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UNNAMED VISITOR:  Choirs of angels are singing.  Celebrating existence.  

UNNAMED VISITOR:  Choirs of angels are singing.  Celebrating existence.  

   

   

[[Welcome]] all of you to this [[configuration]] of [[students]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 ministering hosts of space], including the [[Teachers]] you have come to know and [[love]] and any other [[personalities]] and [[influences]] that impact upon your [[mind]] and your spirit so as to induce you to [[choose]] to advance in [[cosmic consciousness]].  This cosmic [[consciousness]] is not merely related to [[cosmology]], but also to your increasing [[reality]], your [[morontia]]l reality – that aspect of you that will live beyond the [[mortal]] life, that which makes you real in a [[celestial]] sense.

[[Welcome]] all of you to this [[configuration]] of [[students]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_25 ministering hosts of space], including the [[Teachers]] you have come to know and [[love]] and any other [[personalities]] and [[influences]] that impact upon your [[mind]] and your spirit so as to induce you to [[choose]] to advance in [[cosmic consciousness]].  This cosmic [[consciousness]] is not merely related to [[cosmology]], but also to your increasing [[reality]], your [[morontia]]l reality – that aspect of you that will live beyond the [[mortal]] life, that which makes you real in a [[celestial]] sense.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Sometimes, too, you find yourself stuck.  Which way to turn? Which way to go? Which [[choice]] to make? Which car to buy?  Which path to take? Which [[friend]] to [[develop]]? Which [[philosophy]] to adopt?  These are the [[adventures]] that are spoken of; the deciding is part of the [[process]].  Your [[free will]] is what gives you those [[options]], and you get to [[experience]] the effects of your own [[cause]].  In this way you become [[educated]].  

Sometimes, too, you find yourself stuck.  Which way to turn? Which way to go? Which [[choice]] to make? Which car to buy?  Which path to take? Which [[friend]] to [[develop]]? Which [[philosophy]] to adopt?  These are the [[adventures]] that are spoken of; the deciding is part of the [[process]].  Your [[free will]] is what gives you those [[options]], and you get to [[experience]] the effects of your own [[cause]].  In this way you become [[educated]].  

===='''''[[Experience]]'''''====

===='''''[[Experience]]'''''====

You [[educate]] yourself in the ways of the world and in the ways of the [[universe]] – [[experientially]]!  The experiential path is surely one of the most [[adventurous]] in all of [[creation]].  And I stress this point as I remind you that there are many, many [[forms]] of life which are created in such a way as to not have these [[choices]], not have the [[options]] that you have.  The bulk of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolving worlds] are like a [[control]] [[planet]].  Nine out of ten are fairly well [[established]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE one out of ten], such as yours, is [[experimental]], which gives rise to so many more [[options]]. Sometimes it is almost as if you have too many [[choices]] to make.  You become [[paralyzed]] by the many options available, to the point where you cannot make a [[choice]] at all.

You [[educate]] yourself in the ways of the world and in the ways of the [[universe]] – [[experientially]]!  The experiential path is surely one of the most [[adventurous]] in all of [[creation]].  And I stress this point as I remind you that there are many, many [[forms]] of life which are created in such a way as to not have these [[choices]], not have the [[options]] that you have.  The bulk of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolving worlds] are like a [[control]] [[planet]].  Nine out of ten are fairly well [[established]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE one out of ten], such as yours, is [[experimental]], which gives rise to so many more [[options]]. Sometimes it is almost as if you have too many [[choices]] to make.  You become [[paralyzed]] by the many options available, to the point where you cannot make a [[choice]] at all.

   

   

What is my point?  It is to [[celebrate]] your [[being]].  Celebrate the [[options]] and the [[opportunities]] -- the opportunities to make mistakes and [[learn]] from those mistakes, to learn from your mistakes so as to set an example through your own acquired [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]. The [[fact]] of [[experience]] is respected throughout the [[intelligent]] [[universe]], even though it is often overlooked on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolving worlds], particularly those during their [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#PAPER_52:_PLANETARY_MORTAL_EPOCHS early phases] or their periods of rebelliousness … not necessarily [[rebellion]] such as you are  familiar with [[Lucifer]], but rebelliousness as in [[youth]].  The young often defy the [[status quo]] simply as a part of their need to find their own way, even as toddlers will often put down their foot and say “No!” as if they had [[authority]], because they are finding their way and [[developing]] their [[Free will|will]].

