[tmtranscripts] 07-28-01 SPOKANE TEACHER BASE (1)

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DATE:  July 28, 2001
LOCATION:  Spokane, WA
T/R:  Gerdean
TEACHERS:  
       DOLORES (prayers)
       TOMAS AND PAULO
TOPIC:  The Ecology of the Evolving Supreme

DOLORES:  Good afternoon.  Dolores here.  Let me lift you in prayer prior to 
Tomas coming in at the onset.

In faith of your presence, dear Michael, and in faith of the presence of the 
heavenly helpers in the invisible spheres who lead us into your great 
Reality, lift our hearts and souls in celebration of knowing you and in 
knowing your love for us, your many creations.  Rejoice with us in the 
eternal adventure of finding Our Father ~ in our lives ~ as we exist and as 
we seek for Him in others and as we aspire to become like Him and, 
eventually, in His presence, to worhip Him.  

Give us patience, Michael, in our dealings with one another as we come to 
know how to relate to the God who inspires us all.  Teach us to meaningfully 
relate and interact with everyone we encounter in light of your admonition to 
love one another as you love us.  Help us to discern how to love one another 
as you love us, as this, in the example you gave, is the key to learning the 
path into righteousness and glory for us all.  

If it please you, Creator, we yearn to do your bidding.  We yearn to follow 
you into the fields and into the universities of your choosing for us so that 
we will be better prepared to follow your bidding in all things.  We commend 
to you our very beings - all that we are, all that we have been, and all that 
we are becoming - in order for you to mold us and help us discern Our 
Father's will for us.  In His divine light we abide.  Amen.

TOMAS:  Good afternoon, my loyal friends, and companions.  We embark now, we 
engage upon, the new phase, the new decade, the new plateau of distributing 
loving kindness and care into the fields as nourisment for those who hunger 
and thirst for greater truth, beauty and goodness.  

This consecration of your will to do the divine will is the Agenda of all of 
us, and yet each of us assumes our own individual Assignment as far as our 
expression of our commitment to doing the Father's will.  In the expansion of 
spiritual reality in your lives so that it will take on greater value for 
you, you will begin to discern, through Stillness, the personality pattern 
established in you that will conform to your destiny path.  Insofar as you 
are a fledgling soul, you will experiment in your understanding of what is 
meant by His will for you in your life and how you reflect His will.

Experimentation is part of the experiential existence.  It's a natural 
growing program.  What you will do is you will ascertain an approach and 
follow that approach until and as such time as you are invited and directed 
in other ways, all the while amassing for yourself value and meaning that 
becomes a part of who you are.  While you experience many variations of 
creature choice, your essential Agenda is to be perfect in your sphere as the 
Father is perfect in His sphere.  And thus, as you master your standing as 
you are, it is then apparent how to advance even farther into the ideal of 
spiritual development as you begin to see it unfold before you.

The essential question therefore is always to recognize your primary Agenda.  
I'd like to open this up somewhat for you today and include you in my session 
by asking for certain specificities as to other agendas of our past masters 
in teaching this lesson on living God's will.  For instance, have you got a 
response to the question of "what was Machiventa Melchizedek's agenda in 
coming here to Urantia?"

THOROAH:  I was thinking that his agenda was to teach the One God, of all the 
achievements, the idea of One God.

TOMAS:  Precisely, Thoroah, and this agenda of his at that time had 
everything to do with his purpose on Urantia.  What would you say his Agenda 
is today?

GERDEAN:  Overseeing the reclamation of Urantia.

TOMAS:  Overseeing the reclamation of Urantia.  Fine.  And what would you 
venture to say was the Agenda of Jesus?

THOROAH:  To let us know that this God loves us.
TOMAS:  A loving God, yes.  But what was Michael's Agenda?
THOROAH:  To complete the seventh bestowal.

TOMAS:  And gain sovereignty over his universe, yes.  So you see we have 
different agendas but we have the same overall Agenda - to do the will of the 
Father at any particular given place in time.  Each life is given its own 
Agenda, and while in the course of the life there will be many secondary and 
tertiary agendas in the mix, always is the essential Agenda to "Be ye 
perfect".  That is a rather wide-open mandate, wouldn't you agree?

THOROAH:  Yes. 

TOMAS:  Within any situation/ paradigm, and from differing vantage points, 
depending on the paradigm, there are what we might call modifications for 
carrying out your agenda.  An example could be being perfect in a certain 
task set before you.  You must learn how to navigate the area or utilize the 
tools therein.  Thus the primary Agenda appears to be superceded by lesser 
agendas.  

