[tmtranscripts] 12-22-01 SPOKANE TeaM

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DATE:         December 22, 2001
LOCATION:  Spokane, WA  USA
TEACHER:  TOMAS
TOPIC:        Life as the Big Top
                   Midwayer Performances
T/r:              Gerdean

TOMAS:  "Ladies and Gentlemen!" (Group giggles)  "Welcome to the Big Top!" 
(Group lost in giggles)  We are going to be entertained today with the circus 
acts of celestial entertainers as personalities involved in your career as 
ascending sons and daughters having a human experience and discovering the 
delights of the array of skill, ability, and artistry which confronts you 
when you behold the sectors of the circus of cosmic characters in the 
kaleidoscope of evolving life.

And good afternoon, my dear pupils.  I am Tomas, your teacher, in leave of my 
senses because of the frivolity of the season and the occasion to give you a 
gift of a new perspective.  I know my gifts cannot compare to the gifts of 
the indwelling Adjuster, the Universal Father, the Master, our Creator.  I 
know that my gifts to you are conditioned by your readiness to receive what 
you regard as already yours, that being a relationship with these realms of 
celestial helpers who infiltrate your lives now with conscious admittance to 
your presence.  

I am a Teacher in the Teacher Corp., and these (my friends and I) are those 
who have begun the interlocutory procedure which begins your edification and 
which remains the foundation of our association with you.  The Teacher Corp. 
is established in your hearts, as it was intended in the beginning when Ham 
admonished you to "Understand this in your hearts."  Understanding in your 
heart is the reality range wherein we reside, where you can access our 
teachings and our tonal quality.

While the range of personality among your Teachers in this Teacher Corp. are 
varied, and colored by  individual Transmitter/receiver mind banks, even so 
we fall within a certain range of reality which you have come to appreciate 
and regard as reliable.  

What you have not, perhaps, particularly appreciated are the many unknown 
teachers who have addressed other individuals and groupings of individuals 
subscribing to other philosophies or mental impressions, but which 
nonetheless are in keeping with the curriculum of the Melchizedek 
Universities for you and all ascendant sons and daughters throughout time and 
eternity, as they have perhaps another way of delivering their message or 
another approach to the Big Top than you have.  

I reiterate then that those of you who have felt that the circus is all about 
the high wire and the trapeze act, are enlarged when you recognize there are 
animal acts as well, such as elephants and trained lions, not to mention 
acrobats on horses, monkeys on ponies, fire on hoops, clowns on balls, and 
all the fun and games that go into the circus.  

I welcome today again, and this time for your continued enhancement of the 
delights inherent in your ticket to attend the Big Top, -- are the real 
workers, often behind the scenes, the midwayers who are the ones to encourage 
the timid, soothe the savage beasts, enliven the lazy, lose that which was 
evident and replace it with another approach, as if it were a magic trick, 
and who seldom are around to hear the applause or respond to the curtain 
calls that would be assured if it were made apparent to you how much of the 
action that you have happening in your head that appears to be an 
entertaining and enlightening experience, is only possible because of the 
efforts of the midwayers who make the connection between the realms, allowing 
for your eyes to see that which the universe would perform for your benefit.  

The fact that these loyal midwayers are often called workers has a tendency 
to diminish them in the eyes of those who seem to feel that greatness is 
admissible at the top and will filter down as any hierarchy will, to the low 
rung on the ladder and then step off onto the bare soil of the material world 
of Urantia, giving them stature only a foot above ground!  But I tell you, 
without their intercession, there would be little possibility of your seeing 
anything beyond your material realm.

The language we use is provided by the midwayers.  The auras that are 
available are affected because of the midwayers.  The many seemingly 
miraculous events that are attributed to angels are almost always the work of 
the midwayers.  

While they are only slightly ahead of you in terms of their creature 
existence, they are committed to their capacities and in their united will, 
their capacities have exponentially expanded to provide the service of ten 
times as many as they could be and provide before they set aside their common 
differences and assented to become a productive block of assistants in the 
process of perfection attainment.  

The greatest thing that the midwayers have done is recognize that while they 
were virtually orphaned, abandoned, and left to fend for them self on a very 
confused and troubled world, were not willing that fact to be the limitation 
that conspired to reduce their effectiveness in their supreme desire to be of 
service to their Creator, Michael, who they were able to know and love in his 
sojourn here.  

It remains a very viable truth that those who have known love do not want to 
return to the dungeon of "not love".  Those who have seen the light do not 
want to return to the bowels of darkness.  They will go to any length to 
remain steadfast and let their light shine so that others will not slide back 
into the death of shadows, the tar pits of indecision.  

Midwayers work so closely with the True Grit of human existence.  They are 
shameless when it comes to reaching into the sins of humankind.  They will go 
anywhere.  There is no place in them for selectivity as far as who gets the 
cushier job.  The only perks that exist in their ranks would be the 
opportunity to tell the story of those successes which were brought about on 
behalf of the soul of the mortal of the Adjuster's indwelling who had sought 
the engagement of those who could minister to the needs of their mortal 
associate in order to lift them up from where they were to how they are now 
that they have been lifted because of the efforts of the humble midwayer.

