[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho TeaM , 07-25-02

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Date:  July 28, 2002
Location:  Rio Rancho NM USA 
       (meeting this week in Albuquerque, NM)
Teacher:    Tomas
Topic:        Buried in the mines of mortal life
Q & A:      The Resurrection Hall of Mansonia
                   "The After-Life" Experience
T/R: Gerdean

TOMAS:   Good afternoon friends and neighbors. I am Tomas your teacher and a 
true companion in our quest for paradise perfection and service fields 
beyond.  How marvelous it is to once again be a party to your inner lives. 
How grateful we are to you who keep coming back to hear about the faith-path 
upon which we are embarked. It is the foundation of your lives - the 
relationship you enjoy with spirit - for it truly will endure even beyond 
your mortal life.

This extension of your reality into the next life and beyond, is also an 
important advantage to have in this life as it, faith, enables you to see 
with Divine perspective. At least It allows you the exercise of stretching 
your mortal perspective into a perspective that comes from the many elements 
of spirit.   So once you have accepted the recognition of spirit as a vital 
and necessary part of your life, you are able then to find it anywhere and 
every where.  There is no place now, that God is not. 

I'm given the instance of the Pennsylvania miners as an example of how faith 
works.  There were many who saw the dire circumstances of the mine and the 
challenge the saviors had with the difficulties of the material earth and 
equipment, and they accepted the loss, even before the final verdict was in, 
before the actual facts were known.

So many of you are ready to throw in the towel. It seems so many of you are 
accustomed to the disaster or the state of mind that allows for the worst. It 
is easier to accept the worst than to continue to hold out for the best, for 
the miracle that is life to occur.  

The miners themselves, of course, grappled with their fragile mortality and 
yet when they were uncovered they were heard to say, "What took you so long?" 
-- which was, in fact, a commendation to their rescuers, a statement of faith 
that in time they knew they would found, they would be discovered, they would 
be brought out the earth and into the Light.  

This same value lesson is inherent in the many who are buried in the 'mines 
of mortality;' routine habits, customs, patterns and the like which 
essentially is a burial shroud in which they spend their lives, while inside 
their faithful adjusters wait and watch for every opportunity to instill in 
them a sense of hope and recognition of a greater life to come. So many 
simply make themselves adjust to the current circumstances, burrowing into 
the pattern and awaiting the fact of death to deliver them out of the 
cave-in, the dark mine of mortal life - whereupon perhaps their Adjuster may 
have the opportunity to say, "What took you so long?"  

But those of you that are aware of the light of the sun and who breathe 
deeply of the spirit are able to see it in all things, in the Spirit of Truth 
as well in the seven adjutant mind spirits -- the spirits of intuition, and 
understanding, courage, knowledge, counsel, worship and wisdom.  You are 
eagerly available to see God in every opportunity and in every difficulty.

There are those who find the faither's propensity to acknowledge even in the 
mundane things of life, as a source of obsequiousness, a bit of 
'brown-nosing,' as if talking about God all the time would earn them points 
in his ledger.  And yet you know our Father is a loving God not a judging God 
and this depiction is hardly gracious, after having been in the mines human 
experience yourself; rather, it gives sanction to those who honor God even in 
their habitual practices.  Any reach toward God is better than no reach. Any 
practice toward allowing God to be a part of the material life is a practice 
to be acknowledged.

Those of you who have visited foreign countries and who heard only that 
language which was unfamiliar to your ear, might have felt a surge of 
recognition upon hearing a phrase such as  "French fries."   And this is how 
God surely feels when he hears those who habitually speak of him and even so, 
on occasion, are able to render a genuine flicker of spiritual reality by way 
of their awakening faith and so having heard the equivalent of 'French 
fries,' God smiles and adds to their humble perception of divinity some new 
element of a developing religious experience.

Enjoying how other people worship is a practice much like enjoying how other 
cultures dine.  How boring it would be for you to only have one meal, or one 
menu from which to draw. How much more interesting it is for your palate to 
have the opportunity to enjoy Chinese food or Thai food and the many, many 
varieties.  As many varieties of food there are, there are as many varieties 
of religious experience.

Whenever possible, enjoy the spirit practices of others, for in this way you 
are able to share spirits with others and this bonds you to those who have 
heretofore been different and are now kin, spirit kin, because  of the 
exchange of reality which is inherent in group worship. Even though in your 
assessment it may be based on erroneous thinking, if it is of the spirit it 
will transcend your thinking processes and delve deeper into the morontia 
state, which is a reality which is en route to full-blown spirit reality.  