If a woman is sewing a garment as a costume in a local theater presentation 
depicting the value of neighbors and the value of interacting in ministry, 
one might construe her as merely a seamstress with a limited agenda, one 
which is, in their eyes, less important than theirs, which may be a man who 
is washing the car in order to drive the family to an engagement which will 
represent him as a champion of a certain cause which bespeaks the nobility of 
character that is held up as exemplary of a denizen doing deeds on behalf of 
the community as a way of indicating the level of civilization that is 
created in citizens such as this, thus also depicting the high agenda of 
character.  

Each agenda is a path in support of the exalted Agenda of the sons and 
daughters of God in their mortal raiment.  It is when the parties exalt their 
agendas as having the sanction of God over and above the others' agenda that 
humans encounter conflict.  

When you set out to be of service and to express yourself as personalities in 
support of the values shared by all of divinity, you assume the mantle of one 
who has a righteous cause.  But without taking the moment to perceive how the 
individual is going about bringing their impression/interpretation of this 
righteous cause into being, you can only see the immediate act and it may 
have little bearing on what the greater picture portrays.

Deep thinking is called for here.  It's an example of not being able to see 
the forest for the trees sometimes.  You look around and you see trees, you 
see your fellows engaged in various activities, you see aspen, pine and maple 
all intermingled.  You see that some are tall and some are short.  You see 
that the tall ones are often crowding out the sun from shining on the 
undergrowth.  The tall trees thus making it impossible for the saplings to 
reach their potential.  

Back up now and look at the forest and see the lilies of the field how they 
grow.  There are certain factors of growth involved in the forest of 
humanity, in the forest of kingdom-workers.  The circumstances of the forest 
tell how the elevation, the temperature, the rainfall, the soil, all 
contribute to the configuration of the forest in that time and place.  

The forest during Machiventa's sojourn here indicated a need for a concept of 
One God to be implanted in order for our Creator Son, when he arrived, to be 
able to impress upon his followers how it is that Our Father is a loving God. 
 Which he could not have done if it remained true, in the minds of humanity, 
that the many gods of Machiventa's day and age were still flourishing.

So look at forest in which you are growing.  The whole planet is not one 
large wood.  There are plains and barren spaces.  There are large areas where 
nothing grows.  There are populated areas that teem with life but have no 
surcease from the hustle and bustle of the concrete jungle and cannot 
consider ecological factors such as we are discussing.  In some areas 
survival is the primary agenda.  They have not yet found the refreshment from 
the protection of these mighty forests of spiritual community which prevail 
and in which one may find sanctuary.

As geologic and climatic changes occur, as time passes, as evolution occurs, 
all the tall trees will be brought down as a natural course, and the trees 
growing as saplings are then allowed to respond to the stimuli of growing 
conditions prevalent.  And when they have maximized their purpose, they too 
will be felled in order to provide a soil of nourishment suitable for the 
life yet to come.

The ecology of the Evolving Supreme is such that you listen to your heartfelt 
response to the still, quiet voice within.  If it leads you to grow where you 
are planted, then grow you must in the soil you found your roots.  In the 
greater ecology, your growth will be overseen by the nature of the greatness 
of divinity.  

If, in your forest habitat, it is impossible for you to find the conditions 
necessary for you to be all that you can be, perhaps you need to re-evaluate 
where you have found yourself emplanted, and seek guidance and direction as 
to how and where you may find yourself unobstructed in your ascent to the sun 
[sic].  It is possible for you to live the Father's will in your life no 
matter where you are, and no matter what you do, and yet in order to maximize 
your potential, for you to realize the agenda that has been written in your 
heart, it may require some uprooting and transplanting and reconfiguring your 
environment so that your branches may stretch forth and your fruits produced. 
 

So many are content to remain stunted and say, "I can do nothing about it, 
for this is where I have been planted.  These are the limitations I cannot 
surmount."  And if this is your decision, to abide by the constraints of your 
material existence, then so be it, and go about your affairs in good cheer.  
If, however, you are overshadowed by those tall pines which will naturally 
find their way to the top, refresh yourself in the relief they can provide 
from the driving rain and incidious heat of the exposure they endure.  

I speak to you symbolically because this is the language that you will need 
to use in determining, in ascertaining an agenda.  Be it your own agenda or 
the apparent agenda of those who surround you. Remember, too, that there are 
many kinds of trees.  Some produce crabapples.  Some provide a home for 
birds.  Some are used to build papermills and buildings.  Some are for beauty 
only, and some produce food.  There is room for all, and each, in their own 
time, in season, serve.  They fulfill their agenda.  How wonderful it is, the 
variety allowed in this far-flung universe of mortal creatures that aspire to 
find their natural habitat and flourish under the sun, in ways that are both 
natural and supernatural. 

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