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If you find yourself caught up short in twisted [[behavior]] or twisted [[thinking]], the [[goodness]] of God will [[reveal]] to you your [[error]], and with goodness return you to your clear [[path]], clear [[thinking]], right [[behavior]]. When you [[manifest]] these [[fruits of the spirit]], such as [[enlightened]] [[honesty]], it is the fruit of unfailing goodness that allows your honesty to be given and received, for who denies good? All seek [[good]] - in each other, in themselves.

If you find yourself caught up short in twisted [[behavior]] or twisted [[thinking]], the [[goodness]] of God will [[reveal]] to you your [[error]], and with goodness return you to your clear [[path]], clear [[thinking]], right [[behavior]]. When you [[manifest]] these [[fruits of the spirit]], such as [[enlightened]] [[honesty]], it is the fruit of unfailing goodness that allows your honesty to be given and received, for who denies good? All seek [[good]] - in each other, in themselves.

"First make the tree good"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_12] and this good tree will produce good fruit. Do not be alarmed when you [[discover]] that sometimes as a [[mortal]] you fail to [[recognize]] the [[opportunity]] to be good. Turn only to that opportunity as soon as you know that you have been unaware of goodness.  In your loving [[service]], be good. [[The Master]] said, "be good to those who spitefully abuse you."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_6]  The human retaliates, (but) the divine [[comprehends]], [[manifests]] [[forgiving]] [[tolerance]], understanding that [[justice]] is a law of [[the universe]] and is in [[Our Father]]'s hands.

"First make the tree good"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_12] and this good tree will produce good fruit. Do not be alarmed when you [[discover]] that sometimes as a [[mortal]] you fail to [[recognize]] the [[opportunity]] to be good. Turn only to that opportunity as soon as you know that you have been unaware of goodness.  In your loving [[service]], be good. [[The Master]] said, "be good to those who spitefully abuse you."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_6]  The human retaliates, (but) the divine [[comprehends]], [[manifests]] [[forgiving]] [[tolerance]], understanding that [[justice]] is a law of [[the universe]] and is in [[Our Father]]'s hands.

There is a [http://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Happen-Good-People/dp/1400034728/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349194617&sr=1-1&keywords=when+bad+things+happen+to+good+people book recently on the market] that [[wonders]] why bad things happen to good people, and it reminds me of a story about a man who traveled the world far and wide seeking the answer to this question to which he received many, many answers and finally he ended up in the [[garden]] of a great [[guru]]. The guru could not answer his question, but sent him out to talk to the gardener who was lame and hunched over. The man talked with the gardener who had lost his [[wife]] and his [[children]], had lost his [[career]], had lost his [[home]] and his standing in [[society]], but had come to find a place as a gardener of the Great Guru, and when the man asked the gardener why it was that bad things happened to [[good]] people, the gardener replied, "I don't know. Nothing bad has ever happened to me." He was a man of simple [[faith]], you see, and in him, God's [[goodness]] was evident by the [[quiet]] [[joy]] in which he went about doing good, in the [[garden]], uncomplaining.

There is a [https://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Happen-Good-People/dp/1400034728/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349194617&sr=1-1&keywords=when+bad+things+happen+to+good+people book recently on the market] that [[wonders]] why bad things happen to good people, and it reminds me of a story about a man who traveled the world far and wide seeking the answer to this question to which he received many, many answers and finally he ended up in the [[garden]] of a great [[guru]]. The guru could not answer his question, but sent him out to talk to the gardener who was lame and hunched over. The man talked with the gardener who had lost his [[wife]] and his [[children]], had lost his [[career]], had lost his [[home]] and his standing in [[society]], but had come to find a place as a gardener of the Great Guru, and when the man asked the gardener why it was that bad things happened to [[good]] people, the gardener replied, "I don't know. Nothing bad has ever happened to me." He was a man of simple [[faith]], you see, and in him, God's [[goodness]] was evident by the [[quiet]] [[joy]] in which he went about doing good, in the [[garden]], uncomplaining.

I am not a guru; I am your [[friend]]. I am glad to be here with you and I am [[eager]] to hear from you. How are you, my dear flock?

I am not a guru; I am your [[friend]]. I am glad to be here with you and I am [[eager]] to hear from you. How are you, my dear flock?

TOMAS: It is a designated [[fruit of the spirit]]. Perhaps we should pause in this presentation and look it up and [[read]] it from the text to familiarize ourselves with the nature of these lessons. We will be in recess.

