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PEARL:          No.

PEARL:          No.

RACHEL:      Do you have any [[information]] or [[knowledge]] to share about "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master ascended masters]"?

RACHEL:      Do you have any [[information]] or [[knowledge]] to share about "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master ascended masters]"?

PEARL:          No.

PEARL:          No.

MERIUM:      I would like to look at this situation as an [[individual]] who is in need of [[experience]], who finds himself drawn to someone of the same sex. That is their personal [[challenge]]. They can offer it to be [[guided]], to be shown … (Unfortunately, Merium's words were indistinguishable on the tape.)

MERIUM:      I would like to look at this situation as an [[individual]] who is in need of [[experience]], who finds himself drawn to someone of the same sex. That is their personal [[challenge]]. They can offer it to be [[guided]], to be shown … (Unfortunately, Merium's words were indistinguishable on the tape.)

[Faulty recording lost a lot of words, picking up on the question about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master ascended masters].]

[Faulty recording lost a lot of words, picking up on the question about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master ascended masters].]

TOMAS:        It is part of your phenomenally interesting [[background]], having to do with your [[understanding]] of what happens as you advance in greater [[spiritual]] [[reality]]. These [[comprehensions]] are only made available to you by and through your [[exposure]] to your [[experiential]] classes and [[rumors]] of what is going on in your [[neighbor]]'s classroom.

TOMAS:        It is part of your phenomenally interesting [[background]], having to do with your [[understanding]] of what happens as you advance in greater [[spiritual]] [[reality]]. These [[comprehensions]] are only made available to you by and through your [[exposure]] to your [[experiential]] classes and [[rumors]] of what is going on in your [[neighbor]]'s classroom.

A master is not always a [[teacher]], but a master cannot help but teach. There are then many who exalt their teachers and [[leaders]] and those who they admire for one reason or another. They are given the title of Master.

A master is not always a [[teacher]], but a master cannot help but teach. There are then many who exalt their teachers and [[leaders]] and those who they admire for one reason or another. They are given the title of Master.

RACHEL:      Like calling the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popes Pope the Holy Father]?

RACHEL:      Like calling the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popes Pope the Holy Father]?

TOMAS:        Yes. This is not overlooked in any [[hierarchy]] of relative [[spirit]] [[reality]]. Remember that when your [[Creator Son]] has gained [[sovereignty]] over [[Nebadon|his universe]], he has become the [[Master Son]], and this is an [[understanding]], those of you who read The [[Urantia Book]], from its teachings; but there are others who also have a semblance of an appreciation for those who have mastered the [[universe]] [[laws]] of [[reality]] such that they are able to seemingly [[transcend]] the [[limitations]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. And these exalted brethren have become known to many as Masters, even to the extent wherein it has been a basis of [[belief]] that they have advanced all the way into an [[ascension]] of spirit reality and [[attained]] the title or the existential reality of an ascended master. In fact, you may construe [[Christ Michael]] as an ascended master, for he has ascended and he is a Master.

TOMAS:        Yes. This is not overlooked in any [[hierarchy]] of relative [[spirit]] [[reality]]. Remember that when your [[Creator Son]] has gained [[sovereignty]] over [[Nebadon|his universe]], he has become the [[Master Son]], and this is an [[understanding]], those of you who read The [[Urantia Book]], from its teachings; but there are others who also have a semblance of an appreciation for those who have mastered the [[universe]] [[laws]] of [[reality]] such that they are able to seemingly [[transcend]] the [[limitations]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. And these exalted brethren have become known to many as Masters, even to the extent wherein it has been a basis of [[belief]] that they have advanced all the way into an [[ascension]] of spirit reality and [[attained]] the title or the existential reality of an ascended master. In fact, you may construe [[Christ Michael]] as an ascended master, for he has ascended and he is a Master.