seven years, without traumatizing them?

JarEl: You do so metaphorically, and with a lot of love and compassion, to find a way to fill that emptiness that that child may and will sense from the loss; I assume that you are talking about the loss of a parent.(yes) In time this child will grow to learn who this parent was, how important this person was, and begin to understand. A child is not very capable of understanding in depth perception. It is not important to indulge in fear about this with the child. This is something you would want to avoid. What's important is to fill the gap in this child's life with resource and nourishment.

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Within the human being the primary operating system is the personality. Without this overriding and controlling presence that you are, all other subsystems would lose their meaning and function. It is quite important to all of you, the development of your soul, for you realize, each of you, that this emerging reality is your passport to the morontia realms. This is the accomplishment to be had in the human life above all career successes, above all other events that you can undertake to make your human life worthwhile. There is no thing you will take with you but this that you will become.

I would like to delineate, if only for the academics, the difference between choice and decision. You, the personality, have two functions in this regard.  Firstly, since your priority is the co-creation with the Father's
Presence of this soul, your future self; every choice in your life should be compared to this goal of growth and morontia attainment. As you place value upon situations that you hope for, living conditions that you strive to better, you are creating what I would call a priority list for soul growth, and these are items on a list that I would call "values". You do not in your mind simply decide to do the will of the Father; you choose in your soul to do the will of the Father and your mind decides how to go about this dedication of yours. Every
one of you makes the same choice, and each of you decides quite differently how to demonstrate your choice to the Father.

The beauty of the whole mechanism of the Supreme is that everyone makes that same decision to be the Father's child consciously and wholeheartedly, and yet throughout the vast realms whereupon the Supreme plays out the will of the Father, we are all creating unique, decisive realities, one same choice in an infinite array of outworking.

To one on the other side of your world the choice is the same. Whether it be cloaked in different words, the choice remains identical. Yet you see how much different each of your traditional religions have developed based on this one, singular, deep longing.

I can love you only as Michael loves you, as your brother. Michael loves you only as can the Father, and this is significant. This is worth deep contemplation. My love for you is born of my decision to be eventually considered a Paradise citizen, to dwell in the Father's house. As a secondary decision I choose to love every individual I encounter and to seek more individuals with whom I may express this love. But I can only do it as a brother, and you can only receive my love as a friend and a brother. But Michael, my friends, he is not only your brother, he is your father. When he is among you, you can be assured that the Father is equally present, not simply as that mysterious, indwelling Fragment of infinity and absoluteness, but as that ever-loving parent who cares for each child and for all of you en masse.

What you choose increases the values of your soul. What you decide upon increases the wisdom of your mind. It is my observation that you all seek to become wise souls. This is accomplished through the coordinating presence of your personality, that which you are this very day.

When perplexities confront you and your mind whirls with the variables, the possibilities of which way to turn, what decision to make; pause, reflect, for just one moment. What are your choices? What are your values? These will clarify what will be your decisions, what these values mean to you and how these superimposed values will clarify the many distinctive parameters of your quandary. It is not unlike crawling through the brambles and finding a little knoll, a little rise, that you may climb upon to look above and overview it all and thereby more clearly discern your path.

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In one's life experience one encounters a great many urges or desires within your depths. It is through
diligent application of your person to such desires that they then may bear fruit. One must decide for oneself which of the many desires or tendencies you really feel strongly about and would like to see made real. Then with this sincere, diligent application of your energies, these desires may be made into reality. It is within your power, each of you, to create this reality, in a sense to create out of yourselves and give birth to a new phenomenon. This occurs with sincere, honest, and recurring application.

There are many desires within each of you leading in many different directions. You must choose which among these you desire the most to be made real. Then you bring this ideal, this desire, raise it up in your consciousness, accept it fully into your being, and project yourself as being an accomplice in this desire, as being partners with this desire. Direct your energies towards it, and visualize this desire as reality.

You each have this capacity to turn a desire, an ideal, a position into your reality. Very little that you would desire is out of your reach. Most of what you desire is yours for the taking, yours for the effort, yours for the applying of yourself to it. So choose your highest ideals, embrace them, accept them into your being, and promote them with your conscious mind. Ask for assistance from our Father and embrace the fruits of your
efforts.

It is the Father's desire that you be a creator as well, that you form your own creations of direction, of ideals, of purpose, that you give rise to these fundamental basics spontaneously of yourself. You are empowered to create these realities, and you are encouraged to do so.

It is necessary from time to time to realign yourself with the proper energy guides that you spoke of in your discussion to establish your position in the proper channels for the most efficient transfer of energy. This is accomplished by means of your sincere desire to implement this new ideal and your willingness to align yourself to the proper degree to allow the most efficient transfer of the energy. You all are becoming aware of the many different sources of energy, power, available to mortals of the realm. These channels are a means to tap into, to augment your capabilities, to enhance your abilities to efficiently perform and function. We encourage you to experiment with their use, to apply yourselves in different regions, to be open to help from these outside sources. You alone can do great things; you with the aid of other circuits can do things beyond what you can conceive of.