What is my point?  It is to [[celebrate]] your [[being]].  Celebrate the [[options]] and the [[opportunities]] -- the opportunities to make mistakes and [[learn]] from those mistakes, to learn from your mistakes so as to set an example through your own acquired [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]. The [[fact]] of [[experience]] is respected throughout the [[intelligent]] [[universe]], even though it is often overlooked on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolving worlds], particularly those during their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#PAPER_52:_PLANETARY_MORTAL_EPOCHS early phases] or their periods of rebelliousness … not necessarily [[rebellion]] such as you are  familiar with [[Lucifer]], but rebelliousness as in [[youth]].  The young often defy the [[status quo]] simply as a part of their need to find their own way, even as toddlers will often put down their foot and say “No!” as if they had [[authority]], because they are finding their way and [[developing]] their [[Free will|will]].

   

   

The [[privilege]] of [[free will]] is a great [[gift]]. The [[opportunity]] to [[exercise]] that will is a tremendous [[power]]. How you utilize your will has long-range [[effects]], not only on your life but on the lives of others, for as you surely know by now, you are all [[connected]]. You all benefit from each others’ [[good]] and you all suffer from each others’ lack.  In a [[perfect]] world, this would be a [[cause]] for [[compassion]] and [[camaraderie]], but it seems here it gives rise to a great deal of [[competition]] and strife.  

The [[privilege]] of [[free will]] is a great [[gift]]. The [[opportunity]] to [[exercise]] that will is a tremendous [[power]]. How you utilize your will has long-range [[effects]], not only on your life but on the lives of others, for as you surely know by now, you are all [[connected]]. You all benefit from each others’ [[good]] and you all suffer from each others’ lack.  In a [[perfect]] world, this would be a [[cause]] for [[compassion]] and [[camaraderie]], but it seems here it gives rise to a great deal of [[competition]] and strife.  

It is rather like moving, relocating, or remodeling.  You get into a [[routine]], and [[circumstances]] [[conspire]] to [[change]] your [[outlook]].  And making the [[choice]], then, you need to go through certain [[machinations]] in order to bring those [[changes]] about. They can be laborious, and many times you will [[wonder]] why you have opted to change when it was working so well before. But then you take a [[moment]] to pause, and regain your [[strength]], and you [[persevere]] in [[faith]] that it is a [[good]] change, and [[eventually]] you find yourself in the new [[environment]], in the new [[paradigm]], in the new [[belief]], in the new [[dimension]], and it  becomes your [[home]], it becomes your [[comfort]] zone, it becomes the place then where you [[function]] and find your [[joy]] --ever advancing, ever uplifting, ever refreshing, leaving behind that which no longer serves --grasping on to that which awaits you, all in due time, all in [[good]] [[course]].  

It is rather like moving, relocating, or remodeling.  You get into a [[routine]], and [[circumstances]] [[conspire]] to [[change]] your [[outlook]].  And making the [[choice]], then, you need to go through certain [[machinations]] in order to bring those [[changes]] about. They can be laborious, and many times you will [[wonder]] why you have opted to change when it was working so well before. But then you take a [[moment]] to pause, and regain your [[strength]], and you [[persevere]] in [[faith]] that it is a [[good]] change, and [[eventually]] you find yourself in the new [[environment]], in the new [[paradigm]], in the new [[belief]], in the new [[dimension]], and it  becomes your [[home]], it becomes your [[comfort]] zone, it becomes the place then where you [[function]] and find your [[joy]] --ever advancing, ever uplifting, ever refreshing, leaving behind that which no longer serves --grasping on to that which awaits you, all in due time, all in [[good]] [[course]].  

   

   

Yes, the motto of your [[movement]] has been “[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_To_General_Council-1992-02-01 Welcome to Change]” and [[change]] will [[continue]] and you will continue to [[appreciate]] what changes you will make and what changes you will not make and why.  You will begin to be able to put your [[conscious]] [[power]] into changes for others and changes for your world by prayerful [[application]], [[meditation]], and [[thought]].   

Yes, the motto of your [[movement]] has been “[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_To_General_Council-1992-02-01 Welcome to Change]” and [[change]] will [[continue]] and you will continue to [[appreciate]] what changes you will make and what changes you will not make and why.  You will begin to be able to put your [[conscious]] [[power]] into changes for others and changes for your world by prayerful [[application]], [[meditation]], and [[thought]].   

   

   

And you can do this because you have become [[experienced]].  You no longer need to deal with so many of the trivial [[things]] that were [[necessary]] for you to learn to walk and step out the first time and the third time and the eighth time, for now you have done it so many times you can’t count, and you know that the results will be [[effective]] before you make a mistake and go too far into the wrong direction.  This is acquired [[wisdom]], experiential wisdom.  It is so good to see you [[develop]] some, to gain [[confidence]] in this [[fact]], and to see you also looking for yet more [[wisdom]], rather than [[assuming]] you have already acquired all the answers and have no need for further [[development]].  

