[tmtranscripts] 08-04-01 SPOKANE TEAM (2)

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TOMAS: Good afternoon, my loyal friends and neighbors, this is Tomas.  I have 
only one remark to make today, in the face of Timothy's words.  You have 
heard me in good faith and in good humor assign myself the "handle" of Tomas 
the Opportunist.  However, you will find me taking leave of that designation, 
given the nature of this upcoming course.  An opportunitist is not always one 
who is opportune on behalf of the highest ideals.  In fact, the perception in 
your culture that an opportunist is one who would take undue or unfair 
advantage of a situation.  And while in private company I have little concern 
that you would perceive me as attempting to usurp something at someone else's 
expense, in the name of such a quality of lessons as we will address in Human 
Associations 101, it would not behoove me to sport such a handle.

Let's make this course something that can be developed into a practical 
workbook experience.  Come to class, if you will, next week, notebook in hand 
and sharpened pencils at the ready.  Bring also your professions of desire to 
be useful in the field and any questions or ideas you may have, having to do 
with how to interact effectively and happily with your many peers, be they 
children of rapture or unlovely mankind.

Alright then, if there are no further questions regarding your new class, new 
course in this Teaching Base, are there matters to kick around as one might 
do after class as you wait for the bell to ring?

THOROAH: Yes.  I've been thinking about this cultural situation, thanks to 
our mentors Thursday evening talking about the cultural things that we deal 
with and things that we don't realize that are cultural that are just so 
natural for us to do that we don't know why or maybe haven't even thought 
about asking why, and so Human Associations 101 is an excellent course.  And 
I think we'll be dealing with that!  It's a part of the curriculum, so that's 
good!  

TOMAS: Good, yes.  You are right to find it fascinating, for it provides 
wisdom in this way: as you understand your fellows you can learn to see their 
motivations and by getting to the root of their needs, they will reveal their 
true essence to you in such a way that you may love them with a divine 
affection, even while their motives may hardly rise to the value standards 
developed in one who has spent many reflective hours in spirit to discern and 
master.  

The study of your species has been fascinating from the beginning, but the 
light that has been flooding Urantia recently has added new dimensions and 
perspectives to your conditioning such that the comparison is now able to 
seen.  Perhaps you would understand it this way.  There is a house, a very 
filthy house with somewhat slovenly while excessively busy people.  The dirt 
has piled up in their haste to go from here to there, and they are so seldom 
home to look out the window, the windows are befogged with grime from having 
been neglected.  Into this home comes a "clean freak," a Mr. Clean, or 
Scrubbing Bubbles, and begins to attack the place in earnest in one corner 
and is working their way throughout.  It is very easy to see then, the 
comparison between that which has been cleaned and that which has been 
neglected.

The part that has been cleaned is beginning to evoke a change in the 
residents.  While they are still very busy and still very slovenly on one 
hand and in a certain part of their house, they are becoming more and more 
aware of how appealing it is in the clean area.  Indeed, they find themselves 
standing up taller as they pass through that clean part.  They have cause now 
to glimpse the view from the clean windows and promise themselves the moment 
to stand and enjoy their view as soon as their busy-ness subsides.

And so it is that we are observing you in this house, going back and forth 
from the old way, through the new way, on your way to light and life.  We can 
very clearly see how the light, how the clean, how the scrubbing bubbles are 
affecting you and understand completely how you got so dirty in the first 
place.  It's not judgment that gives us the vantage point of our observation, 
but the actuality of perception itself.

Thus when we bring these things to your attention, it's not to remind you of 
how lowly you are, no!  It's to remind you of your origins and to help you 
see that you are more and more dwelling in the clean part of the house, and 
the patterns that you were trained and accustomed to living under and with 
were conditions over which you had little control.  Now you can see.  Now the 
sun is pouring in the window, and the power of the Father is coming through 
everyelectrical outlet.  The mother herself is whistling while she works in 
your domain, in her domain.  From this non-judgmental assessment of the human 
condition, we have been able to understand you and have come to love you each 
personally because of the conscientious application of attempting to 
understand why you do the things you do, how you do them, to what end, for 
what result, to fulfill what need, to overcome what handicap, to feed what 
hunger.  We want to be of service.  If we don't know who you are and what 
your needs are, based on conscientious reflection through divinity, how can 
we effectively serve?  How can we take this kingdom by spiritual assault?  We 
can only let the agents of God in other ... assume the responsibility for 
workmanship, while we pass through life allowing life to pass us by and all 
opportunity to effectively serve through passive acquiescence to that which 
we have not embraced as our assignment in the gospel, in the doing of the 
Father's will, in the sonship connection, in the true character 
representation of the personality of God as it is directed through your will 
to serve in your arena. 

Yes, indeed, you are a study!

THOROAH: Thank you for taking the time.

TOMAS: It was given to me to use.  I'll see you around campus.  Good 
afternoon.

  

 
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