[tmtranscripts] 04-21-02 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

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DATE:       April 21, 2002
LOCATION:   Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TEACHER:    TOMAS
TOPICS: How Fortunate We Are!
        Mercy Bestowed on Adam and Eve
        Understanding our own Motives
        "... paved with good intentions"
        Myra is recognized.
T/r:        Gerdean

OPENING  MUSIC:     "Fairest Lord Jesus"

TOMAS:  Good afternoon, my lovely friends. What a tribute to the Master, who 
is most lovely fair indeed.  We bask in the glory of sonship in his name. -- 
He who walked upon your world and represented the ideal life of the 
faith-filled follower of divinity.  

How it delights me and my co-workers/colleagues in this branch of the 
Melchizedek University, to acknowledge our association as an association 
which is supportive of the personality of the Christ. We benefit even greater 
when we understand the man Jesus, how he approached his relationship with the 
Universal Father, how he reflected the nature of God in his relations with 
his human family and friends -- even his apostles, of which you are also 
included, inasmuch as it is your will that His will be done and the kingdom 
thrive "on earth as it is in heaven".  

This is just a simple joy that we have, that we celebrate.  Yet there are 
those who have the will to worship God without the Christian frame of 
reference for the son of God as we acknowledge Jesus.  His religious life was 
one which took its origin in an intimate and loving connection with his 
Heavenly Parents.  ~ which is, of course, how it is that we are brothers and 
sisters.  Even while I am an elder brother and teacher, yet and still are we 
family because of our parentage.  

This joy of knowing a spirit connection is possible to share with anyone 
willing to open their heart and mind to the concepts which constitute a 
comprehension of an Almighty God, and sometimes that is only understood in 
terms of energy.  

Here again, how fortunate we are that we have the element of personality, 
that even while our God is the creator of personality, he is none-the-less 
also personality, and so we can come to our divine parents as their children, 
seeking understanding from their wisdom, seeking comfort from their guidance, 
seeking consolation as we find ourselves needing to be upheld and supported, 
as we are not always sufficiently replete to know all there is to know.  

And here, once more, how fortunate we are that we can come as little children 
to the Master and know that he will stop in the middle of important work in 
order to "suffer the little children" and that is who we are: the little 
children.  

We honor the Mother again today, the Mother Spirit, the Divine Minister, who 
has such a tremendous job to do in overseeing her myriad children in the 
far-flung universe, material and spiritual, in an attempt to foster and 
nourish, discipline, encourage, nurture and correct, comfort and command her 
many boys and girls, and there are so many who have lost respect for their 
mother or have never known how to respect that quality of caring that she is. 
 

We pause in praise of our Creator and our Universal Parents.  Pause to enjoy 
our communion.  Linger in this space of relative perfection in which we 
listen to the gentle trickle of the living water as it washes us clean of our 
stressors.  

How fortunate we are to know how to conjoin in spirit with that divine power 
which is our God, and to converse in our heart and soul and mind with our 
perception of the Lord Jesus who has and continues to show us the Way.   What 
choice is there in the face of their love for us?  Their patience over us?  
Their support for us?  What choice have we now, as sons and daughters of the 
living God, but to carry on the family legacy of truth, beauty and goodness?  
How can we not, now, knowing, give complete loyalty to that essence of 
creation which is at once our origin and our destiny, and which, in 
personality expression, reveals itself as divine love and as mercy? 

How far we have to go here on our world, on this world which is the 
assignment, the classroom, the sanctuary, and the homeland of you and of the 
Master!  Therefore, bask in this moment of stillness that you may absorb the 
strength and guidance, the courage and fortitude, to hear the voice speak to 
you when you inquire, and hear it say, "This is the way.  Follow me, and walk 
therein."  This man Jesus, who is risen in our hearts, souls and minds, is 
able to allow he and thee to speak as one, worshipping Our Father and the 
Infinite Spirit, all the days of our lives, even on into eternity.  