Since we will be enjoying the adventure of morontial life for many eons to 
come, it is well that you begin now to acknowledge and appreciate any and all 
spirit reality that you encounter, and in this way you are giving God 
acknowledgement in the lives of other believers. It is God who will be the 
victor, for as he is allowed to become greater, all error will naturally pass 
away.  For you, the work is not to point out the error, but to point out the 
Way, wherein these children, like yourselves, are able to advance into 
greater God-consciousness and self-realization.

This allows you to enter into the light of day to stretch forth your arms and 
greet the sun, to feel the winds of change ~ as if it were a breeze ~ rustle 
through your hair and cool your skin.  God lives.  God is.  And your 
acknowledgement of your understanding of God is a contribution to the 
evolving God of human will in its aspiration to be aligned in whatever way 
perceivable with that super-consciousness that we recognize as deity.

Let's get God, then, down into your circles.  Bring him alive in ways that 
you are able to understand and appreciate. Kindness is certainly one way and 
good cheer is another. What, however, of those who are not so cheerful, not 
so assured? Keep your own candle lit. Keep your batteries charged, so that 
when you, in your helmets, go down into the mines of humanity in search of 
those who are temporarily buried, it will give off that illumination that 
will give off hope and deliver the lost into the found light of truth. It is 
only after you have been in the dark that you really appreciate a light at 
the end of the tunnel. Allow your light thus to shine in whatever way, 
whatever fashion is appropriate for you.

How are you, beloved friends? Engage with me, if you will, in conversation as 
we have the chance.

Anatolia is camping. I know it is possible to access her if need be, but I 
like to let people enjoy themselves when they have a chance. As the Master 
admonished, it is invaluable for you to get away and set aside your mortal 
troubles and concerns for a while and then when you return to your normal 
lives you find yourself refreshed and these troubles are not as overwhelming 
as they would seem when you are buried beneath them.

Also, our contemporaries are in various states of activity leaving this quiet 
campfire to us to keep burning in their absence.  I speak figuratively, of 
course. It's far too warm to build a fire.

Are there questions?

Carl:  I have no questions, Tomas.  But I'm glad and thankful for you for 
being here.

TOMAS:  Yes. I am also glad to be here. And it's a wonderful opportunity to 
the Teacher Corps of workers to have the unique experience of being able to 
make these initial contacts with the mortal races.  These may seem unusual 
practices for some, but on other worlds it is most common for mortals and 
spirits to interact as a way of life. This is a part of the recognition of 
being at one with your spirit helpers who are eager to aid you in your steps 
toward greater understanding and greater joy in service.

Janet: I have a question.  What is it like where you are?

TOMAS:  Well, where I am now, daughter, is really not far removed from where 
you are, for I am in an architectural sphere created specifically for these 
purposes. I am housed here temporarily, so you might say that I am in a 
temporary housing authority; a compound, which I share with my fellow 
teachers. It is unlike your environment, but in many ways, since we involved 
with you, we are able to enjoy your realm of reality.  I can see your world 
through the eyes of those who allow for me to see.  And in truth, the 
environment I am in, even though it is temporary, is similar. It is not 
material in the way that you recognize material, for I am not material.  I 
rest, and have a chamber in which I may rest.  I partake of energy, and yet I 
do not eat food. I walk the grounds, the gardens given us and maintained for 
us, as you enjoy your outdoor gardens, patios, and social life.

There is no need for us to have much in the way of amenities. I have not, 
thus, need to provide for a spouse and children. It is much more as if I live 
in a dormitory, on a campus, and all the grounds that I enjoy are also 
enjoyed by my companions, other teachers.

Janet:  Is this what heaven is like after we die?

TOMAS:  Not necessarily.  It is however, a place of relative perfection for 
those of us who are here on this architectural sphere in this service 
ministry to your world. You will be provided worlds appropriate for your 
development when you leave earth. You will begin on the realm of Mansonia 
known as The Resurrection Hall. You will be awakened and immediately greeted 
by those who have most closely attended to you in your life in the flesh.  
The guardian seraphim, who have guarded you throughout your mortal sojourn, 
will help you adjust. You will see your God-fragment, as it were, 
face-to-face. There will be many entities enabling you to adapt to your new 
morontia body and help you to learn your way around the morontia spheres. 
There will be more color than you are accustomed to and this will be, at 
once, dazzling and overwhelming at first. It will make you giddy, perhaps. 

Indeed the experience of resurrection is a sacred and celebratorious event. 
Imagine the sense of saving grace that will be experienced by those of you 
who are agondonters ~ that is to say, you who believe without seeing, who 
have faith without knowing, who awaken to discover that your faith was not in 
vain and that your hope of an after-life was not for naught. There is much 
worship in this awakening. Much spiritual weeping for joy. The universe 
administrators have arranged for you to have a small holiday at the outset of 
your next phase of living, this phase of morontia life that will go on for 
many eons as you become less animal and more spiritual, as you learn, in 
attending the many mansions that are a part of the natural ascension of life.