The desire has to unfold, the conscious effort be made into action, be it anything to do throughout your
day that, if you do it with the conscious effort to do the righteous thing with all of your actions, you will be fulfilled at the end of each day. When you go through your day with the desire to do the righteous thing and it seems to be something that is in the future, you are taking away from the conscious effort that you could be making throughout the day. If you are doing the most mundane thing like putting away the dishes, if you make the conscious effort to do the righteous thing, you will find that your mind becomes much more focussed on the day to day, mundane events that can turn into spiritual events, each and
every one. This takes a bit of practice, but it will bring you into the moment, and you will not be living in the future or hashing over the past.

If you will sit for just a moment, think of something that you each did today that when you were doing this you were thinking of something else. Relive doing the action, think of yourself in the righteous act of doing the action, pulling yourself right into the act. You are one with the act. You are at one with the Father by doing the act. It could be driving your car, putting the groceries away, preparing a meal. Allow the energy
to be one, the oneness with yourself, the oneness with the Father, and the oneness with the act you are doing. Pull that energy force into the very act itself that it magnetizes and energizes so that it penetrates into the day, into all the other acts that you do. You are getting more energized as the day is going. Know that by doing this you are doing a service because you are putting out this energy force into the environment. As you are sitting now, pull the feeling of oneness with the Father, the cosmic energy, into you. Feel the chairs you are sitting on. Feel the energy go through you into the furniture. Feel the
energy go out from you into each other. Keep this alive in all your actions. This will keep you in the moment, in the wisdom. Keep this alive within you so that you know that you are full of this electricity that is going out into all your actions, going out with all your thoughts. It is going out with your throat and heart chakras which are alive with the energy and the oneness that you feel, so that you are not bored with your everyday events. You are very much alive with all that you do.

You know that your lives have purpose and meaning no matter what you are doing. As you are putting the dishes away, sweeping the floor, your life at that moment has all the purpose and all the meaning that it has if you are out serving in any other way. That aliveness and electricity that moves you when you keep it alive with every action will give you the foothold for and the momentum for the future, for the past will all become one moment in that which you live each day, each moment. Everywhere you go, everything you do will be alive because you have put forth the effort each day with each thing that you have done.

If you are thinking of something, for instance, you are working on one thing, and you know you have several things lined up, instead of being fully into what you are doing at the moment you are thinking ahead to all the other things you have to do, pull the ... into what you are doing with the oneness, the electricity, and pull it through you into what you are doing. It could be very helpful. Then fold with the
day, with the movement of the day.

Every day has its own movement. Every day can be different and alive. The openings have been made in order for this to flow through you. Learn to pull it in and through you into whatever you need. The mind plays a great part in this motion. It takes discipline to program the mind so that it becomes second nature. At first you may feel stimulation. As you become accustomed to it, it will become natural. Your channel will become larger, more energy through the love of the Father.

This energy can help others to open up as it reaches them through your aliveness, like turning on a light. If you keep your switch on, you will allow the electricity to flow through you. It is not something which you must try to make happen. It is natural; you just allow it to happen. The energy flows through you, and as you energize it through your will and put it out into all things, your household gets full of it. It goes out into your furniture, your clothes, your food, your dishes, so that your whole house becomes energized. Everyone around you will feel this. It will help keep you healthy and feeling alive, at one with God and at peace with yourself.  

Tom: Do we all get the same initial charge of desire? How can we boost our desire?

Malvantra: Your Indwelling Fragment does, indeed, long to return to its origin. You as a personality may not fully invest the same longing at this time as your Indwelling Spirit has. But in time and with alignment to this Indwelling Spirit you too shall come to desire to return to your parent more fully and completely. To have a great desire to be about the Father's business, to do what you perceive to be the right choice in your
life, to make a difference, to be of service to others. This is the desire to be on the road towards the Father. Desire is also something which you can foster in others by your example of your orientation, by exemplifying you are on this path. You are aware you are on this path; you are in pursuit of the goal of perfection. You demonstrate these qualities to those around you who then may gaze upon your attitude and your actions and desire if nothing else to be like you. You, in turn, desire to be more perfect. Therefore you lead them in desiring to be more perfect.

Count yourself fortunate that you recognize this desire and can use it actively to chart your course. Count yourself fortunate also if you can, by example, emanate this quality to any individual around you so that they may be so affected as well. Desire is the propellant that motivates you to act, whether it is a desire to become one with your Adjuster or a more long-range desire to become one with the Father.

