[tmtranscripts] 7/21/01 TOMAS dwells in Glory

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DATE:  July 21, 2001
LOCATION:  Spokane, WA
T/R:  Gerdean
TEACHER TOMAS
TOPIC:  GLORY
       P.S.  Word study

TOMAS: Good afternoon, my intimate associates.  I am Tomas, your friend, 
companion, counselor and guide. Your loyalty is endearing.  

Glory.  This is what we will discuss for now.  Glory is God's.  It is a part 
of His radiance, His perfection.  Glory is a product of omnipotence, 
omniscience, even omnipresence.  I say "even omnipresence" for glory then is 
found in you, inasmuch as you are His, you are of Him and your association 
with your indwelling Adjuster is creating within you a personal sense of what 
glory is, what is glorious to you, even in your current reality.  

How do you depict glory in your life environment, personal experience.  Have 
you a perception of glory we can observe or countermand?

THOROAH: I just had a distinct one, Tomas, because the word glory, I had to 
study it as you were describing it, and maybe it's a cultural thing, but when 
I think of glory I think of "Old Glory" the flag and doing things for the 
glory of the land and thinking of it more in militaristic terms rather than 
the glorifying as something as –  It's an upgrade of joy, really, when you 
stop to think about glorious.

TOMAS: It is certainly a joy to feel glorious, yes, indeed, they are equated. 
 In the fullness of essential radiance ~ perfection ~ glory and radiance are 
up there with goodness and beauty.  As you ascend in spirit reality, as you 
are touched by that which has lasting value, within you swells that glorious 
appreciation for what has given meaning and value to your life.  

Thus, you who have had impressions of loyalty regarding your government, its 
history, would have an appreciation for the glory of patriotism.  The glory 
that was of Rome was of another day, however it is regarded as a status, a 
situation of accomplishment, such that the relative perfection of the status 
literally sings anthems, if you will, to patterns of perfection that elevate 
the culture, the civilization, the society, the people, the fellowship, to 
glorious heights.  These are external, that is to say, social applications of 
that which represents value.  

THOROAH: That's the other aspect, I think, that we might run into with glory 
is that we think of that in a sense of someone who wants all the glory, as 
glory for glorification is some form of self-aggrandizement rather than what 
it really is.

TOMAS: "What it really is."  Glory in the human sense -- in the emotional, 
mental, spiritual psyche of human beings -- glory will be influenced by 
motivation, intent.  And that, of course, is a reflection of the human will 
in alignment with the divine will, and this is most readily seen in those who 
have been reborn of the spirit ~ although many who have been reborn of the 
spirit refer and revert to that which was of former value, (having now 
expanded cosmic consciousness, spirit awareness, to add an entirely new 
dimension to the belief paradigm as it was in existence prior to the 
spiritual rebirth) and this in itself is glory given again to the material 
representation of what is spiritual in nature.  

Thus the glory of God indeed infiltrates into every facet of creation.  In 
the fullness of time, the omnipresence of God will infiltrate your material 
realm such that light and life will prevail.  In this state of glorious 
accomplishment, the planet Urantia will indeed have arisen into glory, as 
will all its inhabitants.

THOROAH: It's a complex word.

TOMAS: Let's look further at that word and put yourself in a position of 
recognizing the quality of glory as you have personally experienced it in 
your life.  You cannot not have had a moment of glory at some time in your 
existence.  It may have been a very distorted appreciation of what glory 
means in its ultimate sense, but it is a quality even so that has been known 
to be revealed to you even in terms of a birthday party when you are the one 
having the birthday and you get to blow out the candles on the cake.   That 
is an example of a moment of glory in a sense that a human can understand 
glory.

Those of you who have no taste for glory are depriving yourself and others of 
the glory of God in and through your representation of sonship/daughtership.  
The dynamic personality, the human expression of the divine, is a form of 
glory manifestation, and riding on the coat-tails of divinity is very likely 
the highest representation of glory known to man or woman ~ for in it your 
shadowy interpretation of what God's glory is, is honorable and upheld by a 
righteousness and humility that betoken a child of God.

The sense of glory is one of the lures.  

But in growing, in advancing in spirit composition, it is also common 
practice for you to learn experientially the glory of God by mistaking the 
glory of God for lesser glories; or, refusing to relinquish that which was a 
representation of glory to those things of yesteryear, for those things which 
are the glories of tomorrow.

THOROAH: There's a glory also in experience that isn't so reflective on the 
individual as much as introspective.  A couple of examples at the conference, 
there were two glorious moments: one was while I was watching Mark sing and 
perform, and one watching Gerdean.  Those are just two, but those were 
glorious moments.  There was a glory there that had nothing to do with my 
glory.  I felt the glory, I guess, of the moment.  Anyway, that's the way I 
would interpret it, now that we're studying this word ‘glory.'  Those were 
glorious moments.

TOMAS: Glorious because they were depicting a pinnacle of mortal performance 
on behalf of divinity, and this shadowy reflection of the greater glory is 
indeed a state of accomplishment which broadcasts.  These broadcasts are 
effective, potentially far-reaching.  Even the glorious moment wherein one 
ministers to a fellow in confiding trust or in merciful ministry, that moment 
of communion between two fellows in the presence of Deity is also an 
invaluable moment of glory.  It's audience is a more supernal reception, but 
inasmuch as it is true that your efforts to implant divinity into the 
material realms as en route to planetary light and life, you will see an 
increasing tendency to lead by spirit than by the power paradigms of the past.

Power and glory are peculiarly terrifying emotional qualities for humanity.  
They are either exalted beyond reason or ignored and discounted.  It seems 
hard for you to assimilate the qualities of power and glory into your 
construct, for fear your behaviors will be perceived as self-aggrandizement.  
This is an antichrist. (Long pause)  These remarks regarding glory have 
seemed to pacify the mind of the querant, and so I am free to go on to other 
matters unless or if you care to dwell longer on this.

