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Music: Elena on piano: "Oh, Mensch, Schau Jesus Christum" a Bach chorale

Music: Elena on piano: "Oh, Mensch, Schau Jesus Christum" a Bach chorale

(Discussion about the music title. Based on our gentile understanding, we thought it meant "Jesus Christ, you are a Scholar and a Gentleman") Prayer: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.

(Discussion about the music title. Based on our gentile understanding, we thought it meant "Jesus Christ, you are a Scholar and a Gentleman")  

Date: March 16, 2003

Prayer: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.

Master Teacher, we come to you seeking inspiration in the love that you portrayed. We said earlier about a mensch, and that that describes you, among other descriptions. The description, I think, we know of you from the Urantia Book in particular, gives us an intimate look at you of friendship, fatherly, brotherly protection, and a wonderful specimen of all creation. And the description of the angels looking down, and an entire universe standing in awe, witnessing what you were doing, for the unseen that we were unable to see at the time, that is total inspiration, so for us not to get too far afield and to wish for that which we have as a constant reminder of who we are and who we are becoming, with you as the model, we seek a teacher or teachers that you bring to us today for continued enlightenment of our personhood and our souls, that we become more godlike as you are, and to be perfect love and to do it wonderfully well. For this and all else that you know within our hearts, we pray. Amen.

Master Teacher, we come to you seeking [[inspiration]] in the [[love]] that you portrayed. We said earlier about a mensch, and that that describes you, among other descriptions. The description, I think, we know of you from the [[Urantia Book]] in particular, gives us an [[intimate]] look at you of [[friendship]], fatherly, brotherly protection, and a [[wonderful]] specimen of all [[creation]]. And the description of the [[angels]] looking down, and an entire [[universe]] standing in awe, witnessing what you were doing, for the unseen that we were unable to see at the [[time]], that is total inspiration, so for us not to get too far afield and to wish for that which we have as a constant reminder of who we are and who we are becoming, with you as the [[model]], we seek a teacher or [[teachers]] that you bring to us today for continued enlightenment of our [[personhood]] and our [[souls]], that we become more godlike as you are, and to be perfect love and to do it wonderfully well. For this and all else that you know within our hearts, we pray. Amen.

 

TOMAS: Happy anniversary, my mortal [[family]]. I am Tomas, your companion, friend and teacher, host and fellow sojourner in the program of [[ascension]] unto the Father of all. "Let us place ourselves in the [[presence]] of Jesus, the Christ." What [[power]] is in those [[words]]! For the [[ritual]] begins. We put ourselves in [[mind]] to open ourselves to another [[dimension]] of relating, another [[system]] of [[reality]], a wonderful realm wherein we honor our [[Creator]] and our life in His realm. What a marvelous [[experience]] we enjoy by and through our association, which we now enjoy, even as this pinnacle of accomplishment has taken many years to come into [[being]]. We pray, too, to be brought into your awareness, for in this we have uplifted this portion of [[humanity]] into a conscious realm of [[god-consciousness]] that begins to realize itself as [[morontia]] reality, even in your world and in your lives.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Today, my beautiful students, I would like to bring to your attention a consciousness of ritual, and how thoroughly it is a part of your pattern of living and how you can use it, by your will, to embolden yourself as a fisher of men in luring more individuals into the consciousness that you enjoy as a Son of God. To call our gathering a ritual may come as a surprise to some. Those who look upon their religious experience as a sacred event, incline to look unfavorably at their ritual being called a mere habit, which is truly what ritual is; but it is the dimension of Christ-consciousness that allows a mere ritual to become, in truth, a religious way of life.

Today, my beautiful students, I would like to bring to your attention a consciousness of ritual, and how thoroughly it is a part of your pattern of living and how you can use it, by your will, to embolden yourself as a fisher of men in luring more individuals into the consciousness that you enjoy as a Son of God. To call our gathering a ritual may come as a surprise to some. Those who look upon their religious experience as a sacred event, incline to look unfavorably at their ritual being called a mere habit, which is truly what ritual is; but it is the dimension of Christ-consciousness that allows a mere ritual to become, in truth, a religious way of life.