You will have an opportunity to meet and greet those of family members and 
friends who have preceded you. Thus you are allowed an opportunity to rest 
from the experience of the transition, and within a short time you will be 
ready to begin your ascent in service to those who have served you thus far.

The music of the spheres is one of the more enjoyable aspects of awakening in 
Mansonia.  The phrase "music of the spheres' is just a phrase until you 
really hear it. The echoes of these notes are far-reaching and the clarity of 
the experience is truly sublime. You will enjoy heightened senses and 
increased awareness and you will be glad. 

And this is the beginning of the butterfly phase of your existence, you who 
have only been a moth, thus far.  I myself have not yet been all the way to 
Paradise. I myself am en route and thus I, like you, am looking forward to 
those priceless moments when I stand perfect before our Father.  And yet I am 
being made ready, and I am enjoying the process of being made ready. I'm not 
impatient with what is required of me to learn that I might let go of all my 
animal vestiges and attain total spirit reality.  This will come to pass. But 
since I am enjoying my life so much, I am not impatient. I would give the 
same advice to children: to enjoy your childhood and not be impatient to 
become a teenager or an adult.  I would offer the same advice to adults: do 
not be impatient to transcend to the mansion worlds, but rather enjoy the 
material life as you have it, for never again will you know the splendors of 
material existence quite to the extent that you have them now.

The majesty of your mountains, the dynamics of your electrical storms, the 
power of your raging rivers - these are going to be mere memories for you in 
your next existence.  The intimacy that you share as husbands and wives in 
your sexual nature, will also not be possible in the morontia life. The smell 
of homemade bread and freshly brewed coffee will not be available to you 
there.  Those things that you enjoy here, enjoy them as gifts, such that you 
will treasure your appreciation of them forever.  For although there will be 
the equivalent of great and "natural things" to enjoy, values to be shared, 
experiences to be known, this is heaven for you right now. Here is where God 
is, in you and in your fellows. And he can be realized as fully and 
completely for you now as he will be when you awake in the 'Resurrection 
Hall' if you have in you the faith-filled wonder of the child who seeks to 
grow into Father's shoes.

Does this give you and idea of what's to come?

Janet:  It does me.  I always figured that when you die - you go 'whoosh' 
like that and you're in heaven.  But evidently we've got all this other stuff 
first.

TOMAS:  Heaven is a real place, certainly, but remember, too, that the 
Kingdom of Heaven is within you! And so while we in fact aspire to attain 
Paradise and the presence of God himself, it is possible, too, to let heaven 
on Earth be revealed in and through our appreciation of love ~ divine love ~ 
and it is possible to be revealed in the material existence. 

This, again, is an opportunity to speak to you of the practice of Stillness,  
for as you begin to sit and listen, seek and find the presence of the 
God-fragment that indwells you, as you begin to identify with that power, 
that spirit, you begin to step out of the limitations of the present 
environment and feel the divine embrace. The strength and enthusiasm that is 
garnered from such an association with your own indwelling divinity is enough 
to allow you to see your world as relatively perfect, given the nature of all 
things.  And you can go about doing good in your natural state as God goes 
about doing good in his.

Janet:  I feel a whole lot better about a lot of things now.

TOMAS:  I'm glad to have helped you feel better about your perception of the 
after-life. The concept of leaving here and finding perfection is illusory,  
for it is necessary that you grow into the ability to withstand the power of 
perfection. And yet, in the far-flung universes, that you are, as well as 
millions of others, engaged in climbing the ladder of perfection in company 
with those like yourself, enjoying the rigors of the day and attaining the 
satisfaction of soul-growth along the way, enjoying the continually 
developing aura of perfection that embraces you, the pageantry that will be 
available for you to observe, the association of the angelic hosts and other 
celestial over-seers, the opportunities to work with artisans and find out 
more about creation, gives you a tremendous opportunity to live more. Indeed, 
you may live for eternity, but you will grow into it as a result of your 
conscious effort to become one with God and his purposes.

You begin to take an active part in your own soul-growth.  So when you do 
attain those levels of spirit-accomplishment, it is because of your will 
which has testified to its need and desire to do his will, as that is what 
will give you greatest happiness and greatest fulfillment.  And that in the 
true sense, is surely heaven. If the kingdom of heaven is within you, you 
cannot be separated from it. It can only be made greater and the spirit 
light, spirit illumination, brighter, as you traverse the spheres en route to 
the Central Isle of Paradise, the eternal dwelling place of the infinite God 
of all creation.