Now nice to see you all here on this totally exquisite afternoon.  How 
perfect and replete is this atmosphere with your listening and with the arms 
of Mother Earth enveloping us in her embrace.  This family is dear, and as it 
grows, it commences to create a force, a living, loving force of higher mind 
as it joins with spirit. In reaching out and embracing all that which it can 
see, there is strength in our numbers, for we augment one another in our 
assertion of divine love, being that contageous benign virus which is more 
contageous than hate, which will lend clarity to confusion and which will 
lead us all into a phase of creation which we will know as one infused with 
light and life, wherein all of us have a full and honorary association with 
our Heavenly Parents, even as we parent one another here and now.  

Let me get down off my soap box and listen to your musical voices.  Have you 
questions that you hve saved for me that perhaps has risen from our earlier 
sessions or the experiential laboratory of your life?

ELENA:  Tomas, before we do that, thank you so much for being here.  But let 
me not make the same mistake twice and be remiss in welcoming totally this 
sparking gem of God's creation that is also in our group today: Janet.  She 
is a newcomer and we are so pleased to have Janet.  And we are also just 
tickled to death to have Yvonne come back.  So, since mother isn't here to 
welcome, introduce, and to do the honors, I don't want to skip out on that 
one at all.  And Carl is back, so welcome to everyone!  I think I've covered 
the bases now, Tomas, so ….

TOMAS:  I have appreciated your social graces, certainly, yet I have, in my 
heart, mind and soul, already enjoyed the flavor of Janet's presence and her 
indwelling God fragment came out to meet me as I recognized her; thus we've 
been introduced by the "powers-that-be" and we are now charmed to have made 
this manifest in the material realms in which you reside.  Yes, it is my 
pleasure to enjoy these shining lights.  The fact that I have not bored you 
to tears or made your life more difficult is encouraging to me as a teacher.  
Maybe I could help in inviting another in who has a different energy, that 
can help enliven you.  I don't intend to take you into your deep mind and  
leave you there.  I am at your service. 

ELENA:  Well, you said something that really helped me.  I've certainly been 
thinking about the Mother Spirit and trying to contact and make a better 
relationship there, but you also made a comment - and I may not have gotten 
the word, but it really sunk in about talking to the Father fragment, and had 
to do with that, and somehow that just kind of spoke to me on a deep plane.  
And I'm not verbalizing it well, but I wanted to give you the feedback 
because that was extremely helpful and it reinforced something that I kind of 
needed reinforced.  And then plus the fact that Mother is enveloping us right 
now, and I felt that, so your words were enhancing, but the energy was here 
and so you not boring me to tears at all.  Maybe to tears, but certainly not 
boring.

TOMAS:  Thank you for your perspective and your expression of your 
perception.  This pleases me that you are able to distinguish between the 
Infinite Spirit and the Universal Father.  The energies are altogether 
complimentary, and yet each is in its own realm, as in your material life it 
is said that men and women enjoy their own realm of realization.  

When you can appreciate and acknowledge the difference, then you are better 
able to understand your own interpersonal relationships, for that will give 
you a picture, a reflection, of those qualities which are innate to each.  I 
am reminded to say "viva le difference" for while your lower relationship 
liaisons are often highly antagonistic in nature, it is also true that in the 
ultimate sense these energies are entirely complimentary, and so the 
challenge is, for those of you who consider these matters of importance, you 
are able to learn from divinity itself.  

And this would be reinforced and supported by the Material Son and Daughter, 
Adam and Eve, who continue to hold sway over your world and influence it.  
This more poignantly now since the re-encircuitment has commenced.  Perhaps I 
speak in these terms as I am aware now of the relation-ship that Carl and 
Janet share, and that others are also enjoying, and anticipating.  But it is 
not only for "sweethearts".  It is for human beings to appreciate and respect 
that realm within which the other resides - that kingdom over which one or 
the other holds sway.  

