[tmtranscripts] 09-28-03 Rio Rancho NM TeaM

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:         September 28, 2003
LOCATION:         Rio Rancho, NM, TeaM (Ann Henry’s house, with visitors:
Willie’s Mother Anna and Sister Claire from Columbus, Ohio, as well as
Larry Whelan and Donna Brown Whelan from the Temple City TeaM in
California) 
TEACHERS: TOMAS & ANATOLIA
TOPICS: Universe Hierarchy and Administration
                Choosing to be a Part of the Divine Will
Q&A:      About Judgment
                Judgment and Discernment
                Help is Available
T/Rs: Gerdean (for Tomas); Matthew (for Anatolia)
MUSIC: Elena on Piano: "What Wondrous Love is This"
PRAYER: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the
Christ.
Master Teacher,
We come to you with delight and rejoicing in our hearts and openness to
your teachings through the teachers that you will make known to us today.
We always place ourselves in your presence because we wish to have the
teachers that are appointed by you, the head of this universe,
representative of the God-force that we know and are growing in love with
as we continue on our journey with you toward the Father. It’s a journey
that we have acknowledged and have asked for blessing and for your
patience with us as we continue to be one with our creator, as you are
with all of us. With the intentions in our hearts that you know, we ask
that they be addressed. Those of our family and friends to be healed,
brought into wholeness, and made aware of who they are in you, in union
with our Heavenly Father, we place before you now, and all other concerns
that you know about are placed upon the altar of concern or rejoicing
right now. And for all else that you know to be true and holy and for the
unity of this world, we place before you now. Amen. 
TOMAS: Greetings, my friends and loyal students, visitors, celestials and
mortal associates alike. What a marvelous opportunity I find before me
today in your presence. How I rejoice to behold you and enfold you in the
divine love of the Universal Father, awash in the sea of mercy whose
waters are stirred by the presence of Lord Jesus. I am Tomas, your
teacher, in company with Anatolia, my co-host, and we are accompanied
today by a host of heavenly helpers who sing hosannas in praise of being.
What kind of love is this, that surrounds us today in this sacred space
generated by the gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
humankind? Only the love of God enhanced by all the universe. I would
like to have a moment to discuss with you today the concept of the
hierarchy of the universe, the administration of the universe, and how it
is that we who know God are able to ascertain our niche in this living
organism of divinity, and find sheer repleteness therein, even when we
are aware of and as we are aware of an appropriate sense of smallness as
we behold the infinity of divinity in the many, many personalities that
derive from our First Source and Center and who populate the universe
through the worlds of time and space. 
I will not have you teeter on the edge and get dizzy, because of the
vastness of this scope, but rather bring you back into the composition of
this campfire that we attend in the intimacy of our circle of association
through the Spirit of Truth. What a place to study authority, under the
Spirit of Truth! What an ambition to aspire to create the experiential
God, the Supreme. But these are the prescribed roles and duties impressed
upon creation, in order to bring the divine will into fulfillment for and
throughout eternity.
There are always those who are more advanced, more experienced, for those
who are ascending sons of God, those who have a mortal beginning, who
ascend from the worlds of time and space up into the presence of God, as
well as inward to the presence of God who indwells you. And there are
always those who are less experienced, those who have not learned to see
with eyes to see or hear with ears to hear the divine voice or feel the
nuances of the divine whisper, but even those who are ignorant are
precious in his sight and radiating life in potential. 
Just as the Creator Sons are given the opportunity to create life
throughout their local universe, as has Christ Michael of Nebadon, so are
you mortal sons able to create the life that will extend these forever
truths into the future, that your culture will build upon, that the
spirit will grow with, until such time as all of everything is filled
with the wonder of love. And somewhere within this tapestry of reality is
where you are. And when we meet and reach out with our individual spirit
nature to greet each other in the spirit, to acknowledge the God fragment
of eternity that each of you own, it is such an experience that you
choose not to do harm to each other, but to do good. 
For this is the nature of the divine. This is the nature of true love. To
do good to others. But there are those who reject good works, that fear
your presence, for their concept of the divine is distorted by the
incorrect malfeasance of Lucifer or basic ignorance of the divine will.
There we find ourselves in this Correcting Time in which woes of your
persona and your world will be able to be healed, renewed, reawakened and
when one of you chooses to do His will, even in the most nebulous or
vague of ways, so shall His light shine into the darkness. 
