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| ==Session== | | ==Session== |
| ===Opening=== | | ===Opening=== |
− | *Music: Dorenda playing, "[http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/In_the_Garden/ In the Garden]" | + | *Music: Dorenda playing, "[https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/In_the_Garden/ In the Garden]" |
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| TOMAS: Good afternoon. I am Tomas. I am [[proud]] to be here in your midst today. You are beauteous blooms in the [[garden]] of the Master Gardener, the Creator of all [[truth, beauty, and goodness]]. I walk among you and see your beauty and my [[heart]] calls out to yours to [[embrace]] your spirit; thus we come together in a [[communion]] that gives rise to increased bonding of spirit fellowship. | | TOMAS: Good afternoon. I am Tomas. I am [[proud]] to be here in your midst today. You are beauteous blooms in the [[garden]] of the Master Gardener, the Creator of all [[truth, beauty, and goodness]]. I walk among you and see your beauty and my [[heart]] calls out to yours to [[embrace]] your spirit; thus we come together in a [[communion]] that gives rise to increased bonding of spirit fellowship. |
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| To love one another with a brotherly affection is the level of love possible for those who have not risen to a full [[appreciation]] of the limitations of mere [[brotherhood]], for how often are brothers and sisters engaged in countless acts of sibling [[rivalry]] and [[competition]] for Father's [[attentions]] and Mother's [[affections]]. But as you have a fatherly affection for all you know, and all you see, you bring with you into your environment the [[qualities]] of the [[nature of God]] which are not [[jealous]], not judgmental, but a [[reflection]] of infinite and [[divine]] love. | | To love one another with a brotherly affection is the level of love possible for those who have not risen to a full [[appreciation]] of the limitations of mere [[brotherhood]], for how often are brothers and sisters engaged in countless acts of sibling [[rivalry]] and [[competition]] for Father's [[attentions]] and Mother's [[affections]]. But as you have a fatherly affection for all you know, and all you see, you bring with you into your environment the [[qualities]] of the [[nature of God]] which are not [[jealous]], not judgmental, but a [[reflection]] of infinite and [[divine]] love. |
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− | That may seem like an impossible [[challenge]], and yet it is entirely possible for you to know [[the Father]] and to feel such affinity with Him, that He will enable you to [[represent]] Him in the world as you pass by, much as He has [[manifested]] Himselves in the lives of other great and humble men and women of God. | + | That may seem like an impossible [[challenge]], and yet it is entirely possible for you to know [[the Father]] and to feel such affinity with Him, that He will enable you to [[represent]] Him in the world as you pass by, much as He has [[manifested]] Himself in the lives of other great and humble men and women of God. |
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| The final quality of [[Fatherhood]] I'd like to pause for a moment to [[appreciate]], is the [[nature of God]] that envelops even those [[rebellious]] sons and [[adventurous]] [[youth]] who would turn their back on His plans and [[dreams]] for the sons' best interests, and who does not [[alienate]] Himself, but holds himself open to [[receive]] his wayward offspring and [[embrace]] them even before they think to return [[home]] to his bosom. How [[forgiving]] the Father seems from our [[perspective]], but from the divine point of view, the lost sheep are simply that - and thus he sends those of us who will, into the field to aid the [[Good Shepherd]] in finding the lost sheep, in embracing them back into the fold of the Father's love and the Mother's family. | | The final quality of [[Fatherhood]] I'd like to pause for a moment to [[appreciate]], is the [[nature of God]] that envelops even those [[rebellious]] sons and [[adventurous]] [[youth]] who would turn their back on His plans and [[dreams]] for the sons' best interests, and who does not [[alienate]] Himself, but holds himself open to [[receive]] his wayward offspring and [[embrace]] them even before they think to return [[home]] to his bosom. How [[forgiving]] the Father seems from our [[perspective]], but from the divine point of view, the lost sheep are simply that - and thus he sends those of us who will, into the field to aid the [[Good Shepherd]] in finding the lost sheep, in embracing them back into the fold of the Father's love and the Mother's family. |
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− | Happy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father's_Day Father's Day] to all of you. Let us all lift our [[voice]] in [[praise]] and [[thanksgiving]] of the Father of all who has created such a wondrous universe that we might [[experience]] life and [[share]] the [[creative]] nature with Him. | + | Happy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father's_Day Father's Day] to all of you. Let us all lift our [[voice]] in [[praise]] and [[thanksgiving]] of the Father of all who has created such a wondrous universe that we might [[experience]] life and [[share]] the [[creative]] nature with Him. |
