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==Heading==
===Topic: '''''Power of Prayer'''''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Samuel|Teacher Samuel of Panoptia]]===
===TR: [[George Barnard]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Teacher Samuel: “Good morning all. This is your Teacher Samuel of [[Panoptia]] bringing you my greetings and the greetings from Elaine’s Teacher, [[Aaron]] of [[Urantia]], as well. Teacher Aaron was the bearer of the all-important papyrus scrolls of [[Moses]]’ time. I was an agricultural technician during the early [[Light and Life]] stages on Panoptia’s well-watered southern half of the twin continents. We, former [[mortals]], are both honored to be allowed to keep our [[fusion]] on hold to teach for a season and the subject this morning is ‘The Power of Prayer.’
===Lesson===
“[[Prayer]] is much misunderstood. Prayer is not ‘God, please give me a pony … the latest automobile.’ Prayer is not a learned-by-head repeating of [[appeals]] directed at the Creator, the waving of flags or the mindless ‘thumbing’ of rosary beads. A great host of things add up to being no prayer at all. Yet prayer can be many things that do qualify. This morning we will [[discuss]] just one kind of prayer — just one kind — and already we [[assure]] you that you will understand the power of prayer, approximately, as we can [[explain]] it to you … approximately.
“For [[the Gods]] to [[experience]] [[life]]; our lives and everyone else’s — [[angels]] and [[transcendentalers]] included — we are all made [[different]]. We are big ones and little ones, tall ones and short ones, round ones and skinny ones, black ones and white ones. To make it even more interesting we were all given different [[personalities]]. We are [[Optimistic]] and [[Pessimistic]], Manic and Depressive, Open and [[Extroverted]], [[Adventurous]], [[Bold]] and [[Curious]]. See, we have all the A, B, C’s and the entire alphabet of character traits.
“Then something else happened: We were given [[free will]]. And this is where it became [[complicated]], where [[progress]] and [[perfection]] of the Gods’ universes might be delayed or even reversed. And still, there was nothing the Gods could not handle. Well before some errant creature with [[strange]] and [[negative]] ideas would likely retard or even [[reverse]] progress to perfection, the Gods would foresee it all. They would have already created the errant creature’s [[nemesis]] to, in a manner of speaking, ‘cut off that wrongdoer at the pass.’
“[[Understand]] clearly now that one who is against [[progress]] towards [[perfection]] for all and sundry is in fact not [[normal]], is in fact abnormal, is not real, is in fact insane. That is the understanding all over [[the universes]]. Yes everywhere, but not on your world. On your world and among many of your groups, there is [[consensus]] that their opposing groups need to be hampered from achieving their goals of [[peace]], [[happiness]] and sufficiency … from existing even! In such a situation, the Gods may prefer not to [[intervene]] in what They foresee.
“Do we here have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 Catch 22]? Is it correct that your global drive towards [[perfection]] is halted by a too-poweful group of insane saboteurs, whilst the Gods must ever preserve creatures’ free-will prerogatives? Indeed not, my dear friends and students You are not powerless. You are not at a loss. The [[challenge]] has become yours my dear studious friends. You have at your disposal meaningful [[prayers]] for the good and [[future]] of all. You have the Power of Prayer that can [[change]] all [[reality]].
===Closing===
“Take a break now. Shortly we shall return and pray.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Samuel]]
[[Category: George Barnard]]
[[Category: 2015]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: '''''Power of Prayer'''''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Samuel|Teacher Samuel of Panoptia]]===
===TR: [[George Barnard]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Teacher Samuel: “Good morning all. This is your Teacher Samuel of [[Panoptia]] bringing you my greetings and the greetings from Elaine’s Teacher, [[Aaron]] of [[Urantia]], as well. Teacher Aaron was the bearer of the all-important papyrus scrolls of [[Moses]]’ time. I was an agricultural technician during the early [[Light and Life]] stages on Panoptia’s well-watered southern half of the twin continents. We, former [[mortals]], are both honored to be allowed to keep our [[fusion]] on hold to teach for a season and the subject this morning is ‘The Power of Prayer.’
===Lesson===
“[[Prayer]] is much misunderstood. Prayer is not ‘God, please give me a pony … the latest automobile.’ Prayer is not a learned-by-head repeating of [[appeals]] directed at the Creator, the waving of flags or the mindless ‘thumbing’ of rosary beads. A great host of things add up to being no prayer at all. Yet prayer can be many things that do qualify. This morning we will [[discuss]] just one kind of prayer — just one kind — and already we [[assure]] you that you will understand the power of prayer, approximately, as we can [[explain]] it to you … approximately.
“For [[the Gods]] to [[experience]] [[life]]; our lives and everyone else’s — [[angels]] and [[transcendentalers]] included — we are all made [[different]]. We are big ones and little ones, tall ones and short ones, round ones and skinny ones, black ones and white ones. To make it even more interesting we were all given different [[personalities]]. We are [[Optimistic]] and [[Pessimistic]], Manic and Depressive, Open and [[Extroverted]], [[Adventurous]], [[Bold]] and [[Curious]]. See, we have all the A, B, C’s and the entire alphabet of character traits.
“Then something else happened: We were given [[free will]]. And this is where it became [[complicated]], where [[progress]] and [[perfection]] of the Gods’ universes might be delayed or even reversed. And still, there was nothing the Gods could not handle. Well before some errant creature with [[strange]] and [[negative]] ideas would likely retard or even [[reverse]] progress to perfection, the Gods would foresee it all. They would have already created the errant creature’s [[nemesis]] to, in a manner of speaking, ‘cut off that wrongdoer at the pass.’
“[[Understand]] clearly now that one who is against [[progress]] towards [[perfection]] for all and sundry is in fact not [[normal]], is in fact abnormal, is not real, is in fact insane. That is the understanding all over [[the universes]]. Yes everywhere, but not on your world. On your world and among many of your groups, there is [[consensus]] that their opposing groups need to be hampered from achieving their goals of [[peace]], [[happiness]] and sufficiency … from existing even! In such a situation, the Gods may prefer not to [[intervene]] in what They foresee.
“Do we here have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 Catch 22]? Is it correct that your global drive towards [[perfection]] is halted by a too-poweful group of insane saboteurs, whilst the Gods must ever preserve creatures’ free-will prerogatives? Indeed not, my dear friends and students You are not powerless. You are not at a loss. The [[challenge]] has become yours my dear studious friends. You have at your disposal meaningful [[prayers]] for the good and [[future]] of all. You have the Power of Prayer that can [[change]] all [[reality]].
===Closing===
“Take a break now. Shortly we shall return and pray.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Samuel]]
[[Category: George Barnard]]
[[Category: 2015]]
