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==Session== | ==Session== | ||
===Opening=== | ===Opening=== | ||
| − | I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I am grateful to you each for your welcoming spirit here week after week, year after year. Your courage to walk with faith brings me here with a new lesson every week. You have seen me not with the eye of the flesh, but with the eyes of the spirit. I am thankful that you trust in this process of learning and growth. | + | I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I am [[grateful]] to you each for your welcoming [[spirit]] here week after week, year after year. Your [[courage]] to walk with faith brings me here with a new lesson every week. You have seen me not with the eye of the flesh, but with the eyes of the spirit. I am thankful that you [[trust]] in this process of learning and [[growth]]. |
===Lesson=== | ===Lesson=== | ||
| − | I am– you are, and therefore, we have experience. Being the varying personalities that we are, our experience will vary. In my position now I can allow you your experience, your outlook on the meaning of it without judgment. There was a time however that I was unable to envision others individualized experience, making them into who they were really supposed to be. | + | ===='''''[[The Teachers]]'''''==== |
| + | I am– you are, and therefore, we have [[experience]]. Being the varying [[personalities]] that we are, our experience will vary. In my position now I can allow you your experience, your outlook on the [[meaning]] of it without [[judgment]]. There was a time however that I was unable to envision others individualized experience, making them into who they were really supposed to be. | ||
| − | There was a time when my image meant everything to me. I craved respect and power, so therefore, I use fearful tactics to get what I desired. I measured my success through the eyes of others. If people revered me as a powerful warrior, then that meant I was successful. Most of my energy went into maintaining my image, my persona. Truthfully, this was personally quite fearful for me that I would be discovered for who I really was. Honestly, I was a fear-ridden individual who cared deeply about the opinions of others concerning myself. | + | There was a time when my image meant everything to me. I craved [[respect]] and [[power]], so therefore, I use fearful [[tactics]] to get what I desired. I measured my success through the eyes of others. If people [[revered]] me as a powerful [[warrior]], then that meant I was successful. Most of my energy went into maintaining my image, my [[persona]]. Truthfully, this was personally quite fearful for me that I would be [[discovered]] for who I really was. [[Honestly]], I was a fear-ridden individual who cared deeply about the [[opinions]] of others concerning myself. |
| − | My experience with Machiventa brought about slow and subtle changes within my thinking. I learned that I was quite bound by the shallow material life. I was bound by my own feelings of unworth. I was bound by exhausting all my energy toward projecting an image to others that made me feel I was a superior being. Slowly I had learned to allow Father into my life without the worry that He would take away the desires of my heart. At first in this state, I felt somewhat appearing to be weak and submissive. In all my years as Abraham, the respected and feared warrior, never did I want to be looked upon as weak. | + | My experience with [[Machiventa]] brought about slow and [[subtle]] [[changes]] within my [[thinking]]. I learned that I was quite bound by the shallow [[material]] life. I was bound by my own feelings of unworth. I was bound by [[exhausting]] all my [[energy]] toward projecting an image to others that made me feel I was a superior being. Slowly I had learned to allow Father into my life without the worry that He would take away the desires of my [[heart]]. At first in this state, I felt somewhat appearing to be [[weak]] and [[submissive]]. In all my years as Abraham, the respected and feared warrior, never did I want to be looked upon as weak. |
| − | Machiventa's lessons were particularly helpful in this area, because he had shown me that true weakness is one who is submissive to ego--not God. True weakness is one who is ruled by the desires of the flesh--not striving for self-mastery. True weakness was one who normally hides from God, but calls for Him when in peril. | + | [[Machiventa]]'s lessons were particularly helpful in this area, because he had shown me that true [[weakness]] is one who is submissive to [[ego]]--not God. True weakness is one who is ruled by the desires of the flesh--not striving for [[self-mastery]]. True weakness was one who normally hides from God, but calls for Him when in peril. |
| − | Machiventa taught me that real strength laid in releasing all that you think you want and need. Real strength comes from freedom, the freedom to experience and grow as you will, the freedom to make mistakes without worry of the penalty you will pay or others personal opinions of you. True freedom resides in trusting that spiritual Overseer who can and will do all things. | + | [[Machiventa]] taught me that real [[strength]] laid in releasing all that you think you want and need. Real strength comes from [[freedom]], the freedom to experience and [[grow]] as you will, the freedom to make mistakes without [[worry]] of the penalty you will pay or others personal [[opinions]] of you. True freedom resides in [[trusting]] that spiritual Overseer who can and will do all things. |
| − | + | ===='''''[[Judgment]]'''''==== | |
| − | Do mortals allow one another to grow and experience as they will without placing judgment? Can you come to a place where you are free from living your life according to others opinions of you, or can your energy be more productive rather than living up to somebody else's ideals of how life should be lived? | + | Do mortals allow one another to [[grow]] and [[experience]] as they will without placing [[judgment]]? Can you come to a place where you are free from living your life according to others [[opinions]] of you, or can your energy be more productive rather than living up to somebody else's [[ideals]] of how life should be lived? |