You cannot realize how many times your life has been saved, altered, 
affected, protected, and gathered up from danger, mayhem, chaos, darkness and 
confusion because of the efforts of the midwayers.  Inasmuch as they work so 
close to the earth, so "nitty gritty" with the real trenches of human 
experience, they tend to comport themselves less formally than do we in the 
Teacher Corp. who are - if not cerebral - at least asserting our way into the 
morontial realms of understanding, that high intellectual plane that abuts 
the spirit, that will give you a window into superconscious appreciation of 
reality, while your personal teachers are able to take what insight we have 
sparked within your mind, and through the approval of your indwelling 
Adjuster, unite with the heavenly helpers to bring about the material 
circumstances which will enable you to attempt to identify, try out and even 
master the practice of responding spiritually to a situation which once you 
reacted from a less helpful frame of reference.

There are those who find the midwayers to be crude or aggressive, lacking in 
graciousness or tact, but they have sat at my feet as you have, listening to 
the words of the Supernals, absorbing the lessons and applying themselves to 
those value lessons that Melchizedek espouses and that Michael has sanctioned 
-- even while they, in many cases, have already been serving with God in 
these capacities for millennia.

But you will not recognize one from another as to who has the greater extent 
of experience, for they are united in their order of being so closely that 
they share all knowledge and enjoy their own humility as well as their own 
accomplishments.  

And I will add that their constant prayer is -- while they pray to Michael 
and Mother Spirit for essentially the same things you look to your Parents 
for, they also pray -- for the ability to reconnect with you, their most near 
relations, in the work of uplifting humanity to a recognition of the 
realization of the reality of light and life.   This is done in individuals 
one at a time.  And that one-on-one effort is incessantly an Agenda item on 
their ever busy schedule of universe service.

The next act I want to share with you are the gracious artisans who may 
appear in the circus to be the beautiful women who balance themselves atop 
the prancing ponies, who look beautiful and poised while doing the most 
complex stunts.  Artistry is making life look like it's easy, and this is the 
art of living as well.  While you know how difficult each life lesson has 
been, some more so than others, the ultimate result is the beauty and grace 
that allows you to perform even the most difficult of assignments while 
maintaining your charm, your serenity, your balance and aptitude on your 
entertainment and edification for the success of the circus and for the 
reality of the Big Top.

Well, I don't imagine that God has any objection to my referring to him as 
the Barnum and Bailey of these experiences, any more than we would object to 
the personification of Santa Clause as that giver of gifts to good little 
boys and girls throughout the kingdom.  There are days when fantasy and 
illusion are the greater reality, that provide the visions of sugar plums, 
the cinema scope and Technicolor, the animation and musical delights that are 
a pageantry of life on holiday.  I wish you a happy holiday.  

Are there questions?  [Break, to consider]

QUESTION:  I think of my little domain at work and I think that if I knew 
that the midwayers and teachers and angels and Mother and Michael and 
everybody were going (encouraging) ... or would I, seeing them standing 
there, sensing them being there, ...?  I don't know.  If we could see them, 
would we behave differently?

TOMAS: You ask, "If you could see them would you act differently?"  Well, 
that's a rhetorical question.  I'll give you an example of why.  If you're a 
single man and you have a good life and out of the blue you wonder, "If I had 
a wife, would it make any difference?  Would I behave any differently?"  And 
so you forget the question.   Ten years later you recognize you have attained 
what you wondered once what it would be like to have.  Are you any different? 
 Well, yes and no.  Do you treat your spouse any different now because she 
exists than you did in your mind before you knew her? And, are you in synch 
with each other or are you at odds incessantly?  If you are not active in any 
relationship in some way, it will cease to have any importance for you.  This 
is the same of your relationship with midwayers.  If you are not conscious of 
the association, you will forget it exists.  It will lack reality.  It is a 
vague, "Oh, yeah, uh-huh.  I know they're there."  

But let's address it this way.  Let's say you have an active prayer life. And 
this prayer life has led you into circumstances in which you might serve, and 
let's say it has brought you in contact with a family who has faith issues, 
health issues, financial issues, a family that would do well to embrace a 
greater reality, who would do well to invite the Master to be a part of their 
home life.  The extent that you can be of service to this family is going to 
depend upon how effective your prayers are and whether or not your prayers 
are registering in areas where something really can be done.  

And when you put your heartfelt faith in a prayer that something will be 
done, and the Father wills that it is so, then certain things will be put 
into effect.  And some of those may fall under the aegis of the angelic 
orders and thus the message comes down the line through the seraphim to the 
midwayers and they are given the go-ahead to act upon the prompts that have 
been established by their supervisors in response to the Father's 
acquiescence that this may come about as a result of the good faith of all 
involved.  

