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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Music:  Elena on Piano: “[http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/455 The Fruit of All Creation]”

Music:  Elena on Piano: “[https://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/455 The Fruit of All Creation]”

Prayer: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the [[presence]] of [[Jesus]], the Christ.

Prayer: (Matthew) Let us place ourselves in the [[presence]] of [[Jesus]], the Christ.

There is never any reason to be smug about having [[knowledge]], but there is certainly allowance for acknowledging that which you know. That which comprises your [[comprehension]], for that is a part of your [[character]] and your [[personality]], which you have a right to have, and which you also have a right to develop, change, modify and [[adjust]] throughout [[eternity]] as a result of your continued [[accumulation]] of experiential [[wisdom]]. What each of you as [[Agondonters]] experience alone is, collectively, the [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]], and so you have no choice but to appreciate the contributions that others make toward the creation of the God of experience.

There is never any reason to be smug about having [[knowledge]], but there is certainly allowance for acknowledging that which you know. That which comprises your [[comprehension]], for that is a part of your [[character]] and your [[personality]], which you have a right to have, and which you also have a right to develop, change, modify and [[adjust]] throughout [[eternity]] as a result of your continued [[accumulation]] of experiential [[wisdom]]. What each of you as [[Agondonters]] experience alone is, collectively, the [[evolution]] of the [[Supreme]], and so you have no choice but to appreciate the contributions that others make toward the creation of the God of experience.

This week, in your [[culture]], you acknowledge a day of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving Thanksgiving]. It is certainly easy for you to see the obvious things, [[creature]] [[comforts]], and provisions that you have gained by your efforts and the [[grace]] of God, but there are realms of [[reality]] that are not so plain to see. Those are the experiential realms for which you may be truly thankful, in that they have brought you thus far in your [[journey]] and they will see you through to the next phase of your [[growth]].

This week, in your [[culture]], you acknowledge a day of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving Thanksgiving]. It is certainly easy for you to see the obvious things, [[creature]] [[comforts]], and provisions that you have gained by your efforts and the [[grace]] of God, but there are realms of [[reality]] that are not so plain to see. Those are the experiential realms for which you may be truly thankful, in that they have brought you thus far in your [[journey]] and they will see you through to the next phase of your [[growth]].

Therefore, when you [[convene]] this week to give thanks for that which you have, remember to give thanks also for the experiences, for the feast of [[opportunities]] that have been made available to you for your consumption, and nourish yourself on the [[value]] therein. In this way you will [[reflect]] on how your experience has helped [[formulate]] you into the human that you re, and these values, then, you will want to [[share]] as your [[legacy]] for those who follow you in the progression of [[time]] in [[eternity]].

Therefore, when you [[convene]] this week to give thanks for that which you have, remember to give thanks also for the experiences, for the feast of [[opportunities]] that have been made available to you for your consumption, and nourish yourself on the [[value]] therein. In this way you will [[reflect]] on how your experience has helped [[formulate]] you into the human that you re, and these values, then, you will want to [[share]] as your [[legacy]] for those who follow you in the progression of [[time]] in [[eternity]].

TOMAS: Anatolia and I as co-hosts invite you now to join with us in our [[discourse]] portion of the format that has been arranged to best suit the needs of this particular [[configuration]]. The floor is open. Are the questions or comments?

TOMAS: Anatolia and I as co-hosts invite you now to join with us in our [[discourse]] portion of the format that has been arranged to best suit the needs of this particular [[configuration]]. The floor is open. Are the questions or comments?

Thoroah: Something that came to my mind when you were speaking first, Tomas, and you made me think of being equipped with a divine [[guidance]] system, and I, in my mind, was making a comparison with pilots that fly and they have a [[guidance]] system and they use it in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautics aeronautics] a lot. And then Anatolia’s emphasizing our [[agondonter]] status. Indeed we are flying blind, on instruments, and that instrumentation is our divine guidance system. That was a vivid [[analogy]]. Thank you.

Thoroah: Something that came to my mind when you were speaking first, Tomas, and you made me think of being equipped with a divine [[guidance]] system, and I, in my mind, was making a comparison with pilots that fly and they have a [[guidance]] system and they use it in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautics aeronautics] a lot. And then Anatolia’s emphasizing our [[agondonter]] status. Indeed we are flying blind, on instruments, and that instrumentation is our divine guidance system. That was a vivid [[analogy]]. Thank you.

===='''''[[Destiny]]'''''====

===='''''[[Destiny]]'''''====

TOMAS: And thank you for the springboard to [[discussion]]. Yet I am given to understand that there are ways and means by which you are enabled to [[prepare]] your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern flight pattern] before take-off, even in your [[spiritual]] [[ascent]].

TOMAS: And thank you for the springboard to [[discussion]]. Yet I am given to understand that there are ways and means by which you are enabled to [[prepare]] your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern flight pattern] before take-off, even in your [[spiritual]] [[ascent]].

The various images and mental impressions that come to you in [[dreams]] or [[visions]] which [[persist]], which provide a pattern for you, which stir your [[curiosity]] or your investigative nature, are often a result of the [[Thought Adjuster]] prompting you to pursue your unique [[journey]].

The various images and mental impressions that come to you in [[dreams]] or [[visions]] which [[persist]], which provide a pattern for you, which stir your [[curiosity]] or your investigative nature, are often a result of the [[Thought Adjuster]] prompting you to pursue your unique [[journey]].