Thus, those of you who are aware of your work, who willingly conjoin your
wills with the divine will, recognizing the truth of the admonition which
Jesus often spoke of when he said, "Even so, thy will be done." "Not my
will, but thy will be done." "It is my will that your will be done." And
so we learn to configure our will with the divine will, through trial and
error and a perception of the Spirit of Truth which will guide you and
lead you into eternal truth, a passage which we ascending sons all are
able to existentially share in. 
How wonderful to bow to the authority of those who have your best
interests at heart only because it is in their best interests to be
loving. And thus love extends into the darkness of fear, lighting the
way, as the Master said he would, and did, when he walked upon your world
as one of you, a child of God, a man among men. And now he stands as the
Sovereign Son of his universe, his local universe of which we are a part,
and this sketch of a universe hierarchy is how it is that while we have
one magnificent God whom we adore, we are surrounded by and continually
upheld by a loving universe of personalities which go about doing good,
as they are designed to do in accordance with the Creator of all things
and beings.
Beautiful children that you are, it delights me to be your friend -- you
who have sought such comfort from the Comforter, who have yearned for the
peace which passes all understanding that is given to the sons of God as
their birthright. 
What a wonderful opportunity to speak today, with so many in attendance.
It exponentially up-steps the amplitude of our gathering, and in hope of
the acceptance of my words into your super-consciousness, I relinquish my
place at the microphone for my fellow teacher.
ANATOLIA: Welcome all. I am Anatolia, who is once again pleased to be
among you as a teacher of this august body, and that is true no matter
what month it is. I am happy to be among you as your teacher. There is
one among you who got that little joke, and I am grateful. Be of good
cheer, for today is a glorious day in the kingdom of our creator, a day
full of cheer and delight, free of mayhem, disorder, disagreement and
whatever description you can place at your table and particularly on your
plate. There is a time, after all, that one wishes, hopes and prays will
be free of terror, distortion and things unwholesome and unwelcome in
your life. There is too much dissension among you to be convinced that
dissension is the way of the world. 
Let me take this a notch higher, but the good news is not beyond your
realm, to let you know that that which you would otherwise perceive as
the way of the world is just one perception of the world as you
understand it to be. For the world can be as bright and cheerful and full
of hope and expectation as you elect or choose to entertain. This would
include those who would live in or within settings or environments that
any of you might consider less than desirable or full of tension and
unwholesome surroundings. It is true that those who had inhabited,
survived and often leapt heads above others in their transmutation
process during the Jewish holocaust. There are those who, by election of
will and their internal being, were able to overcome and surpass the
horrors of their experience. It is true that such self-election is a
reality and probability, depending upon the way one accepts their place
within that world. In other words, not by your own election or selection
can you place mind over matter, as a simple decision to overcome such
travesty, but by the will of God, which you will be able to incorporate
into your consciousness, would you be able to overcome such devastation. 
This is what it is like and what is involved in making heaven on earth.
It is by choosing to adopt and be open to that spirit which is inside of
you. It is easy to say that it is simply a matter of will and choosing to
incorporate yourself within the will of God. I can tell you how it works
or how simple it is, but it is up to you to experience if you have not
yet experienced what is involved in choosing to do the will of your
creator. It is simply saying that you choose to be a part of the will of
God as you understand it, and that the goodness and will for other such
beings that you encounter in your experiences will be those which are
best as intended by the creator with you and through you. In this way you
are bound to experience life as it is meant to be, and not as the absence
of such will-making would demonstrate it to be.
One could say I am making light of or oversimplifying the realities of
your world. I wish to reinforce that it is a matter of perception, as the
will dictates. The will pre-determines that which is the ultimate product
or production that your movie produces. So I invite you to incorporate
the intention and the script as you, the director, wish to produce with
the producer, and to get yourself a masterpiece, an academy award
production that you can be proud of. 
It is simple, but yet takes a lifetime to incorporate and to produce. But
it is the Father’s will to allow each of his creation to produce with the
greatest of ease and beauty as is possible for each of his creation. So,
creators all, blend that which you know to be true within your inner
being and to bring forth gardens of joy and truth and beauty. Be at one
within yourselves, now and at all times, for the joy and peace and beauty
that exist is here for your understanding and expression right now. 
I welcome each of our new visitors and wish to encourage each and all of
you to adopt a new way of looking at this dimension that includes the
peace and tranquillity of all time, here today for your encouragement and
growth. Peace be with you until we meet again and be safe in your
journeys, wherever you may go. Peace be with you.