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| Indeed, He has [[prepared]] a feast for us today! I behold your [[personality]] [[presence]] in this [[configuration]] and yearn to reach out to touch you all as [[the Father]] has and come to know you better. In this way our [[family]] is embellished and emboldened to go forth in [[confidence]] of our kinship in [[spirit]] reality. How are you all this afternoon? How can we engage one another in [[communication]] and communion to the greater delight of us all? | | Indeed, He has [[prepared]] a feast for us today! I behold your [[personality]] [[presence]] in this [[configuration]] and yearn to reach out to touch you all as [[the Father]] has and come to know you better. In this way our [[family]] is embellished and emboldened to go forth in [[confidence]] of our kinship in [[spirit]] reality. How are you all this afternoon? How can we engage one another in [[communication]] and communion to the greater delight of us all? |
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| ===Dialogue=== | | ===Dialogue=== |
| ELENA: Tomas, you know me. I usually am the first one to pipe up. I just wanted to make sure that you were introduced to some new people who are here, and I'll just go from my right, around, but I wanted to introduce Carrie and Aaron. I wanted to welcome them and I'm just so glad that they're here. Of course, you remember Emily. And then Barrie and Rianna. I wanted to welcome them to the group, too. So… mother usually does that but she's not here so I thought I'd do the [[honors]] of that. So I hope Carl and Janet don't mind me doing that, but I wanted to introduce them to you and to [[welcome]] them. | | ELENA: Tomas, you know me. I usually am the first one to pipe up. I just wanted to make sure that you were introduced to some new people who are here, and I'll just go from my right, around, but I wanted to introduce Carrie and Aaron. I wanted to welcome them and I'm just so glad that they're here. Of course, you remember Emily. And then Barrie and Rianna. I wanted to welcome them to the group, too. So… mother usually does that but she's not here so I thought I'd do the [[honors]] of that. So I hope Carl and Janet don't mind me doing that, but I wanted to introduce them to you and to [[welcome]] them. |
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| THOROAH: Thank you, Tomas. This is from our friend John whose [[wife]] and [[family]] we met last weekend. They are going to be coming down occasionally. They couldn't make it today, but while discussing that with him, I mentioned to him that I talked to you and you said there was no [[problem]] if they couldn't make it today, so I think John half took me serious. I had to [[explain]] to him that I hadn't really talked to you but you had probably talked to his [[Thought Adjuster]], so he got all kinds of interest out of that, and he wrote back: | | THOROAH: Thank you, Tomas. This is from our friend John whose [[wife]] and [[family]] we met last weekend. They are going to be coming down occasionally. They couldn't make it today, but while discussing that with him, I mentioned to him that I talked to you and you said there was no [[problem]] if they couldn't make it today, so I think John half took me serious. I had to [[explain]] to him that I hadn't really talked to you but you had probably talked to his [[Thought Adjuster]], so he got all kinds of interest out of that, and he wrote back: |
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− | "Has Tomas given the name of his [[home]] [[planet]]? I'm wondering what it's called." He goes on. "If he has met our [[Adjusters]], has he been here?" (To [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico Los Alamos], where John and Suzanne live.) "Or does he actually have to make the trip? I do believe it's possible. I've just not had the [[experience]] of overtly [[conscious]] contact with any being, even my [[Thought Adjuster]]. I have had some pretty incredible personal experiences. But they happen infrequently. I don't have experience with fully conscious, at-will [[communications]] with spirit guides. So that is why the questions. Thanks in advance for any insight." | + | "Has Tomas given the name of his [[home]] [[planet]]? I'm wondering what it's called." He goes on. "If he has met our [[Adjusters]], has he been here?" (To [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico Los Alamos], where John and Suzanne live.) "Or does he actually have to make the trip? I do believe it's possible. I've just not had the [[experience]] of overtly [[conscious]] contact with any being, even my [[Thought Adjuster]]. I have had some pretty incredible personal experiences. But they happen infrequently. I don't have experience with fully conscious, at-will [[communications]] with spirit guides. So that is why the questions. Thanks in advance for any insight." |
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| I didn't pretend to give him any [[insight]], Tomas. I thought I'd let you handle it. | | I didn't pretend to give him any [[insight]], Tomas. I thought I'd let you handle it. |
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| You are a brother in the [[spirit]], John, and these are your brothers and sisters and your [[consciousness]] of your spirit kin will increase as your [[desire]] to know [[the Father]] increases, and you will then have [[opportunity]] to [[practice]] your Fatherly skills and divine [[affection]] in the arena of your [[mortal]] life, and that will include these fellows who regard you already as one with them. | | You are a brother in the [[spirit]], John, and these are your brothers and sisters and your [[consciousness]] of your spirit kin will increase as your [[desire]] to know [[the Father]] increases, and you will then have [[opportunity]] to [[practice]] your Fatherly skills and divine [[affection]] in the arena of your [[mortal]] life, and that will include these fellows who regard you already as one with them. |
