[tmtranscripts] TOMAS: 02/29/00

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Transmission:  Feb. 29, 2000

TOMAS:  Good evening, my friends.  I am Tomas.
THOROAH:    Good evening, Tomas.

TOMAS:  I am amused to discover and to share with you that my original 
profession as a sociologist is brought back to me more and more as I work 
with you here on Urantia.  There were so many things about my life that I had 
let fade from my recollection, not because they were unpleasant memories, no, 
but because of the accumulation of experiences throughout my lengthy career.  
 

There are many, many eras and experiences which fade somewhat in the memory 
because of the tendency to live more and more in the now, and when there are 
no residue hang-over issues from the past, the only generally recognized 
reason to go back into the past is for the recollection of moments shared in 
a sublime friendship, but my experience with you has lit the fires of 
recollection from my career when I was a mortal.  

It is therefore a somewhat natural propensity for me to project onto you my 
interest in sociology and cultural anthropology.  Is it not, after all, a 
natural consideration that in Correcting Time, as we correct errors from the 
past, the future unfolds with an entirely new configuration, one which 
provides unlimited opportunity for learning and advancement in the realms of 
sociology.  

In your current vogue you are enthralled by the concept of community, 
retreats, and other means of living at peace with one another.  This is so 
exciting for me, you see, because it is concrete proof of the encroaching era 
of Light and Life, for it is therein where brothers and sisters long to 
befriend each other and practice, as you understand, the Golden Rule and even 
to go beyond that,  but lest we go too far afield, my initial instruction and 
foundation has been and always will be of a spiritual nature, for it is 
through the spirit that we are guided, that will advance and aid each 
civilization undertaken.  

But I would like to speak more about the configuration of groups of people, 
and this does not count a husband/wife team; that's a partnership, and even 
when Jesus is a part of the relationship, it is still a relationship of two 
mortals and that kind of relationship has its own blessings and curses, if 
you will.  The group begins when you have at least three, and from then on 
each additional person presents an aspect of change for every member of the 
group.  The goal, again, is to be self-governing through your own maturity, 
through your ethics and morals established through your relationship with Our 
Father and socialized throughout the brotherhood of man.  

This is an ideal having not yet been realized sufficiently to turn the tide 
of your planetary government.  Here I speak of another aspect of the Hundred 
Monkey Syndrome that has not been attained yet but it is a reasonable goal as 
we enter into the dawn era of Light and Life on Urantia -- to be 
self-governing and to acknowledge that your peers are also self-governing, 
not requiring your leadership or counsel, only insofar as your relationship 
is mutually dependant upon the living God that is understood, respected, 
revered and worshipped by all.

 One day your world will be settled in Light and Life and that will be the 
culmination, the glorious culmination of all these many thousands and 
thousands of years of effort on your part and on the part of your relations 
in the material realm -- your predecessors and your progeny --  animal, 
vegetable and mineral -- attaining a way of life which gives appropriate 
acknowledgement and homage to Our Creator.  

But until the global attainment, until full stage Light and Life is here, it 
is fascinating to speculate, in this extremely intriguing environment on 
Urantia, what might be effected in effort of attaining a degree of fraternity 
that would allow for the beginning of this potential to begin being realized 
and actualized.  Configuration.  Configuration is so important an element 
that the social architects aspire to bring together those compatible sorts of 
personalities which will be most effective in their relationship together, 
even serving throughout the future eras/ages to come.  

Always must you remember the configuration of your members.  Each occasion 
provides a different energy package.  Each of you are becoming sufficiently 
astute to know and love each other in understanding of your strengths and in 
compassion for your weaknesses.  By maintaining your spiritual roots, your 
ethics are able to acknowledge that in any given configuration there are 
strengths and weaknesses derived from the elements of the configuration.

Was that clear, Thoroah?

THOROAH:    I think so.  

TOMAS:  If you are in a group of people that you, in your assessment, have 
ascertained to have certain strengths and certain failings, you will know 
instinctually, intuitively and inherently whether or not the configuration of 
the parties are in a position to make a wise decision about a matter which 
would be influential in the community at large; whereas a ruling or a 
determination by another grouping of parties will garner a different response.