TOMAS: Thank you, Anatolia, and thank you both, Gerdean and Matthew, for
your service as transmitters. 
We come now to the portion of the established agenda, wherein you may
engage liberally in discourse of your choosing. We can have open
discussion or questions; it depends upon you. The floor is open.
Gerdean had a question while Anatolia was speaking. Let’s see if we can
juggle this conductor so that Gerdean’s question can be addressed. It
seemed to me, Tomas, that it was also a point of interest for other souls
present here today, so paraphrased, the question was about Judgment. Her
question was: "Then what creates the difficulty? Is it judgment? And easy
enough to say ‘Judge not’ but we do! It’s a natural part of the
assessment necessary in order to live life. What do we do to up-step the
judgment we engage in as a natural course of human activity to a point
where it is not destructive of the relationship that would flourish were
it not for the condemnatory attitude of judgment itself?" Was that a fair
presentation of your concern, Gerdean?
Gerdean: Yes, it was, actually, very accurate.
TOMAS: I will give Anatolia an opportunity to follow up, if you would
like, before I respond.
ANATOLIA: The effort expended in judgment is like breathing into a bag,
in a sense. It is causing you to stop and look and evaluate, but it is
often self-reflective. Whenever you judge another (whatever the case may
be), you are actually judging yourself, for in finding the speck in your
brother’s eye, you are acknowledging the log in your own. And this is
primarily the reason why judgment is discouraged, is that, there is
nothing you can do that is not self-reflective, so if you wish to bring
the speck out of your brother’s eye, you must clear your own prior. This
may be self-evident, but it is real truth that there is nothing that you
can do that is secret or hidden from the reality of what is. Everything
as you see it reflects upon yourself, so this is the reason why it is
best to heal thyself before reaching to your brother, to either correct
or to ask to have corrected that which is within your reach internally.
If this helps the question, I am happy to address it.
Gerdean: Yes, it does, Anatolia. It certainly goes into part of the
difficulty; however, it activates my defense mechanism and so I see my
defensive nature is part of the problem. I’m still not clear on 
 I mean,
I understand why you shouldn’t judge people. But I have dealt with
companies that I have made a judgment about. That experience required a
judgement; I made the judgment. It has nothing to do with "you" but it
has to do with "me" and it’s just a company I don’t want to do business
with, that’s all. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a company that
you shouldn’t do business with, you see what I’m saying?
ANATOLIA: I offer for your consideration the difference between judgment
and discernment. One could say if you were standing at a precipice that
breached thousands of feet below you, is it good judgment or discernment
that you not jump? Judgment is choosing between one choice of an
evaluative nature over the other, therefore choosing one that is
so-called "good" and one that is not good or less than your preference.
That type of analogy or analysis placed upon individuals (who are
extensions of yourself) illustrate the point of not judging another; that
objective case was intended to present (in terms of whether to take a
leap) is discerning the preference to live versus not living. This is not
subjective, it is objective, and gives no detriment to a part of yourself
which is part of the creation. Does this help illustrate the point any
more clearly?
Gerdean: I feel a clarity in my perception but my cognizance is still
confused, so I will reflect on that at leisure later, but I feel better
for having heard what you said.
ANATOLIA: In conclusion, to discern one company’s practice that you
choose not to do business with, is reckoning that those practices are
some in which you wish not to participate. This is not the same as
judgment, which in this case, would essentially place a determination
that that company’s actions or behaviors are undesirable and outside your
sensibility zone and therefore are undesirable and less than you would
have it be and you decide you wish to have nothing to do with them. The
later description is an effort to depict judgment versus discernment.
Discernment, on the other hand, would be that to your understanding a
company’s practices are not entertaining a whole life principle and
because their actions appear to be contrary to a full participation and
inclusion in life, you discern that their practices are anti-whole life
and you wish not to endorse/ participate in their practices.
Gerdean: I see.
ANATOLIA: It is simply objective versus subjective -- the subjective
placing yourself above, as if you are above that; the objective sees it
more clearly as a choice of others’ principles that are contrary to that
which you understand to be whole life principle. I could go on, but I’m
having the sand cave into the hole.
