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DATE: May 9, 1996

===Topic: ''Authority of Free Will''===

 

===Group: [[Pittsburgh TeaM]]===

LOCATION: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

===Teacher: [[Tomas]]===

T/R: Gerdean

===TR: [[Gerdean]]===

 

TEXTUAL STUDY: Paper 20 The Paradise Sons of God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOMAS: I am Tomas, your teacher, guide, companion and friend and it gives me great pleasure to once again be in your midst. It affords us all an opportunity to behold your evolving natures and your configuration of personalities as you individually strive for personality attainment, self-mastery and congenial expression of your heart's delights.

TOMAS: I am Tomas, your teacher, guide, companion and friend and it gives me great pleasure to once again be in your midst. It affords us all an opportunity to behold your evolving natures and your configuration of personalities as you individually strive for personality attainment, self-mastery and congenial expression of your heart's delights.

And in deference to her guidance earlier, I will now ask that we devote our customary time to stillness and prayer, that your souls may be properly aerated, that the seeds of truth, beauty and goodness which may prevail will fall on fertile soil -- ready, eager and willing to receive those orts of teacher wisdom which will help to bring us together in the spirit. I will recess while we venture now into stillness.

And in deference to her guidance earlier, I will now ask that we devote our customary time to stillness and prayer, that your souls may be properly aerated, that the seeds of truth, beauty and goodness which may prevail will fall on fertile soil -- ready, eager and willing to receive those orts of teacher wisdom which will help to bring us together in the spirit. I will recess while we venture now into stillness.

... and the angels sing.

... and the angels sing.

Perfect and righteous Heavenly Father, we come to you in humble obedience to your word and your will this day. We seek your guidance and your blessing on our growing understanding of your nature and your purpose. We come together as your children in supplication of your nurturance. We look to you for those guidelines to know how to be effective. We look to you for the source of our happiness and our contentment. We ask your compassion upon us as we err, as we struggle to comprehend the vastness of your divine nature. Allow us, Heavenly Father, through your infinite mercy, to lapse into smallness, to accept our humble orb as our realm in the vast greatness of your domain. We trust that you are supreme and we do your bidding. Even so, not our will but your will be done.

Perfect and righteous Heavenly Father, we come to you in humble obedience to your word and your will this day. We seek your guidance and your blessing on our growing understanding of your nature and your purpose. We come together as your children in supplication of your nurturance. We look to you for those guidelines to know how to be effective. We look to you for the source of our happiness and our contentment. We ask your compassion upon us as we err, as we struggle to comprehend the vastness of your divine nature. Allow us, Heavenly Father, through your infinite mercy, to lapse into smallness, to accept our humble orb as our realm in the vast greatness of your domain. We trust that you are supreme and we do your bidding. Even so, not our will but your will be done.

 

My friends, I am eager to share with you this evening about "authority".

My friends, I am eager to share with you this evening about "authority".

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers in attendance -- from this humble table, all the way to Paradise. And so I open this humble table to your participation.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers in attendance -- from this humble table, all the way to Paradise. And so I open this humble table to your participation.

 

Mrs. M: Speaking as a mother, thank you, Tomas.

Mrs. M: Speaking as a mother, thank you, Tomas.

When you are in the embrace of the Eternal Parents, when your existence is not only authorized by them but is embraced, accepted, validated, consecrated, sent out to play in harmony, you may do this with self-forgetfulness for you are secure. When you are secure in your place in the universe, it doesn't matter if you are memorialized in the eyes of mortality or not. This is hard work. This is attaining God-consciousness -- constantly to be turning aside that which calls attention to yourself to the greater glory of calling attention to that which is the destiny of us all.

When you are in the embrace of the Eternal Parents, when your existence is not only authorized by them but is embraced, accepted, validated, consecrated, sent out to play in harmony, you may do this with self-forgetfulness for you are secure. When you are secure in your place in the universe, it doesn't matter if you are memorialized in the eyes of mortality or not. This is hard work. This is attaining God-consciousness -- constantly to be turning aside that which calls attention to yourself to the greater glory of calling attention to that which is the destiny of us all.

 

I could go on and give an entire lesson on this but I will not for the hour grows late. I will afford us another moment or two but then we must conclude for the day. Are there any further discourses awaiting our attention?

I could go on and give an entire lesson on this but I will not for the hour grows late. I will afford us another moment or two but then we must conclude for the day. Are there any further discourses awaiting our attention?

Group: Good night, Tomas.

Group: Good night, Tomas.