TOMAS: It is a designated [[fruit of the spirit]]. Perhaps we should pause in this presentation and look it up and [[read]] it from the text to familiarize ourselves with the nature of these lessons. We will be in recess.

<blockquote>[From the [[193:2 The Phoenician Appearance|Urantia Book, pg. 2054]]: [[Peace]] be upon you. You [[rejoice]] to know that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] has [[Resurrection|risen]] from the [[dead]] because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also [[survive]] [[mortal]] [[death]]. But such [[survival]] is dependent on your having been previously [[born]] of the [[spirit]] of [[truth]]-seeking and [[God]]-finding. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life] and the [[water]] thereof are given only to those who [[hunger]] for [[truth]] and [[thirst]] for [[righteousness]]—for [[God]]. The [[fact]] that the [[Resurrection|dead rise]] is not the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. These great [[truths]] and these [[universe]] [[facts]] are all [[related]] to this [[gospel]] in that they are a [[part]] of the result of [[believing]] the good news and are [[embraced]] in the subsequent [[experience]] of those who, by [[faith]], become, in [[deed]] and in [[truth]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:7._FATHER-FUSED_MORTALS everlasting sons] of the [[eternal]] [[God]]. [[the Father|My Father]] sent me into the world to [[proclaim]] this [[salvation]] of [[sonship]] to all men. And so send I you abroad to [[preach]] this [[salvation]] of [[sonship]]. [[Salvation]] is the [[free]] [[gift]] of [[God]], but those who are [[born]] of the [[spirit]] will [[immediately]] begin to show forth the [[fruits of the spirit]] in loving [[service]] to their fellow [[creatures]]. And the [[Fruits of the spirit|fruits of the divine spirit]] which are yielded in the lives of [[spirit]]-[[born]] and [[God]]-[[knowing]] [[mortals]] are: [[loving]] [[service]], [[unselfish]] [[devotion]], [[courageous]] [[loyalty]], [[sincere]] [[fairness]], [[enlightened]] [[honesty]], undying [[hope]], confiding [[trust]], [[merciful]] ministry, unfailing [[goodness]], [[forgiving]] [[tolerance]], and [[enduring]] [[peace]]. If professed [[believers]] bear not these [[fruits of the divine spirit]] in their lives, they are [[dead]]; the [[Spirit of Truth]] is not in them; they are useless branches on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_180#180:2._THE_VINE_AND_THE_BRANCHES living vine], and they soon will be taken away. [[the Father|My Father]] requires of the [[children]] of [[faith]] that they bear much spirit fruit. If, therefore, you are not fruitful, he will dig about your [[roots]] and cut away your unfruitful branches. Increasingly, must you yield the [[fruits of the spirit]] as you [[progress]] heavenward in [[the kingdom]] of [[God]]. You may enter [[the kingdom]] as a child, but [[the Father]] requires that you [[grow]] up, by [[grace]], to the full stature of [[spiritual]] [[Maturity|adulthood]]. And when you go abroad to tell all [[nations]] the good news of this [[gospel]], I will go before you, and my [[Spirit of Truth]] shall abide in your [[hearts]]. My [[peace]] I leave with you. "</blockquote>