Gerdean: All right. Thank you, very much. I did appreciate that and I got
a lot out of it. Thank you. But then I’d like to say to Tomas, that I
would like to hear more of this at a later time. Perhaps we could have a
lesson on this kind of subtlety because in my discernment and in my way
of thinking, from my frame of reference, when I’m dealing with the
Correcting Time and I see things that need corrected, in my opinion, it
doesn’t mean that I don’t want to have anything to do with them. It means
this is the kind of stuff I’m going to have to deal with in order to deal
with this. So anyway, I think I could use all the help I could get in
that, and I suspect that the rest of us could use some higher education
in that area also, anyway. Thank you.
Willie: I would agree with you that in reality, principle versus
practice, at least for myself, I cannot claim (certainly) purity of
practice in that regard so I speak for myself: I judge all the time, but
wish that it wouldn’t be so, but I think that it is.
Angus: I think there’s a timing aspect to that judgment and the after
effects that we pre-judge. We judge too early and we judge too finally.
We put it in a jar and say, "that’s what that is," rather than to look at
what we’ve made a judgment on and how that progresses and if we judge and
close our mind to it, that’s where judgment is in error. Judgment is
there, but if you close your mind to that without letting it grow and
become more, that’s when I think judgment becomes debilitating.
Larry: I think one of the biggest problems is judgment on ourselves,
which is why they probably put that in the Teaching Mission. When they
say ‘do not judge’, I think they are talking about us, too. And I think
we are probably our harshest judges and we need to get over it.
TOMAS: I am Tomas, again and still. And you are correct about judgment;
it is not good to judge yourself or others because you have such limited
perspective, but any perspective you have is based on your short-term
existence unless and until you allow the mind of Christ to perceive for
you, in which case, the relativities of such realities have a way of
finding a perspective that makes it possible for you to become more
liberal in allowing others to have their own perspective. Indeed, if they
opt to have a prejudice, if they have pre-judged a situation, it need not
invoke in you a warrior-like need to correct the prejudice that someone
else has, as long as you yourself have dealt with it, and thus you are
able to detach in love and move along. 
But there is this insecurity in the human animal that needs constant
confirmation of its reality and this, to it, includes its belief systems
and attitudes and behaviors, as these are animalistic tendencies that
allow for it to remain a part of its own kind, as if it were a part of
the herd, with those herd instincts, or a part of the ant colony with
appropriate behavior designed to be industrious. And the human animal is
quite a composite of these characteristics of the DNA that you even now
carry around with you, which includes the most primitive of life
patterns. 
Up-stepping your instinctual urges into a truly conscious state of mind
and being enables you to live above the animal level and on the level of
an intelligent, God-knowing, spirit-led individual rather than the
alternative, which is your origin.
And so there is a lot of animal training in becoming socially acceptable,
divinely fragrant individuals capable of working in the field, even in
the fray. And so these opportunities to come together and enjoy the
civility of sonship is an opportunity o exercise your divine nature and
this validates an element of your reality that you will not have upheld
by the animals and the animal instincts of those who surround you in the
secular world. 
Are there questions?
Donna: I have just a few comments and thoughts. I appreciate our
discussions today about judgment and discernment and the differentiation
between the two. I think this is a struggle that we all have, to try to
understand this better. What has helped me is some things I’ve heard from
others and perhaps from some teachers. I like to sort of put discernment
on one side in one column with the word objective and the word cool, kind
of a cooler emotional response, whereas the judgment I see as more
subjective and definitely more emotional, by the fact of it being more
emotional, it tends to be more final, which is something Angus spoke
about, with more of a finality put on it.
And Gerdean today sort of linked up the discernment side with the
Correcting Time, which I do appreciate, because, you see, the Correcting
Time being upon us, of course, somebody, sometime, has to discern what
has to be corrected, and so that’s okay. We do need to discern. In fact,
back to the biblical traditions, discernment is supposed to be one of the
gifts of the spirit listed in the New Testament. So if we can have
increasing ability to discern things, I think this is moving in the right
direction and we do need to do this. Discernment, however, could be
noticing something about our society or about our life here on this
planet that we would like to have corrected, and then lending our efforts
and our time towards those ends; whereas judgment has that finality about
it which doesn’t lend itself to being corrected even. It’s just sort of a
finality. So anyway, those are just some of my thoughts. 
TOMAS: Those are wonderful contributions to our communion today,
daughter, as are you.
Donna: Thank you.
