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==Session==
==Session==
===Opening===
===Opening===
Daniel (Bill): Hello, my friends, this is your teacher, Daniel, your friend, your guide, your counselor, and your proud mentor. I am pleased to welcome Abigail to our teaching team here, and to remind you that for everyone who desires a personal teacher the reserves of the universe have been tapped and there is available an individual suited to your needs, compatible with your personality, and eager to assist. Thank you for once again coming to our Melchizedek classroom in order to enact the role of students and teachers, for you are both, as you share with each other your wisdom and listen to each other's point of view.
Daniel (Bill): Hello, my [[friends]], this is your teacher, Daniel, your friend, your [[guide]], your [[counselor]], and your proud [[mentor]]. I am pleased to welcome Abigail to our teaching team here, and to remind you that for everyone who [[desires]] a personal teacher, the reserves of [[the universe]] have been tapped and there is available an individual suited to your needs, compatible with your [[personality]], and [[eager]] to [[assist]]. Thank you for once again coming to our [[Melchizedek classroom]] in order to enact the role of [[students]] and [[teachers]], for you are both, as you [[share]] with each other your [[wisdom]] and [[listen]] to each other's [[point of view]].
===='''''[[Sharing]]''''', '''''[[Self Esteem]]'''''====
I did not allow any time last meeting on the topic of sharing, so I will atthis time open the floor for any questions you may have made mental note of to bring to our forum. Do we have such questions tonight regarding our discussion of sharing?
I did not allow any time [[2001-04-21-On Sharing, Magisterial Son|last meeting on the topic of sharing]], so I will at this time open the floor for any [[questions]] you may have made mental note of to bring to our [[forum]]. Do we have such questions tonight regarding our [[discussion]] of [[sharing]]?
===Dialogue===
===Dialogue===
Virginia: Daniel, I am not sure it's a question, but I did have a thought. Last Friday night, I think I have already shared it, and you probably are already aware of it, but I do believe that when we share from our abundance it helps our self-esteem. And is that the reason that you maybe went into sharing as a particular lesson in this self-esteem content?
Virginia: Daniel, I am not sure it's a [[question]], but I did have a [[thought]]. Last Friday night, I think I have already shared it, and you probably are already [[aware]] of it, but I do [[believe]] that when we share from our abundance it helps our [[self-esteem]]. And is that the reason that you maybe went into sharing as a particular lesson in this self-esteem content?
Daniel (Bill): You are [[wise]], Virginia, for you are taught by your [[Divine Monitor]]. The reason that sharing adds to [[self-esteem]] is because sharing is a [[divine]] act, and practicing [[divinity]] is an affirmation of self-[[worth]]. To allow God's love to [[flow]] through you, to share with another person, makes you another [[expression]] of the God of [[Time and Space]] in his emerging, multifaceted [[reality]]. You are not thereby [[becoming]] God the existential [[First Source and Center]], but you are an expression of [[God the Supreme]] in one, tiny way. Therefor, in that sense, you are enhancing your [[divinity]] in that you [[share]] with all others who are part of the great, emerging Supreme. To feel the energy of love flow through you cannot be anything but enhancement. It can never be diminishment; but refusing to share, the restricting of that [[flow]], does lower self-esteem. That's why people who are [[selfish]] are inwardly directed, and do not truly have the [[self-esteem]] that we have been talking about.
Daniel (Bill): . . . Ken, I will reply to your question.
Daniel (Bill): . . . Ken, I will reply to your question.
===='''''[[Correction]]''''', '''''[[Growth]]'''''====
Daniel (Bill): For it is of interest to me. I wish to dwell not so much on the exact [[words]] of rewiring versus [[neuronal]] [[synapse]] build up or whatever choice of words you wish to see, but rather on the [[idea]] that one could by a simple means of rewiring correct a [[problem]] perfectly as you would do with a [[machine]]. The [[growth]] of [[the soul]] is so different from the rewiring of a machine that the two are really [[difficult]] of [[comparison]]. You see what we are talking about here is not some more or less perfectly [[functioning]] object that goes bad, and needs a new wiring to restore it to its original functioning, as you would with a [[computer]] for example. But rather we are talking about [[growth]] of the [[soul]], from [[animal mind]] origins, through the repeated [[choices]] of the mind until that soul attains [[morontial]] [[value]], e.g. it is beyond mortal status. It is destined to go beyond the limited time of mortal [[existence]] and ever does the soul grow, not as does a computer, or not as does a piece of stereo equipment [Ed: by adding new components], but ever does the soul grow like the [[growth]] of a gorgeous flowering [[plant]] from the tinniest seed through the growth of the [[root]] system, the stems, the leaves, the blossoming flowers [[eventually]], larger and larger and more luxurious and [[beautiful]]. The journey of perfectedness is not a [[restoration]] of perfectedness. It is a continuous, ongoing growth [[process]]. The [[correction]] of mistakes is more like the trimming of a tree, the pruning of a plant, removing that which doesn't work so that the remainder may grow more efficiently. That would have been and hopefully now has been more [[enlightening]].