I will be elemental and give a crass example of four women in a group will 
come up with a conclusion and four men in a group will come up with a 
conclusion and it's not necessarily so that the women's conclusion and the 
men's conclusion will be the same, and therefore, it would behoove you to 
appreciate the balance of the four women and the four men intermingled, and 
with the balance made more equitable, then determine the strengths and the 
weaknesses of the composition of the community, of the social group, of the 
family unit, at its largest and most effective point.

This allows for greater representation, greater democracy.  It allows for all 
your brothers and sisters to be a part of the reality of the family.  Jesus 
is the decided head of the household insofar as he is God and has lived as 
man, therefore he represents, perhaps, the highest ideal.  But your future 
world will be comprised of men and women taking their instructions from the 
invisible realms, not necessarily from human rulers.  In the future there 
will be public servants in the appropriate sense but rulership, as it is 
understood in your government and has been known down through the ages, is a 
step in evolution that will evolve away.
 THOROAH:   "Evolve away."  I like the sound of that.  

TOMAS:  It is therefore very tricky, these times you live in, because you 
cannot relinquish your leaders, but they cannot be allowed to stranglehold 
you; and you people, you avant garde of spiritual beliefs and values, are 
still subject to so much of the effects and cause and effects of your 
predecessors in politics and in government and in civilization, and so you 
are incessantly vulnerable to the might that is, even though it may not be 
right.

As you advance into your paradigms/prototypes of civilization which afford 
spiritual liberty and qualities having the earmarks of high civilization, you 
will do well to begin to appreciate the immediate configuration, feeling and 
sensing the Light and Life qualities therein.  As that becomes a reality for 
you in your intimate associations, in your small groupings, you will feel 
emboldened to open yourselves to the possiblilities of greater embrace, 
greater connection to others, and thus expanding the configuration and 
subsequently expanding Light and Life.

I will leave it at that, for now.

How are you?

THOROAH:    Great.  As I mentioned to Dan and Jill today, I feel as though I 
may have had a lobotomy.  The last few weeks I haven't had the same things 
going through my brain all the time.  My life is just kind of up in the air, 
it seems like, and it feels good on one hand and it feels different and 
strange on the other.

TOMAS:  Yes.

THOROAH:    And I'm not exactly sure what I'm feeling or what I feel about 
what I am feeling, but it just seems like I'm going through a change.

TOMAS:  I am certain that you are.  I don't know how you could not be going 
through changes, under all these circumstances.  I could list several 
circumstances that are obvious; I however want to point out that feelings are 
simply feelings and whatever they are, they will pass, but the spirit is a 
reality that will not go away.  It is constant and steady and not as invasive 
or as dramatic as feelings, nor is it as exhausting.  And so perhaps as you 
stand naked on your new plateau of growth, you are able to discern that you 
are somewhat removed from your habits of your previous understanding, and so 
everything is different.  The configuration of Thoroah is different.

And of course that immediately reminds me that each of you are constantly 
undergoing change and in this, too, each configuration is different.  If it 
isn't different, in a growing sense, it will become stagnant and stale and in 
need of a Fatherly fix, which, given your integrity, sincerity and intent, 
you will be provided with the impetus you desire.  

 Your personal teachers have been working with you diligently for several 
months.  Your health habits have changed and they are paying off.  The 
geographic changes coming up are immense and your employment and financial 
circumstances are in limbo.  It is difficult, thus, to get a handle on 
anything familiar and you are forced to resort to faith and you are finding 
it alive, flowing, and maleable, but hard to control.  How fun for you to be 
experiencing these growth steps and exploring these opportunities.  So you 
have been feeling odd. 

THOROAH:    Well, I have to say you explained the way I feel exquisitely, and 
that's another one of the benefits of having the chance to have these 
conversations.  You are as a sounding board because I can talk to you about 
the things I am thinking about and you give me a reasonable sounding board so 
that I know that I'm not crazy.  If I have an idea and it's good you let me 
know that and if it's not, you let me understand why it's not.  That is such 
a valuable thing to have, from a mortal standpoint.

You mentioned the conversation and the guidance will be coming mostly from 
the spiritual side, in the future.  I had to laugh, as though it would be 
almost a complete abdication on the mortal's behalf to allow the spiritual 
side to "tell us what to do".

TOMAS:  What a well-chosen word.  "Abdicate" your throne.  Long live the King.

THOROAH:    But having this converstion right now about that, this is so 
invaluable.  I can't take it for granted and I learn more about it every time 
we have a session and I'm getting a little more zealous about how to let 
people know that they can have spiritual conversation without telling them 
they can have spiritual conversation.