Then, Elena, (long pause) … you will be able to express the third facet of 
infinity through the spirit of mercy, that which enables us to love all that 
is, even that which is still in darkness, as our Eternal Son is able to 
perceive the divine, even in the dark holes of space.   Another comment or 
question?

ELENA:  Thank you, Tomas.

CARL:     Tomas, that was especially interesting that you noted that Jesus 
was a priest after the Order of Melchizedek.  I've always been of the opinion 
that since God created Adam and Eve perfect, and yet they sinned, that they 
had lost their chance for heaven.  

TOMAS:  Little Brother, how I warm to your voice.  My friends, your Adam and 
Eve, are humbled to acknowledge how they erred in the divine plan.  However, 
like the Magdaline, they are most ernest in atoning for their short-coming.  
Material Sons and Daughters have been known to default before in other 
worlds, but their error was not one of deliberate and wilful violation, 
rather one of misguided ignorance.   So this is where the quality of mercy is 
most pronounced.  Mercy was also extended to Lucifer, but Lucifer refused.  
Thus, there are differences, for Lucifer, too, was high on the scale of 
celestial administrative helpers.  

This leads me to point out the importance of motive.  While you are not 
really qualified to cast judgment - eternal judgment - on your mentors or 
your peers, you will observe their motives, for once you understand their 
motives, you can then more wisely ascertain how it is that the Father loves 
them, and the Son has mercy, and the Mother enlivens.  When they refuse love, 
when they refuse mercy, when they refuse to act upon the light of truth, they 
have obstructed their growth and the growth of the greater universe.  Thus 
eventually they will be eradicated, if only because the living legacy of love 
will rise up around them, suffocating them in their refusal to grow up and 
take their rightful place in the cosmology of things.  

And this is also true for all of us.  If we take joy in living, even in 
difficult situations and learning experiences, if we keep our fist clenched 
to the hem of his garment, our motives will be made clear, even to us, and in 
that light of truth we can decide whether we want to further our reality or 
retard it, and every time we choose to retard our own growth, we are 
essentially asphixiating ourselves.  I encourage you, thus, to stay nearby 
that which will support your urge to live and thrive in the many facets of 
your being - physically, financially, emotionally, mentally, intellectually, 
psychically, mindally, morontially and spiritually - so that you are growing 
at a steady, even keel, and allowing each day to unfold as if it were a 
flower in your path.  Is this helpful?

ANN:    It is to me, Tomas.  You were talking about motivation a couple of 
weeks ago, and it is very difficult to think back on your own motivation of 
an action.  I'm not sure that I would recognize when I would get to that 
core, and I can hang on to the hem of the Master and trust, but in so doing, 
I don't know if that is being pro-active or if it is avoidance of the motive. 
 Those two things ….

TOMAS:  Don't be hard on yourself, child.  As long as you are holding onto 
Him, you are at least putting your faith in something that will serve until 
such time as you are able to rise to the occasion, make the decision, turn on 
the light switch, whatever phraseology you need to use to indicate you have 
decided.  You yourself will know if you are putting it off if after a 
"reasonable" period of time you are still procrastinating.  You will know and 
prompt yourself.

I was privy to a conversation this afternoon between Thoroah and Gerdean as 
they approached this session this afternoon, and it was rather insightful for 
them both to have worked through some parallel appreciations of the seven 
adjutant mind spirits as compared to the ancient chakra system, which, as 
they discussed it, was a parallel of the animal aspect of your being, and 
with the divine aspect of your being.  The instinct to live materially as an 
animal, or the intuition to live spiritually as a son of God, each having and 
providing an impulse for action.  

If you are not feeling the impulse, then you are wise to wait and hold on to 
the hem of His garment.  And this is true whether you are speaking of the 
animal or the divine about you.

ANN:  Thank you, Tomas.

TOMAS:  You are welcome.  Happy am I to assist your growth.  