<blockquote>[From the [[193:2 The Phoenician Appearance|Urantia Book, pg. 2054]]: [[Peace]] be upon you. You [[rejoice]] to know that the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] has [[Resurrection|risen]] from the [[dead]] because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also [[survive]] [[mortal]] [[death]]. But such [[survival]] is dependent on your having been previously [[born]] of the [[spirit]] of [[truth]]-seeking and [[God]]-finding. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life] and the [[water]] thereof are given only to those who [[hunger]] for [[truth]] and [[thirst]] for [[righteousness]]—for [[God]]. The [[fact]] that the [[Resurrection|dead rise]] is not the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. These great [[truths]] and these [[universe]] [[facts]] are all [[related]] to this [[gospel]] in that they are a [[part]] of the result of [[believing]] the good news and are [[embraced]] in the subsequent [[experience]] of those who, by [[faith]], become, in [[deed]] and in [[truth]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:7._FATHER-FUSED_MORTALS everlasting sons] of the [[eternal]] [[God]]. [[the Father|My Father]] sent me into the world to [[proclaim]] this [[salvation]] of [[sonship]] to all men. And so send I you abroad to [[preach]] this [[salvation]] of [[sonship]]. [[Salvation]] is the [[free]] [[gift]] of [[God]], but those who are [[born]] of the [[spirit]] will [[immediately]] begin to show forth the [[fruits of the spirit]] in loving [[service]] to their fellow [[creatures]]. And the [[Fruits of the spirit|fruits of the divine spirit]] which are yielded in the lives of [[spirit]]-[[born]] and [[God]]-[[knowing]] [[mortals]] are: [[loving]] [[service]], [[unselfish]] [[devotion]], [[courageous]] [[loyalty]], [[sincere]] [[fairness]], [[enlightened]] [[honesty]], undying [[hope]], confiding [[trust]], [[merciful]] ministry, unfailing [[goodness]], [[forgiving]] [[tolerance]], and [[enduring]] [[peace]]. If professed [[believers]] bear not these [[fruits of the divine spirit]] in their lives, they are [[dead]]; the [[Spirit of Truth]] is not in them; they are useless branches on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_180#180:2._THE_VINE_AND_THE_BRANCHES living vine], and they soon will be taken away. [[the Father|My Father]] requires of the [[children]] of [[faith]] that they bear much spirit fruit. If, therefore, you are not fruitful, he will dig about your [[roots]] and cut away your unfruitful branches. Increasingly, must you yield the [[fruits of the spirit]] as you [[progress]] heavenward in [[the kingdom]] of [[God]]. You may enter [[the kingdom]] as a child, but [[the Father]] requires that you [[grow]] up, by [[grace]], to the full stature of [[spiritual]] [[Maturity|adulthood]]. And when you go abroad to tell all [[nations]] the good news of this [[gospel]], I will go before you, and my [[Spirit of Truth]] shall abide in your [[hearts]]. My [[peace]] I leave with you. "</blockquote>

TOMAS: A [[gourmet]] delight, is it not? I have great [[admiration]] for the [[authors]] of [[Urantia Text|the revelation]]. Would that I had such mastery of the [[language]], but you [[understand]] that I am dealing with the [[English]] language in and through a publican, so you must take me as I am until and unless we become more of a committee of workers. Sometimes I can speak rather [[eloquently]], Kate, but I still doff my hat to these [[wonder]] workers of [[words]].

TOMAS: A [[gourmet]] delight, is it not? I have great [[admiration]] for the [[authors]] of [[Urantia Text|the revelation]]. Would that I had such mastery of the [[language]], but you [[understand]] that I am dealing with the [[English]] language in and through a publican, so you must take me as I am until and unless we become more of a committee of workers. Sometimes I can speak rather [[eloquently]], Kate, but I still doff my hat to these [[wonder]] workers of [[words]].

TOMAS: I have not necessarily [[learned]] a [[language]]. I have been afforded the opportunity to tap into the language center of this [[transmitter]]/receiver and so I am working with those raw materials. I have long since graduated from the tongue as a mode of [[communication]]. I have been utilizing a [[wonderful]] [[technique]], as have all the viable teachers in the [[Teaching Mission]].

TOMAS: I have not necessarily [[learned]] a [[language]]. I have been afforded the opportunity to tap into the language center of this [[transmitter]]/receiver and so I am working with those raw materials. I have long since graduated from the tongue as a mode of [[communication]]. I have been utilizing a [[wonderful]] [[technique]], as have all the viable teachers in the [[Teaching Mission]].

Elizabeth: Well, do you float around the bookstores and find out what's on the best seller list, like "[http://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Happen-Good-People/dp/0380603926 Why Bad Things Happen To Good People]?"

Elizabeth: Well, do you float around the bookstores and find out what's on the best seller list, like "[https://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Happen-Good-People/dp/0380603926 Why Bad Things Happen To Good People]?"

TOMAS: No, not necessarily. I don't like crowds. But I do [[compare]] notes with my [[peers]] as you compare notes with your peers. As you can [[imagine]], we have some in-depth [[discussions]] about where you are, where you have been, and where you might possibly go next in terms of your [[learning]] [[process]]. As I perceive them, these [[perceptions]] then are translated into your language. I am not, [[forgive]] me, inclined to indulge this line of [[discourse]] this evening for it focuses on interesting things but they are not particularly of value in terms of what we just took in, in that [[divine]] [[message]] of one of [[the Master]]'s [[Paper 193|morontia appearances]] having to do with [[the fruits]].

TOMAS: No, not necessarily. I don't like crowds. But I do [[compare]] notes with my [[peers]] as you compare notes with your peers. As you can [[imagine]], we have some in-depth [[discussions]] about where you are, where you have been, and where you might possibly go next in terms of your [[learning]] [[process]]. As I perceive them, these [[perceptions]] then are translated into your language. I am not, [[forgive]] me, inclined to indulge this line of [[discourse]] this evening for it focuses on interesting things but they are not particularly of value in terms of what we just took in, in that [[divine]] [[message]] of one of [[the Master]]'s [[Paper 193|morontia appearances]] having to do with [[the fruits]].