TOMAS:  These are the challenges we face also.  Understood.  We are making 
progress, however, you will notice.  When we let Our Father reign, his will 
is done.  We don't have to work as hard as we think we do.

THOROUGH:   You know what I have to work hard at, Tomas, is understanding 
what letting go really means.  It's easy to say "let go and let God" but I'm 
not really sure what it is that I need to let go of.

TOMAS:  This of course is why it is difficult to let go.  Every aspect of the 
issue has to be investigated fully in order for you to finally release what 
it is that is not good for you, while you may retain that which has been good 
for you or might continue to have value.  But to simply say, "let go and let 
God", that is a difficult assignment for a mortal, and in respect to your 
intelligence and your free will, we would expect you to investigate your 
options and appreciate that in the beginning a child will want to have his 
cake and eat it too, will try to get away with anything just to find out how 
far its limitations run, but in time the appropriate guidelines are learned 
and enjoyed, stretched and sometimes comforted, and so there comes to be a 
realm of operation which maximizes the personality potential in service and 
in enjoyment of the life.  That is the place which one would aspire to, were 
one to aspire toward human individuality, a unique child of God.

 THOROAH:   You can only get there by experience, I would assume.  When you 
experience doing the right thing and the requisite results of doing the right 
thing, if you do that enough, pretty soon you understand what doing the right 
thing gets you, so as you learn to do that, give that to God, that experience 
must be what we keep going back to.

TOMAS:  Yes, yes indeed, and your parallel challenge is to recognize that 
many of your habits are natural to you and comfortable for you but they are 
not in keeping with His will for you, and so you weed out those less than 
ideal patterns while you cultivate and flourish within the recognition of 
your true reality.  Then comes the confidence and strength, enabling you to 
quickly ascertain what to hold onto and what to let go of, or what not to 
embrace in the first place.  

THOROAH:    This is when you're getting good at it.

TOMAS:  This is when you are making use of your adjutant mind spirit of 
wisdom, and the personal gratification is experienced in the worship circuit 
that is so much a part of you that rarely gets an opportunity to flourish.  
Well, that will change as you begin to find happiness within yourself, as you 
become happy and acknowledge it is because of your immediate and intimate 
relationship with the Father, your love for Him is such that you honor Him 
freely and openly, and this, Thoroah, is how you feed His sheep and how you 
present the Father's love to them that they might see and know that they, 
too, can have Our Father as a living experience. 

[Tape turned]

TOMAS:  Where were we?

THOROAH:    How to let people know that God loves them just by showing them 
how much we love them.

TOMAS:  And we know that because we know how much He loves us?

THOROAH:    Sometimes I don't think I know.

TOMAS:  Sometimes is an understatement.  We do not know how much the Father 
loves us.  We cannot know except to the extent of our own capacity to 
perceive what love might be.  So as you grow in your awareness of the reality 
of love, you grow in the awareness of the reality of Our Father, therefore 
you are able to express Him in how you express your love.  

This is why love must be redefined frequently, for you are growing and 
expanding, assuming you are also appreciating your experience of life and not 
just taking it for granted. 

THOROAH:    I think I do take it for granted sometimes.  Maybe a lot.

TOMAS:  There are certain things you can assume about Our Father and that is 
right, healthy, appropriate.  But there is also the admonition to not presume 
upon divine mercy and there is the admonition to produce fruit and this 
requires occasional pruning away of your old branches or aerating  your soil, 
so to speak.
 
THOROAH:    So if we don't produce fruit and we don't produce fruit enough, 
we are no longer alive, is that correct?

TOMAS:  I would have to say that is correct; however there are certain shrubs 
which only produce every six years, and so who is to say what your production 
levels ought to be.  Only your Thought Adjuster knows for sure.

THOROAH:    And that would be grace.  Which we can't presume upon either.  It 
feels real secure, I have so say.

TOMAS:  Grace is such a gift.  Such a gift.

THOROAH:    That alone is enough to love God.

TOMAS:  That alone is enough to motivate a loving son to be pleasing in the 
eyes of the Bestower of such grace.  In faith of grace, I will leave you this 
evening to enjoy the experience of your growing reality.  

THOROAH:    Thank you, Tomas.
TOMAS:  Good night.