You see [[St. Paul]] in the [[Bible]] talks about [[morontial life]] without using that word, and he says words to the [[effect]] that now we see like in a [[mirror]], just a mere [[reflection]], darkly, imperfectly, incompletely, but then [on morontial worlds] we shall see face to face; in other words, without the mirror, but directly. And then he goes on to say that we don't know what it will be like, it does not appear what it shall be, but we know that when he does come, we will be like him. This was Paul's [[understanding]] of what it would be like to pass beyond [[mortality]] into the [[presence]] of Christ; and while Paul also was given a [[vision]] of the [[mansion worlds]] his [[understanding]] was also somewhat [[limited]].
What you people are now beginning to [[understand]] is beyond the [[thoughts]] of almost all human beings. It is that you, when you are perfectly [[fused]] with that piece of God, that [[Thought Adjuster]], that Mind Monitor, you have become one. That Monitor [[becomes]] you, gains [[personality]] though you. You, the mortal you, combined with the [[immortal]] Thought Adjuster becomes a new kind of [[being]], the Paradise [[Finaliter]] in [[potential]], a true universe [[personality]]. I, because I am [[past]] the mortal existence, and because I have [[fused]] with my Thought Adjuster in my morontial experience, have a far greater [[understanding]] of this than I can [[express]] to you, but I am only a morontial ascender. I am a long ways from the perfectedness of [[spirit]]. But I tell you my friends, the [[step]] by step willingness to [[do the will of God]] will lead to the complete [[transformation]] of your [[animal nature]] from whence you came into this new creation, this universe [[ascender]], this Paradise [[Finaliter]] in potential.
I have been striving to break you free from the muck which envelopes your feet, that you can lift them more freely, to go forward in the walk that you take with [[God within]]. That's why we dwelt and have gone into great detail in some of the [[errors]] which have been perpetuated on [[this planet]]. For those of you who were not brought up to [[believe]] that you were sinners, fortunate are you, indeed, for then your have less mud to kick off your feet. Do not feel bad that your feet are not as muddy [[[laughter]]], but be glad that you have been spared this [[legacy]] of [[error]].
===='''''[[Free will]]'''''====
I wish to talk tonight about the great gift of free will choice, which is yours because you are persons, and you are in the personality circuit +of the First Great Source and Center, the Universal Father. This free will gift is also an aspect of your self-worth. It is incontrovertible evidence of your status before the universe as persons, not merely things. Personality is a gift of the Father. All personality comes from the Father. It is the way in which man is made in the image of God. The image of God is personality, and essential to personality is the ability, within limits, to make free choices. The Father respects the grandeur of personality in each personal creature. He respects his own reflection so much that he allows each person to choose his or her own destiny. It is up to each one of us to decide whether we will choose to go in the direction that the God of the Universes desires for us, or choose to go in a different direction, in our own direction, whatever that may be. God loves us enough that he allows us the choice to reject him, if that is what we wish to do. God loves us enough that he allows us the freedom to make mistakes, but more than that, to continue to make mistakes even though we know they are the wrong way to go. If he did not do that we would be robots. We would have no choices, and this would indeed demean our status from person to thing.
I wish to talk tonight about the great gift of free will choice, which is yours because you are persons, and you are in the personality circuit +of the First Great Source and Center, the Universal Father. This free will gift is also an aspect of your self-worth. It is incontrovertible evidence of your status before the universe as persons, not merely things. Personality is a gift of the Father. All personality comes from the Father. It is the way in which man is made in the image of God. The image of God is personality, and essential to personality is the ability, within limits, to make free choices. The Father respects the grandeur of personality in each personal creature. He respects his own reflection so much that he allows each person to choose his or her own destiny. It is up to each one of us to decide whether we will choose to go in the direction that the God of the Universes desires for us, or choose to go in a different direction, in our own direction, whatever that may be. God loves us enough that he allows us the choice to reject him, if that is what we wish to do. God loves us enough that he allows us the freedom to make mistakes, but more than that, to continue to make mistakes even though we know they are the wrong way to go. If he did not do that we would be robots. We would have no choices, and this would indeed demean our status from person to thing.