THOROAH:  Tomas, on the idea of motives, we've been taught - I guess "taught" 
would be the word to use - taught that "the road to hell is paved with good 
intentions."  I do believe that we may have instincts to believe that, and I 
would like to get your comments on that.

TOMAS:  I have to state in advance, Thoroah, that even while your projection 
is fascinating and one which I will enjoy, it does require of me rather to 
portray myself as a crystal ball gazer, for I would need to look into the 
psyche and determine that; thus I accept your invitation and take the plunge.

The road to hell being paved with good intentions is an adage and one which 
is likely intended to cast a mote of responsibility on behavior.  Asking the 
hearer to be aware of all the ramifications of their actions.  It's like a 
threat on one hand and an encouraging admonition on the other.  Is it to 
"keep you in your place"?  Is it to blame, and thereby secure a superior 
position.  Is it to judge what hell is?  And how you might be making your way 
there hastily?  Because your actions belie what your mouth protests?

These adages are like mortal mota.  They are life lessons, expressions of 
folk wisdom that provide  scaffolding for thought, for conscious thought, for 
moral thought, and yet they may or may not rise to the level of mota, which 
incorporates the realm of the spirit with the wisdom necessary for living a 
successful human life.  The road to heaven is also paved with good 
intentions. It is therefore wise to remember the adage:  "by their fruits 
they shall be known" and even while the immediate view may reveal one 
picture, a deeper excursion into understanding our fellows may reveal yet 
another view.  That's why it's always good to take the hand of Jesus into 
prayer and sit with Him and allow the Universal Father to respond to your 
soul's concerns, even these adages that implant themselves in your 
consciousness and oftentimes become as if they were universal law.  

The universe is changing, and is growing, even as you yourselves are 
expanding in understanding and in God-consciousness, insight.

ELENA:  That was wonderful.

TOMAS:  I will give you all an A this afternoon, as you have been attentive.  
And, as I am stoked by the fire of your soul's intentions, I am rendered a 
better teacher for I can teach you those things which will generate greater 
growth for your own soul's happiness.  What a pleasure to be a part of this 
situation which is indeed a part of the priesthood of Melchizedek, as I am 
able to help Jesus teach you how to be "fishers of men" and how to reveal our 
divine inheritance as we pass by.   

But I will not take overmuch advantage of you and our configuration, but 
rather abate and allow your regression into diversion and conversation, that 
you might come to know one another better and recognize our cosmic connection 
in each as it is implanted in your individual hearts and minds.  And so enjoy 
the community of sons and daughters of divinity in your community this 
afternoon.  

Any pressing concerns before I go?

ANN:  It may be a trivial question.  It only concerns me and so it might be a 
bit selfish, but I would be interested in knowing my name in the Urantia 
Book.  

TOMAS:  Yes.  One moment.  Myra.  

ANN:  Thank you, Tomas.

ELENA:  Is there a meaning that you might share with Myra that you might tell 
Myra about?

TOMAS:  Not in the same way that your names are defined, but similarly.  Myra 
has a quality of reality which "reminds me" of the combined natures of Martha 
and Mary, sisters of Lazarus.  There is in you, Myra, a responsible elder and 
a jubilant child.  Not an irresponsible child, but one who recognizes the 
importance of being childlike.  Even so, there is no escaping the mantle of 
Martha who oversees her own childlike nature and so the entire depiction is 
one of a well-balanced personality, well-rounded, giving, inclined toward 
service, sober, and yet radiantly joyous and curious, eager to run out to 
meet that which is en route, knowing it's good, even when it is more than the 
child can bear, and thus must return to the reality of the elder sister who 
has a better knowledge of the nature of things, is not so naïve, is a 
reflection of the Mother.

MYRA:  Thank you, Tomas.

TOMAS:  You are welcome, Daughter Myra.

Run along children and play.  Eat, drink and be merry, and rejoice in the 
knowledge of sonship.  Amen and farewell.

CLOSING MUSIC:  Beethoven's 8th Sonata, from Pathetique, "Adagio Cantabile"

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