TOMAS:  Indeed, it should alter your entire [[reaction]] to [[life]]!

TOMAS:  Indeed, it should alter your entire [[reaction]] to [[life]]!

Hunnah: I'd like to comment on something we just [[read]]. "I will go before you and my [[Spirit of Truth]] shall abide in your hearts." ([[193:2|193:2.2]]) I had an opportunity today to talk to two people in an office that had emptied out, and I was talking to them about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki Reiki] and I was able to combine it with what we're doing here, and I had rapt [[attention]]. I didn't have it, but the combination of three being gathered together -- without saying we are three gathered together. It was just apparent to me that we were -- and the [[timing]] was there that in the readiness and the concerns in the daily lives of the people I was talking to, it was appropriate timing, proper timing -- and that was one of the things that [Edgar] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Cayce] talked about was proper timing, and I was very [[gratified]] because I just feel that I can smell water almost, that there is more [[receptivity]] in the nursing field toward self-[[care]] and self-[[maintenance]] and the spirit expanding this [[spiritual]] [[awareness]], and I really found it exciting.  And since you're letting us talk some more, I thought I would [[share]] that.

Hunnah: I'd like to comment on something we just [[read]]. "I will go before you and my [[Spirit of Truth]] shall abide in your hearts." ([[193:2|193:2.2]]) I had an opportunity today to talk to two people in an office that had emptied out, and I was talking to them about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki Reiki] and I was able to combine it with what we're doing here, and I had rapt [[attention]]. I didn't have it, but the combination of three being gathered together -- without saying we are three gathered together. It was just apparent to me that we were -- and the [[timing]] was there that in the readiness and the concerns in the daily lives of the people I was talking to, it was appropriate timing, proper timing -- and that was one of the things that [Edgar] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Cayce] talked about was proper timing, and I was very [[gratified]] because I just feel that I can smell water almost, that there is more [[receptivity]] in the nursing field toward self-[[care]] and self-[[maintenance]] and the spirit expanding this [[spiritual]] [[awareness]], and I really found it exciting.  And since you're letting us talk some more, I thought I would [[share]] that.

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TOMAS: And I will pick up on that and add to my [[discourse]] about who we are and where we have been headed in terms of our [[philosophy]] of [[being]], in terms of [[Correcting Time]], in-as-much as [[we Teachers]] are here to help bring [[Urantia]] back into a spiritual [[alignment]], with its natural place in the [[harmony]] of [[the universe]] following a lengthy [[isolation]] due to the effects of the [[Lucifer rebellion]], which have recently ended all such overt [[influence]].

TOMAS: And I will pick up on that and add to my [[discourse]] about who we are and where we have been headed in terms of our [[philosophy]] of [[being]], in terms of [[Correcting Time]], in-as-much as [[we Teachers]] are here to help bring [[Urantia]] back into a spiritual [[alignment]], with its natural place in the [[harmony]] of [[the universe]] following a lengthy [[isolation]] due to the effects of the [[Lucifer rebellion]], which have recently ended all such overt [[influence]].

Elizabeth: Well, this sounds so [[wonderful]]. My daughter is always saying to me when I tell her that [[Lucifer]] was [[adjudicated]], she always seems to say, "Well, you might think he's gone but I seem to see his [[influence]] everywhere," so might I ask you, Tomas, are there just some psychic [[shadows]] left? Or how could you [[describe]] what is left from his former great [[influence]]?

Elizabeth: Well, this sounds so [[wonderful]]. My daughter is always saying to me when I tell her that [[Lucifer]] was [[adjudicated]], she always seems to say, "Well, you might think he's gone but I seem to see his [[influence]] everywhere," so might I ask you, Tomas, are there just some psychic [[shadows]] left? Or how could you [[describe]] what is left from his former great [[influence]]?

TOMAS: Well, my dear, of course I have a couple of things to say. One of which is -- and I don't mean to be discouraging, but look at your [[reading]] from this evening having to do with the [[ghost cults]], and how long it is that the effects of a pervasive [[belief]] or [[behavior]] lends its residual effects on a people -- in that, it will be a long time before [[Lucifer]]'s [[influence]] is completely eradicated from [[Urantia]]. For [[eons]] you will be [[feeling]] and whiffing the effects, but they are not crippling and [[captivating]] as they were.