And so, what prayer was it?  What solution is it?  Only the Father knows, of 
course, but it might mean a difference in a diet.  It might mean a difference 
in employment.  It might mean the difference of a bad association spoiling 
useful habits and whatever it is that is impacting this family that you have 
in the heart of your prayers can be touched because of the nature of the 
prayer and the sure response of the midwayers who are acting in good faith of 
their guidance.  

And so in truth you can indeed look for them and even see them, for while you 
may not see them with your physical eye, you will recognize their work when 
the family you have prayed for is able to convey to you a new development in 
their life that is a clear indication of intervention that was brought about 
as a result of the efforts of the midwayers.  It may be a wrong number; it 
may be a black cat crossing the street that prompted the child to take a left 
turn instead of a right turn; it may be that a visiting Aunt Nelda from 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is able to take the guest room that was the haven of the 
associate that was bringing negativity into the home; it matters not.  But if 
you look for the effects of the midwayers, they will be apparent. But if you 
don't do something, you will not see the results.  Why should they 
arbitrarily inform you of what they do on behalf of the Father if you aren't 
interested?  You see?

THOROAH:  It's a relationship.

TOMAS:  It's a relationship, yes, and it's all a massive, living organism.  
The more you involve yourself in the pulse of life, whether that life is in 
the material realm or in the spiritual realm, matters little if your heart is 
in the right place, if you have a legitimate and loving concern for your 
fellowman, and that is a result of your relationship with your Heavenly 
Father.  That's just the way it works. A self-absorbed life may not have the 
proof of midwayer existence that the mortal's mind would like to have, but 
what has it done to activate that reality?  Indeed it is relationship.  

Even your own relationship with life is proof of the involvement of the 
celestials if you allow them their credit.  It's easy to say, "Thanks to God" 
but it's interesting to assign aspects of God to the personalities that are 
assigned to work in those specific realms.  God extends himself by giving 
others work to do on behalf of the creation, and so you can assign accolades 
to associates throughout the far-flung universe who have had a hand in the 
enlivening of life as you know it and as it reveals itself in your arena.

They are your certain ticket to involvement.  Through them you will be 
encouraged to run risks, take a chance, do something different, get involved, 
break a habit, try a new routine, change your pattern, upstep your approach, 
alter your attitude, get your hands dirty, get your feet wet.  

THOROAH:  That sounds like my ex in-laws.

TOMAS:  A fair analogy.  And yet I cannot help but notice that you divorced 
them for one reason or another, and perhaps your hope was that you would have 
a happier relationship as you passed by.  And perhaps the midwayers are your 
new in-laws.

THOROAH:  I'd be more inclined to go along that route.  

TOMAS:  I am certain Gerdean would be proud to take credit for those 
relations as more closely akin to her nature than her mortal relations who 
have not known her as well as a number of secondary midwayers and they will 
continue to be her family even after this culture has come to pass.  And so 
the greater marriage is indeed another opportunity to enhance your 
appreciation of the circus, for aren't the celestials a little more engaging 
and entertaining that your former in-laws, even as endearing as they were?  
It's in the nature of ascension that one should always be looking to the 
farther view, as if to say the grass is greener or the sky is bluer as we 
step up these ladders into greater appreciation of greater reality.   

But be mindful that since we are working to reinstate the material world of 
Urantia as the celestial shrine of Michael of Nebadon, we will likely not 
rest until such time as this material orb is as exalted a plane of reality as 
can be forged out of a world of time and space; thus, the material realm and 
all its pertinent parts, including in-laws and outlaws, are going to be, in 
one way or another, addressed and embraced by the greater reality.  Let's 
call upon the midwayers to engage us effectively in the work that we need 
done, that the world needs done, that will indeed lead  us into a brighter 
tomorrow, into one more new beginning - a happy new year.

The one great difference it would make for you, if you could see the 
midwayers, is you would stop looking up to your elders for such a pat on the 
back, you would be so engaged in shoulder to shoulder effort with your 
midwayer companions, who are in themselves an inspiration to those who would 
call themselves "a worker in the field".

Anything else?

THOROAH:    There's a lot to learn.  That's all I can say.  We had a 
discussion this week about self-forgetfulness.  It's sort of a continuing 
theme here recently.  It plays along in this recognition factor of our 
cousins working side by side with us.  If we could be self-forgetful of our 
self enough to be able to feel that or sense their presence more, that would 
be beneficial.  I haven't begun to understand what service is yet.

TOMAS:  Why don't you set up a scenario in your mind and test the universe 
and see if a midwayer doesn't reveal himself in some way down the road as a 
result of your attempts to understand your cosmic neighborhood?  

Ask in prayer what you can do for someone and look for the influence of the 
midwayer at some point in the outworking of the prayer.  

All right, then, kids.  It looks like a holiday is upon us, and the energies 
of our work room are going to be altered by the season.  If you have an 
inclination to allow the world to go on without you for awhile, step aside 
and call us up and I'm sure one of us will come sit with you as you ponder 
the patterns of the day and seek the soulful resolutions, and think these 
gifts of God to humanity are something you might have had a hand in.  God 
bless us, every one.  Farewell.

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