| − | At this time of purification personal unpleasantries may appear, and yes, you probably will be judged by your peers. Do you become burdened by feelings of unworth and live your life according to your fellows standards? In whom are you indebted to? Who do you serve? Who holds the key to your freedom? | + | At this time of [[purification]] personal unpleasantries may appear, and yes, you probably will be judged by your [[peers]]. Do you become [[burdened]] by feelings of unworth and live your life according to your fellows standards? In whom are you indebted to? Who do you serve? Who holds the key to your freedom? |
| − | Human | + | [[Human being]]s cannot truly grow in the [[shadows]] of their fellows [[judgment]]. In the mortal life you will seldom [[escape]] this judgment from your peers. During this time of self-[[purification]] I am asking you to free yourself from others [[reflections]] of you to find your real selves. Allow Father to reflect to you who you are and are [[becoming]]--this is freedom, this is [[self-mastery]]. |
| − | I mean not to say take liberty without accountability. Be a responsible cosmic citizen, of course, but remember in whom you serve. Is there freedom in who you are serving? Yes. The time is drawing near, children, for this spiritual upstep. We are asking for your participation, for it is crucial in advancing toward Light and Life. | + | I mean not to say take [[liberty]] without [[accountability]]. Be a responsible [[cosmic citizen]], of course, but remember in whom you serve. Is there [[freedom]] in who you are serving? Yes. The time is drawing near, children, for this spiritual upstep. We are asking for your [[participation]], for it is crucial in advancing toward [[Light and Life]]. |
===Closing=== | ===Closing=== | ||
| − | No questions this evening. There is a great deal of work for all of us. Please know that I do truly love each one of you. That is all. Until next week, shalom. | + | No questions this evening. There is a great deal of work for all of us. Please know that I do truly [[love]] each one of you. That is all. Until next week, [[shalom]]. |
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Latest revision as of 12:49, 11 August 2013
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Topic: Spiritual Upstep
Group: Woods Cross TeaM
Facilitators
Teacher: Abraham
TR: Nina
Session
Opening
I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I am grateful to you each for your welcoming spirit here week after week, year after year. Your courage to walk with faith brings me here with a new lesson every week. You have seen me not with the eye of the flesh, but with the eyes of the spirit. I am thankful that you trust in this process of learning and growth.
Lesson
The Teachers
I am– you are, and therefore, we have experience. Being the varying personalities that we are, our experience will vary. In my position now I can allow you your experience, your outlook on the meaning of it without judgment. There was a time however that I was unable to envision others individualized experience, making them into who they were really supposed to be.
There was a time when my image meant everything to me. I craved respect and power, so therefore, I use fearful tactics to get what I desired. I measured my success through the eyes of others. If people revered me as a powerful warrior, then that meant I was successful. Most of my energy went into maintaining my image, my persona. Truthfully, this was personally quite fearful for me that I would be discovered for who I really was. Honestly, I was a fear-ridden individual who cared deeply about the opinions of others concerning myself.
My experience with Machiventa brought about slow and subtle changes within my thinking. I learned that I was quite bound by the shallow material life. I was bound by my own feelings of unworth. I was bound by exhausting all my energy toward projecting an image to others that made me feel I was a superior being. Slowly I had learned to allow Father into my life without the worry that He would take away the desires of my heart. At first in this state, I felt somewhat appearing to be weak and submissive. In all my years as Abraham, the respected and feared warrior, never did I want to be looked upon as weak.
Machiventa's lessons were particularly helpful in this area, because he had shown me that true weakness is one who is submissive to ego--not God. True weakness is one who is ruled by the desires of the flesh--not striving for self-mastery. True weakness was one who normally hides from God, but calls for Him when in peril.
Machiventa taught me that real strength laid in releasing all that you think you want and need. Real strength comes from freedom, the freedom to experience and grow as you will, the freedom to make mistakes without worry of the penalty you will pay or others personal opinions of you. True freedom resides in trusting that spiritual Overseer who can and will do all things.
Judgment
Do mortals allow one another to grow and experience as they will without placing judgment? Can you come to a place where you are free from living your life according to others opinions of you, or can your energy be more productive rather than living up to somebody else's ideals of how life should be lived?
At this time of purification personal unpleasantries may appear, and yes, you probably will be judged by your peers. Do you become burdened by feelings of unworth and live your life according to your fellows standards? In whom are you indebted to? Who do you serve? Who holds the key to your freedom?
Human beings cannot truly grow in the shadows of their fellows judgment. In the mortal life you will seldom escape this judgment from your peers. During this time of self-purification I am asking you to free yourself from others reflections of you to find your real selves. Allow Father to reflect to you who you are and are becoming--this is freedom, this is self-mastery.
I mean not to say take liberty without accountability. Be a responsible cosmic citizen, of course, but remember in whom you serve. Is there freedom in who you are serving? Yes. The time is drawing near, children, for this spiritual upstep. We are asking for your participation, for it is crucial in advancing toward Light and Life.
Closing
No questions this evening. There is a great deal of work for all of us. Please know that I do truly love each one of you. That is all. Until next week, shalom.