And you can do this because you have become [[experienced]].  You no longer need to deal with so many of the trivial [[things]] that were [[necessary]] for you to learn to walk and step out the first time and the third time and the eighth time, for now you have done it so many times you can’t count, and you know that the results will be [[effective]] before you make a mistake and go too far into the wrong direction.  This is acquired [[wisdom]], experiential wisdom.  It is so good to see you [[develop]] some, to gain [[confidence]] in this [[fact]], and to see you also looking for yet more [[wisdom]], rather than [[assuming]] you have already acquired all the answers and have no need for further [[development]].  

TOMAS:        You do well.  It is [[good]] to [[share]] what you have learned.  This is a basic principle -- Pass it On -- to give out what you have received. This also provides an [[option]] to share and receive [[feed-back]] from your [[society]], your [[friends]], and give you a [[reality]] check on what you are [[transmitting]], to see if it may be [[wishful thinking]] or true [[mota]].  It also opens you to more.  When you hold it to yourself, you are blocking the path for new transmissions to come through.  And so, to put it in a repository where it can be shared with others is [[wise]] … and generous!  

TOMAS:        You do well.  It is [[good]] to [[share]] what you have learned.  This is a basic principle -- Pass it On -- to give out what you have received. This also provides an [[option]] to share and receive [[feed-back]] from your [[society]], your [[friends]], and give you a [[reality]] check on what you are [[transmitting]], to see if it may be [[wishful thinking]] or true [[mota]].  It also opens you to more.  When you hold it to yourself, you are blocking the path for new transmissions to come through.  And so, to put it in a repository where it can be shared with others is [[wise]] … and generous!  

   

   

There are many who are not willing to do that because this is a very [[personal]] [[process]]; to some it is excruciatingly personal, and yet it need not be so personal as to preclude others from appreciating the same [[values]] that you are deriving. It is as if it were a gift in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_56_-_Final_Appearances_and_Ascension#The_Phoenician_Appearance Confiding Trust]. You are saying, “This is what my [[soul]] is experiencing and I am happy that my soul is experiencing this. Let me [[share]] with you my [[reality]], without [[shame]] and without [[pride]].”

There are many who are not willing to do that because this is a very [[personal]] [[process]]; to some it is excruciatingly personal, and yet it need not be so personal as to preclude others from appreciating the same [[values]] that you are deriving. It is as if it were a gift in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_56_-_Final_Appearances_and_Ascension#The_Phoenician_Appearance Confiding Trust]. You are saying, “This is what my [[soul]] is experiencing and I am happy that my soul is experiencing this. Let me [[share]] with you my [[reality]], without [[shame]] and without [[pride]].”

   

   

This enables you to walk among men with clear [[vision]], clear eyes, un-[[deceptive]], undiluted.  It will keep you [[young]], this [[process]], at least until you have found yourself [[ancient]] from your own [[wisdom]], but this will come later, after many moons. And the boyishness, the [[youth]] of your [[spirit]] will ever remain young, for you are still a beginner in your [[Ascension Career|paradise ascent]]. So enjoy yourself, George, and I do [[appreciate]] your [[conversations]] with me and with those others who avail themselves of your [[desire]] to know more about yourself and your [[relationship]] with the [[Creator]] of your [[universe]] and all [[universes]]. This is a [[wondrous]] [[thing]] upon which we all embark. We uphold each other in this.  I am pleased to call you my friend.

This enables you to walk among men with clear [[vision]], clear eyes, un-[[deceptive]], undiluted.  It will keep you [[young]], this [[process]], at least until you have found yourself [[ancient]] from your own [[wisdom]], but this will come later, after many moons. And the boyishness, the [[youth]] of your [[spirit]] will ever remain young, for you are still a beginner in your [[Ascension Career|paradise ascent]]. So enjoy yourself, George, and I do [[appreciate]] your [[conversations]] with me and with those others who avail themselves of your [[desire]] to know more about yourself and your [[relationship]] with the [[Creator]] of your [[universe]] and all [[universes]]. This is a [[wondrous]] [[thing]] upon which we all embark. We uphold each other in this.  I am pleased to call you my friend.

TOMAS:        I have to [[confess]], yes, it has affected you, but it is not irreparable.  And much of it is simply because of [[habit]].  If you were, for example, to be put in cold storage and frozen for 50,000 years and emerge, you would be frozen until you were thawed and your [[original]] [[pattern]] would return upon your thaw.  But for all that [[time]] that you were in an altered [[state]], or under unusual circumstances, even during the [[time]] that you are thawing, you are affected, your [[cells]] are affected, your [[DNA]] is affected.  Does this awkward [[analogy]] make any sense to you?