Intelligent men and women enjoy having something to do.  Haven't we got a 
wonderful Eternal Parent who sees to it that we are always progressing, 
always involved, always amused. It would be dreadful to be bored for all 
eternity, wouldn't it?

Janet:  It sounds like it's going to be a great adventure.

TOMAS:  Indeed it is.  The eternal career. The greatest adventure of all.

Janet:  So you don't have to be afraid of dying…

TOMAS:  Not at all…

Janet: …there's always more ahead.

TOMAS:  Absolutely. Of a certainty. You have no idea how much wonder is in 
store for you beyond the veil, as it were.  You're hovering on the topic that 
is most challenging for me, that of exchanging a fear of dying to a  
challenge of transition. An idea of letting go of this life and embracing the 
next, consciously, is an experience I wish for all of you.  And it is the 
fear of death, because of a lack of understanding of what awaits you on the 
other side that has held your planet back in so many ways.  The idea of a 
fiery hell has been a thorn in the side of those who have yearned to augment 
the work of Christ Michael as Jesus, who resurrected and appeared visibly to 
hundreds of followers, never once, never once, threatening them with any such 
fearful retribution as is wrapped up in the concept of a fiery hell. This is 
absurd.  And yet humans, being so fear-ridden, are reluctant to accept that 
they will die at all much less approach it joyously, as an opportunity to 
step out of this earthly original existence into the realm of morontia 
reality which is an extension of life, a fuller and richer realization of 
sonship.  For you will have within your grasp, in your sight and sound and 
other senses, the full realization of the infinitude of divinity.  Everywhere 
you look you will see the radiance of God, without the body to curtail your 
joy.

Let me clarify - you will have a body.  You will have a morontia body.  But 
it will not be subject to the same aches and pains that you have known in the 
physical body.  In fact, you will be rendered youthful, and beautiful, as if 
you had remained forever in your prime.

But let's not get in any hurry to leave before your time. Enjoy your life 
here as was said. For this is the opportunity for you to get a handle on your 
potential self and nurture it consciously, even now.  For in knowing 
yourself, in and of and as spirit, it will strengthen you for the transition 
to come and it will also help you appreciate the life you've lived , how 
you've come to be who you are. And in the joy of understanding yourself as a 
conscious child of God, you will in truth radiate as divine parental 
affection on those who surround you; those other children of God who are not 
yet aware of sonship; not yet grappling with the realities of mortality and 
immortality, such as you have embarked upon in your experiential journey.

One of the joys of having a smaller group is the opportunity to have these 
intimate times together that will help to bond us as forever friends and 
spirit family members.  

Janet:  Well, Tomas, you were once a mortal man but now your are an angel, is 
that right?

TOMAS:  I am not an angel, no. I am an ascending son, as you will be.  The 
angels are an order of existence apart from ascending sons like myself. They 
are created to do what they do. They do not begin as mortals such as you and 
I.  

The spheres are filled with many orders of being. Angels are of the order of 
'seraphim.' They are throughout the realms, even in Paradise. They assist in 
the process of morontia-izing the children of time.  There many hundreds of 
different orders of angels.  I am an ascending son. I am very much like you, 
having had the material existence and having made the transition from my 
material life to morontia life and having also many ages of experience in the 
mansion worlds, which the Father has provided.  I am anticipating, after my 
work here with you in this assignment, an opportunity next to work in the 
Constellation level of development, there to study and experience the 
administration of the Most Highs under Gabriel. I have not attained that 
level yet.  It gives me something to look forward to and to work towards.

You are creatures of time and space with a specific reality within which you 
live and have your being, much as I and we do in our existence here in the 
advanced spheres, while I enjoy very much the opportunity to visit you in 
your realm and become more mindful of your unique challenges and 
opportunities.  I, again, grow as a result of being with you in these 
sessions. I am encouraged and inspired as I see you grappling with your own 
faith and soul-making decisions. The result of your decision to wed and 
conjoin for the duration of your mortal existence is a cherished vision for 
me. In it I see how courageous you are in you willingness to devote yourself 
to the comfort and companionability of each other as you share these ~ what 
you call 'twilight years.'  While you are able to enjoy the kingdom of heaven 
that you have created here in your own home, you will be able to encourage 
each other in the future, to see with those divine eyes that will encourage 
you each into the greater reality that will envelop you each, in time, as you 
are called home, as you are invited onward and upward in the ascension of all 
planetary life toward greater fulfillment and greater perfection.  

Rejoice and be glad.  Challenges are mere growth experiences. Grow well in 
your garden.  Be at peace and love one another. We will be back in force next 
week.  Wait upon the Lord.  Amen and Farewell.

Group:  Thank you, Tomas.

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