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TOMAS:        I am Tomas.  Greetings, beloved students.  It pleases me to once again to be in your midst, to have your ear and to be privileged to help you formulate your thoughts that might contribute to your greater understanding of your spirit reality.   

TOMAS:        I am Tomas.  Greetings, beloved students.  It pleases me to once again to be in your midst, to have your ear and to be privileged to help you formulate your thoughts that might contribute to your greater understanding of your spirit reality.   

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Faith]]'''''====

====''[[Faith]]''====

I’d like to talk with you this evening about what it is to believe in yourself or in each other -- not as a believer in a theology or a theory but as an energy, as a soul, as a personality, as a potential, as an actual.  In the text it is referenced that Jesus had so much faith in you.   

I’d like to talk with you this evening about what it is to believe in yourself or in each other -- not as a believer in a theology or a theory but as an energy, as a soul, as a personality, as a potential, as an actual.  In the text it is referenced that Jesus had so much faith in you.   

   

   

   

   

You remember the vicissitudes that are listed on page 51 in your text.  There is always the possibility of something backfiring. There is always the possibility of a sour note in an otherwise sweet symphony. But you must not let those handicap you.  

You remember the vicissitudes that are listed on page 51 in your text.  There is always the possibility of something backfiring. There is always the possibility of a sour note in an otherwise sweet symphony. But you must not let those handicap you.  

===='''''[[Confidence]]'''''====

====''[[Confidence]]''====

You must remember that fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.  Learn to recognize that fraud and master it!  Do not let it overpower you. Particularly as you step out in faith of yourself, in confidence, in belief that you are doing His will.  Set fear aside and when others doubt you, when they question you, when they belittle you or snicker at you, when they seek to ridicule you and jeer, step past that and continue to have faith in these people that in the course of time they will see the error of their ways. They will begin one day to believe in you because your attitude is one grounded in faith. Your belief in the power of God and God’s faith in you are more powerful than the little efforts of those bullies who would attempt to stop God from doing  his thing.

You must remember that fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.  Learn to recognize that fraud and master it!  Do not let it overpower you. Particularly as you step out in faith of yourself, in confidence, in belief that you are doing His will.  Set fear aside and when others doubt you, when they question you, when they belittle you or snicker at you, when they seek to ridicule you and jeer, step past that and continue to have faith in these people that in the course of time they will see the error of their ways. They will begin one day to believe in you because your attitude is one grounded in faith. Your belief in the power of God and God’s faith in you are more powerful than the little efforts of those bullies who would attempt to stop God from doing  his thing.

   

   

   

   

Henry:  Thank you. When you were speaking about Michael having faith in us, you were talking about a person, as opposed from a person’s action.  Can you speak a little more to that?

Henry:  Thank you. When you were speaking about Michael having faith in us, you were talking about a person, as opposed from a person’s action.  Can you speak a little more to that?

===='''''[[Self-mastery]]'''''====

====''[[Self-mastery]]''====

TOMAS:        I am speaking, yes, to the potential and to the indwelling Spirit. The mortal is coming along for the ride, and it brings with it its cultural conditioning and ignorance and prejudice and biases and conceits and all that, which you are all heir to. It is to be expected that you all have these imperfections. The idea of having faith in you is having faith in that within you that will master the beast, the tendency to act upon your lesser nature without regard to your higher nature.

TOMAS:        I am speaking, yes, to the potential and to the indwelling Spirit. The mortal is coming along for the ride, and it brings with it its cultural conditioning and ignorance and prejudice and biases and conceits and all that, which you are all heir to. It is to be expected that you all have these imperfections. The idea of having faith in you is having faith in that within you that will master the beast, the tendency to act upon your lesser nature without regard to your higher nature.

   

   

   

   

It is no secret that humans are flawed and that they shoot from the hip more often than not.  Indeed, most are asleep and happy to follow what they’ve been told; they don’t enjoy being awakened or roused from their slumber.  You must be careful if you attempt to rouse them because some of them, like bears coming out of hibernation, come out swinging, and hungry.  

It is no secret that humans are flawed and that they shoot from the hip more often than not.  Indeed, most are asleep and happy to follow what they’ve been told; they don’t enjoy being awakened or roused from their slumber.  You must be careful if you attempt to rouse them because some of them, like bears coming out of hibernation, come out swinging, and hungry.  

===='''''[[Ethics]]'''''====

====''[[Ethics]]''====

But this is all a part of your believing in humanity. If you understand them, you will not make undue expectations of them. If you know yourself, what works for you, you will be more likely to project that as something that will work for others, and this goes to the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”  

But this is all a part of your believing in humanity. If you understand them, you will not make undue expectations of them. If you know yourself, what works for you, you will be more likely to project that as something that will work for others, and this goes to the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”