TOMAS: Well, my dear, of course I have a couple of things to say. One of which is -- and I don't mean to be discouraging, but look at your [[reading]] from this evening having to do with the [[ghost cults]], and how long it is that the effects of a pervasive [[belief]] or [[behavior]] lends its residual effects on a people -- in that, it will be a long time before [[Lucifer]]'s [[influence]] is completely eradicated from [[Urantia]]. For [[eons]] you will be [[feeling]] and whiffing the effects, but they are not crippling and captivating as they were.

Indeed, you have heard it suggested that you look at [[your planet]] and its activities not as a black [[orb]] with small spots of white upon it, but rather as a white orb with small spots of black upon it, for this is a matter of [[perception]]. As you outlined it, your daughter is seeing the black background with a few white dots and you are seeing the white background with a few black dots, and you [[wonder]] "do we live in the same world?"  There are still many, many [[evils]] floating around, but [[Lucifer]] and [[Caligastia]] and [[Satan]] are no longer contributing.  

Indeed, you have heard it suggested that you look at [[your planet]] and its activities not as a black [[orb]] with small spots of white upon it, but rather as a white orb with small spots of black upon it, for this is a matter of [[perception]]. As you outlined it, your daughter is seeing the black background with a few white dots and you are seeing the white background with a few black dots, and you [[wonder]] "do we live in the same world?"  There are still many, many [[evils]] floating around, but [[Lucifer]] and [[Caligastia]] and [[Satan]] are no longer contributing.  

Elizabeth: Are there any lesser spirits left around [[the planet]]? So many people have said that and--

Elizabeth: Are there any lesser spirits left around [[the planet]]? So many people have said that and--

TOMAS: I know that you are asking that as a [[rhetorical question]], for there are no residue [[evil]] spirits at all. It is, once and for all, a friendly [[universe]]. The [[disease]] of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] is done. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer cancer] has been cut out. There are no active [[cells]] left alive. The [[organism]] is whole. Not in remission, but cured, whole.

TOMAS: I know that you are asking that as a [[rhetorical question]], for there are no residue [[evil]] spirits at all. It is, once and for all, a friendly [[universe]]. The [[disease]] of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] is done. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer cancer] has been cut out. There are no active [[cells]] left alive. The [[organism]] is whole. Not in remission, but cured, whole.

Mary Theresa: Where does the [[evil]] come that we have on [[our planet]] today? People with their senseless killing and [[starvation]] of [[innocent]] children.

Mary Theresa: Where does the [[evil]] come that we have on [[our planet]] today? People with their senseless killing and [[starvation]] of [[innocent]] children.

The fight is on -- the good fight of [[faith]] -- and we are already overcoming. The [[effects]] are already being felt, [[manifested]] and appreciated. We are quite [[encouraged]]. We eagerly await the next [[unfolding]]. Your contributions as spirit-born, God-led [[individuals]] in grasping these [[fruits of the spirit]] and allowing them to effectively permeate [[your world]], tells the [[shadows]] and the [[darkness]] that God is alive. He is standing up through you, his noble [[ambassadors]], for those [[values]] that [[Jesus]] taught, and that you teach by your very way of life.

The fight is on -- the good fight of [[faith]] -- and we are already overcoming. The [[effects]] are already being felt, [[manifested]] and appreciated. We are quite [[encouraged]]. We eagerly await the next [[unfolding]]. Your contributions as spirit-born, God-led [[individuals]] in grasping these [[fruits of the spirit]] and allowing them to effectively permeate [[your world]], tells the [[shadows]] and the [[darkness]] that God is alive. He is standing up through you, his noble [[ambassadors]], for those [[values]] that [[Jesus]] taught, and that you teach by your very way of life.

===Closing===

===Closing===

Thank you very much, my friends, and my students. I am going to leave you for this evening. It has been a [[pleasure]]. I have enjoyed a nice [[rapport]] with you this evening. I am eagerly [[anticipating]] our next encounter and I will leave you with an assignment in your core being, in your own [[understanding]] of [[goodness]], and when you [[ponder]] whether or not you have been good, look and see if you have not been truly unfailingly good because of that resident [[God within]].  

Thank you very much, my friends, and my students. I am going to leave you for this evening. It has been a [[pleasure]]. I have enjoyed a nice [[rapport]] with you this evening. I am eagerly [[anticipating]] our next encounter and I will leave you with an assignment in your core being, in your own [[understanding]] of [[goodness]], and when you [[ponder]] whether or not you have been good, look and see if you have not been truly unfailingly good because of that resident [[God within]].  

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