Still it is the same desire, the same striving for perfection, desiring to be more in line with the divine way. I would point out that every individual has some degree of desire. It may, during any one life, be misplaced. The desire for self-gratification is an obvious example. However, there is desire in each individual. It may be misguided and misdirected so as to propel them in a direction not of the Father's will, but it is resident within them this desire to do something. Your opportunity involves transferring this desire to more worthy causes.

Jonathan: One of our favorite phrases is that love is the desire to do good to others. If we stop at "love is the desire" and reflect on Jesus' teaching of loving one another, then love is a good way to kindle desire in ourselves.

Malvantra: Love is, indeed, an excellent indicator and destiny, ever pulling your forward. If in any case you are doubtful as to your desires and intent, reflect on them with the light of love and see how they fall into place. Love is an excellent tool to gently redirect desires that may be at a tangent and should be used repeatedly as a corrective measure in your ascension career to reestablish your desires in line with your highest possible ideals.

Tom: In the Urantia Book it says you can't love a person by sheer force of will. You have to take the time to know them. Also it says teachers can reshape the environment, remove obstacles, but in the final analysis  students' interest, drive, and enthusiasm propels them forward. That all falls under desire. Are we all given an equal charge of desire when we come into this world? Then does the environment either smother or foster us to getting a greater charge of desire?

Malvantra: Desire is as other characteristics are to you. By that I mean that it is available to you as are several other aspects available to you. It is in your development of these characteristics and traits that they become stronger, more intense, and more effective. Think of it as your choosing to develop your trait of desire as a useful propellant, is the same as your desire to utilize faith, which is also available to you upon your taking and developing. It is merely up to you which of these you access and to what degree you access it. It is true that inherently you have at your disposal a myriad of qualities of which this is but one.

Jonathan: In light of desire and the conditions of society, consider the mota that "difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs." We have desire that the world fosters or hinders. It falls to us to be fearful, mediocre, or stimulated true children.  

Malvantra: True, and it is up to you individually how much you want to stimulate these desires. One individual may be intimidated by difficulties. Another given the exact same difficulties might be charged with enthusiasm. The difficulties remain the same; it is in your approach and your attitude that the difference is made.

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Destiny is such a fascinating topic, so important as a part of our consciousness from the beginning of life, running through it like a constant thread for its entire length.

Destiny is not a static concept, not a far-off goal, not a plaque on a wall that states the result of a performance, an office attained, nor a goal reached. Rather, destiny is what is contained in the seed of being as a potential prior to the onset of life. And the destiny starts to unfold at the moment of birth. Each of you here now is participating in your own destiny. You have a destiny that was, the destiny that is, and a destiny that shall be. From the time of attainment of your Thought Adjuster, you have a unique way of molding your personal destiny, as if each of you had before you a detailed blueprint of your entire existence and the capacity to make changes within the blueprint limitations at will. Erase a line here, add a line there, this is where your free-will decision-making capacity serves you most mightily.

You may ask “But how can I possibly know the correct way to mold my destiny?” “What is the way?” You have the Spirit of Truth. You have the living fragment of God within you. You have a certain knowledge of truth and goodness and beauty and love to guide you. You have the spiritual muscles of your soul - as strong as your use of them has made them. And it is those muscles - if you will - that have a firm grip on your destiny through your freewill.

Imagine the Father has given you a large diamond at the beginning of your life, and it is your job to cut that diamond so that it may reflect light in brilliant and in interesting ways. You have the gift of personality given with the gift of life, and your freewill is the tool that you use to shape this personality. How will you shape it? That is your decision. Will you make changes? Almost certainly. Will you regret them? Yes, of course, but not all of them.

When you pass from the life in the flesh and are given the choice of continuing on or not, at that point
the richness of destiny will almost certainly be such an irresistible inducement that no one but the most
deeply impaired ever decline to continue. This concept is difficult to grasp at this point for you, nonetheless it is useful to ponder.

Much has been written in your literature about destiny, the concept of fate. And some of what has been speculated is actually quite close to the truth. Yes, a single decision can change the course very much. Yes, the decision you make at any time can have an impact on the destiny of another, not unlike stars on a collision course, or - less dramatic - marbles rebounding from one another as they roll down an incline, each impact causing a ricocheting of other marbles, and yet others. It is this interaction of destinies through personalities and free-will decision that makes fellowship so vitally important in the Universe.

As Earth progresses toward the era of Light and Life, the spiritual growth of individuals will accelerate and improve. Fellowship will grow, and there will be far more positive impacts of personalities upon personalities in the sense of non-adverse contributions to growth. Of course, adversity helps the individual to grow spiritually. However, there are many many ways of abetting growth that do not necessarily involve adversity - as you all are aware. And of course there is ample adversity through the eternal ages. A diminution in the adversity experienced in this embryonic stage of growth in the material form will not detract in the long run.