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− | I have been to what you would call [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico Los Alamos], but my sense of geographic [[boundaries]] are not the same [as yours]. I have been to all your [[homes]], so to speak, because I am working with your [[presences]]. I don't pay much attention to your physical dwelling places. I am interested in the [[light]] that you are. But there are others who are interested in your [[environment]], and often attend to you in your home environments. The various orders of [[angels]] having a great influence over the [[midwayers]] - those beings who are midway between men and angels - who are your closest spirit cousins, who [[interact]] with you in your lives, even now, and of which you are largely unaware. | + | I have been to what you would call [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico Los Alamos], but my sense of geographic [[boundaries]] are not the same [as yours]. I have been to all your [[homes]], so to speak, because I am working with your [[presences]]. I don't pay much attention to your physical dwelling places. I am interested in the [[light]] that you are. But there are others who are interested in your [[environment]], and often attend to you in your home environments. The various orders of [[angels]] having a great influence over the [[midwayers]] - those beings who are midway between men and angels - who are your closest spirit cousins, who [[interact]] with you in your lives, even now, and of which you are largely unaware. |
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| But this is what I wanted to come back to. The [[fact]] that [[the universe]] is astir with [[life]], and as you allow yourself to begin to [[perceive]] through spirit eyes, as [[Jesus]] admonished his followers to see with eyes to see and to hear with ears to hear, you become aware of another [[dimension]] of living reality, and this dimension is filled with celestial guides and [[ministering spirits]] and [[messenger hosts]], many of whom are exclusively devoted to your upbringing as extensions of [[the Father]], as we hope to instill in you a similar sense of your Selves that will radiate out into your environment and reinforce the [[reality of God]] in the [[material world]] as well. | | But this is what I wanted to come back to. The [[fact]] that [[the universe]] is astir with [[life]], and as you allow yourself to begin to [[perceive]] through spirit eyes, as [[Jesus]] admonished his followers to see with eyes to see and to hear with ears to hear, you become aware of another [[dimension]] of living reality, and this dimension is filled with celestial guides and [[ministering spirits]] and [[messenger hosts]], many of whom are exclusively devoted to your upbringing as extensions of [[the Father]], as we hope to instill in you a similar sense of your Selves that will radiate out into your environment and reinforce the [[reality of God]] in the [[material world]] as well. |
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− | Having a [[knowledge]] of the [[spirit]] influences as extensions of [[divinity]], as appropriate and divinely decreed orders of beings who administrate and minister to [[the worlds]] of [[time and space]], as [[seraphim]] and other entities do and have done since the beginning of [[the universe]], often you forget yourself. Although most of you live [[quiet]] lives, unaware of how much the Father does indeed [[penetrate]] into the lives of the material beings, how much His influence prevails in the material world, you are occasionally made aware of another level of reality. A door of [[perception]] will open affording you a peek of a | + | Having a [[knowledge]] of the [[spirit]] influences as extensions of [[divinity]], as appropriate and divinely decreed orders of beings who administrate and minister to [[the worlds]] of [[time and space]], as [[seraphim]] and other entities do and have done since the beginning of [[the universe]], often you forget yourself. Although most of you live [[quiet]] lives, unaware of how much the Father does indeed [[penetrate]] into the lives of the material beings, how much His influence prevails in the material world, you are occasionally made aware of another level of reality. A door of [[perception]] will open affording you a peek. |
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| Many [[minds]] have that moment and abruptly close the door and never seek to open it, and there are those who are positively [[haunted]] by the [[memory]] and restlessly seek to regain entrance to that door of [[perception]] that will give them a greater [[glimpse]] into the wonders of [[Grand Universe|the greater universe]]. There are indeed those who have sought and found these new dimensions and have made themselves quite at [[home]] therein, and they have, in many ways, found the greater [[reality]] to be the true reality and the material reality now is a mere [[shadow]] of that wherein they dwell. | | Many [[minds]] have that moment and abruptly close the door and never seek to open it, and there are those who are positively [[haunted]] by the [[memory]] and restlessly seek to regain entrance to that door of [[perception]] that will give them a greater [[glimpse]] into the wonders of [[Grand Universe|the greater universe]]. There are indeed those who have sought and found these new dimensions and have made themselves quite at [[home]] therein, and they have, in many ways, found the greater [[reality]] to be the true reality and the material reality now is a mere [[shadow]] of that wherein they dwell. |