TOMAS: Other questions? Comments?

TOMAS: Other questions? Comments?

Men-O-Pah: I am reasonably sure that you don’t know where our [[path]] will lead. It seems that I have no real words of my own to give [[expression]] to this, but I’m always quoting lines from things that I’ve read. One of the more recent ones was an anthem that was in [[church]], after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_spiritual Negro spiritual style], the title of which was, “[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FQqSGxBso When I went down to the water to pray], [[thinking]] about that good old way, how you gave us [[eternal]] life, Dear Lord show me the way.”

Men-O-Pah: I am reasonably sure that you don’t know where our [[path]] will lead. It seems that I have no real words of my own to give [[expression]] to this, but I’m always quoting lines from things that I’ve read. One of the more recent ones was an anthem that was in [[church]], after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_spiritual Negro spiritual style], the title of which was, “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FQqSGxBso When I went down to the water to pray], [[thinking]] about that good old way, how you gave us [[eternal]] life, Dear Lord show me the way.”

And the lines that I quoted to this group some time ago from ''[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16148 Ode to a Waterfowl]''. They had that uncanny ability to fly from the northern part of the world down to the south where it’s warm, as the lines say: “He who from zone to zone [[guides]] through the boundless [[sky]] thy certain flight, in the long way that I must tread [[alone]], will guide my steps aright.”

And the lines that I quoted to this group some time ago from ''[https://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16148 Ode to a Waterfowl]''. They had that uncanny ability to fly from the northern part of the world down to the south where it’s warm, as the lines say: “He who from zone to zone [[guides]] through the boundless [[sky]] thy certain flight, in the long way that I must tread [[alone]], will guide my steps aright.”

And from the old hymn, “Lead kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. The night is [[dark]] and I am far from [[home]]. Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet. I do not ask to see the distant scene. One step enough for me.”

And from the old hymn, “Lead kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. The night is [[dark]] and I am far from [[home]]. Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet. I do not ask to see the distant scene. One step enough for me.”

===='''''[[Forgiveness]]'''''====

===='''''[[Forgiveness]]'''''====

Men-O-Pah: We had the good fortune today to listen to a missionary who had been to not far from here, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas_conflict Chiapas, Mexico], where just a few years ago there was a [[massacre]], and she drew the parallel between that situation and the time of our Lord [[Jesus]], the time that he lived and his upsetting the apple cart of those around him. They were afraid that they were going to lose everything that the had and probably would have if they had to go and there were some 45 people down there, women and children and others who were massacred. And the thing that struck me most, that finally now those people who suffered at, actually, the hand of their [[neighbors]] have found it in their [[hearts]] to forgive them. Such things give me a great deal of [[hope]] that we really are moving up.

Men-O-Pah: We had the good fortune today to listen to a missionary who had been to not far from here, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas_conflict Chiapas, Mexico], where just a few years ago there was a [[massacre]], and she drew the parallel between that situation and the time of our Lord [[Jesus]], the time that he lived and his upsetting the apple cart of those around him. They were afraid that they were going to lose everything that the had and probably would have if they had to go and there were some 45 people down there, women and children and others who were massacred. And the thing that struck me most, that finally now those people who suffered at, actually, the hand of their [[neighbors]] have found it in their [[hearts]] to forgive them. Such things give me a great deal of [[hope]] that we really are moving up.

TOMAS: Yes, this thing about [[forgiveness]] is beginning to bear fruit. The awareness of the beneficial effects of forgiveness, even from those [[experiences]] as far-reaching and devastating as the [[Lucifer rebellion]], have garnered you who have suffered after it, a [[greatness]] which is far from being understood by those greater than yourselves who cannot yet [[conceive]] of how the [[oppressed]] can forgive the oppressor and enjoy complete [[freedom]] from the oppressor as a result.

TOMAS: Yes, this thing about [[forgiveness]] is beginning to bear fruit. The awareness of the beneficial effects of forgiveness, even from those [[experiences]] as far-reaching and devastating as the [[Lucifer rebellion]], have garnered you who have suffered after it, a [[greatness]] which is far from being understood by those greater than yourselves who cannot yet [[conceive]] of how the [[oppressed]] can forgive the oppressor and enjoy complete [[freedom]] from the oppressor as a result.

This is the nature of the spiritual [[freedom]] which [[Jesus]] came here to instill in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere. It is on the heels of the [[vicissitudes]] of human [[existence]] that the divine shall rise like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29 Phoenix] from the ashes, as you are rising in [[your soul]] brightness into the [[destiny]] you are created to own.

This is the nature of the spiritual [[freedom]] which [[Jesus]] came here to instill in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere. It is on the heels of the [[vicissitudes]] of human [[existence]] that the divine shall rise like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29 Phoenix] from the ashes, as you are rising in [[your soul]] brightness into the [[destiny]] you are created to own.

We indeed have a repast here to savor and enjoy. The [[abundance]] that spills forth from this [[cornucopia]] of believers here is truly a [[blessing]] upon your realm. Blessed be art thou, indeed.

We indeed have a repast here to savor and enjoy. The [[abundance]] that spills forth from this [[cornucopia]] of believers here is truly a [[blessing]] upon your realm. Blessed be art thou, indeed.