TOMAS: There was a time when I lectured about this to an earlier group
under me and I talked about judgment, in that, whenever you perceive that
someone is judging you, to raise your right hand; and when you felt that
you were judging someone else – be honest! -- raise your left hand. And
be mindful of this throughout the week. Well, the next Sunday, those who
were honest demonstrated that they walked around all the time with both
hands up. (Group laughter) And then they looked guilty and vulnerable, as
if someone were robbing them -- and they felt fearfu1! (Group chuckles)
And so rather than feeling fearful, as if you are defending your very
existence against the evils impending, drop the burden of judgment and
allow yourself to walk with a stride that gives yourself the freedom to
swing your arms and get a good gait going. This kind of attitude feels
good and confirms your very existence. 
This was a fun exercise that illustrated these truths that we are
discussing today and if you will look at your world, there are many
places where walking along with a good stride, swinging your arms, is a
virtual impossibility. So you can see, just from this parable, in my
discernment, just how much work there is to be done on Urantia. However,
the burden is light if we allow the Master to lead us into those areas in
which we are called to serve and relinquish those areas over which we
have little or no control to those who have that assigned as their
effort. If they do not do what their job is, it will soon come to the
attention of the community and as a community, then, it would behoove you
to take up the issue as the community and not as an individual for the
community speaks louder than its component parts. 
That will suffice today for my political expertise. Are there other
things that you have experienced this week or that you have pondered in
your mind that are available for discussion?
Linda: I would like to volunteer a helpful thing that happened.
Procrastinating having to write a certain letter to a woman who had
written to me with a very 
 a kind of accusatory tone in her letter, and
so it was very hard to try to answer that without feeling that I had to
defend myself against all of these little insinuating accusations. And so
finally my daughter sat me down and said, "Okay, you don’t get anything
to eat until you write the letter," because just moments before I had
complained to her about procrastinating. 
So what I did was, I sat there and kind of got quiet, and then I asked
all of our helpers if my angels could talk to her angels who could talk
to her Thought Adjuster and try to give me some feedback as to what would
be the best way to approach this woman to bring her up to like a higher
ground, a higher understanding, something I could say to her that would
make everything all right. And you know you always feel silly. It’s like
they say, "We were just waiting for you to ask!" It’s like, they are
always there, waiting to help us, we are teachers, et cetera. We say,
yeah we know. Then I proceeded to simply write and whatever came out and
sounded good
I made a letter out of that. 
I sent it off and then my daughter and all who had tried to advise me on
this, they all thought it was very good that I did not even try to defend
myself, but simply tried to address the tone in her letter as being a
difficulty thing. So I haven’t heard a reply from her yet but I just
wanted to say, help is out there, if you just ask for it and it will come
your way, and that’s probably how we are going to get through all this
Correcting Time, is to call upon our helpers to help us get through these
difficult situations that we find ourselves in. Thank you, every one.
TOMAS: We have a curiosity question for you, Renault. Were you then
rewarded with food?
RENAULT: Yes!
TOMAS: What a clever animal your daughter is. And what good counsel you
offer your peers, for this speaks directly to the lesson on
administration and hierarchy in the universe. The many angelic corps who
oversee many, many realms of life – the angels of the homes, the angels
of the churches, the angels of the nations, the angels of the races, the
angels of the angels are all ministering to those who seek to act upon
their light of truth. They cannot help those who do not attempt to help
themselves by lifting up their countenance On High. And so we encourage
these interactions, and if and as necessary we will add elements of the
personality nature that you understand in order for our work to be done
in your realm, in order to follow through the mandates that we have been
given or volunteer to do by the supervision of those who are in control
of the universe and who seek our happiness and the culmination and
fulfillment of the divine will of the Universal Father in Paradise, Him
who we adore.
We have enjoyed having the new souls in attendance and the old souls who
have sojourned here too. We seek to open the path that the Master laid
before you, that you may do His will in the Mother’s far flung worlds of
time and space, that we may do honor to creation and assure our own
immortality. Blessed be art thou, little ones. Be at peace and go in joy
of knowing your place in the universe.
Dear traveler, would you conclude this portion of our gathering in
prayer?
Larry: 
Dear Father,
        Thank You for bringing us together here with our spiritual
brothers and sisters and thank You for opening our eyes and our minds and
our hearts to the truths that the teachers are teaching us. We pray for
peace in this world. We pray that Your will will be done in us, that we
become lights to the world, that Your plan for us will unfold in each one
of our lives, and that the plan for this world shall unfold. We know that
there will be a time of light and life, and we would be a part of the
beginning of this. Thank you so very much, Father. We are so grateful to
be a part of Your Family. We are so grateful to see You in each one of
our brothers and sisters.  Thank you.  Amen.
Group: Amen.
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