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| Our [[language]] was different, obviously, by far, on my world. We had evolved different [[sounds]] and the name of the world itself would be foreign to your ears, perhaps, but I can tell you that my home world was under the [[guidance]] of our original [[Material Son and Daughter]], our planetary [[Adam and Eve]]. And I lived at a time when they had managed to civilize a great percentage of the globe. Outside the land masses were other lesser evolved [[tribes]], lacking in [[civility]] and [[grace]]. By comparison our country (you would say) was highly evolved. | | Our [[language]] was different, obviously, by far, on my world. We had evolved different [[sounds]] and the name of the world itself would be foreign to your ears, perhaps, but I can tell you that my home world was under the [[guidance]] of our original [[Material Son and Daughter]], our planetary [[Adam and Eve]]. And I lived at a time when they had managed to civilize a great percentage of the globe. Outside the land masses were other lesser evolved [[tribes]], lacking in [[civility]] and [[grace]]. By comparison our country (you would say) was highly evolved. |
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− | I had a [[wife]]. Her name was Janus. We had four sons. I was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology Cultural Anthropologist]. I studied the peoples on the outside and brought back information that was used to lend a hand in attempts to civilize and uplift those more [[primitive]] and rather [[barbaric]] peoples, but I found them also to be [[fascinating]] and oddly endearing. My planet might be compared to a word you would understand as ''Almaria''. The name of my home world was Almaria, as your home world is [[Urantia]]. | + | I had a [[wife]]. Her name was Janus. We had four sons. I was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology Cultural Anthropologist]. I studied the peoples on the outside and brought back information that was used to lend a hand in attempts to civilize and uplift those more [[primitive]] and rather [[barbaric]] peoples, but I found them also to be [[fascinating]] and oddly endearing. My planet might be compared to a word you would understand as ''Almaria''. The name of my home world was Almaria, as your home world is [[Urantia]]. |
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| Our planet had not yet had a visit from an [[Avonal Son]]. It would obviously not be the [[Creator Son]]. The Creator Son had chosen to come to [[Urantia]] for his [[final bestowal]], but those [[other worlds]] in a universe that do not get to host the [[Creator Son]], have the opportunity to experience an Avonal Son, and he had not yet arrived by the time I made my way out of the flesh and began my [[ascent]] through the [[mansion worlds]]. So in effect, my world was much younger than your world, but it was in a way more advanced because it had not suffered from the [[Lucifer Rebellion]], it was not isolated, and our Adam and Eve had not defaulted. That perhaps gives you some background on my [[human]] [[experience]]. | | Our planet had not yet had a visit from an [[Avonal Son]]. It would obviously not be the [[Creator Son]]. The Creator Son had chosen to come to [[Urantia]] for his [[final bestowal]], but those [[other worlds]] in a universe that do not get to host the [[Creator Son]], have the opportunity to experience an Avonal Son, and he had not yet arrived by the time I made my way out of the flesh and began my [[ascent]] through the [[mansion worlds]]. So in effect, my world was much younger than your world, but it was in a way more advanced because it had not suffered from the [[Lucifer Rebellion]], it was not isolated, and our Adam and Eve had not defaulted. That perhaps gives you some background on my [[human]] [[experience]]. |
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| RIANNA: Tomas, this is Rianna. I just wanted to say as a comment: thank you so much for [[explaining]] the [[nature of God]] [[the Father]] in the first part of your lesson. I really appreciated that so much. And I feel that [[essence]] of the [[presence]] in me Very Big and Colorful right now. And I also have to say this human [[body]] wants to get up and use the bathroom, so I think I need to take you up on that invitation to stretch and move. | | RIANNA: Tomas, this is Rianna. I just wanted to say as a comment: thank you so much for [[explaining]] the [[nature of God]] [[the Father]] in the first part of your lesson. I really appreciated that so much. And I feel that [[essence]] of the [[presence]] in me Very Big and Colorful right now. And I also have to say this human [[body]] wants to get up and use the bathroom, so I think I need to take you up on that invitation to stretch and move. |
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− | TOMAS: Yes, Rianna, I have been [[expecting]] this. (Group giggles) However, I am so glad for you, daughter, to have come forth and acknowledged your divine Source and to [[reveal]] Him to us in this we may [[honor]] [[the Father]] in you and it then may acknowledge the Father-like presence of God in each here. Let's party. (Group laughter) | + | TOMAS: Yes, Rianna, I have been [[expecting]] this. (Group giggles) However, I am so glad for you, daughter, to have come forth and acknowledged your divine Source and to [[reveal]] Him to us in this we may [[honor]] [[the Father]] in you and it then may acknowledge the Father-like presence of God in each here. Let's party. (Group laughter) |
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| ===Closing=== | | ===Closing=== |
| I [[reveal]] my love to you as you reveal your love to each other. Go in [[peace]]. See you next time. Farewell. | | I [[reveal]] my love to you as you reveal your love to each other. Go in [[peace]]. See you next time. Farewell. |