TOMAS:        I have to [[confess]], yes, it has affected you, but it is not irreparable.  And much of it is simply because of [[habit]].  If you were, for example, to be put in cold storage and frozen for 50,000 years and emerge, you would be frozen until you were thawed and your [[original]] [[pattern]] would return upon your thaw.  But for all that [[time]] that you were in an altered [[state]], or under unusual circumstances, even during the [[time]] that you are thawing, you are affected, your [[cells]] are affected, your [[DNA]] is affected.  Does this awkward [[analogy]] make any sense to you?

   

   

Because [[eventually]] your [[DNA]] gets back to where it was and where it should have been.  Still, it cannot be denied that it has been altered by the fooling around that was [[engaged]] in by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:4._THE_CALIGASTIA_ONE_HUNDRED_AFTER_REBELLION Caligastia 100].  That is not necessarily a bad thing.  The [[influence]] of [[Caligastia]] is much more [[social]] or [[mental]] than [[physical]], and [[DNA]] is a physical component.  We’re not worried about your [[DNA]].  We are worried about how you have been habituated to the [[Lucifer]] mentality, as it were, and when that is gone, when it is thawed out, as it were, when you are thoroughly warmed by the [[sun]], if you will, you will be [[whole]] and your [[body]]-[[mind]]-and-[[spirit]] will [[function]] at full [[capacity]].  

Because [[eventually]] your [[DNA]] gets back to where it was and where it should have been.  Still, it cannot be denied that it has been altered by the fooling around that was [[engaged]] in by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:4._THE_CALIGASTIA_ONE_HUNDRED_AFTER_REBELLION Caligastia 100].  That is not necessarily a bad thing.  The [[influence]] of [[Caligastia]] is much more [[social]] or [[mental]] than [[physical]], and [[DNA]] is a physical component.  We’re not worried about your [[DNA]].  We are worried about how you have been habituated to the [[Lucifer]] mentality, as it were, and when that is gone, when it is thawed out, as it were, when you are thoroughly warmed by the [[sun]], if you will, you will be [[whole]] and your [[body]]-[[mind]]-and-[[spirit]] will [[function]] at full [[capacity]].  

   

   

You were created with a [[plan]].  Your [[DNA]] was [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA implanted in the salubrious waters] at the time life was put here, far before the [[nefarious]] deeds [at the time] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66 first epochal revelation], and so that is what you have been [[created]] to be and that is what you will be, even though there may be a period of time in here where you are operating in an altered [[state]], a [[distorted]] condition.  The more you can work toward overcoming the [[negativity]] of 500,000 years of bad [[habits]], the better your [[chances]] are of tapping into your [[potential]]. [[Ultimately]] you will all come around and you will have gained in the [[process]] so in the long run it it’s nothing to worry about but it does require you to extend yourself and [[invest]] yourself in your own thaw, if you will.

You were created with a [[plan]].  Your [[DNA]] was [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA implanted in the salubrious waters] at the time life was put here, far before the [[nefarious]] deeds [at the time] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66 first epochal revelation], and so that is what you have been [[created]] to be and that is what you will be, even though there may be a period of time in here where you are operating in an altered [[state]], a [[distorted]] condition.  The more you can work toward overcoming the [[negativity]] of 500,000 years of bad [[habits]], the better your [[chances]] are of tapping into your [[potential]]. [[Ultimately]] you will all come around and you will have gained in the [[process]] so in the long run it it’s nothing to worry about but it does require you to extend yourself and [[invest]] yourself in your own thaw, if you will.

   

   

Are you familiar with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo sculptor Michelangelo]? (Yes.)  Michelangelo sculpted the four “[http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/6/305.full Unfinished Captives].”  He had a large piece of marble and these captives, these men, [[forms]] were like trapped inside the marble and he simply took away what didn’t belong there and the figures emerged from the marble as if they were [[physically]] pushing their way out of their bindings.  This is how it is with you.  You are literally pushing your way out of the confines and the bindings that were put upon you by the [[limitations]] set when the [[legacy]] came down and then exacerbated when [[Adam and Eve]] were unable to [[participate]] appropriately in the up-stepping that would have been beneficial to your plight.  

Are you familiar with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo sculptor Michelangelo]? (Yes.)  Michelangelo sculpted the four “[http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/6/305.full Unfinished Captives].”  He had a large piece of marble and these captives, these men, [[forms]] were like trapped inside the marble and he simply took away what didn’t belong there and the figures emerged from the marble as if they were [[physically]] pushing their way out of their bindings.  This is how it is with you.  You are literally pushing your way out of the confines and the bindings that were put upon you by the [[limitations]] set when the [[legacy]] came down and then exacerbated when [[Adam and Eve]] were unable to [[participate]] appropriately in the up-stepping that would have been beneficial to your plight.