Yes, adversity makes one stronger, however the man running the race who finds himself beaten with a whip or struck in the leg with a stick at each step most likely will not run as quickly, as confidently, or as contently as he might without those adverse factors. He instead would have more energy to devote to the task of running the race rather than having to divert attention to the pain and the opposition.

So it is on Earth now: many souls with clearly established destinies running that race - the race to get through life. How will you run your race? How will you affect the race of others? When we engage in service to our fellows we help them to run the race a little more easily, you see? That does not mean we carry them upon our backs, for it is their race, it is their destiny. But we do not trip them, or strike them.

Is our destiny completed when that far-off day comes when we stand in the presence of the Father? No, not at all. However, the striving to meet that particular goal is a very important part of the destiny of every one of you here today. Destinies are eternal and infinite, and no being has ever existed - mortal or non-mortal - that has fully expressed their potential destiny. This is a difficult concept to grasp for me also, nonetheless, it is so. So you see your destiny is a fluid thing, dynamic, growing, alive, subject to many forces, but most of all your own will, your one desire to act.

Yes, you have many helpers within and without, and their promptings can be very useful if you wish to accept them. So go forth. Meet your destiny. Run the good race.

Question: About the beginning of the 16th century a man by the name of John Calvin, when he was translating the Latin scriptures into French, became convinced that the New Testament taught predestination, and developed the doctrine of predestination which is known as Calvinism. It holds generally that people are predestined to go to heaven or go to hell. I realize that, in the Urantia Book language, this is predestined to survive or not-survive. This became such a strong point, that others, who
couldn't accept the idea that a God would create individuals to go to hell, said that they had the free will
to choose. And the doctrine of predestination and the doctrine of free will are considered to be opposite
to each other.

I think the Urantia Book teaches that they are consistent with each other, that when we are born we are
predestined - to do something, but we have the free will to change that destiny, point by point, decision
by decision. And if I remember it correctly, the Urantia Book says that we are predestined to do things,
but we are not foreordained to do them, that we have the free will to say no. Putting that together with
your lesson, suddenly it fills in the blanks.

Answer: Yes, you understand well. You see that there are many dimensions which have been left out by
the formal religious approaches of the past.

Question: I have a question about the active or non-active role that the different agents and beings that surround us actually take in our lives. Some of us think that they are quite active, I mean to the point where good fortune is placed in their path, if they are seeking the Father's will. And others of us feel as though they aren't that involved, that interactive. Can you shed any light on this?

Answer: Yes. Some are blessed with great agility in managing the material world and are perceived as being lucky. This is not a result of spiritual leading, necessarily, in the sense that you are referring to with external forces bringing to bear, however it is not that common for a material being to thrive without some participation in a program of spiritual growth. It does happen, of course. There have been some quite iniquitous beings who have done enormously well in the material sense. But of course they have lived with overwhelming inner torment which they have not generally admitted to others. But the one who thrives on Earth without inner torment must necessarily follow a spiritual program.

Material success requires study and practice at material skills. Wealth does indeed flow in well-defined channels, and the one who would be wealthy may easily, or not so easily, tap into these channels. This may be seen as luck, but it's more a matter of having a good eye and a high level of desire. There have been persons who've become wealthy who have also achieved high spirit attainment. This is rare, but known to happen.

Has their success been due to cosmic intervention? They too have been endowed with Thought Adjusters, and some have heeded the advice of Thought Adjusters and been helped in attaining their goals. Some have had other spirit helpers for reasons beyond what your history books may record. Much of this has to do with using well-placed beings to help offset some of the damage done during the rebellion. They happen to be in opportune positions, so an attempt is made to use them, but as far as anyone being intentionally placed in a position of power by seraphic or other guidance, no. Those in positions of power may choose to avail themselves of seraphic guidance that is offered, which is a free will decision, but there is not divine intervention in the matters of man beyond that. 

Advice is always at hand. Whether man chooses to take it or not is another matter. Let us look at the other side of the situation. What of the person who seems to be good and lead a life of worship and yet is beset with misfortune, material poverty from family tragedy? In undertaking the journey towards spiritual growth one may or may not choose to participate in the flow of wealth. Some choose not to, and therefore their material lives are impoverished while their spiritual lives are enriched.

This is rare. This is as rare as the other extreme. It is as rare as the wealthy man who is spiritually rich, but it does happen. The great mass of people do best, have the most so-called good luck, when they are engaging in worship in their activities and heeding seraphic guidance which is available to all. So you could say that good luck, no matter what your goals may be, they will be more readily attained, if you follow God's plan. This may sound somewhat like a television evangelist, but this is certainly not a call for donations to churches. If you lead your lives in such a way that you are loving, you are good, you are kind, you are truthful, you are bound to have some good fortune, and you are also bound to have some misfortune. But overall the services that you render in the plying of your trade, whatever that may be, will generally be well accepted, and you will prosper to whatever extent is possible. 

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)

Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.