THOROAH: Let's dwell on it.
TOMAS: Alright.  Let us dwell in glory.  

Glory is not the same as grace.  Grace is that "yellow blanket" that softly 
covers you like the mantle of the Mother.  It protects you from harm.  The 
grace of divinity, in giving you this peace which passes all understanding, 
allows you to stand tall while with grace. Glory is grace enhanced, animated, 
radiant.  

Glory is the silver lining around a dark cloud.  Glory is the particles of 
life comprised in such a way as to impress the universal mind with the 
perfection of itself, in its physical array, in its demonstration of 
perfection, even in the finite, material realm.  Glory is a state of being.

In divine glory there is room for more glory in and through the glorious 
personalities of your fellows also radiating the glory of God.  There is no 
friction, there is no disharmony, there is no resistance or competition, for 
the glory of the parts are in service to the whole, the Absolute.  

Glory is a quality of perfection.  To aspire then to "Be ye perfect" you will 
come to experience glory - the glory of God Himself in Paradise, as well as 
the glory assigned to you from Divinington in your Adjuster, that which you 
are becoming - thus the glory of God that you develop as you aspire to fuse 
with your Adjuster, as you become one with your divine fragment, you can 
recognize as a fragment of the Universal Father in his absoluteness on 
Paradise, and that all the other Adjusters that hail from Divinington to 
indwell your kin throughout the far-flung universes of time and space, are 
but the dancing lights of the prism which is reflecting the radiance and 
glory of the sun [sic], the power on high.  

And this is true radiance:  when the light of God, the eternal illumination, 
the power of infinite personality, approaches you through your Adjuster and 
strikes a chord within you that reflects the beauty of the prism of divine 
perfection throughout your realm.  You glory in the experience because your 
fellows, as other shards of divine light, are harmoniously and joyously 
dancing with you in a perfect pattern of harmony that reflects the glory of 
God.  (Long pause)

[Recess, tape turned; interim conversation about the last line in "the Lord's 
Prayer."

GERDEAN: We're not used to looking at power and glory any more than we're 
omfortable with looking at money.  That's one of those things that we were  
... Well, not everybody, ...  

THOROAH: But we don't trust power and glory.  Even if we experience it, we 
fear it.  Because we've seen what the euphoria can do to people.

GERDEAN: Well, maybe this is what this conversation is supposed to be about, 
is so that we have a understanding of what it is so that it's not all or 
nothing at all, that we can look at it rationally or in perspective or as a 
viable quality that is part of our heritage – not based on the mortal 
paradigm,...  which ... doesn't give ME much power and glory, anyway. 

THOROAH: Well, the idea is to recognize the inherent power and the inherent 
glory present in our Thought Adjuster, and our Thought Adjuster is trying to 
teach us how to get along with and work with that power and glory, as well as 
our Teachers have been trying to teach us, trying to deal with that.  I mean, 
it sits right in there with the rebellion.

GERDEAN: It's a lure but it's also a reflection.  Glory.  You're doing it.  
The light's coming through.  So whether it's a little private act or a big 
public act, it doesn't matter, it still glorifies spirit.

THOROAH: When I think of glory now I don't think of it as being, say, in the 
spotlight.  I think of the moments that are glorious.  They are moments of 
inspired appreciation.  (Or insight.)  You see the universe at work.  You see 
the Father at work.  You see IT working. Those little moments are so glorious 
when you see IT.  It's with the circuitry.

TOMAS: Well, yes you are right.  What difference does it make, except that, 
if you repeat, as a mantra, "for thine is the kingdom and the power and the 
glory forever and ever amen," you have more or less disassociated yourself 
from any vested interests by giving it away eternally to someone else to take 
care of, and this is how it is that you have not appropriately assumed your 
power and glory along with your assault on the spiritual kingdom.
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If you like to think so, you may think of us as students of hermeneutics - 
the study of literature [the art or science of the interpretation of 
literature], but this is what we've been given to work with as a tool, a 
medium of communication.  I am not able to indwell you or accompany you in 
the likeness of the Spirit of Truth.  I am a personality but I am an 
associate.  And, as associates, unless we are in a state of spiritual 
communion, or prayer, as a result of our mutual commitment of time in space 
for that purpose, I am forced to revert to the utilization of words.  And so 
it behooves us to have an understanding of the words we are using, and how 
they identify with you or you with them, and how you experience life as you 
understand it by the definitions you impose upon your actions.  

It is very interesting, I will add, that your assessments of your behaviors 
are often a definition selected by you to describe your behavior that is not 
the same definition we would use.  Therefore we are in a position of studying 
hermeneutics, just like a study of your religion is theology and the study of 
another guy's religion is psychology, so we define our terms and the tools of 
the trade of communication, so that we have a better appreciation of what 
we're talking about because of the language we are using.

Intellectual?  Yes.  Mindal as compared to spiritual?  Certainly.  
Immaterial?  Hardly.  It's not a safe assumption that we can all stand around 
yet in a state of grace or better yet glory and assume that we are all 
radiating God's goodness.  We are busy living the life.  You are in the arena 
in order to advance your spirit perceptions so as to make you more real and 
your work in the field reflects that thread.  But if we are to understand our 
brother, in order to then understand his/her motives so that we can learn to 
love him/her, it is necessary to look behind the veil, in the closet, under 
the bed, around the corner, on the next page, on the former object lesson, in 
order to realize how we may be of service, if at all.

Any questions?  (Long pause)  No questions?  Class dismissed.

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

 
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